1. Fierce battles in the underground parking lot

If it was an entrance, it would have opened under certain conditions. There was no doubt that Tang Mei was in control of the strange way of opening it, and at this moment, it seemed as if she was performing a mysterious sacrifice. The thought of the monster howl I heard faintly made my back sweat trickle up.

The earth is full of countless mysterious phenomena, and in the eyes of scientific researchers, human beings are just an ordinary race that temporarily inhabits here, and the history of civilization for thousands of years is as small as mustard seeds falling on Mount Meru compared to the age of the earth.

It is difficult to imagine Tang Mei's next move, perhaps everything that the mysterious sect of Tangmen in Shuzhong has done is unbelievable to the people of the rivers and lakes, which will lead to the martial arts event of encirclement and suppression by generations of major factions. Maybe when we are entangled and clinging to the cave wall, I definitely shouldn't be careless, after all, the person in front of me is surnamed "Tang", and he is a real master in the younger generation of the Tang Sect.

"Open the door...... Open the door, let me see the truth, whether you are a monster entangled in humans and snakes, let me see clearly......"

She muttered to herself as the corner of her eye remained fixed on her watch, clearly counting the passage of time. I had the limit of my mind control, and I was completely unconscious with a rumbling bang in my head, and my memories were interrupted.

The car had just driven past a huge roundabout and was heading towards the Moonlight Hotel. In the early morning of Cairo, everything was immersed in bleak silence, and there were no vehicles or people in sight.

"Hmm, Mr. Chen, where are we going, aren't we going to the hospital?" Sylvie struggled to sit up, looking out the window.

"Let's go back to the hotel and have someone who can help you get rid of the poison. Miss Xiwei, I have to tell you the truth, Tang Mei once poisoned you, and her 'Shuzhong Tangmen' is the underworld gang that is best at making poison in Chinese mainland, so there is no hospital in Cairo City that can eradicate this poison called 'covering the sky with one hand'. Trust me, okay?"

Her pale face was reflected in the rearview mirror, and her eyes showed physical and mental exhaustion, and even the movement of raising her hand to pluck her messy hair became very slow and sluggish.

"Mr. Chen, of course I believe you, don't forget, Miss Leng and I are very good friends. She smiled wryly and laboriously licked her chapped lips.

My heart sank as a red spot of blood faintly appeared in the middle of her eyebrows, the size of an inadvertent touch of an eyebrow pencil.

With a creak, I subconsciously stepped on the brakes, and the car came to a sudden stop in the middle of the street.

The name "A little red in the morning sun?" jumped into my mind. The poison of the Tang Sect is bounded by the rising sun, and the poisoned person will never see the sun of the second day, and the eyebrow bone may burst and the brain will splash to death at any time within 24 hours.

"What's wrong?" Syvi lunged forward and slammed into the backrest of the front row.

I didn't look back, I just looked in the rearview mirror in a daze, and for the time being, I didn't know why Tang Mei used such a heavy hand on Xiwei, and she had to put her to death.

"Your face is so ugly, what's wrong?" she sat up straight, our eyes meeting in the rearview mirror.

"Have you ever seen Tang Mei before?Or, have you offended someone surnamed Tang before?" Four or five beads of sweat quietly seeped out of my hairline and silently slid across my forehead. Tang Mei's shot is concealed and ruthless, in addition to "covering the sky with one hand" and "a little red in the rising sun", it cannot be ruled out that there are other invisible poisons.

I first speculated that Tang Mei's purpose was nothing more than killing people, but as the events progressed, I realized that her purpose seemed more complex and unpredictable.

Xi Weiliu paused and shook her head resolutely: "No, I have never offended a Chinese surnamed Tang, and tonight is the first time I have seen her." ”

I started the car again, holding the steering wheel in one hand, reaching for the phone with the other, and dialing my room number. Time is precious, and I have to determine whether Sikong Xingxing can solve the poison of "a little red in the morning sun".

The phone kept ringing, but no one answered, three times in a row. It stands to reason that it is impossible for Sikong Jiexing and Cai Xiaofo to sleep so dead at the same time, even if they really have a beautiful high bed, they have already been woken up by the telephone extension on the bedside table. What's more, they are in a state of being hunted down, and they will definitely maintain the necessary vigilance, and they will even keep one eye open when they sleep.

