Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past.

Chapter 26 Sisyphus (End) ([-] in [-])

2074年，1月13日 8：30
The weight on her body made it difficult for her to breathe. She struggled and kicked the stupid pig lying on top of her off the bed.

She straightened her messy long blond hair, recalling the bloated belly and foul-smelling hair that kept approaching in her vision last night, she couldn't help lying on the side of the bed and retching.

"*your* Wood," she couldn't find a tissue for a while, and simply wiped her mouth with the corner of the quilt, "you're a fucking scum!"

She cursed and spat several times in the face of the fat man who collapsed on the ground.

"I'm sorry, Mary." Wood struggled to sit up from the ground, with a flattering smile on his round face, "I overdid it, you know how happy I am..."

"Fuck you!" Mary picked up the tattered nurse's uniform thrown at the foot of the bed, rolled it up, and threw it on the disgusting face.

"Dr. Howard is [-] times better than you!" She shouted hysterically, kicking the white fat on the ground with her feet.

"Mary... Dr. Howard has a wife and children..." Wood endured the pain and wiped the spittle from his face, "And you are short of money, aren't you?"

"Get out of here now, immediately, immediately!" She roared, the veins on her fair neck popping out.

"Okay... Mary... I'll go right away..." Wood got up from the ground, grabbed his crumpled clothes in a panic, and walked out of the room.

"Isn't it..."

"boom!"

The bulky man couldn't dodge in time, and was slapped hard on the face by the door.

"I'm sorry...Mary..." He held his bleeding nose and muttered to himself vaguely, "Don't blame me, blame your favorite Dr. Howard..."

Mary Dunst, female, 20 years old, works as a front desk nurse at the "Night City Mental Health Center". She is young and promising.

"Young and promising young man!" She irritatedly threw the diary spread out on the table aside.

Mary can't remember when she got into the habit of keeping a diary.

Perhaps she was subconsciously imitating Dr. Howard.The sophisticated, mature, attractive man's every move touched her heartstrings.

Mary picked up the diary that had been thrown on the floor and spread it out on the table.

She has the habit of recording the lives of people around her, which she learned from her sweetheart, Dr. Howard.

Howard Wilkinson, male, 57 years old, is a well-known figure in the field of psychiatry and brain research.A year ago... or two years ago, amnestics were invented...

"It's been a little weird lately..." She rubbed her chin and frowned tightly.

Not only did she lose her previous black diary, but she couldn't even remember the year Dr. Howard invented the amnesiac therapy.

"Was it born in 2073 or 2072?" She tapped her head in distress, "Dr. Yue, come out and ask..."

Mary patted her palm lightly, turning her worries into joy.

It was her turn to work the night shift at the "Night City Mental Health Center" clinic, and the doctor should be free during the day.

As for Wood?

She almost forgot why she agreed to be with him.

For money?

The salary of the nurse at the "Night City Mental Health Center" is not low. Why is she short of money?

She seems to have forgotten.

But it doesn't matter, just ask the doctor.

She thought happily, left the table and walked to the bathroom.

"Shh..."

She likes to listen quietly to the sound of water droplets falling on the tiles.

The steaming water mist wrapped Mary's whole body. She mixed the hot water with her hands to clean up the traces left by last night, but she recalled Dr. Howard's mature and handsome face in her mind.

The illusory sexy outline made her tremble all over, and she collapsed on the ground.

Hot water poured mercilessly all over her body, taking away all the dirt.

Mary came out of the bathroom, wiped herself off with a clean towel, and picked out the right clothes by the closet.

She fantasizes about which outfit is the most seductive and can make Dr. Howard dazzled, willing to surrender under her skirt.

"Hello, Dr. Howard?" She was talking on the phone, making the sound of skin rubbing against cloth.

"Are you free at noon today? Just the two of us, come out to chat in the old place?" The corners of Mary's mouth raised, and the heavy breathing of the man on the phone made her very excited.

"Okay..." She laughed happily when she heard the expected answer.

Mary turned on the video mode, took out the white stockings from the closet, and compared them carefully.

She sat on the edge of the bed, facing the camera, rolled up her stockings and put them on to her toes.With both hands, adjust the position of the toe and heel of the sock, and slowly roll it up.

