Chapter 43: The Hunt and the Chaos Begins (2)
It is a six-storey building, with white cement stone walls, six-panel wooden sliding windows, and several thick aluminum alloy heating pipes on the outside, this Soviet-style building can be seen everywhere in the northeast of China in the nineties.
Cheng Mo and Li Jiting stood at the entrance of this building, the green fence iron door with a little rust, there was no light in the corridor, it was pitch black, but for the carrier, the difference between light and not was not particularly big, Cheng Mo could clearly see the black iron railings in the stairs supporting the burgundy wooden handrails, and the gray terrazzo steps and light yellow wooden doors all showed the taste of the years.
Cheng Mo was a little surprised when he heard Li Jiting say "Cao County", an Ouroboros watch actually attracted a huge number of forces from all over the world to fight openly and secretly, and it is conceivable how valuable this watch called "Cross Bee" is.
Li Jiting looked down at the door lock on the green fence iron door, and said in the team channel: "Pachinko door lock ....." After speaking, he took out two thin iron wires with small ends slightly curved upwards like a key from his pocket, and turned them a few times in the lock hole, and the extremely slight clicking sound sounded, and the door lock opened in response, Li Jiting pushed the iron door inward, and in the quiet night, the squeaky sound was particularly clear in the cool air.
"When searching for enemies, you can not use skills without using skills, and all props that can block signals cannot play a role when using skills in carriers, which means that even if you have props that block signals, as long as you use skills, you will appear on the map for a minute..... In addition, the cooldown time of skills such as 'teleportation' is up to five minutes, and you must hold it in your hand where there may be enemies at any time....." Li Jiting said on the team's internal channel.
Cheng Mo nodded, indicating that he remembered, and it was obvious that Li Jiting was teaching him some experience in the use of carriers.
"Do you know how many skills are on the skill list?" the two walked into the dark stairwell and walked towards the second floor, where there were only two rooms on the first floor, and the thermal imaging on the map showed that the houses on either side of the first floor were empty.
"One thousand three hundred and eighty-three, the Department of Physics has the most skills, accounting for eight hundred and seventy-seven, followed by theology, mathematics, chemistry, botany, meteorology, ......"
"Every skill must be understood, know their cooldown time, and the way of damage, probably this is the same as martial arts, every discipline is a sect, these 'skills' are unique moves under the sect, in the battle between the two carriers, that is, when you pass the move, you don't know the other party's skills, then you must suffer, so you must remember the role of each skill and the way of damage, so you can effectively avoid and counterattack ....."
"In addition, when the map is in stereo mode, we can see the thermal imaging of ordinary humans in the room, but in fact, this is very easy to dodge, which can avoid the detection of thermal imagers by isolating the heat emitted by the body. Suppose you are in the ontological state now, you are in an ordinary room, how many ways can you think of to avoid the carrier search?" Li Jiting walked upstairs with Cheng Mo, and asked on the team channel, it seemed that he was very leisurely, and he didn't seem to have the consciousness of doing a big thing at all, as if he was in class with Cheng Mo.
"If you have a bathtub in the room, you can fill the bathtub with water and hide yourself in the water, and you can also hide behind the glass, the mirror works best, and there are fish tanks, floor-to-ceiling glass windows..... In addition, tin foil, and even wrapping yourself in a very thick quilt can dodge the thermal imager....." Regarding this question, Cheng Mo has actually thought about it for a long time, so he answered without hesitation.
"I thought of so many methods in such a short time! Yes, I have potential, and I am a material ..... to be an agent" Li Jiting glanced back at Cheng Mo and smiled.
"Did some homework ahead of time. β
"It's even more commendable to plan ahead. β
The two of them had quietly walked to the fourth floor at this time, although the appearance of this building was a little old, but the inside of the corridor was still quite clean, there were no footprints on the walls, and there were no notes plastered with "permits", "sewers" or "urgent unlocking".
"Uncle Li, you started to say that even if there are props that shield the carrier signal, when using the skill, it will be displayed on the map for one minute, so what about the carrier like me, which is still in the novice protection period, when using the skill?"
"It'll be on the map for a minute. β
"At the beginning you said that private ownership of Ouroboros is not allowed in our country..... So what about those countries that allow it?"
"The United States, Britain, Germany, Israel, Italy, Israel, Russia, ....." paused, Li Jiting smiled regretfully, "Well, most countries allow it, as long as you complete the strict registration..... In fact, my country is not impossible, it turns out that there is a precedent for the Chosen One who has returned from overseas to enter the Taiji Dragon, assuming that you can successfully advance to the Chosen One and achieve a good ranking, you can be recognized by the country....." Speaking of the back, Li Jiting was also a little helpless, but this is the current status quo, and he is powerless to change anything.
