Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 124 102. At least do it
"Call the NCPD, call the NCPD quickly!"

The moment the gunshots rang out, most of the customers scrambled to hide further inside the store. They were all residents of Night City, so how could they not understand the consequences of a gang fight? It wouldn't be long before this place would become part of a battlefield.

"Mom, let's go!"

David hurriedly ran inside to protect his mother. The position they were in was too dangerous. They were almost on the front line of the firefight.

"Bang bang bang!"

David had just taken his mother away from their original seat when the place where they were originally located was covered by a barrage of gunfire from members of the Tiger Claw Gang. Those people had already discovered the members of the Six Street Gang in the store and began to shoot indiscriminately.

"Damn it, damn Valentino Gang, damn Tiger Claw Gang bastards!"

The Sixth Street Gang soldier standing in the corner immediately used the window seat as a half-shelter. Cat followed behind him, raised the Ajax assault rifle in his hand, and started firing outside. At the same time, he began to shout urgently on the communication channel, asking other companions on the street to quickly retreat to the store.

The Sixth Street Gang soldier fired a round of shots and when he ran out of bullets, he leaned back against the chair to change the bullets. However, out of the corner of his eye he noticed that the black-haired customer who had been sitting in the corner with his head buried was gone.

"He ran pretty fast. He must have been scared by the gunfire."

This thought flashed through his mind as the Sixth Street Gang member quickly changed his bullets. Just as he was about to step out of cover to fire another round to protect his companions, an oval-shaped object was thrown in front of him.

'Grenade!'

Without any hesitation, the Sixth Street Gang member made an urgent leap and roll into the store.

"boom!"

Along with the burning sensation coming from behind, the Sixth Street Gang member who was blown away by the shock wave and lay on the ground felt as if his entire abdomen had been hit by a heavy punch and he had difficulty breathing.

After he flew and rolled, he landed right next to David, who was pulling his mother towards the kitchen.

A member of the Tiger Claw Gang threw a grenade from the window inside. Seeing that the target he wanted to kill was not dead, he picked up a genuine assault rifle and started shooting at the fallen Six Street Gang members.

[Arasaka HJSH-18 Masamune]: This assault rifle was developed by Arasaka and designed in the 50s. It is easy to operate and durable, suitable for almost all combat environments, and the three-round burst shooting mode can be manually adjusted.

The Sixth Street Gang member, who had not yet recovered from the grenade explosion, was hit in the back by more than a dozen kinetic energy bullets before he could even move. His body was shattered into pieces and he died on the spot.
But the Tiger Claw Gang member's bullets did not stop. After killing the Sixth Street Gang member, he continued to pull the trigger, screaming excitedly, maintaining a shooting posture, and forced the muzzle of the gun towards another Sixth Street Gang member in the store.

The thugs of the Tiger Claw Gang are not as elite as those of the Six Street Gang. They don't care whether the recoil of kinetic weapons can be suppressed or not. They just want to have fun shooting. The bullets that he couldn't control from the rising muzzle of the gun flew towards David and Gloria when he changed his target.

He was just a civilian. In the eyes of the Tiger Claw Gang, he was nothing. From the very beginning, this member of the Tiger Claw Gang did not take the accidental injury to civilians seriously.

The ominous premonition came true. From the moment the gunshot rang out, David felt his heart beating wildly. In just a few seconds, the peaceful shop turned into a mess filled with bullets and smoke. They had obviously been affected.

When David noticed the black muzzle of the gun in the Tiger Claw Gang member's hand was raised and pointed at him, the sense of crisis like needles pricking his head made him scream out instinctively.

"Mom, get down!"

David threw his mother to the ground, but at that moment, he felt his left arm tremble, and then a slight numbness came from the upper arm, and then a stimulating pain accompanied by a heat flow began to come from the side of the upper arm.

The sense of pain let David know that he was injured, but he also immediately realized the extent of his injury.

Yes, it was wiped.

Fortunately, it was just a graze. If he was really hit by the kinetic bullet, it is definitely not impossible that his entire arm would be torn off.

"David, David!"