"Dr. Howard...I love you..." She said slowly, slowly pulling the stockings to her delicate knees.

She listened attentively, and while waiting for Howard's answer, she stood up and slowly pulled the stockings down to the base of her white thighs.

"I'm sorry...Mary...we can't..." The man on the other end of the phone swallowed and answered with difficulty, "I have a wife and children, you know..."

She turned a deaf ear and stretched the stockings evenly to her waist. After confirming that the stockings were close to her legs, she used both hands to stretch the body of the stockings and slowly pulled them up to her tight waist.

"Huo, Hua, De..." She looked at the camera, adjusting her socks with both hands.

"If you don't tell me, I won't tell you, who knows?" She pointed at him, stretching out her toes, her flabbergasting pink wrapped under the white.

No one answered the phone and hung up silently.

She sighed and collapsed on the bed, her long blond hair was scattered on the white sheets, like a lolimas rose quietly blooming.

2074年，1月13日 12：15
She sat quietly at the dining table, watching in silence Dr. Howard and his wife, holding hands, walking towards her.

"Good afternoon, Dr. Howard and... Mrs. Wilkinson..." She greeted as calmly as she could, covering the slight twitch at the corner of her mouth with her hand.

"Mary..." Dr. Howard hesitated to speak, turned his head and glanced at his wife, but finally did not speak.

The three of them sat together and ate their lunch in silence, surrounded by the noise all around them.

"Hello? There is a patient...suspected to recover..."

The harsh phone call tore through the dead silence. Howard smiled apologetically at Mary, took the phone, and quickly left the restaurant.

"I'm sorry... Mrs. Wilkinson..." Mary lowered her head, face down, and gently placed it on the table, "Don't blame Howard, I took the initiative... to seduce..."

She spoke word by word, her throat trembling more and more together with her body, until she lost control of her voice and couldn't cry.

"Mary..." Mrs. Wilkinson got up and sat beside her, stroking the girl's long golden hair with her old hands.

Mary raised her pretty face blurred by tears in astonishment, and Mrs. Wilkinson's attitude was beyond her expectation.

"Poor child, you don't need to apologize..." Mrs. Wilkinson whispered softly. Her old face was ruthlessly carved with wrinkles by the years, but it was full of pity that Mary couldn't understand.

"You can have him because you once had..." Mrs. Wilkinson murmured, her murmur drowned in the wind by the clamor.

"What? Mrs. Wilkinson? What are you talking about? I didn't hear clearly!" Mary was stunned, and she didn't come back to herself until Mrs. Wilkinson left.

"What is she talking about?" Mary clutched her head in pain, her face grim.

"I...was?" She collapsed on the seat, her eyes silently staring at the ceiling.

"What the hell did I forget?"

2074年，1月13日 19：00
Mary arrived at the clinic on time, as usual, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

"Good evening, Mary!" Dr. Wood leaned close to her with a smile on his round face.

"Go back to the second floor!" She cursed this stupid pig viciously as usual, only getting him to smile even more shamelessly.

She turned around, smiled and greeted the changing nurses, and walked to the changing room on the first floor.

As usual, nothing different.

"Dr. Howard is on the second floor, do you want to go up and say hello to him?" Wood asked her as she walked out of the dressing room, still smiling.

"No need..." She declined wearily. There were too many things that happened today, and there were too many questions clogged in her chest. She just wanted to be quiet for a while.

"Okay..." Wood's smile froze on his face, and he glanced at Mary quietly, but didn't notice anything unusual.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to greet the guests who had already started queuing up.

2074年，1月13日 19：21
"Tick tock...tick tock..." Mary stared quietly at the clock on the table, her mind temporarily calmed down by the hands beating at a constant speed.

"Welcome two guests..." The bell rang at the door, and she spoke routinely, covering her inner emotions with a fake smile that had been trained thousands of times.

"Please wait in line here..." After Mary finished speaking, she let Dr. Wood who came down from the second floor come forward to entertain her, while she quietly observed the two unusual guests tonight.

She has never seen two lovers come together and erase their memories at the same time.And looking at the two handsome men and beautiful women in their sweet state, they don't look like they need to receive treatment.

