"Sandra, take this. Now follow me and I will take you out of here."

Since there is no way to go to the rooftop, Peacock now has no choice but to return to the ground with Sandra.

Putting the spare Lexington pistol into Sandra's hand, Peacock patted the girl's shoulder vigorously, and then he staggered onto the stairs.

"What are you doing? Meredith, what did you just do?

You actually shot him? Don’t you know that a live peacock is worth 100 times more than a dead one?”

Just as Peacock and Sandra started to run downstairs, on the rooftop of the opposite building, Hippocrates was yelling at Meredith.

"Of course I know, that's why I want him to die."

Even though she thought so in her heart, Meredith definitely couldn't tell Hippocrates that.

Her mind has always been faster, so in the blink of an eye, she found a good excuse for herself.

"Hippocrates! You have no right to accuse me. I put the interests of the company first.

I don't care who that peacock is, it's Arasaka who wants to catch him, not Military Technology. How can we catch Sandra if we don't kill him?

Everyone! Since the scene is currently in chaos, our operations department must intervene immediately.

As the senior director of the Operations Department, I ordered that all nearby operation team members should obey my command."

As Meredith made the announcement on the communication channel, she immediately received positive responses from various groups.

"Hippocrates! You are just a member of the internal investigation team, so please keep your job.

You can continue to stay here to supervise the operation, but you have no right to question my orders.

Now everyone's attention, everyone should move towards the coordinates I sent immediately.

Your target is a man and a woman, the woman must be captured alive, and the man must be captured alive or dead!"

Looking coldly at Hippocrates in front of him, Meredith gave such an order in front of him.

About half an hour ago, Meredith, who was still on standby at the headquarters, received the order.

The superiors asked her to lead a team here to carry out the task of protecting important personnel.

This so-called protection of important personnel, of course, does not refer to the protection of Sandra Dorsett. What we want to protect above is the company executive whom Sandra calls her uncle.

Before setting off, Meredith was informed by her superiors. So Meredith knew that what she had to do was actually very simple, she just had to stand and watch the show from a distance.

"Meredith, our people will lure Bertelsmann's daughter out, and then the Dorsets will take over.

So you and your people don't need to take action unless those idiots mess it up."

"clear!"

Meredith has no interest in finding out what happened to the Dorset family. As before, she is just a tool this time.

Although she had to watch a girl being killed, what did it matter?

Ever since she joined the Operations Department, such dirty work has happened almost every week, and she has even executed orders that are a hundred times worse than this kind of work.

It was torture for an expert like Meredith to watch the Dorsetts do what they did.

Not only were these people slow in their actions, but their plan was also full of loopholes, so they actually allowed Sandra to escape from the trap.

Although the Dorsets were all losers, there were enough of them that Sandra could not run far, and she and her bodyguard were soon forced into a dead end.

Seeing the Dorset family's private soldiers fighting hard but unable to get in, Meredith couldn't bear it anymore.

Because the company had orders not to allow them to intervene directly, she led people to climb to a nearby high place to see if she could give those wastes some help.

This is how Meredith and the others bumped into the peacock. When Hippocrates recognized the peacock at a glance, Meredith's heart immediately clenched.

She would never let the peacock fall into the hands of Hippocrates, and she didn't think the peacock could escape tonight, so she simply took action herself and fired the shot at the peacock.

Based on Meredith's experience, she knew that she had hit the little mercenary. But she didn't know whether he was dead or not.

Meredith would not rest assured until she saw the peacock's body with her own eyes.

Even if she had to fall out with Hippocrates, she would not hesitate. Because only by killing the peacock would she have no worries.

While Meredith was dispatching her troops, Peacock and Sandra had fled to the street.

Enduring the faint dizziness, Peacock dragged Sandra and ran towards the end of the street.

He saw that the exit was just ahead, but at that moment, five or six men turned out from behind the corner, blocking the alley entrance.

"Pah! Pah!"

