Jessica chuckled, watching Mendes' ridiculous shift from defiant to subservient, but she wasn't finished talking.
"Do you see my emblem?"
Under Mendes' trembling gaze, Jessica pointed to the white star on her full thigh.
"6th Street Gang, NUSA."
"Do you know how we deal with people who don't listen?"
"Mmm, no, I guess you don't want to know."
Jessica shook her head mysteriously, sending a chill down his spine.
"You... you you, damn it..."
Mendes pointed a trembling finger at Jessica, large beads of sweat dripping down. His pale face was unable to form words.
"Of course, you can try it. Move your family and continue to oppose us."
"However, you'd better pray that works, because my brothers don't really like communicating with words."
"Damn it... you win, I surrender..."
Mendes desperately tried to control his trembling legs, gritting his teeth and lowering his head.
He slunk away, taking the fifty thousand dollars Jessica had given him.
Jessica smiled.
Having collected debts for so many years, she was already skilled at dealing with people.
Since she dared to meet Mendes, she was naturally prepared beforehand.
If the other party had a happy family, then she would use the family as a threat.
In all her years of debt collection, she had never failed.
It didn't matter if they were a single bachelor with no family; she could always resort to a shock baton.
As the best debt collector for loan sharks, she could always make people cough up the money.
However, she had never expected that her skills would one day be used for doing good deeds.
Watching Mendes flee in a daze, she playfully pulled out her pistol.
She slowly took aim, then fired a shot near his feet.
Bang! The bullet exploded near his feet.
Several cars immediately blared their alarms. Mendes was so startled he nearly stumbled, and clutching the money, he scrambled away on all fours, diving into his car and speeding off.
"Hahahahahaha..."
Left behind was only Jessica's innocent, bell-like laughter.
It sounded much like a little girl laughing upon seeing a kite fly, full of childish fun... "Ah... Ah, Yadamoya da, oyster mo oyster, I can't fit any more..."
When V entered the room, she saw her girlfriend in this very misleading state.
Her head filled with black lines, she decided she must have opened the door incorrectly.
She even considered opening it again.
Inside the office, Berry was sprawled like a worm in the large leather sofa, her head weakly tilted back, her eyes staring blankly at the ceiling. Suspicious moisture dripped from the corner of her mouth, and her small mouth muttered something indistinctly as it opened and closed.
If Berry had made a V-sign with both hands right then and said something like, "Sorry, V, I can never go back," V's brain would have crashed, and she would have fainted on the spot.
"Ah, it's Sister V. There's too much money; it can't fit anymore..."
Hmm, thanks for the specific explanation.
V, with black lines on her head, closed the door and walked in.
"Look at you, little Berry. You just earned some money. Do you have to look so broken?"
As she spoke, V even felt a little jealous.
She hadn't been able to make Berry look like that in bed, but money had managed it.
What could she say?
She was slightly annoyed.
But Berry was too weak to agree with V, so she just waved her hand.
Next, V walked over herself, perched on the desk, and picked up the chip containing Berry's money.
"Is it really that exaggerated? Let me see... Holy shit!"
V inserted the chip into the slot, and before she could finish her sentence, her face was overcome with shock.
"Two hundred thousand!?"
"Damn it, Berry, you earned two hundred thousand just by selling those plastic figurines?"
V was so surprised that she covered her mouth with her hand, clearly unable to believe the number.
When she worked for Regina, a single job only paid between one and two thousand. Two hundred thousand was the money she would earn only after catching a hundred Cyberpsychosis victims.
Not to mention that this amount didn't even account for her ammunition costs.
Berry nodded in profound agreement with V's astonishment.
Yes, she couldn't believe it either.
Plastic figurines that cost less than ten dollars to make, she turned around and sold for two hundred thousand.
This made money faster than selling 'leaves'.
Berry herself couldn't believe it.
In the shocked silence, V carefully removed the chip and put it down, then spoke seriously to Berry.
"Berry, I was wrong. You should be the big sister now."
"From now on, I'll just be your leg attachment."
V, the rising star of Night City's Mercenary world, was now thoroughly shocked by Night City's geeks.
This truly gave V a small dose of '2D Shock'.
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