What about V?
Stopping Sianwistan doesn't mean her combat capabilities are significantly reduced. With the aid of her armor, she doesn't even need to activate Krenzikov.
Purely relying on her superhuman reflexes, physical strength, combat instincts, and the electric drive boost from her armor, she can outrun ordinary enemies who've activated the Frenzy System!
Those gang members with synaptic acceleration prosthetics might still catch glimpses of V's shadow, but for those without cognitive acceleration prosthetics, V is scarier than a ghost.
They can only hear their comrades scream as they're being sliced to pieces by the Mantis Blade, yet can't see V's figure at all! All they can see is a flash of white light sweeping around, and the next moment, their shouting companions are dead all over the ground.
Even the hackers, whom the Voodoo Gang is so proud of, don't dare try to hack — because if V sees a hacking alert in her prosthetic eye, she'll trace the signal and directly chop off the hacker's head...
The Voodoo Gang members start fleeing desperately, and Mercer, using a drone, can even hear someone below crying out for mercy.
[Rebecca: Want to stop now? Looks like no one's fighting back anymore.]
Rebecca, feeling a bit soft-hearted, stopped the slaughter. She swung her axe blade, stood with one hand on her hip, watching the Voodoo Gang scatter, not quite wanting to shoot them in the back.
If these guys pointed guns at her, she wouldn't hesitate, but seeing them call for their moms, crying hysterically in complete breakdown, she felt a little compassion.
[Mercer: No worries, we don't have to kill them all. If you're tired, just come back and rest.]
Mercer's words made Rebecca breathe a sigh of relief. Though she sometimes looks wild and crazy in a fight, she's not a person who enjoys killing.
However, since Mercer said there's no need to kill them all, V wasn't interested in carrying out a massacre here.
So, with nimble movements, she flipped and landed on an armored vehicle with two blown tires, sharply scanning the surroundings. Once she confirmed no one dared to fire, she leisurely swung the Mantis Blade back.
[V: What about the second in command of the Voodoo Gang?]
[Rebecca: Uh... I seem to have punched him? I didn't hit any vital parts, I think...]
[Mercer: Don't bother looking, he's pinned under the vehicle, right beneath V's feet.]
V was taken aback, then jumped off the vehicle, crouched down, and made eye contact with Placid, who was clutching a gun and sweating profusely beneath the vehicle: "Hello."
Placid roared and pulled the trigger of his shotgun from under the vehicle, but V easily leapt away, dodging his shot before he could pull the trigger.
The shell hit nothing, and Rebecca casually walked over, bent down, grabbed the edge of the vehicle with both hands, and with a flip, the massively heavy armored vehicle was flipped aside, even rolling once more.
Placid cursed in Haitian, calling them 'bastards,' squeezing the shotgun trigger till it nearly broke — but as the shells hit Rebecca, she kept walking forward unharmed, grabbing him and pulling him out.
Placid's tall stature was meaningless in front of Rebecca at this moment. She effortlessly pinned him in front of her with just a grip on his arm.
"You're the Voodoo Gang's second in command? Oh, you should be the boss now... Why so cowardly, hiding under a car? I thought I accidentally ran you over."
Rebecca mocked — she didn't know why Mercer disliked him, but obviously, if Mercer disliked him, there must be a reason. So now, she also disliked him for no reason.
Placid cursed: "You dogs, where's Brigitte?"
"Already in hell waiting for you, don't worry, you'll join soon." Rebecca unceremoniously bent his arm and pushed him forward.
Placid tried to struggle, but it was useless. Rebecca's grip was like iron, as strong as a bulldozer. No matter how he struggled, he couldn't stop himself from being pushed towards the church.
V gestured to the surroundings.
[V: Lucy, Qiwei, can you confirm it's safe?]
[Lucy: The drones haven't detected any dangerous targets. The remaining folks can't wait to run out of Taiping Prefecture.]
[Qiwei: We won't enter, we'll keep an eye from outside, just in case Hua Tiao tries something. Be careful, though; with such a big commotion, even if the NCPD is being driven out of Taiping Prefecture, they can't completely ignore this.]
[Mercer: Doesn't matter, this place is close to Dog Town, we can just head back home.]
After this simple exchange, Pira, Lucy, and Qiwei stayed at a high vantage point to monitor the situation while the others quickly began to clean the battlefield.
Mann and others had already developed a professional recovery process for cleaning the battlefield.
They ignored cheap trash guns but took all the custom or valuable stuff. The money stored in the virtual wallet on a chip in each person's head was a bonus for whoever picked it up.
They'd selectively take valuable, well-shaped vehicles, even the armored vehicle Rebecca flipped over was set upright by Mann and driven off happily.