As soon as Peacock raised his hand, someone from the opposite side turned over and fell down. Sandra also followed suit and fired several shots, but unfortunately she missed.

Although only one person was hit, it still frightened those guys. They hurriedly looked for a place to hide, and Peacock immediately pulled Sandra to change direction.

Just when they turned around, enemies also appeared at the other end of the street.

Almost immediately, Peacock started exchanging fire with them.

Suddenly, the street was filled with whizzing bullets. They kept hitting the pavement and walls, and the falling debris even splashed on Sandra's face.

Dragging Sandra, whose legs were already weak, Peacock finally dragged the girl behind a trash can.

"Damn! These guys are coming too fast!"

The peacock hiding behind the trash can had just poked his head out when a string of bullets flew over.

They shot into the iron trash can, making a muffled popping sound inside.

After trying several times in a row, Peacock failed to find a chance.

Compared with the previous group of amateur players, the current group of people are obviously more skilled.

Not only were their guns accurate, but their firepower was also very high-level. This offset Peacock's advantage in marksmanship, and he was soon overwhelmed and unable to lift his head.

"Sandra, I'm so sorry, it seems I can't save you this time."

While saying this, Peacock replaced the last magazine.

In just a short time, the trash can that protected them from wind and rain was riddled with bullets.

Fortunately, it was full of garbage, otherwise the two people hiding behind would have been beaten into candied haws.

Although it was okay for the time being, Peacock knew that he and Sandra did not have much time.

The people surrounding them were shooting and advancing at the same time. Now the people on both sides were about to join forces victoriously, and Peacock and Sandra would soon be exposed to their guns.

"Peacock, don't say sorry, it was me who hurt you.

If it weren't for me, why would you be trapped here?

I am really a disaster star. It seems that anyone who is related to me will die.

My father is like this, Helena is like this, and Peddes is like this.

If you think about it carefully, I have killed so many people, I really deserve to die."

After the peacocks said they couldn't escape, there was no hope in Sandra's eyes.

"Peacock, although I am going to die, I am not afraid at all. With you by my side at this time, I have no regrets..."

"No, you are wrong. The person who brings bad luck to everyone is not you, but me."

Listening to Sandra's muttering, Peacock couldn't help but refute quietly in his heart.

Ever since he came to the West with the Brotherhood, bad luck seemed to have been following him.

The first to suffer the bad luck were the motorcycle riders who raised him, then Jack and Vee, and now it's Sandra's turn.

None of these people are good people, but their endings are really unbearable to look at, and without exception, they have all helped Peacock.

"Is this because I don't belong here, so the will of this world has been using this method to exclude me? But I didn't want to come to such a ghost place myself!"

Whenever he thought of this, Peacock felt extremely angry. He was actually going to die, and he still died in such a place.

"If I am definitely going to die here, then you'd better be mentally prepared and be able to afford the price of killing me!"

While thinking this, Peacock reached into his arms and took out the yellow medicine bottle.

"It seems that I can only be a madman again. There is actually no good in staying awake. Just let me kill myself in confusion!"

Thinking of this, Peacock no longer hesitated.

He opened the medicine bottle and swallowed three penfluridol pills in one go.

In order to sustain himself in that state for a while longer, Peacock simply swallowed the maximum amount of this medicine that could be taken at one time.

"O the black goat of the forest that gives birth to thousands of descendants!"

As soon as Peacock sang that filthy prayer, he noticed something unusual around him.

Although I only read half a sentence, the air on this street seemed to become thicker.

The air that was supposed to be colorless and odorless now seemed to have turned into some kind of glue. Peacock and the others were immersed in this glue, so he actually had difficulty breathing.

Just when Peacock gritted his teeth and planned to continue reading, he vaguely heard the sound of a car engine.

Hoping for a chance, the peacock looked towards both ends of the street.

Peacock really hoped to see another car come in and save him, because not only would he be able to survive, but he would no longer have to deal with things he couldn't understand.
To be continued...