"Mr. Chen, is it because of my injury that makes you feel embarrassed? In that case, you might as well say that I participated in tonight's action voluntarily, and I will not blame others for anything. Xiwei lowered her head, her forehead rested on the backrest, like a beautiful swan that had been injured, and whispered again, "I just want to do something for Miss Leng, the professor was killed, I hope she can be auspicious and return safely." I know that if she is not saved, you will be sad for a day......"

"It's not the worst yet, it's going to pass. I tried to relax and comfort her as much as I could. The instructor at West Point taught me a saying with a leather whip and a spur - "There is nothing in the world that cannot be solved, just whether you find the right way", and this sentence has been haunting my ears for four years after quitting the rivers and lakes, and it has become an epigram that I will never forget.

Xiwei patted my backrest and handed over a crimson business card: "Mr. Chen, this is Director Lorraine's business card, she has a very close relationship with Professor Leng Hannan, and she also likes Miss Leng, if you go to see her, you will definitely get help......" I could see that she was pretending to be happy, trying to straighten up, and a miserable wry smile appeared on her lips.

The car looked so bad that I couldn't go straight to the lobby entrance of the hotel, so I turned on my turn signal, twisted the steering wheel, and drove towards the staff parking lot.

No one answered the phone, and I had a faint worry, after all, it was the fifth killer in the world who followed and killed Sikong Xingxing and Cai Xiaofo. They are my friends, and since I have come here after a long journey, of course I have to take on this responsibility.

I took the card, glanced at it quickly, and saw a long list of ornate titles lined up in front of Lorraine's name, all of which were awe-inspiring. Of course, one of the most important roles for her is that of the director of the Egyptian Museum, which is in charge of thousands of Egyptian excavations and is the most accessible object for archaeologists and antiquities dealers around the world.

"You won't die, I promise. "When I entered the spiral passage of the underground parking lot, I carefully turned on my headlights and honked my horn briskly.

"Then I'm relieved, thank you. Xi Wei clutched her chest and smiled reluctantly, the little blush in her eyebrows was spreading, and now it was the size of a peanut.

"I'll put this business card away first, Curator Lorraine still needs your introduction—" Suddenly, a strange scream came from the depths of the parking lot, it was the wail of a prime-aged mouse when it was killed in an instant, it only lasted for three seconds, and then it stopped abruptly, as if it had been cut off by an extremely sharp long knife.

"I smell death. I smiled faintly.

In my opinion, all the killing will not start for no reason, let alone end without results, like a clockwork alarm clock that will never stop without waking people up.

"What?" Sylvie raised her right hand and propped up her left cheek, trying to cheer up.

"Miss Xiwei, the most important thing you need to do is to shrink your body and close your eyes, and no matter what happens, don't leave the car without my orders, understand?"

I turned off the engine and slid down the basement by inertia.

"I understand. She obediently bowed down and reclined in the back seat, obediently closing her eyes.

In the rearview mirror, a hotel security guard in gray overalls and a gray baseball cap is striding after him, his right hand in his bulging trouser pocket. As is customary, the hotel has assigned 30 security guards to work as guards in the underground car park on a total of three floors, patrolling 24 hours a day to ensure the safety of guests. If I hadn't sensed the impending crisis in advance, I might not have been suspicious of the security guards, because these young Africans looked much different, with thin skeletons and dark skin, and they knew at a glance that they were from the countryside where they toiled all day.

The car slid into the basement, and more than eighty percent of the parking spaces were full, except for a dozen or so empty spaces at the end of the garage directly opposite.

On my right-hand side was the hotel's staff elevator, the doors closed silently, and there was no one in sight. The feeling of danger is getting worse and worse, but what surprises me is that if the goal of the Diamond Killer Wang Lao Wu is to pick up the stars and the two of them, he will at least choose to do it in my room, and never place the ambush circle here.

The car stopped, and I looked straight ahead, the corner of my eye falling motionless on the rearview mirror.

"Sir, parking is not possible here. The security guard came over and knocked on the passenger window.

