Translator: AnubisTL
"We're here."
Not long after, Chen Jiang and his group parked their vehicle in a rocky ravine some distance away and proceeded on foot to a spot approximately six hundred meters from the mechanical race city.
Concealed by the darkness, Scar Dog glanced at Li Hao, signaling him to manifest the map.
Li Hao nodded solemnly.
In the next instant, a 3D map composed of white light materialized in the air.
The moment Li Hao's map manifestation appeared, Scar Dog crushed the final energy block in his hand, causing a phantom gate to materialize in the air.
However, the white light of the 3D map and the phantom gate stood out starkly against the night sky.
Almost the instant Chen Jiang and his companions slipped through the gate, searchlights snapped on, and a barrage of gunfire erupted behind them, sending plumes of sand and dust erupting from the spot they had just vacated.
But it was too late.
By then, Chen Jiang and his group had already traversed a thousand meters in an instant, reappearing inside a warehouse in the inner city.
A dimly lit, somewhat gloomy, and mostly empty room.
A phantom gate materialized out of thin air.
Chen Jiang and his companions slowly emerged from it.
After the phantom gate dissipated, they exchanged glances, their lips pressed tightly together in silence.
Scar Dog immediately scanned the ceiling and walls for surveillance cameras. Only after confirming the absence of any monitoring devices did he relax slightly.
This room was the most likely to be free of surveillance in the entire warehouse.
It was the restroom.
For added security, they had specifically chosen the women's restroom.
While it was rare for men's restrooms to be monitored while women's restrooms were not, the possibility still existed. To avoid such contingencies, they had resolutely opted for the women's restroom.
Everything proceeded smoothly.
Chen Jiang and his companions drew their weapons from their pockets and slowly approached the door, moving silently and patiently waiting.
The warehouse was approximately three stories tall.
At its center stood a massive steel structure filled with densely packed compartments.
Each compartment contained a wooden crate.
And each crate was filled with energy blocks.
In other words, the moment they left the restroom, they would see the nearby open area stacked with thousands of wooden crates, each containing nearly ten thousand energy blocks.
The warehouse's 3D map showed only three alien race players within the facility.
As they entered the warehouse through the phantom gate, they noticed an alien race player, whose light had been stationary in the security room, suddenly begin moving toward the warehouse interior.
At this late hour, his sudden departure from the security room likely meant he was heading to the restroom.
The trio was currently waiting for this approaching warehouse guard.
Outside the warehouse, numerous machine gun bunkers and heavily armed soldiers patrolled the perimeter. With no residential areas nearby, the security measures were exceptionally stringent.
Inside the warehouse, however, only the three guards in the security room were present.
Soon, as Chen Jiang and his companions waited quietly in the women's restroom, they heard footsteps gradually approaching from a distance, accompanied by intermittent humming of an unfamiliar tune.
Closer now.
The footsteps grew louder and closer.
Their plan was simple:
Once the guard entered the men's restroom, they would immediately emerge from the women's restroom, rush into the men's restroom, and kill him.
Then, they would change into his uniform.
They would then enter the security room, kill the two remaining guards, destroy the surveillance system, and be done with it.
The goal was to prevent the two guards in the security room from noticing any anomalies on the monitors and raising the alarm prematurely.
Destroying the surveillance cameras was merely a secondary objective.
After all, once they successfully smuggled out the energy blocks, what could the authorities do even if they had video evidence?
The footsteps grew closer.
They just needed the security guard outside the men's restroom to step inside, and then they could rush in.
But in the next moment—
A corpulent man, unbuckling his belt, strode into the women's restroom, nearly colliding with Chen Jiang and his group hiding behind the stalls.
An instant of stunned silence hung in the air.
The fat security guard froze, then his gaze fell on the weapons in Chen Jiang's group's hands. Realization flashed in his eyes, followed by a flicker of fear. He immediately opened his mouth to shout for help!
But Scar Dog reacted faster.
With a ferocious expression, Scar Dog lunged forward, his hands clamping around the mechanical guard's throat without hesitation, using nearly all his strength.
