Chapter 502 Chapter 499 I Enter
Late at night the next day, Zhuang Xuteng took his first action. He chose Hongma Street in the city's central district as his target, where there is a casino owned by the Blood Bat Gang. It is also a stronghold for the Blood Bat Gang to manage gang activities in surrounding areas. The nearby residents and the PCPD are very aware of this place, but one of them dare not take care of it, and the other does not want to take care of it, so they let it continue to this day.
This casino called "Lucky Double Horse" has a formal operating license. If you look at this alone, you would think it is a legal casino. However, the characteristic of gang behavior is to use legal things to cover up illegal activities. Not only will they operate beyond the limit in the casino, they will also bring people who are unwilling to gamble and force them to gamble. Gambling on money, gambling on real estate, gambling on shops, gambling on body organs, gambling on one's family and one's life... The casino's "first let you get into debt and then take over your property" thing has happened countless times. As long as this industry still exists, gangs will run it. Go down.
"Lucky Horse" has a six-story building, of which the second, third and fourth floors are the casino, the fifth floor is the rest room, the sixth floor is the gang's office area, and the first floor has been turned into a bathing center. The rules for playing here are also very simple: first change the chips, then change clothes, strip naked to enjoy the massage and bathing service, and wear a bathrobe to get the chips for gambling. Everyone who enters is inspected at the bathing center to make sure they don't carry weapons or strange shadow equipment. The inspection of implants is not that strict and mainly cannot be done. The casino will monitor all gambling games. If someone is found to be using an implant to cheat, they will ensure that the implant is removed surgically. As for whether to provide anesthesia and disinfection, it depends on the doctor's mood that day.
Although some people with mysophobia may feel uncomfortable stripping naked first and being rubbed before going upstairs to gamble, this method at least prevents many potential risks for gangs. All the windows in the entire building have been welded shut, and there are patrols and monitoring equipment on the roof and around the building. Except for the main entrance of the bathing center, the gang side door and the escalator from the underground garage to the first floor, there are no other entrances and exits.
Zhuang Xuteng had to carry the "committing tools", so he definitely couldn't enter or exit through the front door, and the commonly used underground garage or building windows were not good choices, unless he wanted to fight his way in. Although it is not impossible, it will definitely be delayed by the gangsters and it is easy for the big fish to escape.
After investigation, especially after Nightingale and Rock Bird successfully spied on the gang surveillance footage, they believed that the best breakthrough point was the ventilation system. The entire building is closed, and it contains both a casino and a bathroom. There is a huge demand for fresh air. In addition to the originally designed fresh air shaft, they also transformed an elevator shaft into a fresh air channel to provide additional air for the central air conditioning system.
According to indoor monitoring, in order to maintain the appearance, this elevator was not sealed, but the door was closed and it did not run. This provided them with an opportunity to go to various floors from the inside of the elevator shaft. However, the entrance to the new air shaft is welded shut, making it useless to pick the lock. Demolition tools must be used to cut open the entrance, and these tools make a lot of noise, and can easily reveal their whereabouts.
"I know how to solve it: use surgical tools." Zhuang Xuteng said: "The low-vibration skull knife and the special dental drill can deal with the reinforced alloy and are useful in implant surgery. The sound of that thing is very quiet and easy to carry, but for The demolition works are very slow and take a lot of time."
Zhuang Xuteng wanted Nightingale and Yanque to control the monitoring information for a long time, but the two people took a rough look at the monitoring content and rejected the proposal. Possibly affected by the raid on the Canghuo Gang's riverside building, this casino requires inspectors not to stop moving during work and must constantly appear in various surveillance screens. Their function is equivalent to timestamps or anti-counterfeiting codes, making it meaningless to play still images. Moreover, their constant patrols also have a great impact on engineering activities.
"It doesn't matter." Zhuang Xuteng said to them: "The surveillance picture is difficult to solve. It just increases the difficulty, but it is not impossible. You prepare some, I will get some equipment and come back."
Since everything is calm now and the first operation has not yet started, Zhuang Xuteng still has the opportunity to replenish his equipment. He went to the scale owner on the black market and bought a set of implant maintenance equipment and a set of lapidary cutting tools. Before Zhuang Xuteng, many mercenaries used these things to transform them into theft tools, but they were rarely used as engineering demolition tools.
Two hours later, Zhuang Xuteng's voice rang out from the encrypted channel, startling Nightingale and Yanque. "Where are you?" they asked, "Did you really say start taking action?"
"Yes. I am currently in a relatively high position and am preparing to taxi. Please report the patrol team's position to me, taking the elevator's fresh air shaft as the origin."
