She was being hunted down, so she became a magical girl.

Xu Ting clutched his right shoulder and stepped into the study.

She also hid behind the bookshelf to avoid being shot by the viper.

"I was quite surprised to see you through the scope of the smart rifle, Miss Xu Ting."

Relying on the cover he had, the viper kept talking.

"I never imagined that those most absurd rumors were true."

"Your adorable maid café is truly a 'leftover' piece of the Tianyi Group."

"To be able to break through my security, you must be equipped with a lot of tactical cybernetic implants, right?"

"These are all advanced cybernetic bodies that I can't find any hacking points for... Tianyi Group really has big money to spare."

The viper had clearly guessed Xu Ting's identity wrong.

He could only guess based on the background of the Tianyi Group behind the adorable maid café, and thus came to an absurd conclusion.

"You came here for the things belonging to the Lost Ones, didn't you?"

"I never thought I'd run into a landmine just by randomly picking a maid. I'm never going to a place like this again."

Xu Ting decided to continue playing along with the viper's act.

She endured the pain of being shot and spoke:

"The Blackwater gang made the worst choice."

"If you hand over the victim's belongings to me, Tianyi Group might spare your life."

The viper refused:

"That won't do."

"I know you want to use these items to find the madman, the Loser, but so do we in the Blackwater Gang."

"The goods he has will only end up in the hands of our Blackwater Gang."

What does that mean?

The goods have already been delivered to Tianyi Group, haven't they? If your Blackwater Gang wants to find more goods, go ask Tianyi Group for them.

She asked in a deep voice:

"Our Tianyi Group has already received the goods; now we are simply recycling the items belonging to the disgraced individuals."

"Miss Xu Ting, if you want to get more money from me, you'll need to be more skilled at scamming."

The viper responded in a disgusting tone.

"Don't underestimate our Blackwater Gang's intelligence agents. We can get our hands on this kind of information."

"We already know that the Loser kept the ultimate weapon for himself, leaving only an empty box for the Tianyi Group."

Did I pocket the ultimate weapon and then give Tianyi Group an empty box?

Xu Ting's mind was filled with doubts.

Honestly, she has always been a mercenary who respects the spirit of contracts and has never had the thought of breaching the contract.

She only just found out that the goods Tianyi Group wanted were the so-called "ultimate weapon".

The original plan was to capture the viper alive just to find out the location of her treasure;

Now it seems we need to add another reason to capture him alive.

By buying time through conversation, Xu Ting regained strength in his right arm.

She clenched her right fist, strained with her right shoulder, and endured the excruciating pain to push the bullet out of her right shoulder.

As a result, the wound on her right shoulder bled profusely, staining her maid outfit crimson.

Soon after, the wound stopped bleeding and then healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although he had already sighed many times tonight, Xu Ting still couldn't help but sigh in his heart—

Is this what magical girl stats are?

Having resolved the issue with his right arm, Xu Ting began walking deeper into the study.

At this moment, Viper was still speaking sarcastically: "Miss Xu Ting, wearing that kind of thin maid outfit is not a good idea."

"That bullet has already destroyed your right arm. How much fighting ability do you have left?"

Xu Ting had already arrived near the viper, and was only a row of bookshelves away from him.

Taking advantage of the viper's verbal outburst, she kicked over the row of bookshelves, sending them crashing down on the viper.

This approach had little effect.

The viper punched through the bookshelf, and with its other hand, it tore the bookshelf apart from the hole.

This cybernetic hacker is not powerless.

Both of his hands are fitted with implanted prosthetics.

After smashing through the bookshelf, Viper continued to exert force with both fists, attacking the "injured" Xu Ting.

He never intended to engage Xu Ting in a gunfight in a terrain resembling a bookshelf.

After injuring Xu Ting's right shoulder, Viper decided to engage Xu Ting in close combat.

He looked at Xu Ting, feeling quite smug.

I know you also have implanted prostheses, but implanted prostheses also require the assistance of muscles themselves.

Unless you have a prosthetic arm that completely replaces your hand, you won't be able to use your right hand.

However, the appearance of a replacement prosthetic body is significantly different from that of a human body, which is also impossible.

So you can only use one hand to fight against my two hands... Heh, it seems the outcome is already decided. Now, what should I do with you?

boom!

Viper's fists collided with Xu Ting's left arm.

The girl's left arm strength was somewhat unexpected for the viper, but it was still a bit short of being able to withstand two arms with one hand.

Okay, crushed!

The viper looked excitedly at Xu Ting's left arm that had been pried open, then its gaze shifted to Xu Ting's soft chest.

The next blow will hit your lungs, making it impossible for you to breathe normally.

Just then, Viper saw Xu Ting raise her "crippled" right hand.

Before the viper could react, the beautiful girl's slap landed on his face.

He was slapped hard across the face by Xu Ting.

[WARNING! Severe head injury, brain-computer interface dysfunction]

A warning sounded in the viper's brain, but the viper didn't hear what the brain-computer interface said at all.

He was slapped so hard that he lost all self-awareness and collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Xu Ting withdrew his right hand and looked down at the viper on the ground.

Slapping him was a strategy Xu Ting devised to capture the viper alive.

After all, she wanted to find out where her wealth came from.

Looking at the unconscious viper on the ground, Xu Ting felt a surge of anger.

She controlled her strength and kicked the viper in the groin.

"Get up, stop pretending to be dead."

No man could endure such pain, and vipers were no exception.

He was jolted awake by the kick, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Xu Ting stomped on it again, pressing for an answer:

"Where are the things belonging to the one who lost their color?"

......

The viper's bones were softer than Xu Ting had imagined.

Once subjected to physical torture, his psychological defenses completely collapsed, and he confessed everything like beans spilling from a bamboo tube.

Xu Ting picked up the viper, which looked like a dead dog, and headed towards the basement.

Xu Ting successfully entered the viper using the viper's pupils as a form of authentication.

Are there security cameras here?

"We've installed fixed cameras, all of them are in plain sight."

Xu Ting frowned as he looked at the camera pointed at the blood-stained operating table behind it, and immediately understood the purpose of Viper's basement.

"I originally thought you were just weak-willed."

Xu Ting spoke up.

"But now it seems that you are too clear about how to torture people, which is why you are afraid that I will use those methods on you."

The viper did not respond.

After Xu Ting used his military knife to cut out his prosthetic arms, he lost the strength to cry out.

Xu Ting walked to the table in the basement and began counting his treasures.

Gold bars, medicine, firearms...

After Xu Ting finished taking inventory, he discovered that the most important thing was missing.

"Three boxes are still missing."

The viper replied weakly:

"The box is in the cupboard."

"They require a password to open... Only the Lost Ones know the password... You can't open them."

Xu Ting chuckled and entered a password consisting of numbers, letters, and characters.

The box was then opened.