Around the same time that Jiang Jinghai arrived at the scene of the attack on the "Qilin", Etlord also arrived at Paris.

Before landing, Etlord saw from the sky that there were still dozens of pillars of smoke wafting in the wind throughout the Parisian district, and some of them could be seen under the flames. This thousand-year-old capital, which was damaged by even the enemy army in the World War of Ethiopia, was re-enacted in peacetime nearly a hundred years later, and the tragedy of flames and blood rain everywhere was repeated, which is really embarrassing.

However, the focus of Etlord's trip is not to get a bird's-eye view of Paris after the attack, but to solve the hostage-taking crisis of Ilota.

Compared to the blast sites in the city, the Ilota building, which is being controlled by terrorists, looks unscathed, with only the Ilota police and robots surrounding it, and the helicopters and drones that surround it, hinting at the grave danger facing the building.

According to the latest intelligence analysis, Ilota should be the core target of the terrorists in the Paris series of terrorist attacks. All of the bombings took place in densely populated areas near Ilota. After the explosion, the terrorists took advantage of the chaos to disguise themselves as police officers and brought thousands of frightened people into the Ilota building and locked all entrances and exits of the building under the pretext of security and distancing.

After the blockade of the building, the terrorists had the hostages huddle one by one on the inside of the glass façade of the lobby on the first to third floors of the building, creating a tight wall of people and planting bombs on some of the hostages, preventing the police from attacking from the broken windows on the lower floors of the building.

However, after more than two hours of confrontation, the police surrounding the building still gained something from the approach of reconnaissance robots and drones.

To everyone's surprise, when the reconnaissance robot approached the automatic door of the hall on the first floor, the door was opened, but the hostages were all standing in place, motionless. And the reconnaissance robot that entered the building from the underground garage also unexpectedly found that the elevator could be used, and the fire staircase could also be entered. In addition, drones that seamlessly hover around the building also identify suspicious targets on the roof of the building, allowing helicopters to land safely.

According to the known information, after a short period of consultation, the police decided to let three teams of anti-terrorist robots raid into the building from the underground garage, the lobby on the first floor and the roof of the building, waiting for an opportunity to rescue the hostages and kill the terrorists.

According to the plan, the robot entering from the underground garage will comprehensively check the entire underground garage and control all the access routes between the underground garage and the lobby on the first floor.

The anti-terrorist robots entering from the lobby on the first floor and the top floor are responsible for searching up and down floor by floor, controlling important facilities and key passages encountered along the way, such as the monitoring room and elevator control room, and finally completing the convergence of the two teams in the building, annihilating the terrorists and rescuing the hostages.

On the surface, the anti-terrorist battle plan is fairly well formulated, but Ilota is more than 600 meters tall and has a total of 120 floors, with floors 1-6 for shopping malls, floors 7-10 for conference rooms, floors 11-85 for offices, floors 86-105 for hotels, floors 105-110 for private clubs, revolving restaurants and sightseeing floors, and 4 floors for underground shopping malls and 6 floors of underground garages. The Ilo TV station, which is controlled by terrorists, is located on the 80th and 85th floors of the building, and it is not easy to wipe out all the terrorists through a floor-by-floor search. Although the police have dispatched hundreds of reconnaissance and counter-terrorism robots throughout Paris and surrounding cities, the search has been slow.

None of the three teams of robots encountered an attack when they entered the building. In the beginning, none of the anti-terrorist robots that entered from the top floor nor the basement found anything. Only the robots that entered from the lobby on the first floor found the remains of several security guards and white-collar dressers in the lobby. Curiously, while the hostages all saw the robots entering the building, none of the hostages attempted to escape.

Subsequently, the robots that entered from the first floor focused their investigation on the hostages on the glass facades of the first to third floors. Only then did the police discover that all the hostages were connected by a thin wire, and any attempt to escape could trigger a massive explosion that would kill everyone. Another bad situation is that the monitoring room of the building has been destroyed, and the police cannot use the building surveillance to search for terrorists.

