I'm a magnetic field madman

David's eyes narrowed slightly, for he seemed to realize that his mother's "death" was not so simple—

"Wait, stop right there!"

David roared as he grabbed the doctor who was trying to leave, gripping his neck tightly as he yelled...

"Did you sell my mother to the cleaners?! Otherwise, why have you kept preventing me from visiting her?! It must be you, it must be you, right?!"

“Mr. Martinez, please calm down, we didn’t…”

The doctor struggled desperately, proclaiming his innocence while simultaneously drawing his sidearm from his waist with practiced ease and pulling the trigger at David's body!

bump!!

As the bullets rang out and smoke filled the air, David's eyes widened, and a profound sense of powerlessness caused him to loosen his grip...

The butcher-like doctor pushed him away, the dim light reflecting a cold indifference in the prosthetic eye…

"Tsk, sharp-witted brat... You don't have any valuable implants on you. Oh well, once you've bled dry, we'll sell you to the animal gang."

David stared wide-eyed, panting. He was certain, but he couldn't accept the outcome. It was he who had pushed his mother, who wasn't seriously ill, into the hands of a butcher, where she was torn apart alive and sold piece by piece.

The immense pain finally broke through the intense numbness and swept over me... but the source of this pain was not only physical, but also an extremely bad mental state...

Absurdity, sorrow, pain—intense emotions overwhelmed him before he passed away…

But then, the giant shark, seemingly unseen like a ghost, crouched in front of him and grinned.

"Kid, it seems you can't ask your mother's opinion, nor can you be this Heavenly King's adopted son."

The giant shark looked at David with a mocking expression. For the capricious giant shark king, whether or not he adopted a son was irrelevant. As long as he got "pleasure" from this matter, that was enough.

Moreover, the Great Shark is a creature that clearly distinguishes between gratitude and resentment. This kid had insulted him before—although it was only half a sentence—but the Great Shark is one to clearly distinguish between gratitude and resentment.

So even though he knew all along that the kid's mother was being dismantled and sold, Giant Shark wouldn't say anything—that's "resentment." But "gratitude," Giant Shark would definitely make sure to report it clearly.

“But young brother, I could slaughter this entire city before you die… but I find that rather unexciting, since I, the Heavenly King, am about to return to my homeland. So why don’t you take my place and do this interesting thing?”

"me……"

David couldn't speak. His struggling eyes stared at the giant shark, but in those eyes was the same despair and hatred that the giant shark so adored.

"I'm going to kill them all! Leave no one alive, slaughter them all!!"

"Ha, you're going a bit too far," the giant shark grinned.

"But I like it!"

The next moment, David's head was completely severed. Before the pain could travel through his nerves, intense darkness instantly engulfed him.

"Hehe, kid, this city is yours now. Hmm... before I leave, I'll leave you with a little souvenir."

Before consciousness completely succumbed to darkness, all that was heard was the giant shark's casual and manic laughter, and several dazzling beams of light shooting into the sky.

……

"You are a talented child, and you will definitely be able to climb to a higher level."

"If you don't want to study, what's the point of all my hard work?!"

"Mom believes in you, you can definitely climb to the top of the Desolate Tower!!"

David suddenly opened his eyes. A cold, dry wind brushed against his skin. The entire city lay prostrate at his feet, with its mesmerizing neon lights and those familiar blue and red giant fish projections.

David stared blankly at everything, at the distant city, at the night city that had swallowed him and his mother.

I'm alive?

David was incredulous. He twisted his neck and was shocked to find that he had been replaced by another body.

The original physical body has completely disappeared, and from the neck down, only a completely mechanical body remains!

The silver metal, covered with rivets and bizarre synthetic marks, was cast as if glued together to form a complete suit of armor. It lacked the complex beauty of high-tech prosthetics, and was simply pure, handcrafted silver metal.

However, even with such a relatively weak armor, David could feel... an endless, scorching energy, as intense as the sun!

"Waaah..."

David's face suddenly twitched, and he painfully knelt on one knee, because he sensed something "in" his mind...

A certain "instrument" that occupied almost two-thirds of his brain replaced most of his brain tissue.

And within that thing existed another consciousness, a... familiar consciousness.

"Mother?!"

David stared in disbelief at the familiar woman who had appeared before him. Was it an illusion?

Was it just my own delusion? My mother stood beside me, looking at me gently.

No, this is not an illusion.

David remembered that after the giant shark cut off his head, it replaced his body with a new one—a modified prosthetic body called Afi, created with the giant shark's incredible power.

Not only that, he also took out his mother's brain and integrated it with his own brain into the incredible device that now exists in his head—the DreamMaker!

His mother did not die, but coexisted with him in another way.

Yes, he is now not only David Martinez, but also carries the burden of his mother and the life of Gloria Martinez!

So what is the purpose of all this by the giant shark?

For the giant shark, the simple reasons of happiness, fun, and engaging gameplay are enough.

Since David amused him, this gift, which was undoubtedly a curse, was also a source of amusement for him.

The Yafei container and the Dreamer have a power of approximately 400,000 horsepower... Of course, David can only gradually adapt and explore from the initial 50,000 horsepower.

But if David is qualified, he might even be able to comprehend the mysteries of magnetic field power and learn cell regeneration to reconstruct his physical body. But before that...

He will surely be consumed by pain and hatred.

"Ahhh!"

David screamed and covered his head. The pain, sorrow, regret, and despair his mother felt before her death echoed in his mind along with the Dreamer. His emotions began to confuse, or rather... to merge.