I pressed the button, and the glass slowly fell, and the smell of African smoke rushed in.

"Sir, please pull over to the front. A pair of wide sunglasses obscured half of his face, and when he opened his mouth to speak, he showed two rows of teeth yellowed by tobacco.

"What about your companion?" I smiled, staring at his right shoulder.

"What did you say?" he shrugged his right shoulder, a precursor to a shot from his gun, but I had anticipated his every move, and slammed his right fist into the car door. This kind of kung fu of "fighting cattle across the mountain" does not need to directly hit the opponent's body, and the invisible air-splitting murderous aura emitted by the fist blade instantly rushed into the opponent's body, producing a devastating effect.

He took a step back, his mouth wide open, and stared at me blankly.

"I'm not going to kill you, but you don't want to draw your gun a second time, you know?" I nodded to him, revved my engine, and drove slowly to the end of the garage. The opponent's entire right arm was broken, and half of the left and right ribs were broken, and there was no longer a threat to me, whether it was with his bare hands or with a firearm.

Any four-star hotel in Egypt has a clear rule that security patrols must be carried out in teams of two, and when interrogating suspicious people, they must first show their own documents, but this person obviously knows nothing about this, and walks in a very stiff posture, like a battle-hardened mercenary.

No matter how tightly disguised the killer is, he can't hide the fierce murderous aura on his body, and the closer he gets to them, the stronger this creepy murderous aura will be.

The car walked forward thirty meters, and the indicator light in the elevator room turned on, and the red arrow representing the descent flashed all the way down from the eighteenth floor.

"On the eighteenth floor, are Sikong Xingxing and Cai Xiaofo impossible, they won't take the employee elevator to enter and exit. Who could that be?Waiter on the eighteenth floor?" I sensitively realized something, took a long breath, opened the drawer on the side of the bridge with my right hand, felt for a large-caliber pistol, and quietly pulled the safety bolt. This was prepared for me by Mitz, who seemed to be simple-minded, and knew the law and order in Cairo very well, and specially told me to carry it with me.

"Click, click", the sound of a sniper rifle loading load, came from a dark corner thirty paces away on the left. The lights in the parking lot were only a third of the way on, presumably turned off by the ambushers, leaving only a few at the elevator door. As a result, anyone who walks out of the elevator is directly exposed to the gunman's sights.

I rolled down the window and shouted, "Is it the diamond killer Mr. Wang who has arrived? Can we make a deal? I have secured the lives of Sikong Xingxing and Cai Xiaofo, you can come out on a condition——"

The sixth sense told me that the people who came down by the elevator at the moment were the ones who were unwilling to be lonely and always had to make trouble. In a matter of seconds, they will be turned into rabbits under mercury lamps, unable to escape the hunter's gun.

No one answered, so I opened the door and slowly got out of the car, my pistol clinging to my palm.

"Mr. Wang, I have something to say, I am very sincere in making peace, can we discuss and discuss?" I did not walk towards the corner where the sound came from, but stared at the 45-degree diagonal of that corner through the right mirror of the car. The layout of ambush battles varies greatly and cannot be discussed in detail, but the most essential point is that "the sound of the east strikes the west". That is, the sniper points exposed to the enemy are just tricks, and the most lethal "positive moves" lie precisely behind the enemy's back.

"Stand still and don't move. Someone screamed, and a figure swayed in the corner.

"Mr. Wang, take a step to speak?" I raised my arms and flaunted the pistol in my palm just right.

"There is no turning back when the bow is opened, and no one can protect the person I want to kill. The voice was muffled and hoarse, presumably wearing a masked hood.

"No matter what the buyer pays for their lives, I can pay double, how about it?" I need to drag it out until the other party shows a fatal flaw. Now, I'm 90% sure of shooting the two guys in the corner and preventing them from pulling the trigger, but there's no guarantee that they'll crack the other person's real move.

"Hmph, double, it's not about money, you know? It's not about money at all. The voice raised slightly, and he couldn't help but sneer.

"So what is the problem? As long as Mr. Wang puts forward conditions, we will do our best to do it-" I know that Cai Xiaofo stole something important from Li Tian and hid part of the truth from me. Otherwise, with the skill of the Diamond King, even if there are a hundred stars and two hundred Cai Xiaofo, they will already be halfway through.

