People with ideals and ambition were always in pain.
Likewise, among those who saw through the nature of the world, refined egoists lived only for themselves, caring nothing if the world drowned in a flood.
Before the flood came, they would board a ticketed ship leaving the planet.
But idealists would feel sorrow and pain over the world's corruption and other people's poverty, sometimes even blaming themselves.
Su Xiao sighed.
"What are you planning to do next?"
Li Nali turned to look at Su Xiao. "If you were me, what would you do?"
"Night City is in cahoots with itself. If we submit this evidence, not only will we fail to bring down the mastermind, we might even get ourselves into trouble." Su Xiao thought carefully before arriving at an answer. "If I were you, I would leave the NCPD."
Actually, leaving the NCPD wasn't the only option.
There was another way: become like the others in the NCPD.
Blindfold yourself and cover your ears.
Pretend you knew nothing.
Work only to get off work.
At the NCPD, the most important question many people thought about every day was how not to work, coast for decades, and hold on until retirement.
Avoid reprimands and complaints.
Maintain the delicate balance at the limit.
Do the bare minimum while ensuring you could walk away unscathed.
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The option above was, of course, still a choice.
But Li Nali had asked what Su Xiao would do.
And if it were Su Xiao, he wouldn't choose that path.
"Just as I expected of you." Li Nali smiled. "But I won't leave the NCPD."
Her eyes held an incomparably serious look.
"One person's strength is limited, after all."
"So I'll protect whatever I can."
"Even if it's only