Wilton Holt
Night City's vice mayor and a leading candidate for the next mayor—was dead?
Even Carl froze for a moment when she heard the news.
"What exactly happened?"
She got into the aerodyne driven by her subordinate, connected to the current upper echelons of Dogtown, and questioned the subordinate beside her, who was responsible for intelligence work.
This subordinate had come from Arasaka Counterintelligence and now worked in Dogtown's intelligence department. Even after changing workplaces, he retained an intelligence officer's distinctive sharpness. He had personnel stationed everywhere, which was why he had come to report to Carl the moment he received the news.
This subordinate understood very well whom he should report to first. Carl was the first among the leadership to learn of the news—but everyone knew that before long, this bombshell would sweep across all of Night City.
Carl had to uncover the truth first and prepare accordingly.
After all, Wilton Holt's death was no small matter.
"According to the information we received, a cyberpsycho assassinated Wilton Holt."
"A cyberpsycho?"
Listening to her subordinate's report, Carl felt that this sounded strangely familiar.
Back when she and Wilton Holt had discussed how to make former mayor Lucius Rhyne lower his guard, they had used the same tactic. But that time, it had merely been meant to conceal their true objective—an assassination destined to fail. This time, though... that was harder to say.
"Do you have any detailed footage? Send it to me so I can take a look."
"My apologies, ma'am. The incident happened only three minutes ago. We still need to obtain the relevant footage through certain channels. At present, we only have the Night City Police Department's records, which may not be enough to fully reconstruct the scene. We need a little more time."
When Carl