It wasn't that the duration had expired.
All his cyberware had been forcibly shut down remotely.
Not just the nanomachines-none of his implants worked anymore.
Worse still, there were his bank accounts and his clearance within Arasaka.
They had all been wiped clean.
Goro Takemura nearly coughed up blood.
Decades of struggle and hard work, and he was right back where he had started.
Bullets sprayed wildly into the room over everyone's heads.
The room was shot to pieces.
Through his Tactical Goggles, Su Xiao pinpointed the enemies in different rooms on different floors of the building opposite.
The moment his Tactical Goggles locked onto their positions, Su Xiao stood up.
Bullets struck the Falcione, but only threw off showers of sparks.
Su Xiao fired several shots at the opposite building, then, without even checking the results, hauled V off the floor and dragged her toward the door.
"Get up, Jack! Move!"
After Su Xiao fired those shots, no more bullets came from the opposite building.
Goro Takemura poked his head up from beneath the window and looked across.
Every one of the enemies had been shot in the head and was already dead.
Every megabuilding was a little society of its own.
At this hour, it should have been bustling with activity.
But when Su Xiao, V, and Jack rushed out of the room, it was dead silent outside.
The corridor was deserted.
Farther away, the communal hall, normally packed with convenience stores, street stalls, and boxing gyms, was empty too.
V's and Jack's expressions darkened.
Su Xiao, however, calmly pointed toward the stairs.
"We'll take the stairs."
"But wouldn't the elevator get us to the ground faster?"
"It would also make us easier to ambush."
Neither of them argued anymore.
They followed behind Su Xiao.
V suddenly