Chapter 212 Chapter 210 Operation Blade (3)

The reason why the Horseshoe Apartment was chosen as the center of the intelligence network was that it was an important node of the telephone network in the hub city of Peicheng. In the era when there were only fixed telephones, the emergency backup network system of the Telephone and Telegraph Building was built in the air-raid shelter under the Horseshoe Apartment.

It was a solid bunker that could withstand heavy artillery shells. The cost of dismantling it was too high, and it occupied the foundation space, so that the surrounding area could never build more than 15 floors of buildings. Although the times have changed, more convenient personal mobile communications and wireless network systems with larger bandwidth have replaced telegraphs and telephones, but every quantitative change before the qualitative change has left traces in the mud trampled by horseshoes.

Today, the lines under the Horseshoe Apartment have become so complicated that no one can tell what is going on. As long as it does not fail, it will continue to be used.

The intelligence officer of the local middleman thinks that the lines here are too messy and the cost of long-term use is too high, so it is not worth the effort. The foreign intelligence officer thinks it is good to have an entry point, but he does not dislike this place-although their cost of use is higher.

In order to earn back the cost, Carter Ross paid more and sent several intelligence officers to transform this place into a trap for the intelligence officers of Peicheng. He believed that no matter how good the defense and concealment are, there will always be loopholes. Instead of letting loopholes occur in places he doesn't know, it is better to create something that looks like a loophole but is actually a trap to cover his defense system.

He set up a system called "Scorpion Hook" here. He expected that the middleman in Peicheng would continue to search for his location, probably near the Horseshoe Apartment, and then think of the old line system here. He was familiar with the working methods of the intelligence officers and knew that the intelligence officers needed to approach the network system of the Horseshoe Apartment next to reduce the loss of their information search capabilities due to complex lines and distance.

In other words, he knew that there would be intelligence officers coming to investigate, and at the same time, the intelligence officers could not lock their exact location before completing the investigation. Carter Ross disguised the Four Seasons Spring Hotel as a "base camp", and the intelligence officers who came to investigate would find it there, and then they would launch an attack on the Four Seasons Spring Hotel.

Since the Four Seasons Spring Hotel is only more than 300 meters away from the Horseshoe Apartment, in this case, the intelligence officer will stay above the Horseshoe Apartment to provide intelligence support - if Liu Xing did not discover the truth under the trap, she would do so. Therefore, the Four Seasons Spring Hotel is the scorpion's pincers, used to deal with the mercenaries who come to kill. And the top floor of the Horseshoe Apartment is the scorpion's tail hook, used to capture the intelligence officer of Peicheng. As long as an intelligence officer is caught, this income is not only enough to make up for the increased cost of breaking the network, but also can make a lot of money.

However, the choice of placing multiple intelligence officers in the Horseshoe Apartment itself contains great risks, and Carter Ross is also very clear about this. In order to prevent the rookies from breaking in and doing bad things - after all, SB is good at beating masters - he set up heavy troops on the third to tenth floors of the building. Not only are there twelve mercenaries guarding here day and night, but also multiple firepower traps have been arranged, including two independent internal monitoring and early warning systems.

The seemingly redundant network lines at the entrance of the building are only on the surface. The energy signals from the shadow equipment inside the building are even stronger - Zhuang Xuteng felt it as soon as he opened the door to the rooftop.

There are those on the surface, those in the middle, and those buried deep in the wall... Various shadow lines and shadow equipment are spread all over the Horseshoe Apartment, as dense as a spider web. Zhuang Xuteng's scalp tingled. It was hard for him to imagine the total value of these devices. He only knew that his enemies spent a lot of money here and continuously strengthened the defense 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 quietly dismantle these facilities, it takes 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 in the surface network, no intelligence officer will want to slowly dismantle the equipment on the roof. In any case, attacking the Four Seasons Spring Hotel is the most reasonable choice. Carter Ross believes that he has grasped the mercenaries and middlemen in Peicheng in terms of willingness and means, but he never thought that there is a weirdo like Zhuang Xuteng.

"Brother Dao, wait for me for a while." Zhuang Xuteng put his hand on the wall and slowly adjusted his breathing. On the surface, he seemed to feel unwell and needed to adjust his physical condition. In fact, he was absorbing the shadow energy in the wall.

Carter Ross buried a total of three independent warning defense systems in the wall. They were independent and not connected to the outside world, including not communicating with the intelligence officers in the building. The destruction of any system would trigger attacks from the other two systems. They formed a horn with each other, and each was a shield for the other two. Carter Ross believed that this was the ultimate form of the automatic protection system.

