"Heh heh..." Rebecca relaxed, holding the Iron Gall, not angry about him knocking on her head, but just focused on the street, "Good! Watch closely!"
Mercer grunted in response, taking off his jacket in advance and sitting up straight.
The pre-activated cooling system started to hum until a luxury two-seater appeared in view, and then Mercer's Prosthetic Eye began to flicker with light.
Once all three cars entered within Mercer's 32-meter range, he decisively acted, sending a full-throttle Sorcery Puppet Virus to the last car and a brake-locking virus to the middle car.
After deploying the viruses, Mercer focused intensely on the open window of the lead car, clearly seeing a middle-aged white man sitting in the front passenger seat.
"Alert."
As Mercer's words fell, Rebecca suddenly kicked open the slightly ajar car door, without hesitation pulling the trigger of the Iron Gall in her hand.
Because as soon as Mercer finished speaking, as he began hacking, John Will sitting in the luxury car's passenger seat, full of murderous intent, looked over, and at a speed invisible to the naked eye, drew a pistol aimed at Mercer's direction.
At this moment, Mercer, Rebecca, and John Will all entered an accelerated state. What was a second to ordinary people was drawn out to five, six, or even longer sensory seconds for them.
Rebecca's Krenzikov had already been pushed to the highest gear, and the Frenzy System began enhancing her muscles with nanotechnology.
The force surging from the Gorilla Arm even allowed her gun-drawing speed and firing speed to exceed that of the fully-accelerated Sianwistan!
The powerful Iron Gall fired a shot; because John Will had opened the window, the car's bulletproof system was nothing more than a facade.
The bullet flew unimpeded through the front passenger window, directly blasting the driver into a pile of flesh sticking to the driver's seat!
As for John Will?
Less than 0.1 seconds after Rebecca fired, he raised his pistol to retaliate, simultaneously ducking, opening the car door, and at an incredible speed, jumped out of the car, starting to run in an S-pattern down the street.
With one hand holding a pistol and without even glancing at Rebecca, he relentlessly pulled the trigger in Mercer's direction, his firing speed so rapid that the gunfire sounded like a string of firecrackers to an ordinary person.
His other hand flicked out a Mantis Blade, aiming at Rebecca, preemptively slashing out.
Rebecca's small face had a grim smile. Her shotgun required cycling the action before firing again, demanding she master the timing of her shots.
She didn't immediately follow up because she realized John Will's target was directly Mercer, so after firing the first shot, she promptly lunged to close, or rather slammed shut, the car door with her foot.
John Will's bullets clanged against the car door; the bulletproof glass and body allowed his pistol only to create a few cracks in the glass. One bullet that did penetrate was severely slowed.
Mercer, equally accelerated to the extreme at this moment, merely tilted his head slightly to dodge.
John Will gritted his teeth, wanting to change direction and break through to eliminate Mercer first, but then his expression suddenly changed.
The scarlet words 'Hacked' and 'ICE Disabled' flashing in his eyes seemed to stop his heart in the rapid game of speed.
"Impossible! My military-grade ICE..."
Before he could finish, a shotgun was shoved into his mouth, Rebecca laughing wildly as she pulled the trigger, while John Will could only watch the world return to normal speed due to his suddenly shut down prosthetic body.
Rebecca's trigger pull was the last image John Will's brain recorded before he died.
"Boom!"
The violent shot from the Iron Gall blew John Will's head apart, yet his body, not freed from Sianwistan's momentum, continued forward.
After just one step, the headless corpse lost balance, striking the car body, pathetically bouncing off as if hit, rolling far away.
Meanwhile, those remaining in the two cars from the Sixth Street Gang hadn't even figured out what had happened.
Mercer maintained his Brain-Machine Overclocking but disabled the Synaptic Accelerator, exhaling lightly while quickly uploading Sorcery Puppet to the opposing group.
As for Rebecca, her task was much simpler.
Standing beside Mercer's car door, holding the Iron Gall, she aimed at the two cars—one losing control and slamming the brakes in place, the other having its uncontrolled throttle crash into the car ahead—and relentlessly pulled the trigger.
The front car's occupants were obliterated by Rebecca's two shots shattering the window, three shots the cabin, while those in the rear car, unable to even retaliate, convulsed, sparking with electric fire, burning within the car.
When Mercer took control of the three cars, and Rebecca, carrying her gun, went over to check, all three cars, nine people, became nothing but a scene of tragic corpses within less than five seconds.
"Woohoo!" After Rebecca confirmed that all targets were eliminated, she excitedly returned to high-five Mercer, only to find out when she pulled the car door...
That just moments ago, in her urgency to close Mercer's door, she applied too much force. The door closed all right, but it also got welded shut...
But Rebecca, with a quick thought, simply applied her strength in another miracle, directly pulling the door off, and after sitting in the passenger seat, she used her strength to 'reattach' the door.
"Good thing this car isn't worth much..." Mercer remarked, "Next time, I guess I should get you a detachable door, so it's easier for you to carry it off."
Rebecca thought of the scene of holding the door, laughing heartily: "Wouldn't that be great! It's like having a bulletproof shield; how cool is that?"
Mercer stepped on the gas — this car, an old model he urgently picked up from Old Captain, lacked a system for stable vehicle control, thus unable to enjoy Polaris' autonomous driving.
"Now... Shall we go to the casino?"
Rebecca took a deep breath, the Iron Gall's heated barrel still wisping smoke.
"Mm." Mercer nodded, meeting her gaze: "To the casino, for your revenge."