[Unstable Energy eruption countdown: 24 hours]
Smack! Smack! Smack!
Slaps landed mercilessly on Doom Doom's face.
"Mm!"
The claws of the Octopus Arms opened and closed before his eyes, clicking. An electronic voice sounded: "You're awake?"
"Huh?"
"Get ready to run. The NCPD has us surrounded."
"Who's talking!"
Lier glanced at the guy. "Did your brain get fried?"
"Oh, the NCPD. Those pain-in-the-ass busybodies again."
Lier looked at the scene and felt that things were getting tricky.
The situation now made it difficult to quietly deal with both the Night City Municipal Government and the NCPD.
From the very beginning, he'd planned to take everyone here with them-
Otherwise, he wouldn't have signaled to Jackie and V to save the mainframe. At first, he hadn't known that was Joestar's mother.
Forcing a disconnect might fry the brains of those still under control.
Of course, after that electromagnetic pulse, there weren't many survivors left.
After the preliminary treatment just now, 64 people in the server room had been disconnected from the mainframe's network. Besides them, there might still be a hundred or so laborers lying in the dark in the tunnels.
These people were easier to deal with, since the main black technology was the special Skill Shards in their bodies.
The difficult one was Joestar's mother.
Click, click-click-
Seeing Lier staring at the enormous mainframe, Doom Doom stood up on one leg and hopped over to him.
"Hey, could you deal with me first? It's going to be hard to run with just one leg."
"Even if you put it that way..."
Bang!
A mechanical arm linked to the mainframe suddenly pinned Doom Doom down, grabbed a prosthetic limb off some unlucky guy on the ground, and casually shoved it onto him.
Lier didn't stop it, because he'd realized that