Chapter 37
"Where is your mother?" Wen Xia Xia asked Xiya.
Xiya blinked her dark eyes and said, holding the baby, "Mommy said she's going to the bathroom."
"Really?" Wen Xia Xia was a little skeptical and could only wait patiently for Lin Bai to come back. Her attention was quickly diverted to the movements in the building. She needed to listen carefully to their location so that they could quickly find a retreat route in the chaotic moment.
Lin Bai, who had left the organization, had quietly slipped into Guangming Building.
She was climbing up the ventilation duct in Guangming Building. Through the exhaust fans below, she could see the fierce fighting in the building. Her purpose of coming here was not to fight.
The Guangming Building has the minerals she needs, minerals that can further transform and strengthen the energy storage batteries in her body.
Just like the one I got from Peter.
There was a commotion below, and no one noticed someone crawling over their heads.
When we reached the higher floors, there was almost no one there. They were all fighting below the fifth floor. The higher up you went, the more difficult it was to break through the security devices.
Lin Bai came out of a ventilation vent on the eleventh floor wearing a mask and quickly searched the corridor for rooms. Each room here was installed with multiple passwords, so this was not a difficult task for Lin Bai.
She pressed the password smoothly and entered the room smoothly. She quickly found the password box containing the ore in the room. Fortunately, Tang Mary did not move. She put her ear to the box and slowly turned the password lock.
Just as the combination lock made a slight sound, footsteps came from behind, and someone shouted in surprise: "Who are you?!"
Lin Bai opened the safe and reached for the ore inside when someone reached out to stop her and spoke into the headset, "Mr. Tang, someone is stealing the gems."
Tang Mary's sharp voice, mixed with the sound of gunfire, came through the intercom: "Kill him for me!"
After receiving the order, Hongsha's subordinates shot at Lin Bai without hesitation.
Lin Bai had already put the ore into his pocket, turned around and kicked the person in front of him to the ground, and ran out of the corridor.
When Zhu Liang crawled through the ventilation duct, he saw a tall, thin man in black wearing a mask running down the corridor. The figure looked somewhat familiar to him, and he couldn't help but take a few more glances.
The man in black seemed to be very familiar with the route map of the building, but he could not withstand the large number of Hongsha people. He was soon blocked by people coming from both sides. The man in black flew up and kicked sideways, knocking down several people at once.
When Zhu Liang saw the man's flying and kicking movement, he instantly caught a sense of familiarity. How could this figure be so similar to Lin Bai's?
He saw a wood-type mutant behind him making a vine net to tie him up.
But the man actually jumped towards the vine net, and a sharp edge flashed in the air. The vine net shattered into pieces and hit those people, but the man in black had already disappeared at the corner of the corridor.
Zhu Liang could clearly see that the person holding the two black blades that cut through the vines was... Lin Bai? What was she doing with the gemstone? Zhu Liang suppressed his doubts. His top priority was to leave Guangming Building safely.
The sound of gunfire and ammunition became louder as they went down the floors. Xue Gu was unable to capture the city after a long attack, but he did not retreat and continued to exchange fire with Hong Sha.
It seemed that he was determined to take down Guangming Building, but as Hongsha's external forces came to support him, Xuegu fell into a dilemma of being attacked from both sides.
But they didn't know what instructions they received, and like crazy, they suddenly enhanced their superpowers and rushed towards the red sand with themselves as the source of the explosion.
The explosion of their supernatural energy is much more powerful than that of bombs. They can blow open doors that ordinary bombs cannot. Although the price is blood and flesh flying everywhere, they rush forward desperately like a suicide squad.
Faced with their fearless fighting style, Hongsha's followers could not help but retreat step by step.
Someone quickly reported the news to Tang Mary and Bai Chuan. At that time, Bai Chuan and Tang Mary were working together to deal with Elena.
"Boss Bai! Boss Tang! The Blood and Bone people are crazy! Use your body to clear the way!"
Elena released an ice shield to block the attacks of the two people. After hearing the report from that person, she swung out the ice spikes without thinking while the two people were still not aware of it, and quickly climbed up the stairs.
