Chapter 38: Shadow Attack
"Old Wu, why are you so nervous today?"
"Don't ask too much, be more vigilant, and be honest in our class."
"Hey, this is in Chidu. Old Wu, you should have heard of it, didn't that famous Artiste also run away in disgrace? ”
"Shut up, if the captain hears you secretly talking about news that may be confidential, you have good fruit to eat."
"Gotta get it, but Lao Wu, we won't be dealing with some big guy this time, right?"
"It's all said to close your crow's mouth, even if there is a big deal, it's not something that we on duty should think about."
It was late at night, and there were only two of them patrolling the empty corridor, and even though the bright lights illuminated the passage as if it were day, the silence was somewhat oppressive, and they could only relieve this mood by whispering about it.
It's just that even if the light is as bright as day, no one can notice some slight changes in the corners of the corridor.
The thin cloak shrouded the small figure, and outsiders could only see the wall behind it. The shadow was like a stubborn stone, retaining only a faint breath, and waited there for an unknown amount of time.
Finally, she opened her eyes, leaned against the corner, bent her feet and arms slowly exerted force on the walls on both sides, and in this incredible way, her whole body rose up little by little, without any slight shaking of the cloak on her body.
It wasn't until she reached the corner of the ceiling that her movements became slightly larger, and she changed her position, firmly clinging to the angle between the ceiling and the wall, like a gecko on the upper and lower sides of the wall with one foot.
After carefully adjusting her movements and getting used to the smoothness of the wall's surface, she found the best way to apply force, and then nimbly crawled along the edge of the ceiling.
The speed was extremely even, so that the cloak draped on the outside of the breeze pressed tightly against the surface of her body without a trace of ripple.
Suddenly, she stopped, and her cloak fell loosely, causing her perfect stealth to ripple like water, but no one noticed the change.
Buried in the ceiling in the front, there is a miniature panoramic camera, which is now stuck on the edge of the camera's viewing range.
Although it was a panoramic camera, the deliberate miniaturization of this camera still had a blind spot, that is, the marginal parts on both sides of the ceiling could not be seen.
This was where Shadow was, but she was still cautious and didn't rush forward in the first place.
Her legs were packed, and her entire body was almost completely squeezed within the right angle of the ceiling.
Eventually, she burst out like an arrow from a string, flying almost against the wall over the monitored area.
But after all, she couldn't get rid of the laws of physics, and after breaking through the monitoring area, she had already detached herself from the wall, and it was no longer easy to cling to the wall.
Shadow had already anticipated this situation, and turned sideways and stepped out towards the wall, and the whole person was ejected towards the top corner on the other side, leaving a slightly blurry twisted figure in the air, and finally stuck firmly in the corner of the target.
After adjusting her shape, she once again kept a constant speed and headed towards the bottom of the base, as if she had known the target in advance, and did not take a single detour on the way.
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Lu Yuansheng woke up from sleep, and the bright lights around him came in through the white curtain, making him feel a little dazzling when he just woke up.
He glanced at the time, three o'clock in the morning, but when he opened the curtain, he saw that everyone was sitting on the sofa in front of him, and no one seemed to choose to rest.
"Don't you really need to rest, you're all iron men?"
He walked straight to the table, took a disposable cup and poured himself a glass of water, and sat down on the empty couch.
Looking at the few people in front of him, except for the assistant Chen Lin, the others were not in a good mental state, especially Sakurako, who seemed to be in a trance. Compared with the previous ones, they also have a very delicate portable divine instrument on their necks.
Ayako took the initiative to speak on her behalf: "Didn't you say that tonight might be more dangerous." ”
"Yes, it's dangerous, but what are you afraid of? Could it be that the shadow can still turn into water and get through the cracks? No matter how top-notch a killer is, he can't silently sneak into an unknown place, let alone such a militarized base. Lu Yuansheng sighed, "I said that you should hurry up and take advantage of the first half of the night to rest, you just don't listen, what really matters is the second half of the night." ”
"Everyone knows that she is unprepared, and she can't easily enter here, how do you know what your state is. So it makes sense to think that she's more likely to spend the first half of the night exploring the base, and then choosing to attack in the early hours of the second half of the night, or the early morning when you just wake up, when you're most relaxed. And what you're doing now is wasting the best time to rest. ”
Ayako seemed to want to speak up, but Sakurako stopped her, and she said, "It's all my fault that I misunderstood the judge's meaning, and I ask the judge's forgiveness." Not sure what we should do now? ”
"What else can I do? Put away your crepe tone, go get some sleep, and I'll keep vigil from now on. ”
Lu Yuansheng lowered his head and said helplessly.
