Chapter 485 Gloria and David!

The city has become a gathering place for the world's richest people, becoming more and more prosperous, and it has also allowed people in the past to change their destiny.

David Martinez, the protagonist in the prequel "Edgewalker" to "Cyberpunk 2077", finally graduated from Arasaka Academy with honors.

He was wearing the graduation gown that his mother had to work for two months to afford, and he looked at his mother Gloria's proud and joyful smile.

However, David did not feel happy in his heart because he knew that he did not like such a life, but he could not resist.

He is the sustenance of his mother, who has put in all the efforts to send him to school, even doing some illegal things to make money.

Sometimes she doesn't even come home for two or three days, and every time she comes back she brings a considerable amount of income.

David is not an ignorant child. He started selling Mewtwo a long time ago and he knows exactly what his mother did.

More than once, he saw his mother being picked up by Huanyu's luxury car late at night. He knew what his mother was doing when she went out.

David's heart was full of helplessness and powerlessness. He knew that he could not change the current situation.

Only by enduring the bullying of rich kids while studying hard can he repay his mother for her hard work and realize the dream she gave to herself - to climb to the top of the Arasaka Building.

However, when he successfully entered Arasaka Company after graduation, he found that Arasaka was already at the end of his rope.

Under the leadership of Yorinobu Arasaka, the company's focus has shifted to Japan.

Today, Night City Arasaka Company is only an empty shell, and its influence and strength are not even one percent as good as before.

Most of the Arasaka employees who remain in Night City at this time are the second generation of Arasaka’s powerful people or retired high-level people.

Or someone who was assigned by Arasaka Yorinobu and was far away from the political core of Arasaka.

The Arasaka Company here doesn't even have any business or work, and Arasaka Yorinobu doesn't expect the company here to make a profit.

He only uses this place as a retirement home for these people to prevent them from causing trouble for him.

For a newcomer like David, who is new to the workplace, joining such an environment is undoubtedly a pure experience.

Even if he has to work up to 18 hours a day of ineffective work, he still has to serve those pampered Arasaka uncles.

Serving tea and water, running errands and mopping the floor, no matter how big or small, all these tasks fell on David.

In this Arasaka Tower, where even the company’s sweeper is a relative of the company’s top executives,

A newcomer to the company like David, who has no background, no support, and comes from a civilian area, naturally becomes the easiest target to be bullied.

David was shocked to discover that Arasaka Company is another, larger Arasaka School.

In this company, it seems that everyone can boss him around and bully him at will.

It's just that he has changed from a rich kid to a connected person in the company. Nothing has changed. He is still the David from the slums.

The huge work pressure caused David to be in a trance all day long, and his physical condition gradually deteriorated.

He began to experience symptoms such as vomiting and convulsions, which eventually led to neurasthenia, but he did not dare to show it because his mother had always been proud of him joining the Arasaka Company.

But in fact, how could Gloria not see her son's hard work? Her heart was also filled with pain and helplessness.

Although her son has joined the Arasaka Group, her family's living conditions have indeed improved, and she no longer needs to ride in that luxury car.

But in fact, the pressure has never disappeared. The pressure has just been transferred from himself to his son.

Is David even more exhausted than he once was? This was not what she expected.

His son obviously has extraordinary talent. He deserves to be at the top of Arasaka Tower instead of being bullied at the bottom.

Why weren't those people willing to give him a chance to show off his talents?

He should have been reused and become a big shot.

She had thought about asking that adult for help, but she realized that the relationship between them was just an ordinary transaction.

She provides excellent emotional support to the other person, who in turn provides financial support in return.

She is not even the lover of the other party. She has no reason to ask the other party to help her son.

But Gloria had no choice. David's mind and body were becoming more and more abnormal. She was really afraid that her son would continue and be squeezed into a cyberpsychosis.

Although this term has grown far away from Night City with the development of the Mechanicum,

But that doesn't mean it has disappeared. Under the high pressure of the company, cyberpsychosis still occurs from time to time.

It's just more secretive and more harmless.

Fearing that her son would not be able to hold on, Gloria found the number again, edited the matter into a text message and sent it to the other party, begging for his help.

The waiting was excruciating. Gloria stayed up almost all night, waiting for the other party's reply.

However, the message clearly showed that it had been read, but there was no response as if the message was lost in the ocean.

For a moment, Gloria couldn't help crying in despair.

She originally thought that the other party would want to retain some affection for her because she served him so hard.

It turned out that she was just being sentimental and the other party never cared about her at all.

On the other side, David got up from bed early and came to the company to work exhausted, but was unexpectedly summoned by the HR manager.

David was confused as to why he had been summoned.

After entering the office, the HR manager looked at him very enthusiastically, and then told him that the company decided to promote him.

Looking at the new job list, it was a job with less work, more salary, and a separate office was assigned to him.

This sudden good news surprised David. He didn't understand what happened, but it didn't prevent him from accepting it happily.

When leaving the office, David had mixed feelings. His colleagues also warmly congratulated him on his promotion. Even the rich kid who had always looked down on him suddenly greeted him warmly and invited him to dinner at home.

If it were before, David would definitely slap the other person in the face without hesitation and then turn around and leave.

But since graduation, after Arasaka's repeated beatings, David's edges have long been smoothed. He has understood a truth-there are no eternal enemies between adults, only eternal interests.

Therefore, he gladly accepted the other party's kindness and said that he would definitely go back.

Back in the office assigned to him by the company, David leaned comfortably on the soft boss chair, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

He recalled the hardships and pain he had suffered, and couldn't help but sighed.

Gradually, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and before he knew it, he fell into a deep sleep.