Text Chapter 13: The Black Gold Ballista of the Spiral Ascension
"Ding! Ground-level thief, codenamed Heavenly Thief Reincarnation, identity confirmation completed!" The elevator door opened for Ai Qing.
This level is twice as large as the four basement floors, and from a distance it looks more like an oversized integrated market, with all the equipment on the shelves and a specific staff member patrolling and guarding it.
The entire fifth basement floor is divided into four areas, each of which stores different types of equipment, and a miniature version of the map is pasted on the wall on Ai Qing's right, and the four colors of red, yellow, blue, and green represent the four classifications.
Red: Weapons Zone. Yellow: Reconnaissance detection area. Blue: Special terrain equipment area. Green: Portable gear and communication area.
Ai Qing was more curious about what kind of weapons the Tiandao Company could provide to the thieves, it was impossible to have hot weapons, that was really excessive, he guessed that it was some electric batons, throwing sticks and other sticks.
The weapons area is the smallest of the four areas, and it is also the most corner, and the flow of people in it is pitiful, and it is not difficult to understand that most of the people who come to get equipment are thieves, and thieves are responsible for stealing things, and they are not hurting, and it is useless to ask for weapons.
Tiandao Company will always exceed Ai Qing's imagination, the scale of the weapon area is almost comparable to the equipment area of the Secret Service Bureau, there are all kinds of weapons, large and small, from small rings to mechanical crossbows more than a meter long, but one thing Ai Qing is not mistaken, there are indeed no hot weapons here, after all, the state is still quite strict in this regard, even if he has it, he will not dare to put it on the bright side.
"Hello, is there anything you need?" the staff member wearing the wolf face mask walked up to Ai Qing's side and asked politely.
Ai Qing looked around and said, "What are the miniature weapons here?", miniature weapons are the best standard for judging the level of a weapon shop.
"Please follow me. The wolf-faced man led Ai Qing to a brown glass counter.
"This counter is where we have all the miniature weapons here, what type do you need?" I have to say that the wolf-faced man has a very good service attitude, and he should have been specially trained.
Ai Qing blinked his eyes three times in a row, turned on the automatic recording function of the electronic eagle eye, everything he saw now will be uploaded to his mobile phone, there must be at least twenty types of weapons on the counter, and there are only more than thirty kinds of secret service branches that Ai Qing went to before, and there are duplicate equipment between the two, such as the two rings that Ai Qing wears on his hand, which are placed in the counter.
"I don't know exactly what kind of equipment I need, can you give me a brief introduction?" Although the shape is the same, Ai Qing doesn't think that the function is exactly the same.
"Okay, I'll recommend a few of them. This is called the chess piece mine, the black half has the effect of blasting, there is no problem with blowing up a door lock, the white one has the effect of electric shock paralysis, it can intermittently release high-voltage current, which lasts for three seconds, and can corona a strong man, but it will not hurt his life. The wolf-faced man was holding two pieces the size of a game of Go in his hand.
Ai Qing pointed to the counter and asked, "What is this necklace for?"
"Sir, I'm sure you won't need it, it's a weapon for suicide. ”
"Suicide?"
"That's right, this necklace has a hundred ways to activate it, and then it will kill you a hundred ways too. "The wolf-faced man said something exaggerated, and I don't know if it's true or not.
"Then what if I accidentally activate it?" This kind of suicide equipment is also available in the Secret Service, but it is rare, and Ai Qing has never seen anyone use it.
The wolf-faced man spread his hands out to the sides and said in a witty tone, "That's cool, so I said you wouldn't use it." ”
In the next half hour, the wolf-faced man took the trouble to answer all the questions asked by Ai Qing, Ai Qing wondered if he was a high-tech intelligent robot, after talking for so long, whether it was his voice or tone, and then his attitude was the same, Ai Qing would definitely feel that he was such a tricky customer if he was disgusting.
"Do you have any thermal weapons here?" Ai Qing asked tentatively, gesturing the shape of a gun in her hand.
"I'm sorry, I don't have the thermal weapon you need, but seeing that you should also be an insider, I recommend you a 'Big Mac' as the treasure of our company's new town store!" "In a series of questions about Ai Qing just now, Ai Qing also showed his strong professionalism, maybe this wolf-faced man is also a lover, and he feels that he has found a soulmate, so his attitude towards Ai Qing has always been good, and now he also took the initiative to introduce him to the treasure of the town store.
Ai Qing had studied psychology for a while, and although he couldn't see the wolf-faced man's expression now, he could hear the joy in the wolf-faced man's tone, and this joy was a feeling that could only arise from the heartfelt love of something.
"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, lead the way!" Ai Qing spoke as if to an old friend.
The wolf-faced man's so-called treasure of the town store is a mechanical giant crossbow more than one meter long and more than half a meter wide, and the giant crossbow exudes a black cold-blooded light, as if he is demonstrating, telling others that he is a big killer.
