The black-clad soldiers quickly poured into the apartment and began a search from the first floor, the muzzles of a dozen submachine guns aimed at all possible enemy positions, and the binocular night vision devices above their heads turned the dark corridors bright green.

Although the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is not as good as that of the "Cobra Force" under the command of war observers, their professionalism and tactics are definitely not bad, and the team is assigned with a clear eye and meticulous tactical movements.

If you have guns or explosives, you can still fight, and if you rely on fists or melee weapons alone, even if you are a melee specialized player similar to the Sword Emperor, you will not have the slightest chance of winning in the face of such a squad!

So, to deal with these soldiers, other means need to be used -

"Check all the rooms."

The black-clad soldier, who was the first to enter the apartment, gave a simple and brutal order to the others behind him, and the soldiers quickly dispersed to the sides, and began to inspect the rooms on the first floor in pairs.

A neat explosion tore through the silence in the hallway, and the seven gray metal doors were blasted open by the door breaker almost simultaneously, and the soldiers quickly rushed into the room, with the help of night vision devices, observing the interior of the apartment without the lights on.

"Report the situation." The commander whispered.

"No signs of life were detected."

"No one."

“Nothing.”

……

Six of the two-person groups who entered the seven rooms replied, but the two who entered room 101 seemed to be shielded and no longer sounded.

"Alpha, answer."

The commander, who was half-kneeling by the window with his gun in his hand, avoiding the gunman's attack range outside the window, had a solemn face, his face smeared with gray oil paint distorted, and repeated: "Alpha, please reply." ”

There was still a deathly silence in the headphones, and the two members of the team did not respond.

“……”

Realizing that something was wrong, the Commander turned his gaze to the blasted door of Room 101 and issued a new command in a low voice:

"The second and third teams inspect 101, and the fifth team keeps an eye on the main entrance, beware of attacks from outside the apartment, and prepare flashing shock grenades."

"Roger."

The well-trained soldiers immediately began to act according to the commander's new instructions, four soldiers lowered their bodies and moved towards Room 101, while the others took care of all possible enemy positions in the vicinity, and were ready to rush out of the building in five seconds if it collapsed.

"Start entering."

The black-clothed soldier in front of him said as he pulled the black mask around his neck, and his face was covered with a pale skull pattern, and the four soldiers rushed into the dark room 101, and they were greeted by a clean and tidy living room, metal tables and chairs.

"There's a situation in the bedroom."

The two soldiers in front of them glanced at each other and walked lightly towards the hidden bedroom door on the left, while the other two soldiers continued to stand guard in the living room, pointing their guns at the other bedroom next to them, as well as the broken wooden door of the bathroom.

There was a dead silence in Room 101, the soldiers could even hear their own breathing, and the soldier standing in front of the bedroom door took a deep breath, slammed open the hidden wooden door, and—

They saw two teammates who had entered Room 101...... of the back.

The two soldiers sent to inspect Room 101 were now standing motionless facing the wall with their arms down, their bodies almost pressed against the wall.

In the green vision of the night vision device, the image looks particularly terrifying, like a scene from a horror movie.

"Eric?" A soldier tentatively called out the names of his comrades, only to see that the two were still motionless, and the submachine guns in their hands seemed to be missing.

- What's going on?

The air in the room was a little heavy, as if there was a faint smell of blood, seeing the strange situation of the two comrades-in-arms, the two soldiers in the bedroom were also a little nervous for a while, and subconsciously raised the submachine gun and pointed the muzzle of the black hole at the two comrades-in-arms who did not move.

"What's wrong?"

The commander's voice suddenly sounded from the earphones, startling the two soldiers standing in front of the bedroom door: "What do you see? ”

"We found the alpha...... But they ...... Something is wrong. One soldier replied, "We're going to look into ......."

"Wait, what the hell is going on, tell me clearly!" The commander asked.

Perhaps too nervous to respond, or not knowing how to explain, the two soldiers in the room did not answer, but walked slowly forward to the two comrades standing facing the wall, and stood to the side to study their faces.

