Chapter 4: Into the Black Live
"I'll go up," said Hudson, "and Cavlyn, you go to the window on the other side." ”
"Yes." With that, Camelin disappeared into the woods beside her.
The air here is colder and purer, away from the exhaust fumes and fumes of the industrial areas. Augustus took a deep breath and felt purified.
"Are you all ready?" Hudson asked.
"Alright." Augustus said.
"Alright." Pinkerton said.
"Then spread out." Hudson said.
Hudson threw his grappling hook into the air and quickly climbed the tree, while Augustus and Pinkerton ran the other way.
The ground here is fairly flat, with only a few pine needles, broad leaves covering the dirt, and small bushes growing on it. The trees on it are very tall and cover a wide area, and the foliage provides them with shelter from the wind and rain.
From here to there, they climbed and jumped between huge gray rocks, and crossed some streams that rose with heavy rains.
As they marched, Augustus used that particular contact lens.
When they arrived at the first infrared camera, Augustus already knew it was there, and before he could lift his sleeve, there was a gentle thumping sound from the wall above him, and the next second, the green light on the camera turned blue.
"It's safe, let's go." Hudson's voice came from their headphones.
The two of them walked through the woods, moisturizing things like rain.
When Pinkerton pointed out that there were tripwires on the ground, Augustus climbed the trunk of a tree, then climbed the branches, and they began to swing from tree to tree, jumping from branch to branch before returning to the ground again when they saw a surveillance camera.
The camera is knocked out by Hudson again, and the two move on.
It didn't take long for them to travel for miles, and the storm caused the sun to disappear early. The two stopped in front of a steep slope.
"You move on," Hudson said, "and I'll cover Caflin." ”
Augustus looked back, and he saw a red dot somewhere near the top of the mountain, and the two went in.
"The security system is going to be denser and not so easy to dodge," Hudson continued, "and from here, you take your time and be smart, because in addition to the mechanical surveillance system, we may encounter heavily armed security personnel." ”
Augustus nodded, and Cavlin, on the other side, began to ascend the hill, finding the wet ground so slippery that she found it difficult to control her steps many times, forcing him to use his hands and feet to crawl and roll on the ground. It didn't take long to go uphill before she came to the house, where she met her first roadblock, and a series of surveillance cameras covered the forest.
Augustus and Pinkerton hid behind the tree on the other side, and Carvlyn had something in her bracers at the moment, and then clicked on the touchscreen, "Get ready to rush over." Hudson whispered, and then Carvlin pointed her bracer at one of the cameras, and a tiny laser bolt fired.
"Action!" Hudson shouted softly.
The two of them ran forward like arrows from a string, and Augustus could see the gap, one of the cameras was disrupted, and he drilled through the small gap. Pinkerton followed him, then Cavlin, and when they crossed safely, Pinkerton noticed that the camera was back to working properly.
"What's that?" Augustus asked.
"Lasers*," said Cavlin, "these cameras are smart enough to track any moving object, and Hudson's EMP bullet has no effect, so I can only fire a signal to disable it, interfering with it for a few seconds." ”
Cavlin continued walking, followed by the two of them.
The trio climbed a dozen yards, avoiding more cameras and sensors, before Pinkerton noticed that some of the trees had sentry machine guns set up, ready to fire.
The misty drizzle continued to fall and showed no sign of stopping, and as it grew late, Augustus found himself exhaling white air.
"Our temperature difference is a problem," Hudson said, "and these jackets hide most of our signs, but now it's too cold outside and we're going to stand out from the ambient temperature." ”
"So what do we do?" Cavlyn asked.
"Listen to me," said Augustus, "try to be calm, keep your blood pressure and body temperature to a minimum, if we go off the alarm now, it will be difficult to get inside." ”
The slopes soon became flatter and easier to climb, but the trees became less dense, so they had no shade and no suitable place to hide from the cameras that were appearing more and more frequently. As a result, their movements now evolved into a series of sprints, jumps, and tumbles, from one place to another, slowly and deliberately.
Eventually, the trio arrived at a twenty-foot-high fence, a very unusual fence with a shell covered with barbed wire, and about thirty feet of grass and trees on either side of it, all covered with heavy reinforcement boards. They couldn't cut through it, they couldn't blow it up with *, and besides, the whole fence probably had an electromagnetic or pressure-sensing system.