"Understood..... "For Cheng Mo, leaving Huaxia and going to other countries is not necessarily the best choice, strict registration?
At this time, the two of them had already walked to the sixth floor. Li Jiting stopped at the door of the house on the left, unlike the other residents in this building, the door of this suite is a green iron security door.
Both of them can see that the room seems to be empty through the stereoscopic map, and Li Jiting said on the team's internal channel: "There are shielding thermal imaging materials in a safe house like this, so it is impossible to tell if there is anyone inside at the moment, but I guess there should be no one.....
Cheng Mo glanced up at the position of a small camera facing them above the green iron door, and understood why Li Jiting said this, if there were people, they should have left the room through other secret passages.
Cheng Mo also understood why Li Jiting had to use a wire to open the door on the first floor, and his posture was always like using a key, in order to confuse people who might be in the safe house.
Li Jiting glanced at the lock of the security door, took out the two thin wires that he had used from his pocket, handed them to Cheng Mo and said, "This is also a marble lock, try to see if you can open it..... For carriers, this should not be difficult. β
Cheng Mo took the thin wire and inserted the wire into the keyhole according to the way Li Jiting started, Li Jiting looked at Cheng Mo's movements and said on the team's channel: "Use the thin wire to pick up the pins in the lock one by one, and try to feel the moment when the pins reach its 'unlocked' position." When you get to that position, you should feel a slight loosening and even hear a faint click....."
As soon as Li Jiting's words fell, the door was opened by Cheng Mo, in fact, there is almost no difficulty in opening the mechanical lock for the carrier, when Cheng Mo inserted the wire into the keyhole, he could keenly feel the relaxation of every bullet from the end of the wire when it arrived at the unlocking position, as if the wire was not a wire, but an extension of fingers and nerves, even if he couldn't feel the subtle touch, Cheng Mo could clearly hear the subtle sound that was difficult for ordinary people to capture.
In short, with the blessing of the carrier, unlocking, a skill that ordinary people cannot master without exercising thousands of hours, is as simple as hand-to-hand for the carrier.
Cheng Mo opened the door and stepped back, letting Li Jiting go in first, and then followed Li Jiting inside, Li Jiting did not reach out to turn on the light, the carrier's eyesight is extraordinary, and the impact of turning on the light or not is not so great.
When the two walked into the house, they first found that the monitor at the door was still on, and they could clearly see the situation at the entrance of the apartment and the door of the house, and there was a ticking sound of dripping water in the bathroom, except for the fact that the refrigerator compressor was leaving a tireless low sound.
There was silence all around, and there was really no one.
Cheng Mo followed Li Jiting around the two-bedroom room, this is a typical Russian-style room, light green wallpaper, brown wooden floor, furniture is all Russian-style wooden furniture, at first glance there is nothing unusual, it is an ordinary two-bedroom and one living room.
Li Jiting turned on the light, first searched the shoe cabinet at the door, and then went to the bedroom with Cheng Mo and opened all the drawers, which were all empty and there was nothing, he opened the wardrobe, there were various styles of men's and women's clothes, the clothes were all new, and they were all very popular ZARA.
Nothing special was found, except for one room where there was a sign of someone sleeping in it.
Then Cheng Mo followed Li Jiting to the living room, Li Jiting walked straight to the refrigerator, there were all kinds of food and mineral water in it, there was no trace of movement in the open kitchen, only the electric kettle was not on the base.
Li Jiting walked a few steps in the living room, then looked at the fireplace in the living room and said: "There is a secret room behind this....." After speaking, Li Jiting walked straight to the fireplace, and soon he found the switch in the fireplace, and the wall that looked very heavy slid to the side, and a huge cabinet appeared behind it, and there were all kinds of things for absconding in the cabinet, there were several stacks of US dollars, a few passports, as well as wigs, cosmetics, disguises, Hundreds of rounds of conventional ammunition were also found, including a Russian-made T-5000 high-precision sniper rifle, an MP-443 Raven pistol, a space card phone and a satellite phone.
"Do you know how I guessed that there was a secret room behind the fireplace?" Li Jiting turned his head and asked Cheng Mo.
Cheng Mo stood in place and thought for a few seconds, then hesitated and said, "Because the ground is slightly tilted?"
Li Jiting snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "Bingo, the reinforcement of the secret room with steel will produce an overload of weight, which will cause the surrounding floor to sink slightly, resulting in a tilt of one to five degrees, you can keenly perceive this little tilt when you are in the carrier state, but in the ontological condition, you need a marble to find the direction of the secret room.... As for the switch, because the switch effect needs to be reliable and stable, the switch will generally be near the secret door, and it needs a certain degree of concealment, as long as you look carefully, it is not difficult to find ....."
