"Looks like some people are tired of living."
"My hands are itching just right."
The Maelstrom boys' attitudes had already changed. Several of them silently stood up, subtly surrounding Berry and Johnny.
But this did not intimidate Johnny and Berry.
Are they even human, for crying out loud?
Berry has been in the Jianghu for so long, nicknamed Night City's Sweetest Little Strawberry. The lives she's taken, if not thousands, are at least a hundred or so, with a KDA that's almost the best of the year.
What kind of nobodies are you few drug-smoking Maelstrom members?
Dealing with you is like playing on baby difficulty; it's a piece of cake.
As for Johnny, she's even more significant.
What's a Night City Bomber? A true Punk Landmine Girl.
The kind that, once she latches onto you, you can never shake off.
Have you been to the cemetery on the outskirts? At least a third of it is her handiwork.
Facing the threats of a few small fry, Berry didn't even feel nervous; she even wanted to laugh.
Now it wasn't Maelstrom surrounding them, but them surrounding Maelstrom.
This was a kind of confidence.
Berry glanced at the Maelstrom members, generously forgiving their offense, thinking it would be better to have a lower KDA today. After all, they were here to find someone; she wasn't a living Yama King who had to clear the map everywhere she went.
Berry, in her life, wasn't fond of fighting, only fond of resolving fights.
"Johnny, don't get excited. Let me deal with these guys."
Just as Johnny was about to draw her gun to give these guys an unforgettable lesson, Berry placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I say, you guys, instead of futile resistance, how about you honestly take us to see your boss?"
"Who's in charge now? Royce's old head is shattered into pieces, so it's definitely not him. Is it Brick? Or some new figure that's emerged?"
"You motherfucker!"
Berry wanted to resolve the issue peacefully through diplomatic means, but Maelstrom didn't seem to think so.
Hearing this short person talk boastfully about Maelstrom, several of them immediately flew into a rage, raising their guns to teach these two bitches a lesson.
"Bang!"
"Ah!"
Before he could even raise his gun, the intense pain in his hand made the Maelstrom member scream and let go, his rifle clattering to the ground.
And Berry, the muzzle of the revolver held at her waist, was still faintly emitting white smoke.
A wicked smile played on her lips, but her eyes were incredibly cold.
Trying to outdraw a Gunman was definitely a mistake.
Berry made the Maelstrom member opposite her understand this firsthand.
In less than 0.1 seconds, she could draw and shoot, which for others was just a blink of an eye.
In others' eyes, it was terrifying.
But Berry called it efficient.
"What the hell do you want?"
The Maelstrom members, looking at the dark muzzle in front of them, were clearly intimidated and dared not make any more moves. Although their minds were abnormal, they weren't stupid enough to provoke a quick-draw Gunman at such close range.
"I told you, take me to your boss. I'm just picking someone up, not looking for trouble."
This is your 'not looking for trouble'?
Looking at the gun pointed directly at him.
Covering his numb hand, the Tyger Claw Ganger thought angrily.
Among the few, he was perhaps the one who most directly felt the threat of the short person in front of him. In the blink of an eye, the gun was knocked out of his hand, and now here he was, being held at gunpoint, with a deadly bullet ready to burst out at any moment.
"I advise you to be honest. Of course, you can also take a gamble. I still have five bullets in my gun, and there are four of you. Maybe you can bet that some unlucky fellow will make me use more than two bullets consecutively."
The Maelstrom Gangers looked at Berry's confident face with uncertainty, not daring to take the gamble.
But they also didn't dare to speak casually. If their boss found out they were humiliated like this right at their doorstep, he would flay them alive.
Just then, with a 'whoosh', the electronic door on the stairs opened, and a female Maelstrom Ganger emerged from inside. A large cybernetic eye on her exposed mechanical face components glowed red, scanning the area below.
"You two, the boss wants to see you. Come up."
After speaking with her arms crossed, the Maelstrom Ganger waited for their reply.
"Just let them go?!"
"Shut up, you bunch of useless idiots, making fools of yourselves right at the doorstep. Get out of the way."
Being reprimanded like that, the Maelstrom Gangers glared angrily at Berry, then grudgingly moved aside.
"Phew, at least there's someone reasonable."
Berry twirled her revolver around her finger and slid it back into its holster.
"How about it? I told you we could resolve it peacefully."
Berry mischievously winked at Jiaoni.
"Childish."
Jiaoni gave Berry a sidelong glance and walked up the stairs. Her light remark made Berry feel as if she had swallowed a fly.
Tsk.
Berry narrowed her eyes, staring unhappily at Jiaoni's retreating back.
This old geezer, ever since her revival, hasn't said a single nice word.
I should have just made you into a smart toilet instead of a Chassis...
"Whoa, that's the guy from the All Foods Factory incident."
"Are you kidding? If it's her, why is she here? Does she have a death wish?"
"She's the one who killed Royce. I didn't see wrong."
Walking down the corridor on the second floor, the Maelstrom Gangers along the way looked at Berry as if they had seen a ghost.
"What, have you dealt with Maelstrom before?"
Seeing the Maelstrom Gangers' uncertain gazes, Jiaoni frowned.
"Of course, old acquaintances. Royce, their former boss, and I had a deep,'shed blood and sweat' kind of friendship."
Berry nodded in agreement.
Below on the left, the large dance floor on the first floor was where the piercing noise originated.
Blinding red lights bathed the dance floor in a hazy glow, with dense figures reaching out and twisting, howling as they moved. On the slightly raised stage in the center, several spider-eyed figures, whose eyes were brighter than lanterns, played instruments that spewed fire with the rhythm, making ear-splitting wails and bringing the audience to wave after wave of climax.
Berry finally had a firsthand experience of what 'demons dancing in chaos' meant.
This was truly poking the Maelstrom's hornets' nest.
Turning the corner, a small viewing platform on the second floor, overlooking the dance floor, had low tables and a few sofas. Several guards stood in the corners, and a burly, modified muscleman sat in the middle, his face full of impatience.
Beside him, a woman in a fitted blue shirt, completely out of place with her surroundings, was asking the muscleman questions and jotting things down in a notebook.
Ignoring the woman, Berry immediately recognized the guy with his upper body bare, his rock-like muscles covered in cybernetic tubes and bolts.
Wasn't that the unlucky guy she and V rescued from the All Foods Factory?
The guy named Brick.
The former Maelstrom boss, who was betrayed by Royce and locked in a dark room for some 'imprisonment play'.
But it seemed he was doing well now. It looked like Brick had regained his position as the Maelstrom boss.
Berry had heard that Maelstrom was in a civil war, but she hadn't expected Brick to emerge victorious in the 'battle royale'.
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