The loud explosion sounds continued.
As the alarm sounded, a large number of soldiers rushed out of the base and attacked Alex who had invaded.
However, since the existence of this base itself is a secret, although there are heavy weapons, there are no weapons such as tanks. For a while, it is difficult to cause any trouble to Alex.
Inside the base, underground testing ground.
An officer stood beside Raymond and said gently, "Don't worry, Doctor. I have already informed the general of what happened here. Support will arrive in ten minutes at most. Our troops are sufficient to ensure your safety."
The officer was the person in charge of the base. As soon as he received the news of Alex's invasion, he rushed to Raymond.
He knew very well that the base was exposed and destroyed because of unavoidable external factors, and as long as he was alive, he would be able to deal with it afterwards.
But if anything goes wrong with Dr. Raymond, who the general sent here to conduct research, he will be torn to pieces by the furious general.
"Of course I believe the lieutenant colonel." Raymond was not nervous and smiled. "But why do you think Alex Mercer knew about this base and came to attack it?"
"This... maybe he found this place by luck. As for the attack, he doesn't need a reason to attack us." The lieutenant colonel said after hesitating.
Ever since Alex was resurrected, he has been causing trouble for them, either openly or secretly. This is not the first time.
Raymond nodded and did not deny it. He said, "The lieutenant colonel may not know that not long ago, Alex Mercer broke into the infected area blocked by General West Germany and fought with another virus evolution Elizabeth Green in the infected area."
"Normally, even if he really knew that there was our base here and was going to destroy it, he wouldn't be so anxious that he wouldn't even give himself time to repair it."
The lieutenant colonel frowned and asked, "What does the doctor mean?"
Raymond narrowed his eyes and said, "There may be more than one intruder, Alex. Someone should have sneaked in. Alex is just attracting attention and creating opportunities for the real intruder to act."
"That's impossible!" After hearing Raymond's guess, the lieutenant colonel rejected it outright. Then, fearing that Raymond might misunderstand him, he explained, "Doctor, you may not know that the base has extremely complete detection for anyone entering or leaving it. The inside of the base is directly blocked from the outside world. There will definitely be no situation where an invasion occurs without anyone noticing!"
The fact that he was unable to detect the invasion of the base is different from the fact that the base was destroyed by an irresistible external force. In the absence of evidence, he naturally would not admit that such a problem had occurred.
And deep down, he really didn't think such a thing would happen.
"Maybe I guessed wrong." Hearing the lieutenant colonel's denial, Raymond smiled and said in the lieutenant colonel's tone, "But to be on the safe side, I think it's better for the lieutenant colonel to check the important facilities in the base. After all, even if you guess wrong, it's just a waste of time and energy. But if someone really takes away something that shouldn't be seen... I think the lieutenant colonel is not as good as the general."
Raymond had a calm expression. The lieutenant colonel frowned and thought for a moment. He looked at Raymond and said slowly, "What the doctor said makes sense. We should indeed check it out. However, compared to those, the doctor's safety is the most important. I will send a team of soldiers to protect the doctor's safety later..."
"No need for soldiers. With these super soldiers here, my safety is not a problem. If the lieutenant colonel feels that it is difficult to stop them from outside, you can also notify me and I will send some super soldiers to conduct actual tests."
As he spoke, Raymond looked at the Colonel's troubled face and smiled, "I will explain the matter of using super soldiers to the General, so you don't have to worry about it."
The lieutenant colonel looked at Raymond deeply, and without saying anything more, he strode out and gave orders, which gave the somewhat panicked soldiers a backbone. He also dispatched several teams to important locations inside the base to check for any abnormalities.
At the experimental site, watching the lieutenant colonel leave, Raymond turned and walked into a special room and locked the door.
If it was as he expected, the people hiding in the base at this time were the famous Lupin and his gang in the dark world.
Although he speculated that it was unlikely that these people were here to arrest or kill him, he still had to take necessary precautions.
With this special safe house and super soldiers guarding the periphery, it will be no problem to hold out until reinforcements arrive.
And if the worst happens...
He opened a drawer in the room and silently picked up a pistol inside.
