"ah!!!"

"Spare me, please, I can pay!"

"Jie, Jie, Jie, I'm sorry, someone has already paid the money. They are much richer than you. Go to hell!"

Bang!

With the sound of a gunshot, there was completely no movement in the dark alley.

Bai Xing, who was walking aimlessly on the street, was stunned for a moment when he heard the sudden gunfire, but he was only stunned for a moment, and then continued to wander on the street.

He suddenly stopped and wanted to look at the stars and the moon in the sky, but couldn't see anything because of the thick neon lights. After taking a breath of the pungent car exhaust that filled the streets, he began to look for his target.

Haven't eaten yet tonight.

After looking around, Bai Xing found the target easily. He quickly approached the target, and then endured the strong stench and began to search.

In order to look forward to some leftovers that others casually throw away because they tasted it and found it unpalatable.

Lady Luck didn't take care of him tonight, and he found nothing.

Bai Xing leaned against the wall and sat on the ground weakly due to hunger.

He watched the cars passing by on the street and the pedestrians passing by.

If not, then there won’t be. Anyway, it’s not the first time I’ve been hungry, Shirahoshi thought.

It has been more than a week since he traveled to this fucking city, and he lives like this every day.

It's not much different today.

Some people are obsessed with Night City, while others hate it.

Bai Xing didn't know much about this city. He only read about it online, and he still doesn't remember much about it.

I heard that an anime was released a while ago, and many of his classmates asked him to watch it.

But he was not interested after hearing that it was a tragic story.

Because he doesn't like tragedy. This terrible world is tragic enough. Does he like tragedy?

Wouldn't it be nice to just watch the news?

Bai Xing took out the hand clenched in his pocket, opened his palm, and looked at the golden item shining on his palm.

It was the arrowhead of a broken arrow—the arrow of an insect.

This is the only thing he brought with him during his time travel.

To be honest, these were just peripheral products he bought before time travel, until a certain time——

A homeless man who was also crazy with hunger came to snatch his leftover food. During the fight, Bai Xing wounded the other man with an arrow, just a small wound.

But the other party collapsed directly to the ground, his face was ferocious, foaming at the mouth, and his body was twitching wildly. In less than a minute, the homeless man lost his life under Bai Xing's nose.

At that moment, Bai Xing knew that he had bought the real thing.

According to the general theory, he must be very happy, which means that he may obtain special abilities and reach the top of his life.

But maybe the scene of the homeless man lying on the ground struggling and twitching that day was deeply rooted in his mind.

White Star is not that pretentious.

Before time travel, he was just an ordinary student. He listened to the advice of his family elders and studied hard, got into a good university, found a stable job, got married, and lived an ordinary life.

He does not think that he is unique, ordinary is what belongs to him.

Ordinary means that being stabbed by an insect arrow means death. Bai Xing is not so eager to see the King of Hell yet.

After all, living is still living.

"Hey, doesn't there happen to be one? It's him."

"There's a big difference in height and body shape. Is that okay?"

At this moment, two voices suddenly started discussing in front of Bai Xing.

He raised his head and saw the two of them clearly.

Both of them were wearing street cowboy-style clothes, one had a mask with fangs, and the other was looking at him with a pair of electronic eyes that glowed red.

"Oh, if I chop it into small pieces, no one will be able to recognize it."

"Okay, let's take this guy over first."

Bai Xing's pupils shrank, obviously knowing that bad luck had come.

He just wanted to run away, but before he could make a move, he was hit hard on the forehead and then fainted.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

Bai Xing woke up suddenly, gasping for air like a drowning man who had just been rescued.

Where am I?

He glanced around and concluded that this should be an abandoned warehouse.

He himself was sitting on the cold floor, his hands tied behind his back, and there was a faint pain in his forehead from time to time.

Oh, by the way, I was kidnapped.

"Hey, you're awake."

The bastard with the fang mask was leaning against the wall, spinning a firearm in his hand.

At this time, another electronic eye walked out of the shadows, and kept tossing something very familiar to Bai Xing up and down in his hand - the Insect Arrow.

"What should I say? Congratulations to you? You can become the scapegoat of a big shot." Electronic Eyes said slowly.

"As long as you die, the big shot can fly away and live a happy life elsewhere. You are just a worthless little bug anyway, right?"

"Brother, why don't we take action?"

"What's the rush? When the customer comes over, I've been told that some things need to be installed for him first, so that it can be more real."

"No, it's coming soon."

The door of the warehouse slowly rose, and a tall figure appeared at the door of the warehouse.

The visitor is wearing a crisp suit, has high-end implants all over his body, and has a bronze-colored metal face. When he speaks, his electronic eyes will flash brightly.

"The plan has changed. Some hyenas have smelled me." He threw out a bag, which contained some chips and advanced prosthetics. "Put all these on him. I will leave immediately."

"Nonono, my dear Mr. Sirzati, don't worry, we haven't settled this account yet." As he said that, the electronic eye stretched out his index finger and thumb and rubbed it.

"..."

Metal Face knew that the other party was trying to raise the price, so he grasped that he didn't have much time, so he didn't waste any time and directly transferred another amount of money to the other party.

"I'll pay you double, solve it quickly, I'm leaving first."

Electronics was excited when he saw the transfer news in front of him, "Hey, we can get something good now!"

After that, he picked up the bag dropped by the customer and walked slowly to Bai Xing's side, "Sorry, I have to be patient when I install the prosthetic body later. Our conditions are simple and we don't even have anesthesia."

"..."

Bai Xing lowered his head, his bangs covering his eyes making it impossible to see through his eyes.

thump--

Thump thump thump thump thump——

Bai Xing's heartbeat had never been so fast, but he felt inexplicably calm at the moment.

At this moment when the electronic eye was dragging him towards the operating bed, at this moment when he was so close to death, along with the fear brought by the footsteps of the electronic eye, there was another kind of——

warm.

Bai Xing didn't understand where this enthusiasm came from, but he understood another thing.

That was the way I lived before, whether here or before coming to Night City.

Meaningless.

"Well." Bai Xing suddenly raised his head and said slowly, "Can I kill myself first?"

The electronic eye was a little surprised, but he didn't say much and pointed to the masked man beside him with his eyes.

The masked man nodded, took out a pistol from his waist, and handed it over. This low-level weapon could easily kill natives like Shirahoshi, and it was just a piece of cake for them.

Bai Xing looked at the pistol handed to him, shook his head and said, "No."

He looked at the arrows that were thrown carelessly on the ground not far away by the two of them as trash.

"I want to use that-"

Bai Xing, who was untied, didn't think about escaping. He didn't have the ability. He knew there was a gun behind him pointing at his head.

He just quickly walked to the insect arrow, picked it up, pointed it at his chest, and then——

Pfft——

Blood gushed out, and the insect arrow in his hand fell to the ground with a crisp sound. Bai Xing's body swayed left and right, and finally collapsed on the ground, twitching non-stop.
To be continued...