Chapter 20: A Night Visit (Part II)
There is no nightlife without electric lights, and Liangcheng is not without entertainment venues for young people, basically lighting a bonfire in a larger room, performing programs on stage, mostly music, watching performances under the stage, drinking and chatting, or talking about love, it is not noisy, and it lasts until eleven or twelve o'clock. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Moreover, the entertainment venues are concentrated in places with more residents, far away from the city center, and the night is late and silent.
The sound of the heavy object falling on the ground was very soft, not even as loud and dull as the squeak of the cart's oil-hungry universal wheels, but the sharp squeak did not wake Chen Zhen, but the more subtle sound of the heavy object landing made him open his eyes.
His fingers were still on the hilt of the broken knife, Chen Zhen did not move, closed his eyes again, and focused all his attention on hearing, listening to the sound outside the door.
He heard the sound of squirming, like a very fat man trying to stuff himself into a very small piece of clothing, when the cow on the roof of an unknown house in the distance "mooed", and the sound was very penetrating, causing a round of barking.
When the surroundings were quiet again, the rustling sound was gone, and nothing could be heard again.
But outside the door of Chen Zhen's ward, there were already three people standing side by side.
On the walls of the corridor were candlesticks with transparent windshields, one every few meters, mainly to illuminate the indicator lines on the walls and the number plates on the doors of the wards.
The black crossbow is much smaller than the steel crossbow of the city guard, even if the crossbow is equipped with a vibrating stone, the strength is not enough to shoot through the exoskeleton of mutated creatures, this is just a repeater used to kill, there is absolutely no problem in shooting through the flesh, the tip of the arrow has been smeared with poison, even if it is an elephant, it will not survive for ten seconds after being shot.
Not the pursuit of firmness, the structure of the crossbow is much more complex than the steel crossbow, there is also a box under the crossbow body, the slot is also fully enclosed, can protect the crossbow arrow, the crossbow arrow will not slip off, the winding is not to hook with the fingers, but to pull the bolt next to it, and the winding can also be played at the same time.
This kind of repeater is a bit like a bolt-action rifle before the cataclysmic in form, of course, it is far less powerful, but it does not make too much noise, and the flicking sound of the crossbow string is also reduced by the slotted groove similar to the barrel, which is specially used for assassination.
In addition to the crossbows, the three of them also carried other weapons, the one in the middle had a short knife hanging from his waist, the one on the left had a single-edged axe behind him, and the one on the right had five or six small knives hidden on his body, which could be stabbed and thrown.
The strings had been hung up, the nearest candles had been pinched out, and there would be no direct light in the room, and the light reflected from the walls was enough to see everything inside, and the man standing in the middle turned his head and nodded to the two people beside him, reaching out and holding the doorknob.
Pull the door first, and then turn the doorknob, so that the deadbolt will not rub against the edge of the lock plate, make a louder sound, until the doorknob rotates to the limit, he gently lifts the doorknob and pushes it forward, if the screw of the hinge is a little loose, it will squeak when opening and closing the door, and it will not make a sound when the doorknob is opened again, and there will be movement if the hinge is short of oil, and the doorknob can also minimize friction and reduce the sound.
The best hospital, the most high-end ward, the door naturally does not make a strange noise, silently pushes open, three repeaters are raised at the same time and aimed at the room, and in different directions, the person in the middle is aiming at the bed, the person on the left is facing the clothes frame, and the person on the right is facing the edge of the door frame.
There was no sound from their actions throughout, but there was no one on the bed, it was empty, and the three of them looked at each other again, and the man in the middle was the first to enter the room.
The first thing he did when he entered the house was to check the back of the door and the ceiling to make sure that no one was hiding, so he aimed the repeater at the bottom of the bed, because the quilt drooped down from the side of the bed, blocking the bottom of the bed.
The second man walked in, the repeater always aiming at the closet, and the third man came in and looked around again, there was no room to look anywhere, just carrying the repeater, ready to shoot.
The curtain was raised suddenly, and the three of them immediately turned their crossbows to aim there, but it was just the wind, there were street lamps on the street, and there were also candles in the lampshades, not to illuminate anything, but only to guide the way, there was no light pollution in this era, and the clouds would not reflect the light on the ground, so it was very dark outside, and it was also very cold.
On such a cold day, no one would sleep with the window open, and the window must have just opened.
The person who was at the first door looked at the closet, and the companion who entered the door at the end immediately understood, walked over and stood on the side of the closet, stretched out his finger and slowly hooked open the cabinet door, one of the two companions was still aiming at the wardrobe, and the other was still aiming at the bottom of the bed.
There was no one in the closet, and the person who was aiming at the wardrobe immediately turned the crossbow and aimed at the bottom of the bed, seeing this action, the person who opened the cabinet door walked carefully to the bed, pinched the quilt, waited for two seconds, and then opened it violently.
