Talion A.D. (steps 4-6) Deus Ex: HR Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

(4) Getting to the real Zelazny's hideout

Map legend: 1 - Descent to sewers (level -1 of Kuaigan district).

Return upstairs and leave the Youzhao district. Go to the adjacent district - Kuaigan. Once you get there, head to the place, where you started second exploration of Hengsha, which is an area near the capsule hotel in Alice Garden #1. Use the stairs leading to lower level #2.

Explore the area and you should find a descent to sewers #1 - use it of course. Once you get inside the sewers, head south and then turn east. After few moments you should reach the mercenaries' hideout #2.

Reward: 300 experience points.

(5) Dealing with Zelazny and his team

The game will of course allow you to choose the way you want to act now. If you plan to attack Zelazny and his team members, you might get back a bit and look for a ladder #1 leading to the upper balcony. Now head east again, standing next to the railing #2.

Now you have to decide whether you want to kill mercenaries or just stun them. In the first case I suggest beginning with an EMP grenade #1. Then use a heavy gun #2 or another equally effective weapon, taking the advantage on the fact that your opponents can't get close to you.

Reward: 750 experience points.

If you want only to stun mercenaries, you can stay downstairs. It would be good to use camouflage (the Glass-Shield Cloaking System augmentation) #1 and stun them one by one, using a tranquilizer rifle #2 or another stunning weapon.

Reward: 750 experience points.

If you plan to resolve this situation peacefully, then walk towards Zelazny in order to talk to him #1. What's interesting, confirming that you're here to stop mercenaries #2, won't lead to the fight. Do not try thought to start a fight by yourself being in the conversation screen, because after the battle begins, you would be surrounded by mercenaries and it would be very hard to deal with them, even with a melee combat option.

Instead of starting the fight, choose a dialog option to persuade Zelazny to stop further actions. During a long conversation with Zelazny, you'll learn about experimental methods tested on him and his men, which made them over time mindless killing machines. Zelazny managed to free himself and now with his team they are hunting down organizers of this crime. Whether in the course of conversation you try to reason with Zelazny or only to get more info about this crime doesn't really matter.

At the end of conversation you'll get another choice to be made. If you approve mercenaries' actions #1, then you'll split up friendly. But if you try for a last time to convince Zelazny, that their actions are wrong or attack him, then you'll be forced to fight a battle with mercenaries #2.

Reward: 750 experience points.

(6) Reporting back to Dr. Wing

You have to return to Dr. Wing regardless whether you attacked mercenaries or let them go. It is worth noting, that if you've let Zelazny and his men go, that after leaving sewers he will inform you about reduced number of Belltower patrols in Kuaigan district. Go to the L.I.M.B. clinic, start conversation with Dr. Wing and choose a reporting option (screen above).

If mercenaries are dead or stunned, you have to listen to a short conversation with Wing. But if you let the go, you have to choose whether to tell Wing the whole truth or lie (screen above), saying that there was no one in the hideout. A decision you made earlier has no influence on the quest's ending, because in every case you'll be rewarded with Praxis kit.

Reward: 1000 experience points.