Songbird's hacking skills were truly formidable. Though she was still lying in the car across the street and had not entered the building with the others, the support she provided was anything but lacking.
The doors that were supposed to close and the alarms that were supposed to sound had all been cut off by her. Even the Arasaka soldiers with hackers hiding behind flowerpots, waiting to launch sneak attacks, had their brains burned out by her before they could act.
Jack and V had been a little nervous at first. Charging into Arasaka Tower meant facing a storm of gunfire, and the two bipedal combat mechs permanently stationed in the lobby alone were no easy opponents.
Though they were nowhere near as absurdly powerful as Militech's multi-legged Chimera war mech, these things were equipped with twin rapid-fire cannons and rocket launch systems. In just a fraction of a second, they could riddle a car until it exploded, let alone what those shells would do to a human body.
But things went far more smoothly than they had expected. Johnny Silverhand's little pistol always handled those things, and even when a combat mech suddenly dropped from the ceiling, Songbird hacked it in midair before it could touch the ground. The two of them started to feel as though they had come along just to make up the numbers.
Realizing that, they hurriedly fired a few shots at the still-moving Arasaka soldiers in the lobby. If they went on without a single kill to their names, it would be bad for their pride.
"Ding!"
The elevator arrived on the first floor from the upper levels. Su Ming had no idea whether these Arasaka Corporation people had Indian blood in them. The elevator was clearly not that big, yet one trip brought