Chapter 268 Rescue Doctor Zhang
The electronic screen at the fortress command center flickered with a faint blue light. Su Wanqing pushed the terminal onto the table and projected Dr. Zhang's last location coordinates.
"East City Military Research Center." Lu Zhao tapped on the keyboard. A gray building complex popped up on the satellite map. The barbed wire on top of the high wall glowed coldly under the night vision mode. "A temporary detention point of the National Security Bureau. There is a military sign on the surface."
Xiao Ran leaned over to look at the surveillance screenshots: "There are three security gates, and there are eight guards at the entrance, changing shifts every hour. The electronic lock uses iris + fingerprint dual verification, and the blind spot of the surveillance is in the northwest corner -" He pointed his finger at the drainage ditch, "but there is a sensor there."
“I can’t charge in head-on.” Lin Che stood by the window, the blue lines on the back of his neck slightly burning. “I can control the water to avoid the sensor, but it will take time.”
Su Wanqing touched the jade bracelet on her wrist and found that the temperature was two degrees higher than usual.
She called up the system mall and ran her finger across the equipment list: "The invisible vest can block thermal imaging, and the jammer can black out the surveillance for thirty seconds." When she clicked to confirm, a prompt popped up on the interface saying "Consume 800 rebate points", and she did not hesitate.
“Lin Che and I will go.” Xiao Ran inserted the tactical knife into the scabbard on the side of his leg. “Lu Zhao will provide remote support, and Team Leader Su and Xiao Ling will guard the fortress.”
He looked up at the tactical clock on the wall. "It is now 1:17 a.m. We must bring the person back before 3 a.m."
Lin Che lowered his head to check his waterproof gloves, his knuckles turning white. "When I control my water ability, the blue lines won't spread more than 30%."
He said, "Enough for the pipes inside."
Lu Zhao pushed up his glasses. "Thermal imaging shows that there is a separate heat source on the third floor on the east side. It should be the interrogation room."
He threw the headphones to Xiao Ran, "Keep in touch, report your location every five minutes."
The night was as thick as ink that could not be dissolved. The modified car stopped at an abandoned factory two kilometers away from the target. Xiao Ran put on the invisible vest over the tactical uniform, and Lin Che squatted on the side of the road, pressing his palms on the wet soil.
"The drainage channel leads to the bottom floor of the building," he said. "The sensor is at the opening of the third pipe."
Lu Zhao's voice came from the headset: "Three, two, one——"
In the distance, there was the hum of an overloaded transformer, and the searchlights on the building's exterior flickered.
Lin Che shook his wrist, and the water in the canal suddenly surged, breaking through the rusty iron fence.
The two of them bent over and crawled in. The musty smell in the pipe went straight into their noses. Lin Che was in front, with his fingertips touching the wall of the pipe. "There is a sensor on the left."
He whispered, "Move half a meter to the right."
They groped their way along the wall to the bottom floor of the building. A ray of light leaked in from the vent, illuminating the patrol team at the end of the corridor.
Xiao Ran dragged Lin Che into the storage room. As soon as the door closed, footsteps approached.
Through the crack in the door, Xiao Ran saw two agents escorting a man wearing a black hood. When the man was struggling, the ID card on his shoulder was revealed - four small words "City News".
"Another talkative one." The agent kicked the detainee's calf. "I asked you to report on some 'unknown disease'. Are you feeling better now?"
Lin Che clenched his fist, and blue lines crawled two inches up his arm.
Xiao Ran patted the back of his hand and shook his head.
When the footsteps disappeared, the two of them moved along the wall to the third floor. When they turned the corner, the door of the interrogation room was ajar, and Doctor Zhang's voice came out: "I'm just recording the case."
"Records?" Another voice was as cold as ice. "The emails you sent are enough to get you sentenced to ten years in prison. Tell me, who is the contact person?"
Xiao Ran gestured to Lin Che to activate the jammer. The lights in the corridor flashed twice, and the surveillance screen went black.
