Chapter 9 Infiltrating the Institute
Kevin and his party did not choose to approach the perimeter of the hellfire base until nightfall, the perimeter is a metal wall of more than 3 meters, the wall is very thin, but the hardness is very high, every 5 or 6 meters, there is a higher black pole, there is a wire between the adjacent poles, breaking or touching the wire will trigger the alarm, ordinary people cannot climb over. Several entrances and exits of the wall were guarded by armed soldiers, and if you chose to assault head-on, you would immediately encounter heavy fire from the assembled Hellfire soldiers.
"We need to break through this iron wall, about 1 centimeter thick steel plate", Kevin weighed it and chose to break through the wall, the frontal assault was too loud, even if the guards were killed, it would disrupt all the plans. So he stretched out his left hand, and there was a sound of mechanical deformation from the metal armguard, and a laser cannon barrel began to gather energy, shrinking the muzzle, turning into a very small protruding hole, like a funnel, and then shooting out an extremely fine blue laser light, drawing an irregular rectangle on the metal wall, after putting away the laser cannon, he gently pushed forward, and the cut steel plate fell forward to the ground.
Since the ground is soft, and due to the action of air on the back of the steel plate, a little dust is stirred up, and it does not make much noise.
"Follow me!" , Captain Kevin was the first to enter the base.
After entering the base through the cut opening, there is a large parking lot, where many armored vehicles and military off-road vehicles are parked, and not far away there are several large transports, one with its headlights on, the rear side door of the transporter is open, and several soldiers are unloading and loading boxes onto a military pickup. From time to time, searchlights randomly glanced from the lookout, and Kevin and the others crouched on the side of an armored car, covering their figures.
Caitlin's voice rang out over the wireless communicator: "I've put a few micro-drones to explore the way, you are located on the southwest side of the parking lot, about 800 meters due north of you, there is a five-story gray building with a large footprint, which looks like the core area of this base. ”
"Can you take a closer look?" , Kevin urged.
"I'm watching, don't worry, Captain", Caitlyn said calmly, "Let me zoom in a little more, there are patrolling soldiers on the roof and entrance, and some people in protective suits can be seen in the window, this should be the Hellfire Research Institute." ”
"If the spaceship is indeed transported here, it is likely to be dismantled inside, I guess," Ning Fei analyzed.
"Heroes see the same thing", Caitlin used the drone to check around the institute, reminding, "You have to go through the parking lot to the institute, you will pass a military camp on the way, it may be more troublesome, be careful." ”
Suddenly, a footstep quietly approached, it was the Hellfire Legion soldier who was in charge of unloading on one side as if he had noticed something unusual, and approached with a flashlight, almost to the other side of the armored car where Ning Fei was hiding.
"Hey, what are you doing, Dr. Eugene is still waiting to use these things, don't delay Lao Tzu!" , thinking that his companion was lazy, the soldier who was unloading urged loudly.
"Okay! Sir, I'll be right here! The Hellfire Soldier put away his flashlight and hurriedly replied.
Ning Fei was afraid of being discovered, so he always held his breath nervously, and he couldn't hear the footsteps, so he dared to exhale, relaxed, and subconsciously looked around.
"Who are you?!" , and suddenly a loud shout sounded behind him.
It was so abrupt and frightened that Ning Fei's heart was in his throat, and he thought that the person had already left, but who knew that he deliberately turned off the flashlight and pretended to leave, but in fact, he quietly came around from the back of the armored car. The military literacy of the Hellfire soldiers is significantly stronger than that of the Union soldiers, otherwise they would not have been able to create such a great deterrent and chaos in the world.
Intruder! When the Hellfire soldiers saw the uniforms of the three people, they were definitely not from the base, and they raised their guns in an instant to shoot.
Fortunately, Ning Fei was not the first person to break into the military base, he quickly calmed down from his momentary stunned, quickly squatted sideways, and swept his foot on the ankle of the Hellfire soldier, after the soldier was kicked, the center of gravity of his body was unstable, and he was about to fall immediately, and he couldn't shoot.
Ning Fei didn't dare to use a firearm, for fear of alarming the others. But before he could continue to move, a black shadow swept over Ning Fei's head and pounced on the soldier, the sound of bones quickly shattering came, and the blade broke the cervical vertebrae at the neck of the Hellfire soldier, gently placing it on the ground.
"Thank you!" , Ning Fei sat on the ground.
Blade didn't reply, but made a charge gesture with Captain Kevin. Immediately, the two of them rushed towards the transport vehicle from two roads, and the speed of the super soldier exploded with all their might, like an agile and dangerous beast, and they simply did not stop doing anything, intending to finish off all the rest of the Hellfire soldiers.
