"Lower your weapons. They're on our side."
Meredith walked up from the back of the crowd.
Only after she spoke did the soldiers lower their weapons.
Most of the soldiers scattered to search the other areas.
Only a few remained where they were to protect Meredith.
Meredith walked past the Walking Mech, now nothing but a heap of scrap, and couldn't help giving it a few extra looks.
Shock flickered in her eyes.
Of course she recognized this mech. It had been part of the cargo aboard the hijacked Militech convoy.
Su Xiao and the others still had all their limbs intact.
They had actually torn a mech apart with their flesh-and-blood bodies without suffering a scratch.
It reminded Meredith of what Su Xiao had said in the drainage channel beneath the overpass: a mere gang would be no problem.
Now it seemed he really hadn't been bragging.
With abilities like that, becoming a Night City legend was only a matter of time.
"I admire your skills. What do you say? Interested in working for Militech?"
She said Militech.
But what Meredith really wanted was to bring Su Xiao's team under her own command.
"Sorry, I'm not interested in working for a corporation. I've always been used to doing as I please. I don't like being under anyone's thumb."
Militech might have been a big name, but joining it, especially its security forces, wasn't necessarily a promising career choice.
Militech and Arasaka were mortal enemies.
Since the turn of the millennium, Militech and Arasaka had fought two massive wars: the Fourth Corporate War and the Unification War, sometimes called the Metal War.
Some might ask, wasn't the Unification War launched by New America to unify North America?
Yes.
But also no.
As mentioned earlier, New America's president was Militech's former