There was no one under the bed, and there was an unused bedpan alone, which was for patients who couldn't get out of bed, and Chen Zhen naturally didn't need it.
The only place where people could hide was the window except for the wardrobe and under the bed, and their target was either already running away or hanging outside the window, and the three crossbows were facing the window, and the man walked to the window again, swallowed nervously, held the edge of the curtain with his hand, and lifted it up, so as to avoid the sound made when the curtain was opened.
The curtains rolled up like a curtain, and although there was only one side, it was enough to see the windowsill, and at that moment, the light suddenly disappeared.
The door was shut.
The ghostly figure fluttered, although the light outside the window was weak, but the wall was white, which could reflect the black shadow, "pop pop" three soft sounds, three crossbow arrows hit the wall, tumbling and landing, unable to shoot the person at all.
None of the three made a sound, indicating that they still had companions and did not want to alarm other patients or nurses, which was also in line with Chen Zhen's intentions, and he held the broken knife in his left hand, and when he floated past the three people, he struck the three on the back of the head with the handle of the knife, knocking the three of them unconscious to the ground.
They soon woke up and found themselves firmly bound by a sheet, stuffed with something in their mouths, unable to make a sound, and doused with cold water from a vase.
Chen Zhen stood in front of them, leaned over to look at them, and when he saw that all three of them had woken up, he lifted one of them, pinched his face with his left hand, put his mouth to his nose, pressed his lips with his palm, lifted this person into the air, and asked softly, "How many people are here?" ”
The man's mouth was not covered, and he could still make a sound, but he couldn't make too much noise, and he didn't intend to make a sound or speak, so he sneered disdainfully.
The next moment was the sound of bones being crushed, and the mouth and cheeks were punctured by broken bones, and a large amount of blood flowed out, but it did not flow out of the edge of the palm of the left hand.
When the blood on this person's body was sucked out, Chen Zhen let go of his hand and let the corpse fall to the ground, his face had been pinched, and he couldn't tell that it was a human at all.
When the other two saw this scene, their bodies trembled involuntarily.
Speaking of the second person, Chen Zhen grabbed his neck, took out the quilt cloth stuffed in his mouth, and asked the same question: "How many people came?" ”
The man also felt the hardness and coldness of his left hand, he was afraid, his brain was blank, and he did not answer Chen Zhen's question, which was seen as a refusal to answer the question, his face was not pinched, not to mention that there was an extra knife in his throat, and blood shot out, and then it was covered by the steely hand.
The same blood was sprinkled all over his face, and the third man was so frightened that he trembled like a sieve, and when the body of the second companion fell to the ground, he was also lifted, but it was his right hand that grabbed him.
"How many people came?" Chen Zhen's tone did not change, as if it had been released from a tape recorder.
The person who was lifted up made a "hmm" sound in his mouth, nodded vigorously, and was so anxious that he almost burst into tears, the quilt in his mouth was not taken out, for fear of being regarded as refusing to answer, and he could only use this way to express his eagerness to answer the question.
Chen Zhen picked up the broken knife placed on the bed, made a very small cut on the quilt of the person's hand, then took out the cloth ball in the other party's mouth, held the scratched hand with his left hand, and said: "I'm sucking blood, and I have some other questions to ask, whether you can survive or not depends on how fast you answer." ”
The one immediately lowered his voice and said: "There should be more than ten or twenty people, because they are acting in groups, I don't know the specific number, I don't know who the people who hired us are, I don't know the action arrangements of other groups, the first step of our group's action plan is to clean up the wolf guards in the corridor, but not to kill them, only to stun, the second step is to come in and kill you, kill you and leave immediately, and there are others to deal with the body." ”
He spoke very quickly, afraid that Chen Zhen would not hear clearly and let him repeat, and his words were also very clear, and he answered all the questions he could think of, so that he could save Chen Zhen's time to ask questions again.
This answer made Chen Zhen stunned for two seconds, and then let go and let the other party fall to the ground.
The man experienced the sensation of rapid loss of blood from his whole body, which was very uncomfortable and frightening, compared to the pain of the wound, which was nothing at all, and he lost so much blood that he was dizzy and drowsy, and he could not exert any strength at all.
"I have other questions for you, and if you don't want to be silenced by your companions, you should hide." Chen Zhen lifted him up and put him in the closet, kicked the two corpses under the bed, picked up the broken knife, thought for a moment, opened the door and walked out.
There was still no one in the hallway, and at the end there was a chair, diagonally opposite the chair was a trolley with cleaning tools, his right hand was retracted into the cloak, he touched the wound on his chest, and when he reached out again, there was a thin film of blood on his fingertips.
The scabbed wound seems to have broken open a little, but it is not serious, and the flesh injury does not matter anyway, as long as there is no problem with the wound in the lungs.
After thinking about it, Chen Zhen walked towards the nurses' station.
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