Several of them looked at each other, as if they were secretly communicating something through the neural network, which made Lu Yuansheng impatient and roared: "Go!" ”
Sakurako nodded, still apologizing according to the number of courtesies, and then turned around and walked towards an empty bed in the back, but Ayako and Huang did not move.
"You don't understand the words, do you?"
Lu Yuansheng raised his head slightly, and his eyes deliberately showed some fierce light.
Even though Huang already looked like he wanted to fight, he still stubbornly said, "I don't need to." ”
Ayako also replied, "I'm not like them, I've had a good rest these days, and I'm not too tired." ”
Lu Yuansheng didn't want to have too much contact with Ayako, for fear of being recognized by the other party, so he said in a cold tone: "I said, here, listen to me." ”
Huang seemed to remember the memory of being teased by the other party, so he had to stop being stubborn, turn around obediently, and choose a bed near Sakura.
Ayako sat directly on the sofa next to Lu Yuansheng and said, "Yes, but I want to sleep on the sofa, right?" ”
"Whatever."
"Then I'm not sleepy now, can I have a chat before I go to bed?"
"Shut up."
This is what Lu Yuansheng is most afraid of, looking at the other party's appearance, maybe he is already doubting his identity, and it is impossible for him to risk communicating too much with the other party.
Ayako didn't stop, and then she asked, "Will Shadow really come?" ”
"I don't know."
"And how will she get in?"
"Let's open the door for her."
"Are we bait?"
Ayako didn't seem too surprised.
"If you guess it, rest well."
"Do you have any plans, Mr. Judge?"
"Don't ask."
Lu Yuansheng didn't want to reply anymore, he got up directly and walked towards the material pile, picked a fast food bag and ate it. Even though Ayako asked one question after another, he didn't reply a word as if he hadn't heard it.
Ayako watched Lu Yuansheng take a small bite to eat, the panda-faced mask looked a little funny, but it protected the other party's expression well, so that she couldn't get the information she wanted.
In the end, she also knew that it was boring to be self-pleased, so she went to bed in a huff.
Chen Lin, who had been watching from the side for a long time, leaned over, and she finally had a chance to speak, only to see her ask in a nervous whisper: "May I ask Mr. Judge, what you just said that we will open the door to Ying...... It doesn't mean when we change shifts, does it? ”
Lu Yuansheng was slightly surprised: "Li Si didn't tell you?" ”
"We only received a mission to assist and nothing else."
At this time, Lu Yuansheng realized that he had said the wrong thing, and he could guess the reason why Li Si did not explain it in advance, isn't it just that he is afraid that these two sleeping dragons and phoenix chicks will be on guard in advance, and if the acting is not natural enough, it will make Ying alert.
He can only hope that Ying Zhen will choose to do it during the first shift change, otherwise, this assistant will have to be replaced.
"If there are no accidents after the shift change, you can ask Li Si to make other arrangements for you."
He also suppressed his voice and said to Chen Lin, this is a last resort remedy.
Lu Yuansheng himself didn't know if the shadow would come, how he would come in, not only him, but I believe even Li Si was not sure.
He thought to himself what he would do if he took on this assassination mission himself.
I will probably step on the spot first, familiarize myself with the entire base environment, and confirm a safe escape route before waiting for the opportunity to act. But he certainly doesn't know how long the target will be in this safe house, and he doesn't know what the specific situation will be inside, the only gap is indeed the time of this shift change, and he doesn't even know if there will be another shift change.
This requires patience with the target, but the infiltrated assassins naturally lack material support and will definitely not survive the people in the safe house. Of course, the premise is that Shadow doesn't have the ability to starve in particular.
