Chapter 44 The Oriole is Behind
"After passing the intersection in front, go to the right. There are stairs going up there. After passing the stairs, there should be a straight corridor." After getting rid of the machine that blocked the road, the group continued to advance upwards. Thanks to the echo locator Zhou Yuqing had with him, he could reach it from a long distance away.
Finding the right way forward in the maze-like underground factory building, even so climbing the stairs is still annoying.
"How big is this damn place? How long are we going to go like this?" The leader, Ma Zi, didn't seem to be a patient person. He grumbled after following the team not far.
"You can take the elevator if it's too far, but you can't guarantee your safety during the ride." Zhou Yuqing glanced at him coldly and spoke directly back.
"I'd better climb the stairs..." After a brief weighing between being trapped in the elevator and falling to death or climbing the stairs to death, Ma Zai quickly gave his choice.
"But having said that, the data returned from the positioning is a bit strange." No longer paying attention to the complaining Ma Zai, Zhou Yuqing muttered quietly to the projection of the positioning device.
"What went wrong?" Aaron noticed Zhou Yuqing's uneasiness.
"Well, there is a strange oscillation in the echo. The higher we go up, the more obvious the oscillation becomes, indicating that there is some movement above our heads closer to the ground that is large enough for the locator to capture." Zhou Yuqing replied.
"It's not like there's already a fight up there, right?" Aaron joked casually, "Maybe it's because the production line is shaking. After all, this is a factory."
"I hope you are right. It's best not to end up like what I guessed." Zhou Yuqing sighed and said nothing more.
Afterwards, the journey up was extremely smooth, so smooth that Aaron began to wonder if he had been too hasty in accepting Yu Wanzhi's help. Just when he was annoyed by his lack of composure, Zhou Yuqing suddenly raised his hand to stop his progress.
team.
"?" Aaron didn't dare to say anything and cast a questioning look at Zhou Yuqing.
"Go find something and throw it in that direction." Zhou Yuqing ignored him and gestured in military sign language to one of Yu Wanzhi's subordinates, whose arms had been made into prosthetics.
The man nodded knowingly, apparently understanding Zhou Yuqing's sign language, and then randomly found a metal box that had been stacked for an unknown period of time in the corridor and threw it in the direction indicated by Zhou Yuqing.
"Buzz!" The box flew in mid-air and before it landed, something suddenly popped out of a wall in the corridor and shattered the wall and the mid-air box into pieces.
"?!" Everyone except Zhou Yuqing was shocked by this scene. The strong men with heavy weapons fired wildly at the unknown object that came out. However, the thing came quickly.
Go faster, appear and launch an attack, then disappear like a ghost.
"That kind of modified terminal I've encountered before?!" Unknown to others, Aaron was very familiar with the thing that broke the wall just now. He had faced off against the same type of terminal at the entrance of Liyang's store.
"The good news is that this means we are close to our goal." Zhou Yuqing stared at the ruined corridor with vigilance. "The bad news is that the terminal we encountered this time is different from the last operation mode. It may be to delay our progress.
Buy time for the real master to escape."
"It's a bit difficult to force a breakthrough..." As soon as he said these words, Aaron knew how unrealistic his idea was. After all, flesh and blood are no better than steel. Those modified terminals can hold their lives in a desperate position to hinder their progress. They
But it is impossible to hedge human lives against a bunch of lifeless machines.
"But it's not completely impossible. Leaving two people to alternately use continuous fire cover should be enough to buy time for others to pass. The problem is that the people who stay will have to face the illegal terminals that have been modified in a military style alone, and we
There is no guarantee whether there will be the same trap waiting ahead, which means that those who stay may do useless work." Zhou Yuqing said and turned his eyes to Yu Wanzhi's men, "What are you planning? Be safe.
Let’s all play mouse-catching together, or should we choose two people to cover the others and pass quickly?”
"Daqiang, you and I stay." After a brief silence, the strong man who had just been instructed to throw the box called out to one of his companions, "We two have the highest degree of prostheticization, even if we are unlucky and get involved in hand-to-hand combat,
I can fight that thing for a few rounds, so you can move forward without any worries."
"If the situation goes bad, withdraw. The boss won't blame you for this kind of thing." Ma Zai worriedly explained to the two people who decided to stay.
"This little trouble is nothing compared to what we encountered before." The strong man picked up another iron box and nodded to the companion who stayed behind, then threw the iron box further into the corridor.
"Bang!" A section of the wall was chopped into pieces again, and the iron box was also cut into pieces by the single-molecule blade.
"Big Qiang, suppress it!" the strong man ordered, and his companions immediately drove their machine guns towards the exposed position of the terminal and fired fiercely. Upon seeing this, the others quickly followed up and were ready to break through.
