After coming to this conclusion, the intelligent system immediately pushed the message to Meredith.
When the hostess here read this reminder on her retina, she was quite surprised.
Although she has lived here for several years, Meredith rarely has visitors, not to mention that it is almost dinner time.
The next second she saw this reminder, Meredith saw the visitor's face.
When she saw that the person was actually a peacock, the senior director of the Military Science and Technology Operations Department suddenly widened her eyes.
After zooming in as quickly as possible, Meredith cursed in her mind.
The person who was walking towards her home with his head held high was none other than an important wanted criminal worth 1.2 million euros.
Since this wanted order was issued by Arasaka and the Night City Police Department, its gold content is particularly high.
Frankly speaking, Meredith never thought Peacock would one day be as famous as he is now.
When she noticed him, he was just a lowly mercenary.
He hangs out in Watson, except for his two bad friends, who knows him?
But it was only a short time ago, and now Peacock is so famous.
He is not a celebrity, but his photo has been held in the hands of at least tens of thousands of people. Countless people are praying, hoping to meet the person in the photo.
In such an atmosphere, the peacock refused to hide in the smelly ditch and wait to die like a mouse.
Not only did he come out to hang out, but he also showed up in front of him in a swaggering manner. You must know that he had just been shot by him last night.
Just by looking at Peacock's walking posture, Meredith knew that the man had an injury on his chest, and the injury was not serious.
The peacock outside walked calmly, but Meredith inside started to be in a hurry.
After being identified as a potential visitor, the intelligent defense system begins to collect the guest's facial data.
According to the program settings, the home security system will compare the data in the Night City Police Department's database.
As long as the system discovers that the person is carrying a lawsuit, the security system will automatically send a request for help to the police station and security company without the intervention of the owner.
Such high-end security services must be paid, so the police and security companies will take action upon hearing the alarm, and no one will come to check after three days of calling the police.
This setting is of course excellent, but Meredith doesn't want to alert the police, and she doesn't want military technology to know about this situation.
When Meredith saw the peacock last night, she really had the desire to kill him, so she couldn't wait to take the shot.
Ever since the deal was made with Peacock, Peacock had a handle on Meredith.
Whenever Meredith thinks about this, she will be very uneasy. Recently, she has been targeted by perverts from the internal investigation team, so she is even more anxious.
Meredith was most worried about the peacock being caught. She knew that if Hippocrates caught the peacock, the little secret between her and him would be lost.
In order to shut up the peacock, she first fired the shot, and then she even disgraced Hippocrates and forcibly took over the command.
"Peacock, don't blame me. If you want to blame me, you can only blame yourself for being too troublesome.
You will definitely not be able to escape tonight, so please die here, so that I can feel at ease!"
Meredith was full of these thoughts as she directed her men to conduct a large-scale search.
As long as her people catch the peacock, she has countless ways to silence the peacock forever. Even if Hippocrates is present, the peacock will not survive.
However, what was irritating was that she had personally directed the search, but the boy actually managed to escape again.
After escaping the pursuit of military technology, the fugitive did not go anywhere else, but took the initiative to visit him.
Why didn't this make Meredith shocked and angry? Now she only regretted that she didn't kill the opponent with one shot last night, so she lost all initiative at this time.
Gritting her back teeth, Meredith finally canceled the automatic alarm before the system issued it. Looking at the countdown that had jumped to "1", she couldn't help but be afraid of what would happen next.
"Bah bang bang!"
When there was a knock on the door, Meredith's daughter, Amber, first looked at the door curiously, and then the little girl looked up at her mother.
"Amber, be good, go back to your room first.
Mom has some work matters to deal with, please wait for me, okay?"
"Okay, Mom."
Rubbing Meredith's hand that was stroking her head, the 8-year-old girl jumped upstairs.
Smiling, she watched her daughter disappear around the corner. The smile that was on Meredith's face a moment ago was completely gone the next moment.
It was in this living room last time that she was restrained by the peacock, and then she was forced to make the deal with this little mercenary.
Meredith has always been brooding about her last failure.
She believed that the reason why Peacock succeeded was because of her carelessness.
If Peacock felt that he could succeed again today because of this, Meredith would immediately tell Peacock how wrong he was this time.
"Here we go, wait a minute..."
While responding like this, Meredith quickly walked into the small room behind the living room.
After she reached out and pressed a certain switch, the weapon grid hidden behind the wall popped open silently.
Grabbing the pistol and magazine inside, Meredith quickly walked to the door.
In just a dozen steps, she has completed the adjustment to herself. At this time, she is no longer a white-collar worker after get off work, she is a military technology tigress who can hurt people at any time.
