I know your reputation, Aguilar, but what I want to say is, against V, you're not up to par—rather than us going hard and making a mess of Dog Town, why not consider a win-win proposal?
Now, make a call to your boss and ask for his opinion, whether he wants to force me to mess up Dog Town, or change to someone else and keep everything as usual?
Aguilar pondered for a moment, but finally complied with Mercer's suggestion and made a call to his boss to confirm the situation.
However, before Aguilar could get a reply, Hansen approached from behind him with a cold face.
He didn't waste words, and a top-notch Netherworld Dog hacker he had newly recruited quickly launched a cracking program against V.
"Go!" As Hansen spoke, several Netherworld Dogs pulled the trigger on V without hesitation.
V's expression turned cold. At this moment, it didn't matter who Aguilar or the Cubans were. Without another word, she activated her armor.
[Mercer: Huh? Someone is hacking... Don't worry, leave it to me.]
V wasn't worried at all—as long as Mercer maintained her network connection with her, she wasn't afraid of anyone hacking her.
In an instant, three afterimages suddenly appeared in the field.
The first one was V, who charged out of the elevator like a hurricane, knocking the Cubans blocking her out of the way effortlessly, and this was with V deliberately holding back her strength and speed. Otherwise, these troublesome Cubans could have been smashed directly by her!
The second was Aguilar, who instantly turned into an afterimage, backing to the side, frowning and hesitating with a pistol in his hand.
The third was Hansen, holding a pistol in one hand and a short knife in the other.
"Are you going to watch me die, Aguilar!" Hansen only had time to say this one sentence before Aguilar immediately made a decision—yes, even though he hadn't received his boss's reply yet, he couldn't let Hansen be in trouble.
Thus, Aguilar acted without hesitation, pulling the trigger.
Faced with the incoming powerful custom revolver bullets, V merely flashed a disdainful smile under her helmet, her gaze fixed on Hansen, with a murderous intent almost overflowing from the helmet's visor.
"I've been sick of you for a long time!" V roared. The narrow corridor limited her dodging capability, but the defensive performance of her armor greatly enhanced her ability to bulldoze through in this confined space.
Hansen, under the state of Sianwistan, fearlessly exchanged blows with V, but the bullets would bounce off V's body, and the knife was knocked aside by her punch.
The smart submachine gun in her hand spouted tongues of fire, with electromagnetic bullets precisely hitting the Netherworld Dogs, who were caught off guard and completely unable to join this battle among speedsters.
However, to V's surprise, just before one of the Netherworld Dogs was hit, he also suddenly activated Sianwistan—ha, another hidden master?
As for the other Cubans, after activating the Frenzy System, they also boldly joined the fray.
This group of elite Cuban assassins' cybernetic enhancements were nothing like those of ordinary Netherworld Dogs; they were high-priced, crafted killing machines.
In an instant, V found herself in a disadvantageous one-versus-many situation, but under her helmet, she only grinned.
After emptying a magazine of the smart submachine gun, she casually hung it back on her holster. Amidst the hail of bullets, V made a few swift moves, and her arms suddenly sprang out two crimson Mantis Blades, directly piercing the Netherworld Dog soldier who had activated Sianwistan.
Yet, unexpectedly for V, the moment the blade went through the Netherworld Dog's chest, he gritted his teeth and grabbed her arms firmly.
"EMP!"
In the instant he shouted, the rest quickly dodged away like afterimages, while V, who was grabbed tightly, only had time to slam him against the wall.
In the moment the Netherworld Dog was violently crushed against the wall by V, an EMP pulse directly hit V's body.
Just before the EMP explosion, V's armor suddenly burst out a cloud of white smoke.
"Pssh..."
The white smoke exploded almost instantly, enveloping most of the corridor, with V's silhouette faintly visible, trembling under the EMP attack.
Aguilar instinctively activated the infrared scan of his prosthetic eye, then had to turn it off immediately, as the temperature of the white smoke was far higher than that of a human body.
Although the smoke obscured visibility, everyone started pulling the triggers of their weapons without hesitation.
For a moment, gunfire erupted.
The bullets from Hansen's pistol hit the silhouette's head continuously, making her head tilt and her entire body lean against the wall.
Aguilar, using less than a tenth of a second to think, aimed at V's legs, firing several bullets in succession, causing a crisp sound from V's knees.
The other Cubans also purposefully targeted V's joints with their weapons.
Until the smoke grew thicker, the blurred silhouette seemed to collapse to the ground, making a crisp clattering sound as the armor hit the floor.
"Is it resolved?"
Aguilar squinted, suddenly took out a hand grenade, and tossed it into the white smoke.
Afterward, the hand grenade that flew over was sent back from the smoke at an even faster speed.
Aguilar unhesitatingly used a companion's body to shield from the grenade blast, while Hansen's rich combat experience had him immediately crash through a door, diving into a room on the side of the corridor.