"Damn it!" Tang Mali saw people running upstairs. Thinking of the people her subordinates had just mentioned stealing gems, she was shocked and guessed, "Could it be that Elena is coming for my private vault?! Does she like gems too?"
Bai Chuan didn't have time to talk to her about this. "Forget about your broken stones. Let's deal with the debris downstairs first."
Tang Mali said angrily: "Baichuan, what do you mean by broken stones? Those are priceless gems! My daughter's favorite gems!"
"Alright." Bai Chuan shrugged and said, "If you don't solve those problems, there won't be a single gem left of your daughter."
After hearing what Tang Mary said, she rushed downstairs carrying the Gatling gun. Bai Chuan glanced at the stairwell where Elena disappeared, and followed Tang Mary downstairs.
…
Elena carefully recalled the sound and speed of the blood-bone man jumping down just now, and searched upstairs one floor at a time.
On the other side, Lin Bai was also leading a group of pursuers to search for gems in the rooms on the upper floors, and she threw the safe boxes all over the corridor.
After getting the seven gems, she decided to retreat. She supported herself on the handrail of the stairs with one hand, slid down quickly, and planned to find a place with a window to take off her disguise.
However, enemies often meet on a narrow road. She slid halfway and caught a glimpse of Elena coming up quickly from downstairs.
"Tsk." Lin Bai tsks irritably, and the second Elena sees her, her body turns sideways and falls directly downstairs through the gap in the corridor handrail.
Elena looked up and saw a tall, thin man in black falling downstairs in front of her.
She looked down and saw that he had fallen two floors, grabbed the handrail, and slipped into the floor, and his figure could no longer be seen.
What a neat figure!
When she looked up again, she found Hongsha's men standing in the corridor. They were shouting into the intercom in shock and anger: "Boss Tang! We saw someone! It's Elena! It was Elena who stole your gem!!!"
Elena: “……?”
Lou Tiannan's voice rang out over the intercom: "Elena, I'm on the sixth floor. Where are you? Zhou Yu and the others have found Zhu Liang. I've asked them to retreat first."
"We're on the tenth floor, we're in some trouble, let's retreat now." Elena ran down the corridor quickly.
"I'll pick you up."
Lou Tiannan and Elena met on the eighth floor. They ran downstairs in perfect tacit understanding. The more they went down, the more people and gunfire there were. They took advantage of the chaotic gunfight between the two sides to get rid of the people who were tracking them from Hongsha.
The entire first, second and third floors were almost blown through by the Blood and Bone Men. In the smoke-filled hall, one could still see Tang Mary sweeping across violently with a heavy Gatling gun.
The only way to prevent Blood Bone members from self-destructing is to kill them before they do.
As Elena and Lou Tiannan retreated, they could still hear Tang Mali's deep voice: "Do you really think I'm afraid of you?! If you dare to explode again, just try it!"
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Lin Bai was in a good mood after getting a few gems. She took off her disguise and returned to the basement before Lou Tiannan and Elena came back.
As soon as I arrived in the basement, I saw Wen Xia Xia treating Zhu Liang's leg wound.
"Where have you been?" Song Yan asked.
Lin Bai replied: "Go to the toilet."
"Why does it take so long to go to the bathroom?" Lu Jia was a little skeptical. He heard Wen Xia Xia say that she had disappeared early in the morning and had just returned.
"Won't you get constipated if you eat compressed biscuits every day?" Lin Bai asked back.
Several people present choked up, this reason was irrefutable.
Zhu Liang's gaze lingered on the black blade on the side of Lin Bai's leg for a few seconds. When he raised his head again, he unexpectedly met Lin Bai's gaze. She looked at him calmly, and Zhu Liang quickly shifted his gaze.
About eight minutes later, Lou Tiannan and Elena also returned to the basement.
"How is Brother Liang's injury?" Lou Tiannan asked.
Wen Xiaxia replied, "Nothing serious has been hurt. I used the special medicine Minister Xiang Cheng gave me, but I still need to rest well for two days."