At this moment, the elevator door made a "ding" sound and slowly opened.

"Puff, puff, puff" sounded six times in a row, my heart sank, and I watched the two people in the elevator with their backs to me being shot in the head, and the red blood and white ** were scattered and splashed. When one of them fell, the elevator door was jammed, and it was allowed to open and close, but it was impossible to close the door and go up.

I rushed into the corner, my left palm and right fist, and hit the lute bones of both gunmen at the same time, and the crisp sound of bones cracking followed. Just a foot above my head, two bullets whizzed past the concrete column in front of me, easily tearing off a large piece of wall skin half a foot square, revealing the blackened steel skeleton inside.

The bullet came from behind, and if nothing else, it was the diamond killer Wang Lao Wu who shot it.

"Eagle, I've already given you face. This is only the first shot, and it is a point-to-point warning, don't hit the idea of the Yue Qing Gang, otherwise, you will die a terrible death. ”

In the direction where the bullet came, someone spoke eloquently in pure American English, and the tone was gentle, but the meaning was murderous.

"Thank you, we have no intention of making enemies of the Viet Qing Gang. "Under the eaves of the man, I had to bow my head, I hid behind the post, the handle of the gun was already hot, but I didn't have a chance to flash out and shoot. When I knocked down the two gunmen, I was only 70 meters away from Wang Lao Wu's hideout, and in that case, he had a 100% chance of shooting me.

"Hehe, that's good, tell Cai Xiaofo to return the things you took back, and all the bad debts will be written off. Eagle, look at your face, I will let them go again today, of course, you can hope that Tian Qi will come to stop me, but the ranking of the killer list has always been very fair, if he can kill me, he will do it a long time ago, and he doesn't have to wait until today to make a narrow move. They're all your friends, so you probably don't want to collect the bodies of these people early, do you?"

Wang Lao Wu's voice gradually faded away, I breathed a long sigh of relief, looked down at the two people lying at my feet, and shook my head with a wry smile: "I'm sorry for the two of you, I hope this is a misunderstanding." "They're just going to be wounded and they're going to be back on the battlefield for three months, and maybe by then, they'll have left Cairo long ago.

It was not Sikong Xingxing or Cai Xiaofo who was shot by the gunman, but two hideous-looking young men wearing the same security uniforms as the three in front of them, but I would never believe that they were employees of the Moonlight Hotel. I dragged the body of the dead away, and the elevator was summoned, and the door closed and went up with blood all over the ground.

"Mr. Chen, you're not hurt, are you?" said Syvi, who stretched out her arm from the window and shook it vigorously at me.

I'm glad the Gunners didn't threaten Sylvie with him, and it seems that everyone on the killer list cares about their reputation and won't do all sorts of dirty things.

"It's okay, the danger is over. "I crouched down and after a little examination, I found that two people had been injured in the temple, collarbone, lumbar spine, knees, and ankles before being shot.

The elevator went up, and after a while, it came down from the eighteenth floor again. This time, after opening the door, it was Sikong Xingxing who jumped out, and when he saw me, his pale face suddenly turned into infinite joy: 'Ah, Eagle, are you back?'

Cai Xiaofo cautiously stood up from the corner of the elevator, cautiously looked left and right against the elevator door, and then slowly stepped out.

"Where are you going? What about the police guarding you, why didn't they come with me?" My mood was depressed for a while, and the smile on Cai Xiaofo's face that was neither yin nor yang intensified my inner anxiety.

"We're going to—"

Sikong picked up the stars in a hurry to argue, but Cai Xiaofo took over the topic indifferently: "Eagle, the room is too stuffy, we want to sneak out for ventilation, I didn't expect Wang Lao Wu to calculate so accurately, maybe the inside line was arranged in the hotel in advance......"

There was a strange glint in his eyes all the time, and he avoided my direct gaze a few times, looking slightly embarrassed.

"Wang Lao Wu has already left, Sikong, Buddha, let's go back to the room first. I opened the car door and helped Sylvie out.

Sikong Xingxing and Cai Xiaofo exchanged glances, and suddenly sneered: "Eagle, this young lady has been poisoned, isn't it?"

