For Xu Shi, what he had experienced today hardly counted as a major incident.
So he did not make a fuss about it—not even about the Hexagram Assassin Lin Wenhua had sent. It was as though none of it had ever happened.
But for everyone else in Serpent Coil, things were not necessarily so easy.
In just three days, nearly a third of the board members had suffered assassination attempts to varying degrees.
Night City's relatively peaceful environment over the years had dulled many people's sense of danger.
But after hearing that Shark Tooth's two heirs had been attacked one after another, those in high positions immediately raised their guard. Whether at home or outside, they arranged higher-level security measures.
Yet they still could not guard against attacks from the shadows. Several people failed to escape the assassins' sudden, precise strikes.
Anyone with eyes could tell that this was the fallout from Xu Shi and Lin Wenhua's clash, and they had been caught in the crossfire... There had long been no possibility of reconciliation between the two, yet neither seemed willing to be the first to lay everything bare.
Help, was it still too late to resign?
That said, the lower-ranking employees actually had less to worry about. They were just workers, after all. They were not even important enough to be scorched by this fire.
When they talked about it after meals, they were actually rather excited. Those capitalist dogs deserved to die.
But after enough discussion, everyone noticed a problem.
The assassinations targeting the conglomerate's upper ranks did not succeed every time, and the assassins inevitably left behind a few traces.
Several members on the fringes of the board chose to hand them over to the Inspection Bureau, but the information they provided suggested... that these all seemed