Due to the narrow terrain of the corridor, the internal investigation team can only dispatch a maximum of three operators at a time to launch a charge, which completely fails to take advantage of the number of people.
After being beaten back three or four times by Meredith, these people still didn't give up and wanted to try again. Meredith was of course willing to keep playing with them.
Raising the gun in her hand, Meredith aimed at the location where an operator was about to jump out.
When someone really showed up over there, Meredith was ready to pull the trigger, but at this moment, her vision suddenly went dark.
"What? What's going on?!"
Because of the sudden loss of vision in her left eye, Meredith's shot failed to hit the operator.
With that person covering in front, the two people following him rushed into the corridor. They and Meredith shot at each other randomly, and finally forced Meredith back.
Leaning her body against the cold wall, Meredith closed her eyes first, then opened them immediately.
"I'm blind, really blind..."
Meredith's left eye is a highly integrated cybernetic eye. Although her right eye has also been modified, the eyeball is still the original one, with just a few additional auxiliary chips.
Because she suddenly lost the vision in her left eye, she was forced to step back and immediately restarted the electronic prosthetic eye on her left side.
The restart of Cyber's prosthetic eye was quickly completed, but her left eye was still dark. Meredith had to admit that her left eye was useless.
In order to be able to stand out in the operations department, which is mostly composed of men, Meredith paid a lot of price, including a lot of body modification.
The first modification she underwent was to replace her knee joint. Due to an injury during training, Meredith had to replace her original knee joint with an artificial joint.
If this is still a last resort, then future body modifications will not be due to injury, but purely for the pursuit of strength.
To this day, Meredith can't count how many reconstructive surgeries she has had in total.
Her skull has been modified, her eyes have been modified, her teeth have been modified, her nervous system has been modified, her heart has been modified, her ribs have been modified, her right arm and left leg have been modified, and these are just the top major surgeries.
Such transformation is of course painful and requires a lot of resources.
However, such a transformation can make herself stronger immediately, so Meredith will never let this opportunity go.
As her status in the operations department continues to rise, she also gains higher and higher authority.
Whenever there is a new cyber plug-in, Meredith can always get it as soon as possible, and she only has to pay a very favorable internal price every time.
It is these ever-changing cybernetics that make Meredith's overall strength stronger and stronger.
Now she can easily control her negative emotions and achieve photographic memory.
Her vision, hearing and smell are 10 times more sensitive than ordinary people. Her strength, speed and reaction values far exceed those of the Olympic champions of the old era.
With this body that can be called a perfect fighting machine, Meredith has been able to repel attacks from the internal investigation team many times.
Just when he was about to retire, her prosthetic eyes suddenly stopped working.
Losing her left eye is more than just losing half of her vision. After her left eye became paralyzed, Meredith could no longer use her detection module and electronic map.
What's even worse is that now her smart aiming plug-in is useless, and she is no longer a perfect marksman.
"Damn it! Are there still such powerful hackers in the internal investigation team? How could they hack the cyber plug-in in my body quietly?"
While shooting backwards randomly, Meredith retreated to the room behind her.
At this time, she had lost most of her combat effectiveness, so she had to retreat.
After driving away the three guys with fierce fire, Meredith turned and rushed towards the room where the secret passage was.
Just when she was about to rush in, her right leg suddenly stopped working.
She obviously wanted to extend her legs, but instead of opening her knees, she retracted them. This immediately caused her to lose her balance and fall heavily to the ground.
"Asshole! This is not a hacker attack, this is them remotely controlling my cyber prosthesis. Is that legend true? The chips they used for me have backdoors!"
The moment she fell to the ground, the first thing Meredith thought of was the rumor.
Whether it is Military Technology or Huangban International, these major arms companies are very supportive of their employees' body modification.
In order to encourage employees to participate in body transformation, these large companies will even provide free surgical opportunities. Even if there are additional charges, they are often only nominal fees.
All cyber plug-ins are composed of three parts: bionic organ, control chip and operating software, so some people say that large companies will set up backdoors in chips and operating software.
In addition to secretly collecting information, when those companies deem it necessary, they can use these loopholes to directly control cyberbodies remotely and deprive users of control rights.
Such rumors were quite popular at one time, and major companies even conducted joint investigations because of this.
But even so, this kind of rumor has always had a market and has not completely disappeared.
Meredith didn't believe it before this happened to her, but now she had to believe it.
The nature of Meredith's work is very unique, so the hardware and software she uses are the best on the market.
It's not impossible to break through Meredith's firewall and then hack her cybernetic body.
But even the best hacker can't do this without Meredith being aware of it.
Only the manufacturers of these devices can do this without alerting Meredith, and they have to do it beforehand.
