"Urgent news: Saburo Arasaka suddenly arrived in Night City. He was attacked on the top floor of Kanbi Building and is now confirmed dead."
After receiving this news, military technology immediately entered the highest alert state.
The so-called highest alert state means to be ready for war at all times, so all armed personnel of Military Technology are on standby to prepare for war, and all non-combatants are immediately evacuated and relocated.
After entering a state of combat readiness, the operations department was the first to bear the brunt.
At this moment, in the underground bunker of Military Technology, the soldiers of the Operation Department are fully armed and ready to attack at any time.
As the senior director of operations, Meredith didn't have to suffer that. She could stay in her office and wait for instructions from above.
At her current level, Meredith can only know part of the information. So she knows that Saburo Arasaka was killed, but she doesn't know the other circumstances.
I don't know why, but after receiving this information, Meredith began to feel inexplicably panicked.
Meredith knew that the death of Saburo Arasaka was enough to form a huge whirlpool. She was very worried now because she felt that she might be affected by this whirlpool.
Just as Meredith was thinking wildly, someone knocked on the office door.
This was certainly unusual, and Meredith didn't think it was someone coming to deliver battle orders.
"Come in!"
After checking her appearance, Meredith, who had already sat back in her seat, gave this answer.
As the office door was opened, a very pleasant-looking young man walked in.
"Hello, are you Ms. Meredith, Senior Director of Operations?"
"Yes, who are you?"
"It's a great honor to meet you, a celebrity in our company.
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Hippocrates, from the Internal Investigation Team.
I know my name is a bit difficult to pronounce, so if Ms. Meredith wishes, you can call me doctor, which is what everyone who knows me calls me."
"Ah, it turns out to be a colleague from the internal investigation team. Please take a seat.
Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with?"
When she heard Hippocrates announce the name of the internal investigation team, Meredith immediately had a warm smile on her face, but her heart was filled with panic.
Military Technology is the world's largest multinational monopoly, with extremely strict hierarchies and hundreds of independent departments.
If there's one of these departments that's least liked, it's undoubtedly the Internal Investigations Unit.
The internal investigation team is only a small unit in name, but in fact it has supreme authority.
They have the power to investigate any company employee. To put it simply, they can investigate whoever they want, and no one has immunity.
The internal investigation team is like an invisible person in normal times. Only when they want to investigate someone, these people will suddenly appear. This is the case with Hippocrates today.
"Haha, Ms. Meredith, you are so kind.
I also know that our internal investigation team is not popular, but work is work.
I am also responsible, so I have to trouble you.
If you have nothing urgent to do now, can you answer a few questions for me?"
"Can."
"Very good, then I will officially start.
In that actual combat test operation led by the research department, were you responsible for fully communicating with the research department? "
"Yes."
"The Research Department has made a request to you, hoping that you would find some mercenaries from Night City to participate in the actual combat test. Is this possible?"
"Yes. According to the requirements of the Research Department, I provided them with three mercenaries."
"Please take a look, are they these three people?"
While saying this, the internal investigator nicknamed Doctor placed a digital tablet in front of Meredith's eyes.
Scanning the three faces on the tablet one by one, Meredith didn't look at anyone twice before she answered in the affirmative.
"Yes, that's them."
"So after the operation is over, what do you do with these three people?"
"In the final stages of the operation, they overtook the experimental site in an attempt to escape.
Finally, they were found by our armed search team 5 kilometers away from the incident area.
After a shootout, the three men were shot dead on the spot."
"I heard that a fire broke out at the scene, and they were burned to ashes along with the car?"
"Yes, the force search team has detailed reports on this."
"It's such a pity. They are all rare talents."
Hearing what Meredith said, the commissioner of the internal investigation team tapped the digital tablet with his hand, showing a look of deep regret.
I don’t know if he did it intentionally or not, but what he is knocking now is the peacock’s head.
No matter how much the commissioner sighed, Meredith didn't respond.
She continued to keep the smile on her face. Even though the huge wave in her heart had reached level ten, she remained motionless.
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now.
Ms. Meredith, do you know about the robbery on the Fourth Ring Expressway a week ago?
At that time, the suspects stopped a car belonging to an independent arms contractor. In the end, they not only killed people, but also stole a military robot..."
While Hippocrates and Meredith were discussing these cases, a black Delamain car quietly parked in front of Judy's house.
This place is only a dozen blocks away from the busiest Kabukicho in Watson. Perhaps for this reason, the tense atmosphere that has spread in the city center has not yet affected this place.
Judy was preparing dinner when she heard the sound of something heavy falling to the door.
Although her hands were busy working, Judy was not in her thoughts and was completely absent-minded.
Of course the only one who can make Judy worry so much is Evelyn Parker.
Because she once helped this woman analyze the Mewtwo video she secretly filmed, Judy roughly knew what Evelin was doing at this time.
Because of this, Judy fell into inexplicable anxiety.
She had persuaded Evelin many times to give up that crazy plan. Unfortunately, all her efforts were in vain, and Evelin could not listen to her advice at all.
