Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 290 Mann’s path and Li You’s recruitment of disciples
What surprised Li You a little was that after this time, the first call he received related to David and the others was actually from Mann.

The night he saved David and Gloria.

"...Hello, Li You?" Mann greeted, "Are you still interested in the thing you mentioned to me last time?"

"...Have you got the military-grade Sian Westan?" Li You immediately remembered what he had said to Mann a few days ago.

He told Mann at the time that if there was any news about such "good goods", remember to let him know. This is also to not miss the car accident involving David and Gloria.

But later, because he considered such an early warning, it would be better for him to listen to cyberpsychosis news every day or wait for Regina to call in time, so Li You stopped paying attention, and now Mann called.

"Hmm... that's fine. Where are you? I'll come find you." Li You thought for a moment and didn't refuse. He was still thinking of getting acquainted with Gloria and David.

"Ten o'clock in the evening, Hargreaves Street in Santo Domingo, the old parking lot behind the skyscrapers." Mann said, "Let's go to my private supplier to get the goods. But let me say okay first, this I have already ordered the second batch, so don’t try to snatch it from me, I can only show it to you.”

"But if she is willing, I can also introduce her to you by the way. You might have a chance in the future, hey!"

Li You had a smile on his face, but didn't say much, and just agreed: "Okay, I'll see you then."

"It's just a matter of a few words."

Gloria still insisted: "David is so talented, this is the best path for him."

Gloria also sighed: "Although the burden is heavy, I am willing to give this child a better future."

"Gloria, you're here." Mann lowered the car window and nodded to her, "Let's talk in the car."

"...The cybernetic psychotic guy in the news yesterday?"

Although Gloria was not injured, she was really exhausted. In addition, she was frightened again in the morning, and she collapsed.

……

"No need!" Mann waved his hand, "She won't ask more questions about people I trust. If the goods weren't special this time, I wouldn't make an appointment with her to trade in a place like this."

"Fuck you!" Mann laughed and cursed.

In fact, the little money the Martinez family owes Arasaka Academy, including David's troubles at school, is really nothing to Li You...

Li You was just joking at first, so he nodded and said: "Your... supplier? Isn't it here yet? Do you need me to avoid it?"

At 9:45 pm, Li You and Mann met in the designated old parking lot.

"...That's it, Gloria and you were in a car accident today, and Li You just happened to save you." Mann nodded and said, "So your son is studying at Arasaka Academy... No wonder you are always short of money."

"...Again? Don't you know I'm still on vacation?"

"Hehe, it's not just that." Mann also smiled and said mysteriously, "Guess where this piece of Sian Westan came from?"

Mann was also stunned. He and Gloria looked at each other and said in unison: "...Do you know each other?"

At this moment, a figure wearing a long windbreaker appeared on the street in the distance, gradually walking towards this side.

He thought for a moment and picked up the phone again.

Li You in the back seat smiled and greeted very warmly: "Hello, Ms. Gloria."

"Hello, V? I'd like to ask you a small favor again."

"It's a military-grade Sianwistan, right? Then I'll wait and see." Li You smiled.

"Here we come." Mann recognized her at a glance, "Li You, let's get in the car first."

"Gloria, please introduce me. This is my friend..."

As a result, it wasn't even the second day, and she was already in a hurry to sell goods?

"...It's not easy to be a mother. She won't still want to pay me back, right?" Li You thought helplessly, Gloria shouldn't exhaust herself to death for this little money, then It’s really cyberpunk.

"Mr. Li You?" Gloria had already called out his name first.

Li You said: "I guessed it using the little toenail of my right foot."

"Hey, Li You!" Mann parked his pink-purple, super-conspicuous Goodra 66 sports car on the side of the road, leaned against the car door, and waved to Li You.

"I didn't expect it. It started yesterday... Well, you're right." Mann was a little dumbfounded, "How did you know?"

The figure quickly came to Mann's sports car and after confirming it was safe, took off the black sunhat on his head, revealing a head of red hair underneath.

