Cyber ​​psychosis is my girlfriend

But in fact, she was right.

For Luo Qi, David is indeed a good seed, and most importantly, he has a good heart.

"It's nothing. Rescuing the dying and healing the wounded is also a part of law and order. Protecting the personal and property safety of citizens is consistent with punishing evil and eliminating evil in terms of purpose."

Luo Qi smiled and broke through Gloria's "movement" in an unexpected way.

In fact, he really hates the feeling of speaking with skills and calculations, and living like that is too tiring.

But if the other party is a person who is wholeheartedly for his own children, Luo Qi is not averse to using some "art of language".

David has introduced Luo Qi to his mother, but there are some things that are more convincing if said by the person himself.

"Let's get to know each other again, Luo Qi, Special Operations Officer of the Supreme Military Tactics Department."

Rocky said with a smile.

He purposely concealed his affiliation, that is, the identity of "teams and groups of members of Melissa's subordinates", but used a group that sounded very high-profile, and was specially used by the officers to give him some freedom of movement. The name of the authority.

When Rocky saw Gloria's eyes, he knew he was talking to a "mother" first and nothing else.

Playing with her power, money, and fame in front of her are all fake.

She can take on the most dangerous and short-lived jobs by herself, but she must send David to the safest Arasaka Academy.

Students who graduate from it can get the opportunity to work in Arasaka, and even if they can't, they can go to other companies.

This is destined to be an equally difficult path, but compared to her whole life, this seems to be the best choice.

Luo Qi wants to persuade her, either completely show her the dead end of "joining Arasaka", or give her a more exciting choice that is enough to change her mind.

And his strategy is to add a third trick.

"Terrorist Mobile Squad?"

Gloria reacted immediately.

For the people of this city, the latter name is far more "friendly" than the previous official statement.

"That's right, I'm very grateful to you technicians for taking care of the aftermath. The security of this city does not only depend on fighting and killing."

Luo Qi sincerely expressed his gratitude.

This is sincere.

Of course, those NCPD guys are also included, but some of them are really jerks enough, so he has reservations until he fully understands them.

And EMTs...

Luo Qi heard that there was a custom among them to secretly take away some "harvests" from the scene. Now it seems that not only the people above want to get benefits, but also those who are running on the front line. A subsidy for an uneasy life.

He knew that most of the prosthetic bodies or weapons and equipment that had disappeared reasonably would appear in new ways in the black clinics on the street in a new way, which in disguise increased the possession rate of controlled items.

But this is something more difficult to eradicate than crime and criminals.

In terms of severity and harm, there are more cyber lunatics and violent terrorists waiting to be eliminated, and more criminal cases waiting to be solved.

From the point of view of blockage is worse than sparseness and substitution, until a better mechanism is found to reverse this situation, there is not much point in blindly cracking down on this kind of behavior other than drawing water from a bamboo basket and doing useless work.

The classic example is "cash with work"——

During times of disasters, victims can be recruited, and during periods of overproduction, demand can be stimulated.

Allowing people to work to rebuild their homes and build infrastructure projects in exchange for relief and extra labor remuneration can not only effectively restore post-disaster production order and operational capacity, but also increase national income and stimulate the balance between consumption and production .

It's definitely [-] times smarter than spending money without thinking.

If there are similar measures, EMTs who want to come will not have to be so embarrassed.

But in Night City, if you want to implement this kind of policy, I'm afraid it hasn't been implemented yet, and the interests from top to bottom have been divided up by the moths of the city council and the company.

This is why Luo Qi hardly considers such operations——

We must first have a normal society before we can consider other things.

It's like you can't ask a seriously injured person who is bedridden to exercise a fit body and do good personal hygiene.

These are equally important, but bigger problems lie in the middle of the road.

"But I heard that you have been expelled from the medical center?"

Luo Qi had just finished praising the EMTs in the last sentence, and the next second pulled Gloria back to the cruel reality.

Will they continue to offer benefits, keep their jobs, or even give unpaid leave to an employee who must be bedridden and frail?

the answer is negative.

Because when Gloria's accident happened, she was not working.

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This is the case in Night City, no different from other cities, or even more serious.

In the same situation, there is an even more outrageous version in the greater Tokyo area, that is, the Tokyo metropolitan area or the capital area.

Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa and Tokyo.

Luo Qi has never been to Japan so far, but I heard Arasaka Kane say that living in that city is like trying to stand up in a crowded crowd. Once you fall down, you can't stand up again.

When the pale Gloria lay in front of him, Luo Qi understood this sentence more deeply.

"I'm going to get a job, I was and I'm going to be."

Gloria was firm.

"But unfortunately, the doctor told me that your condition is not optimistic."

Luo Qi took out a report stored on the PDA, "Even if you recover completely, you can't continue the high-intensity labor. As far as I know, besides the high medical expenses, you still have a lot of debts, and this These are amounts that cannot be met by ordinary jobs. Furthermore, the unemployment rate in Night City is no joke."

"..."

