Harry Potter, the savior of Night City

"What's going on? How come all the young people these days are so amazing?" Old Wei looked at David's medical report and clicked his tongue in amazement.

"Perhaps, they are the so-called chosen ones, the kind who can become legends." Ohm began to treat David's back, and secretly performed a mechanical soul modification on David, so that David's body could withstand Ika's 99% time slowdown.

"I don't want them to become legends." Old Vie began cutting David's back. "If you ask me, it's better to let these young people live a good life, wear armor to prevent being shot in the head, and live a peaceful life. That's better than becoming some damn legend."

"That's true, but this is Night City..." Ohm sighed, cutting away skin from David's back to make room for Ika.

"Nowhere is easy..."

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"Thank you so much, Dr. Victor, Dr. Ohm." At the clinic entrance, David, who had been modified, bowed deeply to Victor and Ohm while holding the inhibitor.

"Just call me Old Viktor. I'm not used to calling him 'Doctor' all the time." Viktor waved his hand. "Let me tell you, 30,000 euros, that's the money you owe me right now. If you can't hold on any longer, come back and let me dismantle the Sianwistan for you. After that, I can settle your debt."

Old Wei was sharp-tongued, but he was hoping to win back the good young man in front of him. David knew what Old Wei meant, so he ignored the second half of Old Wei's sentence and said, "Don't worry, Wei... Old Wei, I will pay you back."

"It's not just my money. Harry already paid for your mother's medical treatment, and you still owe him 30,000."

Upon hearing this, David stumbled, turned around, and gave an awkward smile. "I'll pay it back."

Watching David's disappearing figure, Old Wei shook his head. "Kids this age are all incredibly stubborn."

"You're so sarcastic, but you've certainly spared no expense," Ohm chuckled. "Chitinous shell, the Oracle of the Crossroads, the ballistic coprocessor—you've given him quite a few of your best stuff."

"I just want him to live; I don't care about anything else."

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"Tsk, they're following us again." Harry looked at the real-time image from the rearview radar and felt a surge of annoyance. Now, whenever he went out, several cars would inevitably come out to follow him. Harry was thinking of going to find Qiwei to see what was in that military technology chip, but now those beat-up cars were full of guys with advanced military-grade prosthetic bodies and equipment. Even Arasaka sent people. He couldn't go if he didn't shake them off.

Fortunately, Junke and Arasaka were clearly at odds, and their vehicles blocked each other on the road, which gave Harry a chance to shake them off. However, he couldn't really shake them off, as Junke and Arasaka's drones were still sneaking around everywhere.

"Let you try this." Harry had the mechanic modify the car while he was getting it fixed. He pressed a button on the car, and a tire deflation device fell from under the thugs' car. It then quickly extended, and Arasaka and the stalker from the military were caught off guard. The car ran directly over the tire deflation device, the tire exploded, and the speeding car instantly lost its balance and crashed into the car that was coming from behind.

"Trying to fight me? You think you can..." Harry looked at the live feed on the rearview radar, not yet finished gloating, when he heard the car stereo announce, "0-3 situation reported in Heywood area. Repeat, 0-3 situation reported in Heywood area..."

"I forgot about the cops." Harry clicked his tongue and increased the car's speed, trying to break through the police encirclement.

The NCPD began to follow behind Harry, but the cars were filled with people from the Military Science Institute and Arasaka, and there was a police car at the very back, which did indeed contain NCPD members, but their eyes emitted an eerie blue light.

"So you're not even going to put on an act anymore, huh?" Harry thought to himself, then pressed the button again to fire a tire deflation device. But the NCPD's vehicles were much better than the ones they used when they were tailing the enemy, and the NCPD police SUVs simply ran over the tire deflation device and continued the pursuit.

No one fired a shot, and Harry was too afraid to fire one either, since if he did, the Terrorist SWAT team would probably be called in the next second.

"I don't believe it." Harry pressed another button on the car, and two fire dragons immediately spewed out from the back of the car. The car's speed increased sharply, and the front of the car almost lifted off the ground. The fire dragons also spewed out from the exhaust pipe that Harry had carved with runes. They had a little bit of the characteristics of Fiend, but the difference was that this flame could be extinguished by water. Of course, only water could extinguish it.

The fire dragon spiraled towards the police car behind them. Seeing the flames before them, the military and Arasaka guys completely ignored them, flooring the accelerator and speeding away. But...

"Damn, the hood is on fire!"

"Something's wrong with these fires!"

"Damn it, the fuel tank's burning up!"

"boom!"

Police cars exploded one after another. Within twenty seconds, the engines and fuel tanks of the cars that caught fire were burned through. The flames with a trace of Fiery Power would spontaneously condense into legs and go to find a comfortable place.

The rearview radar was in complete chaos. Harry smiled smugly, then stepped on the gas and sped away into the distance.

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The police car carrying the blue-eyed NCPD officer stopped in front of the inferno. They got out of the car and stood there watching the flames.

"Very interesting technology." An NPC crouched down, reached out and touched the flame, watching as the fire quickly covered his entire body and could not be extinguished no matter how he patted it.

"We can't analyze the structure of the flames. Unlike ordinary plasma, the structure of these flames is a complete mess." Another NCPD, looking at his colleague engulfed in flames, stated his research results without any emotion.

"It doesn't matter," another blue-eyed officer said. "The more of that mercenary's skills the better. They're competing with the company, we just need to pick up the pieces."

We absolutely must acquire that technology.

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"Project Polaris." Kiwi transmitted the chip's contents to Harry. "This thing is a new type of brain-computer interface. Hackers equipped with this can bypass ICE and launch indiscriminate attacks on any target."

"Holy crap, that's incredible!?" Harry knew just how amazing the technology was to be able to bypass all the ICEs.

"This thing is driven by bioelectric signals. Its ability to bypass ICE is because ICE ignores biosignals that match the user's. But now, what was in that box the other day was the prototype of Polaris, and the neural transmission core that drives it is missing."

Qiwei rubbed her temples. "Do you know what it means to lose the neural conduction core? It means that those corporate dogs in the military science department now suspect that we stole it, and, moreover, the corporate dogs in Arasaka also want this thing."

"Tsk, there's more and more trouble." As Harry sat in his chair, thinking about what to do, Keeway mentioned something even worse.

"We're doomed." Qiwei suddenly slumped into her chair. She turned to Harry with a look of despair. "Look at the file I sent you. Is there a string of source code that suddenly appeared?"

Harry opened his personal terminal and opened the file he had just opened; there was indeed an extra item inside.

"This chip contains the source code for the neural transmission core, and this source code will be copied into the brain of any user who opens this file." Qi Wei gave a bitter laugh. "We're doomed."

"It's not just us." Harry calmed down, or more accurately, with a kind of composure that comes with no fear. "To be precise, everyone connected to us now is probably doomed."

"What the hell is going on every day?"

"Tell Mann and the others that we're going to have to go against the company again."