Chapter 68 Deception

"Line! Everyone comes one by one in order-"

The lieutenant frowned and roared loudly with unconcealed disgust.

Mercenaries have their own rules. Especially veterans who have experienced death and fighting training, they like cigarettes, women, and the best spirits, but they don’t like someone standing in front of them and pointing their fingers.

Lin Xiang did not speak to anyone. He observed the surrounding environment vigilantly, passed through the mercenary group very low-key, followed the direction guided by the second lieutenant, approaching a small door next to the building with the words "entry" marked in Chinese and English.

Mercenaries were not adapted to the environment of Crescent City. Unlike other cities, there were no familiar bars and dancers here, and no loud mission release halls. The neat streets were simply too clean. Mercenaries who were used to urinating and defecating were only felt that they had entered another world. If they had not developed a strong interest in that long-term mission, they would not have taken the initiative to enter this rigid city that was almost suffocating.

"Boy, don't show such a lofty look." A burly veteran with a chaotic hair walked up. He squinted his eyes and glanced at the second lieutenant with his outlook, squirming his cheeks and pushing the cigarette butt in his mouth to the corner of his right mouth, and said in a dissatisfied and threatening tone: "We are not here to make you call around casually. You just need to tell me where to take the task. Save some time to find a woman to have fun, and it is stronger than standing here like a fool."

The other mercenaries gathered behind the veterans immediately laughed. Unscrupulous whistles and ridicule sounded.

The second lieutenant still maintained a fixed standing position. After a moment, his face changed slightly, his upper body quickly leaned back, and his right leg suddenly retreated back. With the help of his body movement, he quickly pulled out the pistol cross-body around his waist, aiming at the veteran who was grinning and laughing, and pulled the trigger hard.

"Bang--"

The bullet hit the target's neck accurately, tearing a terrible crack of more than ten centimeters wide between the fragile flesh and blood. The veteran covered the wound tightly, his eyes with incredible fear, and his body slowly leaned back.

The harsh gunshot shocked everyone present. The other four people surrounded the veterans looked at the scene in shock. They subconsciously pulled the gun and pointed the gun at the arrogant second lieutenant. Before they could make any move, the two skeleton soldiers standing behind the second lieutenant had already reacted. They held the ak rifle in their hands and pointed forward, and the bullet rushed forward with a terrifying speed. The four people immediately twitched all over and fell back to the ground. Dark red blood was pouring out from the dense bullet holes.

A huge forklift drove over from the side, and with a dull mechanical sound, it was held high in front of the car and slowly landed on the ground. Several skeleton soldiers with normal faces carried the gun on their backs, grabbed the hands and feet of the deceased, and threw it high into the half-moon-shaped bucket. Holding a hill made of four corpses, the exhaust pipe at the rear of the forklift sprayed out strong and choking black smoke, and slowly drove towards the distant entrance to the city with the roar of the engine.

"Say it again, everyone keeps quiet, come one by one-"

The second lieutenant stuffed the pistol with residual heat back into the holster.

This time, no one dared to violate his instructions again.

Walking through the entrance, there is a wide and clean corridor, and the light sources of lighting all come from various hanging lights embedded in the walls and ceiling. The entire corridor has no windows, and only a rectangular door frame about a hundred meters at the end, transmitting a softer and brighter white light.

This is a big room. The level is not too high, but it is very spacious. A white man wearing a white coat, about forty years old, with a slightly bald hair and a black skeleton logo on his chest, sat in the middle of the room. His fingers crossed and clenched into fists, and placed on the semicircular metal table in front of him. His whole body leaned forward at a forty-five degrees angle, with a pair of gray eyes looking at Lin Xiang who had just walked into the room with interest.

"It seems very messy outside?" He pointed to a metal chair placed in front of the table and signaled Lin Xiang to sit down. His eyes glanced blankly from the surface of the heavy sniper rifle.

"I don't know very well." Lin Xiang put his backpack at his feet, sat down on the chair, shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. His eyes quickly passed by the room, and quickly took all the decorations into his eyes.

There seems to be no equipment like surveillance cameras here. At least, he has not discovered it so far.

The man laughed indifferently: "I am almost bored and crazy when I stay here every day. Okay, let's talk about the serious matters! Please show your mercenary qualification certificate and relevant documents issued by the company you belong to. This is a necessary procedure, and I have to confirm your identity first."

Lin Xiang nodded in understanding, pulled open his clothes, and took out a few pieces of folded paper from his close-fitting pocket.

"Sosbia? Haha! That's a big guy of good size." Looking at the signature at the end of the file, the man dragged over the computer placed on the desktop, skillfully tapped the keyboard with his fingers, and entered a series of identity information at the end of the flashing cursor on the screen. After that, he added: "Of course, no matter what company, it is not as good as our Skeleton Knights."