Nightingale and Yanqiao immediately got into work, with Nightingale responsible for local operations on site and Yanqiao controlling the overall risks. After installing the new cranial implant, Nightingale's information processing capabilities have been greatly improved. The number of parallel control streams for images and sounds has been increased from four to sixteen, and it can also perform less complex control on the three streams. real-time modification. If you take into account that the resolution of the monitoring head of the Lucky Horse Casino is not high, the number she can control and modify at the same time is even greater.
She continuously reported the positions and movement directions of the four groups of people to Zhuang Xuteng, and then remotely controlled a camera located in the corner of the building to make "twitching" movements that shook left and right. This immediately attracted the attention of the monitoring room. Through the intercom, a group (two patrol officers) were dispatched to check the equipment, and another group of personnel were dispatched to provide assistance from the other direction. In this way, half of the four patrol groups were mobilized, creating an opportunity for Zhuang Xuteng to airborne.
"They are very alert." Nightingale said: "In addition to the two groups on the rooftop, they also asked a three-person team inside to check the No. 3 working staircase, which is the passage for their staff to go up and down the rooftop. The entrance and exit of the rooftop were just temporarily locked manually by them. This..." Nightingale's eyes twitched and said: "They are very nervous. Has something happened recently?"
"It's more like they got a warning that something is going to happen." Rock Bird said: "I have been analyzing their internal communications. Someone said: How long should we prevent this? We can't knock on the door."
"It does sound like they have encountered some challenges. But it's better this way..." Zhuang Xuteng said while gliding down with levitation: "We are very lucky. Someone is taking the blame for us."
Rock Bird smiled and said: "Well, keep monitoring. If you can find more clues, you can directly frame them."
"Okay, keep working. I'm about to land. Give me three seconds to freeze the picture. Countdown 5, 4..." When Zhuang Xuteng counted to zero, Nightingale had already switched the picture and replaced the surveillance image aimed at the auxiliary fresh air channel with a still picture. Three seconds later, the screen switched back to the original image, and Zhuang Xuteng was no longer visible in the surveillance screen.
"Where is he?" Nightingale immediately began to check all the screens, reviewing from the perspective of a monitor, but could not see Zhuang Xuteng's location at all. At this time, she could only admire and complain in her heart: "Damn it, how did he hide?"
"Keep reporting the location, I'm going to start the operation."
"You're here? I can't see you in the picture." Nightingale said.
"That's right. Okay, pay attention and pay attention to the patrol team. If they have enhanced hearing, pay special attention to them."
There is no skill that can allow people to stand directly in the surveillance area without being discovered, only technology can do this. After installing the Shadow Personal Assistant, with the computing power of the flat head brother, Zhuang Xuteng can finally use Kaho's invisibility cloak. He had only tried it privately a few times before, using a mobile phone to film the process of his invisibility, and the effect was very good. This is the first time to use it in actual combat, and it seems to be no problem at present.
Zhuang Xuteng hid under the cloak, crouched low, and lay on top of the fresh air channel shaft. The Eye of Kaho scans the surrounding environment information to the cloak, and the cloak calculates the best concealment pattern based on the current posture. Through the clever application of knowledge in fields such as optics and psychology, the cloak has the effect of universal camouflage.
The cloak does not make people disappear. This is not a technology of "projecting the image behind you to the front". As long as it is projected, it is unstable, and the projection is directional, and it cannot cope with the gazes coming from all directions. "Kaho Invisibility Cloak" is actually a psychological camouflage outfit, which uses technical means to reduce the possibility of being noticed and avoid alerting anyone. If there is no restrained algorithm, it is definitely the least suspicious area at a glance.
If the computing power is higher... No, the computing power needs to be raised by two more steps to catch up from military equipment to the level of the latest equipment in the company. In short, Zhuang Xuteng can only make Kaho Invisibility Cloak effective when it is stationary. If he has a relative speed with the surrounding environment, the effect will decrease. The greater the speed difference, the easier it is for the psychological camouflage effect to collapse. Therefore, when working, Zhuang Xuteng pays great attention to controlling the amplitude of body movements, as small as possible.
The dentist and implant surgeon's drills and saws have been replaced with artificial diamond heads and began to gnaw at the steel fence. To reduce the sound and vibration, Zhuang Xuteng wrapped the ghost servants around the work surface to absorb the excess vibration, and he also used the supercomputing martial arts to adjust the cutting angle and speed at all times. The higher the efficiency, the less power is wasted on making noise.
Nightingale has been trying to find Zhuang Xuteng, but to no avail; Rock Bird also took the time to come over curiously - through the shared data stream - and took a look, but didn't find any problems. They both knew that Zhuang Xuteng was at the new air well, but this didn't help to find him.
