Endless Battlefield: Starting from Night City to Create a Vest

"How many times did he use it during this period?" Wu Guang asked.

Dolio thought for a moment and said, "A total of six times. I was very excited at the beginning, but then I gradually lost control and had nervous disturbances. The last time, I almost lost control of my body."

"Okay, let me check his brain nerves first." Wu Guang looked at the other party.

And Dolio nodded without hesitation.

Wu Guang dragged Mann to the recliner with familiarity. The recliner Wu Guang was using was naturally custom-made. It was wide and thick, so Mann's body could fit on it without any problem.

Then Wu Guang started scanning.

Just as Wu Guang expected, Mann's brain nerves had shown varying degrees of confusion.

The area of ​​the brain that controls the arms began to expand, encroaching on the nerves of other brain areas that control the body, and the boundaries have become blurred.

This situation is a mental disorder caused by excessive pressure on the prosthesis, which is why some people talk nonsense when they suffer from cyberpsychosis.

After all, in their vision, they came to the place that they were once most familiar with and most hated, which might be a battlefield, or a place where they were oppressed.

At this time they are unable to think normally.

The memory is like a mosaic.

Ambiguous.

Wu Guang is not unable to handle this situation. As mentioned before, he just needs to rest for a long time.

The control method is not through psychotherapy like Boden did, but physical therapy is needed.

The first is drugs, beta acid, nerve stimulating drugs that can increase nerve activity, and then the model of standardized prostheses, to put it bluntly, is to let the brain re-plan itself.

Let Mann slowly regain control of his body.

This allows the active nerves to adapt to the body's changes and thus become zoned again.

But this is not the end.

After all, there was a chaos, and Wu Guang needed to add a behavioral chip to Mann. This thing is something that sends commands to the chip through the brain, and then the chip executes the commands.

It is equivalent to a buffer layer.

This is just a form of protection.

When the instructions are vague, you will be proactively reminded to take a break.

It is a kind of neural signal identification.

After that is the time for adjustment, which varies from person to person. Those with good physique and fast brain nerve recovery may need half a month. Those with slow brain nerve recovery may need at least one month and at most half a year.

As for the inhibitors injected like in the anime.

Those things can indeed calm the nerves and allow the brain to recover temporarily from chaos, but that is only temporary. At best, they anesthetize the nerves and reduce their activity.

But these are only temporary. The damaged areas have not been repaired and are even continuing to make mistakes. Once the effect of the medicine wears off, this chaos will intensify the expansion.

Rather than saying that David died at the hands of Adam in the original book.

It would be better to say that he died at the hands of those nine bottles of medicine.

Cyberpsychosis is not incurable, but without a well-planned examination, one will fall into a vicious cycle and eventually go crazy and die.

The simplest example is the first cyberpsychopath captured by Arasaka, who was cured and joined the Mobile Terrorist Squad.

However, there has never been any possibility of cyberpsychosis in Saburo Arasaka's family.

Saburo Arasaka didn’t add prosthetics?

Is it possible for a person to live to be 150 years old without prosthetics?

Both of his children are in their eighties, but they still look like middle-aged people. Is it possible that they don’t have prosthetics?

The older people get, the more fragile their nerves become, and the probability of being crushed rises sharply, but they are not worried.

It turns out that they have already mastered the cure for cyberpsychosis, but the cost and manpower required for treatment are not enough to support the treatment of a worthless person.

Instead of spending a lot of money on treatment, it is better to release short-term suppressive drug control and use it to suck blood, which is more in line with Arasaka's values.

As for cyberpsychosis caused by similar mental illness, there is naturally a solution, which is to crush the personality and brainwash it, turning it into your own exclusive death warrior.

The effect of training soldiers in this way is good, but the cost of treatment and training is too high. It is better to train them from a young age. They have strong autonomy and can make active judgments. It is also very cheap and... humane.

That’s right, for people in high positions, kindness is also a way to regulate their mood. Of course, they are not cruel, but as long as they don’t see it with their own eyes, they will not have any psychological burden.

After all, doesn’t Saburo Arasaka know that so many people in Night City are living in dire straits because of his changes?

No, he knew it better than anyone else.

After Wu Guang finished editing the program silently, he took off the instrument on Mann's head.

"Okay, this is the behavior chip for the future. Let's go find the Yizhai prosthesis and the medicine..."

Dolio took it without saying a word and carried Mann away.

