Uh oh.

"Is there anyone who could be watching us right now if they wanted to?"

Fucking netrunners, always monitoring everything. Can't resist getting their data-fingers in every camera and sensor no matter how much you try keeping them out. He's got ICE but an Arasaka runner was the one who installed that shit, so...

"No. I insist on privacy in my quarters." Lie.

Okay, there's apparently something along the lines of a scry on here at all times, but not enough like a scry for his Mind Blank to beat it, that's a problem, let's see how big of one it is.

It's possible that there's at most one more guy he has to control in order to erase any records of him being here, if that's true he can just do that as a stopgap until he orients to just what's possible here.

Probably it's not that easy, in which case he can't actually pull off not leaving a trace behind and should just kidnap Smasher and let them try to look for his current face, which he'll just never use again.

Either way it's not worth keeping up the illusion that he's able to lie just to make interrogating him more convenient, if it means these "cameras" will pick up more of what he's doing.

(This is the sort of thinking you can do in ten seconds, at Int 26)

"How many people would I have to control in order to get all the records from when I showed up and on erased?"

"-If you get the head of Night City security right now and then Yorinobu Arasaka and they both came down on purging shit that might work. UNLESS THEY RUN OFFSITE BACKUPS RIGHT FUCKING NOW NOW NOW DO IT!"

Yeah, he's not doing that without time to plan.

It seems likely that Smasher has something tracking his location, which is a problem, he wants to get somewhere he can't be followed to until he knows more.

Does a Flesh To Stone work on him? (He does, after all, have significantly less flesh than the targets the spell is usually used on do).

Flesh to Stone affects Adam Smasher normally. And he can't resist Mengkare's spells. All of his flesh becomes stone.

None of it was visible from the outside, though. So in effect he goes completely still except for automatic systems now registering his biopod's 'death' and sending out electronic warnings.

Well, he tried. Miracle(Disintegrate). Have a nice time in the Abyss.

He's going to try getting some information from someone who isn't going to have all these pesky contingencies.

Greater Teleport back to the ally. Is the homeless guy still there?

He is not.

There's some girl in a buck-a-slice uniform taking a smoke break, though.