"Actually, it's very simple. It's related to the child you helped me check before..."

"Hahahaha! You really know how to joke." Mann laughed. "NCPD won't cause trouble like this for themselves. Even if someone calls the police, they would be happy to arrive at the scene a few minutes late, so that they don't really need to He faced off against the fugitive."

"Okay, you say it."

Mann just shook his head: "Parents always think about giving their children the best future, but they often ignore their hearts and add pressure to themselves."

"Beep beep beep——"

The armed Merrimack stopped against Mann's sports car. Li You got out of the car and came to his side: "If you choose a place like this to deliver goods, the NCPD will know there is something wrong at the first sight. Don't you be afraid that the police will rush up and arrest us all?" Already?"

Aiji also told him that just collapse is good, but if it is more severe, fainting on the spot or even sudden death is possible. After the examination at the medical center, the doctor's report clearly stated that Gloria needed to rest and it was best not to go out for activities or work.

"...Mann." Gloria opened the door and got into the passenger seat. Just as she was about to speak, she saw another person in the back seat and was stunned on the spot.

——After a while.

Putting down his phone, Li You thought for a while.

She covered herself tightly and kept looking around, looking quite nervous.

"...Okay, I'm not qualified to question your policy." Mann didn't say much, "I can only advise you to listen more to what he wants, and don't regret it when it's too late. If I At first... forget it."

He suddenly waved his hand: "Okay! Let's not talk about this anymore. Gloria, have you brought my goods?"

Gloria took out the vacuum bag that Li You was familiar with from her windbreaker and placed it in front of Mann: "It's right here."

"Oh! It's this little baby!" Mann's eyes also lit up, and he picked up the bag, "The latest model of the Sian Westan test model from military technology, right?"

"I've seen Black Mewtwo. The former lieutenant installed it, and its power is quite amazing! Compared with this baby, Zeta Technology's Sianwistan is just garbage!"

"The power is amazing, but the side effects are also amazing." Li You poured cold water on Mann at this time, "James Norris became a cyberpsychotic because of this thing. Are you really planning to use it on On yourself?"

He dampened Mann's excitement with just one sentence, and Mann showed surprise at that moment: "Li You, I'm different from that guy."

But Li You said unceremoniously: "It's different. I don't think you can last long if you don't pretend to be Si'an Westan."

Mann was a little annoyed: "Li You!"

But Li You didn't intend to give in this time.

Based on the cross-reference between the animation, the game, and the in-game code, the Sianwistan that Gloria took out can be basically determined to be an early experimental product of the military technology "Apogee" Sianwistan.

In the game, the true god of time-stopping was the Qiandai 4-type Sianwestan, which lasted for 12 seconds and cooled down for 15 seconds. With three legendary cooling plug-in heat sinks, it was basically possible to achieve unlimited time-stopping.

However, in the 2.0 version, the Chrono-stop flow was severely weakened, and the Qiansian Westan Type 4 was directly found to be unavailable. The throne of the strongest Chrono-stop robot was given to the "Apogee" of military technology.

Apogee Sianwistan, lasts for 8 seconds, cools down for 30 seconds, and slows down by 85%. But compared with the products before version 2.0, it has one more key function - it can be turned on and off at any time, and it can be activated no matter how charged it is.

Obviously, this is an adjustment based on David's Sean Westan in the animation. And in the game version 2.0 files, the code for Apogee is directly named "sandevistan edgerunner", which is enough to explain the problem.

This thing was still experimental in 76, and was used by military technology to test on former soldiers. By 77, the technology was perfected, and the immortal version in the game was launched, which is very reasonable.

However, although David was very adaptable to using this gadget in the animation and felt almost nothing, it would be different if it were replaced by Mann.

Li You didn't think Mann could adapt to this experimental Apogee. After all, even if he didn't pretend to be this thing, he wouldn't be able to last for a few months before he would become a cyberpsychopath.

