Chapter 8: The Tip of the Iceberg
At night, the streets on the second floor of A28 are as lively as ever.
Although he had changed his disguise, Zhou Zhen still tried his best to avoid the street lamps and the lanterns of the street bars.
As he approached his destination, Zhou Zhen stopped, the neon sign of Du Kang's wine shop was as bright as a torch, and the door was crowded with people, like a group of moths fighting a fire, he touched the beard that had been glued for two hours, pulled down the brim of the top hat, and then continued to walk forward.
Passing through the shoulder-to-shoulder drinkers, he squeezed to the bar with his hat on, several fresh-faced bartenders were busy, Natasha sat in front of the fan blowing a cool breeze, and a light blue cheongsam was soaked with sweat.
"Double whiskey, thank you for half a glass of osmanthus wine."
Zhou Zhen slapped the energy card in Zhong Xiaoguang's name on the bar, which was the connection code between him and Natasha.
Sure enough, the bartender had never heard of such a bartending method, and confirmed with him with a puzzled face: "What do you want to drink?" ”
"Double whiskey, half a glass of osmanthus wine."
Zhou Zhen raised his voice, causing the drinker next to him to laugh drunkenly: "Dude, what kind of drinking method are you?" Is the combination of Chinese and Western medicine effective? ”
Zhou Zhen was a little annoyed, because Natasha was less than a meter away from him, but he didn't even look back, and he didn't seem to hear at all.
So he shouted at the top of his throat again, and Natasha turned slightly sideways and said impatiently to the bartender: "Don't make this glass of wine, tell the guests, there are too many people today, come back next time." ”
Zhou Zhen sighed, didn't wait for the bartender to convey it, took back the energy card, turned around and left Du Kang's wine shop.
Natasha was understandable for not wanting to pay attention to herself, after all, the mission was scheduled there, but he always felt that her words did not taste right.
Standing at the doorway pondering for a while, her tone seemed unusually heavy when she said the word 'down'.
Down, basement? Avoiding the hustle and bustle of the crowd, Zhou Zhen went around a secluded back alley to the back of the barn, where there was a horse shed and a back door to the basement.
There were only Natasha's two horses in the stable, and there was no sign of her thoroughbred, which seemed to have been sent away.
The back door of the basement opens on the ground in the deepest part of the stable, and the cover is unlocked, revealing a faint light.
Zhou Zhen knew that he had guessed correctly, and he gently lifted the cover, revealing the stairs below.
The basement was stacked against the wall with a large number of drinks, which had been turned into a pure warehouse, with operating tables, experimental equipment, and medical equipment all gone, and the electrical circuits cleanly dismantled, and the floors resurfaced, hiding the marks of the load-bearing loads.
Zhou Zhen was very puzzled, Natasha's laboratory was the legal asset of the Armored Mouse Company, even if his assassination operation was exposed, there would be no reason for it to be seized here, what was it to prevent so thoroughly?
In the middle of the basement, there was a low table with only a bottle of red wine, half-corked and untouched.
Zhou Zhen and Natasha didn't drink red wine, he knew that this was some kind of code, he checked the wine bottle, there was nothing unusual, uncorked the bottle, a sour smell came to his nose, and the wine had already been broken.
Zhou Zhen pinched his nose and poured the wine into the sink, and then looked at the wine bottle, and on the back of the bottle label that was blocked by the wine just now, a downward arrow was drawn.
Down? Zhou Zhen looked under the sink and found nothing, remembering that the wine bottle was placed on the low table before, and touched the back of the table, where a miniature memory chip was glued to the center of the bottom of the table.
"What's the situation, you still have to play tricks on your own turf..."
Zhou Zhen complained to himself, and inserted the chip into Zhong Xiaoguang's portable terminal, and there was very little content in the chip, only a photo and a program that could not be run manually.
However, Natasha did not disappoint him after all, the moment he opened the photo, Zhou Zhen felt creepy, in the photo, dozens of charred corpses were scattered in a gloomy room, the room was very large, in addition to the charred corpses on the ground, there were piles of ashes, the dark marble walls were full of cracks, obviously also burned by the fire, the structure of the room was very familiar, that was...
The lobby on the first floor of the light of technology!
So, are those corpses the unemployed in the light of technology? Zhou Zhen felt his heart beat faster, and was about to count the number of people, when the program in the chip suddenly started, the screen flashed a few times, and the photo was automatically erased, replaced by a striking red letter.
"Running !!"
Immediately, there was a sizzling sound of electricity from the terminal, and the fuselage quickly became hot.
Short circuit? Zhou Zhen hurriedly threw the terminal on the ground, and after a few seconds, the plastic shell of the terminal melted, and the screen also cracked into pieces under the high temperature.
Everything was so weird that he didn't have time to think about it at the moment, Zhou Zhen turned around and rushed out of the basement.
The stables were empty, the two horses were nowhere to be found, Zhou Zhen went around to the main entrance of the bar, Du Kang's liquor store was closed, even the neon sign was extinguished, and then look around, the street that was lively ten minutes ago was now no longer there except himself.
"What the hell?"
Zhou Zhen couldn't believe his eyes, he ran desperately, but until the position of the central elevator, he still didn't see a person, and even the lights of the buildings on the street were extinguished.
"Ding Dong..."
