Chapter 825

Under the desperate cover and sacrifice of the Pheasant Faction operatives, Oda Santayu drove the vehicle, carrying Akechi and Hanako Arasaka quickly out of North Oak.

With the help of the faction’s covert netrunners, they slipped into a surveillance-dead zone within the Badlands. After setting up several necessary countermeasures and camouflage methods to avoid satellite detection, Akechi found himself standing before an underground facility belonging to Arasaka—larger, more populated, and far more advanced than the biotechnical research lab he had seen days earlier.

This one was filled with Pheasant Faction personnel—people so crucial that even in the rescue of Hanako Arasaka they had not been mobilized. In fact, even other high-ranking Pheasant Faction leaders did not know these individuals existed.