If he really takes this back and installs it, I'm afraid Li You's cyberpsychosis kill count will be forced to +1 soon.

So he said directly: "Mann! Don't think I don't know, your body has reached its limit, right? Is your left prosthetic body unstable? When you were doing the commission, did you suddenly want to kill? "

Mann didn't know why Li You suddenly changed his face, but of course he was not convinced, and his voice suddenly increased: "None of that! My goal is to become the next legend! I will not become a cyberpsycho just because of a piece of Sian Westan!"

Li You responded tit for tat: "Wake up, you can't use this thing! I don't want to see you on the morning news tomorrow, or kill you on the way to breakfast."

The sudden argument between the two frightened Gloria. She hesitated for a moment and then said, "This...then this Si'an Westan...?"

"Give me!"

"give it to me."

Li You and Mann spoke at the same time, then glared at each other.

Mann pulled down his sports sunglasses and opened his eyes angrily: "Li You, I think you are a good partner, and I think we are barely friends! But on this issue, I will never give in!"

"Me too, so I won't let you take this thing away either." Li Yaoyao said, "Since we can't reach an agreement, there is only one way to determine the ownership of Si'an Westan."

"Not bad!" Mann opened the car door and got out of the car without talking nonsense.

"Come on Li You, let's solve the dispute between cyberpunks in the cyberpunk way!"

He raised his fist as big as a sandbag and looked at Li You: "Come down!"

Gloria looked at Mann and then at Li You with some worry. She had already understood the point of the dispute between the two. Although she did not want to interfere in the affairs between the "Cyberpunks", she hesitated and asked: "Otherwise... I won't sell it and return the money to Mann?"

Li You just smiled: "No, I will handle it."

He told Gloria to wait in the car, then got out of the car and came to Mann.

"You can use a knife," Mann said.

Li You shook his head: "It's unfair if I use a knife, let's use our bare hands."

"Humph, I have a temper." Mann smiled ferociously, "I don't know how to use a gun or a projectile launcher, but you have to feel the power of this gorilla arm!"

"Then come." Li Youyun said calmly.

Mann paused for a moment, then stepped forward suddenly and rushed out, waving his thick right arm, and smashed Li You's head with his huge fist!

His movements are simple but powerful. It is suspected that he has the fighting instincts developed during his military career. Combined with the highly modified arm and leg prostheses, Mann can move surprisingly fast even without the installation of Sian Westan.

Coupled with his extremely strong physique, this punch looks like a huge rock crushing his head!

Gloria in the car could barely see Mann's movements clearly, and couldn't help but sweat for Li You subconsciously. But Li You's reaction was beyond both of their expectations. He did not choose to dodge. Instead, he exhaled loudly, and invisible energy surged through his body, clinging to his hands.

Then, Li You also raised his arm, swung it out quickly, and met Mann's fist head-on!

"Boom-!!"

Two fists with huge differences in size collided and made a muffled sound. Neither of them wavered and remained stagnant.

But then, along with a crackling sound, tiny cracks began to appear on Mann’s right arm prosthesis!
He couldn't help but widen his eyes!
The fist was fine, after all, it was the hardest part of the gorilla's arm, but why did the arm crack?

…The prosthesis must be aging!
Mann was convincing himself in his heart, but he saw Li You in front of him taking a step back slightly, and then approaching again.

Li You first bent his elbow with his right arm and bumped Mann's unformed defensive posture. Then he pushed out with his left hand and hit Mann's raised arm. A huge force came out and pushed him back. Unsteady on my feet.

Before Mann had time to show the surprised expression on his face, Li You had already taken the third step, using his left shoulder as the apex, and bumped into Mann!

"Boom--!"

Xianfengji boxing method, worship the form of continuous punch and demon-breaking!

Li You rarely used the Xianfengji boxing technique and was not proficient in the moves, but these three heavy blows still knocked Mann's whole body away and directly hit the signboard next to the street, and simply slapped the signboard in pieces - -Li You didn't put in too much force.

