Chapter 76 Killer Simulator

Accidents happened one after another. A strange young man in black stood in front of the door. The air conditioner kept running, and the mixed floral scent was blown in by the cold wind. Everyone felt dizzy and held their hands on the operating table behind them, holding their breath at the same time.

At this moment, it is no use to worry about who is the culprit between the round-trip speed and the monitoring delay. The monitoring window is dazzling and stops at the blank space where Ji Xu just came out of the garbage disposal plant. The next second, the other party kicked open the door. It can only be said that he was able to come here safely. Both of them are the culprits.

With trembling legs, they mustered up their courage and asked in a tragic and heroic voice: "Who are you?"

Even if I die, I must die knowingly and thoroughly.

"An unethical profession that trades other people's lives, commonly known as a killer." Ji Xu politely greeted everyone's gaze. He took off his sticky tactical gloves and threw them into the trash can. "Where is your CEO?"

“…”

Everyone immediately shut up, trying not to talk about it.

Good news, it has nothing to do with the publicity.

Bad news, it's a killer.

It would be better to seek revenge! At least they, who have compensated the family, can stand on the moral high ground to accuse the other party, but the killer is invincible in a sense. No matter how much they accuse, they can't create an abyss from the moral low.

No one answered. Ji Xu kicked the lifeless saffron on the ground, causing it to turn and slide randomly in front of one of the people. The juice drew a long trail on the floor. The people around him seemed to be disturbed fish, and they scattered like birds and beasts in the blink of an eye, leaving only the lucky person chosen by God standing stiffly in place.

"Your CEO's position. Hmm?"

Ji Xu spoke as he walked slowly over, stepping on the wet flower juice, leaving behind a series of footprints that became increasingly shallow.

Cold sweat broke out on the man's head. He closed his eyes tightly, not daring to look at Ji Xu. He squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth as if his nerves had collapsed: "I can't say it."

He glanced at everyone's faces. Most of the researchers pursed their lips tightly and tried to avoid Ji Xu's gaze. He finally realized something: "Compared to an intruder who broke in by helicopter, you are more afraid of your boss."

“…”

This is a topic that no one discusses in depth. If you think about it carefully, it is easy to make people suspect that they have entered a large-scale pyramid scheme den. Ji Xu does not demand that they must respond. Human beings' fear of familiar people they live with day and night is sometimes greater than their fear of the unknown. Psychological shadows are knots that cannot be untied even by death.

It doesn’t matter. Ji Xu didn’t ask any further questions. There will always be other things that can arouse their desire to survive.

He walked around the room as if no one was around. The others were huddled in the corner like quails. There was no trace of the arrogant look he had shown before because Ji Xu's footsteps were so light that they were almost inaudible. After a long time, everyone noticed that he was standing in front of a cabinet filled with samples. It seemed that he had been standing there for a while and had almost swept through all the sample culture media.

He raised a topic that was completely different from the atmosphere in a questioning tone: "No cactus?"

What's the problem?

"No, no." The person being questioned stammered, "What our boss wants to create is the immortal Adonis. An oasis in the desert is worthy of his attention. A plant that already exists in its native place is at the bottom of the research project. No one cares about it."

Ji Xu whispered in disdain, almost inaudibly: "You have no taste."

The others didn't hear clearly.

Ji Xu turned around and walked to the operating table. He signaled someone with his eyes to open the password and unlock all permissions. Then he sat in the boss chair in front of him and started typing, as if he didn't care about anything behind him.

Seeing the killer obsessed with some unknown program, everyone looked at each other and quietly left through the open door. Before the last person sneaked out, the killer with his back to everyone suddenly said, "There are more than a dozen people lying where I came in. Remember to take them out."

The man froze suddenly, standing at the junction of the corridor and the room, not knowing whether to go forward or backward.

The sound of keyboard typing continued, and Ji Xu added without turning his head: "Don't let me see you go anywhere else."

This means that it is not allowed to tip off the CEO of Citong Group. The man was still struggling when he suddenly heard a familiar sound of carriage return. The keyboard was pressed very hard, as if deliberately reminding him of something. He looked up uncontrollably.

His dazed eyes swept across the huge screen in front of him. The small monitoring windows that were originally densely arranged in a frame disappeared, replaced by a bright red warning. Below the large triangular exclamation mark, there were two lines of large characters occupying the screen.

"Warning, you have activated the self-destruct program"

"Are you sure?"

Who can still be entangled in this?! The man's pupils dilated to the extreme, and he slid a few times with his hands on the wall, barely controlling his body. When he fled five or six meters outside the door, he vaguely heard the voice of the countdown: "Self-destruction escape countdown, 30, 29, 28..."

Ji Xu didn't move.