His eyes turned bloodshot as he stared at the city, the city that had brought him and his mother such immense pain, and suddenly let out a bizarre, maniacal laugh…

"Hehehe, hahaha!!"

The dreamer successfully merged the two consciousnesses, and David's hatred immediately surged, soared, and exploded!

Kill! Kill! Kill! David's killing intent toward the entire Night City was fifty times stronger than ever before!

Terrifying power, boundless hatred—who in Night City could possibly withstand such a monstrous creature? Damn it, who could possibly stand against it?!

"Mom, look, I'm standing on the top floor of the Desolate Tower."

David, seemingly transformed into a cyber-psychotic, murmured joyfully towards the empty space.

But he wasn't crazy, absolutely not!

How could the technological capabilities of DreamMakers be compared to mere prosthetic implant technology?

He doesn't need any immunosuppressants because his remaining neurons can't attack the "implant" in his body... because at this moment, David is closer to a "machine" than a human.

But his consciousness, his soul, is undoubtedly David Martinez and Gloria Martinez…

Because this clear hatred, this clear feeling as if I were still alive, is absolutely impossible to fake!

A frenzied desire for destruction echoed in David's mind; such extreme emotions were no different from madness.

He didn't suffer from cyberpsychosis, but he developed a much more serious "illness"!

Kill! Kill! Kill! This filthy city, companies, gangs, cyberpunk—wipe it all out!

Leave no one alive!!

Crazy ideas kept popping into David's mind, and driven by these ideas, David even pointed his cannon at the barren tower below.

With just a gentle touch, he could easily destroy the symbol of this Night City!

"Waaah—Mom...Mom, why?"

David struggled, groaned, and backed away, covering his head!

David was ultimately not a madman, and her maternal consciousness implanted in the Dream Creator... although it remained in the hatred and pain of her last moments, did not force her child to walk down this path of destruction.

On the contrary, she was even "persuading" David, helping him suppress this strong destructive urge.

David's ego and his mother's "reason" were both suppressing this terrifying destructive desire... and at this moment, it was a constant clash between reason and emotion.

David is constantly changing his "self" amidst suffering!

After an unknown amount of time, David, gradually calming down, slowly stood up, his consciousness beginning to stir…

The silver-white armor on his body mimicked a dark blue cybernetic armor, with sharp claws growing from his hands and a blood-red bat printed on his chest.

Behind him, Yafei's wings transformed into a pair of jet-black bat wings, draped over his back like a cloak.

Hatred and pain remain, but David will not, as the great shark imagines, slaughter everyone in Night City.

Because he wasn't actually that crazy, and his mother wouldn't want her son to be so insane.

That powerful madness was suppressed, by his reason, and by his mother's emotions.

His mother stayed by his side, comforting him, but it was just a phantom he could see...

Stroking his cheek brought the child, who had nearly fallen into the abyss of madness, back to his composure.

“Yes, Mom, I understand.” David murmured, looking at his mother, whom only he could see…

“But I still can’t forgive this city, those cleaners, those gangs, and those businesses… I can’t forgive them.”

The intense hatred and pain, however, transformed into another emotion within the mother's and her own combined consciousness—an emotion towards this city…

He felt immense compassion and a strong sense of responsibility for the countless people in Night City who suffered as much as he did.

This city, this world, is sick. Right now, every moment, there are people suffering the same pain and torment as you.

Night City, those things and events he had grown accustomed to in the past, now seemed so filthy and ugly.

Just like now, the calls he intercepted were filled with desire, hatred, and bloodshed.

They broadcast messages about meteors crashing into the sea and apocalyptic events, but mostly they broadcast messages of mutual slaughter, hatred, and killing.

Perhaps there are no good people in this city, only more mistakes bred in the wrong environment.

Just like myself and my mother...

David Martinez lives for the dreams of others, yet he has no dreams of his own. But if his dream is to protect the dreams of others, isn't that a great dream in itself?

With a brand-new prosthetic body and immense power, David Martinez now possesses everything he never had before. So, what should he do with it?

To destroy? To kill? To plunder? To become like the countless other wrongdoers in this city?

No, it won't, it absolutely won't!!

The weak, with no choice, are dragged into the wrong hell, forced by their circumstances to become part of the evil of this Night City—it is their only option!

And now that I possess new powers... why can't I embark on a completely new path?

David's mind began to calm down, perhaps due to the effects of the Dream Creator, or perhaps as a result of the merging of his mother's and his own consciousness.

“David, Mom hopes you can become the top dog in Night City…”

"To breed more errors in a flawed hell, and become the leader of evil?"

"Mom just wants you to be happy..."

"No, I can't live among these ugly people and move forward with them... If I have the ability to change things but choose to go along with them, I will never be happy."

With each question and answer, David continued to converse with the flickering figure of his mother in front of him... and his thoughts gradually became more self-aware through these repeated exchanges of consciousness.

是 的

I have made my choice, and I understand everything.

From this night forward, David Martinez will become a shadow hovering over Night City... Yes, he will live in the city's nights, becoming the nightmare of every evildoer!

He doesn't have those grand ideas now; at this moment, he probably just wants revenge.

But without a doubt, he will become a new legend in Night City once he embarks on this path!

No, it's a nightmare of the night that never falls!

And he will surely kill all those vile things!

Cleaners! Animal Gang! Vortex Gang! Tiger Claw Gang! Barren Board Enterprise! Military Technology! Kangtao Enterprise, Ye's Enterprise!