Ai Qing has seen a lot of crossbows, except that this crossbow is a little bigger, a little blacker, and a little more bulky, it is no different from the crossbow he used before, I don't know what the wolf-faced man has to be proud of, and he also calls it the treasure of the town.
"That's it, its name is the Black Gold Ballista of the Spiral Ascension!" The wolf-faced man said the name of this extremely middle two with great admiration, and Ai Qing was embarrassed to hear it.
The wolf-faced man seemed to see Ai Qing's indifference to the ballista, and explained mysteriously, "Do you think it's just a simple crossbow? ”
Ai Qing looked at the face of the wolf-faced man who had explained to him for nearly an hour, leaned down and carefully observed the internal structure of the ballista, which was indeed different from ordinary crossbows, which used extremely elastic metal wires as crossbow strings to shoot crossbow arrows through explosive force.
The ballista's crossbow machine is more like a sniper rifle structure, and it seems to have an internal rotation function, and that's it.
Ai Qing didn't want to waste time on this kind of big guy who couldn't use anything, the moment he stood up straight, the afterglow of his eyes just swept over the crossbow arrow under the ballista, and the familiar feeling stabbed his chest like a sharp blade this time, the appearance of this crossbow arrow had many similarities with the deadly crossbow arrow he saw last in his previous life, for example, the arrow was a spiral-shaped blood groove.
"Do you understand? The biggest feature of this ballista is that it can make the crossbow bolts shoot rotate at high speed, with a maximum speed of 320 revolutions per second, which is invincible and takes the life of the enemy thousands of miles away!" The more the masked man spoke, the more passionate he became, as if this was his masterpiece.
"Wait a minute, what did you just say?" Ai Qing interrupted the wolf-faced man's introduction.
The wolf-faced man was stunned for a second, and then said, "Thousands of miles away, take the enemy's life?"
"That's not it!" Ai Qing said excitedly as she grabbed the wolf-faced man's shoulders with both hands.
"Indestructible?"
"Not either!"
"The bolts spin up to three hundred and twenty revolutions per second. The wolf-faced man looked at Ai Qing in front of him with a confused expression, and he seemed to see fear in Ai Qing's eyes.
Ai Qing let go of the wolf-faced man's shoulders, held his head in his hands and slowly retreated behind him, the spinning crossbow arrow, the image of the crossbow arrow that was going to kill him spinning in his body played in his mind in a loop, his brain was as painful as if he had been pricked by a needle, and his feet fell to the ground with weakness.
"Sir, what's wrong with you?" the wolf-faced man hurriedly stepped forward and helped Ai Qing up.
Ai Qing's right hand pressed a button on the bracelet in his left hand, and a miniature syringe popped up inside the bracelet, and a sobering agent was injected into his wrist, which instantly cooled down in his mind, which was prepared to prevent the agent from being affected by the bad state, and this time it came in handy.
"I'm fine, thank you. Ai Qing sat down in the rest place on the side with the help of the wolf-faced man, and he slowly walked out of the shadow of death, as if he had just experienced the feeling of death again.
Ai Qing asked the wolf-faced man, "Has anyone used this crossbow?"
"This crossbow is only eligible for a heaven-level thief. The wolf-faced man replied.
"I'm asking if anyone has rented it?" Ai Qing asked again.
The wolf-faced man hesitated for a second, then squeaked and said, "All customer identities and rental information are confidential, I'm sorry!"
Ai Qing had already gotten the answer he wanted from his hesitant words and wandering eyes, this ballista must have been rented, and it was in the near future, or it could be accurate to the day of his death.
"Thanks, I still have a mission, I have to go. "Ai Qing's body is almost recovering.
The wolf-faced man enthusiastically handed Ai Qing a business card of his own, "It's rare to see someone like you who knows equipment, make a friend, you can call me a thousand wolves, this is my contact information, you can find me if you need any equipment." ”
"Okay, I'll come again. Ai Qing took the business card of the thousand wolves.
Before, Ai Qing only suspected that his death and the theft of the dragon bone floating lantern might be related to the Heavenly Dao Company, until he had just seen the ballista that killed him, and he was even more convinced that his judgment was correct, although it was not ruled out that there was a second ballista and crossbow arrow in the world that was exactly the same as it, and he also participated in the theft, and finally killed him, but the probability of this situation was too small to be ignored.
Ai Qing combined Hou Yan's previous description, coupled with this ballista, he speculated that it was very likely that someone not only issued a reward for theft on the Tiandao intranet, but there should also be one item in the mission content that assisted the client in eliminating the tracking agent, although he didn't know what the purpose was, but it could only be explained in this way, otherwise if a thief went to steal something, it would be impossible to carry such a bulky big guy with him.