Mercer stared at him and asked, "Is that thing with you, or with your boss... Ha, never mind, I'll ask you one last time, where's your 300,000 Euros?"
Royce's expression was somewhat grim as he stared at Mercer without saying a word.
"Could it be stored in cash?" Mercer asked.
Royce still didn't speak, but Mercer guessed the answer from the lie detector program's rough fluctuations in his head.
Mercer rolled his eyes, saying a little regretfully, "Looks like there's no chance to make some extra cash this time. V, do it."
Royce opened his mouth, unsure if he wanted to curse or beg for mercy.
But V had already pulled the trigger without saying a word, and with the shot, she only managed to knock Royce's head askew, not blow it up directly.
"Damn!" V cursed, then angrily pulled the trigger continuously, until Royce's head was thoroughly punched with several holes.
Rebecca laughed loudly, picked up her shotgun, and sprayed it at Royce's head.
The next moment, green and white splattered everywhere.
"See? I told you that old relic needs replacing. Even if you modify the caliber, it won't be enough," Rebecca boasted about her treasure with a laugh.
V, unwilling to concede, looked at her pistol: "Who's to say? I say it's the bullets. Just wait until I switch to armor-piercing rounds, with such a large caliber it'll blow his head apart with one shot!"
"Why bother with that? Why do you love playing with such relics? If you ask me, a large caliber revolver would be more useful than your gun. Your gun's model is fixed, you should know better than me the limits of its modifications."
After Rebecca finished speaking, V could only mumble, saying something about 'this is her first good gun', which made Rebecca laugh even harder, showing off her Iron Gall without end.
Bruce, on the other hand, watched in a daze—the two girls in front of him... didn't look like good people!
Machinery synthesis liquid was still steaming hot from Royce's head, and these two girls were already discussing how to improve murder weapons...
"Alright, can you still walk?" Mercer smiled, extending his hand to Bruce.
Bruce gritted his teeth and got up with difficulty: "Not bad, as long as it's not too fast."
"Then let's get out first, then we can talk about your matters. To be honest, I'm curious about a lot of things about you," Mercer said, as the prompt from Venus started flashing before his eyes.
[Venus: I suggest you start evacuating immediately, someone is coming.]
Venus pulled up the camera footage for Mercer—at the factory's main entrance, five Vortex Gang cars were passing through the gate.
From the camera's perspective, the driver's seat and co-driver seat of the head car had two familiar faces to Mercer, intentionally magnified by Venus for him to see.
"Time to go, the Vortex Gang's boss Brick and his second in command Dum-Dum are here."
Mercer reminded them, and Rebecca and V quickly extracted other Vortex Gang members' chips, which still added up to some cash.
"Bear with it," Mercer said, putting Bruce's shaky arm around his neck, helping him walk out, while Rebecca intended to help, but with her size, she might end up dragging Bruce along the ground.
Bruce truly was a hard man, missing an arm and with legs that seemed battered, yet at this moment, he was silent, quickly walking out with Mercer's help.
It was almost a close encounter with Brick's group—Mercer's group was just reaching the factory's back door from the employee passage as Brick's group arrived at the factory leading to the basement.
As expected, the scattered Vortex Gang corpses on the ground, taken care of by Mercer, immediately put Brick and his team on alert.
"Quick! Check the basement!" Brick shouted, glancing at the bodies on the ground, then promptly ordered loudly: "Get the ICE open now and have the hackers check the security system!"
As Mercer was helping Bruce out, he was also observing the factory's interior and exterior through cameras, and upon witnessing this scene, knowing he'd been exposed, he began transmitting viruses through the cameras immediately.
However, Brick was very vigilant, and as soon as he noticed any activity with his ICE, he immediately raised his gun and shot the far-off camera, interrupting the hacking process.
"Damn, be careful! Shoot down all the cameras!" Brick shouted: "There's a hacker! My ICE was almost breached! Be damn careful!"
After saying this, while shooting down cameras, Brick cursed: "The Voodoo Gang idiots told me my ICE program could withstand even a corporate hacker for ten seconds, damn, they were just bullshitting!"
The poor Voodoo Gang took the blame just like that.
As the Vortex Gang shot down all the cameras, Mercer lost his perception of the factory interior. He shook his head, without feeling regret. In fact, he had already tested Brick's abilities using the camera just now.
If he opened Brain-Machine Overclocking and Krenzikov, instead of using cameras and facing him directly, Mercer was confident he could inject a program into his system in about a second.
If the Vortex Gang's boss's level was only of this caliber in his eyes, then Mercer was very confident—more than 90% of the people in Night City, when facing him, would not stand a chance.