"I heard you came equipped with Powered Armor."
"Yeah, engineering gear we picked up on the black market. Didn't expect it to be so flimsy. We left it downstairs."
"How many people does the Brain Maggot Gang have? Where did they get full-body Cyberware?"
"I don't know, but the Server is still downstairs. You can get someone to clear the place out. That's what the Arasaka Corporation does, after all. It shouldn't be a huge job, right?"
"Heh."
The Centaur Exoskeleton was essentially a type of heavy Exoskeleton. It was quite tall, reaching nearly two meters and twenty centimeters when worn. And because it carried both a large shield and a heavy weapon, it looked enormous.
But with Lier standing in front of the mech, he didn't seem small. On the contrary, the NCPD officers thought the mech looked a little small.
That was because Jackie was eating.
"What's going on? The way this guy eats is just like... just like the Badlands Cook."
Jackie, who was eating a nourishing meal, set his face in a firm expression, making him look even more serious.
Jefferson seemed a little displeased. Lier could tell.
He looked far better than before, when he'd been on the verge of needing another Stimulant injection at any moment, yet would still pass out after only a couple of sentences.
He also seemed more dangerous.
Lier currently had two other gigs: one was to investigate the Rogue AI Muramasa, and the other was to investigate the new source of supply on Night City's black market.
Strictly speaking, Jefferson was his employer in the matter of the Brain Maggot Gang.
Now Lier felt as though he were deceiving his employer-he had to conceal the Biological Mainframe.
After thinking it over briefly, Jefferson asked, "Did you find anything?"
"Yes.