Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 260 22. Even if it is Karl

Karl walked out the door and took the elevator up, but he felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong.

There was no one in the elevator and it ran smoothly, but after entering the elevator, there was a constant feeling of being watched, as if Karl had been stared at.

Is it an illusion?

Carl didn't find any surveillance cameras in the elevator, but he trusted his feelings.

This is not an illusion.

He was targeted.

Is the speed so fast?
As expected, I have to tell Mr. Kenichi Shiro when we meet, to see if he can use the same high-level precautions as Haruko when communicating with me.

We chatted for less than a minute, and the content was not made clear, but it was still noticed by some people.

Or could it be that those people who were watching him through unknown means were originally agents deployed around him by those people, and were just activated at this time?

Carl didn't know what exactly happened, but he was very clear about one thing.

This group of people are not even afraid of Mr. Kenichi Shiro, who is the vice president. They are no longer ordinary traitors and must be dealt with severely.

"Tick."

When Carl's elevator reached the 44th floor, he heard an extremely slight "tick-tick" sound while ascending. This tick-tick sound was very similar to the sound of a swinging clock, but in this city where old-fashioned clocks are rarely used, this tick-tick sound only symbolizes one thing.

ticking time bomb.

It’s calculated.

Carl's expression changed as he looked at the time bomb that had just reached the floor he had just ascended to and appeared at the elevator door, with the time already reaching zero.

"The elevator is broken. According to the efficiency of the building management, it will take many days to repair it."

The elevator of the super skyscraper where Carl is located is not fully enclosed. It looks more like an iron cage from the outside. Now, Carl is imprisoned in this iron cage and can only watch the time bomb outside the cage explode.

"pong——"

The explosion, accompanied by debris and flames, swept towards Carl and engulfed him.

“Crack, bang!”

With the sound of the elevator's wire rope breaking, the entire twisted elevator car rapidly fell downwards. Falling from the 44th floor, this twisted iron cage elevator would turn everything inside it into a ball of squeezed scrap metal.

No one can survive this, not even Carl, the top mercenary in Night City.

"The communications of the personnel responsible for intercepting the goods in the Bad Land have been interrupted. Carl may have obtained something. This matter cannot be exposed. We cannot let these things be known to anyone other than us."

An Arasaka agent who was personally supervising all of this on the 44th floor said with a grim expression, "Prepare for a second verification, go downstairs, and destroy the body."

"Humph, the famous mercenary KK, it seems, is just like this. Imprisoned in a cage, he is just a pigeon that can't flap its wings and can't fly."

Beside this Arasaka agent, there was a surveillance team of ten people. The leader of the surveillance team showed a hint of contempt for such a smooth development: "If we had known that he was so easy to kill, we should have done it earlier. In this way, the others inside the Arasaka Tower might have a chance to escape because of the failure to clean up Adam's heavy hammer in time." "Stay vigilant."

Agent Arasaka did not show any contempt like his colleagues. They were transferred from other parts of America by various means due to lack of personnel after the cleanup of Arasaka Tower. What they knew about Carl was only through some videos. They had never faced Carl in person and did not have a deep understanding of how terrifying Carl was.

Although he also did not think that Carl could survive such an explosion and elevator crash, deep down, the commanding Arasaka agent still had some respect for Carl as a strong man, and this respect prevented him from feeling contempt.

This mercenary named KK, if faced head-on, would be a terrifying existence that could possibly kill them all within ten minutes. Today's explosion was only based on their deliberate planning and advance preparation. It was nothing to be looked down upon.

More importantly, it is to verify death.

Kenichi Shiro would soon realize that Carl was dead, and they had to hurry downstairs to make sure not even a trace of Carl was left.

"Go downstairs for the second verification. Sigh, I have to walk another long way."

The leader of the Monitor Combat Team shrugged his shoulders and led his team towards the elevator shaft: "My team members and I will use the elevator shaft to jump down one floor at a time. You can just walk down slowly."

Listening to the words of the combat team leader, the agent frowned but said nothing.

Because in terms of rank, he and the other party are on the same level, and even some of the other party's unimportant positions are higher than his. If there is no inferior overthrow of the superior in Arasaka, then even if the superior is just slightly higher, it can overwhelm all the other party's words.

Of course, not saying anything doesn't mean that the agent is not dissatisfied with the leader of the combat team.

The other party has an impressive resume. He has completed 24 combat missions in South America, 14 important rescue operations, eight attempts to prevent invasions by other companies, and one group annihilation war. He is considered one of the best fighters in South America. He usually thinks that he is no worse than some people who are praised to the sky. Now that he has easily solved KK, it has further boosted the other party's arrogance. If this continues, the other party may no longer take their superiors seriously.

He has to report this matter back.

Just as the agent was thinking this, he was patted lightly on the back.

Almost instinctively, the agent turned his head, and when he was halfway through, he suddenly realized.

The people on this floor had been cleared out in advance by them using various means. For the past month, there have only been their people on this floor. The stairs had been blocked before the battle. Now that everyone had gone to the elevator in front, who else could pat their shoulders?

the answer is.

Carl.

No one could survive a falling, twisting elevator, not even Carl.

This is true. If we exclude characters like Adam Hammer and add the constraint that Carl cannot tear open the iron cage bars, it is indeed true.

An elevator that keeps breaking down and is of such poor quality, who can expect that it's made of solid, unwarped iron, right?
"You are the ones spying on me."

Carl smiled despite the terrified faces of the Arasaka agents and the incredulous gazes of the combat team members who suddenly turned around.

Seriously, running away at the limit was too much effort, and now all the nerves in my body hurt.

This pain must be returned.

(End of this chapter)