Instead of answering Ruth's question, Ryan glanced at Richie, who was sitting on the couch.

"Haha, you guys talk first, I'll go to the balcony for a cigarette!"

It's a room in an abandoned hotel, Mexican-style. The whole room was vacated, and instead two sofas and a small table were moved in, which Russ had people clean, in addition to the sofa and table, there was also a bedside table next to Ruth's sofa, in which several bottles of tequila were placed;

The only two windows in the room were pasted with wooden panels and newspapers, and there was hardly any sunlight through, and the only light source in the room was the small chandelier in the center of the room, which was emitting a yellowish glow, and the wooden door to the balcony was in the middle of the two windows.

The chandelier flickered, swaying imperceptibly, but still noticed by Ryan.

Richie silently walked to the wooden door, turned the handle with one hand, fumbled the cigarette case in the bag with the other, and then opened the door.

A line of outside sunlight poured into the entire small room, and as the wooden door opened, the room was also brighter and brighter, and there were two big black things that followed the sunlight into the room.

Ryan subconsciously turned his head sideways, closed his eyes, and covered his ears.

The two swarthy things disappeared in an instant, replaced by two rays of light as dazzling as the sun.

A blinding light spread through the room, accompanied by bouts of tinnitus and dizziness.

“NCPD！ All hands up! ”

After a loud bang followed by a roar, the entire window and balcony walls collapsed due to the blast, and Richie, who was close to the wooden door, split his entire body at the moment of the loud bang, and his limbs and blood flew all over the room in an instant.

Ryan and Ruth were the first to open their eyes, but they still had bouts of tinnitus in their ears; The entire wall of the balcony had collapsed, and outside the wall was a black floating cart with four ejectors emitting flames, and the car facing the room had NCPD written in white paint.

The side of the float car with the words NCPD written on it suddenly opened up and down, and a group of police officers wearing black NCPD uniforms and holding rifles burst out of the float car, a total of eight people, and one person in the car set up a machine gun.

Seven of them surrounded Ruth, and only one of them pointed a gun at Ryan, who had just opened his eyes on the ground, and the large-caliber machine gun on the floating car was aimed at Ruth, ready to fire at any moment.

A few people on the ground came to their senses, slowly stood up, and raised their hands, next to them were the stumps that were still oozing blood from Richie just now, and their bodies were more or less stained with Richie's flesh and blood; They've long been accustomed to Night City's stumps flying all over the sky.

Ruth's prosthetic body is the most and the least affected, his eyes quickly scanned the few people behind him, seeing that he was not injured, and then looked at the seven NCPDs surrounding him, he was a little unwilling in his heart, but he still raised his hands; Finally, he fixed his gaze on Ryan, who had just stood up.

"Wanted, Barre. Ruth; Extremely dangerous. ”

"Wanted, Anne. Catherine; Dangerous. ”

"Wanted, Anne. Kia; Dangerous. ”

"Wanted, Ike. Bicester; A special exemption from the NCPD has been granted. ”

"Unknown, unknown, unknown! Alert, this person is not in the database of NCPD! Searching the Arasaka database, this person is not in the Arasaka database! ”

NCPD officers quickly scanned them with the machine, and the sound of the machine sounded in turn with the scan, and when the scan reached Ryan, the machine suddenly sounded an alarm

"Ike! How are you?!"

Ruth was a little surprised by the alarm, but quickly withdrew his gaze from Ryan and turned to look at the man with Moxican's hair behind him, who also raised his hand, his eyes full of anger and incomprehension.

And Ike, who had a Moxican hairstyle behind Ruth, turned his head sideways, not daring to meet Ruth's gaze.

"I'm sorry...... Top dog....... Eva was pregnant two weeks ago...... She said that if I was doing this kind of business of licking blood on the tip of a knife, she would beat the child out and leave me completely...... I've let her down too many times, I don't want to let her down, I don't have a choice! ”

"Really? You didn't even tell me. ”

When Ruth heard Ike's words, his spirit was in a trance, as if he remembered something.

"A week ago, after you hijacked the weapons transporter of Araba Military, the Arasaka Group approached me, and the woman at the head said that as long as I cooperated with their actions, they could let me go..... Also give me special immunity and a large sum of money......"

"So what? You said yes to them?"

After listening to this, Ruth asked in a calm tone, and there was not a trace of emotional fluctuations in his words

"That's right! I promised her! I don't want my children to be born without a father! I don't want to do that anymore! Boss, I know you didn't have a father since you were a child, do you know what happens to a fatherless child and a woman without a husband in Night City? Either get your organs hollowed out by a scavenger or die in some unknown alley! The woman gave me a full 50,000 euros on the spot, which was enough money for me to take Eva out of the city and start a new life! ”

"And what are they trying to do?"

After listening to this, Ruth said to Ike

"That batch of military weapons is worth hundreds of thousands of euros at most, what did she give you 50,000 euros?"

After listening to Ruth's words, Ike also seemed to be a little shaken, but soon he said firmly

"I don't know! I don't want to know either! All I know is that Eva has left Night City with 50,000 euros in cash, and I have sent them to a place where they will never be found! If I die, she will take 50,000 euros and the child to start a new life! ”

Ike said loudly

"Do you think I don't want to leave Night City? Ike"

Ruth had said calmly

Ike was stunned by Ruth's words, and did not continue to speak, but just silently walked towards the NCPD hovertruck.

"I'm sorry, boss"

Passing by Ruth's side, Ike whispered.

After saying that, Ike suddenly felt that Ruth next to him suddenly became taller again, and he was still getting taller, and he looked at NCPD and was surprised to find that they were also gradually getting taller, and NCPD's frightened expressions

Finally, he saw that his body was falling

"Stun guns!"

One of the NCPDs shouted as he watched Ike roll off the head

The electricity instantly penetrated Ruth's body, and Ruth felt numb all over his body, and then lost his body instinct and fell to the ground, only his eyeballs could still move slightly.

"Ruth!"

Kia saw Ruth who fell to the ground and shouted subconsciously, Ryan saw that Kia was in a hurry, but he was forced to act because of the swarthy muzzle of the NCPD, and Lliy on the side also trembled a little when he saw Ruth fall to the ground, as if he was worried about Ruth, but it didn't show too obviously

"Oops, what a show"

An abrupt voice suddenly appeared, and a holographic projection of a woman's half-body suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes through the NCPD's floating car

"I didn't expect you to kill him, I thought you'd let them reunite."

Ryan looked at the source of the voice, and a memory of being in the Arasaka Tower flashed through his mind, and he remembered who this woman was, the head of Arasaka's intelligence department!

Ruth's eyes were fixed on the holographic woman

"Okay, don't tease you, even if you don't kill him today, we will kill him, the difference is just that he dies with the person he loves the most."

The holographic woman said with a smile

"By the way, let me introduce myself, my name is Arasaka Himetsuki, and I am the head of the Arasaka Intelligence Department!"