A nuclear power elevator reached the second floor, and the gate slowly moved to both sides, and Zhou Zhen found a corner to hide and protect his body with a wall.
A few seconds later, more than a dozen enterprise alliance security guards walked out of the elevator one after another, all of them were loaded with guns, and whispered communication with walkie-talkies while on guard, Zhou Zhen heard some words, Zhong Xiaoguang's name, the arrest target is very dangerous, and he may resist with weapons...
The net had been cast, but the security guards did not immediately start searching, just lined up on both sides of the door.
After a few more seconds, Amiko stepped out of the elevator, her hair loose and pink pajamas, sleepy-eyed as if she had just crawled out of the bed.
Walking to the end of the security queue, Amiko yawned, raised her arm and waved, and the security guards immediately divided into teams of five or six and split up to search.
It must have been exposed, at this moment of crisis, Zhou Zhen calmed down, he believed in his professional ability, in this month of Shennong Group, he did not show any flaws, the answer is very clear, this is a conspiracy from beginning to end, a conspiracy with him as the target.
Now, the hunter has become the prey, and Zhou Zhen is in the corner between the two elevators, and there is nowhere to escape, but he can still fight to the death.
A team of security guards walked along the corner of the road, clinging to the wall and hiding in their blind spots, one of the three pointed to his location, and two security guards walked towards the corner with rifles in hand.
Zhou Zhen couldn't look at it, his ears could distinguish their footsteps, and he silently counted down: "Five, four, three, two..."
"One!" He suddenly crouched down, kicked against the wall behind him, and flew out of the ground with his body pressed against the ground.
Before the security guard closest to the dead end could react, he had already been disarmed by the two hands that poked out from underneath him.
Zhou Zhen took advantage of the force of sliding on the ground, reflexively fired two shots, two security guards fell to the ground in response, the third security guard hurriedly raised his gun to shoot, Zhou Zhen didn't look at it, rolled on the spot, lay on the ground and pulled the trigger, and the third security guard also splashed blood on the spot.
Then he quickly stood up and ran wildly towards the house across the elevator, the other security guards shot one after another, Zhou Zhen also ran and fired back, and after shooting down two more people, the security guards began to scatter to find cover, and he took the opportunity to hide in the gap between the two houses.
Dodging the rain of bullets, Zhou Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, checked his injuries, several bullets grazed his calves and neck, he issued a conscious command, and the parasitic system quickly healed the wound.
"Hahaha, Xiao Zhong is good at marksmanship, he is worthy of being an energy hunter taught by Zhou Qian, I underestimate you."
Amiko's laughter came, Zhou Zhen smashed the window of the house and kicked a piece of glass into the street, in the reflection of the glass, he saw her clapping and cheering loudly, it sounded like she didn't know her true identity, Zhou Zhen was a little confused, so he also asked loudly: "Section chief, what's the situation?" I just came to the second floor for a drink, is there a violation of the law? ”
"Hmm... I don't know, drinking shouldn't be illegal, but Mr. Oshima wants me to arrest you, so come out quickly. ”
Amiko's words were understated, as if she were playing a game of peek-a-boo.
"Jiro Oshima?"
Zhou asked, checking the magazine at the same time, and there were three rounds left.
"Uh-huh, it's him, come out quickly, I'm getting angry, and it's not serious."
Amiko yawned again as she spoke, and Zhou Zhen reconfirmed her position through the glass, leaning sideways out of the wall.
The moment he raised the gun to aim, Zhou Zhen suddenly felt a chill in his right hand, and when he looked down, there was a sudden blood-spurting wound on the palm, and the index finger that pulled the trigger had been cut off by the roots, dragging the blood to the ground.
Before Zhou Zhi felt the pain, Amiko had already completed the next wave of attacks, the wrists of both hands cracking at the same time like sharp blades slashing through tofu, and the rifle was still firmly held by both hands when it landed.
"Saber!" This terrible word flashed through Zhou Zhi's mind, and the parasitic system stopped the blood loss from his wrist, but Zhou Zhen was no longer able to bring the severed limb back to the wound, and he couldn't even commit suicide now.
"You still have two feet, oh little bell, I won't cut them when you come over by yourself."
Amiko rubbed her eyes and said, Zhou's brain was spinning rapidly, and now she can't survive or die, but fortunately, Amiko doesn't know that she is Zhouzhi, and if Jiro Oshima doesn't know, then it won't involve the Armored Rat Company, and it won't involve Natasha and Hayes.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhen suddenly felt that he was ridiculous, the conspiracy had surfaced the tip of the iceberg, and Hayes was obviously inseparable from this, but it seemed that out of instinct, he couldn't resist the idea of wanting to protect him.
I probably want to pay off the debt, after all, I owe him a life.
The parasitic system can no longer be used, and it cannot be known that it is circumferential.
Zhou Zhen gritted his teeth and stopped the parasitic system, and the two broken wrists suddenly bled non-stop, and he endured the severe pain, raised his arms and walked out of the bunker.
One step, two steps, three steps, my heart is beating faster and faster, my head is getting heavier and heavier, and my legs are almost unable to drag my body.
In front of me, the muzzle of the black hole, the pink Amiko, the dim street lamp, all the scenery gradually mixed, and the vision gradually became hazy...
Finally, it was pitch black.