Cyberpunk: Legendary Life

Night City is a city of dreams.

Gloria Martinez is no exception.

Her dream is for her son to successfully graduate from Arasaka Academy and then join the Arasaka Group until he stands at the top of Arasaka.

She always believed that this path was the brightest future.

For this dream, she worked hard with almost all her strength, using her multiple meager salaries and her frugal life to support David's studies at Arasaka College.

She also always firmly believes that her children are the smartest and best, and firmly believes that her hard work will be rewarded.

She is willing to use her own fire to light David's dream path into Arasaka.

However, what happened today poured cold water on the fire of her dream.

She was trying to find a new part-time job in the Haywood Valley area when she unexpectedly received a notice from Arasaka Academy.

Her son was ordered to drop out of school!

She had to give up looking for a new job and rush to school to deal with the matter.

Only then did I learn that my son had installed a black market pirated program from an unknown source to upgrade the Mewtwo Ring. As a result, a virus infected the college's online education network system during remote online teaching.

The entire online education system collapsed, and other students' Mewtwo Rings were also burned down.

Faced with the statement from the principal of Arasaka College that she wanted to expel her son, she could only humbly plead with him and promise full compensation.

With the consent of the principal.

Gloria drove away from Arasaka Tower with her son David.

She drove smoothly on the viaduct.

Despite my repeated warnings before.

David was told to upgrade the genuine software, but something went wrong and he was almost ordered to drop out of school.

She knew that David was trying to save money and that it was not his intention to burn down the school's online education network system, but she still couldn't help but mention it.

"Didn't I ask you to upgrade the Mewtwo Ring?"

David did not dare to face his mother and could only admit his mistake feebly.

"It's my fault I went to the prosthetist."

Gloria's tone turned stern.

"You made your own decision, and now we have to pay ten times the money!"

Facing his mother's aggressive words, David could only look out the window to hide his helplessness.

"sorry"

"If you're going to apologize, you might as well not do such a thing in the first place!"

"When I first asked, you said there was no Ou Jin, so..."

"It was not yet the day when wages were paid, so of course we didn't have a lot of money lying around at home!"

She felt that her good intentions were not understood by her son at all.

"Also! Stop shaking your legs!"

I heard my mother scold me.

David sighed helplessly.

Being out of tune with his classmates, the burden of family poverty, and his mother's diligent expectations all weighed on his heart like mountains.

He wanted to break free from such a quagmire, so he tried to express his truest thoughts, even though there was no hope of success.

"Actually, I've been thinking about it recently"

"What to consider?"

"I can take a break from school and look for a job or something."

"what are you talking about?!"

Gloria's emotions instantly became more agitated.

"Mom, you also know that we really can't afford to repair the system."

David was still looking out the car window with a frown, his feet shaking subconsciously again, but he still insisted on speaking.

"And I'm quite a misfit at the academy."

"Mom doesn't know anything either."

"As long as you are poor, you will not be taken seriously."

"No matter how hard I study, I can't become like them."

"And I don't want to be them."

silence

The entire carriage fell into silence.

In fact, this is the deepest hope in Gloria's heart.

That is, let his son David.

Able to graduate from Arasaka Academy and successfully enter Arasaka Company.

He has been promoted to the top of Arasaka.

There is no need to be like her, who can only work hard every day and be exhausted.

Even the most basic life cannot be guaranteed.

In Gloria's eyes, David deserves a brighter future and a better future.

And this light and future is to join Arasaka Company!

In fact, she didn't blame David for installing pirated software. What she really cared about was that David was ordered to drop out of Arasaka Academy.

Everything she did was for David to graduate from Arasaka Academy smoothly.

David was still young and had not experienced social hardship, so he naively believed that finding a job would be better than attending Arasaka Academy.

Big mistake!

Gloria deeply understands that joining a big company in Night City is the best future, and attending Arasaka Academy is the shortcut to joining Arasaka Company.

Arasaka Academy not only provides the highest quality education, but also has many children of high-ranking Arasaka students. These may be tickets and connections to the high-ranking circles of Arasaka in the future.

In fact, David also understood his mother's good intentions.

However, studying at Arasaka Academy not only failed to integrate him into the circle of the children of Arasaka senior officials, but also became the target of their bullying and teasing.

He saw no future at Arasaka Academy, no friends and friendship.

He was singled out and targeted by his classmates simply because of his background.

a long time.

Gloria choked up.

Grief and discomfort swelled and clogged in my heart like marshmallows.

"Then what have I been working for?"

"I work so hard just to make you..."

"But now..."

"What do you think I've been doing all this time?"

Gloria was almost crying, and the previous blame and dissatisfaction turned into tears now.

David couldn't help but immediately turned around and was surprised when he saw tears flashing in the corners of his mother's eyes.

My mother, who has always been strong and independent, actually shed tears!

This was the first time he saw his mother cry.

"You are so smart and talented."

"That's why I work so hard to make money and cultivate you."

"If you don't want to study anymore."

"Then what should I do?"

Gloria drove, tears streaming down her cheeks.

She didn't feel sad for herself, but felt sad that David was born at the bottom and didn't know how dark his future would be.

She didn't want David to do the same menial job as herself, or even risk doing illegal things.

David didn't know how to comfort his mother, so he could only give in again.

"I shouldn't have said that."

"I'm sorry, don't cry."

At this moment, a black business car and a pink SUV were gradually approaching from the left and right sides behind them. The two people in the car were completely unaware of the imminent danger.

Gloria understood that David needed comfort more at this time, and she would encourage her son no matter how much she was hurt.

"I know you didn't fit in at school and I know how your classmates treated you because I went through the same thing."

"That's why we have to prove it to them!"

She raised her hand and pointed upward.

"I hope you work hard to become an elite and climb to the top of Arasaka Tower!"

Mentioning this dream, the fire of hope rekindled in her eyes, and her pupils were filled with expectations for a bright future.

Gloria turned her head and looked at David.

"I know you have such talent, you can definitely do it!"

David seemed to be used to the dream his mother mentioned. He just sighed softly and leaned on his seat a little irritably.

“It’s easy to put it lightly”

"Um?!"

David suddenly discovered that a heavy machine gun had appeared by the car window at some point, pointing directly at his window!

"mom"

Before he could remind his mother.

The heavy machine gun fired wildly at the black business car on the other side through the car window, and the terrifying firepower came out instantly!

David could only watch helplessly as countless bullets passed in front of him, smashing the windows and doors.

"This damn gang fight!"