Even if that old fox had one foot in the grave, he would never personally test an unfinished product.
That bespectacled bastard in a suit was still lying, even now!
He really was an Arasaka lapdog, scheming every second of the day!
"Su, leave him to me. I may not look it, but I know a hundred ways to make him talk."
Johnny Silverhand's mechanical eyes whirred, glowing a dangerous red.
Lucy also gave Su Xiao a questioning look.
As long as Su Xiao agreed, she would enter Herman's Cyberbrain and dig up everything, right down to his childhood memories of wetting the bed.
Su Xiao shook his head gently, signaling for Lucy to be patient.
As a high-ranking Arasaka executive, Herman would definitely have a specially reinforced Cyberbrain.
Trying to pry information out of his brain would very likely trigger countermeasures that would burn out his Cyberbrain to protect the information.
All corporate executives were like that. They had signed confidentiality agreements, and this was also a means of preventing executives from defecting and causing their companies enormous, irreversible losses.
Information was important, but Herman's technical expertise was equally valuable.
So as long as there were other options, it was better to keep Herman alive and lucid.
Herman had no idea what Su Xiao was thinking. Seeing the looks Su Xiao and Lucy exchanged, he thought they were about to do something to him and immediately panicked. "No, that's not it. Please don't misunderstand. I don't know."
"Do you not know, or do you just not want to tell us?"
"I really don't know."
"All right."
Herman froze.
He had thought Su Xiao would keep grilling him until he got to the bottom of it.
But that was it?
Was he really that easygoing?
Clinging to a glimmer of