Wu Guang also went up to lend a hand.

After all, with Mann's physique and prosthetics, his weight has long exceeded that of a normal human.

The operation was proceeding quickly.

The Sian Westin was removed and replaced with his original implant spine.

It was already late at night when Mann woke up. He rubbed his head, looked around, felt the condition of his body, and sighed.

"I really couldn't hold on." Mann sighed dejectedly.

The power brought by the prosthesis is unquestionable. The extreme sense of speed is truly fascinating, especially the feeling after turning on the acceleration, as if you are a god in this world.

The enemy was like a piece of paper, and in just a moment, he killed all of them.

Extremely terrifying.

Of course, the price was also high, and now he felt that his body's operations were delayed.

That’s right, this is the function of the behavior chip. Every instruction to the body needs to go through the behavior chip and can only be executed if there is no problem.

Of course, this delay is not very obvious and will not cause any trouble in daily life, but when it comes to life and death in a battle, this delay is fatal.

That's why Wu Guang said that he needed to take a good rest for a while.

Wu Guang heard what Mann said and turned his chair around: "Wake up."

"Thank you for your help." Mann said dejectedly.

Wu Guang looked at Mann with burning eyes, but finally did not speak. Wu Guang was going to do the previous neural regeneration experiment and he also had a draft.

But Wu Guang didn't have the money and people he needed.

Mann's current condition is actually the best experimental material, but Wu Guang did not say anything.

"In fact, if you plan to use Sian Westin all the time, there is a way, which is to remove the other prostheses in your body and replace them with lighter ones, such as..."

"Forget it. If I replace my prosthetic body, I may not be able to continue to be a mercenary." Mann interrupted Wu Guang.

He has been using this set of prosthetics for many years now, and many middlemen have taken a fancy to them. If they are removed, it will undoubtedly damage his reputation.

Don't mess around in the future.

Wu Guang spread his hands.

"Dolio is playing poker with Yi and the others outside. If you have nothing to do, you can go out and join them." After Wu Guang said this, he turned around and started typing on the keyboard.

And Mann just stared at the ceiling.

The lesson he learned this time taught him one thing: this was his limit, and it would be extremely difficult to move forward.

Mann was very unwilling to accept this. It seemed so easy for him to become stronger, but he couldn't.

Mann, who had experienced the Sianwestin, was now obsessed with that speed. Even after installing the Sianwestin, he felt that he could have a SOLO match with the legendary maker Adam Heavy Hammer.

"Wu Guang, do you think...is this the only way I can live my life?" Mann asked blankly as he looked at Wu Guang who was typing on the keyboard.

When Wu Guang heard this, he stopped what he was doing, turned his chair around and turned around.

"Why do you ask?"

"I know my body very well. The last time I used Sianwestin, I could clearly feel the confusion. At that time, I felt like I was back on the battlefield, and also back to the past. At that time, I was still a marathon runner, and I only wanted to move forward, but in the end, there was no way..."

"…The path is gone, but I want to know, what is your path? Add prosthetics? To what extent? Become 96% prosthetic and become the next Adam Hammer? Or live a fulfilling life in Night City without worrying about money?"

"Or will he become a legendary figure that people talk about like Johnny Silverhand or Morgan Blackhand?"

"Of course, to become a legend like Silverhand and Morgan." Mann answered without thinking.

Wu Guang nodded.

For veterans coming down from the battlefield, they always have something to pursue, and legend is this pursuit, and they are willing to accept it even if it means death.

Wu Guang didn't understand. After all, he had a clear mission, but what about the others...

Perhaps this is the reason why mercenaries are so popular in Night City.

The culture is different.

"Even if it means death?"

"No excuses."

Wu Guang looked at Mann, who also stood up from the bed with a determined look in his eyes.

"it is good."

"I recently got a new technology, the reshaping of neural networks. Simply put, it can allow you to adapt to the side effects of prosthetic transformation. You can understand it as becoming a cyborg at the level of Adam Heavy Hammer."

Mann's eyes lit up.

"You...are you lying to me?"

"I'm not lying to you, but the price is also very high. Adam Heavy Hammer went through a nuclear bomb, and the only parts of his body left were part of his brain and spinal cord, so his brain was essentially fused with the machine. That's why the transformation rate is 96%.

This technology allows you to add prosthetics to most of your body except for your brain, but the price is that during the implementation of the plan, you will suffer from splitting headaches, nausea, abnormal body functions, and you may even become a different person. "

"..."