Because there are backdoors in those hardware and software, those people only need to enter a line of code to deprive Meredith of her abilities and make her fall from the cloud to the eighteenth level of hell.
"Amber! My Amber..."
Looking at the secret passage right in front of her, Meredith closed her eyes in pain.
Although the distance was less than five meters, she knew she could not escape.
If the failure of her prosthetic body was caused by the company, then it would be useless even if she escaped into the secret passage.
They could close her eyes, make her knees stop working, and of course they could force her heart to stop beating so she never saw Amber again.
"What are you idiots waiting for? Come on!
That woman is now half-blind and half-deaf. She is no longer the tiger of the operations department.
Come up and catch her quickly, I want her alive, I must catch her alive!"
Listening to the roar coming from not far away, Meredith smiled sadly.
Hippocrates shouted loudly outside the door, so she heard him quite clearly.
Meredith knew that Hippocrates had been staying outside safely and commanding remotely, and now that she was in trouble, that person knew clearly.
This was enough to prove that her guess was correct. The reason why the cyber plug-in in her body suddenly malfunctioned was because the company was causing trouble.
Before those people rushed up to her, Meredith gritted her teeth and sat up again.
When Peacock retreated just now, he left the six bombs made of grenades for Meredith.
Grabbing the grenades that were still connected together, Meredith threw them into the secret passage.
"Boom boom boom!"
With several loud noises, the string of grenades exploded in the secret passage.
The secret tunnel Meredith prepared for herself was quite crude, and it didn't even have a special reinforcement structure, which was exactly why Meredith wanted to drop the bomb.
She didn't expect those grenades to completely collapse the passage. Even if it only collapsed a small section, she would be satisfied.
"Peacock, I hope you can keep your promise, otherwise I won't let you go even if I become a ghost!"
Meredith roared in his heart toward the direction where the secret passage extended.
The explosion just now shocked the enemies who were preparing to charge, and they stopped again, which also left Meredith with a few precious seconds.
After gritting her teeth, Meredith used the intracranial communication system that was still working to send the text message that had been edited long ago.
She had just finished this task when the belated members of the internal investigation team finally plucked up the courage and rushed into the corridor.
This time they did not face a head-on attack, which gave them hope of completing their mission.
"No, you can't catch me because I'm Meredith!"
Seeing those people approaching slowly with stun guns, Meredith, who was leaning against the corridor wall, suddenly sat upright.
At this moment, she is not a lost dog at the end of her rope, she is still the feared tiger of the operations department.
"No!"
When those who were eager to perform meritorious deeds saw Meredith pointing the pistol at her chin, they all exclaimed.
Although there were only a dozen steps between them, it was impossible for them to stop the mother who had already made up her mind.
"Amber, my poor Amber!"
After reciting her daughter's name silently one last time, Meredith pulled the trigger resolutely.
"boom!"
With a muffled sound, the bullet entered his head from his chin, and finally exited from the Tianling Gai. The look in Meredith's eyes dissipated in this second.
When the entrance to the secret passage was blown up by Meredith's grenade, Peacock had already been drilled into the underground pipe by Little Amber, so he only felt faint vibrations from a distance.
Just when he was about to move on, his bracelet vibrated slightly, and then he received a text message from Meredith.
"What's going on? Why is it at this time?"
Peacock's heart trembled when he saw the text message was sent by Meredith. He instinctively realized that this might not be good news.
"Something happened to Meredith!"
When Peacock opened the text message and saw the set of numbers, he immediately thought of this as the only possibility.
The number Meredith sent was obviously a coordinate. Based on its accuracy to two decimal places, this coordinate pointed to either a door or a passage.
In order for Peacock to agree to protect Amber, Meredith took the initiative to make a deal with him.
According to their division of labor, Peacock was responsible for taking Amber away from Bodhi Street, while Meredith stayed behind to break up the queen.
Once Peacock and the others leave the danger area, Meredith, who is in charge of rearguard action, will also evacuate immediately.
As long as she gets rid of her pursuers, she will contact Peacock and agree with him on a time and place to meet, and then everyone can leave the city together.
After only ten minutes of splitting up, Peacock received the coordinates of this absolute amulet.
Based on Peacock's understanding of Meredith, he could only think of the worst possibility after much deliberation.
"Something must have happened to Meredith that prevented her from getting out as planned.
But she still wanted to leave a way for her daughter to survive, so she told me the coordinates to leave the city in advance!"
"Uncle Peacock, what's wrong with you? Come on, we're going out soon."
Just when the peacock stopped because he was stunned, Amber, who was leading the way, immediately turned his head and urged the lagging uncle.
Ever since they left the pumping station and drilled into the underground pipes, Amber had taken to the water like a duck to water.