I nodded, and the faces of the two of them became indifferent in an instant, and Sikong Xingxing hugged his arms and looked at the exit direction of the parking lot, without even looking at Xi Wei.

"Eagle, we've had enough trouble, it seems that we shouldn't stand up for others, what do you say?" Cai Xiaofo shrugged his shoulders vigorously with a sarcastic smile on his lips. He had a tacit understanding with Sikong Xingxing, turned his face away, and stared at the exit intently.

Xiwei's face suddenly swollen red, and her arm shook, trying to break free from my support.

I held her arm tighter and chuckled in a low voice: "Don't move, you are a patient, everything is up to me." ”

Xi Wei sighed softly: "Mr. Chen, I'm sorry for you." She hung her head, and the hair on the back of her neck fell softly, revealing a neck as white as snow.

"Hey, Eagle, you came to Cairo to find Miss Leng, not to hunt along the way. Knowing this, we would have gone to Tian Qi, so as not to delay your happiness!" Sikong Xingxing became more and more dissatisfied, rolling his eyes and staring at Xi Wei fiercely.

I haven't forgotten my mission, but what happened to Xiwei in front of the Sphinx and the mysterious hole at the top of the pyramid made me realize that simply tracking Leng Xin's whereabouts from the clue of the robbery has become quite slim. If all the mysterious events can be considered as a whole and the strange things around the Pyramid of Khufu can be revealed one by one, perhaps the answer to the "Leng Xin Disappearance" will be self-evident.

"Sikong, there is a grumbling back to the room and say that it is not safe here!" I commanded briefly but forcefully.

Cai Xiaofo's expression changed rapidly, and he changed his smiling face: "Yes, I seem to think that -" Like other world-famous hacker masters, he also belongs to the kind of person who is extremely introverted, and the things he thinks in his heart are not exposed at all.

"What we are worried about is only Wang Lao Wu alone, his subordinates do not have a few ruthless characters, just now the Buddha took down two of them as soon as he made a move. Eagle, since Wang Lao Wu is gone, the Buddha and I will simply go out for a walk, and there will definitely be no problems. "Sikong Xingxing's personality has always been straightforward, saying whatever comes to mind, almost without going through his own brain.

I guessed the purpose of their staff elevator downstairs, probably to avoid the eyes and ears of everyone in the hotel and leave quietly.

"Aren't they afraid that Wang Lao Wu, Li Tian, and the Yue Qing Gang will chase and kill them?

Since ancient times, the Chinese have paid attention to "the son of a thousand gold, who cannot sit in the hall", and both of them can be regarded as "young and golden" figures, and their personal deposits in Swiss banks exceed eight figures, and they are not guilty of taking risks for gold. In the same way, the Tang Sect in Shuzhong dispatched Tang Mei and the Ten Demons, so why did they come? No amount of gold seemed to be able to move the hearts of these people.

"Okay, of course I don't have a problem, but you should be able to think of how many underworld forces the Yue Qing Gang has contacted to get their stuff back. The Yueqing Gang's 'black eats black, turns their faces and doesn't recognize people' are well-known in Asia, and I'm really worried that even if they return the stolen things, the fate of the two of them will not be much better. ”

I helped Sylvie to the elevator, careful to avoid the blood on the ground.

"Mr. Chen, it's not convenient for me to go up, why don't you take me to the hospital?" Xiwei looked up, pleading with a wry smile, the red clouds on her cheeks still did not dissipate, naturally revealing the infinite shyness of the girl. I've known Leng Xin for several years, but I've never seen such an expression, a "female Indiana Jones" girl like her, with only contemplative pitch lines, nasolabial folds, and wisdom teeth lines on her face, and rarely see the expression of red glow.

"Trust me, let me do it, okay?" I let go of the hand holding her arm so as not to hurt her.

There was a faint smell of blood in the elevator room, and the stainless steel panels on the side were still stained with the blood and brain marrow of the deceased, which looked extremely disgusting. Xiwei leaned against me, secretly reaching out to cover her mouth, with a look of unbearable pain.

"You two—aren't leaving?" I snapped my finger on the button to close the door, and called to the star.