A slow breath, eyes wandering around, the light seems to be hiding from fear, so it is so dark and silent here.
I walked slowly to the target building and looked up. It was such an irony that this building made of reinforced concrete by humans had now become a base for monsters.
"Look to your upper right, about three meters high." Haozi's voice came from the headset. Through Xu Zhe's camera, the two of them were able to fully agree on commands and actions.
Turning his head slightly, he could see a vertical silver pipe quietly clinging to the surface of the building like a giant snake.
"That's the 'gate' we enter, but it's three meters off the ground. The pipe opening is a hinged mesh baffle, closed by an ordinary lock. It seems you have to use your brain, and you only have about a minute. The security guards on the first floor will be here soon to conduct a security check around the building." Just like an exciting level-breaking game, Haozi was not worried and had an excited smile on his face.
"It won't take that long." His eagle-like eyes locked onto the half-man-high trash can at the mouth of the pipe. Without the slightest hesitation, he exerted force on his feet and swung his arms with an exaggerated amplitude. Xu Zhe ran at full speed, and the ten-meter distance accelerated his body like a black cannonball.
He suddenly jumped up and landed on the trash can. His overwhelming force even caused the sturdy aluminum lid to cave in.
But this was not Xu Zhe's purpose. He jumped with the force and just grabbed the three-meter-high pipe baffle. Haozi thought Xu Zhe was going to show his superb lock-picking skills again, but this time Xu Zhe was not so careless. The huge impact force plus the weight of the fully armed body caused the lock to break in less than three seconds. Before the lock hit the ground, he gently kicked it with his toes, changing its direction of fall and it fell into another uncovered trash can, and the "evidence" disappeared.
He rolled over and crawled into the ventilation duct, then lightly used his toes to hook the open baffle back to its original state.
At the same time, the footsteps of the security guard came closer and closer, and the shaking flashlight light swept from below. Xu Zhe watched the vigilant security guard walk past him.
"Damn, that was really close." Tiechui broke out in a cold sweat for Xu Zhe.
"It's safe now." Haozi said with satisfaction. Xu Zhe also let go of the baffle, leaving it hanging in the air. "It will take 45 minutes for the next security patrol to come. You'd better hurry."
"Tell me the specific route." He lowered the low-light night vision goggles on his head, and the pitch-black scene in front of him instantly turned green. Looking up, Xu Zhe couldn't help but gasp. The long pipeline seemed to have no end, with countless openings along the way, just like standing under the trunk and looking at a big tree. Xu Zhe was somewhat grateful for his companion's help.
"Start running the map. Climb up. Go to the third opening on the left." He exerted force on his feet and the chair with wheels rotated to the computer on the side. He quickly tapped the keyboard and the 3D space map of the building appeared on the screen. The jumping red represented the "male protagonist", and the other moving reds in the graphics were the "villains" in the game. "Don't go the wrong way. You can't go back if you get lost!"
"Got it." Xu Zhe started to move. There was no ladder in the passage, so he could only hold on to the four walls and climb up like a gecko.
As expected of the guy who won the championship in the Security Bureau's all-around competition, the smooth pipe was not much different from flat ground for a man carrying over 130 kilograms.
This is a "noisy" stealth process. In the pipe, in pursuit of speed, no one cares about being cautious. If you use a hammer, fortunately the pipe cannot stand up, otherwise it will definitely run away.
But it was precisely because of this that Haozi's talent was fully utilized. The specific movements of each patrolling security guard, the limit of hearing, and all the calculations were perfect. For Haozi, the 373 cameras in the entire building were just "decorations". They could only monitor the video signal and could not detect Xu Zhe moving in the pipeline. The only thing he had to deal with was the "human ear".
He kept shuttling back and forth, keeping time away from the patrolling security guards, and it took him a full 30 minutes to reach the first floor.
Lying in the cold pipe, Xu Zhe panted silently. Even if he had the best physical strength, and carried more equipment than a heavy machine gunner, even an iron man might not be able to survive climbing a pipe that had seventy floors.
Looking down, through the ventilation louvers, you can clearly see the situation below. The corridor is covered with soft dark red carpet, and there are expensive potted plants that are well maintained. There is also a gorgeous double-opening wooden door. In other companies, this door is probably behind a meeting room that is only used to receive distinguished guests. But here it serves a greater purpose...
"The game is over. We have reached the boss' lair safely." With his hands finally off the keyboard, Mouse stretched his body and felt tired. "Follow the pipe five meters forward and you will reach the room behind the door. That is the founder's special office. There are no surveillance cameras there for its special value. You can go down to the ground and check slowly, then go up and use the rope to quickly descend back. The mission is that simple...
Also, I have already scanned it with the thermal imaging system, and there is no one inside, so you can rest assured."
"I can't sense the presence of demonic energy either..." After taking off the night vision goggles on his head, Xu Zhe's words should have relieved his last bit of worry. But just like that, confusion appeared on his face, "It's really so easy that it's 'scary'..."
"Is this easy? They have hundreds of security personnel, and the entire building and the surrounding areas are patrolled non-stop. It's almost at the level of protecting the Capitol building." Tiechui didn't quite understand where Xu Zhe's "simple" lay.
In the dark pipe, the only companions he had were the occasional rats passing through. Xu Zhe took a deep breath and crawled towards the end of the pipe as if he had made up his mind.
Behind that door, in the huge 500-square-meter office, the desks of white-collar workers were filled with people. They were not the former owners of the desks, and they definitely did not belong here.
Because what they held in their hands were not documents, but various types of guns. They were not wearing formal suits, but tight black combat uniforms that blended in with the environment. Different faces wore the same black hoods, and only pairs of cold wolf-like eyes were exposed to the air.