Caught completely off guard, the fat guard's pupils dilated wildly. His body convulsed violently, terror flooding his eyes, but he couldn't utter a single sound.
Scar Dog gripped the guard with such force that his fingernails nearly dug into his flesh.
If the guard made even the slightest sound, alerting the soldiers outside the warehouse, their entire plan would collapse.
Before the guard could struggle more than a few times, Chen Jiang swiftly drew his dagger and lunged forward. He straddled the guard's abdomen, pinning him down with his full weight.
Raising the dagger with both hands, he aimed at the guard's head.
Without hesitation, he stabbed repeatedly with lightning speed.
Over a dozen times.
Chen Jiang exhaled slowly, rose to his feet, casually wiped the blood-stained dagger on Scar Dog's clothes, and tucked it into his jacket.
The guard lay motionless in a pool of blood.
He hadn't made a single sound from beginning to end.
The moment Chen Jiang plunged the first strike, Li Hao reacted swiftly, lifting the guard's legs to keep his body suspended and prevent blood from staining the floor.
Meanwhile, Chen Jiang remained seated on the man's abdomen, ensuring no blood splattered onto the guard's uniform.
In a mere dozen seconds, the three of them, acting with the practiced ease of seasoned butchers, effortlessly sent the humming mechanical security guard to his final rest.
Afterward, Li Hao grabbed the guard's legs and hoisted the corpse upside down, while Chen Jiang and the others stripped off his uniform.
"Not bad," Chen Jiang said, glancing up and down at the uniform after changing into it. He nodded in satisfaction. Apart from a few scattered bloodstains on the cuffs, it was mostly intact.
That was good enough.
He took a deep breath, exchanged a glance with Scar Dog, and stuffed some items into his abdomen to make himself appear fatter. Then he strode out of the restroom and headed toward the security office.
It was a necessary improvisation.
Who could have known the guard was so overweight? None of the three of them were particularly stout.
As soon as Chen Jiang stepped out of the security office, he lowered his head and began patting his crotch repeatedly, making it look like an elderly man who had accidentally wet himself due to age-related incontinence.
This way, his face would remain hidden from the surveillance cameras.
As long as the two security guards on duty in the guardhouse didn't notice anything amiss and immediately sound the alarm, that would be enough.
Once they secured the energy blocks, their combat capabilities would undergo a qualitative transformation.
Although the security guard who liked to sneak into the women's restroom had caused a minor hiccup, it ultimately had no significant impact on their plan.
Soon, Chen Jiang arrived at the guardhouse door.
The room was thick with cigarette smoke and filled with the sound of foul-mouthed conversation.
"Why the hell didn't you play your royal flush to shut him down earlier? If you'd just forced him to discard a single card, I could have snatched the win!"
"How was I supposed to know he had a full house? I figured as long as it wasn't a bomb, he couldn't possibly clear his hand in one go, right?"
Clearly, the two guards on duty hadn't noticed anything unusual about Chen Jiang's approach on the security monitors.
Chen Jiang paused silently at the guardhouse door, gazing at the slightly ajar door and the smoke drifting out.
After a moment's hesitation, he drew a dagger from his chest, pushed the door open, and strode inside.
The moment the door swung open...
The two uniformed security guards sitting on the single bed instinctively turned their heads toward the door. "Xiao San."
Before they could react to the unfamiliar face of the security guard at the entrance, Scar Dog materialized beside them. Without hesitation, he drew two stun guns from his chest, aiming them at the guards like the legendary double-gun hero Li Xiangyang.
Pzzzt!
A powerful electric current shot through the air, striking both guards simultaneously.
Before they could move, the guards stiffened abruptly, their bodies collapsing rigidly.
Chen Jiang rushed forward, and the two men knelt on the chests of the guards, drawing daggers and repeatedly stabbing at their heads.
They avoided using firearms; in the still of the night, gunshots would have been too conspicuous.
The reason they had used one of the Blind Man's Eyepatch charges to bring Scar Dog along was primarily for insurance.
After all, even a single alarm from the guards would have ruined their entire operation.
This caution had been the key to their survival in the wilderness for three months.
And now...
It was time to reap the rewards.
(End of the Chapter)
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