"Peacock! What do you want to do?"
Although she had arrived at the door, Meredith had no intention of opening the door just like that.
In order to protect her daughter, Meredith spent a lot of money on this house.
Her home adopts the best civilian security solution on the market. If Peacock wanted to break in by force, he would have to bring at least 5 kilograms of explosives.
This door is Meredith's first line of defense, so she won't give up easily.
"Meredith, it sounds like we are friends.
Now the guests are here, but you don’t open the door, are you planning to let the neighbors come and watch?”
"Peacock, don't say these useless things.
I advise you to leave here now because you don’t have much time. I just called the police and the police are on their way here."
"It sounds like you don't welcome me? Okay. In that case, I'll just say it. I'll leave after I finish speaking.
Meredith, I'm here because I want to make a deal with you.
As long as this deal can be done, it doesn't matter who you call."
Looking at the rogue guy outside, although Meredith was angry, she realized that there was really nothing she could do about it.
The peacock cannot see the light, but now he is poking at his door like this.
The longer he stays out, the more attention he will draw. If someone with an interest in this matter knew about it, such as Hippocrates, then she would be in big trouble.
Although it was not clear what Peacock's intention was, Meredith had to admit that this time Peacock held seven inches of her again.
If she doesn't want things to get out of hand, she must make a choice now.
She could open the door and have a good talk with the lunatic outside to see what he wanted.
Of course she could also actually call the police, or simply shoot.
No matter what she chooses, it's still better than doing nothing.
After confirming again that Amber had returned to her room, Meredith gritted her teeth and finally opened the door.
Looking at the gun pointed at him, the peacock outside the door grinned.
Without waiting for the owner to greet him, he stepped in and stood at the place designated by Meredith.
As if he didn't see Meredith's cannibalistic look, Peacock took out his pistol and saber and put all these weapons on the ground.
When he voluntarily handed over the weapon, Meredith also turned on the metal sensor chip and repeatedly checked the man in front of him.
"Okay, Peacock, now you get what you want.
Please don't waste your time and just tell me directly, what do you want to do?"
"Meredith, as I said just now, I'm here to make a deal with you."
"What deal?"
"You also know how difficult it is for me and my friends now. We can't stay in Night City any longer, so we want to leave. Please help us leave."
"Peacock, what nonsense are you talking about? You want me to help you escape from Night City?"
Although Peacock said this seriously, Meredith seemed to have heard a big joke.
"I'm not kidding, I'm serious.
Meredith, I know you have investigated me, so you should know that I don't know many people in the city.
Ever since Jack and Vee died, I've been having trouble finding anyone to help me.
After thinking about it, you are the only one who has the ability to help me."
"How interesting, Peacock, I admire your imagination.
So may I ask, why should I help you?
When you and your friends are already deep in this shithole, why should I jump in with you?"
"because this……"
While saying this, Peacock reached out to touch his clothes.
This action immediately alerted Meredith, and she swore that if the peacock dared to move again, she would shoot it.
Even if it makes her living room dirty, she will never regret it.
"Relax, I'm not going to pull out a gun."
Sensing Meredith's nervousness, Peacock moved even slower.
In fact, he didn't reach into his arms, he just pulled the zipper and opened his coat little by little.
"Meredith, you did this, right?
You really wanted to kill me last night and I'm still breathing just because of good luck, so don't you think you owe me a life?"
After the coat's zipper was halfway unzipped, Meredith saw the bandage on Peacock's chest.
Looking at the faintly bloody bandage, the woman's eyes did not waver.
She had no hesitation when she shot last night, so now she has even less regrets.
At this time, Meredith just felt very sorry. If the shot last night had killed the peacock, then there would be no such trouble today.
"Peacock, you were lucky yesterday, but that doesn't mean your luck will be as good today, so don't be too arrogant.
Also, I don’t think what you just said is a reason.
Why should I help you because I didn't kill you? If I shoot you in the head, wouldn't it solve the problem?"
And it seems like this can solve the problem once and for all, saving you from trying to blackmail me again in the future!"
As she said this, the woman flicked her gun and pointed it at the peacock's head.
Looking at the sneer on her lips and the finger on the trigger, Peacock knew that Meredith was not telling a joke.
For her own sake, Meredith would betray her best friend without hesitation.
It was unreliable to talk about friendship with someone like Meredith, and she would not feel pity for the misfortune of Peacock.
Since Peacock dared to walk into Meredith's home, he certainly had no intention of trying to impress this woman by playing the bitter card.
He had thought about this situation, so the Peacock driver was prepared.
Smiling at the eager Meredith, Peacock said nothing and continued to pull down the zipper on his coat.