After Gloria was knocked down, the first thing she saw was David's blood flying in the air along with the broken pieces of Arasaka uniform. This scene almost made her instinctively start to call out her son's name anxiously.

At that time, her husband was killed by a stray bullet from a gang member right in front of her.

"I'm fine, Mom."

David endured the pain and smiled. He was about to comfort his mother, but he found that his mother's face was very pale.

The bullet grazed David's left arm, so where did it end up? The answer is Gloria's shoulder.

Seeing his mother's shoulder covered in blood and flesh, and even bones visible through her rotten coat, David's eyes turned red.

"David, I hope you're okay."

Gloria was completely unaware of her injury and had forgotten the pain in her panic. When she saw that her son was not seriously injured, she breathed a sigh of relief. After she let out this sigh of relief, her eyes gradually became unfocused and then she fainted.

The scene of her son being injured overlapped with the scene of her husband's death in the past, pushing Gloria's already tense spirit due to constant overtime work to its limit;
Coupled with the shock of being shot and injured, Gloria's spirit, which was like a taut string, finally reached its limit. After realizing that David was fine, the taut string broke.

"Mom, Mom!"

David dragged his mother to the back of the cashier counter, trying to wake her up, but his shouting was of no use. In fact, as he was only focused on dragging his mother to a safe place, Gloria's shoulder bled even faster.

"Damn it, bastard!"

David's mind was filled with confusion. Anger made him want to pull out his gun and retaliate against the Tiger Claw gang member who fired the gun. However, his remaining rationality told him that his mother needed help. At this time, he hoped that...
"Here, David."

Carl can be here.

"what?"

David stared blankly at Carl who appeared in front of him and handed him the Fulcon III.

Carl? !
"What are you standing there for? Are you stupid?"

Seeing David in a daze, Carl stuffed the Fuerkang Type III into David's hand and said, "Inject it into the neck. Do you know how to use it?"

"Of course!"

Although he was still a little dazed, David quickly came to his senses as his mother was injured. He immediately gripped the Fulcon III and started the injection. While David was doing this, he heard Carl's apology.

"I'm sorry, I was in this store too. I thought it would be inappropriate to meet your mother, so I avoided her. When the gunshots started, I took the opportunity to hide in the back kitchen. When I got there, I realized that a gang fight had broken out and you were in danger.
As soon as I turned around, I saw that guy shooting at you. Although I drew my gun, he kept shooting and there were too many bullets. I only had time to fire nine rounds. There was still one round that I missed, and you and your mother were injured. "

Carl was a little annoyed. He had to admit that some of his past habitual thinking had harmed him.

He and David had done a mission together. Although he protected David during that mission, he treated David as a formal member, almost the same as he treated Mann. And that kind of thinking made him instinctively feel that David would not be in any danger when he heard the gunshots.

Gang members are not big names, so it is unlikely that they can pose a big threat to Jack, Oliver, and Mann, so David.
No, David!
Carl's movement was so fast that he ran to the back kitchen before he could react. When he turned back, the Tiger Claw Gang member had already started shooting and was moving the gun towards David and his mother.

In an emergency, Carl only had time to shoot down the nine bullets facing David.

My friend and his mother were right next to me, but I was careless and failed to protect them. I really have to apologize.

“It’s not your responsibility.”

In response to Karl's chagrin, David watched his mother's breathing stabilize and the blood stopped flowing, and then he comforted Karl:
"I wanted to protect my family, but I failed to protect anything when faced with a crisis. In the face of real fear, I still thought of you. I am useless and have failed you, Carl, Jack, and Oliver."

David grasped the Kenshin at his waist and pulled it out.

"So, at the very least, I have to do my part of teaching in front of you."

David still remembered Oliver, Jack, and Carl's instructions on how to shoot: hold the gun with both hands, not too tight, like holding a door handle, and then
David poked his head out.

"Aim and shoot."

"Bah!"

Along with the sound of gunfire, the head of the Tiger Claw Gang that was shooting into the store exploded.

The revenge for injuring my mother must be taken personally.

(End of this chapter)