However, some killers will also start with insiders, read their memories, and disguise themselves as them, so as to grasp more active opportunities. But Li Si must have taken this situation into account, and the specific details of the ambush should only be known to a few of their core commanders, so he wouldn't be too worried.
After thinking about it, he still thinks that there is the highest chance that something will happen during the shift change this morning.
In order to get the best condition, he sat cross-legged on the sofa, running a special breathing method, feeling the state of every muscle in his body.
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At five forty o'clock in the morning, Xia Meng walked out of the elevator hall on time, she carefully turned on her ability, her originally dark pupils brought a little colored light, and after looking around, she confirmed that there was indeed no one in the passage, and she was relieved.
However, she was also very experienced in not going straight to the safe house, but instead made a detour in this level, and occasionally confirmed the presence of no one else around through her abilities.
It took about ten minutes for her to walk around the safe house, and at the same time consciously counting the time, she arrived at the door of the safe house at exactly six o'clock.
She did not rush to apply to open the door inside, but once again used her special eyes to carefully look at the left and right corridors, and indeed did not find anything strange.
Pressing her hand on the sensor, she doesn't have permission on, but she can choose to initiate a call internally.
"Good morning everyone, I'm the assistant for the shift."
It's a perfect code, and it's completely unnoticeable that there's anything special about it.
Chen Lin, who was inside, looked at Lu Yuansheng and asked him what to do.
The three Sakurakos, who were originally on the bed, obviously noticed this movement and walked out of bed one after another, but they didn't sleep well when they looked at it, and there was a faint bloodshot in their eyes that didn't fade.
Lu Yuansheng glanced at the three of them and instructed: "If there is an accident, leave me alone and close the door as soon as possible." If you can't close it, or if you can't stop me, run for your life. ”
With that, he nodded at Chen Lin, and he himself walked to the middle of the room, facing the door.
Xia Meng outside the door has always turned on her ability, she is indeed worthy of being an active team member, and she has handled all the matters that should be paid attention to perfectly.
But some things are destined to be beyond her capabilities.
As the heavy door opened, Xia Meng felt a gust of wind behind her, and she couldn't help but be shocked in her heart, something had been hiding behind her!
Shadow's speed was so fast that she rushed into it when the heavy door was less than a man's width open.
What's more coincidental is that at this moment, the power supply, backup power warehouse, and main circuit inside this base actually exploded at the same time, and the piercing alarm sound came from all places, and the screens in the monitoring room were all black, only the lights with their own emergency power supply were on, barely maintaining the lighting.
It's just that Lu Yuansheng was prepared, and when the door opened almost a person wide, he activated his ability.
In the still world of black and white, he could see the rising figure at the door clearly.
"The brightness of the light is not right, and it is possible that there is a real problem with the power system."
The black and white world is very sensitive to changes in light and shade, Lu Yuansheng noticed something wrong for the first time, he hoped that the emergency light for a while could have an effect, otherwise even if he had the ability of this static world, he would be much more limited in the dark.
He walked up to Ei, and the first thing he did was observe the characteristics of the other party.
Ying should indeed be a woman, no Adam's apple, with a neat short ponytail, with a noodle pocket, the whole face is exposed to the eyes, except for the calves, the other body parts are all shrouded in a cloak and cloak, her height looks as short as the phoenix, which can't help but make Lu Yuansheng wonder if this is a side effect of body strengthening, but it may also be that the body is deliberately kept short to complete more flexible operations.
The cloak completely blocked out the already dim light, making it impossible for him to see what was hidden under the other party's cloak. He could only guess from the bulge on the opponent's waist that the opponent might be holding the blade in his hand.
Lu Yuansheng steadied his breathing at a certain frequency, and after retreating a distance, he sprinted towards the shadow, and just as he approached the door, he jumped up, mobilized his whole body to spin, and aimed at the opponent's abdomen to throw a perfect roundhouse kick.
He knew that if he disarmed the power, the surrounding area might be plunged into darkness due to the destruction of the power system, so he needed to use the strongest means to force the other party out of this room first, otherwise he might lose the opportunity.