"I'm glad you're okay." Lou Tiannan felt relieved.
Zhu Liang leaned against the wall and said, "I heard some news in Hongsha."
"Sure, Brother Liang, what did you find out?" Zhou Yu was surprised and excited.
Everyone looked at Zhu Liang, who slowly said, "Tang Mary is interrogating someone from Xuegu. The reason is that Xuegu seems to have been placing bombs in the East District these past few days, but their purpose is unknown."
"A bomb was placed in the East District?" This is not good news. Why would the people from Blood and Bone target the East District?
"Also, she cooperated with Baichuan because she wanted to find her son and daughter. Baichuan was also looking for someone, but Baichuan left very quickly. I don't know who he wanted to find."
"Tang Mary is looking for a daughter?" Elena was puzzled. "Where did she get a daughter? Her information before the apocalypse showed that she only had a son named Peter."
She would not make mistakes in remembering the information about these important people.
Zhu Liang shook his head after hearing this. He didn't know much about the relationship between Tang's members. "She said her name is Vera, a 23-year-old Beta girl. The last time we contacted her, she was in South District 4."
"South Fourth District?"
When everyone heard about this area, they knew that the girl named Vera was probably in danger. The southern area had been occupied by the thugs of Blood and Bone since the outbreak of the apocalypse, and countless innocent people had died in vain.
"Yes, but those people in Blood Bone only know about Peter's news and have never heard about Vera."
"Vera?" Lin Bai repeated the name silently in surprise.
The suspicious crowd did not notice Lin Bai's reaction when he heard Vera.
Just as Lin Bai finished reading the name, a heavy hammer hit her in her mind again. Her eyes went dark and she grabbed the dusty back of the chair to support herself, but she was still hit by the heavy hammer and was about to fall down.
She could clearly feel that all the functions of her body were stopping, the energy stored in her body was being rapidly drawn away during the resistance, and her body temperature dropped sharply. This attack was more violent than before.
A strong arm supported her whole body, "What's wrong with you?"
It’s Lou Tiannan.
Lin Bai hung her head weakly, the parts of her body gradually starting to function again under the support of this little bit of light and heat. She waited for the dizziness from the heavy hammer to dissipate, and then she heard Lou Tiannan's voice beside her again: "Xia Xia, come and see--"
"It's okay, it's hypoglycemia, an old problem." Lin Bai took a step back and moved his arm slightly to shake off Lou Tiannan's hand, but he failed. Lou Tiannan's fingers tightly grasped Lin Bai's wrist.
After her vision cleared, Lin Bai looked up and saw Lou Tiannan staring at her. She asked calmly, "Captain Lou, why do you have that expression?"
Lou Tiannan looked at Lin Bai intently for a few seconds, then let her go. He took out his pocket and opened his palm in front of Lin Bai.
In the broad, calloused palm was a candy wrapped in beautiful floral paper.
Lin Bai took the candy, stuffed it into his mouth, and said in a slurred voice, "Captain Lou also has a hobby of putting candy in his pocket."
Lou Tiannan didn't say anything. His eyes dimmed slightly as he looked at Lin Bai. His palms still retained the icy coldness that Lin Bai had just felt. What happened to her?
The atmosphere in the basement suddenly became a little strange. Zhu Liang looked at the listless Lin Bai, and many suspicions flashed through his mind.
Elena looked at Lou Tiannan, then at Lin Bai, and her gaze fell on Lou Tiannan again.
There was some thought in his eyes: Lou Tiannan's anxiety just now didn't seem to be an act...
"Listen, is there any movement outside?" Song Yan suddenly whispered.
When everyone heard this, they listened attentively.
They heard the chaotic sound of footsteps, the roar of vehicles, and Tang Mary's angry curses that penetrated several walls: "You must bring Elena back alive! How dare you steal my things! I will definitely teach her a lesson!"
So... the surprised eyes of the people in the basement turned to Elena involuntarily.
Perhaps as a judge in the law enforcement department, she never thought that one day she would be framed for theft. Elena was speechless for a moment.
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