Chapter 712 Are they in cahoots? They're coming for us!!!
As Xu Yingyan spoke, his right hand reached for the rectangular black metal gun case at his feet.
Inside the box was a sniper rifle that he treasured and had been specially handcrafted.
With his top-notch marksmanship, combined with the three-dimensional coordinates constructed by the drone, wind speed and humidity data, and ballistic calculation assistance, he can accurately predict the flight trajectory of a sparrow in just 5 seconds.
Then one bullet is enough, and there's plenty of time.
Zhang Shenyi did not immediately agree. Instead, he pondered for two seconds and finally shook his head, rejecting the sniping plan.
"No, the trajectory will give us away."
He paused, then gave the order to another team member by the window:
"Ah, use the sentries to lure the sparrows away and create an opportunity for Chen Zhen to evacuate."
At the same time, he spoke into the microphone to Chen Zhen, who was still lurking in the bushes, and gave him instructions:
"Chen Zhen, be aware, enemy has confirmed a high-altitude mimicry reconnaissance unit that has locked onto your location."
The sentry will create a gap of about 15 to 20 seconds for you to immediately crawl back to the pre-set extraction point B.
Be quick and stay hidden.
Point B is not a single-story building, but a pre-marked evacuation point located behind a depression.
The Relief Studio marked out five similar evacuation points as soon as they arrived.
In the grass, Chen Zhen quietly adjusted his body posture again, slowly turning his head and buttocks towards the direction of retreat.
At the same time, he lowered his voice and checked it again:
"Understood, evacuate from point B. What about the bodies?"
Zhang Shenyi said decisively:
"Abandon the body!"
The maintenance worker, who was listening intently nearby, darkened his face even more. He moved his lips, seemingly trying to emphasize the potential value of the corpse as evidence.
But he knew that saying anything more would be futile, so he could only subtly hypnotize himself:
"Don't be angry, don't be angry. They are professionals, just overly cautious."
That's enough. It's just a corpse, just a white mask. Let it go.
As long as they can keep their promise and capture Feng Mu alive for me, the result will be the same.
By the window of the bungalow, a member of the team known as Ah quickly took out a tactical tablet, swiped his fingers across it rapidly to bring up a simple command interface, and edited and sent instructions to the sentries.
In the grass, the compound eyes of a mechanical leech that had been quietly lurking at the roots of the grass glowed faintly red, and a faint sound of machinery whirring came from inside its segmented body.
With a sudden kick of its six pairs of legs in the mud, the slender body of the mechanical leech darted through the blades of grass, causing one blade to shake violently and unnaturally.
really!!!
The sparrow in mid-air immediately noticed the anomaly, its wings instantly tilting to the side, nimbly changing its flight angle, and its beady eyes locking onto the direction from which the movement came.
Almost at the same time!
On the side of the road, Iron Claw's left eye pupil also shifted slightly, and the eight ferocious mechanical limbs on its back changed shape, plunging into the ground one by one.
They lifted his incredibly heavy body up nearly 2 meters off the ground.
The pure white mask, devoid of facial features, also turned towards the area of grass from which the unusual tremor had occurred, and a chilling killing intent began to permeate the air.
The next second!
"Whoosh—!"
A withered yellow shadow shot out from the grass; it was the mechanical leech. Its initial launch speed was astonishing, as fast as a bullet, as it charged fiercely into the air, more than twenty meters high.
The sparrow in mid-air reacted extremely quickly, instantly locking onto the attacking leech and changing its flight angle in an attempt to evade it.
But the leeches launch themselves at incredibly fast speeds and at extremely tricky angles.
Despite the sparrow's best efforts to dodge, the edge of one of its fleshy wings was still badly grazed by the leech's sharp forelegs.
"Sizzle—"
A few feathers drifted down, and a stream of dark red blood spurted from the cut "flesh".
The mimicry details are done perfectly.
However, high in the sky, multiple stealth drones had already pushed their lens focal lengths to the limit, transmitting clear images back to the bungalow.
The footage was transmitted back to the main screen in the bungalow and immediately analyzed frame by frame.
On the screen, beneath the sparrow's cut-open wing, within the seemingly fleshy bionic tissue, the internal skeleton and micro-circuit structure shimmering with metallic luster are faintly revealed.
The sparrow, enraged by the attack (or rather, its defense mechanism was triggered), instantly raised its wing vibration frequency to an abnormally high level, catching up with the mechanical leech that was at the apex of its parabola.
At this moment, the mechanical leech was suspended in mid-air and unable to make any effective evasive maneuvers, becoming a sitting duck.
The sparrow's sharp beak precisely caught the middle of the leech's body. With a crisp "snap," the mechanical leech's hard shell, strong enough to withstand small-caliber bullets, was bitten open, revealing its intricate internal mechanical structure.
