Instead of going upstairs to change, Meredith took Peacock to the small room behind the living room.
"what's the situation?"
It wasn't until he entered here that the peacock dared to ask.
Because he has a good relationship with Wei, Peacock knows that almost all of these agents who serve big companies are transformation madmen.
In order to improve their own strength, these people will not hesitate to dig out their original organs and install things like electronic cochlea and smart eyeballs.
To use these cyber plug-ins, they had to cut off the visual and auditory nerves and then connect the electronic devices to the brain.
Although this will turn people into machines, it also gives those corporate dogs amazing sensory abilities.
The peacock was very cautious because he was worried that it would not be safe even if there was a wall.
Without answering Peacock's question directly, Meredith called up the virtual screen projection in front of Peacock, and then connected to the interface of the home smart security system.
As her eyes moved, surveillance images immediately appeared on the virtual projection screen, and those were exactly the images captured by the surveillance cameras outside.
After just one glance, Peacock clenched his fists while Meredith remained silent.
"Meredith, did you really call the police?
Well now, they came to me, now you get what you want!"
Looking at the armed men who had appeared in several surveillance videos, Peacock glared at Meredith angrily.
"Peacock! I beg you to speak your mind!
If I called the police, would I let you see them?"
Meredith's words immediately calmed down Peacock, and he had to admit that what this woman said was very correct.
"Did I accidentally expose myself and attract these people?"
After ruling out the first possibility, Peacock immediately thought of himself. Although he had been very careful before, he couldn't guarantee that something went wrong.
Meredith thought the same thing when she saw those armed men. So she just started making up a story, hoping to explain later why the peacock was in her house.
"Don't think about it, they are not here for you, they are here to deal with me."
"how do you know?"
"Look at them, none of them carry heavy weapons, and no one carries professional equipment for attacking fortresses, so they are not here to attack by force.
Did you see the badge on their collar? That's the badge of the Military Technology Internal Investigation Team.
Just by hearing the name of their department, you should be able to guess what kind of work they do.
Yes, they specialize in dealing with people inside the company. They are the secret police of military technology, and they are here to find me."
"So the so-called meeting was actually a trap? They actually wanted to trap you?
When did you discover there was something wrong with them, and what did you do?"
"Peacock, does this have anything to do with you? You are too lenient."
When Meredith attacked Peacock so mercilessly, she felt a sense of fear in her heart.
When she was talking to the two people outside just now, Meredith didn't notice anything unusual about them at all.
There is no doubt that the two people who came to pick her up were also members of the internal investigation team.
So if she just gets in that car, she's doomed.
The two internal investigation team members who are good at acting will definitely send her to the company, but they will not send her to the conference room, but to the small courtyard of the internal investigation team.
As long as she gets into that car, she will end up at the mercy of others.
Whether it's electric shock or anesthetic gas, the internal investigation team's bastards have so many devious ways that they can easily take her down.
After catching her, the people from the internal investigation team will definitely not let go of her sweet home.
The big leather boots of those bastards will trample this warm harbor roughly, and they will touch everything here with their dirty hands.
Whether it's a pillow, a wall or a floor, they will cut it open and carefully look for the so-called incriminating evidence.
As for her daughter, the end would be even more tragic. Just thinking about how they would treat Amber made Meredith feel heartbroken.
Meredith knew very well what she had done. Even without the peacock thing, she was not very clean, and there was nothing she could do about it.
She is the senior director of the operations department, and in this position she is responsible for wiping the company's butt.
How can such a scavenger who specializes in dirty work keep himself spotless and flawless?
Meredith knew how many people she had offended. Not to mention, she had recently offended the vipers in the research department.
In the last actual combat test operation, Meredith, who represented the operations department, made it difficult for those blockages to get rid of.
Because of her report, many people in the research department were unlucky that time.
The deputy minister who was responsible for directing the actual combat test operations was sent to the internal investigation team because of this. In the end, he never came out, but disappeared from the world.
A month ago, Meredith was still very prosperous. Who would have thought that things would change, and in just one month, today it would be her turn to enter the Palace of Hell.
Meredith knows this best about her dear colleagues.
If she is arrested and sent to the internal investigation team, they will eagerly report her to Hippocrates.
As long as she could draw a clear line with Meredith, those people would rush to say whatever Hippocrates wanted to hear, so it was impossible for her to escape guilt.
Once she is found guilty, her amber will be completely finished.
Military Technology will take care of employees' relatives and children, but the premise is that they are still employees who are useful to Military Technology.
