136. Walk Back
The NCPD had not been slow to arrive.
Even in the old Night City, the City Center NCPD had always had the fastest response times, and that had not changed even in Night City as it was now.
After all, as the most prosperous core district in the entire city, this place had always had the most ample police presence, and its personnel selection standards were far stricter than those in other areas.
As street punks and gang thugs would put it: if you caused trouble here, those NCPD bastards hit the fastest and the hardest. Keep causing trouble for a few more minutes, and they could call in the Special Operations Team and the Psycho Squad.
Of course, this incident at the restaurant was not a major matter to the NCPD. After all, no one had even fired a gun. According to procedure, it was merely a report from restaurant patrons that someone was blocking the road and attempting to rob the restaurant.
For a report like that, the NCPD had only sent one Rayfield Hera Enforcer, with a grand total of two patrol officers inside.
"Probably just some street punks causing trouble."
The NCPD patrol officers who arrived with that assumption clearly underestimated the situation. They had not even followed protocol and pulled up the road surveillance around the restaurant first before driving straight to the scene.
However, when they saw the burly men sprawled across the ground, unconscious, both of them sucked in a sharp breath and realized this had become a serious matter.
There were too many of them for just the two officers to handle casually.
Just as they were regretting their carelessness and about to press their communicators to request backup—
Their eyes suddenly fixed on the two figures standing amid