Mann sat on the ground, electricity flashing in front of his eyes, and he still didn't come back to his senses. And Li You had already come to him and stretched out his hand to him.

"...Awesome." After a moment of silence, Mann still grabbed Li You's hand and stood up with the help of his tug.

After he stood up, he patted the dust on his body, looked at his arms again, and hissed: "Damn it, Li You, what kind of monster are you? You knocked the strings off my gorilla arms. ! Is this really the power that a person without a prosthetic body can have?”

Mann couldn't help but look at Li You again, but still couldn't find any traces of the prosthetic body. He couldn't help but shook his head: "What a ghost."

Li You said: "If you are interested, we can communicate slowly later. But now, does this Si'an Westan belong to me?"

"...Tch, okay." Mann was a little dissatisfied, but he readily admitted defeat, "You win, take it away, but you have to pay."

"Easy to say."

Li You transferred the money to Mann and took the packaging bag from Gloria.

Mann looked at him and looked at the Si'an Westan, and suddenly said: "I don't know why you have to stop me, but even if I can't get this Si'an Westan, I won't get this opportunity again in the future. I’ll let it go.”

"Really?" Li You was not surprised, but asked, "Mann, why do you want to become stronger?"

"You want to become a legend, why? Do you want to leave your past life behind? Or do you want power and status? Or is it for someone or something else?

"Talk to me, maybe I can help you."

Mann was silent for a while this time before finally speaking: "...I often have a feeling."

"It's hard to describe it in words, but I often dream about myself running outside the wasteland of Night City." His voice was low, but there was a sense of drifting and alienation.

“It was an endless wilderness, and I was alone, moving forward.

“There is no road ahead, only where I have run there is the road.

"I always have this fear there that I can't stop. Once I stop there, it seems like the road will stop and something will catch up with me and swallow me whole."

Mann looked at Li You: "It may be ridiculous to say it, but this unspeakable fear is the biggest reason why I keep moving forward... Is it an accident?"

Li You shook his head: "That is your inner world. Others may not be able to understand it, but they have no right to laugh at you."

"I also don't completely understand your thoughts, but you hope to never stop moving forward on the path you choose. I understand this."

At this point, he paused before continuing: "In that case, do you want to try my method?"

"...Huh?" Mann was stunned. "You mean...a way to become stronger without using a prosthetic body like you do? Can you learn that?"

Li You said concisely and to the point: "Yes."

"Although there are definitely some special things that you can't learn, but there is no problem with this system."

After hearing this, Mann really thought about it seriously.

If it were him a few months later, he would have waved his hand angrily and sneered when he heard Li You's words. But now, his condition is not that serious, and more importantly, Li You just beat him up with his bare hands, which is more convincing than any words.

Li You took the opportunity to look at Gloria on the side: "What I said today about accepting David as my apprentice is to teach him this way of strengthening himself. If nothing else, at least I can guarantee safety."

Gloria knew that Li You was "selling" to her. Her first reaction was to refuse, but she looked at Mann who was thinking on the side and did not speak immediately.

After Mann thought about it, he really discovered a blind spot: "Even if your ability can be learned, I guess ordinary people will never be able to practice it to your level, right?"

"If the power is not what it is now, it doesn't mean anything to me."

Li You nodded unabashedly: "Indeed, most people will definitely not be able to reach my level. This requires inhuman talent and hard work. I don't know if you are suitable for this path. But at least, this method will not It will turn you into a cyberpsycho. And the key is-"

"Mann, I'm pretty good at judging people, but it seems to me that your body can't support it for much longer. If you don't make changes, you will reach the 'end' of the road. Do you understand what I mean?"

Mann was silent again.

"Maybe you are right. Recently...I can feel myself gradually being caught up."

"I don't want to stop here, but...the harder I try to transform, the slower I feel. Maybe I have reached my limit."

Li You immediately said: "It's possible that your method was wrong."

