The tunnel was filled with smoke, Zhong Xiaoguang took two steps forward, and just collided with Zhou Zhi, he was a head shorter than Zhou Zhi, and the thick and hard hair stubble that had just grown poked into Zhou Zhi's eyes.

Zhou Zhen groaned in pain, subconsciously pushed him away with a palm, rubbed his eyes and teased: "Why do you use a gun with this mace." ”

"Lao Zhou, why don't you stay in the gang?"

Zhong Xiaoguang had no intention of ridiculing, and there was no joy in his hoarse voice, but a faint disappointment.

Zhou Zhen heard his tone different, and asked rhetorically: "What, I am not welcome?" ”

"Where's Lao Cheng?"

Zhong Xiaoguang didn't answer him, and diverted the topic with a question.

"Come on, come on, this is really a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple."

Cheng Xu heard the conversation between the two and ran into the passage with a shout.

The energy hunters lit torches and oil lamps one after another, and merged them from the passage, the lights and fires could not disperse the smoke, only making the air in the passage more turbid, and the sound of gossip echoed in the passage, and Zhou Zhi's mind was confused by the chaotic sound waves in front of him.

"Don't make any noise, let's go to the emergency meeting point first."

As soon as Zhong Xiaoguang's order came out, the noise stopped abruptly, and Zhou Zhen's vision and ears were clear.

He sighed and admired: "Prestige can be Xiao Zhong, in such a short period of time, the order can be forbidden." ”

Zhong Xiaoguang sighed softly: "It's just killing people to establish authority, I would rather not have such prestige." ”

After that, he walked towards the depths of the passage by himself, Zhou Zhen looked at the circle of light of the oil lamp in his hand in the smoke, pondering that what happened this time seemed to be not small, and stood stunned for a long time before moving his steps to follow.

Cheng Xu led someone to leave a sentry to guard the gate, and the group walked behind the wounded with help.

The maintenance corridor is part of the water supply and water supply system, and the structure is complex and extends in all directions, like a huge underground labyrinth, and the water and water pipes on both sides of the channel lead to all corners of the first floor of the A21 city.

Led by Zhong Xiaoguang, everyone came to a warehouse where maintenance equipment was stored.

The warehouse is next to a ventilation system, with energy-saving light bulbs hanging on the roof, oil lamps on the four walls, maintenance equipment has long been emptied, five sleeping bags are laid on the damp floor, and company documents, guns and ammunition, fried rice and jerky are messily stacked on the shelves in the corner.

This is what he calls the emergency meeting point.

The lighting in the warehouse was good, and everyone began to greet each other after seeing each other clearly, but they still dared to lower their voices and exchange their heads.

Zhong Xiaoguang bandaged the wounded without saying a word, the injured person was an old colleague Workel, he was hit in the shoulder, fortunately the bullet rebounded, and most of the kinetic energy has been unloaded, only causing flesh wounds, taking out the bullet and applying gunshot wound medicine will not be a big problem.

The stench of the sewer was everywhere, Zhou Zhen wanted to cover it with the smell of smoke, reached out to take out a cigarette in his pocket, but only touched a crumpled empty box, and walked all the way day and night for five days, and then smoked it all the time, he patted the colleague next to him and wanted to ask him for a cigarette.

The man secretly said to Zhong Xiaoguang Nunu: "Old Zhou, bear with me, Mr. Zhong said that the air here is not good, and smoking is not allowed." ”

Zhou Zhen sighed, reached out and took off the fisherman's hat to fan the wind next to his nose.

Cheng Xu walked over, bumped him with his elbow, and whispered, "Old Zhou, you also smell it?" ”

Zhou Zhen replied inexplicably: "Can this still be smelled?" Sewer smell. ”

Cheng Xu shook his head: "What sewer, your nose is not working after you open the eyes of heaven?" ”

Zhou Zhen shrugged his nose and sniffed again, and couldn't help frowning, this is the unique smell of the battlefield, sulfur, gunpowder smoke and the unique rancid stench of corpses are mixed together, and the stinking sewers are difficult to cover.

