Even if it's just for personal reputation, this is a good opportunity for Jefferson—he will definitely use his connections and funds to help Red Ochre and Adcardo's people find trouble with biotechnology.
Jefferson then thanked Mercer with a heavy expression after receiving the warning, found an excuse, and hurriedly left. Of course, before leaving, he didn't forget to exchange contact information with Mercer, ensuring that he would call Mercer after the investigation.
After parting with Jefferson, Mercer temporarily had no interest in contacting other people.
Executives from companies like Kangtao and Military Science actively sought Mercer to chat, but it's all boring stuff—not asking about the details of the weapons and equipment that Hansen boasted or probing whether he had any intentions to change jobs.
After Mercer smiled and dealt with these annoying guys, the time had already reached 10:30 PM.
He found Hansen and took the initiative to bid farewell.
"I need to go back and rest, Colonel Hanssen." Mercer finished speaking, and Hanssen maintained a decent smile while saying, "We will meet and have a good talk tomorrow morning at eight, right at the stadium."
"Alright." Mercer agreed, but looking at the smile on his face, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis.
He watched Hanssen's smiling expression, and after returning the smile, he slightly frowned and left the Gem Cyan Hotel with his companions to board his armored car.
"Phew, finally off work... Really annoying, being a bodyguard is much more troublesome than going out to work!" Rebecca complained, squeezing into a car with Mercer.
She was responsible for security near the main entrance on the first floor, and didn't get to watch a performance, didn't drink any water, and could only enviously watch Lucy in her beautiful clothes, walking around with her arm hooked around Mercer's as his female companion.
There's no telling how frustrated she felt inside.
Mercer could only helplessly move aside a bit—luckily the backseat space of the armored car was large enough, so squeezing inside wearing armor wasn't too cramped.
Lucy simply sat in the front passenger seat, and naturally, V was sitting in the driver's seat.
Mann and others drove two armored cars of Netherworld Dog, protecting Mercer from the front and back, with an additional Netherworld Dog escort car in front and behind each of their three cars.
A total of five armored cars left the Gem Cyan Hotel parking lot and headed towards the base.
"What's the deal with those Arasaka people?" V looked out the window, slightly frustrated: "We can't just stay on guard like this forever, can we? It's making us all anxious."
Mercer closed his eyes wearily: "Of course we can't just sit here and wait to die... I'm considering that we must relieve some pressure ahead of time."
"What's the plan?" V asked, curious: "We can't just charge into Arasaka Tower, right?"
"That's indeed very difficult, but... it might be possible to solve the problems on the Netherworld Dog side."
Mercer had realized that he couldn't delay any longer.
The more urgently Arasaka pushed, the faster Hansen would either sell him out or break off ties with him, and he suspected Hansen was already entertaining some crooked ideas, like the treatment given to Lark.
Instead of paying Mercer for work and cleaning up his messes,
why not find a way to control him, making him work for free?
Hansen's patience was likely running thin, and Mercer felt that for the sake of everyone's safety, he should better take action first, as it would be more controllable.
"Thinking about taking action against Hansen? Didn't you say earlier that the time hasn't come yet?" Although V said this, he seemed eager to get started, almost like he was ready to go.
"I also feel the timing isn't ideal right now. We can't completely take over Hansen's smuggling channels, nor have we found a peaceful way to transition control of Netherworld Dog.
But unfortunately, even if we have to pay a higher price afterward, it's crucial right now that Dog Town remains under our control."
Mercer said helplessly, "Even if this might lead to worse conditions in Dog Town, for us, we must choose one side and start taking action.
No matter what, as long as we can take over Dog Town and part of Netherworld Dog, we can smoothly shift the base to Gem Cyan or the stadium, and quickly develop the Little Beidou Facility, even openly bringing Military Science and Kangtao forces in, which is better than the current situation."
V grinned: "Then let's do it! I've long hated this dogshit boss who's constantly bossing us around. Who does he think he is? I want to see how these Netherworld Dogs compare to the Voodoo Gang!"
"Okay, I'll go back and pick a plan to implement today." Mercer said with his eyes closed, yawning: "And I need to chat with Hans, see if Hans can offer us some support."
"Watch out!" Suddenly, Mann's voice shouted through the intercom.
Everyone immediately turned to look and saw a burst of fire suddenly ignite from a high-rise on the side of the street.
"RPG!!!"