The moment he kicked the door open, the agent on the left had just reached for his gun when Xiao Ran's tactical knife was already against his throat; the agent on the right went to press the alarm, but Lin Che flipped his wrist and the water pipe burst, and the water column wrapped in mud and sand wrapped around his wrist, and slammed against the wall.
Doctor Zhang was tied to an iron chair, with a bruise on the chest of his white coat.
"You guys." His voice trembled.
"Doctor Zhang." Xiao Ran cut the restraints, "We are here to take you away."
Lin Che checked his wrist: "It's not broken, it's just red."
"Thank you." Doctor Zhang rubbed his wrist. "They were in a hurry to interrogate the newly arrested journalists, so they didn't touch me much."
Before he finished speaking, a piercing alarm rang out. Lu Zhao's voice rushed out from the headset: "Surveillance has been restored! All exits are sealed, you must retreat now!"
The three of them ran towards the stairs, and just as they reached the second floor, they bumped into four agents around the corner.
Lin Che looked up at the sprinkler head on the ceiling, closed his eyes and concentrated - the water pipes in the entire building roared at the same time, the sprinkler heads spurted out water columns, and the water from the fire hydrants rushed out like a dragon, and soon the ground was half a foot deep.
The agents stumbled and grabbed the wall, and Xiao Ran dragged Dr. Zhang to the basement.
When passing by the data room, Dr. Zhang suddenly stopped and said, "There are documents in there!"
"No time!" Xiao Ran pulled his arm.
"Just ten seconds!" Doctor Zhang rushed into the room, inserted the USB drive into the computer, quickly clicked to download, and grabbed a stack of paper documents on the table and stuffed them into his arms.
Xiao Ran looked out the door and saw the agent rushing down the stairs with a gun in hand.
"Let's go!" Xiao Ran pulled him and ran. The water had already reached his knees.
The exit of the underground garage was guarded by four agents, with the muzzles of their guns flashing coldly.
Xiao Ran pushed Doctor Zhang behind Lin Che, his eyes slowly turning red, his muscles bulging under his tactical uniform.
"Run," he said, and rushed towards the bullets - the first shot grazed his ear, the second shot hit his chest and was deflected by the invisible vest, and by the third shot he had already pounced in front of the agent and smashed his fist into the other's Adam's apple.
Lin Che dragged Dr. Zhang outside, and the modified car stopped outside the wall.
Xiao Ran was the last one to jump into the car, blood seeping from his back, "Drive!"
he shouted to the driver.
Dr. Zhang dared to breathe after driving two kilometers. He took out a document from his pocket, and the cover was printed with "Scorched Earth Policy Plan".
"The government knew long ago that the infection could not be controlled." He flipped through the documents. "The green zone is for senior officials and experts, the yellow zone is for family members, and the red zone" his throat tightened, "the red zone will be sacrificed."
Lin Che was flipping through the documents in the back seat. When she saw the "Evacuation List of Key Personnel", her fingers paused: "There are no ordinary citizens here."
"What's more troublesome is that." Doctor Zhang took out a blood sample tube, "There are nanostructures in the blood of infected people, which can rewrite DNA."
He looked up at Lin Che, "Some of the early infected people have begun to have abilities similar to yours."
Su Wanqing's voice came from the headset: "It's safe, go back to the fortress directly."
Outside the car window, the lights of the city turned into a blurry yellow in the fog. Xiao Ran wiped the blood off the tactical knife, Lin Che stared at the hot blue lines on the back of his neck, and Doctor Zhang put the documents away again - they all knew that this night was just the beginning.
On the other side, in the fortress's medical room, Su Wanqing sat in a chair and rubbed her wrist.
The jade bracelet has been getting hot since a while ago, and the blue light flickers like its breathing.
Xiao Ling stood beside her, the silver liquid on her wrist climbing up along her blood vessels, "It's the same reaction in my body."
She said.
Lu Zhao projected the biological data of the two people onto the screen, and a line of words popped up in the system analysis box: "The energy characteristics are consistent with the distortion of space and time, which is a precursor to the activation of a large-scale portal."
Su Wanqing took out her terminal and sent a message to Lin Che: "Come back for an emergency meeting."
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