Starting from Night City
Chapter 226

As long as the money's right, they really do show up when trouble hits (4K)

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"Biotechnology?"

"Yeah, fucking Biotechnology. Six fucking days of paid leave a year, and that's enough to put them third among Night City's five biggest employers, right behind Arasaka and Militech."

"So..."

"So? Jesus Christ, you really are a dumbass. I spelled it out for you, and you still don't get it? That means the other companies don't even give you those six days off. With work that intense and hours that long, how are you supposed to keep going without drugs?"

"Oh, oh, I get it."

"Then hurry up and get to work..."

The male Scavenger kept swearing.

But before he could finish,

his head suddenly felt weightless.

As though it had broken free of gravity and was suddenly unbound.

His last conscious glimpse was from above, looking down at his own headless body, still standing on the floor, as it slid down against the workbench.

Strange. That body looks a lot like mine.

With that thought, darkness swallowed his consciousness.

The female Scavenger saw the male Scavenger get beheaded.

Her expression changed.

She was just about to open her mouth and scream

when Jack clamped a hand over it.

He pressed his dagger beneath her jaw and dragged it across with force.

The female Scavenger's eyes looked ready to pop out of their sockets.

They were stretched wide.

Her body thrashed desperately, like a fish stranded on shore.

"This place is practically a drug den."

Once Su Xiao confirmed it was safe, Judy caught up from behind and took a look around.

She couldn't help exclaiming in shock.

Judy was right.

That was exactly what it was.

The place looked just like the drug labs in any movie about narcotics.

Only filthier, messier, and worse.

Su Xiao had heard that Militech handed out free drugs to its employees to

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