Cheng Mo nodded, indicating that he had been taught.
"For the other party, did you find anything through this room?" Li Jiting looked at Cheng Mo and asked.
Cheng Mo didn't speak, he walked back to the bedroom first, walked to the side of the bed with a messy quilt, reached out and touched the temperature in the quilt, and found a few brown hairs on the pillow, he looked at the ashtray at the head of the bed again, there was only cigarette ash but no cigarette butts, it should have been poured out, Cheng Mo picked up the water cup on the bedside table and looked at it, this is a frosted cup, it will not leave fingerprints, there are residual brown coffee stains in it, and then Cheng Mo studied the electronic alarm clock again, and then picked up a pair of sneakers at the foot of the bed that he did not take away, and looked at the yardageγ
Then he silently went to the other bedroom to search, this one was very clean compared to the one just now, the quilt was neatly folded, and there was nothing on the bedside table, as if no one had lived in it.
In the end, Cheng Mo went to the bathroom and said to Li Jiting: " There are two of them, a man and a woman, the man is about 1.7 to 1.75 meters tall, dark brown hair, but he should have disguised himself when he went out, the smell of sodium chloride in the bathroom, and the main ingredients of the contact lens care solution are sodium chloride and preservatives, which shows that he also brought contact lenses, it is likely that he needs contact lenses to modify the color of his pupils, I guess he is disguised as a Korean, he walks in a somewhat outward posture, he is a left-hander, because he has his left leg as a support leg, so the left shoe is more seriously worn..... As for the other person, it should be an East Asian woman, or a trained agent....."
"How did you know if there was another person, and she's still a woman?" asked Li Jiting with a smile.
"Because the humidity of the two towels and the two bath towels in the bathroom are different....." Cheng Mo glanced at the one that was casually thrown on the washstand, pointed and said: "This one is used by European men, and his habits are very casual." Then he pointed to another towel hanging on the towel rack and said, "This is another East Asian woman, and she is very careful in her movements, leaving almost no traces... The food in the refrigerator is stacked very neatly, so what is missing is what they eat, the eating habits of Easterners and Westerners are different, what is missing in the refrigerator is pizza and spicy cabbage instant noodles, in addition, the used towels also betrayed her, she probably didn't expect that there would be humans with such a keen sense of smell.... The reason why she was judged to be a woman was because she did not smoke, had no body odor, and had a faint aroma, and the lack of body odor was a genetic mutation, and only 30% of the indigenous people in Oceania did not have fox odor, and only 10% of the white people did not have fox odor! Only 0.5% of the black people did not have fox odor! That is to say, except for East Asians, almost everyone with crooked nuts has fox odor.... That's why they need perfume....."
"You're really a detective by nature..... So where do you say they are now?" Li Jiting asked with some incredulity, shaking his head.
Cheng Mo looked at the gatehouse of the Brest railway station that was clearly visible outside the window, sighed and said, "The railway station.... I think there must be more than this safe house in Brest, they chose to live here because it is the closest to the train station.... But now they have been out of Brest for at least eighteen hours....."
"How do you guess the time?"
"The speed at which the water on the towels evaporated, combined with the rate at which the food in the fridge was consumed, showed that they were not leaving for a long time, and the alarm clock was set at five o'clock in the morning, which means that they left Brest on the train at about six o'clock today and headed for Moscow. β
"Why Moscow?" asked Li Jiting, blinking his eyes again and smiling.
"Because they want to take a train from Moscow to Cao County..... Trains have a much lower level of security than airplanes. β
"Another point is that Russia's train lines are basically under the control of Russian gangsters, and the enriched uranium used to make nuclear weapons was sold to Cao County by Russian gangsters through trains....." Li Jiting shrugged his shoulders.
"Then what should we do now? It's about eighteen hours behind them!" Cheng Mo asked.
Li Jiting took out his mobile phone to check the train timetable from Brest to Moscow, and then checked the train timetable from Moscow to Cao County, "The train from Moscow to Cao County only runs once a week, and the latest one is on August 2, that is, there are still four days to go, we will leave tomorrow morning, rush to Minsk, and then take a direct flight to Moscow, completely in time.....
After speaking, Li Jiting walked towards the door of the safe house, and when he closed the door, Cheng Mo couldn't help but ask, "Do you need to help them clean up the traces?"
Li Jiting shook his head, "No need, it's better to keep it." β
The door to the safe house was gently shut, and the hunt began.