Gloria was silenced by Luo Qi's series of blows.

David looked at his mother, she seemed to have aged a lot after this experience.

He is obviously in his 30s, but he seems to see his old age.

These are all old diseases accumulated over the years, coupled with the lack of protection and healthy diet, lack of nutrition and overwork, her shortened life is simply appalling.

"If you don't want David to be lonely, just live on."

Luo Qi's tone was very calm, but there was incomparable sincerity in the calm.

He has a silent respect for many people, especially the parents of children, which makes him feel personally touched.

"At least he can have a mother instead of being alone. This city will eat people. How far he can go in the future is his own ability, but only family can make him live like a complete person."

This sentence is Luo Qi's emotion after meeting many people and seeing many things.

In fact, being alone is the norm in Night City.

Jack also said that in this city, finding people who can be called "family" is more important than many things.

Because no matter how prosthetic human beings are, they are still human after all.

If you discard too much, the shell of the body and the inner soul will be stripped, twisted, and broken more thoroughly.

Like cyber psychosis-

First they were psychotic, and then they were cyberpsychotic.

Paying attention to mental health is like an unfamiliar topic in Night City. Luo Qi has never heard anything related to humanistic care here, as if everyone doesn't care.

Perhaps it is this kind of environment that further promotes the proliferation of mental problems.

Luo Qi felt that it was necessary for him to talk to the psychologists at the headquarters about this topic, maybe it was a few more papers and research directions.

"..."

And behind them, Lucy, who was hugging her alone, was a little dazed.

Those things Luo Qi said were like flying flower fireflies lingering in her mind, throwing her into past memories and present understandings, like a whirlpool.

family……

What is it?

She could not understand this feeling.

The whole world is like a hunting ground in the tropical rainforest that is full of hostility towards her, even the smallest dots may be unrecognizable poisonous insects.

Walking in such an environment is like a trembling steel wire, and if you are not careful, you will be smashed to pieces.

trust.

This luxury does not belong to her.

If Rocky walked in today and started doing everything he could to show David's mom that he was credible, as most people do, he would be part of the general public.

But he didn't.

When David sat next to him, he looked into his mother's eyes, and occasionally there was a warm light of hope flowing.

Never seen, never heard of.

Is David's mother's dream connected to him in this way?

At this moment, the concept of "others" blurred in her mind.

In addition to "use" and "being used", there are other relationships in this world.

But would that be his own?

Even if you force yourself to believe, what will be the price of being deceived again?

The cost of trust is too high, which is something she has always been deeply afraid of.

And Rocky's conversation continued.

"Even if we take a step back, can David really continue to stay at Arasaka Academy?"

Luo Qi looked at her, showing a little pity, "No matter how he behaves there, he is a low-level 'heterogeneous'. This does not come from any other part, and it is not a world at all. People—the students would discuss him, talk to him, mingle with him, but would never see David as one of their own."

The appearance of Arasaka Tower gradually emerged in everyone's mind.

"That's their life trajectory. It's not enough to just study at Arasaka Academy. For those people, it's a jumping ladder. For ordinary people, it's just a luxurious gold foil package."

If you continue to read, David's final destination is just to become a low-level company dog ​​in Arasaka, and then gradually lose everything he has on the way up.

Personality, conscience, empathy, authenticity, and finally the complete self.

Put on a mask that doesn't belong to you, grin a hypocritical smile, make a deal with the devil in your heart and outside, and finally climb up by stepping on the bones of countless people.

Meredith and Joanne are already such people, their consciousness is so ingrained that even Luo Qi can't do anything about them.

The white paper that has been dyed red cannot go back to the past.

And always living at the bottom, life is not more satisfactory.

The infinite pressure on energy and health, the melancholy that still lingers in my heart even if I don’t care about it every moment, is enough to crush the high pressure of the will after years of torture.The life that is also made impossible by working hours and company prosthetics, choosing to leave will return to the price of having nothing.

They changed into more decent suits, but they just stood up more glamorously in the crowd. As for the weakness when they will fall down, maybe only they can see it.

If company dogs are so satisfying, there is no need to squeeze into NCART, which is famous for being cheap and dirty.

Night City is a cage.

There is no fence on the border here, but countless souls are trapped.

And what they have gained after exhausting everything is just to live, and people don't live like ghosts or ghosts.

Until one day, I completely lost the ability to think about "who I am, where I am, and why I live", and became one of thousands of prisoners.

Luo Qi spoke quietly like this, stating the stories he knew in an ordinary way.

Most of the time, he is a bystander who has nothing to do with himself.

But some stories, even just watching from the sidelines, are enough to touch people's hearts.

When he stopped, Ms. Gloria Martinez on the bed was completely weeping.

Tears flowed from her eyes, then slid down her cheeks and fell into the white pillow.

She looked at David and never felt so vulnerable.

It was the identity of "mother" that made her a giant.

But whether it is a giant in the prosthetic body or a giant in the mind, the overloaded ballast is enough to destroy the real self.