"Shut up! No one knows my body better than me! Stay away from me...David, I'm tired of your peeking around..."
"Sian Westan's time-sensitive hormone allows you to move freely among the crowd. Does that mean you feel great? Don't forget, I originally bought it for myself..."
"David, I've reached the finish line. You have to survive. Aren't you faster than anyone else? Now... let's run!"
start running!
Why? Mann, why are you running?
Martinez suddenly opened his eyes in a trance. Rebecca's scream sounded just a few meters away, and was matched by the fierce sound of gunfire... Rebecca's little body was there.
The custom-made shotgun looked even smaller in front of her, and the powerful recoil made Rebecca take a step back almost every time she fired.
If it hadn't been for the pair of advanced gorilla prosthetic arms that alleviated Tiedan's recoil, she might have fallen to the ground by now.
However, the huge recoil is matched by the power of iron gallbladders that far exceeds that of normal weapons. The projectiles spread by the special bullets can easily penetrate the third-level body armor and cause death in the nearly 25-degree conical surface directly in front.
storm.
By the way, they are at war...
After going smoothly for several times, they finally encountered the players' targets... Just as the agent from the League of Gentlemen reminded them, the players had long been targeting him.
The irony is that those players have no interest in what they came here for. What they want is the physical, literal bodies of David Martinez and Rebecca. Those players want to turn them into vegetarians.
body.
"Damn it! That man is free from mental restraint!" A player very close to him loudly reminded others that among the most popular supernatural abilities among players, mental control abilities ranked fifth, second only to dimensional gates and telekinesis.
, after space jump and self-recovery.
The main reason why this ability is ranked relatively low is that it is difficult to have an effective impact on other players. Many players do not want to have an ability that can only be used in PVE. After all, the main storyline in the middle and late stages of the game is basically biased towards PVP content.
But it is undoubtedly a very interesting way to control the natives in the early stage. However, the player who masters this ability has limited control over the ability. He not only needs to stay close to David Martinez and maintain eye contact, but also needs to maintain concentration to be effective.
Destroy the opponent's will to counterattack.
The more determined a person is, the harder it is to control him, and David Martinez is undoubtedly a determined person, at least... now he is.
The expensive central nervous system enhanced system sensed the owner's will, converted this will into time-sensitive hormone and injected it into Martinez's body. This was already the sixth time he had used time-sensitive hormone in a short period of time. According to the real-time monitoring of the enhanced system,
His body is producing a rejection reaction to the time-sensitive hormone, and his brain is instinctively resisting being accelerated into the hyper-time stream again.
Martinez seemed to be able to hear his cells struggling against his will, but he was used to it. He had used it more unprotected before. His body, he knew, he could withstand...
The next second, the world slowed down in front of Martinez. Under the refraction of the sun and the rendering of dust, the wind became a tangible object, while the people became solid objects. They no longer moved and were
The bullets fired from the muzzle moved forward slowly, greeted by the flames.
Martinez looked at the player who had mentally controlled him before. He was a fat, white man with an unattractive appearance, with washed hair on his head. This honor showed the player's status in the group of players. He was the most popular player known as a rookie.
Bottom layer.
They don't even have enough money to give themselves a more handsome appearance in a shape-changing hospital specially opened for players.
Martinez's team has been operating in player-occupied areas recently. They have dealt with players many times, and Martinez can already identify the class of these players by their appearance.
Being betrayed by the rookie made him even more annoyed. He rushed to the rookie, put his combat pistol to the opponent's head and fired a shot, then left the gun with the unloaded bullets there.
In Martinez's time flow, it takes four seconds for the bullet to go from pulling the trigger, to being transmitted to being fired, and then to being discharged from the chamber. These four seconds are enough for him to continue looking for the next target...
However, the moment he turned around, a fist hit Martinez in the face, causing him to fall to one side with a stunned look in his eyes. With overwhelming force, he pushed Martinez to the ground and rubbed him out for three or four seconds.