What then appeared in their sight was a murderous picture that they had not expected:

The two of their comrades standing across the wall had a large hole in their skulls cut in their foreheads. Nails to the wall, perhaps the sharp steel nails that had been used to hang things like landscapes, mercilessly pierced their heads and hung their bodies on the walls.

The faces of the two comrades-in-arms were strangely pale and pale, glowing with a luster of death under the sight of the night vision device, and the eyes without pupils were only the whites of the eyes, and their mouths were twisted into an O-shape.

“Fuck……”

Witnessing the horrific scene, the two soldiers who entered the house to inspect cursed. One of the soldiers grabbed the dead comrade by the shoulder, intending to pull the body off the wall. But......

Noticing the silver filaments sticking out of the corpse's mouth, another soldier next to him suddenly shouted, "Don't move! ”

Rumble!

The corpse's head exploded, and the grenade stuffed in his mouth instantly shattered his skull, pouring the corpse's sharp bone fragments into the bodies of the two soldiers along with the grenade fragments.

While the bedroom erupted in flames, the two soldiers who were still on guard in the living room were startled and turned their gaze to the bedroom door. This moment of distraction prevented them from noticing that a figure suddenly appeared in the dark kitchen behind them.

"Team 2 and Team 3, answer immediately!" The commander shouted almost in frustration.

He couldn't understand that the six soldiers under his command would "capsize" in a hut of less than fifty square meters. Although I don't know what happened inside, the grenade explosion just now can roughly explain the situation......

"Begin evacuation, use grenades against 101." The commander again gave a new order.

At this point, although I don't know if the soldiers inside are still alive, the commander still chooses to sacrifice the subordinates inside in exchange for the safety of most of the soldiers!

Now, the enemy is likely to be hiding in Room 101, and only by temporarily evacuating this place can they be-

The Commander had just thought of this when the gray metal canister that rolled out of the door of Room 101 interrupted his thoughts.

Bang!

The loud noise made when the flash bomb exploded shattered all the window panes in the corridor on the first floor, and the old-fashioned night vision devices worn by the soldiers did not have the light-sensitive locking device that was developed later, and the super light emitted by the flash grenades was directly seen by the soldiers who were moving towards Room 101.

"Ahhh My eyes! The poor man who walked in front of him jerked off his night vision goggles, covered his eyes with his hands and howled loudly, a trace of blood oozing from between his fingers.

The commander closed his eyes in time, but the star-like light pierced his eyes through his eyelids, making his vision look like an overexposed film, and he lost his color.

"Retreat...... Fall back! ”

The Commander shouted loudly as he leaned his hands on the wall and stumbled to the other side of the hallway.

The screams of his soldiers echoed in his ears, making the commander almost desperate, until the piercing sound of submachine gun gunfire rang out behind him, drowning out the incessant screams and wails.

Bang bang bang......

After a rapid burst of gunfire, the black-clad soldiers in the corridor all collapsed in pools of blood. The only thing left standing here was the gray-clad "Grim Reaper" standing at the end of the corridor, holding a submachine gun in each hand.

“……”

Lin Chi walked out of the shadow at the end of the corridor in silence, threw away the two MP5A3 submachine guns that had run out of bullets in his hand, rushed forward quickly, picked up another submachine gun in the commander's hand, and fired three bullets at the soldier who was still spasming next to him, ending his pain.

The four soldiers who were in charge of guarding the entrance of the building escaped this catastrophe, but unfortunately in such a situation, there was no way to avenge their comrades-in-arms by relying on a few of them.

Now they are facing not an enemy with only melee weapons in their hands, but a "professional murderer" with guns in their hands and a lot of proficiency bonuses in the massacre just now!

After a strafing shot, the remaining four were also killed, and Lin Chi searched the corpse, picking up a few grenades and flashbangs, as well as a large number of nine-millimeter Parabem pistol rounds that could be used by MP5. Only then did he leave the bloody corridor with satisfaction, returned to the second floor and said, "Thank you." ”

"No, it's me who should thank you......"