Military technology will never show mercy to worthless people. Amber has no value to them and is no longer the child of an employee, so she has no choice but to die.
If she still has relatives in the city, then Amber may still have a glimmer of hope.
It's a pity that she has always been alone and has no relatives for a long time.
She did have a friend before, but two months ago, she also sent this friend away and became an experimental subject for some kind of biological weapon.
"Amber! I can't let anything happen to Amber!"
Meredith couldn't help biting her lips whenever she thought of her daughter.
Just now she asked Peacock to follow her in to watch the surveillance. At that time, she did not doubt her situation.
She just wanted to check the surrounding situation and then find a way out for the peacock to send this plague god away.
It was precisely because of such kind thoughts that Meredith discovered something was wrong around her, which made her feel both scared and happy at the same time.
They say good deeds will be rewarded, but Meredith didn't believe it before.
Who of the people who do a job like her really believe that "good deeds and evil deeds are rewarded". If she really believed it, she would have been unable to do this job long ago.
However, Meredith now has no choice but to believe it. She believes that this is the luck her daughter has brought to her. Of course, this may also have something to do with the peacock.
Just as Meredith was thinking about what to do now, the actions from the internal investigation team were intensifying step by step.
In addition to the team members who are slowly approaching, hackers belonging to the internal investigation team are also continuing their work according to the action plan.
In a sense, these hackers are industrial products coming off the military technology assembly line.
What the teacher usually teaches is what they do now. If it is not written in the plan, then they must not have thought of it.
If they were dealing with other enemies, then this action plan would indeed be perfect.
But what they had to deal with today was Meredith, who knew all these methods well, so these hackers messed up the matter.
When a hacker continued to sniff Meredith's computer passwords, he didn't know he had set off a small trap.
"Click!"
Following this soft sound, a dark object jumped out from the grass in the courtyard.
In front of it was a guy from the investigation team, and the sudden movement startled the man immediately.
Just when the frightened man saw clearly what it was, the monocular camera on the machine had completed image recognition.
"An anti-personnel weapon was detected, model D5 Copper Snake.
Confirm that the target is a high-risk person and start the elimination mission! "
The automatic sentry machine gun that completed the identification opened fire in the next moment. With the sound of "dong dong dong", the short-barreled machine gun fired blazing bullets at the human beings who were next to it.
"cough!"
Meredith couldn't help but close her eyes when she heard the gunshots rang out in the courtyard.
This is the damn machine. Even if it has advanced artificial intelligence, they are still stupid.
Although it was only the sentry machine gun that fired now, this changed the nature of the matter.
By the time the machine gun was activated, Meredith had become a dangerous criminal intent on using force against the company, and there was no turning back.
After a brief absence, Meredith opened her eyes again.
At this time, her eyes were no longer empty, and now there was only a resolute light in her eyes.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
As Meredith pressed a button on the virtual screen, a reinforced metal arm popped up from behind her door.
At the same time, all windows connected to the outside world were automatically closed, and metal guards were even lowered on the windows.
While the two actors outside the gate were stunned, Meredith's home had entered level one alert.
"Meredith, I..."
Watching Meredith open the gun cabinet in a hurry, Peacock didn't know what to say.
Although Meredith just said that he did not bring these people outside.
But he still felt that this had something to do with him, because he was an unlucky guy who would bring misfortune wherever he went.
"Peacock, remember this man, his name is Hippocrates, he is the commissioner of the internal investigation team.
This person seems to know your existence all the time, so you must be careful."
Without looking at Peacock's guilty face, Meredith pointed at the virtual screen in front of her, telling Peacock to pay attention to the person who had just arrived at the front door.
After seeing Hippocrates appear so quickly, the last trace of luck in Meredith's heart disappeared.
That Hippocrates could arrive at this time speaks volumes.
The person who wanted to touch Meredith was none other than the internal investigation team of Military Technology, and they followed the normal process and communicated with the senior officials of the Operations Department.
No matter what she does now, it's useless. Even if she kills the peacock and then raises her hands to surrender, it won't help.
All the insiders who were arrested by the internal investigation team with great fanfare have never left alive.
The internal investigation team doesn't need tainted witnesses, and they never lack the means to get confessions.
Redis doesn't want to try the legendary 180 tortures herself, so now she can only stand with Peacock.
Meredith had mixed feelings about the little mercenary in front of her.
First of all, of course she resented him for being jealous because Peacock was the only man who had successfully threatened him.
Meredith still doesn't know what leverage Hippocrates caught on her, but she thinks it must have something to do with the peacock.