It's only when the stamina reaches the end of the mile.
"How is it possible..." Martinez rolled and avoided the enemy's subsequent knee collision.
The powerful knee directly created a shallow crater on the ground, and Martinez had the opportunity to raise his head and see the attacker.
A man dressed in black looked at Martinez jokingly, raised a small tube of fluorescent blue medicine in his hand, and plunged it directly into his carotid artery provocatively.
Time sensitive hormone!
Martinez's eyes suddenly widened. As a wild time-sensitive element user, he certainly knew what the other party had just done... After entering the super-time flow, he used the time-sensitive element again, and it lasted for two full seconds.
Ten milliliters of standard units of time-sensitive hormone...
There was a brief pause in his thinking at this moment, because the other party relied on the faster flow of time to attack him. The continuous attacks made him feel as if he had been thrown into a blender.
Martinez saw the alloy shield under his skin rapidly deforming during the blow, and one of his prosthetic eyes lost sight before he could react...
"Perform a second injection!" David Martinez ignored the warning of the nerve center enhancement system and forced the system to inject himself a second time...
When injecting ten milliliters of standard unit time-sensitive hormone for the first time, David Martinez reached a flow rate eighteen times the normal time under the careful calculation of the central nervous system's enhancement system. This was not his limit, but the central nervous system's limit.
Relatively safe temporal flow rate after adjustment of the neuroaugmentation system.
And now, after injecting ten milliliters of accurate unit time-sensitive hormone for the second time, David Martinez entered the time flow at twenty-six times the normal time flow rate, which allowed him to see the crazy player again.
.
However, the opponent's movements were still very fast in his eyes, and Martinez could only make basic defensive movements, without the ability to fight back.
"Again!" David Martinez roared, pushing the sneak attacker away and crossing his ribs. He was hit hard at the corners of his eyes, and his vision with his only prosthetic eye became blurry.
The central nervous system enhanced system did not continue with the meaningless warning. It just followed the owner's request and injected ten milliliters of time-sensitive hormone again... David Martinez's body trembled, not knowing it was what he had suffered before.
The attack caused problems with the prosthetic eyes, and the brain was still making its final protest. The scene in front of him trembled violently as if it was unreal.
But this time, David Martinez finally caught his enemy again. The damn player was standing less than one meter away from him, with arrogant eyes, a twisted smile at the corner of his mouth, and a gun on his hand.
Carrying a pair of ferocious spiked knuckles.
His fist was so powerful that when he swung it, he hit all the strength of his body at one point, and all the muscles in his body swelled up. However, these were meaningless when the time flowed at different speeds.
David Martinez just stood there quietly, as if the other party had been pressed on the pause button. According to the prompts of the central nervous system enhancement system, he is now in an accelerated state of thirty-six times the normal time flow. This is Martinez.
Heights never reached before.
He pulled out his dagger and drew it along the muscle lines of the enemy in front of him. The blood seemed to be solid and had no time to flow out. He recovered some interest, and then Martinez directly stabbed the player's head with the knife and left the dagger in the opponent's brain.
inside.
What made Martinez a little scared was that he found another tube of time-sensitive hormone with an injection head installed in the player's other hand. It was also a container full of 20 ml standard units...
"Madman!" David Martinez was a little frightened and killed all the players around him. Then he weakly sat down against the wall. Fear followed and crashed into his heart like a wild horse.
I don’t know how long it will take for me to exit the super-time flow state.
He had used time-sensitive drugs continuously before, but after the effect of one dose ended, he continued to inject a second dose, then a third dose, and a fourth dose... Martinez was eliminated on the first day he entered the industry.
People tell you to never try to reuse time sensitive substances in a hypertemporal flow state, otherwise time sensitivity will come to your door.
Time sensitivity is the nightmare of every time-sensitive person. Time-sensitive people are the collective name for all people who abuse time-sensitive hormones. Some people, like Martinez, regard it as a combat skill, and some people use it to commit crimes.