Ning Fei hurriedly got up from the ground, and just poked his head out of the back of the car, only to see the blade shadow sprinting forward and throwing a dagger forward, nailing a hellfire soldier to death first. Kevin jumped out of the hood of an armored car, knocked a soldier standing on the pickup truck into the air with one punch, and then kicked sideways in the car, knocking a soldier standing next to the car head, turning over and jumping down, making up two punches, and a dull crash sound came from the ground.
When Ning Fei arrived, the others had already been dealt with, and less than a minute before and after the battle, the Hellfire soldiers had no time to warn.
Kevin opened a box in the car, which was very well protected by sealed glass jars with padding between them to avoid collisions.
Ning Fei picked up a glass jar and looked at it carefully by the light of the car, the lid on the top was engraved with the letters "Sm-149", and inside was some silver-white metallic substance.
"It's metal samarium," Ning Fei stared at the silvery-white substance inside, explaining to Kevin and Fengying, "It is an isotope samarium-149 that has a strong neutron absorption capacity and can be used as a control and shielding material for nuclear reactors. ”
"They're doing nuclear tests?" , Kevin asked.
"Traditional nuclear weapons have long been no secret, they want so much samarium, they must be making a fuss about that spaceship", Ning Fei put down the glass jar, looked at the boxes carefully, and found that several boxes were labeled with transport notes, and the recipient was Eugene Charles Bosch of the Veracruz Base Research Institute.
Ning Fei closed the box, looked at the few soldiers who had fallen to the ground, and said to Kevin and Fengying, "I have an idea. ”
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Veracruz, near the Gulf of Mexico, is cool and refreshing at night, and there are many Hellfire soldiers in front of the barracks who like to relax in the open air after dinner, and soldiers who like to gamble gather in their tents, and some people will talk on the phone with their families, and there are like-minded people who talk about which bar girl is the hottest, except for the difference in beliefs and ideas, these people are not much different from the soldiers of the Union Army.
But often differences in beliefs and ideas separate good from evil, from order from chaos.
A pickup truck with its high beams on, accompanied by the noise of the engine, passed through the middle of the barracks, and the dust kicked up attracted a burst of scolding from the rear.
The pickup truck came to a halt in front of the institute building, the mechanical lift door was closed, and the door was guarded by sentries with guns.
"Beep~Beep~", Ning Fei honked the horn twice, but did not extinguish the engine.
Two sentries stepped forward and saw two soldiers sitting in the cab of the pickup truck, their uniforms showing the rank of second lieutenant, one of the sentries used a detector to scan the box to confirm whether there were any dangerous items, and the other sentry saluted and said, "Sir, you need to register first, and we will inform you."
"Get out", Ning Fei said viciously: "Dr. Eugene is still waiting to use these things, don't delay Lao Tzu!" ”
"Sorry, we're just doing our business."
"No anomalies," the sentinel who was inspecting the box nodded to the other sentinel.
"Release!" The sentry hesitated and shouted inside.
The mechanical explosion-proof gate quickly rose upward, and Ning Fei released the brake and drove in with one foot of the accelerator. After driving in, following the guidance of the signs, following a circular slope, entered the basement, like a temporary storage space, with scientific researchers in white uniforms scheduling some instruments and equipment and materials in the warehouse.
Seeing Ning Fei's pickup truck stop at an empty seat not far away, he trotted over, opened the box on the car to check it, and said to Ning Fei in the cab: "You drive the car to the freight elevator in front, the research institute is relatively tight, please send your things to the laboratory on the 5th floor, this box is a little heavy." ”
"Hey, that laser instrument needs to be careful......", before Ning Fei could reply, he walked away quickly, and continued to be busy directing other dispatches.
Ning Fei parked the pickup truck sideways at the entrance of the freight elevator, and the side panels of the roofless cargo box were just convenient for unloading after being put down, because the pickup truck could only seat two people, and Captain Kevin kept grabbing under the chassis of the car.
Kevin looked around and said to the two people who got out of the car: "Now we are divided into two ways, I will go to the laboratory to deliver the goods, you go to the monitoring room, and turn off the security system of this building." ”
As the freight elevator went up, Ning Fei and Feng Ying got off the elevator on other floors, because the three of them were wearing the uniforms of the soldiers of the base, except for the researchers, most of the soldiers in the building were soldiers in the same uniform, as long as they were not authenticated, they were not easy to be recognized.