"Something's happened! Something big! The priest is seriously injured! He's lying in the hospital right now!"
Su Xiao felt as if his chest had taken a heavy punch.
He was utterly shocked.
The priest had been attacked?!
And was lying in the hospital?!
How could this be...
Fixers in Night City sometimes fell victim to assassination attempts.
Most assassination contracts were issued by other jealous fixers, corporations, or members of rival gangs.
The success rate, however, was generally very low.
That was because fixers usually stayed inside their own bases.
Unless someone launched a gang war, it was extremely difficult to take down a base that was practically a small fortress.
Even when a fixer had to leave...
The roads in this city crisscrossed in every direction.
How could an assassin know which route the target would take and set up an ambush in advance?
Unless...
There was a traitor among the priest's men.
"What exactly happened? How did the priest get seriously injured? What was he planning to do?"
Marcus asked with an ugly expression.
"The priest planned to go to Wolf Bar today. The driver, Carlo, took leave, so I drove the priest instead. When we reached an intersection, those Sixth Street Gang bastards had already set up an ambush there."
"First, they used a truck to force us into a flower shop. Then an assassin disguised as a shop assistant shot the priest straight in the heart."
Su Xiao immediately felt that the person who had taken leave was highly suspicious.
"That driver, Carlo, is involved. Have you found him?"
"Before he was shot, the priest said the same thing. But when we gathered a few brothers and stormed to the apartment where Carlo lived, we found that the bastard was already dead in his bathroom. Nearly