After Balom sent the suit man away, others quickly found him.
But unfortunately, none of these commissions could move him.
Balom didn't care that he didn't receive the ideal commission, so he left Afterlife, planning to check again tomorrow.
But just as he walked out of Afterlife, his system interface suddenly showed an abnormality, and then the entire system malfunctioned, and a powerful electric shock burst from the back of his head.
The current swept through his entire body, his system was completely out of control, his limbs lost control, and his whole body seemed to be frozen in place.
"Buzz!"
Accompanied by a crisp sound, a high-speed energy beam cut through the air and shot directly at Balom's leg.
It was a bullet from a Tech Sniper Rifle.
Balom's leg cyberware was instantly penetrated and damaged, and he fell towards the ground, having lost his support.
At this moment, a powerful recovery ability allowed him to regain partial control, and Balom was about to activate Sandevistan to counterattack.
However, the two combat experts who appeared behind him completely extinguished the flames of his counterattack.
Two shotgun barrels had long been pressed against his hands, and the powerful close-range firepower, carrying huge kinetic energy, instantly scrapped his hands as well.
Just like that, Balom's proud cybernetic limbs became useless in a short moment.
Balom, who had lost all mobility, fell directly to the ground. At this moment, Sandevistan was successfully activated, but it only sped up his worm-like wriggling.
Balom struggled to lift his head, only to see the suit man who had just been in Afterlife right before his eyes.
"Damn it! The chip you gave me is problematic, you beastly thing, I'm going to kill you."
It was clear that the virus program that had caused the system abnormality had infiltrated at the moment the chip was inserted.
And it was precisely this terrifying virus program that made him lose the chance to counterattack. Sandevistan, which was installed on his body, didn't even have time to start before his limbs were disabled.
Balom let out an unwilling roar, but the accelerated words under the activated Sandevistan state only made him appear more comical.
Balom couldn't imagine that someone would ambush him with a virus. Not to mention why they would target him, but this kind of highly concealed and intensely virulent neuro-virus was not something ordinary people could produce, which was why he fell for it.
"Test subject target successfully captured, requesting withdrawal."
Ignoring Balom, the suit man spoke to his communicator, giving instructions.
The two combat experts behind him stepped forward, lifted him from the ground, and then a hover car slowly descended and stopped in front of them.
The huge Arasaka Group logo on it was particularly eye-catching, and at this moment, Balom finally understood that Arasaka was going to make a move on him.
"You are Arasaka people, why!"
He couldn't understand. He clearly had no connection with Arasaka, so why would they capture him?
However, what he might not have thought of was that his Ripperdoc had sold all his information to Arasaka.
The information about him injecting the serum, including all the cyberware and weapons on him, had already been known to Arasaka. Under Arasaka's carefully prepared trap and ambush, Balom appeared so vulnerable.
Arasaka currently only obtained one original serum from the Ripperdoc. Before finding the source of the serum, the scarcity of the drug is self-evident.
Under such circumstances, Arasaka would naturally not let go of a ready-made test subject.
As the only person Arasaka currently knew to have injected the serum, Balom was unsurprisingly targeted by Arasaka.
After tying Balom to the hover car, Arasaka's action team left gracefully, leaving behind the many stunned mercenaries around.
"Damn it, this damn Arasaka is really getting out of line. They actually came directly to Afterlife to arrest someone. These beasts really think we're easy to bully, right?" someone said angrily.
But this was just useless shouting. If Arasaka's action team hadn't left, he probably wouldn't have dared to let out a fart.
It sounds pathetic, but this is reality.
"What did this guy do? Arasaka had to send out this kind of force to capture him."
Maine's team also happened to come out of Afterlife at this time, and they just happened to run into this big show.
"Maybe his last commission offended Arasaka?"
"Who knows."
With the idea of just watching the fun as long as it didn't involve them, Maine's team didn't pay much attention.
After watching the fun, everyone dispersed, some going home, some going to other places.
As for Rebecca, she planned to go to Nihonmachi.
Rebecca hadn't contacted Luoqi for two days.
She knew Luoqi had a commission to do, so she didn't call to disturb him.
However, while Rebecca didn't contact Luoqi, this guy Luoqi didn't actively contact Rebecca either, which made Rebecca not know when he would finish being busy.
Rebecca was a little worried in this dilemma.
Originally, Rebecca thought it would be better to just send Luoqi an email, but that didn't quite fit her style.
It just so happened that she had nothing to do tonight, and thinking that if Luoqi had finished his commission, the clinic should be open for normal business, Rebecca decided to go to his clinic to take a look.
...
Meanwhile, on the other side, Luoqi was producing Soldier Serum in the clinic.
"L, the basic framework for the data fortress's ICE has been completed, but it still needs further refinement."
"You've worked hard, Lucy."
Luoqi talked to Lucy on the phone while producing the medicine.
At this time, Lucy was helping Luoqi build a small data fortress in the apartment.
After Luoqi explained his plan to Lucy, Lucy began to work on some network construction for him.
If he wanted to establish a company, a dedicated data fortress was naturally essential.
Although it hadn't developed to that extent yet, Lucy also wanted to build a simple server prototype for Luoqi to facilitate the realization of Luoqi's plan.
Just as the two were still talking, there was a new visitor request at the clinic.
"Lucy, I have a guest here. Let's talk later."
"Okay."
Although producing the medicine required Luoqi to operate it from time to time, he didn't need to constantly stare at it, so Luoqi naturally chose to also operate the clinic at the same time, earning as much as he could.
After hanging up Lucy's call, Luoqi pulled up the surveillance footage from the door, but seeing the person who came made Luoqi frown.
He saw a person in a suit standing at the door.
The completely unfamiliar face coupled with the undisguised agent attire made Luoqi realize that the visitor was not friendly, and he obviously wasn't here to get cyberware installed.
'As expected, trouble has still found its way to me?'
Luoqi's heart also tightened at this moment.
Although he had long anticipated this day, he hadn't expected it to come so quickly.
As early as when Luoqi decided to throw the Soldier Serum onto the market, he knew that the corporations would come knocking eventually.
Perhaps those corporations were too lazy to bother with him for selling insignificant things like stimulants, but when the things he produced were enough to make the corporations' hearts flutter.
Then they would definitely try every possible means to find him.
Luoqi knew that he couldn't hide, he just lamented that he hadn't developed well enough.
How great it would be if he had a little more time, that way he would have more leverage to deal with those corporations.
After composing himself, Luoqi calmly walked to the door and opened the clinic door.
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