At this time, Zhong Xiaoguang stood up and rubbed the blood on his hands on his trouser leg: "Lao Zhou, I'm sorry, I couldn't do exactly what you asked." ”

Before Zhou Zhen could answer, Cheng Xu pushed him away: "Zhong Xiaoguang, you fuck." ”

Zhou Zhen was pushed by him, stabilized his body and was about to scold, but found that he was holding a gun in his hand, and hurriedly dragged his arm.

Cheng Xu's old face was swollen and red: "Old Zhou, my brain is slow to react, I didn't pay attention just now, you look at these people, and then look at the list of employees I gave you." ”

Zhou Zhen looked at the colleagues around him, and then took out the list of Cheng Xu brought to the basin military camp from his satchel, checked it twice, and a cold air rushed from his heel to his head.

There are 17 employees on the list, including Cheng Xu and his party of seven and Zhong Xiaoguang, and the four energy hunters present, Workel, Wang Zhan, Liu Shan, and Hashimoto Jean, are all marked behind: imprisoned, to be sent to the A01 energy laboratory.

The screening, execution, and imprisonment work was carried out in secret, and the six people led by Cheng Xu did not know the company's decision to deal with the four colleagues in front of them, and were still hooking up with them at this time.

Zhong Xiaoguang walked a few steps, put his right arm on Cheng Xu's neck and seemed to hug him, and secretly pinched his hand holding the gun with his left hand: "Be quiet, old Cheng, I also have no choice, don't let other colleagues hear." ”

He whispered, and at the same time glanced at Zhou Zhen on the side, and walked out of the warehouse with Cheng Xu.

Zhou Zhen hesitated for a moment, crumpled the list, wiped the sweat from his palms, and then put it in his trouser pocket and followed.

After turning a few corners, the two people in front of them stopped, only to see Cheng Xu look up, suddenly took two steps back in fright, pulled the bolt of the pistol, and raised the gun at Zhong Xiaoguang.

"Lao Cheng, stop! Don't be impulsive. ”

In a hurry, Zhou Zhen forgot that Zhong Xiaoguang had an armor system to protect his body, and quickly rushed forward to grab Cheng Xu.

Cheng Xu gritted his teeth and glared at Zhong Xiaoguang, Zhong Xiaoguang was pointing to an empty warehouse in front of him, Zhou Zhen followed her hand and looked carefully, only to find that this place was different from other warehouses.

The door of the warehouse here is an iron fence door, apparently it has just been installed, the anti-rust paint on the iron rods is almost spotless, and the warehouse is more than thirty square iron cages one person high.

Needless to say, this is a makeshift prison for the Armored Rat Corporation, imprisoning colleagues who have both participated in energy experiments and agreed to cooperate with the gang.

In Zhou Zhi's opinion, this is a group of greedy and evil, bottomless guys, in his plan, these people should have become Zhong Xiaoguang's meeting gift to Jiro Oshima and Thomas, but now...

He looked up at Zhong Xiaoguang, his pale face was strecked with blood and mud, not knowing if it was from caring for the wounded or splashed during an exchange of fire with the security guards of the raided company.

Zhong Xiaoguang's tone was a little sad: "The enterprise alliance came too suddenly, so I shot them." ”

Cheng Xu was relentless in wanting to break free from Zhou Qian, and he roared indignantly: "What the fuck are the nine people I screened out? ”

Zhong Xiaoguang shook his head silently.

Cheng Xu's eyes suddenly turned red: "The ones who should have survived are all dead, the damn ones are still fucking alive, how are you the leader, these people were knocked out by a sneak attack and locked in waiting to die, don't you know how much resentment the people who are waiting for death?" Now those six brothers will be killed by them at any time. ”

Zhou Zhen remembered the month he spent waiting to die in the A28 cell, and couldn't help but feel a little frightened, people who were not afraid of death abounded, but they knew when they would die but couldn't resist and delay, this sense of powerlessness on the verge of despair was ten thousand times more terrible than death.

