The bullet passed through the middle-aged manager's head. Bewilderment and disbelief still lingered on his face, but once the chip in his brain and his cybernetics stopped functioning completely, his thoughts and confusion vanished with them.
Not even Beigong Ling had time to react, let alone the victim himself. The president of the Yinghua Chamber of Commerce stood stunned for several moments after the gunshot. When he recovered, his expression darkened instantly, veins bulging on his forehead as though he could barely contain his fury.
They had still been negotiating, yet the other party had overturned the table without a word. If not for the man's status, he would already have ordered his men to seize him.
That shot shattered the stalemate, but the people from the Yinghua Chamber of Commerce did not act rashly.
Their boss had yet to give an order, after all, so they could hardly make that decision themselves.
"So you're dropping all pretense, then?"
As the saying went, even a mighty dragon had to respect the local snake. Jonas Wetting had trampled their chamber's dignity into the dirt again and again. He was looking down on them far too much.
The Alt Conglomerate isn't the only power in District 25. What gives you the nerve to act so arrogantly?
Despite those thoughts, he did not let his anger cloud his judgment.
Jonas had always been high-profile, but he was certainly not reckless. In a situation like this, with only a secretary accompanying him, the Yinghua Chamber of Commerce really could make him pay dearly if they disregarded the consequences.
And considering what Jonas had just said about coming here over the Huacheng People... he began to form a few suspicions about the matter.
Although these Huacheng People had no backing, they occupied a very unusual