Since they were away from home, Su Xiao had specifically told the women before returning to his room not to undress, but to sleep in their clothes.
That was why both of them were able to come out immediately when they heard the noise outside.
The two women looked shocked at the bodies strewn across the corridor.
"They were assassins sent by the Salamanca Group," Su Xiao said calmly.
Although there were no obvious tattoos or insignia on their bodies, it took no brains at all to figure out that the Salamanca Group was definitely involved.
Footsteps sounded behind him just then. Jack had woken up too and come out of his room.
The moment he saw the bodies, he swore, "Fuck."
Jack looked grim.
In fact, aside from Su Xiao, who remained expressionless, Jack, V, and Lucy all looked grim.
They had thought that after they left Tijuana, the Salamanca Group would lose their trail and be unable to find them for a while.
Yet they had barely settled into this motel before the Salamanca Group's assassins crept up on them in the middle of the night.
"How did they find us? How did they know we were here?"
Jack simply could not figure it out.
Even if the Salamanca Group had guessed that Su Xiao and his companions were heading back to Night City and would therefore make for the border, how had they known so precisely that the group would spend the night at this particular motel?
After all, this was not the only motel along the highway from Tijuana to the border.
There were so many motels that the Salamanca Group's assassins would have had to search them one by one.
But that seemed impossible even to contemplate.
"Now isn't the time to worry about that,