He Haozi's idea was correct, this was a trap, but the scale of the trap was like an ambush of an army. In the empty office, fifty soldiers pointed their weapons at the ceiling, quietly waiting for their prey to come. Breathing seemed to stop at this moment, and the five-meter distance between Xu Zhe and the office was a matter of life and death...
Suddenly, there was a noise from the ceiling. No one knew who pulled the trigger, but in the next three minutes, bullets poured out like a rainstorm flowing upward. The noisy gunshots intertwined into the midnight bell, enough to wake up all the sleeping people within a mile radius.
The muzzle flash even illuminated the dark office. The fallen bullet shells were piled in a irregular pattern on the ground, emitting hot white smoke.
The white plaster hangings on the ceiling became the first victims. Countless bullets shot them into pieces, and white powder kept falling like an earthquake. The black figures even turned white.
"Stop! You idiots, who told you to shoot?!" The commander's angry curses were heard in everyone's headphones.
The gunfire finally stopped, not because of the commander's authority, but because everyone had emptied their magazines.
Suddenly, a mass of bloody flesh fell from the rotten aluminum pipe and landed at the feet of a soldier.
Looking down, the soldier was bewildered...
"mouse?"
What relieved his confusion was the door being kicked open from the outside. Xu Zhe was standing there without even a bullet hole on his body. He was supposed to die under the rain of bullets, but now he was standing there alive. In his hand, the Gatling gun was already connected to the ammunition bag.
"I knew it wouldn't be that easy. How could a child do his homework obediently without being beaten?" He pulled the trigger and the Gatling gun's unique rotary engine started.
The soldier who was still standing there in a daze finally came to his senses and hurriedly replaced the magazine.
Obviously, their speed could not catch up with the killing machine that fired 6,000 rounds per minute, and the rain of bullets with light came again. Although only one person launched it, it was no less powerful than the one launched by everyone just now.
The 7.62mm caliber special armor-piercing bullet would make even ordinary tanks gasp when encountering it, let alone those guys who are only wearing ordinary bulletproof vests.
The light bullets seemed to pass through pieces of tofu. Often, even if a bullet pierced through several bodies, it still could not stop its charge.
For a moment, all kinds of debris were flying around in the office, mixed with human blood and broken limbs, which might have to endure several bullet strikes before falling to the ground.
The ambush force of fifty people now looked more like pigs to be slaughtered. Xu Zhe only moved the muzzle of his gun slightly a few times, and immediately people fell in a pool of blood one after another.
If you look from outside the building, the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on one side of the entire building were blown into pieces in a regular pattern and fell onto the street.
The citizens on the busy street finally realized something was wrong and tremblingly took out their cell phones and called the police, thinking they could save them.
The rotating muzzles stopped after a minute and a half, and the eight gun barrels ended their actions with hot white smoke coming out.
"Technology is really a 'deadly' thing." Looking at the office in front of him that was as messy as if it had been hit by a storm, Xu Zhe threw away the heavy gun and the empty ammunition bag, and suddenly felt relieved as if half of his body had been lost.
"Damn, so many people are waiting in there? Fortunately I didn't follow them..." Tiechui sighed, because he couldn't trust his intuition as much as Xu Zhe did. Perhaps he believed more in the information provided by modern technology.
If that is the case, you have already become a hornet's nest.
"How did these guys escape the thermal scanning?" This is the question that puzzles Haozi the most. He frantically checked the scanning data and instruments, and found no errors.
"The problem is their clothes." He walked into the man-made ruins and squatted in front of a body with a broken arm. The camera on his ear was looking at the dark combat suit. Looking carefully, the clothes were not that simple. Thin pipes were attached to the surface of the clothes. Clear liquid flowed out of some broken pipes. "Water-cooled circulation combat suits, night combat equipment specially developed for thermal sensing systems. Wearing this thing, they can even reduce their body temperature to the level of a mosquito. It seems that the guys who ambushed us are not ordinary guys."
"Wait, Xu Zhe, did you notice? The shooting was so weird just now..." Tiechui's expression suddenly turned cold.
"Yeah, I noticed... Although my ears are numb from the noise of the Gatling guns, I'm sure no one screamed. They're like monsters without emotions..." Even Xu Zhe was frightened. After being baptized by such a horrific rain of bullets, they could be as silent as corpses. Their willpower alone was beyond the limits of human beings.
"Don't think so much! Just pick up the things and run away! Once the gun is fired, the police will be here in a few minutes!" Haozi no longer had any mood to play. An inexplicable fear weighed on him and he could hardly breathe.
Accompanied by the moonlight coming in from the window, I walked to a relatively intact table. There was only one intact document on the table.
He picked it up naturally, but Xu Zhe had no mood or time to check it. Because the most horrifying scene in any horror movie was happening right in front of him...
Those soldiers who were thought to have been killed slowly stood up again. Even though their huge wounds were still bleeding, no one cared.
Those with a broken right hand used their left hand to hold the gun, those with a broken left hand used their right hand to hold the gun, and those with a broken leg also supported themselves by the wall and climbed up, just like the zombies in "Resident Evil".
"What kind of monster is this?" Xu Zhe was not filled with fear, but confusion.
It is obvious that these guys who don’t have the aura of monsters show the same tenacious vitality as monsters.
"Are you kidding me..." Looking at the synchronized images sent back by Xu Zhe, Haozi began to tremble.
"Hurry up! The ambush is not over yet!" His tone was so cold that it seemed to freeze the air. He put away the documents he had never even looked at, took out the pistol he carried with him, and rushed out of the terrifying office.