To add insult to injury, two hours after the robot search, EOD experts have still not come up with a way to remove the bombs from the hostages on the 1st and 3rd floors.

Originally, EOD experts considered that if the hostages could move at the same speed and synchronize, it would be possible to move them to a safer place for EOD, or let them sit down and rest for a while.

But they soon found that among the hostages, every dozen or so people, there would be an extra lead connected to the glass curtain wall, and this kind of line was the same as the line connecting the hostages, which was in a tight state, not to mention letting the hostages move, even if they were asked to sit on the spot, they could detonate the bomb.

Moreover, the hostages did not carry any identification documents on them, and no one could guarantee that the "hostages" standing against the wall were all real hostages.

Time passed without any turnaround, and Paris's rare sunshine in early summer intensified the hostages' suffering. Although the central air-conditioning of the building is in normal operation, the temperature of the exterior wall glass continues to rise under the sunlight, coupled with the high level of mental tension, many hostages are already convulsive, sweating, dizzy and shaking, and even incontinence, and may faint at any time.

In desperation, the police had to urgently bring in height-adjustable seats, which were sent directly into the building by members of the anti-terrorist unit and volunteers from ordinary police officers, and delivered to the hostages' buttocks one by one. It is reassuring to know that there were no accidents in the process, and the police officers who delivered the chairs were not attacked by terrorists.

The police suspect that the terrorists may be so small in number and limited in control that they actually occupy only a few floors, perhaps only the ones where the television station is located.

However, since the terrorists have never contacted the police, there are still some scruples in everyone's minds. In addition, the bombs on the hostages on the 1st and 3rd floors could not be destroyed, and the anti-terrorist forces still did not dare to go deep into the building to take action, so they could only continue to rely on robots to conduct a floor-by-layer search.

In addition, through further detection and scanning of the bomb on the hostage's body, the police found that although the bomb on the hostage was not equipped with remote control and timing devices, any wire on the bomb was cut, which would cause the bomb to explode. This kind of death bomb, known as the "Thunder of Death" in the industry, cannot be cracked at all with the police's explosive disposal capabilities.

Just as a group of officials and experts, including the president of the Ilo Alliance, were anxious to stomp their feet at the command center of the Paris Police Headquarters about how to dismantle the "Thunder of Death", Etlord brought them the good news - the newly developed nano-EOD robot of the Roechill Group's technology company can directly penetrate the bomb body, destroy the bomb's detonation device, or directly disable the explosive through a chemical reaction. In short, the nano EOD robot can be used to dismantle the "Thunder of Death".

Unfortunately, the number of nano-EOD robots that are still in the stage of demonstration and production in small batches in the laboratory is very limited, and their EOD methods are similar to self-destruction, and each group of nanorobots can only defuse one bomb, so they cannot be used. In other words, it is possible that only a part of the hostages can be rescued.

The police had no choice but to use the nano-EOD robot to first disarm the bombs on the hostages at key points connected to the glass exterior wall with leads on their bodies, and then move the hostages to a safer place first, and then think of other methods.

Fortunately, the square outside the building was large enough and the road was wide enough that, with the assistance of the military who arrived later, the police were able to use armored vehicles and blast shields throughout the Paris area to enclose a temporary bomb disposal site for hostages.

However, it is not easy to get the hostages who have been strung by the lead to enter the bomb disposal site safely. Many of the hostages were under extreme tension, and their mental and physical strength were on the verge of collapse. Although the bombs on the hostages at key points were disarmed, it did not reduce the number of tandem hostages, and if one of the hundreds of hostages made a mistake while moving, all of them would be blown to the ground.

But there is nothing else people can do. After some discussion, the police decided to inject some nutrient solution into the hostages first, and immediately start a rescue operation to transfer the hostages on the 1st and 3rd floors to the temporary bomb disposal site outside the building after the anti-terrorist robots surrounded the floor where the Ilo TV station was located.