"Focus a little, I've completed a quarter of the work."
"Sorry, a patrol team suddenly changed its route just now, and I found it too late." Nightingale patted her face to cheer herself up. At this moment, she suddenly thought: Naike can focus on the work at hand while monitoring the changes around him? Hiss, this skill is getting more and more incomprehensible.
If he didn't have this skill, Zhuang Xuteng wouldn't dare to start a melee against the entire gang. He had been using the Wraith Jelly to monitor the surroundings. He would stop his work when someone approached, and wait until the person was a little further away before continuing. It was not too cold tonight even though there was no wind. Spring was approaching, and the severe cold that could give people a reason to relax was no longer there. Zhuang Xuteng's cover mainly came from the crackling sound of the surrounding advertising neon lights switching, as well as the background music from the casino and bathhouse downstairs. These sounds had already attenuated when they reached the rooftop, and there were not many that could be used, so he had to be careful.
He lurked at the entrance for half an hour before he finally removed enough fences to create a gap for him to pass through. Based on the position of the patrol team, he found the right time to sneak in and move down from the former elevator shaft.
Fortunately, this place was used as an elevator shaft, so the surrounding structure was a frame structure, not the smooth metal walls of a pure ventilation duct. And this place is square, even if there is a fan in the middle, there will be a little space left at the four corners, giving the thin man a chance.
Zhuang Xuteng was not thin, and with the flat-headed man behind him, he could not get through the gap next to the fan. However, the fresh air fan was not always on. It turned on and off according to the state of the machine. Nightingale moved the machine to make it feel that its load was very low, and the fan stopped.
The top floor was the office of the Blood Bat Gang, and it was also the only area without surveillance. To be safe, Zhuang Xuteng went down one more floor and came out from the elevator entrance on the fifth floor. He used the sickle blade of the armor-breaking hammer to cut into the elevator door, prying out a small gap, and then used the strength of his arms to continue pulling, using the technique of feeling the strength to control the whole process. The elevator door, which had not been used for a long time, made a few shallow groans, and then succumbed to Zhuang Xuteng's power, selling the safety of the Blood Bat Gang.
After opening the door, the resentful spirit jelly could be spread to provide Zhuang Xuteng with information about the surrounding environment. "Cut off the surveillance and eliminate the traces" - after Zhuang Xuteng gave the order, he changed from stealth mode to killing mode. He lowered his body, quickly went to the stairs, and then used the ghost servants and the shadow to clear the way back to the sixth floor.
It was ten o'clock in the evening, when the casino downstairs was busy, and the strength of the sixth floor was relatively low. Zhuang Xuteng sneaked upstairs, and used the shadow that suddenly appeared to attract the attention of the doorman in the stairwell. He used the levitation technique and the wall jump to get behind him, grabbed his neck with both hands and twisted it, and killed him before the jump landed. Afterwards, Zhuang Xuteng collected his resentment and released it directly to the next target. While the man felt dizzy, tinnitus, chest tightness, and abdominal pain, he quietly went over and twisted his neck - another one was solved.
If it is not necessary, Zhuang Xuteng will give priority to stealth; if he may be discovered, he will give priority to killing him, also to ensure stealth. Soon, he came to the room of the local leader, and the sound of primitive activities of some creatures came from it - of course, there were more acting sounds, and the leader's hard work did not sound like acting - this means that Zhuang Xuteng's actions have not been discovered so far.
The door was locked from the inside, but this did not bother Zhuang Xuteng. Under normal circumstances, he would let the ghost and the ghost servants act and open the door from the inside, but doing so has a strong personal style and is easy to be classified. Zhuang Xuteng thought about it and thought that others would probably kick the door in directly and shoot after entering, which is more like the style of the gang.
"Then let's fake it afterwards!" Zhuang Xuteng still used the ghost to open the door. After putting the ghost jelly in, the resentment rushed directly to the leader. This time, he pushed the door in and did not try to twist his neck again, but shot directly, using the popular shadow gun available on the market.
The bright white ghost energy bullet whizzed past him, and the naked woman above was frightened. Her first reaction was to cover her mouth to prevent screaming. Hiss, this habit is very interesting. It seems that she has experienced many scenes that are enough to scare others and scream, and she knows very well that she can't scream. Zhuang Xuteng judged that this woman should have done a lot of things with the local leader of the Blood Bat Gang, and perhaps many miserable and terrible scenes happened in front of her. She is an experienced bystander. If she is smart enough, she will not look back.
She didn't look back, but kept covering her mouth with her hands, staring at the body with a hole in its head. Zhuang Xuteng put his fingers on the back of her head, and she clearly felt the energy gathering at his fingertips.