Half an hour later, North Oak arrived, in a private independent cemetery.
The breeze blows.
Underfoot is a real green lawn that feels soft and moist, and above your head is a perfectly simulated blue sky and warm sunlight without any haze of acid rain.
David was alone, standing quietly in front of a majestic tombstone made entirely of white marble and miniature offline defense walls.
On the cold metal nameplate, a line of golden writing is clearly engraved -
[Gloria Martinez's Tomb]
[One of the greatest mothers rests here]
There is no cold shovel like a centralized incinerator.
No plastic powder that spits out like soda from a vending machine.
This low-class woman, who had worked hard all her life and struggled desperately for her son in the mud of Night City, finally achieved the most noble peace in Night City in this sacred Pure Land that even most senior executives would take off their hats to pay tribute to.
And right in front of the tombstone.
David squatted down and carefully took out from his arms a wooden flower box that had just been extracted from the red envelope in the chat group.
It was a bunch of pure white lilies and golden daisies with morning dew that group member Emiya Shirou personally picked from Fuyuki City's backyard after hearing that David was going to bury his mother.
In a cold world where all plants are made of plastic and holographic Projection...
This bouquet of fresh flowers with a real earthy fragrance and clear water droplets on their petals is simply the most priceless wonder on the entire planet.
David stretched out his hands and solemnly placed the bouquet of moist and white flowers in front of his mother's tombstone.
"Mom..."
The seventeen-year-old boy knelt on the green lawn and gently touched the cold stone monument. Finally, a tear of relief, tranquility and complete relief fell from the corner of his eyes.
"We're respectable."
David raised his head, looked at the false blue sky above his head, and a warm but extremely determined smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:
"You don't have to go there for my tuition anymore... you can sleep well here."
In a remote place less than two hundred meters away from the cemetery.
"Squeak!!"
Accompanied by the ear-piercing roar of engines, two heavily modified off-road vehicles with skull graffiti spray-painted all over their bodies and anti-collision spikes on their fronts swung out one after another, blocking David's path!
The car door was pushed open violently.
Five black market scavengers whose bodies had been heavily mechanically modified jumped down with sneers.
The leading bald thug had half of his face replaced with a metal mask. He was holding a heavy-duty kinetic shotgun with a shortened barrel in his hand, and spit out a mouthful of low-quality synthetic smoke:
"Santo Domingo is the boy."
He raised the muzzle of the gun and aimed it at David's eyebrows:
"The Frank director of the cemetery handed a letter to the brothers... I heard that there was a fat sheep wearing an old jacket who smashed several kilograms of completely anonymous old gold on the marble counter?!"
The prosthetic eye of a hacker behind a metal heat pipe shimmered, trying to remotely access David's personal port:
"First burn his prosthetic eyes and central nervous system--"
However, a series of error codes flashed across the hacker's prosthetic eyes:
[Error: The target did not detect any brain Machine God socket and cyber network interface, and data intrusion cannot be carried out!]
The hacker was stunned. "What's going on? Can't hack in?!"
"Don't talk nonsense to him, do it! Grab the box!!"
The leading bald man directly pulled the trigger in order to win the battle quickly!
"Bang!!"
The shotgun blasts with blazing gunfire towards David's face!
However, at this moment.
After being baptized by Gaia Origin, David's extraordinary induction and nerve reflexes in the body suddenly started to operate!
In the keen sense given by the gods, the speed of the whole world seemed to slow down.
The tiny movement of depressing the trigger, Kakkō's explosion of gunpowder in the barrel, and even the trajectory of each lead bullet tearing through the air... were all clearly identifiable in David's field of vision.
"Boom!!"
The dense shotguns grazed the corners of his clothes and shattered the rock wall behind him into pieces!
"... What?!"
The bald thug's mechanical eye sockets twitched violently. "Hit your face to hide from the bullets?! What are you pretending to be?!"
David held the toolbox steadily with one hand and looked at him calmly:
"I don't have anything like that on me."
Next second!
David moved! His entire body turned into an afterimage that exceeded the limit of ordinary human vision!
The bald man didn't even have time to turn his gun, before David appeared beside him.
The young man exerted force on his waist and abdomen, and his plump and strong muscles instantly burst out with extremely amazing pure physical power, and a straight punch hit the opponent's metal breastplate solidly!
"Bang!!"
Like a heavy hammer hitting pig iron!
The thick alloy armor of the bald thug dented, and with the sound of the mechanical structure shattering, the whole figure flew upside down for more than ten meters like a kite with a broken string, smashing through the bumper of the off-road vehicle, and passed out on the engine cover on the spot!
"Fire! Kill him!!"
The remaining four thugs were shocked, and the mantis knives and heavy machine guns on their arms were activated at the same time!
But in the face of David's powerful dynamic induction and absolute speed, all attacks seemed too slow.
David's feet swayed, and his figure shuttled through the surrounding circle like a breeze.
"Crack!"
He stretched out his hand to grab the cold mantis knife that was coming towards him, and suddenly exerted force with his five fingers. Relying on the thoroughly strengthened palm bones and sheer strength, he forcibly broke the blade into two pieces!
Immediately afterwards, David shattered the jaw of the enemy beside him with a sharp backhand push. Using the power of the rotation, he swept his legs and knocked the last two thugs into the green belt on the roadside, knocking them to the ground.
The entire battle took less than 10 seconds from the shooting to the end.
David stood there and let out a breath.
He raised his hand and looked at his palm, not even a scratch.
There is no fever of the prosthetic body, no severe nerve pain, and the natural vitality in the body flows smoothly and abundantly.
Pure perception, pure power and extreme speed, coupled with a pure flesh and blood body that is completely immune to any network hacker...
The street thugs who were once as terrifying as nightmares in Santo Domingo were now vulnerable to him.