The weak voice of the "neighborhood committee administrator" sounded from the speaker installed in the corridor without knowing where it was: "I don't have the ability to fight, it would be bad if I was caught by them, thank you for helping me solve the trouble......"

"Huh." Lin Chi laughed and looked up at the ceiling in the corridor full of bullet holes.

In fact, if it weren't for the information provided by this woman just now, it would have been much more troublesome to deal with these soldiers. As the administrator, the woman naturally knew the situation in this apartment well, and the information she provided also made Lin Chi formulate a battle plan in a few seconds.

Recalling the process of searching the corpse just now, Lin Chi asked casually:

"Do you know why these soldiers are here?"

Of course, what he was looking for was not only weapons and ammunition, but also the identification cards of these soldiers, or information that could explain their intentions, but these people were like nameless death squads sent to their deaths, and they did not carry any information or identification cards at all.

"I don't know." The woman's voice sounded confused, too: "I guess they might be trying to snatch the dream machine......"

"That's right." Lin Chi nodded thoughtfully.

- According to the information provided by the various weapons and equipment and house details here, the timeline of this map should be around the nineties of the last century.

Just think about it, if there was really a black technology such as a "dream machine" in 1990, I am afraid that the special forces of all countries in the world would have to gather together to have a tense and exciting battle in this dilapidated building.

In this way, it seems not surprising that these soldiers are here.

However, the point of the question now is - why did such a disobedient thing as a dream maker appear in an apartment?

Lin Chi knew very well that the apartment he was currently in was likely to be the same as the first Doomsday Hotel, which was also created by equipment such as the "Dream Maker". In this way, the mystery of the mysterious disappearance of all the residents on the first floor can be explained.

Now in this map, most of the players on the second and third floors are hanged, but the players on the first floor don't seem to be at war, and they don't have any kill prompts, so I don't know what they're doing.

If the world is also virtual, and the players who "spawn" from the first floor are not controlled by the Dream Maker, they are likely playing in another parallel dimension.

- To put it simply, those people should be in the "upper space" here.

Lin Chi knew that in the eyes of the players on the first floor, he should be just a "vegetative person" lying on the bed in room 302, controlled by a dream machine.

If that's the case, I'm still in the world of illusions, and I can't compete with the awake players in the same floor!

So, what I need now is a way to get out of this virtual space.

Thinking of this, Lin Chi was also unequivocal, and asked straight to the point: "Where are you?" I have some questions that I would like to ask in person. ”

- This way of communication is really inconvenient now, if you can find the location of this NPC and have a face-to-face "cordial communication" with her, it is obvious that you can solve the problem faster.

Moreover, according to the quest provided by the Observer's Contract, it is possible that this woman is a boss-level NPC that can be recruited in this game. Even if she is not "real" here, just a projection in a dream, it is necessary to meet her now.

"Ah...... Do you want to see me? The woman was silent for a moment before slowly asking, "Really?" ”

"Of course." Lin Chi nodded.

"That, my body...... It's a bit inconvenient. The woman spoke slowly, her voice still sounding weak: "I think you might be scared......"

"It's okay, I'm very receptive." Lin Chi continued to ask straightforwardly: "Where are you?" ”

After he asked, the woman was silent for a while, and after two minutes she finally whispered:

"The warehouse on the second basement floor, I'll open the door for you......"

Hearing this, Lin Chi walked to the stairwell without saying a word, moved down the stairs quickly, and walked into the second basement floor that was pitch black. Put on the binocular night vision goggles that were scavenged from the corpse of a soldier and observe the situation ahead.

The second basement floor looks like a huge warehouse, with a heavy round metal door in front of it, a bit like a large shelter that can withstand a nuclear explosion.

Lin Chi stood in front of the door and waited for a while, and the round giant door finally began to slowly open to the back.

"Please come in." The woman's voice sounded a little hesitant: I'm here...... Waiting for you.