To satisfy their voyeurism, etc., others simply enjoy the 'pleasure' of entering the hyper-time stream.
Heck, the federal people can experience the 'pleasure' from almost all compounds. They can even take out the toxic exhaust gas from Ohio and dilute it for fun...
But time sensitivity is different. Martinez has seen people who have time sensitivity. They are like living fossils living in amber...
With the blessing of time-sensitive hormones, the physical bodies of these time-sensitive people are synchronized with their own perceived time flow, but those who suffer from time-sensitivity do not have this treatment.
They just have a simple brain problem, and their bodies will still be hungry and thirsty, and they will still excrete. If no one takes care of them, their consciousnesses active in different time streams will watch their bodies change in the blink of an eye or in a meal.
Death, but I can't do anything.
Martinez didn't want to end up like that. He sat there and closed his eyes and counted twenty silently. Then he suddenly opened his eyes, but he was still in a state of hyper-temporal flow.
He was desperate. Normally, the time-sensitive hormones he injected into his body could not sustain him in the super-time flow state for so long. Only those who have problems will have this situation...
Martinez sighed, wrote down the password to his bank safe in Night City on a piece of paper, stuffed it into Rebecca's hand, and walked around to make sure there were no other threats nearby before finally
Standing in front of Rebecca, he patted her on the head.
He picked up the items required for this mission from the ground, looked at the map, and walked onto the extremely quiet street alone.
...
As time goes by, the impact of the Delhi Explosion has become greater and greater. Phoenix City and the Crystal Palace are paradises for the top rich, but most humans are still crawling on the surface.
They can't go anywhere, but they have to face a nuclear war that is gradually showing its signs.
The federal people's fear of nuclear war has existed since the first day of the birth of the nuclear bomb, running through four generations, and in the last half century, their nightmares have almost always been around their ears.
First there were sporadic nuclear explosions in the corporate war, then Night City, and then the war against players. Both sides threw nuclear bombs like firecrackers. The Big Bang in Delhi was the big firecracker that shattered everyone's illusions.
The Valentino Gang has built two large shelters inside and outside the city. This is almost an open secret. Other gangs in Night City are not far behind and are constantly choosing suitable locations to build their own military shelters around Night City.
Base', and even caused armed conflicts with residents of several nearby towns.
The street warriors of Night City are not easy to mess with, but the residents of small towns who have settled near Night City are also not easy to mess with. They usually have to deal with harassment from the Wanderer Tribe and the Knife Club, many of which are in the town itself.
It is also a transfer station and distribution station for smuggling routes in Night City, which can be said to be full of martial virtue.
Among them, the Baoxiong Gang is the most radical. Their chain gym industry has gone into decline and has gone bankrupt on a large scale. Various fitness supplements that were once popular across the country have become yesterday's news. Modern people prefer quick results and strong output.
A new generation of prosthetics.
The Brutal Bear Gang, which has been reduced to the tears of the times, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Their leader, Isla Barros, regards the nuclear shelter as his last chance to turn around... The Brutal Bear Gang has the strongest infrastructure among all the gangs in Night City.
ability, they can build larger shelters that can accommodate more people.
Barrows wanted to build a paid shelter and sell tickets to extend the survival of the Bear Gang... As a result, it was pie in the sky. Mikkelsen actually invited him to have tea today and planned to give him a package in the name of the federal government.
A business.
The leader of the Bear Gang was so excited that he didn't sleep all night. He took two injections of stimulants to cheer him up in the morning, put on a tailor-made large suit, got into an ambassador car and headed to the city hall early to wait.
Burrows held the bulletproof shield-sized briefcase under his arm. He would open it from time to time to see if the drawings inside were still there. His cautious appearance would make anyone look at him with emotion. Anthony Hope, who was in charge of negotiating business with him,
Jins felt particularly deeply.
After all, the last time he dealt with the Brutal Bear Gang, they hit him with a forklift...