When the hem of his clothes was also pulled open, Meredith's pupils immediately shrank to the size of a pinhead.
Although her gun was still pointed at Peacock's head, the look on Meredith's face was quite ugly.
"Peacock, do you really want to die?"
Meredith was really shocked when she saw the six grenades wrapped around the man's waist.
In order to make the six grenades explode at the same time, Peacock made some modifications to them. He pulled out the fuse of the grenades and used a wire as the ignition device.
It is also because of this that as long as he presses the small switch in his hand, the six grenades will explode immediately. No matter how fast Meredith's hands are, it is impossible to stop the peacock.
"Meredith, I don't want this to happen, but my friends and I are at the end of our rope.
There are three of us, and we all have to go out of town.
As long as you help me, my grudges with you will be wiped out. And I also promise you that I will never appear in front of you again."
"Who do you think I am? Am I a wholesaler of passes?"
Listening to Peacock's ridiculous request, looking at the grenade on his waist and the switch in his hand, Meredith finally roared in a low voice.
If Peacock hadn't been so prepared to defeat the enemy, Meredith knew she would have pulled the trigger, but now she was in a dilemma.
Help Peacock? That is definitely impossible. This is not because she is afraid that Peacock will break his promise and blackmail her next time.
In the City of Night, there are tens of thousands of people who eat a bowl of blood from the blade of a knife.
Most of these people are the ones who decide whether to say it or not.
As long as they can deal with the situation in front of them, they dare to pat their chests and agree to any conditions.
However, not all mercenaries are like this. According to Meredith's understanding, the trio of Jack, Wei, and Peacock have a good reputation on the road.
However, no matter how good Peacock's reputation is, this cannot reassure Meredith.
Because even if she could help Peacock and the others escape from Night City, these people would still be captured sooner or later.
In today's apocalyptic era, Military Technology, Arasaka International, and Kang Tao Industrial are three insurmountable mountains.
No one can live happily after offending them. Even if they hide in the bad land, the company will still find them, catch them, and finally kill them.
No matter how hard Peacock and the others fight, the fate of these people will not change.
If that's the case, why does she still want to help them? Isn't helping Peacock equivalent to adding a new crime to herself?
Just as Meredith was thinking about how to deal with the peacock, someone's profile picture suddenly lit up on her retina, followed by a tinkling sound.
At this tense moment, someone dialed Meredith's phone.
The call was so unlucky that Meredith didn't dare to answer the call directly. So she looked at the peacock in front of her with an intention to inquire.
Peacock also noticed the ripples in Meredith's eyes. This was the reaction of the intracranial communication system after receiving an incoming call, which was equivalent to the vibration and ringing tone in the previous life.
Shaking the switch in his hand towards Meredith, Peacock motioned for her to answer the phone first.
"Hello?"
As soon as she answered the call, Meredith heard a familiar voice. It was her boss's secretary, and everyone was familiar with each other.
"Director Meredith? I'm sorry to bother you at this hour."
"What happened?"
"Director Meredith, we just received a temporary notice asking you to attend a temporary meeting."
"When? Where?"
"The location is at the company headquarters, and the time is now, 45 minutes later to be exact."
"What's so urgent?"
"I'm so sorry, I don't know either. It's not mentioned above, so I can't ask more.
To save time, I sent you a car, they should be here soon."
"Okay, I know."
Just as I finished the phone call, Didi's car horn sounded outside the door.
Looking out the window, Peacock and Meredith both saw the car slowly turning into the walkway in front of the door.
"At short notice, they asked me to go to a meeting, and the car was here to pick me up."
Before Peacock asked, Meredith explained in the simplest possible language.
"how so?"
Such an unexpected event suddenly appeared, and Peacock was a little confused for a moment.
"You hide behind the curtain. I'll negotiate with them and see what's going on."
When Meredith said this, the car had stopped outside the door.
As the car door opened, two people got out of the car.
"You can't walk out the door, or else you know."
After setting the bottom line for Meredith, Peacock hurriedly hid behind the curtain. Meredith picked up the bib on the side and tied it around her body.
"Knock knock knock!"
"coming!"
As soon as the peacock hid, there was a knock on the door, and then Meredith answered and walked towards the door.
"You are?"
"Hello, Ms. Meredith, we are here to pick you up for a meeting..."
Because he was hiding by the door, the peacock heard the next conversation clearly.
"Please wait outside for a moment, I have to clean up."
After briefly asking about the situation, Meredith smiled apologetically at them.
Looking at Meredith, who was wearing home clothes and an apron, the two people outside had nothing to say. They could only nod in agreement.
After closing the door again, Meredith raised her finger at the peacock, gesturing for him to follow her.