After doing all this, he turned around, took the medical device placed on the other end of the semi-circular table, picked up a sharp blood-taking needle from it, circled it flexibly between his fingers, and smiled and said, "Don't worry, take some blood samples, there is no life-threatening."

The alcohol cotton ball was soaked on the fingers, and a cool and damp touch was instantly heard. The sharp needle pierced the skin, causing a slight pain and numbness. The dark red blood beads that appeared on the fingertips slowly expanded the area occupied, but were swallowed by the rubber-head straw. Under the squeeze of huge force, they were irresistible and were driven into the glass test tube that had been prepared, rolling back and forth in the transparent tube wall.

The man had been carefully observing Lin Xiang's eyes. He seemed to want to see something from it, but unfortunately, he got nothing except the blood sample in the end.

"Ok! Authentication ends here. Now you can..."

Just as the man put the test tube into the collection rack next to him and was about to explain the follow-up matters, a sharp and crisp collision sound suddenly came from the huge floor-to-ceiling window behind him.

"What's going on?" He turned his head subconsciously and looked alertly in the direction where the sound came from.

At this moment, Lin Xiang's hands moved rapidly at an incredible speed.

He picked up the test tube on the collection rack with his left hand, put his right hand into the pocket on the edge of the seam of his pants, and clamped a wire about ten centimeters long between his fingers, a linen handkerchief, and another tube of blood prepared in advance.

Three things are sandwiched between four fingers except the thumb.

Lin Xiang first emptied the blood contained in the test tube in his left hand on the handkerchief, clamped the wire with his two fingers, stuffed a ball of fine wire cotton tied to the front of the wire into the pipe, wiped all the remaining blood, and then pinched the blood sample he prepared with his little finger, used food, pulled up the plug that blocked the pipe mouth with his thumb, poured all the liquid inside into the cleaned test tube, and quickly swung back to the original position on the collection rack with lightning speed. After doing all this, he put everything in his hand into his pocket, with a puzzled and puzzled expression on his face, looking at the sounding window, and said, "Can it happen to something outside?"

The complete set of actions took only less than two seconds. The speed unexpectedly obtained from mutated creatures has far exceeded the normal evolutionary ability of humans.

"Maybe it!"

The man muttering in his mouth seemed to react. He turned his head at a very fast speed and searched for the things he placed on the table with an eagle-like gaze. When his eyes swept across the blood collection rack, he paid special attention to the blood sample that the tube had just taken from Lin Xiang. After confirming that the liquid scale had no error with the number in his memory, he moved his gaze back to Lin Xiang, and looked for all the details that might have found flaws.

The traces left by the contact between the skin and the table, the basic sitting posture of the body, the angle of the arms and thighs, the tilt and shaking direction of the shoulders and spine... He tried hard to search for whether the other party was inconsistent with his memory a few seconds ago, but everything showed that this young man from Sosbia obviously had no abnormal movements. Even the expression on his face maintained the surprise and surprise that normal people should have.

It seems that I am overthinking and I am really nervous.

The man smiled self-deprecatingly, reached out to open the drawer, took out a blank document, filled in the corresponding page with relevant data, stamped his own signature, picked up the document and handed it to Lin Xiang, turned his body sideways, pointed to a small building opposite the window with the tip of the pen: "Go to Captain Soke to report! This guy has a bad temper, pay more attention. Good luck-"

Lin Xiang nodded politely, took the document, picked up the backpack at his feet, turned around and walked out of the room.

When he was in Emma City, he had carefully checked mercenaries who had contact with the Skeleton Knights. He had already known the entire procedure of identity verification.

Like last time, the blood in the test tube also came from Wang Biao. The only difference was that last experiment only took a few drops, but this time I asked for a full hundred milliliters, and I filled a full ten test tubes.

Lin Xiang knew very well that his blood was different from ordinary people. If you want to hide your identity, you must use other people's blood to pass the test.

Wang Biao is a very good choice. He has the strength of level five evolution, not too strong, but not weak. It is very compatible with his A-level mercenary qualifications.

When entering the room, Lin Xiang held a small stone in his palm.

The stone is not big, with a diameter of about one centimeter. Its surface is made of countless dense patterns with a knife in advance. These scratches of varying depths are by no means abstract carvings of far-reaching significance. The direction of each line is consistent with the texture of the stone itself. This non-artistic action completely destroys the internal structure of the stone, causing it to pop out between Lin Xiang's fingers and hit the metal frame of the window. After making a crisp enough sound, it decomposes it on the spot into hundreds of individuals smaller than sand particles, confusing the dusty surface on the floor of the room, forming an indistinguishable whole.

Two seconds of disturbance is enough.

Lin Xiang has practiced the complete set of actions to change blood samples countless times. The brain thinking that the four-star parasite possesses and the speed of the six-star parasite can be combined with the entire process no more than 1.2 seconds at most.