He also has his own persistence.
…
In the computer room, messy bullet holes appeared everywhere on the wall, corpses were lying outside, and the air was filled with a bloody smell.
The dozens of centimeters thick door of the computer room was cut into several pieces by a sword and collapsed to the ground.
Lupin and his team were now staying in this buzzing computer room, waiting for news from Miss Hacker.
As the main control room of a base, the chassis array occupies nearly 100 square meters.
Of course, they couldn't take all of them back; all they needed were the hard drives that contained the information they needed.
As for how to identify which hard drive they need, they need to rely on Miss Hacker to identify it.
The beeping alarm sounded throughout the computer room, a warning that encrypted information had been tampered with by an unauthorized person.
If this had been done before the alarms throughout the base had gone off, it would have certainly attracted the attention of the entire base. But at this moment, the entire base was filled with the sound of alarms, and no one would notice this place.
"How long will it take? Miss Hacker."
Listening to the sounds of fighting outside, Lupin asked into his headset.
Although Alex attracted firepower outside, they didn't have much time left. If it dragged on for too long, whether Alex could hold on and not mention it for the time being, the other party would also notice something unusual and think of other possibilities.
"Three minutes, at most."
Skye answered as his fingers rapidly tapped on the keyboard, his eyes almost scanning the rapidly changing screen.
Since we are not trying to crack permissions but just determine the hard drive where the file is located and we don't have to worry about whether it will be discovered by others, the work is simple.
However, no matter how simple it is, the total number of encrypted files is extremely large. It is a hassle to determine the storage location of all encrypted files in a short time.
Time passed by minute by minute, and there was no response from Sky, but the phone outside the computer room rang first.
Has this been noticed
Lupin raised his eyebrows in slight surprise, gave the other three a look, then walked to the phone and picked it up.
During the previous battle, he had memorized the voices of the guards, so it wasn't difficult to disguise himself with false voices.
"Report the situation there! Soldier!" As soon as the phone was connected, a slightly urgent question came from the end.
"Everything is fine, sir." Lupin replied in a soldier's voice.
"Remember to report any abnormalities immediately." The person on the other side seemed to have no doubts and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yes, sir."
“By the way, what’s the password?” Just as I was about to hang up the phone, the person on the other end suddenly asked.
Lupin listened, his heart skipped a beat, and after a brief thought, he didn't reply and hung up the phone.
"You got fooled?"
Jigen asked as he watched Lupin come back.
"No, we are exposed." Lupin grinned.
This time, the opponent is not as boring as imagined.
"Looks like we have to fight again!" Ciyuan reached for the gun at his waist.
Although there were some surprises, everyone present knew that it was difficult for everything to go as planned. Since they were here, they were already prepared.
"alright!"
A mechanical girl's voice that had been changed came from the headset. Sky looked at the recorded hard drive information and read it quickly.
After hearing this, Lupin immediately took action and said, "Fujiko, Jigen, help me find the hard drive. Goemon, please guard the door for the time being and don't let anyone in."
"Leave it to me." Goemon's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he walked out with a sword in his hand.
After the words fell, the three began to search according to the number in this computer room of hundreds of square meters.
There are a total of seven hard drives that need to be found. Generally speaking, it would take a lot of time to find them in this array of hundreds of hard drives. Fortunately, the computer room itself is numbered, which saves most of the time.
Time passed slowly, and after the three people's search, there was only one hard drive left to find.
At this time, the sound of gunfire was heard outside the computer room.
"Hard drive, hard drive, small hard drive, where on earth are you hiding..."
Lupin was muttering anxiously. At this time, Fujiko shouted from another place: "Lupin, I found it!"
"Oh! Is it at your place, Fujiko-chan?"
Lupin walked over happily, took a quick look, and after confirming that this was the hard drive they were looking for, he violently pulled out the connected cable and stuffed it directly into the space inside his belt.
It is thanks to this belt with one cubic meter of space, otherwise even if I got the hard drive, it would be difficult to take it out.
"Let's go, Goemon!"
Outside the computer room, Lupin came out and greeted him.