Zhuang Xuteng cut off the power to them.

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

He thought he had absorbed several internal monitoring systems, and had no idea that he had killed a complex defense system that was as valuable as an intelligence officer.

"Brother Dao, let's start the action - show no mercy." Zhuang Xuteng said: "Open the door with palm fire and clear the way with hand grenades. Meteor pointed out two rooms, but she may not be very accurate, so we have to destroy at least two floors."

"I brought a demolition axe, so I can demolish the whole building." Brother Dao smiled and said: "Be careful, don't fire your pistol randomly, be careful not to exhaust your physical strength."

Zhuang Xuteng nodded, then lowered his body and tiptoed down the stairs. He and Ge Gongdao both entered the state of four flashes, which can better control their steps. Even if they encounter trip wires or pressure traps that they have not seen, they have enough time to react and avoid actually triggering them.

There are really several such traps on the road. Zhuang Xuteng saw half of them, and Ge Gongdao found another one-third. The remaining extremely hidden ones were also resolved by supercomputing and four flashes. From the top floor to the eighth floor, Ge Gongdao said that he would send Zhuang Xuteng down, and the same would be true when he came up again after a while. Zhuang Xuteng shook his head. He insisted that Ge Gongdao stay on the eighth floor, then stretched out his hand and tapped his wrist, making a number "three".

This meant that the action would take place in three minutes. Ge Gongdao wanted to give Zhuang Xuteng more time, but he glared back at him. This was not the last mission. This time, Zhuang Xuteng was in charge of the operation.

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

Activating the Shadow Eye, Zhuang Xuteng focused on the surrounding shadow energy and then looked for the place with the strongest signal. He saw 403, which gave him the feeling that there was a spotlight hidden behind the door. At the same time, there were some shadow signals behind other rooms on the fourth floor, and some were still moving slowly - these must be the "staff" here...

If nothing unexpected happened, the door should be locked. Zhuang Xuteng would not try it stupidly, so he directly put the palm fire on it. Palm fire will burst out with a strong white light, and it will flicker because the burning and destructive process is not stable. Before the door of room 403 flickered, Zhuang Xuteng vaguely felt the brightness change from the upper floors in the stairwell - Ge Gongdao took action, and he missed one or two beats in seconds.

A few seconds of error will not affect the suddenness of the attack! Thermite melted the metal door lock. Zhuang Xuteng pressed his left hand on the door, and through precise force sensing, he grasped the moment when the bolt melted and pushed the door open. In just a blink of an eye, he remembered everything in the house.

A metal coffin-style device is located in the center of the living room. It is surrounded and connected by many cables, like a spider waiting for prey in the center of the web. Meteor once said that she was in a special device when she was working, which could reduce bleeding on the face and avoid infection and other diseases. Shadow from the place where the energy signal is strongest is this metal coffin, and Zhuang Xuteng is sure that his target is in it.

When he stepped into the door with his left foot, a door in the corridor on the fourth floor was pushed open. Zhuang Xuteng had to admit that the "security guards" who stayed here were quite good and reacted so quickly. The problem with palm fire is that it is too bright and conspicuous, and it is easy to be discovered by alert people. However, another advantage of palm fire is that the effect is stable and the time is controllable. Zhuang Xuteng prepared the stun grenade in advance and had pulled out the bolt. When he pushed the door, he had officially started it.

The people in the corridor saw Zhuang Xuteng and immediately raised their hands and wanted to shoot without hesitation. However, Zhuang Xuteng had hidden most of his body in the house, and the shadow gun could no longer lock him. Not only that, he also stretched out his right hand at the end of the countdown, and the stun grenade exploded in his hand.

Even if he was protected by a grenade, it would not feel good to be hit at close range, especially when he was still using the super calculation four flashes. The keen sensory nerves actually magnified the effect of the stun grenade, and Zhuang Xuteng was a little dizzy, but he would not really faint.

This lesson is enough. Next time he uses the stun grenade, he must stop the super calculation martial arts first. Zhuang Xuteng adjusted his state by taking a deep breath, and then took out the palm fire. He knew clearly that the ability of the stun 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 on the palm fire and burn through the iron coffin. No matter what kind of person is inside, just withstand the 2500-degree high temperature first! Zhuang Xuteng took a step towards the iron coffin and saw that the coffin was 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 it didn't take any time.

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

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