Not only did she not become a burden to Peacock, on the contrary, she played an extremely important role.
"Third from the left, fourth from the right, twelve from the middle."
While muttering this mantra in a low voice, Amber walked on her short legs through the underground pipe network like a spider web.
I don't know what method Meredith used, but her daughter actually knew the map of this underground pipeline by heart, so Peacock and Amber walked very fast.
"I'm so sorry, Amber, uncle got distracted. Come on, let's keep walking."
Looking at Amber who didn't know anything about it, Peacock sighed secretly in his heart and quickly apologized.
"Maybe I'm overthinking it, Meredith just encountered some troubles, so she took precautions and sent me the coordinates first.
That woman is a very powerful character, she should be fine. Maybe it won't be long before Meredith will contact me."
While comforting himself with this explanation, Peacock quickly followed Amber.
Just as the little girl said, the two of them didn't go far before they saw the escalator leading to the ground.
After climbing down the ladder to the bottom of the manhole cover, the peacock carefully removed a crack.
He observed it carefully for a while, then got out of the manhole cover and returned to the ground.
After carrying Amber out of the underground well, Peacock quickly restored the manhole cover. Then he took Amber's hand and quickly moved away from the direction of the Bodhi Street community.
An hour later, Peacock, who wandered around the city, finally returned to Westbrook.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw the green-haired girl, and the three people in the room also widened their eyes when they saw Amber.
As for Johnny Silverhand, who had always had a sharp tongue, he had long since lost his voice.
Peacock and Amber were able to return here safely, all thanks to Johnny Silverhand.
On the way to send Peacock and Amber back here, Johnny Silverhand had enough stimulation, so now he doesn't want to talk to Peacock for the time being.
"Peacock, where have you been? You know how worried we are about you!
Who is this child? Why did she come back with you?"
Although everyone is very curious, Takemura can still hold it in with the footbath man's thinking mode. Judy also has such a strong mind, but Sandra can't.
As soon as Peacock left, Sandra began to regret it.
She regretted that she should not have let the injured peacock go out, and even more regretted that she had not insisted on her own opinion and followed him.
During the hour and a half that Peacock was away, Sandra was on pins and needles...
Any disturbance would startle her. Now that the peacock finally came back, she couldn't bear it anymore.
"I went to see Meredith and this is her daughter."
"What? You went to find Meredith!"
Yesterday, everyone shared their information with each other, so Takemura and the others knew who Meredith was.
No one thought that Peacock risked his life to go out to meet that dangerous woman.
And now he has brought Meredith's daughter back, what happened in the meantime?
Of all the people, Johnny Silverhand knew the answer. But he was too lazy to say it, so everyone else could only guess randomly.
"Ah! I know!
Meredith is a celebrity in military technology. She should have a way to help us leave Night City.
Peacock, you wanted to force that woman to help, so you kidnapped her daughter!"
"What are you thinking about? Am I that kind of person!"
Hearing that Sandra was so imaginative, Peacock couldn't help but knock this silly girl on the forehead.
"Ouch!"
Although it didn't hurt, Sandra still covered her head and screamed loudly on purpose.
This little episode immediately relaxed everyone's mood, and now even Amber, who was originally very restrained, burst into laughter.
"Amber, you haven't had dinner yet? Are you hungry?"
I'll ask this sister named Judy to get you some food, okay?"
After squatting down in front of the little girl, Peacock asked Amber for her opinion softly. Judy also walked over with a smile and greeted the child.
Who wouldn’t like a soft and waxy little girl like Amber?
So although she had only been here for a few minutes, both Sandra and Judy fell in love with her.
Unlike other children of this age, Amber appears to be particularly well-behaved.
Even though she arrived in this completely unfamiliar place and was surrounded by strangers, Amber didn't cry.
She just stared at her big eyes, looking at this and then that.
Of all the people here, she especially trusted Peacock.
So when Peacock handed her hand to Judy, Amber didn't struggle and followed the green-haired girl to other rooms.
After letting Amber eat something, Judy put Amber, who could barely open her eyes, to bed.
After she finished taking care of Amber's affairs, she quietly exited the room. At this time, Peacock and the others were waiting for her.
"That's the way it is."
When Peacock finished telling his story about this afternoon, the room fell into a deathly silence.
Just now Peacock talked about why he went to Meredith and how he bargained with Meredith.
How did Meredith entrust her daughter to him in the end, but she took the initiative to stay and divorce.
When Peacock mentioned the coordinates he received, everyone here had already guessed Meredith's ending.
Thinking that the sweet little girl lost her mother like this, everyone felt even heavier.
Taking this opportunity, Peacock also introduced Johnny Silverhand to Sandra and Judy.