In order to cut off the pervert's clues to track down Peacock, Meredith had to perform a series of cover-up actions.
Maybe that's how she was found to have problems, so of course she resented Peacock.
But in a sense, she has to thank the peacock.
Today, the peacock came to find her with a bomb tied to his body. In order to send this plague god away as soon as possible, she had to turn on the surveillance camera and find a way for the peacock to leave safely.
If she got into the car that picked her up without watching the surveillance, she should have been controlled by the internal investigation team at this time.
Now she is surrounded by Hippocrates and others at home, but at least she has a gun in her hand and a secret passage for escape at her feet, so the situation is not so bad that it is irreversible.
"Peacock, did you just say that you and your friends wanted to go out?"
After checking the submachine gun in her hand, Meredith handed the gun to Peacock.
"Yes."
"Congratulations, you found the right person.
I can help you, but I have a condition."
"You said, as long as I can do it, I will definitely agree."
"You can definitely do it, and you must do it.
Peacock, I have a daughter."
"I know."
"Her name is Amber, she is 8 years old."
This was the first time Peacock heard her daughter's name from Meredith. When she mentioned Amber's name, the woman's eyes became so gentle.
"Peacock, you have also seen that I have become the company's enemy now, and those guys outside will attack at any time."
"What do you want?"
"I definitely don't want to sit around and wait for death, but I can't let go because I have worries about my future, so I want to entrust Amber to you.
If you can take my daughter away safely, I will tell you how to leave Night City."
"Meredith, we are all trapped here now, how can I guarantee that I can take your daughter away?"
"You can do it, because there is a secret passage in my house.
As long as you and my daughter can enter this secret passage in time, you can escape safely."
"I don't understand, Meredith, since you have a secret passage here, why can't we evacuate together?"
"Peacock, I really want to do that, but it's not feasible.
Do you know why the people outside haven't attacked yet? That's because they think they've got me.
They wanted to capture me alive, so they took their time and continued making preparations.
If they find that no one is in the house suddenly, the gang will definitely swarm in. With their equipment, they will definitely be able to find the secret passage immediately.
If that's the case, even if we retreat into the secret passage, we won't be able to escape very far.
So for the sake of my daughter, we must leave one person behind, and this person can only be me.
Peacock, you don’t have to argue with me. Compared with you and me, I am definitely more suitable.
Because this is about Amber, I will fight harder than you."
After listening to Meredith's words silently, Peacock was stunned for several seconds before he thought of what to ask.
"I understand, what about you? How are you going to get out?"
"Don't worry, Peacock, I'm not ready to die here yet.
So when I think the time is almost up, I will leave.
If I were alone, I would be very confident that I could escape. I knew all their methods and they would not be able to catch me.
I will contact you as soon as I am safe.
At that time, we will agree on a time and place to meet, and then I will take you and your friends out of the city. "
"Okay! That's settled!"
After hearing Meredith's plan, Peacock gritted his teeth and agreed.
Today he took the risk to find Meredith, and now it seems that he has taken the right step. This woman who specializes in doing dirty work for large companies indeed has a secret way out of the city.
If it hadn't been for the current emergency, Peacock didn't know how he could have made Meredith willing to help.
After being surrounded by an internal investigation team at home, it's now Meredith's turn to peacock, so they finally make the deal.
"Peacock, you can't take away my daughter with such a light word, I want you to swear a poisonous oath.
I know you were a rogue before, so you have to swear by what a rogue holds most dear."
"Okay, that's fair. Meredith, listen up:
I, the peacock, swear to God.
As long as I am alive, I will not let your daughter Amber lose a hair.
Now how did I take her away from you, and how will I return her to you.
If I break my promise, I will be struck by lightning and die without a burial place, and my soul will never find peace!"
"Meredith, Meredith, now you actually have to rely on an oath to find a sense of security?"
Looking at the peacock solemnly swearing, Meredith felt a little dazed.
There will be some fools in every era who value their promises more than their lives.
Meredith has seen some, but such people are rare. Is the person in front of her also such a fool? Meredith is not sure.
Just when Meredith began to hesitate, Hippocrates, who was standing at the door of her house, turned on the speaker and began to shout into the house.
Hippocrates was the one who presided over this arrest, so he should not have done this kind of work of persuading people to surrender, but Hippocrates had to do it himself.
To be honest, he enjoyed the precious opportunity to suppress Meredith, so of course he had to do it himself now.
Based on Hippocrates' understanding of Meredith, such a shouting was actually just a formality.