Chapter 171

Breaking into the mansion and wiping out Fujiwara Yoshinaga’s security team didn’t take Karl much time—about thirty seconds, give or take. However, dealing with the biomechanical guard dog took him a full two minutes.

Not because the thing was particularly strong, even with its built-in machine gun that popped out of its back. The issue was that Karl found it interesting. He wanted to capture it intact and bring it back for Oliver to mess around with, which meant he had to be extra careful. In the end, he had to overclock his neural response system, enduring a sharp jolt of pain through his nerves just to outmaneuver the dog and hack into it with a monowire connection before it could react.

Still, not a bad deal.