Aside from this, she also thought of a way to escape similar to the Dog Town DLC storyline in the game, which is to hack into the flight system of Miles' plane together with Mercer while Miles is on the plane.
Remotely control the plane to fly to Night City, and then near Night City, cause an 'accident' to make an emergency landing.
Mercer's tactful reply was—'Considering overall strength and personal safety, there is currently no plan to engage in a direct conflict with Military Science and New America.'
And if replying in a way that even V can understand, the wording would probably be: 'You idiot, are you trying to get me killed'?
After Lark passed the initial impatience period, she quickly realized that she seemed to be a bit too hasty and then settled down to find a reliable opportunity.
However, what surprised her, but gave Mercer a headache, was that this opportunity came much earlier and was much more troublesome than Mercer had estimated.
...
"What?"
Mercer looked at the surveillance screen projected in his prosthetic eye with a bit of helplessness, then sighed and fell into silence.
Venus dutifully played the surveillance footage and some key intelligence information for him.
On the screen, a Black man cautiously observed his surroundings and walked into a fast food restaurant, his figure then vanished.
The anti-surveillance program in his prosthetic eye was ineffective under Venus' decryption, and that face was clearly presented on the camera screen, enlarged by Venus, and then screenshot, accompanied by extremely detailed character information intelligence.
[Occupation: New America FIA Intelligence Agency Agent]
[Age: ...]
His character information brief was detailed enough to clearly state even the mission resumes he has completed before, and this was because under the active assistance of Lark, the mole, many intelligence agencies of New America and Military Science had long become one-way transparent under the decryption of the Sky Net System.
However, in fact, Mercer didn't need Venus' intelligence at all to recognize him.
This well-built Black gentleman was precisely the hidden agent from New America left in Night City, who was extremely professional and loyal in the game DLC—Li De.
Li De's appearance, strictly speaking, was not out of Mercer's expectations. In fact, aside from this New America agent, Mercer also secretly monitored many companies and forces that had arranged agents in Dog Town.
This group of agents thought they were collecting intelligence mysteriously in Dog Town, but in fact, today's Dog Town had long since become almost completely transparent in Mercer's eyes after Mercer came to power, a fully monitored area.
A monitoring network composed of various unmanned devices watches every street in Dog Town, every building, and even every part inside every building, almost without any blind spots.
Mercer never easily alarmed these agents, intelligence spies, but monitored them and selectively let them obtain information.
Keep in mind, if Mercer truly made Dog Town appear flawless, then some might not find it sustainable.
By secretly monitoring these agents instead, Mercer could even reverse-steal the intelligence of other forces, thereby monitoring in real-time their understanding and impression of him, which allowed Mercer to interact with these forces more smoothly.
Venus was showing Li De's surveillance footage to Mercer not simply because it discovered New America's agents.
Mercer's expression was solemn as he looked at the surveillance footage in front of him—after Li De walked into a seemingly ordinary fast-food restaurant, the surveillance footage's perspective suddenly shifted.
Following that, Venus showcased to Mercer the internal images of the restaurant Li De was in, masquerading as a closed-down fast-food restaurant.
This footage from a miniature surveillance spider robot clearly recorded how Li De entered the fast-food restaurant, how he used a retro wall-mounted phone to open a security elevator, and then entered a secret underground base from the elevator.
Inside the underground base of the fast-food restaurant, aside from Li De, unexpectedly appeared a plainly dressed middle-aged man and a woman in the surveillance footage.
Mercer tightly furrowed his brows as he observed the footage, while Venus immediately reported the identities of these men.
Undoubtedly, these two were also secret agents for New America.
The male agent wore glasses, appeared somewhat frail, was had a thin build, and dressed shabbily; on the street, he might look like a down-and-out homeless man.
[Name: Edward]
[Occupation: Senior Agent of Military Science Intelligence Department]
[Personal Resume: ...]
[Analysis: This agent is frequently dispatched to carry out advanced intelligence gathering and analysis work...]
Mercer glanced over and frowned as he asked: "Military Science? Generally speaking, FIA and Military Science agents usually wouldn't cooperate... Is it because of..."
"Yes, it's because of the Little Beidou Facility. This video detailed the mission goal and plan of the counterpart this time. Please make your decision quickly after reviewing the footage."
Venus said, fast-forwarding the footage and increasing the volume, quickly moving the footage to the critical time point for Mercer to watch himself.
Mercer watched the surveillance footage in front of him, on the screen, a woman among the three agents was presently showing some uneasy and restless emotions in the footage.
...
"Li De, do you know every corner of Dog Town is filled with cameras? We're still meeting up to talk... Damn it, I'm worried we're going to be scooped up by the Netherworld Dogs soon!"