"Dammit, you mean Saburo Arasaka will come to Yorinobu's room?" Jackie looked at Alex Carter in disbelief.
Alex nodded: "I told you before."
"But you didn't say..."
"Enough!" V frowned and interrupted, then asked, "BUG, how long will it take?"
"All set."
As soon as T-BUG's voice fell, the safe containing the Relic opened instantly.
"Brilliant!"
After confirming that the box was intact, V and Jackie moved towards the front door.
"Don't go out; let's find a place to hide first!" Alex advised with a frown.
He knew very well that if they went out like this, they would run into Yorinobu Arasaka and the humanoid machine Adam Smasher beside him.
In their current state, facing Adam Smasher, a killing machine with 98% of its body replaced with mechanical parts, they wouldn't stand a chance.
However, V and Jackie were unaware of this.
"Are you crazy? You want to die, not hurry up and hide here?" V said coldly.
But then T-BUG's voice came through the channel.
"Listen to him, hide behind the TV cabinet; Yorinobu is about to come in."
"Are you kidding me?" Jackie said angrily.
"Don't argue, just get in!"
Alex didn't hesitate, pushing Jackie, who was holding the box, into the open video wall. Then he dragged V and squeezed in himself.
In the narrow space, the sturdy Jackie holding the box was squeezed to the side.
Alex and V were pressed tightly against one another.
The vague warmth of her body made Alex's heart race.
And V, who was close to him, seemed to notice something strange and hummed coldly: "Be honest, don't get any ideas."
"Ahem, tell BUG to withdraw. She'll be in danger if she doesn't leave soon." Alex awkwardly changed the topic.
V nodded and said nothing.
"Ding, task completed. Reward: [Black Light Virus (castrated version)]"
"Ding, follow-up quest [Escape from Heaven]"
"Successfully escape from the building, reward: 50,000 euros."
"Lead either V or Jackie to successfully escape the building, reward: 50,000 euros, legendary grenade: Orzobu's Nose*5"
"Lead both V and Jackie to successfully escape the building, reward: 50,000 euros, legendary grenade: Orzobu's Nose*5, legendary circulatory system prosthesis: Secondary Heart"
A series of system prompts sounded just right in Alex's mind.
Seeing the black-red reagent lying quietly in his inventory, he felt slightly relieved.
At least he had a life-saving measure. But now wasn't the time to use it. He had more pressing matters.
As for the follow-up mission...
50,000 euros, five grenades with tracking and guiding capabilities, and a prosthetic body that can revive immediately after life reaches zero.
A smile appeared on the corner of Alex's mouth.
In fact, whether there was a reward or not, he would do his best to bring the two out.
The reward was just the icing on the cake.
"Thud..."
Alex's thoughts had just settled when the elevator door of the room opened.
A man wearing a bright silver top walked in with a fierce and strong man whose entire body was made of machinery except for his head.
"No way... that's Adam Smasher!"
Looking at the two who came in, Jackie's eyes were full of shock and panic.
V looked at Jackie suspiciously: "A bodyguard?"
Jackie shook his head and whispered: "Not just any bodyguard, a legend in Night City, a figure like the Grim Reaper. What is he doing here?"
"Don't panic." Alex smiled calmly: "Listen to me, make sure the recording is on, right?"
Jackie nodded, and in his eyes, a red light flickered slightly.
Next, the plot began to unfold as expected.
After a brief exchange between Yorinobu Arasaka and Adam Smasher, Saburo Arasaka, the head of the Arasaka Corporation, slowly walked down from the upstairs tarmac.
At this moment, both Jackie and V couldn't help but glance at Alex.
This guy was right!
Soon, Saburo Arasaka's bodyguard, Goro Takemura, and Adam Smasher left the room at Saburo's gesture.
The father and son began a conversation full of tension.
Apparently, Saburo Arasaka was very angry about Yorinobu stealing the Relic from the laboratory.
He looked at his son and said in a deep voice, "Do you know what you're doing next?"
"Handing over our achievements to the Westerners, our future to those savages?"
"This has nothing to do with the future!" Yorinobu retorted angrily: "Besides, who says the future is yours?"
"You only care about yourself! You and your twisted conspiracy!"
Saburo Arasaka was silent for a moment and then said without any emotion: "I knew this day would come."
"Your audacity would eventually cross my bottom line."
"I've always been tolerant with you, but betrayal... cannot be tolerated."
"I'm glad your mother didn't see this; she'd be heartbroken by disappointment..."
This sentence seemed to hit a nerve with Yorinobu.
The next moment, unable to bear it any longer, Yorinobu suddenly stretched out his hands and strangled Saburo Arasaka by the neck!
"Damn!"
Seeing the terrifying scene in front of him, Jackie hurriedly covered his mouth.
V was also stunned, looking at everything happening in disbelief.
"Now, you don't have to keep being tolerant!"
With an angry shout, Yorinobu's grip tightened.
Saburo Arasaka, an elderly man, couldn't compete with Yorinobu's strength.
In no time, Saburo Arasaka was completely silent.
The head of Arasaka Corporation, the world's largest military enterprise... was dead!
"This..." Both Jackie and V felt a chill run from their feet to their heads.
A bad premonition came to mind.
At this moment, both of them wished they had never appeared here.
They wished they had never witnessed a scene that could cost them their lives a hundred times over.
But just when the two were praying to the heavens that Yorinobu wouldn't find them, Alex, who had been silent, suddenly tapped the TV screen in front of him.
"Tap Tap Tap!"
In the quiet room, the crisp sound was so harsh.
Yorinobu Arasaka, who was silently staring at his father's corpse, turned his eyes like a vulture towards the back of the TV screen!