32 had also sensed that the atmosphere around them was off. He gradually moved closer to Amir, placing Millisyn between himself and Amir.
Very soon, a burly man walked straight toward Amir.
Looking closely, the man was actually the owner of the grilled meat stall from earlier. Amir still remembered his seasoning recipe.
Millisyn's eyes widened at once. She had already realized what was happening, but the grill-stall owner who had happily chatted with Amir earlier was actually a bad guy!
The skewers in her hand suddenly did not smell as good anymore.
"Good luck today. I found a target not long after opening the stall. Are you going to hand over the money on you, or do I have to dig it out of your corpse?"
The stall owner and his lackeys around him all raised their blasters and pointed them at the three of them.
So this was organized gang robbery.
Amir swept his eyes around. There were seven people in total. Six were on the ground, while the last one was hiding on a rooftop as their backup. But this did not escape Amir's notice. Even if Amir had not discovered him, 32 would not have missed him.
"Your grilled meat was pretty good. Isn't earning honest money better?" Amir finished the last skewer.
He was not worried about the skewers being drugged or anything. Many people had been eating at the stall, and the grilling process had been watched the entire time by Amir and 32. The owner had no opportunity to tamper with them.
Amir guessed that the stall owner had judged whether he was worth robbing based on the way Amir paid. However, Amir had only paid after receiving the skewers.
Before confirming a target, the man would not do anything too excessive. After all, this was a long-term business.
"Honest work doesn't fill your stomach. Don't scare the kid. I advise you to hurry up and hand over the money."
"Thanks for your kindness." Even now he was still pretending to be an honest man. Amir said it with contempt.
After speaking, Amir crouched down and looked at Millisyn.
"Do you remember your training?"
"Mm!" Millisyn nodded excitedly.
These people were clearly old hands at killing and robbing. Amir could feel the Force within them beginning to darken. That was the sign before killing.
This gang of robbers obviously had no intention of letting the three of them go. The conversation now was only a probe.
The moment he stood up, Amir exchanged a look with 32.
32's robe fell directly behind him onto the ground, revealing his mechanical body. Behind his back, three mechanical arms flexibly extended and automatically aimed at the three people beside him.
Amir directly ignited the green lightsaber in his hand. Not to be outdone, Millisyn also took out her exquisite lightsaber and ignited its blue blade.
The moment 32 removed his robe, the robbers on the scene acted directly. Red blaster bolts erupted from seven directions at once.
Amir, whose lightsaber was already activated, blocked all the attacks from the four people in front of him. He adjusted the angle along the way and reflected the blaster bolts back.
Directional deflection was something he had practiced countless times. It had already become instinctive memory. In just one exchange, three of the enemies were caught off guard and struck by the rebounding blaster bolts, collapsing to the ground and losing their breath.
Only the stall owner with the blaster pistol remained.
The smart pistols behind 32 also opened fire directly. The various restrictions on the smart combat backpack did not exist on 32. As long as he moved his thoughts, he could quickly select the targets to attack, and the three guns behind him would immediately perform precise strikes.
Including the one on the rooftop, the three enemies behind them were instantly killed by 32. He had not even moved from where he stood.
Millisyn stepped in front of 32 and blocked the blaster bolts that might have hit him.
The stall owner had never expected that two young people with a child, who should have been the easiest targets, would wipe out his men in an instant.
At this moment, his powerful muscles could no longer bring him any sense of safety. The stall owner trembled as he backed away, firing the blaster pistol in his hand sporadically without even aiming.
Just as Amir was about to act, a young woman appeared behind the stall owner. She suddenly raised a hand and grabbed the stall owner's hair. The already panicked stall owner was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.
"This person is decent material, but he'd be better alive. Can you give him to me?" the woman said.
Hearing this exquisitely beautiful woman say something that sounded rather wrong, Amir did not know how to answer for a moment.
32 suddenly leaned close to Amir and said, "She's the same as me. Modified."
Amir's eyes widened. He had not noticed that at all. Or rather, at first glance, he had thought she was a real person, so he had not investigated.
32, on the other hand, was able to discover it because of his unique vision.
The woman struck the back of the stall owner's head with her hand and easily knocked him unconscious. Then she said, "You must be Kahalman's friends. Your skills aren't bad. These scum should have died long ago anyway. Thank you for dealing with them for me. But don't use lightsabers so casually here. I don't want Imperial Inquisitors showing up at my door."
Amir now knew who she was.
"Joan Hurtado?"
"Yes, that's me." Joan's tone carried a faint impatience, as if she were merely handling official business. "Come with me."
"Where's Kahalman?" Amir asked.
"He interrupted my experiment, occupied my laboratory, rummaged through my research results, then told me to come pick you up. Heh. If not for the fact that you brought quite a bit of money..."
She really was an honest person.
With someone leading the way, walking became much easier. Amir continued talking with Joan. He was very interested in this unconventional scientist obsessed with studying fully bionic robots.
"Kahalman told me about you, but he didn't mention that you modified yourself."
"Heh. He didn't know either. I only did it recently. My old body was starting to affect my research. I don't have the long lifespan of Kahalman's species."
Amir suddenly thought of something and looked at Joan.
"Who performed the surgery for you?"
She had not gone to Kahalman for the modification surgery.
"Did you want Kahalman to turn me into that kind of iron lump?" Joan pointed at 32. "Forgive me, but I can't appreciate that. Fortunately, I had already learned his techniques. My assistant and I were enough to complete the operation."
Amir had nothing to say to that. There was no need to argue over differences in aesthetics.
But it had to be said that the body Joan had built for herself could be called close to perfect in every aspect. Whether figure or appearance, it was top-tier. And judging by the way she was dragging the two-hundred-plus-pound stall owner with one hand, the performance of this body was also excellent.
Most importantly, when she moved, one could actually see traces of muscles flowing across her body. Her bones, blood vessels, and tendons were all no different from those of a real person.
Amir sincerely admired this. Just from this body alone, one could see the depth and precision of Joan's research.
Amir was now full of confidence in this trip.
After the group left, a dirty child ran out from the alley.
He came before one of the corpses and stood there in a daze for a long time. Then he suddenly smashed all the wooden skewers in his hand onto the man's head and burst into loud sobs.
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