Since she couldn't be persuaded, Judy could only let it go. All she could do was pray that nothing would happen this time.
Judy knew that Evelin did not need to personally participate in the so-called big business, but this could not guarantee that Evelin would be safe.
In the view of female psychotherapists, all men are unreliable.
Therefore, the middleman named Dexter was unreliable, and the three mercenaries he found for Evelyn were also unreliable.
Although one of these three mercenaries once left a good impression on Judy, Judy would not let go of her wariness about that person.
In Judy's opinion, the mercenary named Peacock is not a coward, but he is a potential madman.
If Evelyn could be persuaded, Judy would never allow such a lunatic to approach Miss Parker.
As soon as Judy thought about the peacock, she heard a muffled thud outside the door.
The sound really startled her, and the green-haired girl's first reaction was to run into the room and grab her little pink pistol.
Tiptoeing to the door, Judy first listened to what was going on outside, and then turned on the surveillance screen in front of her.
Ever since Sandra Dorsett was attacked in the building, Judy has considered moving.
Although the assassination failed, it gave her two enemies for no reason.
Judy didn't know if the assassin from that day would come back to seek revenge, and she didn't even know if that disgusting creature with a mouth full of fangs but only one pair of arms and no legs would come again.
Although she has this idea, Judy has not moved yet.
There are many reasons for this, but the most important one is that she has no spare money.
As a well-known Mewtwo film production technician, Judy's income is pretty good, but she is not wealthy enough to move wherever she wants.
"Damn! Why is it him?"
As soon as the monitor screen in front of Judy lit up, she saw the peacock curled up on the ground.
At this time, the peacock was covered in blood and had no strength to even stand up.
His neck was tilted back helplessly, his eyes were completely unfocused, and he looked extremely pitiful.
After a little hesitation, Judy decided to open the door.
She quickly took off all the anti-theft bolts and anti-theft chains on the door frame, and then dragged Peacock into the door.
"How is this going?"
Judy's voice seemed like a stream of clear water, which immediately made Peacock, who was about to die of thirst, sober up a lot.
"Danger! Hurry, danger!"
After uttering these words with all his strength, the peacock fluttered forward and fell into Judy's arms.
At this moment, he could still vaguely hear Judy's call, but it had nothing to do with the peacock. Now he just wanted to close his eyes and have a good sleep.
"Peacock, peacock, who allowed you to rest? Are you qualified to rest now?"
Why don't you get up? Get up quickly!"
Just when Peacock's consciousness was drifting in dreamland, a rumble of human voices sounded in his ears.
The voice sounded like Dad's, Jack's, or Wei's.
The sound soon became louder and louder, and finally it was like thunder. When the sound came again, the peacock opened its eyes with a sound.
"Where am I?"
Looking at the unfamiliar environment, Peacock couldn't help but be stunned. When he looked at himself again, he was even more stunned.
Peacock remembers clearly that when he left the motel, he was almost a bloody man.
At that time, he had the blood of at least 10 people on his body. In addition, there was his own blood.
But now he was wearing a clean T-shirt, and all the wounds on his body had been carefully treated.
Just when Peacock sat up, the door opened and Judy Alvarez appeared in front of him.
"you're awake?"
Looking at the confused Peacock, Judy rarely showed a smile.
"Judy, danger, danger!"
As soon as he saw Judy, Peacock immediately retrieved his memory before the fragment was broken, so he blurted out such a warning.
"Are you talking about the thing that Evelin asked you to do? You told me as soon as you came here, and I also informed Evelin and asked her to go out and hide.
If it weren't for you this time, something would have happened to Evelyn. So, thank you, Peacock!"
"It's me who should thank you."
Looking at the bandages on his body, Peacock smiled bitterly.
He didn't expect things to turn out like this. He just dropped by to report a message, and in the end, this girl saved him again.
This time Judy not only dealt with the external injuries, but most importantly, she also healed the peacock's head.
After waking up, Peacock immediately found that he had gotten rid of the strange mental state he had been in before.
Now he doesn't make that weird laugh anymore, and his head can finally think about things
"Judy, how long have I been asleep?"
"It's not long, only 35 minutes."
"It turns out it was only half an hour?"
After hearing what Judy said, Peacock couldn't help but rub his face.
When he woke up and found that he had recovered, Peacock wished that everything else would be restored as well.
Unfortunately, reason tells Peacock that this is impossible.
Jack and Vee were dead, their bodies were in the Draman car, and T-bug didn't know where he died.
The deceased has passed away, and now all the pressure falls on the shoulders of the living person.
In order to get himself excited as soon as possible, Peacock began to rub his face with more force.
"Judy, I have a question for you."
After thinking for a while, Peacock decided to ask Judy questions about her mental state first.
Skipping the process of how he obtained that strange power, Peacock started with the hypnotic rules that the mysterious man taught him.
It should be said that the method taught by the mysterious man was quite effective. With this method, Peacock successfully used his own abilities to kill the mercenary king of Night City.