Cavlyn stared, the corners of her mouth chewing something, and then she raised her bracers, "Hudson, read the data." ”
Augustus and Pinkerton waited.
Within the fence, behind the woods, Pinkerton caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a building made of glass, which was brightly lit and clearly visible through the corridors and offices. That's probably where they're looking for evidence.
"I can't read a lot of information," Hudson said.
"Forget it," said Cavlin, "now the situation is that if we try to climb over this thing, the alarm will go off, if we cut it off, the alarm will go off, and if we let this thing fail, the alarm will go off, so we have to pass without touching it, unless we want to announce that we are here." ”
"That building isn't very far either." Augustus said.
"Yes, but it's huge," said Carflin, "and it's just one of them." ”
"Can you jump over there?" Augustus asked.
Glancing at the fence and looking around, "No, I'll have to zipline between the trees, but I'm pretty sure they'll detect our presence that way." ”
"It sounds like we're running out of options." Pinkerton said.
Cavlyn looked up at the trees and glanced at the farthest end of the fence, and finally she seemed to have made up her mind, "Follow me." ”
The two followed her, and Cavlyn ran ahead, then climbed up the trunk of the nearest tree with all her might, climbed up the branches, and went up until she was taller than the fence, she spread her wrists, and then shot at the opposite tree, Augustus faintly saw a string being fired in the darkness.
Cavlyn beckoned to the two men, and Pinkerton and Augustus climbed the tree to stay with her. Augustus overlooked the fence and the zipline that had disappeared into the woods fifty feet away, and using the contact lens they found several cameras, and Cavlyn was right, once they were hung from the zipline, they would be caught by the cameras, which was inevitable.
"You have to get through quickly." Carvlin put some sort of hand-holding pulley between the ziplines, "Grab this one and pull herself over with the other hand." If the security system is triggered, you still have to move on. She nodded to Augustus, "Men first." ”
"Okay," Augustus took a deep breath and grabbed the pulley.
"We'll see you on the other side." Cavlin said.
Augustus nodded, "Okay." ”
"Kick on the tree and push hard." Cavlin said.
Augustus was facing forward, one foot propping up on the trunk of the tree, his body curled up. "Okay," he said, "...... action."
Suddenly, the sirens sounded, very loudly, bright lights in front of the fence, swaying back and forth, and shouting was heard in the distance.
"What's going on?" Pinkerton asked.
"It's not us," Caflin said, "the cameras can't catch the zipline, Augustus hasn't set off yet, it's something else that's setting off their alarm, and this place is going to be cordoned off, so it's going to be hard for us to get in." ”
"So what are we going to do?" Augustus asked.
"Walk through, hurry."
Augustus nodded, and the man slid out, the pulley in his hand humming on the zipline as he pulled himself over with his other hand. He quickly slid over and disappeared into the woods, and then Cateflin loaded on a new set of pulleys, "It's your turn." She said.
Pinkerton grabbed the pulley and slid after Augustus, a move that seemed easier said than done, and the whole time, Pinkerton felt like a live target. If someone was watching, they could easily knock him into the air. He tugged, slid and slid and pulled and slid and slid until he reached safety on the other end.
"If it weren't for this situation," said Augustus, "I think it would be quite interesting." ”
The sirens were gone, but the lights were still shining around.
"I'm thinking about this." Pinkerton said.
Shouts rang through the woods, and then a special agent rushed out and came to the clearing in front of the fence, not far from Pinkerton and Augustus. They all wore the same black uniforms, wore explosion-proof helmets, and held weapons in their hands. There were eight of them, and it didn't take long for one of them to point out the zipline above, and they all looked in the direction where Cavlin was.
"We need to get out of here." Pinkerton said.
Augustus had already taken out an EMP* and threw it at the group. But when it landed, it didn't have any effect, and at the same time, Hudson's voice was gone.
"It should be battery interference," Pinkerton said.
"Cavlyn will find another way to come," Augustus said, pursing his lips, "and if we stay here, we'll be caught." ”
Pinkerton nodded, and then the two of them moved as quietly and quickly as they could from where they were to a nearby tree, and then to the next, and the two of them walked through the trees until they were away from the danger zone, and then they fell to the ground.
The glass building was closer to them, and now Pinkerton caught a glimpse of two other buildings not far away, connected by a closed passageway.
They arrived at the Furyk headquarters, but now, they were on their own.