He raised his gun to shatter the sense of voyeurism hidden in the ceiling of the room. The numbers were decreasing every second. The cold light from the screen shone on his profile, making his expression seem particularly indifferent.

“4, 3, 2.”

The broadcast sound stopped abruptly at the last moment, as if the game interface was unplugged on the eve of victory, staying at the crucial moment, which would seem a bit awkward if left for too long.

But Ji Xu didn't think so. He said very naturally: "It's our first meeting. I hope this will be our last meeting."

[Task completion: 1/3]

A well-dressed man came in from the corridor, making people suspect that he was here for an appointment, rather than being forced by the assassin to come out. The other party sneered and said, "I know you, C, the hot new star of death. It is rumored that the people you target are like facing a sniper rifle hidden in the dark. There is no escape. Your assassination style can be called blatant. Nine days ago, you just killed the executive of Super Brain Research. Are you going to find me now?"

"?" Ji Xu was a little confused. He didn't pay much attention to the ups and downs of the forum. No. 8 was the only one who passed on the news. No. 8 couldn't talk to him about his recent gossip, which made Ji Xu know less about himself than others.

And this description is really weird. Everyone else is like a venomous snake or a cheetah, but why is he the only one to be compared to a sniper rifle? Is it because he has been carrying a sniper rifle to assassinate people in order to meet the deadline, which has left a vivid impression on people? There are also killers who use snipers. Obviously, this is a problem of cyberpunk. Metaphors are also evolving with society.

From now on, the picture "The tree is full of round apples, like egg-shaped grenades" will no longer appear in primary school students' homework books.

He was silent for half a second about his thoughts, and finally controlled his increasingly crooked train of thought, and asked a question to cover up his previous distraction: "Then you dare to come out to see me?"

This was a bit impolite. The CEO of Citong Group frowned in resistance. He was keenly aware of the condescending attitude in the other party's tone, as if he was looking down on everyone with a higher posture. He hated this attitude and replied coldly: "Since you dare to sit here and watch the self-destruction program, aren't you waiting for me to come over?"

...Not entirely.

His original idea was to find someone who was good at computers in the forum and ask him to track down the source of the shutdown signal so that he could know the location of the safe house.

The CEO of the Citong Group seems to be an arrogant person, who is used to intimidating his subordinates with brutal means. He left a self-destruct program to eliminate Adonis, but it does not mean that he will hand over his life to others. Whether it is to avoid rebellion by his subordinates or to prevent invasion by enemies and hackers, leaving a remote shutdown method is a defensive measure.

Ji Xu didn't say this, just assuming that the other party's guess was correct. He picked up the pistol on the chair and pointed it at the man's chest. He glanced at the corner of the ceiling, where the invisible eavesdropping device that had been broken before was. "One last question, how do you know I didn't leave?"

"Do I look like someone who will answer every question?" The CEO of Citong Group sneered, and Ji Xu's doubts grew.

He narrowed his eyes, tentatively raised the muzzle of the gun, and pointed it at the man's temple. The man still stood upright in the same place, looking at him with an arrogant and unafraid look, with a malicious look in his eyes that showed he would wait for revenge if you took action, regardless of life or death.

He didn't talk much with Ji Xu, perhaps because of his personality, or perhaps he guessed something from the fact of the executive's death. If there was a possibility of negotiation, the executive would not have died so quickly and tragically.

Ji Xu hesitated for half a second, then attacked unexpectedly. He changed his grip into a palm and quickly hit the target on the back of the neck. He placed the unconscious person near the operating table, then looked up to find the angle.

He stepped on the operating table, pried open the ceiling with a dagger, and climbed up to the vent in a few seconds. Then he looked down at the unconscious target, looked up for a few seconds to assess the angle and direction, and opened the outer wall of the base in the same way. He quickly hid to the side, and the soil layer fell down.

The fill light on the ground shone in, revealing a hole that was just big enough for one person to pass through. Ji Xu supported his upper body and crawled out. He turned around and sat on the ground. He looked at the man lying with his head down beside the operating table. He pulled the trigger without hesitation.

【Task completion 2/3】

The next second, all the plants suddenly went crazy! The roof of Adonis was lifted by brute force, and the crumpled metal plate was thrown far away with a loud bang. The counting sound was beeping, and the self-destruction program that was originally closed was restarted. It sounded like it was returning to zero at five times the speed. The sound was rapid and chaotic, like a giant axe hanging over the head to take someone's life.

Shadows covered the top of the head, tall trees blocked out the sun, the man-eating plants were stirring, the ferns opened their leaves with a dangerous cold light, and the vines crawling on the ground were climbing over like a group of snakes.

The countdown to zero is so fast that it is almost continuous.

In this suffocating emergency, Ji Xu could barely control his expression, and the first thought that flashed through his mind was:

Damn! Plants vs. Zombies Plus. Limited time six-second killer version!