The Mackinaw was parked by the roadside. Unlike the Legend Mackinaw, this was just an ordinary, enhanced Mackinaw.
It looked unremarkable, except that the body was a little tougher and the seats were a little softer.
Lier slid into the driver's seat and slammed the door shut.
"Get in. You don't want passersby seeing you, do you?"
The passenger door opened, and the person who got in was none other than Bryce, the Network Watch liaison for the Burger King Squad.
The vehicle's electronic rearview mirror had already spotted the Agent under Little Octopus's "Sentry" mode. He had been waiting for a while.
The Network Watch Agent looked even more haggard than before. The recent changes in Night City had clearly increased their workload, especially yesterday's Blackout.
Santo Domingo was a poor district, but it also had industrial areas that were still running. The economic damage caused by an EMP on this scale was simply incalculable.
Those small companies and factories weren't much on their own, but together, they were important customers providing profits to the corporations above them.
And that corporation happened to be Night City's local kingpin: Night Corp.
Bryce pinched the bridge of his nose, leaned back against the Mackinaw's seat, and closed his eyes as if to relax.
Lier glanced at him and saw that his hands were covered in many noticeable needle marks-
The thing was, high-end pneumatic injectors used air pressure to inject medication. The liquid was forced into the skin under high pressure and seeped into the capillaries, making it essentially a needleless injection.
As a Network Watch Agent, Bryce had spent a fortune hiring Lier before, but he definitely wouldn't use shoddy equipment.
Even so, his hands were still pitted from repeated injections. It was easy to imagine how frequently he'd been