The Scavenger leader arrived too suddenly. Without time to think, David could only quickly pull Gloria off the operating chair and hide in cover, shielding her behind him.
"BOOM!"
As the sound of the explosion rang out, David was directly blown away.
Fortunately, David's reaction was quick enough. The cover blocked most of the damage for him, and Gloria, whom he shielded behind him, was also unaffected by the explosion.
But compared to Gloria, David's condition was clearly not as good.
David's back was affected by the aftermath of the explosion, leaving large, bloody wounds. At the same time, he fell unconscious.
Just as the Scavenger leader saw David with nowhere to hide and prepared to press his advantage, Luoqi made his move.
Luoqi appeared like a flash of lightning, instantly arriving in front of the Scavenger leader.
The instant the leader fired, he reached out and grabbed his right hand, twisted the barrel, and shoved it into his own mouth.
With a crisp bang, the Scavenger leader's head exploded, and countless tiny blood spatters instantly covered the room.
As for Luoqi, he had already flashed away the moment the explosion occurred. He didn't want his exquisite suit to get stained with that filth.
Lucy, standing beside Luoqi, looked at the messy dismemberment room and couldn't help but feel a bit helpless.
"You could have avoided this scene," Lucy said, somewhat puzzled.
Luoqi just smiled.
"The kid needs to suffer a bit. As long as he doesn't die, it's fine."
"You seem to be quite looking out for him."
"Sort of. This guy has good talent, so consider it a bit of special attention."
The appearance of the Scavenger leader was naturally no accident. With Lisandra's ability, she wouldn't have missed this target.
Luoqi had specifically asked Lisandra to hide his tracks from David's map.
David's beginner tutorial was over, so Luoqi thoughtfully arranged a plot-driven kill for him.
The purpose was to give him a small setback.
David was inherently arrogant. Just because he installed a Sandevistan, he thought he was extraordinary, believing himself to be special.
Until his death, he refused to admit he had reached his limit, refused to give up his strength, and refused to abandon the fame and fortune he had fought for. In short, he was pretty much the same as Mann.
Although his performance today still had many flaws, compared to others who were just starting out with this kind of thing, it was already far better.
But David was able to do all this entirely thanks to Lisandra's help. Without Lisandra's information supply, which was like having X-ray vision, David wouldn't have been able to achieve this level.
To prevent him from getting arrogant, Luoqi naturally had to curb his enthusiasm.
Moreover, David's personality couldn't be suppressed. Often, under high pressure, he would unleash even greater potential.
At this point, all the enemies in the Scavenger hideout had been eliminated. Luoqi walked over to David.
The unconscious David was still tightly shielding Gloria beneath him.
David's back was charred and rotten, but not much blood flowed out. In the deepest wound, you could even see the pale vertebral bone.
Although it looked terrible, it was still that saying: as long as he didn't die, it was fine.
Furthermore, being injured happened to be convenient for Luoqi's plan.
"Lucy, come here and give me a hand."
After motioning for Lucy to come help carry Gloria, Luoqi picked up David.
He put both of them in the back seat of the delorean, and Luoqi drove back to the clinic in Nihonmachi.
As for the tragic state of this black clinic, that wasn't something he needed to worry about.
At the clinic.
Luoqi first checked Gloria's body and found that she was indeed fine and would recover soon.
Then Luoqi moved David onto the operating chair and examined his injuries.
The injuries weren't severe, but they affected the spinal nerves. If not repaired, it could lead to paralysis.
"Perfect," Luoqi sighed, and then took out the Sandevistan that originally belonged to Mann from David's black bag.
In this situation, David could perfectly compensate for the nerve damage by installing the Sandevistan.
This was also Luoqi's initial plan: install the Sandevistan for him, give him the qualifications to enter the mercenary industry, and then have him work under his command.
As for other more advanced cyberware or pharmaceutical enhancements, that would depend on his future performance.
Before David clearly became one of his own, Luoqi naturally wouldn't invest too much. Anyway, this Sandevistan wasn't his, so installing it didn't hurt.
Picking up the scalpel, he cut open the skin on David's back, and Luoqi began the Sandevistan installation.
The cold scalpel tip continuously cut across David's body. Intense pain surged, and David, who had only been unconscious due to the strong shock, was immediately jolted awake by the pain.
"Ah!"
David let out a howl.
"Don't move, don't yell, endure it. You're injured, I'm operating on you."
Luoqi's voice rang out in David's ear.
David naturally remembered his voice. Without Luoqi's help, David couldn't have saved Gloria from the Scavengers.
Hearing that it was Luoqi speaking, David calmed down for a moment. Gritting his teeth, he tried to turn his head to look around.
He saw Gloria lying to the side, looking fine, and the surrounding environment wasn't like that black clinic.
David's hanging heart finally settled, and he fully immersed himself in fighting against the pain.
Before long, Luoqi completed the Sandevistan installation surgery.
Afterwards, he treated the other wounds on David's back. The remaining wounds weren't serious; after disinfecting them, they would heal naturally over time.
"Alright, you can get up now."
Luoqi indicated to David that the surgery was complete.
After David got up, the pain slowly subsided. Although there were still many areas on his back with a burning sensation, it was clearly much better than just now.
David clearly felt something extra on his back, and he could control it.
"What happened just now?" David asked, somewhat confused.
Luoqi, standing nearby, explained, "You were injured by a Scavenger who suddenly appeared and detonated something. You have multiple wounds on your back, and the deepest one injured your spinal nerves."
"To fill the gap in the nerves and prevent you from being paralyzed, I installed a Sandevistan cyberware for you."
"Sandevistan? Are you talking about that Sandevistan, the one that increases nerve reaction and makes the world slow down?" David exclaimed.
David remembered the projectile the Scavenger fired at him; it did indeed hit him, and David had already expected his back to be injured.
But what surprised him was the latter half of Luoqi's sentence: he had actually installed a Sandevistan for him.
He naturally understood this thing very well. As a black braindance fan, he had also experienced the feeling of others activating a Sandevistan in braindances.
He had always wanted to gain the ability of super-fast nerve reactions like that.
Without waiting for Luoqi to answer his question, David chose to directly try activating the Sandevistan.
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