"There are five seconds left to reload!" The companion nicknamed Da Qiang kept staring at the ammunition capacity display on the gun with his peripheral vision.
"I'll pick it up, the rest of you should go quickly!" The strong man took over the shooting knowingly and gave the trigger signal to the others.
"?!" The suppressed terminal saw that someone actually wanted to break through its defense line and quickly wanted to chase it, but no matter where it went, the strong man's shooting would follow it, leaving it no chance to make a move. After repeated attempts failed, it
The artificial intelligence finally realized that it would be impossible to continue the action without dealing with the two humans who provided cover, so it gave up the pursuit and focused on dealing with the remaining cover duo.
At this time, Aaron and the others had passed through the terminal's defense line and entered a straight corridor. Three doors appeared at the end of the road.
"Which should we go?" Aaron asked as he ran.
"Right ahead, if there is resistance, just open the door and prepare for a fight!" shouted Zhou Yuqing, who relied on the echo locator to see through the situation behind the door.
"Okay!" As soon as he finished speaking, a stream of light flashed behind him. The moment the plasma bomb hit the door panel, a blue fluorescence burst out. The terrible high temperature directly opened a circular hole with a radius of about one meter in the door.
Molten iron still flows from the edge of the remaining door.
As soon as everyone was about to approach the hot iron door, two strange figures suddenly jumped out from inside and rushed towards them. However, there was not enough space for these two machines to move around, even though they performed well beyond the limits of human beings.
His mobility allowed him to avoid many shots, but he was still knocked down and damaged one after another in the face of overwhelming firepower.
"Don't move, you are under arrest now!" Everyone who knocked down the two terminals rushed into the room behind the door, where there was only a man with the appearance of the Rat King Zhao Jin standing alone in front of the console.
"I didn't expect that the one who rushed in here first was the Management Bureau." The Rat King seemed to have known about their arrival. "Since there are Yu Wanzhi's men following you, you don't dare to do anything to me. How can Yu Wanzhi expect anything?
Leave me alive to find out what he wants."
"Keng!" As a result, Ma Zai shot him at the foot before anyone else could say anything. "Rat King, or whoever you are, I advise you not to take yourself too seriously. All our boss wants is in your head.
information, so we can completely break all your arms and legs and leave only a stick to carry out the mission. You don’t want to be so disgraceful, do you?”
"Oh yo yo, I'm so scared." The Rat King smiled sarcastically and slowly raised his hands, "Well, I really don't want to make the situation too embarrassing. If you want to take me away, just take me away.
, I advise you to move quickly to avoid being snatched away by the oriole behind."
"Don't come here to scare people." Ma Zai didn't care about the Rat King's scaremongering. He winked to the left and right, and two people immediately went up and stood up the Rat King.
"Along? Aaron, did you hear that?" Just when everyone thought the situation was decided, Ling Chong's anxious voice suddenly came from the communication channel that should have been interfered with.
"Miss Zhou, there is no communication interference in this place!" Aaron's face changed drastically and he quickly shouted to Zhou Yuqing.
Zhou Yuqing was stunned for a moment and then understood what was going on. When she turned back to check the passage she came from, a modified terminal that should have been damaged suddenly jumped up and ran towards the depths.
"That's the real one!" Ma Zai also reacted to this, but they were all entangled by the disguised terminal with the appearance of the Rat King beside them and couldn't get away. They watched the real body running away under their noses.
"Buzz!" There was a dull sound in the air, and the regret on Aaron's and Ma Zai's faces gradually turned into surprise. Before the escaping terminal could take a few steps, a person suddenly and mysteriously separated his head and body and lost his head.
The body fell to the ground with inertia, while the head was hanging in the air with smooth cutting marks on its neck.
"Who?!" Zhou Yuqing pointed her gun at the head hanging in the air. She had already understood the essence behind the phenomenon.
"Not your enemy." Everyone's eyes were dazzled. Next to the mid-air head, a man wrapped in gray and black tights appeared out of thin air. To be precise, this man had been standing there since just now, but the heat on his body
Optical camouflage deceives everyone's vision.
"Are you... the assassin of the speaker?" The pupils of Ma Zai's eyes shrank into two small dots. He never dreamed that he would live to see the urban legend of District 9.
"I took this head away, and the speaker will return it to the bureau after getting the information he wants, so the cooperation agreement between you is still in effect." The assassin ignored Ma Zai and said directly to Aaron and Zhou Yuqing.
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"Aaron, if you can hear what I say, be sure to listen carefully. We are right above your heads now. Your location has been surrounded by the Emergency Department. Be careful not to get yourself involved in the crossfire!" However, Aaron!
Chapter completed!