"Pong!"
A not-so-loud but unusually muffled explosion rang out in the air.
The mechanical leech activated its pre-set self-destruct program, detonating its built-in small high-explosive device. A small fireball instantly engulfed the sparrow's head.
Half of the mechanical sparrow's face, along with some of its bionic structure, was blown to pieces, revealing the twisted metal skeleton and flashing electrical sparks underneath.
Like a real bird shot by a hunting rifle, it swayed violently in the air and plummeted crookedly into the dense grass below.
Just below its trajectory, several other leeches, which had been lying in wait in the grass, suddenly leaped out from different directions, opened their sucking mouthparts, and bit the injured sparrow.
With a roar, the iron claw on the highway began to frantically dig at the ground, its entire body skimming along the ground like a furious ten-clawed spider, rushing towards the grass where leeches gathered at an astonishing speed.
Each step left several furrows in the ground, creating a terrifying sight.
In the grass, a dozen mechanical leeches executed a pre-programmed baiting sequence and quickly dispersed.
Several of them leaped high into the air again, like suicide bombers, fearlessly charging head-on into the oncoming iron claws.
The mechanical appendages waving behind the iron claw drive the high-speed rotating blades, sweeping casually.
Pong! Pong! Pong!
With a few muffled thuds, several leeches were splintered in mid-air, turning into small fireballs and fragments.
Although it did not cause any real damage, the impact and smoke from the explosion effectively slowed him down.
Meanwhile, the remaining leeches, in the same direction, used jumping and burrowing to escape rapidly through the grass.
Iron Claw, naturally unwilling to give up, immediately gave chase.
It seems they believe that by catching all the leeches, they can catch the despicable corpse thief.
Deep in the grass, in the opposite direction from where the iron claws were charging.
Hearing the continuous explosions and increasingly distant roars behind him, Chen Zhen braced his elbows against the ground, his waist and hips wriggling from side to side, like a swamp crocodile posing and slithering away quickly and silently, close to the ground.
……
Inside an abandoned gas station.
Shadow Scorpion glanced impatiently at the built-in timer on its arm and let out a cold sneer:
"What's that idiot Iron Claw doing? Why isn't he back yet? Has he completely lost his mind and gotten lost in some ditch?"
Fire Crow suspiciously turned his head to look in a certain direction outside the gas station, and asked doubtfully:
"Shh... Did you hear something? It sounds like... it's coming from over the highway? It doesn't seem too far away."
At the same time, inside the bungalow on the other side.
While observing the white spider lured away by the sentry, Xu Yingyan kept switching between other surveillance screens to check for any new trackers or other undiscovered dangers.
Suddenly, his expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly spoke up:
"Captain! The gates of Prison No. 2 are open, and two vehicles are driving out, speeding along the highway!!!"
Zhang Shenyi's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints.
Is it a coincidence that a vehicle suddenly drove out of the prison at this critical juncture, or is it related to the attack that occurred on the highway?
He immediately asked, "Who's in the car?"
"Attempting to identify!"
Xu Yingyan responded immediately, his hands moving in a blur on the control panel.
Two high-altitude stealth drones changed their cruising path. Like startled falcons, the two high-altitude drones suddenly increased their dive angle, and their high-definition lenses zoomed in rapidly.
On the main screen, the image shook violently before suddenly becoming clear.
There were three people in the first car.
In the driver's seat and the passenger seat, two men were wearing identical black uniforms with clearly identifiable epaulettes, undoubtedly prison guards from the Second Prison.
The man in the driver's seat, however, had a rather refined demeanor, with long, slender fingers that gripped the steering wheel firmly. He didn't look like a prison guard; he seemed more like an office worker.
The man in the passenger seat was completely different. Even just leaning back quietly, through the cold screen, he gave off an extremely uncomfortable feeling.
His eyes were sinister, and his lips were downturned, like a venomous snake coiled in the shadows, exuding a dangerous aura.
In the back seat sat a man in a constable's uniform, his face slightly pale, his hands resting on his knees, his posture stiff and unsmiling.
Xu Yingyan quickly typed on the keyboard, and the facial recognition system on the screen immediately popped up a square dotted frame, locking onto the faces of the three people in the car one by one.
The professionalism of the Relief Studio was on full display at this moment.
Before their arrival, they had already used various technical means to input the identity information and facial features of all registered prison guards in the Second Prison into the database of the Relief Studio.
Almost the instant the face lock was completed, the retrieval system emitted two "beep" sounds.
[Liu Yi, Level 2 Prison Guard, File Number D7-284]
Gong Qi, Level 3 Prison Guard, File Number C7-315
"The constable in the back row is not in our database."