"Since you are already close to your limit, why not try another path? Maybe you will find a brighter future."

Mann was finally persuaded by him and nodded: "Okay, in that case, let me try it. After all, I don't want to stop here."

Li You smiled: "Okay, that's it."

He stretched out his fist and bumped it with Mann, making an agreement.

Then, Li You looked at Gloria: "So, what do you think? Do you want David to study with me?"

Gloria was still hesitant.

Of course she hopes that David can study in peace, but as she works at Night City Medical Center, she has also seen too many cases of cyberpsychosis and is well aware of its horror.

And today she also learned that a cyberpunk as powerful as Mann was also facing the threat of cyberpsychosis, which made her worried.

She also knew that even if David successfully graduated and entered the company, body modification would still be necessary, especially if it was a position such as an agent.

Gloria didn't know that David's talent in adapting to prosthetics was far beyond ordinary people. She just thought about what she should do if David encountered a dilemma similar to Mann's in the future.
If this is the case, isn't a way to become stronger without relying on prosthetics really safer?

Thinking of this, the worry about his son finally took over. Gloria looked at Li You and said, "...If it doesn't affect the child's studies, it's not impossible."

"But I don't know if that kid is willing to..."

"That's not a problem. I can tell he's very interested."

Li You smiled with satisfaction: "Now that we have reached an agreement, I have a small gift for you, which can be regarded as my meeting gift as master."

Gloria: "Huh?"

Li You took out his mobile phone and made a call.

"V, trouble."

"...Okay, it doesn't take much anyway. But next time you come to me, you have to at least show your sincerity by bringing out the good wine like before."

"no problem."

Communication was immediately interrupted.

Mann and Gloria were confused when Gloria received the communication. When she looked at the caller ID, she saw that it was the principal of Arasaka Academy, so she quickly answered the call.

"Mr. Principal?"

"Mrs. Martinez!" On the other end of the communication line, the principal's voice was particularly enthusiastic. "Oh, I have good news for you!"

Gloria was stunned: "What?"

The principal continued to speak in a heart-warming tone: "That's it! After discussion at the school, we thought that David's grades were very good and it would be a pity if he dropped out of school. Therefore, the school decided not to pursue any investigation into this accident. You can't We need to pay compensation!”

“Not only that, but considering that the economy in your family is... slightly depressed - of course, it’s not your problem, it happens to everyone.

"So, in my own name, I supported David with some school supplies, including the latest learning software installation chip, Mewtwo headband, spare college uniforms, etc. He can pick it up when he comes to school tomorrow.

“David is very gifted and talented. I also hope that he can graduate with excellent results and eventually become the backbone of Arasaka Company!

"That's all I have to say. I'm sorry to disturb you at this time. I hope you have a nice night!"

After saying these words very politely, the principal did not even cut off the communication, but waited for Gloria's response.

Li You looked at Gloria and was dumbfounded again, and couldn't help coughing to bring her back to her senses. After she politely thanked her, the principal finally hung up the phone.

Then, Gloria couldn't help but look up at Li You.

Things were like this. If she couldn't guess who helped them, she would be completely retarded.

"How... did you do that?" Even so, Gloria couldn't help but ask.

Li You smiled: "I also have some friends in Arasaka Company, but I just asked her to help me chat with the principal."

Gloria: "..."

She really didn't expect that Li You's casual remark during the day, "I have many friends", would actually apply here.

And it was only at this time that she realized that with Li You's ability, he could actually manipulate her and David however he wanted, and they couldn't even resist at all.

"...You could obviously have said this from the beginning, then it would be impossible for us to refuse."

Li You said: "I am a disciple, not a human trafficker."

Mann on the side said: "Hey! It seems that next, I will have to 'study' with your little devil!"

Gloria looked at Mann, then at Li You, and finally lowered her head deeply: "Then... please take care of the child."

Li You gently helped her up: "Leave it to me."

(End of this chapter)