Mann frowned.

He could accept the first ones, but he didn’t understand the last one.

“Maybe I’m not myself anymore?”

"After all, this transformation is inside the brain. It may change your endocrine system, making you irritable, or overly anxious, or even causing symptoms of cyberpsychosis. During this period, you may change your mind or even have the opposite thinking."

"Is the risk factor so high?"

Wu Guang sighed and shook his head. Changes in the brain are very dangerous and can even drive people crazy and desperate. In the original game, V was doing experiments in space, which was essentially brain modification. The final result...

In order to prevent Mann from escaping during the experiment, Wu Guang naturally had to control him.

After all, if Mann's combat prosthesis goes crazy... it's scary to think about it.

And once the experiment starts, there is no possibility of stopping it.

Of course, if there were mature technical references, Wu Guang might not have said this.

Now all of this is Wu Guang’s idea. Whether it can succeed or not can only be known after trying.

Wu Guang shook his head: "Forget it, you are just acting out because of the aftereffects of Sian Westin. Let's talk about it when you calm down."

Mann said nothing, thinking silently.

"Or find a completely crazy cyberpsychopath. This technology can also treat cyberpsychopaths in a sense." Wu Guang gave another proposal.

Mann's eyes lit up.

"This is a good idea."

Wu Guang spread his hands. He had originally planned to do this experiment by himself. After all, catching a cyber psychopath, although dangerous, is not impossible. With the current Wu Guang, if he could unleash all his strength, he might be able to capture him alive.

"Let's wait until you have recovered. You should go out and tell Dolio that you are safe. By the way, if possible, don't do anything. We will complete the mission. You should just rest at home. If your condition worsens and you become a cyberpsychopath, I will have less trouble."

Mann rolled his eyes. "Can't you just wish me the best?"

Mann left Wu Guang's studio.

Wu Guang looked at the experimental steps diagram he had drawn up.

The nerves expand in the brain in a predetermined direction, and the difficulty requires long-term effects. Moreover, after they grow out, the excess nerve stacks need to be removed, which is even more difficult.

Like the Ye's company that brainwashed the mayor's parents in the game, what they did was actually not as complicated as Wu Guang's. What they did was to reconstruct the neural network, which is to replicate it.

Let me give you another simple example.

V was rescued by relic, and a Johnny Silverhand appeared in his head. The nanolayer on the outer layer of the chip would reconstruct the brain nerves, and all these brain nerves were preset in advance.

V's brain gradually took the shape of a silver hand.

What Ye’s Company does is similar to this.

However, they did not use the relic chip, but they also needed to install a chip in the brain. Wu Guang was not clear about its working principle, but he could roughly understand it.

Very similar to relic, it is also a kind of possession.

But relic is forcibly occupied.

What Ye's Company did was a silent invasion, so that I was occupied before I could react, and I even insisted that I was myself.

These all have a template, that is, there is a neural network prototype, but what Wu Guang did was to apply the model and transform it.

There is no encroachment or seizure.

This aspect is actually relatively simple and will not be resisted by the host. It can also be understood as taking over the body of a better self.

But this is only theoretical. Wu Guang doesn't know whether the final result will be a kind of possession.

So this requires a large number of experiments.

This is also an important reason why you may end up not being like yourself.

"This is really... I never thought that one day I would also conduct evil human experiments." Wu Guang laughed at himself. With all his equipment and strength now, he is not at all panicked when facing the terrorist mobile team. Wu Guang has already cleared the originally set 20 levels, but the problem is Adam's hammer.

He can't do it.

First of all, his speed is faster than his, and secondly, his firepower output is not equal to his.

Wu Guang's most powerful weapon is his comrade's iron hammer, which has been equipped with electromagnetic interference bombs. It does great damage, but is not fatal. However, the equipment and damage of Adam's heavy hammer are enough to kill Wu Guang in one blow.

Adam's Hammer itself is at the limit of single-soldier combat. It's too difficult to kill it alone.

Wu Guang's best achievement was to cripple Adam Heavy Hammer's arms, but he could output without relying on his arms, but Wu Guang couldn't. Without his shooting hands, Wu Guang was at a loss.

PS: I may have to adjust to the time difference and change shifts recently, so the updates may be very unstable. I will try my best to adjust back. I'm too lazy to divide... That's it.