After David and Maine's crew members left, the workshop's heavy metal door slowly closed, temporarily shutting out the outside world's disturbances.
However, Osiris' processing core within his massive body did not cease operating due to the superficial silence. His 'indifference' to David's kidnapping was merely an external manifestation based on efficiency considerations.
In his logical judgment, a probationary apprentice who had not yet proven his worth, and a low-level conflict triggered by internal struggles within a local corporation, were not enough to interrupt his deep analysis of Bartmoss' neural structure model.
But this did not mean he was unaware of it.
Quite the opposite, from the moment David stepped into the Aqua Purifica clinic and his personal monitoring sub-program reported abnormal fluctuations in biological signals, a separate thread of Osiris' attention had already been diverted, like a silent ghost, infiltrating the intricate digital Veins of Night City.
He did not leave the control panel; his crimson optical lenses remained fixed on the microscopic structural map of Bartmoss' cerebral cortex.
However, several slender mechanical tentacles had quietly connected to the workshop's reinforced data interfaces.
His consciousness, or rather, a part of his highly developed logical processing core, had transformed into an invisible data stream, integrating into the city's vast information network.
His 'sight' first took over the municipal surveillance cameras around the clinic.
The pixelated images were reassembled and optimized in his processing core, presenting clear real-time footage: David entering the clinic, Rebecca and Lucy waiting anxiously outside, the unmarked black van leaving from the back door... This visual information, corroborated by the physiological data transmitted by the monitoring sub-program implanted in David, quickly constructed the basic outline of the event—a precise corporate-style kidnapping.
Then, his sensory tendrils spread along the data cables.
He easily bypassed Arasaka's seemingly stringent network defenses in the Seventh Logistics District.
These firewalls, considered top-tier by local standards, were as fragile as paper in the face of his data processing protocols, which were thirty thousand years ahead of this era.
He 'saw' the internal structural diagrams of the underground laboratory, and 'heard' Tanaka's encrypted communications with his subordinates regarding the 'cyber-titan (heavy solo cyberware project)' project and David.
He even accessed real-time surveillance within the laboratory, seeing David restrained on a medical bed, connected to various monitoring devices.
When Maine's crew launched their operation based on clues, intercepting Tanaka and engaging in a firefight with Arasaka security forces, Osiris' monitoring network expanded accordingly.
He simultaneously accessed and controlled multiple surveillance nodes, civilian communication base stations near the firefight area, and even the passive sensor data streams of several NCPD hovercars patrolling the nearby airspace.
In his consciousness space, these multi-source information streams were efficiently integrated, forming a three-dimensional, nearly real-time battlefield situation map.
He 'saw' Maine's crew returning fire accurately from behind cover, 'saw' the tactical movements of Arasaka security forces, and 'heard' commands and shouts in both sides' encrypted communication channels.
All of this was like an ant fight happening in a glass box, every detail calmly recorded and analyzed.
When Jenkins accessed Maine's crew's communications through an intermediary, Osiris naturally 'overheard' the entire process.
He was not surprised by Jenkins' compromise.
The corporate logic is to seek profit and avoid harm; after evaluating the potential losses that Maine's crew (or rather, the vague threat they represented) could cause against the value of a Technical Department director and a failed project, choosing to exchange was the option that maximized profit.
However, Osiris' processing core almost instantly deduced the chain reactions Jenkins' actions might trigger.
He immediately allocated a portion of his computing power to strengthen monitoring of Arasaka's internal encrypted communication channels, focusing on high-frequency data exchanges between the Japanese headquarters and the Night City branch.
As expected, shortly after the hostage exchange was completed, an encrypted data stream labeled 'Highest Priority / Headquarters Direct Order' reached the receiving end at the top of Arasaka Tower in Night City.
Osiris' intrusion program, like a bone-sticking ulcer, silently attached itself to this data stream, synchronously decoding the information within.
The data packet did not contain direct orders, but a series of stern inquiries: concerning the Night City branch's recent string of 'weak' performances, concerning the Counter-Intelligence Department's 'passivity' and 'incompetence' in handling 'external threats,' concerning the assessment of Jenkins' personal leadership abilities... The wording was cold, filled with displeasure from a higher authority.
Osiris calmly 'watched' all of this.
He saw Jenkins' reply messages attempting to defend himself and salvage the situation, but these messages were like stones sinking into the sea.
Immediately following was another directive from headquarters, even more concise, even more lethal.
The content was to relieve Jenkins of all his duties as Arasaka Night City Counter-Intelligence Department Director and to demand his immediate return to Tokyo for reporting and internal review.
'Liquidation procedure initiated,' Osiris' synthetic voice whispered in the empty workshop, as if recording an objective fact.
His monitoring network captured a brief abnormal fluctuation in Jenkins' vital sign monitoring equipment in his office when he was officially notified of his dismissal—that was the physiological reaction of fear and despair.
Subsequent developments were as if an acceleration button had been pressed.
Osiris 'saw' Jenkins leaving Arasaka Tower, 'escorted' by several headquarters-dispatched 'internal auditors.'
His surveillance even tracked the unmarked luxury sedan carrying Jenkins as it headed towards the port.
Surveillance cameras along the way were temporarily shielded by some authority for a few minutes, but when the signal resumed, Jenkins' vital sign signal had permanently disappeared from Osiris' monitoring list.
Combining the vehicle's stopping location with the subsequent record of an Arasaka-owned small freighter departing from the port, the conclusion was self-evident—Jenkins' body had been sunk into Night City's cold seabed.
Almost simultaneously, another liquidation order was issued, targeting Jenkins' capable subordinate, Valerie.
Osiris' monitoring network captured Valerie's flight arriving at Night City's spaceport.
The moment she passed customs and stepped into the arrival hall, her personal terminal screen suddenly turned red and locked, and all Arasaka permissions were remotely and forcibly revoked.
In the surveillance footage, Valerie's steps paused, her expression instantly freezing.
She almost immediately regained her outward composure, but Osiris, through his micro-expression analysis module, captured the sudden contraction of her pupils and the slight acceleration of her neck veins, revealing the inner turmoil.
She failed to leave the arrival hall.
Two corporate internal security personnel, disguised as greeters, quickly approached, blocking her path.
One of them whispered, 'Ms. Valerie, company orders, please cooperate with the handover.'
Osiris simultaneously intercepted the instructions in their encrypted earpieces: 'Confirm target. Execute 'termination' protocol, shut down all registered implants. Forcibly remove, eliminate if resisted.'
The moment her primary combat cyberware was remotely disconnected, Valerie, relying on the slight advantage provided by unregistered backup implants and her rich combat experience, fiercely counterattacked when the opponent reached out to grab her.
She swiftly pulled out a hidden small taser from inside her trench coat.
The battle erupted at the edge of the crowded throng, brief and deadly.
In the surveillance footage, figures rapidly crisscrossed.
A sudden gunshot cut through the noise—a security guard fired at close range.
The bullet accurately struck Valerie's left arm, and the immense kinetic energy instantly broke it.
Valerie grunted, her face pale, but she didn't stop.
She used the brief interval after the opponent's shot and the panic of the surrounding crowd, enduring intense pain, to taser the security guard who fired and then pushed the other one away.
She did not linger in the fight, immediately triggering a nearby manual fire alarm, and amidst the ear-splitting ringing, clutching her broken arm, she stumbled into the chaotic crowd, quickly slipping into an 'employees only' maintenance tunnel, exiting the main surveillance view.