Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

Horseshoe Apartment was chosen as the center of the intelligence network because it was an important node of the telephone network in the Peicheng hub area. In the days when there were only landline telephones, the Telephone and Telegraph Building's emergency backup network system was built in the air-raid shelter beneath the Horseshoe Apartments.

It was a strong bunker that could withstand heavy artillery shells. It was too expensive to dismantle and took up foundation space, so that the surrounding area could never build a building with more than fifteen stories. Although times have changed, and more convenient personal mobile communications and larger-bandwidth wireless network systems have replaced telegraphs and telephones, every quantitative change before the qualitative change has left traces in the soil trampled by horse hooves.

Today, the wiring under the Horseshoe Apartment has become so complicated that no one can explain what is going on. As long as it does not break down, they can continue to make use of it.

The local middleman's intelligence officer felt that the wiring here was too confusing and the cost of long-term use was too high to be worth the trouble. The outside intelligence officers thought it would be good to have an entry point, but they didn't dislike this place - even though their cost of use was higher.

In order to make back the cost, Carter Ross paid more and sent multiple intelligence officers to transform this place into a trap targeting Peicheng intelligence officers. He believes that no matter how good the defense and concealment are, there will always be loopholes. Instead of letting loopholes occur in places that you don't know about, it is better to build something that looks like a loophole but is actually a trap to cover up your defense system.

Here he set up a system called the "Scorpion Hook". He expected that the middlemen in Peicheng would continue to search for his location, probably near the Horseshoe Apartments, and then think of the old line system here. He was very familiar with the working methods of intelligence officers and knew that the next step for intelligence officers was to get close to the network system of Horseshoe Apartments in order to reduce the loss of their information search capabilities due to complex lines and distances.

In other words, he knew that an intelligence officer would come to investigate, and at the same time, the intelligence officer could not lock his exact location until the investigation was completed. Carter Ross disguised the Four Seasons Spring Hotel as a "base camp". Intelligence officers who came to conduct investigations would find there, and then launch an attack on the Four Seasons Spring Hotel.

Since the Four Seasons Spring Hotel is only more than three hundred meters away from the Horseshoe Apartments, in this case, the intelligence officer will stay above the Horseshoe Apartments to provide intelligence support - she would have done so if Meteor had not discovered the truth beneath the trap. Therefore, the Four Seasons Spring Hotel is the scorpion's pliers, used to deal with the mercenaries who come to kill them. The top floor of the Horseshoe Apartment is the Scorpion Tail Hook, used to capture Peicheng's intelligence officers. As long as an intelligence officer is caught, the income will not only be enough to cover the increased cost of breaking the network, but also make a lot of money.

However, the choice of placing multiple intelligence officers in the Horseshoe Apartments carries great risks, and Carter Ross is well aware of this. In order to prevent Leng Touqing from breaking in and doing bad things - after all, he is a master of SB - he set up heavy troops on the third to tenth floors of the building. Not only did he have twelve mercenaries guarding the place day and night, but he also set up multiple fire traps, including two sets. Independent internal monitoring and early warning system.

The seemingly redundant network lines at the door of the building are just superficial. The energy signal of the shadow-slave equipment inside the building is stronger - Zhuang Xuteng felt it as soon as he opened the rooftop door.

Some are on the surface, some are on the middle floor, and some are buried deep inside the wall... Various shadow circuits and shadow equipment are spread all over the Horseshoe Apartment, as densely packed as a spider web. Zhuang Xuteng's scalp was numb when he saw it. It was difficult for him to imagine the total value of these equipments. He only knew that his enemies were spending a lot of money here and constantly strengthening their defenses, just to protect the most important intelligence personnel.

To figure out the defense facilities here, the intelligence officer needs to work for at least half an hour. To dismantle these facilities quietly would require at least eight times the time and extremely strong technical capabilities. So as long as you go to the roof every four hours and put this patrol plan blatantly on the surface network, no intelligence officer will want to slowly dismantle equipment on the roof. In any case, attacking the Four Seasons Spring Hotel was the most reasonable choice. Carter Ross believed that he had the will and means to control the mercenaries and middlemen in Peicheng, but he never expected that there would be a strange Zhuang Xuteng.

"Brother Dao, wait for me for a moment." Zhuang Xuteng put his hands on the wall and slowly adjusted his breathing. On the surface, it seemed that he suddenly felt unwell and needed to adjust his physical condition. In fact, he is absorbing the shadow energy in the wall.

Carter Ross buried a total of three independent warning and defense systems in the wall. They are independent and do not communicate with the outside world, including the intelligence officers in the building. Disruption to any one system triggers attacks from the other two systems, which form an angle to each other, each serving as a shield for the other two. Carter Ross believes that this is the ultimate form of automatic protection systems.

Zhuang Xuteng cut off the power to them.

It took one minute for each system and three minutes for the three systems. Zhuang Xuteng sucked up their energy with his hands. When doing this, Zhuang Xuteng was very careful. He did not have the time or ability to distinguish what systems were inside the wall. He only connected those that could be sucked in. He knew very well that the building was connected to the entire network, and it was impossible and incapable for him to absorb any shadow slave system connected to the external network. Only the independent shadow slave system inside the building could be attacked by him in this way.