Wood was devastated by the male guest.

Feeling happy, she rubbed the corners of her mouth to make sure she wouldn't laugh out loud.

"Hi sir, may I help you?"

When she saw the man walking towards her, she immediately put on a professional smirk, carefully disguising herself.

"Hello," Yawei nodded politely, "according to the procedure, I will register my personal information." He pulled out the data cable of the personal terminal from his arm - a simulation of a nanometer machine, which has the same function as the real thing.

"Do you really want...to clear your memory?" Mary glanced at the smiling silver-haired girl lying behind the man. She was envious of her cute and pretty appearance, but felt pity in her heart.

"It's just a registration first, whether to clear the memory or not is still under consideration..." Yawei knocked on the table, silently taking all the details of her expression into his eyes.

"That's good..." Mary breathed a sigh of relief, "You can use this interface to register." She pointed to the computer interface on the front desk.

"What's your name? Nurse?" Yawei smiled friendly, using the action of connecting the terminal to the interface to cover up the fact that he stole the local data of the clinic.

He asked softly, while dodging Xita's claw attack.

"Me?" Mary looked into those blue eyes, inexplicably unable to recall the slightest thought of refusing to answer, "Mary...Mary Dunst..."

Yawei raised his eyebrows, he saw the disgusting truth from the huge flow of information.

"Mary..." He whispered, took out a brand new revolver from his waist pocket, and placed it gently on the table.Before Mary could react, she pointed to the screen of the computer on the desk.

"Take a look at this, I'm sure you'll appreciate this gift..." He narrowed his blue eyes slightly, and pulled Xita out of the clinic.

Mary tilted her head in doubt. She seemed to hear a strange noise from upstairs just now.

After carefully putting away the revolver on the table, she turned to look at the computer screen on the table.

In an instant, all her thoughts were interrupted, and her brain went blank.

Because at the top of those hundreds of registration files, she saw her name—Mary Dunst (3)

"You mean, she has been erased three times?" Xita held Yawei's hand and frowned her beautiful eyebrows in surprise.

"Poor lady nurse..." Yawei shook his head lightly, pulling Xita away from this sinful place quickly.

"And it's all about the memory of the same person—Dr. Howard Wilkinson." He looked at the flashing neon lights on the street and added softly.

"So you left her the gun you bought this morning?" Xita poked him lightly pretending to be jealous.

"Well, there are three bullets left..."

"One shot to Dr. Howard, one shot to Dr. Wood..." Xi Tan sighed softly, "There is still one shot for herself, right?"

"The name of the gun is 'Amnesty'..." He whispered softly, opened the car door, and sat in the co-pilot, "It's a good occasion..."

"What about Joel and Clementine?"

"I have copied all the patient's data, and then you will send them anonymously..." Yawei looked at the pale building not far away from the window, and sighed, "I can recover a little bit..."

"What about the memory-erasing machine?"

"I just dealt with it smoothly..."

They sat in the car, listening to the patter of rain outside the car window.

"Sisyphus..." Xita hugged her legs, turned to look at the man's silent profile, "What did you mean by Sisyphus?"

"Sisyphus was punished by God to push a boulder from the foot of the mountain forever and ever, and every time the boulder reached the top of the mountain, it would roll back to the original point. He wanted to push the boulder forever in this endless cycle of punishment..." He said Lowering his eyes, he quietly told the long story.

"It's like the love between Joel and Clementine, isn't it?" Xita gently hugged Yawei's arm, "No matter how many times they forget, they will still fall in love with each other..."

"I will suffer the same injury countless times..." Yawei raised his head and looked at her, "It's like the relationship between Nurse Mary and Dr. Howard..."

"The tragedy has already happened, and it will continue..." Yawei sighed.

"At least we stopped the cycle, didn't we?"

"At least this time, yes..."

Xita started the car, away from the clinic that was doomed to be destroyed tonight.

The sound of rain and wind howled, drowning out the three stern gunshots.

　At the beginning, I tried to write about the dank corner where the protagonist's light can't reach.

　　When the protagonist is not around, it is the real darkness of Night City.

　　The two updates were published together, I don't know if they can pass the review.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)