"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.
However, what was disappointing was that there were no cars at either end of the street, and in front of him there were still only the militants who were pressing closer.
"Okay! So be it!"
Just when Peacock gritted his teeth and was about to continue his spell, a car rushed out of the shop opposite the garbage bin.
"Peacock! You annoying guy, get in the car quickly, we are leaving!"
After breaking open the rolling shutter door of the shop, the black car first swung sideways and blocked the front of the trash can, and then the doors on both sides popped open at the same time.
Following the shout just now, a string of hot bullets flew out of the driver's side window.
Because they were close enough, and no one expected such a car to rush out of the store, the armed men in that direction were immediately swept away.
"Takemura? Didn't you say you wouldn't come?"
When he saw the poker face of the former Arasaka agent, Peacock was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but feel elated.
While complaining like this, Peacock had already pushed Sandra into the back seat first.
When he jumped in, he accidentally touched the wound on his chest, so he couldn't help but scream.
"Humph! I'm not here to save the Dorsett family, and I'm not here to save you. I just happened to meet them."
After once again driving away those people outside with a row of bullets, Takemura threw the submachine gun to Peacock. He then turned the steering wheel fiercely to let the car start running again at the fastest speed.
"Did you bump in all the way?"
Looking at the holed shop, Peacock finally understood how Zhucun got in.
Just now, Peacock and Sandra were trapped in the middle of the commercial street. The streets here were all shops facing the street. Because of the loud gunfire, everyone nearby ran away.
The people who besieged Peacock and the others occupied such terrain, squeezing into the middle little by little, reducing the space for Peacock and Sandra to move.
If he wanted to rush in from the street to save people, Zhucun would have to fight his way through. Those people would definitely set up defenses at the intersection, and he would have a hard time rushing.
However, no one stipulates that cars can only walk along the street. Takemura just took an unusual route.
Just now, he had directly crossed several streets of shops and forced himself to carve a path through them.
Not only was this a shortcut, but it was beyond everyone's expectations, so he now successfully got Peacock and Sandra into the car.
With this car as a tool, things become much simpler.
Takemura increased the speed of the car in just a few seconds, and then he hit people when he saw them, just like driving a bumper car.
While Takemura was enjoying the pleasure of hitting people, Peacock was not idle either. He kept pouring bullets out the window and successfully killed many fish that slipped through the net.
"Ah! We rushed out! Huh? Where is Johnny Silverhand?"
When Peacock heard the shouts and gunshots of those outside, he knew they had finally escaped from the street.
Only then did he notice that although the car belonged to Delamain, Johnny Silverhand was not in the car.
"That AI of yours is very sneaky. He is preparing to cover our escape."
While saying this, Takemura drove towards the red dot on the navigation system.
At this time, the pursuers also reacted, so they also chased after him in their cars.
"Attention everyone! The target is a black Delama, license plate number qwu12834!
I found it! It just left the overpass and is now escaping from east to west!"
When a military technology operator reported the location of enemy vehicles, he failed to give everyone the direction.
Because soon someone also saw the car, but it was not the location and direction reported by the team member.
"What the hell! What's going on? Are these sextuplets?"
After the drone took off, military technology personnel finally figured out the situation.
Looking at the six cars on the ground with the same style and color, but running in different directions, the person in charge of dispatching no longer knew how to report to Meredith.
Just when the military technology operators were confused by those Delaman cars, the car Peacock and the others were in had already left the free market.
After arriving at the overpass, Peacock and the others got off the bus.
The original car was taken over by Johnny Silverhand, and he had already transferred five other special cars of the same model.
When these six vehicles hit the streets together, the military technology people couldn't help but be in a hurry.
Before they woke up, Peacock and the others quickly changed cars and left.
The current car was randomly picked by Takemura on the roadside. He is a wild version of an agent and has received various special trainings, so he has a way to temporarily commandeer this car.
Although they have left the tiger's den, the danger has not passed. At this time, they have no place to stay. If they stay on the street, they will be exposed sooner or later.
"Mr. Takemura, go to this place, I have a nest there."
Just when Zhucun was worried about where to go, Sandra cheered up and gave an address to Zhusun who was driving.
"Rich people have houses wherever they go..."
Hearing that this girl casually provided another place to stay, Peacock couldn't help but grin.
Although this movement was small, it affected his injury, so he couldn't help but hum.
"Peacock? What's wrong with you? Did I hurt you?"
Sandra has been holding on to Peacock's arm since she got into the car. Only in this way can she feel safe.
The peacock's snort made Sandra immediately nervous. Although the peacock repeatedly said that he could hold on, Sandra kept urging Takemura to hurry up.
The second location provided by Sandra was actually not far from the first one. This girl often got into fights with people when she was a member of the motorcycle gang, so she understood the principle of three cunning rabbits.
With the help of Zhucun and Sandra, the peacock was half-dragged and half-carried into the small single-family courtyard.
As soon as he put down the peacock, Zhucun immediately checked his wound.
After cutting open the clothes on Peacock's chest with scissors, Takemura's expression softened.
Although Sandra didn't know first aid, she saw Takemura's expression and sang along.
"Mr. Peacock, you are such a lucky guy. You know, you almost died tonight."
While talking to Peacock like this, Takemura pulled out his dagger and used the tip of the knife to pick up the bronze medal on Peacock's chest.
"Yeah, I didn't die, that's because I was lucky."
Looking at the blood-stained chest, Peacock was also very emotional.
Judging from the position of the shot, Meredith really wanted to shoot herself to death just now, so the woman aimed the shot at the heart.
Meredith's shot was accurate, and the bullet did hit the peacock's heart. But the peacock was lucky enough that the bullet was blocked by his dog tag, so the peacock was fine.
Since Peacock was rescued from the cannibals by Dick's father, he followed his father and joined the motorcycle brotherhood.
Most of the members of the Motorcycle Brotherhood are veterans, so this organization has always had a strong military style.
They will dress uniformly and wear the fraternity's dog tags. As one of them, Peacock naturally has one too.
According to tradition, the dog tags of the fraternity members were handmade by Dick's father.
Materials are scarce in the apocalyptic era, so Dad can only use what he has on hand to make signs.
The motorcycle fraternity has always been short of this and that, but not short of bullets.
It is also because of this that their dog tags are made of bullet casings.
It was this bronze dog tag that blocked the shot for Peacock just now.