Xu Yingyan spoke very quickly.
"But I immediately hacked into the police station's internal system to make a comparison..."
Just as Xu Yingyan was about to type on the keyboard, he hacked into the police station's internal system to make a comparison.
The man from the maintenance department behind me suddenly stepped forward and urged:
"No need to investigate anymore. This man is Chang Erbing from the police station. Why is he in the Second Prison? Quickly check the first car."
Xu Yingyan turned to look at Zhang Shenyi, and seeing the latter nod almost imperceptibly, he immediately pushed the control stick, and the drone camera suddenly turned to the vehicle behind.
The image came through clearly:
In the driver's seat was a rather young-looking man with a light-colored mustache and features that looked as if they had been carved by a knife and axe, giving him a sense of unwavering determination and stubbornness.
The front passenger seat was empty, while two people sat side by side in the back seat.
The man on the left is a uniformed constable with a smile on his face, while the man on the right is a gentle man with rimmed glasses who, even through the lens, gives off an inexplicably approachable vibe.
The retrieval system quickly displayed the recognition results again:
[Driver's Seat: Recognition and Matching - Tian Xiaohai]
[Position: Prison Guard (Internship)]
[File Number: E9-102]
[Rear seat left: No matching target found, not a current staff member of the Second Prison, no record in the database.]
[Rear seat right: Identification and matching—Feng Mu!!!]
The last name was highlighted in bright red font!
"Report, Captain! Target spotted! Repeat, target Feng Mu confirmed to be inside the second vehicle!"
Xu Yingyan's voice suddenly rose in pitch.
The men in the maintenance department almost simultaneously exclaimed excitedly:
"That's right! It's him! This person is Feng Mu! And the one sitting next to him... is that Li Xiang?! What's he doing here?!"
The members of the Relief Studio were not familiar with the name "Li Xiang," and there was no relevant information in the database.
The men in the maintenance department knew very well that arresting Feng Mu was a way to deal with Li Xiang.
The reason for targeting Li Xiang was that the latter was closely tied to Councilor Wang Xinfa.
So, now that Li Xiang and Feng Mu are both in the car, does that mean we can... catch them all in one fell swoop?!
The man in the maintenance department was frantically thinking, muttering to himself:
"Li Xiang and Feng Mu are together, and the white-masked man is helping them kill people, which means Du Changle is also here. There must be some shady secret behind this."
If we could capture them all and uncover this secret…
His breathing became heavy, as if he could already see a bright future ahead.
"If we could seize this opportunity to wipe them all out, arrest them all, and pry them open..."
The man from the maintenance department was so excited that he bit his lip until it bled, and he stared intently at Zhang Shenyi.
However, just as the words "take action to arrest them" were about to slip out, he swallowed hard and lowered his voice, saying:
"No...don't do it! Let them leave!"
At the last moment, the men in the maintenance department suppressed their inner turmoil and regained their composure.
The risks of arresting Feng Mu, Li Xiang, and the White Mask at the same time are too great.
Even if the Relief Studio didn't listen to me, it would cause a huge uproar.
The secret arrest of a person is a means to fabricate evidence and launch a political attack.
But if the commotion gets too big, it's no longer a sneak attack, it's a full-scale assault.
The difficulty involved, and the intensity of Councilor Wang Xinfa's counterattack, is something anyone with a modicum of rationality can easily grasp.
The men in the maintenance department gritted their teeth, every word revealing intense resentment:
"We need to secretly arrest Feng Mu, so everyone in the car must be silenced. But Li Xiang can't die, so let them go and wait for the next opportunity when Feng Mu is alone."
The purpose of arresting Feng Mu was to frame Li Xiang. If Li Xiang had died first, what would have been the point of arresting him?
Zhang Shenyi did not respond immediately. It was not that he was reluctant to give up this opportunity; given his cautious nature, he was eager to reassess the difficulty of the mission and redeploy his forces.
The problem is, just because he's willing doesn't mean the people in those two cars will appreciate it.
After all, White Mask and Second Prisoner are in cahoots, which means that the two cars that came out of Second Prisoner were reinforcements called in by White Spider.
This point was just reminded of the "Relief Studio" by the men in the aircraft maintenance department.
Zhang Shenyi's gaze slowly turned to the man in the maintenance department, his eyes revealing a hint of seriousness:
"You just said that White Mask was helping the Second Prison kill people, so do you think the two cars that came out of the Second Prison might be there to help White Mask search for a missing body?"
The man in the maintenance department paled upon hearing this, a strange sense of foreboding rising in his heart. He turned his head and stared intently at the monitor screen, his eyes unblinking...
(End of this chapter)
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