This is a very critical step.

If you want to successfully get into the Skeleton Knights, you should first pretend to be an ordinary evolutionist. Lin Xiang carefully observed the man responsible for making blood samples. The other party was a two-star parasite, and he deceived his eyes by hiding the intention. There was no problem.

The plan went very smoothly. The man found no flaws. When he turned his gaze back to the table from the sounding window, Lin Xiang had already completed the whole process of changing the blood samples. The expression on his face was just like the little girl who suddenly saw cockroaches screaming repeatedly, and had frequent orgasms in excitement and fear. It was reasonable and impeccable.

If the room is equipped with monitoring equipment, Lin Xiang has prepared another set of backup plans. Now it seems that it is obviously not useful.

From the outside, Captain Sock should be the kind of person who is rigorous by nature.

The brown hair was meticulously combed, the light gray military uniform was permed straight, the shiny black leather shoes were spotless, the carefully trimmed beard was arranged on the lips, and the whole body seemed to be covered with labels such as "order", "strict" and "cold".

Through the wide desk, Lin Xiang could clearly feel the smell of a Samsung parasitic emanating from the other party. On the other hand, there was no abnormality on the captain's face.

The captain's room was large and crowded. Standing like a javelin on both sides of the desk, the number of more than a dozen skeleton warriors occupied almost half of the space.

"No. 396." He picked up Lin Xiang's identity document, looked coldly at the signature stamp just stamped on the lower right corner at the end, and directly replaced Lin Xiang's name with the numbers on the table, and said expressionlessly: "There is only one task here. From now on, you have two hours of rest time. Of course, you can also start now. Whether you come first or later, as long as you meet my requirements, you will be able to pass the review smoothly."

"Let's start now!" Lin Xiang stood up straight and added: "Anyway, I don't have anything to deal with."

Captain Soke's pupils were deeply trapped in the frame of his eyes and released a strange smile. He pulled out a page of paper from the folder on the right side of the table and handed it over: "Look at this first."

That's a map.

To be precise, it is a pipeline setting plan.

"This is the network diagram of the underground pipelines in the area of ​​53 of Crescent City." The captain pointed his finger at the smooth desktop: "Did you notice the letters a and b marked with red numbers on the drawing? Point a is at your feet, which is the basement of this room. Your mission starts from here, passes through the entire underground pipeline, and walks out from point b. No matter how much time you spend, as long as you can appear at point b, you will be considered completing the task."

The lines marked on the figure are not complicated. There is an obvious thick red line between points a and points b. Calculated according to the scale in the lower right corner of the chart, the total length of the distance is about five kilometers.

"Everyone wants to join the Skeleton Knights, where you can get the best treatment and benefits that no company can match." Captain Sock's slightly hoarse voice sounded again: "We don't need waste, there is only one dead end here for the rice bucket and idiot. You have to prove yourself enough, and the way to get recognition is also very simple - as long as you pass through the entire underground pipeline, you can get everything you have dreamed of. Of course, the premise is that you must still be alive."

Lin Xiang looked at the map in his hand carefully again, although he had seen it many times. After reading it, he frowned tightly.

This is a pipe folded in a repeated "z" shape. There are no dangers or obstacles marked in it, but it can be imagined that what is not on these pictures still exists. The degree and complexity of these are even more terrifying than imagined. Otherwise, the Knights of the Skeleton would not publish it as a task.

"Is there anything else I need to explain?" The captain smiled coldly: "For example, what kind of danger may you encounter? Or what kind of mutant creatures are there?"

"How many people are entering the pipeline with me?" Lin Xiang shook his head and raised another question.

"There were two thousand six hundred and eighty-one people before you. As for you, according to the ranking, it should be the 396th of this year." This question was obviously unexpected, but the captain still gave the answer.

"In other words, there will still be people behind me. There will be no time or quantity?" This is Lin Xiang's own understanding. From the captain's eyes, he also saw a positive answer.

"I have no problem." Folding the map and carefully stuffing it into my top pocket, Lin Xiang raised his head and stared at Captain Sok who was slightly surprised: "Now, let's start!"

A soldier took him out of the room.

"Interesting young man."

Looking at Lin Xiang who was gradually disappearing at the end of the corridor, the captain showed a slight sarcastic ridicule on his cold face: "Maybe you can really go through that path of death. But so what? At best, it is to add a simple symbol at the end of the two statistics "pass" or "not passing". Hehehehe--"

Following the stairs and entering the basement, Lin Xiang replenished enough food and water in the rest room on the ground floor, as well as a total of 120 shotguns, two powerful flashlights, and enough batteries.

The Knights did not refuse to accept Sosbian dollars, but the exchange rate was only one-half of the face value.
Chapter completed!