"Follow me."

Zhong Xiaoguang didn't argue with him, turned around and walked deeper.

"it, I'm going back and killing those guys."

Cheng Xu yelled and wanted to get rid of Zhou Qian, but Zhou Zhen grabbed him hard and comforted: "Old Cheng, don't get excited, it's too late to go and see, I believe Xiao Zhong has his own reasons." ”

The three of them walked silently for a quarter of an hour, the smell of the battlefield became stronger and stronger, almost overshadowing the stench of the sewer, the lighting system in front of them seemed to be broken, the passage was so dark that they couldn't see their fingers, Zhong Xiaoguang stopped, untied the oil lamp from the side of his backpack and lit it.

The dim yellow light of the oil lamp lit up, and Zhou Zhen and Cheng Xu's heartbeats stopped at the same time.

In front of him was a hellish scene, the straight and wide tunnel was blown to pieces, and there were also hundreds of corpses, scattered between the blasted stones and the soil falling from the collapse, emitting bursts of scorched and rotting stench, the dim light of oil lamps extended, and countless rats that gnawed on carrion squeaked and fled into the darkness.

The straight tunnel, built for large horse-drawn carriages transporting building materials, is about 300 meters ahead at the end of the maintenance tunnel, and behind the gate is the road to the A21 ground, which is now less than 50 meters away, and the tunnel in the distance has completely collapsed.

Zhong Xiaoguang sat on a piece of gravel without saying a word, Zhou Zhen took the oil lamp from his hand, covered his mouth and nose and walked inside, there had been an unusually cruel resistance battle here, the broken corpses of the security guards and energy hunters were entangled, obviously a close life-and-death struggle.

"You may have misread me."

Zhong Xiaoguang lowered his head and said: "You said that the reason why I was asked to be the CEO is because I died once, and I understand the value of life better, more than two hundred lives were buried in this tunnel, the bomb was installed by me, and the detonation button was also pressed by me, these lives have no value when they are destroyed, I don't even feel any valuable emotions, only the thrill of killing the enemy and the guilt of killing comrades." ”

Cheng Xu stared blankly ahead, and asked in a muttered voice, "Your armor system failed to turn the tide of the battle?" ”

Zhong Xiaoguang sighed and said: "Every time the armor system takes damage, it consumes a lot of physical strength, rescues materials and documents from the company, and then breaks through all the way here, only one of the nine people is left, and I am exhausted." ”

Cheng Xu asked, "Then why don't you run away?" Escape from the A21 on the other side. ”

Zhong Xiaoguang said with a wry smile: "The gate over there was not locked by us, and I guess it will not be locked by the security forces, they should not know where the exit of the maintenance passage is, otherwise we would have been attacked by two ways long ago, someone must have leaked the secret, and wanted to trap us in the maintenance channel, and this person is extremely familiar with our internal secrets." ”

Cheng Xu still couldn't understand, and asked in a voice like Hong Zhong: "So you released all the prisoners?" , just to protect these Rausch sub-documents, don't you burn these things and die without proof? ”

"Lao Cheng, Xiao Zhong, he is not protecting the documents, he is protecting the Armored Mouse Company, and by the way, he also protects you and Thomas."

Zhou Zhen picked up a pack of burnt cigarettes from the ground and took out a relatively complete light: "These more than 30 people can't fall into the hands of the enterprise alliance, if the matter of Hayes's secret participation in the energy experiment is leaked, the armored rat company will be wiped out, whether it is the official sanctions from the enterprise alliance, or Shennong Group and Mayez Technology in order to hide people's eyes, you as the actual acting CEO, Thomas as a major shareholder will inevitably die." ”

Cheng Xu listened to Zhou Zhen's analysis, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, put away his pistol and turned to Zhong Xiaoguang: "Then, why don't you kill them directly?" ”

Zhong Xiaoguang didn't answer his question, raised his head, and looked at Zhou Zhen coldly: "Old Zhou, you not only missaw me, but also misjudged your old colleagues. ”