"You... who are you! I am from Arasaka Heavy Industries—"
Crack.
Before the man could finish, Cipher directly snapped his neck, then turned her gaze toward the others.
"Which of you can answer my question?!"
When the other people from Arasaka Heavy Industries witnessed this sudden accident, they panicked for a moment, but quickly regained their composure.
At that moment, a young man about twenty years old stepped forward, raising his hands to show he had no hostile intent.
"Lady, is there some misunderstanding here? Your current emotional state is very unstable; how about we sit down and calm down?"
"Misunderstanding?"
Hearing those words, Cipher felt like she was laughing from sheer anger.
"If it were really a misunderstanding, would you have broken directly into Little Ran's house to kidnap them?!"
As she spoke, Cipher pressed a button on the side of a nearby vehicle.
Immediately, the previously sealed rear compartment of the vehicle slowly opened, revealing the figures of Luo Lin and the others inside.
"Sister Cipher, you're here!"
Upon seeing Cipher's figure, Lin Wei immediately cried out, then shifted her body to nudge the still-dazed Luo Lin.
"Sister Cipher is here, why are you still acting so sad?!"
Cipher glanced at the three of them before turning back to the group of people.
"Give me an explanation." Her tone was ice-cold. "If you cannot provide an explanation, I can guarantee that in the next second, you will all end up like them."
As she spoke, she pointed to the group of dead Arasaka Heavy Industries employees nearby.
"This..." The young man's expression appeared hesitant upon hearing her. "Last time, they killed an entire C rank combat squad of ours. This is a serious provocation to our company, so the higher-ups sent us to capture them."
"If you hadn't made the first move and intended to kill us, would we have needed to fight back!" Lin Wei shouted indignantly, then turned to look at Cipher.
"At the time, we were doing a content commission to steal from a gang. After the task was completed, we were planning to go back and settle the order, but we were intercepted halfway by those guys from Arasaka Heavy Industries."
"We were confused as to why people from Arasaka were there, but they started attacking us without a word, and they were using lethal force. The three of us only managed to defeat them after suffering heavy injuries."
"I see."
After Lin Wei finished her story, Cipher nodded, then fixed her gaze on the young man once more, speaking slowly:
"Besides the reason of killing one of your C rank squads, what other reason is there?"
"Other reasons..." The young man thought for a moment after hearing the term, then shook his head. "None, that's the only—AAAAAAHHH!!!"
Before he could finish, he let out a scream of agony.
By this time, his right palm had fallen to the ground. His face was pale as he trembled, clutching his right arm where the hand used to be, blood flowing non-stop.
"Lie, and you can forget about getting your hand back."
Cipher looked on coldly. In her hand, a gold wire stained with blood had appeared at some unknown moment.
"Su!"
"Su, are you okay?"
"Damn it!"
Seeing this sudden scene, the others standing behind the young man immediately rushed forward to support him.
Following that, they began to glare at Cipher with even more intense hostility.
"Speak! What other reason! If you don't talk, you can forget about your other hand too!"
Cipher didn't care about their glares at all, continuing to look at the young man before her calmly.
"Don't push people too far!"
At that moment, a girl supporting the young man shouted at Cipher, her eyes reddening.
"You're just a gene modification user! Arasaka Heavy Industries and Genesis Tech are the two companies with the best relationship; you are provoking a conflict between the two companies!"
"Provoking a conflict between the two companies?"
Hearing the girl's words, Cipher fell into thought.
Seeing her fall silent, the girl's eyes lit up, thinking she had succeeded, so she continued:
"That's right! This is a very serious matter! Even if you are a high-level gene-mod user from Genesis Tech, once this gets out, don't even think—"
Puchi!
The sound of a blade entering flesh rang out. Her words stopped abruptly, her eyes bulging in disbelief.
A dagger was accurately embedded in her throat, leaving only the hilt vibrating slightly outside.
"Lian!"
Seeing this, Su and the other team members let out cries of grief and indignation. They hadn't seen when Cipher made her move at all!
Furthermore, they hadn't expected that after clarifying the company relations, this cat-eared gene-mod user would dare to kill again so decisively!
What they didn't know was that Cipher currently wished for nothing more than to let these two companies kill each other. One was at odds with Hyacine, and the other was at odds with Cerydra; moreover, they had now provoked her.
"Do it!"
Seeing that the person before him didn't care about any of it, Su couldn't be bothered with anything else and directly ordered his teammates to attack Cipher.
Otherwise, if this dragged on, their chances of winning would only get lower and lower.
However, after the command was given, there was only dead silence behind him.
There was no hum of firearms charging, nor the sound of charging footsteps.
Su immediately turned his head, his tone extremely anxious:
"Do it, quickly! She's a lunatic, she won't—"
But before he could finish, he froze on the spot, his eyes widening in disbelief.
He saw all his teammates behind him standing frozen in place like statues. On each of their necks, a lethal, bone-deep cut had opened, and blood was gurgling out silently.
The dagger that was supposed to be in the girl's throat had returned to Cipher's hand at some unknown point, its tip still dripping with viscous beads of blood.