Is this cartoonist mentally ill?!

Chapter 15 The First Incident

Since "Edgerunner" is serialized in a bimonthly format, only two episodes are serialized in a month, so the plot progresses very slowly.

In addition, the previous plot of "Edgerunner" is really very slow.

Therefore, for the first month it was unknown in reader popularity polls.

In the third episode, "Edgerunner" directly showed the cruelest side of Night City.

As a poor man, David was unable to afford the cost of upgrading the system needed to attend school, which subsequently led to him and his mother, Gloria, becoming involved in a gang fight in Night City on their way home.

After the car crash, Night City's trauma team chose to let him die without rescuing him under David's shocked gaze.

In the end, David had no choice but to send his mother to the Scavenger Clinic in Night City. He thought that his mother's life was saved, but in the end he received the news that his mother's condition had worsened and she had passed away.

He didn't even see his mother for the last time.

Fan Siwei immediately picked up the comic book and felt bad when he saw the plot of the third episode.

"David's mother simply... did he die like that?"

He couldn't accept that.

Mostly this is the mother of the protagonist.

It's not that the protagonist's mother can't die. On the contrary, in many comic plots, the protagonist's parents are in high-risk positions.

Instead of being harmed by his enemies, the protagonist engages in a blood feud and strives to become stronger to avenge his parents.

He died to protect the protagonist, at least in an important plot.

And David's mother Gloria died like that, which is not the same as any of the above situations.

He was involved in a gang fight on the road and the trauma team refused to save him. When he entered the waste pickers ' clinic, he was pronounced dead a few days later.

Nor did he give the protagonist a chance to meet his mother for the last time and create a sensational plot.

Simply...

It stands out in a way that catches people off guard and is unexpected.

Fan Siwei didn't notice anything strange at this time, but in the future, this kind of plot will become Lin Qingshan's trademark.

The main character suddenly receives a lunch box. The plot arrangement is logical, but there is no warning, which makes readers extremely uncomfortable.

Many years later, Fan Siwei will suddenly realize when recalling the plot of Lin Qingshan's debut film about the sudden delivery of lunch boxes.

"It turns out that this guy started getting sick at that time! That's when he first got sick!"

But Fan Siwei still felt a little uncomfortable.

The death of mother Gloria was very common. An ordinary person lived an ordinary life, and then one day got into an accident and died ordinary.

This seems to be a daily portrait of ordinary people in Night City.

I don't know when, he died like an ant.

And if the ants die, it doesn't mean anything in Night City.

The trauma team would tell David, "our target is the clients, leave them'these people in the municipal morgues.'"

The waste picker would tell David, " she was stable this morning, but her vital signs suddenly plummeted and she is now dead... Would you be happy to know about our payment plan?"

The rich second generation who bullied David said to David, " I heard that your mother has passed away. I know I should express my condolences to you, but I really can't sympathize ..."

money! Damn Night City, it's all about money!

Upon observing David being bullied by the wealthy second generation wearing an advanced prosthesis, he was beaten and verbally insulted. In the end, he walked with his mother's ashes through the busy streets of Night City, looking lonely.

Fan Siwei felt extremely uncomfortable. Finally, he saw that David was spurred on by the call of the rich second generation, recalling the murder plot and unable to control his legs.

And he looked at the last scene of the plot, where David met the black market doctor with the military prosthetic body "sandevistan".

David gave the doctor an ugly look: "I'm not here to sell, I want to... place... that... on my body!"

In the end, David's decisive and fierce eyes made Fan Siwei feel a refreshing sensation running through the back of his head.

"This is the end of this story."

"Ahhhhhhh, why are you here??"

Fan Siwei said with some discomfort.

Unconsciously, he entered into David's perspective. After feeling David's frustration, he especially wanted to see David start to counterattack and grow after installing "sandevistan".

This is the effect of the plot arrangement of first suppressing, and then strengthening. After the protagonist becomes extremely frustrated, a plug-in ability is then arranged to allow the protagonist to counterattack.

This will make readers very happy!

Fan Siwei naturally didn't know the secret behind it. He just thought the new serialized comic "Edgerunner " was very good.

Although it was still not as good as the two comics he had accompanied, he now began to quietly pay attention to the work of this newcomer.

…

And the other side.

After watching the last storyline of "Edgerunner", Gu Qianli felt a little tightness in his heart.

Unlike high school students like Fan Siwei, she also felt that David's experience was tragic and that the death of his mother, Gloria, was sudden and bizarre.

But she felt that the tragedy of David and his mother Gloria was doomed in Night City.

A single-parent family, supported only by the meager income of the mother, is simply difficult to survive in a place like Night City.

Only a daily gang fight in Night City sent David and Gloria into the abyss. Even if Gloria did not die, mother and son would end up living on the streets.

Gu Qianli increasingly felt that Lin Qingshan's idea was not simple. "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunner" was completely different from previous works of science fiction.

Have previous works of science fiction only exaggerated the power of human technology in the future and paid no attention to what will happen to humans in this science fiction context?

As technology becomes more powerful in the future, will the lives of ordinary people improve?

The answer given by previous works of science fiction is yes.

Lin Qingshan's" Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunner " gives another answer-not necessarily.

If it's a situation like Night City, capital controls the city and even the country, and everything is based on interests and money.

When robots and artificial intelligence begin to proliferate, and the lives of ordinary people become insignificant, a world like cyberpunk will be born.

The level of Science and technology has improved significantly, but the quality of life has decreased.

Gu Qianli always felt as if he was not watching a work of entertainment, but a masterpiece with deep thoughts and connotations.

"Although Qingshan doesn't look serious, he is really a genius."

She could not help but Marvel.

But when she thought about what she had just felt, she felt vaguely bad in her heart: "but if it is really shaped according to the logic of this worldview, David will not die in the end, right?!"

(End of Chapter)