Goemon, who was blocking the soldiers, heard it, responded, and jumped in front of Lupin.
The plans he made usually involved multiple preparations, and the current situation was also a possibility he had anticipated.
When he was in the archives room, he prepared corresponding countermeasures based on his understanding of the map and the images captured by the surveillance cameras.
At this time, facing the pursuing enemies, after escaping according to the plan, they successfully got onto a military vehicle.
"There are more and more people chasing us, Lupin!"
In the car, Ciyuan shot and killed several soldiers who were chasing him fiercely, and ducked his head to avoid the bullet path.
"After all, we took something they definitely didn't want us to take." Lupin turned the car key, stepped on the accelerator, and shouted as the car took off: "But we got the stuff!"
The tires rubbed against the ground with a loud hissing sound.
Ahead is the intersection leading to the outside world, but this time it is blocked by a locked gate.
Behind him, the officer in charge of the pursuit directed the soldiers forward. Even when he saw Lupin and the others getting in the car, he did not look nervous.
Apart from the place where they came in, there was only one entrance and exit, the front gate. At this time, the front gate was locked. Even if they got in the car, they were just a group of turtles in a jar.
"A bunch of jumping monkeys!"
There was a gleam of ferocity in the eyes of the officer in charge of the pursuit. He was already imagining what means he would use to deal with these invaders who were very good at escaping after catching them.
Lupin drove the car towards the gate, and even when he was about to hit it, he did not slow down at all.
Just before the collision, Lupin shouted, "Goemon!"
"clear!"
Goemon, who was sitting on the roof of the car, opened his eyes, and the sword that had been accumulating power for a long time was instantly unsheathed. In the blink of an eye, he slashed several times and cut the chain of the gate.
The vehicle crashed into the unlocked gate and successfully reached the outside world.
Behind him, the officer who had been confident before saw this scene and his eyes suddenly turned red!
"Blow him up! Blow up the car! Fuck!"
The officer cursed, and seeing that the bullets didn't have much effect, he picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted to the outer defense line: "Shoot up the truck that rushed out, shoot it up at all costs!"
The soldiers outside who were trying to stop Alex heard the new order and immediately turned their eyes to the military vehicles rushing out from the ground.
Alex, who was constantly entangled with the soldiers in the base, also noticed something unusual. When he looked through the window and saw Lupin sitting in the driver's seat and giving him a thumbs up, he immediately realized that what had been done was done.
The whistling rockets blasted towards the military vehicles.
Lupin did a graceful drift and used his driving skills to shake off two of them, but one still caught up with him.
Alex took the initiative to step forward and detonated it, giving Lupin an OK gesture.
Now that Lupin and his crew had evacuated, it would be much easier for him to evacuate.
The truck roared past and successfully rushed through the broken gate and onto the street outside the base.
The officer in charge of the pursuit reluctantly sent soldiers to chase after him by car, but Alex easily blocked their way.
But when he saw that the military vehicle was no longer visible, he dropped his gun helplessly.
Such a huge mistake has occurred this time, and not only him, but even his immediate superior will be held accountable by the general.
A few more minutes passed, and helicopters arrived from the sky as the first batch of support.
Alex took a look and felt that Lupin and the others had run far enough, so he didn't bother to continue and found an opportunity to leave.
In a small car, Lupin and his four companions evacuated according to the pre-prepared retreat route.
Before taking action, Lupin had thought through the retreat plan thoroughly. Now everything was going smoothly, but there was also a sense of being neither hurried nor slow.
"I thought we were going to be facing off against some super soldiers."
Ciyuan, who had already changed his clothes, took out a cigarette, lit it, and puffed leisurely.
"If we delay a little longer, maybe..."
As Lupin was talking, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang.
After taking it out and taking a look, Lupin's brows suddenly frowned.
"What's wrong, Lupin?"
Fujiko, who was sitting in the passenger seat, noticed that Lupin's eyes were not right and couldn't help asking.
"Colin sent a message asking us to go back as soon as possible... Forget it, let's go back first!"
As soon as I stepped on the accelerator, the vehicle instantly accelerated.
(End of this chapter)