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Chapter 216 Are you sweating profusely?

Night City Town Hall, Mayor's Office.

"Hot, I was assassinated, you are happy, right?"

Lucius' voice echoed in the office, and Hott looked nervously at the two tall men beside Lucius.

He felt that if he didn't give an explanation that satisfied Lucius, he would be beaten to death by these two burly men today.

Holt rubbed his hands quickly and said to Lucius Ryan in a flattering manner: "How could that be? Mr. Mayor, do you have some misunderstandings about me? We have been comrades-in-arms for many years. I will always follow you, Mayor Lucius."

"Humph!"

Lucius slammed a stack of documents onto the desk.

"Look at what you've done!" Lucius pointed at the document and shouted angrily, "Let's not even talk about your cousin's incident, he went to Mexico to have fun and even recorded it.

Now let me tell you about your business. You colluded with Arasaka, traded human organs with the Scavengers, and got involved with the NCPD. What on earth do you want to do, Holt? ! "

Holt picked up the document with trembling hands. The data and reports on it made him pale.

There are even recordings of his communications with Arasaka, in which he brazenly said that Arasaka gave more political donations.

"I gave you a chance, Holt. But you let me down again and again." Lucius said coldly, "I can't tolerate this any longer."

Holt fell to his knees with a plop, hugged Lucius' legs, and begged, "Mr. Mayor, please give me another chance! You know, I have always been loyal to you, these are all slanders!"

Hott didn't know what had happened. Considering the friendship between him and Lucius for so many years, these were just trivial matters.

Colluding with the scavenger? He was talking as if Lucius was innocent. It was clear that he and Lucius had received the stolen money together. But today, he actually refused to admit it.

Hott also understood that the mayor must be pure and innocent, so he took the blame.

However, he couldn't understand what was wrong with accepting Arasaka's political donations? This was America, not China. Accepting political donations was a common thing, and it was legal income.

He didn't know why Lucius wanted to mess with him, and even brought up his cousin for this. Was his cousin's little thing worthy enough to be brought up on the table?

Holt thought about it, could it be because he had contact with the NCPD? This didn't make sense, he hadn't had any contact with the Terrorist Squad, that was Lucius's Achilles' heel.

But at this point, right or wrong is not a big deal, the first thing is to admit the mistake quickly. Considering that I have followed Lucius for so long, maybe he can let me off.

Lucius pondered for a moment, and finally sighed helplessly: "Alas, Holt, I gave you the last chance, and you didn't take it. Don't blame me for being rude."

"what?"

What happened to make me abandoned by Lucius?

"Mr. Mayor, what happened? Why did you do this to me?"

"Don't you understand yet?" Lucius Lane looked at him with disappointment and gave him a small reminder.

"I asked you at the beginning if you had subscribed to The Red Queen's Race. Why didn't you?" Lucius Lane stared at him fiercely. "Don't tell me you did. I can find all this data in The Red Queen's Race."

Holt's face changed drastically. "You don't think that I was the one who committed the murder in the Red Queen's Race? I swear to God that I definitely didn't do it."

Hott was sweating profusely. He really didn't do that. It was terrible. Now he had to take the blame for something else.

"You know that's not what I'm talking about."

Holt felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Lucius and avoided his gaze.

Seeing Holt's expression, Lucius said disappointedly, "You still have a lucky mentality now. You don't tell the truth at all."

Lucius kicked Hott in the face without caring about his image.

"You planned the attack at the press conference, didn't you?"

When Hot heard this, his face immediately turned pale and there was no blood on it.

He knew, he really knew...

"Please let me explain..." Hott stuttered, but was interrupted by Lucius before he could finish.

"As soon as you left, the man who attacked me came in. You should explain to me. And you didn't order the Red Queen's race. Did you think that you didn't need to order it because I was dying?"

Holt really couldn't refute these two points.

Lucius continued, "Your accomplice in the NCPD is Fort, right? The prosthesis is provided by Arasaka. Find a criminal in the NCPD prison and give him a prosthesis.

Since he is in prison, it is easier to conceal his identity by training him there. What a good trick!"

Holt knew that everything was over. Lucius explained it so clearly, he must have found relevant evidence. He was not wronged this time, who made him have such inappropriate thoughts?

But... but who wants to be someone else's dog for the rest of their life? Is it wrong for Huo Te to have his own ambitions?

"You know everything... Can you please let my family go?"

Holt collapsed to the ground in despair, knowing that his life was over. He only hoped that Lucius would not kill him and make things difficult for his wife and children.

"I will arrange for you to take a flight tomorrow morning. Together with your family, you will leave Night City and never come back." Lucius stood up and looked down at Holt, "This is the last thing I can do for you.

I will hand over the evidence of your crime to the court later, and from now on, our relationship ends here."

When Huo Te heard this, he was pleasantly surprised. Could it be that he let him go because he had followed him for so many years?

Hott quickly knelt down and bowed to Lucius to thank him for sparing him.

"Mr. Mayor, I will never be able to repay your kindness."

"Get out of here now, I don't want to see you."

Lucius was now annoyed when he saw Holt, and he could hardly hold back the murderous intent in his eyes.

Holt stood up slowly, his eyes full of despair and helplessness. He knew that he had lost everything, but he was also glad that he could save his family.

After Holt left, Lucius Lane thanked the two strong men.

"Thanks to you guys for saving me twice today. Don't worry, I won't reduce your reward."

The two strong men are Jack and Mann. Ling Luxian sent them here to protect Lucius' safety.

Even though Lucius Ryan acted like a friendly person, they already knew that the political affairs of Night City were rotten to the core, and they didn't take Lucius's thanks to heart.

Jack and the other man looked at each other and saw each other's helplessness.

“This is what we should do,” Mann said.

As for Holt, the next morning, Holt and his family boarded a plane to leave Night City.

He looked back at the gradually receding Night City, with mixed feelings in his heart, and he knew that he would never come back.

It wasn't until he heard the shrill alarm of the plane and saw despair in Hott's eyes that he knew Lucius would not let him go.