IIII WAS LIVING ON BORROWED everything at this point. I was able to pick up an overdue bounty at the local Interpol office, but that exchange rate was pretty bad. It would last a few days. One “fortunate” thing is that the city police had pulled back to just protecting the government facilities, as the finance area had rent-a-cops, as did any manufacturing. Restaurants were mostly on the ground floor of one or the other, so paid a percentage for their protection.
That left the wanted criminals hiding out in the rest of the city. And like the South Side, it was mostly shoot-or-get-shot. Most of the one-story buildings had been gutted, and the two story jobs and higher were armored up to that second floor.
I did the math on the rewards, and figured out I’d barely break even with the payoff