He thought he had absorbed several internal monitoring systems, but he had no idea that he had taken down a complex defense system worth as much as an intelligence officer.

"Brother Dao, let's take action - show no mercy." Zhuang Xuteng said: "The fire in the palm opens the door, and the grenade opens the way. Meteor pointed out two rooms, but she may not be accurate, so we have to kill at least two floors."

"I brought a demolition axe, I can demolish the whole building." Brother Dao smiled and said, "Be careful, don't fire the pistol randomly, be careful and you will use up all your energy."

Zhuang Xuteng nodded, then lowered his body and tiptoed down the stairs. Both he and Ge Gongdao entered a state of four-dodge, which allowed them to better control their steps. Even if they encountered an unseen trip wire or pressure trap, they would have enough time to react and avoid being actually triggered.

There were indeed several such traps on the road. Zhuang Xuteng saw half of them, Ge Gongdao found another third, and the remaining extremely secret places were resolved with super calculation and four flashes. Arriving from the top floor to the eighth floor, Ge Gongdao said that he would send Zhuang Xuteng down, and it would be the same when he came back up after a while. Zhuang Xuteng shook his head. He insisted that Ge Gongdao stay on the eighth floor. Then he stretched out his hand and tapped his wrist to sign the number "three".

This means action after three minutes. Ge Gongdao wanted to give Zhuang Xuteng more time, but he glared back hard. This is not the last mission. Zhuang Xuteng is in charge of commanding this operation.

Zhuang Xuteng completed the three-minute journey in only two minutes. He found that there were far fewer traps on the eighth to fourth floors than on the roof. He had reason to believe that there would be a large number of traps from the fourth floor down, so the best retreat route was still upward, through the areas they had already cleared.

Activating the Eye of Shadow, Zhuang Xuteng focused on the shadow energy around him, and then looked for the place with the strongest signal. He saw 403, and it felt like there was a spotlight hidden behind the door. At the same time, there are also some shadow signals behind other rooms on the fourth floor, and some are still moving slowly - these must be the "staff" here...

As expected, the door should be locked. Zhuang Xuteng would not try it foolishly, he directly put the fire in his palm on it. Palm Fire will erupt with intense white light, which will flicker due to the unstable combustion and destruction process. Before the door of room 403 flickered, Zhuang Xuteng vaguely felt the brightness change coming from the upper floors in the stairwell - Ge Gongdao took action, and he missed a beat or two in counting seconds.

A few seconds of error will not affect the suddenness of the attack! The thermite melted the metal door lock. Zhuang Xuteng pressed his left hand on the door. Using precise force sensing, he caught the moment the door bolt melted and pushed the door open. In just the blink of an eye, he remembered everything in the room.

A metal coffin-shaped device is located in the center of the living room. It is surrounded by many cables and connected, like a spider in the center of a web waiting to prey. Meteor once said that she works in special equipment that can reduce facial bleeding and avoid infections and other diseases. The place where the Ying Cong energy signal was strongest was the metal coffin, and Zhuang Xuteng was very sure that his target was inside it.

When he stepped into the door with his left foot, a door in the corridor on the fourth floor was suddenly pushed open. Zhuang Xuteng had to admit that the level of "security" left here was quite good, and they responded so quickly. The problem with palm fire is that it is too bright and conspicuous, making it easy to be spotted by alert people. However, another advantage of palm fire is that the effect is stable and the time is controllable. Zhuang Xuteng prepared the shock bomb in advance, pulled out the latch, and officially activated it when he pushed the door.

When people in the corridor saw Zhuang Xuteng, they immediately raised their hands and shot without hesitation. However, Zhuang Xuteng had already hidden most of his body inside the house, and the shadow gun could no longer target him. Not only that, he also stretched out his right hand at the end of the countdown, and the shock bomb detonated in his hand.

Even if he was protected by a grenade, the feeling of being at close range was uncomfortable, especially when he was still using supercomputer and four flashes. The sharp sensory nerves actually amplified the effect of the shock grenade. Zhuang Xuteng was also a little dizzy, but he would not really faint.

This lesson is enough. Next time you use shock grenade, you must first stop the super-computing martial arts. Zhuang Xuteng took a deep breath to adjust his condition, and then took out the fire from his palm. He knew clearly that the ability of the shock grenade to penetrate obstacles was very poor, and the people who had not come out of the room would hardly be affected. They would come out soon, and he did not have enough time.

Put the fire in your palms and burn through the iron coffin. No matter what kind of person is inside, first bear the 2500-degree temperature! Zhuang Xuteng took a step toward the iron coffin and saw the coffin opened. A man wearing the clothes of a senior manager of the company's business development department stood up with a whoosh. His movements were ridiculously fast, as if they didn't take any time.

Zhuang Xuteng couldn't see his face because his face was open and the metal tentacles were dancing slowly. He said to Zhuang Xuteng in a voice accompanied by obvious airflow: "Interfering with the company's operations, the death penalty will be executed now."

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