Should we lead the troops in a retreat?
Company Commander Xiao was taken aback.
Zhong Linyu has the highest military rank, so why should a company commander like him be asked to do this?
The only possibility is that Zhong Linyu will have to stay here alone!
Liu Kai had certainly considered this possibility as well.
The two men looked at Zhong Linyu with puzzled expressions: "Officer Zhong, what exactly is your plan?"
"Execute the command."
Zhong Linyu's orders were not to be questioned.
He then looked at Liu Kai, who was about to turn and leave, and said, "Consultant Liu, could you please wait a little longer? We might need your help in a bit."
Liu Kai was indeed planning to leave just now.
But since they've already named names, it's not a good time to sneak away now.
In the end, Company Commander Xiao led the main force to retreat 300 meters in all directions.
But the siege continues.
In case of any unexpected events, we can rush to provide assistance as quickly as possible.
As Liu Kai retreated with the others, the "scan" function remained active.
He clearly saw Zhong Linyu turn around and return to the helicopter.
He pulled a sealed steel cylinder, about the thickness of a little finger, from the corner and hid it in his sleeve.
The cylinder also contained a small amount of an unknown liquid.
Surprisingly, it didn't freeze into ice crystals in the extremely cold temperatures.
After retrieving the gas cylinder, Zhong Linyu returned to the front of the building.
He tossed aside the two officer's pistols he was carrying, raised his hands, and exchanged a few words with Ji Zihan upstairs.
The men in black downstairs surrounded him, and a group of them rushed in through the closed window.
Upon seeing Zhong Linyu enter the building, Company Commander Xiao and his soldiers tensed up.
He instinctively gripped his gun tightly, ready to charge at any moment.
Liu Kai, meanwhile, was "watching" the scene inside the building from afar, feeling that something extraordinary was about to happen.
He did not believe this was a simple negotiation.
The third floor, which was level with the outside ice, was completely empty.
Surrounded by a group of men in black, Zhong Linyu arrived on the fourth floor and entered a narrow room.
The cramped room contained only Ji Zihan and Qin Luofei, who was bound even more tightly.
Seemingly intimidated by Zhong Linyu's hand-to-hand combat skills, four men in black remained in the room.
The remaining men in black had a clear division of labor; several of them closed the room door and stood guard at the entrance.
The remaining people went up to the 5th floor.
They guarded the captured hostages to prevent the military from launching a surprise attack.
As he entered the room, Zhong Linyu quietly slipped the steel cylinder from his sleeve into his hand.
With a gentle twist, the cork is opened.
The liquid inside found an outlet and quickly vaporized and disappeared without a trace.
A colorless and odorless, unidentified gas filled the narrow room.
Seeing this, Liu Kai felt somewhat puzzled.
Could the contents of this cylinder be something like an anesthetic?
But something still felt off.
If it really is an anesthetic, this small steel canister can only knock out a few people in the room at most.
What should we do about the men in black at the entrance and upstairs?
What happened next proved Liu Kai's guess wrong: it wasn't anesthesia.
Zhong Linyu looked serious, while Ji Zihan seemed confident of victory.
The two talked for a while, seemingly exchanging some conditions.
But several minutes passed, and the people in the room still showed no signs of being paralyzed.
Just then, Zhong Linyu suddenly raised his right hand to check his watch.
He then said a few more words to Ji Zihan.
Finally, Ji Zihan nodded and opened the door to the room.
They took several men in black, escorted Qin Luofei, and went up to the fifth floor where the hostages were being held.
Zhong Linyu quickly scanned the crowd.
They were visibly relieved to find that the survivors were temporarily unharmed.
Then he looked at Ji Zihan and started a new round of bickering.
Liu Kai guessed that the negotiations between the two had reached the point of discussing how to handle the hostages.
But he always felt that Zhong Linyu didn't seem to be in a hurry to resolve the matter, but rather seemed to be stalling for time.
After a while, he raised his right hand again to check the time.
Liu Kai suddenly noticed that Zhong Linyu had a subtle smile on his lips.
"Thump!"
Suddenly, one of the men in black who was initially in the room collapsed to the ground, his legs giving way.
This sudden turn of events caused Ji Zihan's expression to change, and he suddenly glared at Zhong Linyu.
The other men in black also glared angrily at Zhong Linyu.
Just as everyone was about to raise their guns to question them, a series of "thump thump" sounds rang out again!
Not only Qin Luofei, the man in black, Ji Zihan...
Even the survivors on the 5th floor seemed to have all their strength drained away, and one after another they lay down with their heads tilted to the side.
Despite falling, none of them fainted.
Zhong Linyu was the last to fall.
But he didn't fall completely; he just knelt on one knee and supported himself with both hands.
Sweat beaded on his forehead, and his face contorted in a grimace.
It seemed to be resisting the onslaught of this dizziness!
Liu Kai was stunned when he saw this.
He never expected that Zhong Linyu would actually dare to use this anesthetic poison, disregarding the safety of the hostages!
But this thing seems to be different from anesthetics.
Why didn't it take effect in the room on the 4th floor? Why didn't it take effect immediately when it reached the 5th floor?
Why did it take so long for it to take effect on everyone at the same time?
His question went unanswered, and Zhong Linyu had already pulled out a walkie-talkie.
At the same time, the walkie-talkie in the hand of Company Commander Xiao next to him also rang.
A slightly pained and weak voice came from the other end of the line.
"Company Commander Xiao...Quickly, send a small team over here!"
"Please invite Consultant Liu... to come along as well."
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