After leaving the secret room where Xiao Lou was imprisoned, Yu Hanjiang immediately began searching for Ye Qi and Lao Mo.
This basement is very similar to Antai Garden, with countless U-shaped corridors connecting to form a huge underground maze. Fortunately, Yu Hanjiang's sense of direction isn't too bad, and he had previously walked through the underground maze of Antai Garden with Lao Mo, so he was very familiar with this U-shaped structure and didn't get lost.
Just after turning two corners, Yu Hanjiang suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the other end of the corridor. The person was groaning softly, as if enduring extreme pain: "Ouch... my stomach hurts so much... it hurts so much... ouch..."
Yu Hanjiang quickly turned and went to room 301. Through the window of the iron door, he could see an old man with white hair lying on his side on the ground. The old man's whole body was bound like a dumpling, his legs were bent, his brows were furrowed, cold sweat was pouring down his face, and he was groaning continuously, seemingly in great pain—it was Old Mo!
Yu Hanjiang could tell at a glance that Lao Mo was faking it. He deliberately made noise, probably guessing that teammates would come to the rescue after midnight, so he made noise to lure them over.
The iron gate was locked, and there were security cameras inside, so Yu Hanjiang couldn't rashly open the door to rescue the person. Coincidentally, Li Ran also came over after hearing the noise, frowned, glanced into the room, and said coldly, "You old geezer, what are you yelling about?"
Old Mo's voice trembled slightly, and his body kept shaking: "My stomach hurts so much... Ouch... It hurts so much!" His acting skills were indeed superb. His weak and trembling appearance brought the "sick old man" to life.
Li Ran opened the iron gate with a grim face, walked up to him, carefully inspected the ropes binding him, and even tied a tight knot at his wrists before grabbing his collar and saying, "Stop pretending. You're not far from death anyway, I'll give you a quick death in a bit!"
After checking the rope, Li Ran turned and left, picking up a walkie-talkie and asking, "Hello, are they almost here?"
A crisp voice came through the walkie-talkie: "Ten minutes left, get ready to move out."
"Understood, I'll go set it up right away." Li Ran said and turned to leave, completely unaware that in the few seconds it took him to open the door, check the ropes, and close the door, Yu Hanjiang swiftly slipped into the room, instantly cutting the ropes binding Lao Mo's hands with a military knife. At the same time, he left a message in Lao Mo's ear: "This place is very similar to the underground maze of Antai Garden. Escape in 3 minutes. Remember to wear the invisibility cloak. Turn right three times after you go out, and wait for me at the door of 201."
Hearing Yu Hanjiang's deep voice, Lao Mo finally felt relieved and moved his fingers to indicate that he understood.
Yu Hanjiang quickly left the secret room before the door was locked.
Another gust of wind blew past Li Ran's side. He paused, scratching his head in confusion: "Where did the wind come from in the basement?"
He turned to look behind him; the old man in the secret room was still curled up on the ground in pain, showing no signs of struggling. Li Ran was relieved and turned to walk towards the corner.
Yu Hanjiang simply followed behind him. He would likely go and check on Ye Qi.
Sure enough, after turning a few corners, Li Ran stopped in front of an iron gate, took out his key, opened the door, and went inside.
In the corner of the room, a little boy was curled up in a ball, his eyes covered, motionless. CEO Shao had been unable to contact Ye Qi via Telepathic Connection until midnight, indicating that Ye Qi was still unconscious. Yu Hanjiang took a closer look and saw that Ye Qi was indeed unconscious, with several abrasions on his skin.
Li Ran walked over and touched Ye Qi's carotid artery. Blood was flowing under the warm skin, proving that the child was still alive. Li Ran smiled and pinched the little boy's cheek, saying, "It seems the anesthetic was overdose, and he hasn't woken up yet. It's a pity, even if you woke up, it would be useless. Who told you to know too much? Even if you are a child, we will not spare your life."
After confirming Ye Qi's condition, Li Ran got up and left the secret room. He made a phone call and respectfully said, " Brother Rong, three people have been apprehended, and five more will arrive at Qinghe Village in 10 minutes. I've made arrangements here. What do you think? Should we deal with them directly, or..."
The other person said something, and a hint of surprise flashed in Li Ran's eyes. After a few seconds, she nodded seriously and said, "Okay, I understand."
Seeing Li Ran turn and leave, Yu Hanjiang immediately contacted Shao Qingge via Telepathic Connection: " CEO Shao, where are you?"
"I don't know. I've been driving according to their instructions. The car just drove onto a country road. It's pouring rain outside, the road is muddy, and my sports car has a low chassis, so I can't go fast at all. They must have been watching my car…" Shao Qingge paused, then continued, "Just now, that person messaged me again, telling me to turn left at the next intersection."
Yu Hanjiang remembered that country road; the last fork in the road led left to Qinghe Village. Clearly, this group wanted to lure Shao Qingge and his four companions to Qinghe Village and capture them all.
Yu Hanjiang narrowed his eyes and said to Shao Qingge, "I have confirmed the safety of Xiao Lou, Ye Qi, and Lao Mo. Don't drive too fast. Wait for my instructions to proceed."
Shao Qingge nodded: "Okay."
After notifying Shao Qingge, Yu Hanjiang took advantage of the moment before Li Ran locked the door, rushed over, picked up Ye Qi, covered the little boy's body with an invisibility cloak, and then quickly came behind Li Ran, delivering a clean and decisive chop to the back of Li Ran's neck!
Just as Li Ran was about to bend down and lock the door, a sudden gust of wind blew past his ear. He instinctively reached out to block it, but Yu Hanjiang, having undergone professional combat training, moved with lightning speed! Before Li Ran could even see what was happening, a sharp pain shot through the back of his neck; the force almost severed his neck.
Chop it in half!
A wave of dizziness washed over Li Ran, and she collapsed to the ground.
In the central control room, upon seeing Li Ran being taken down, the colleague in charge of monitoring immediately pressed the alarm and said into the walkie-talkie, "Alarm! Alarm! Someone has broken into the base!"
A piercing alarm immediately blared throughout the underground labyrinth.
Yu Hanjiang sent a message to Xiao Lou via Telepathic Connection: "Run!"
At the same time, he said to Shao Qingge, "Be prepared to abandon the vehicle at any time!"
Xiao Lou's hands, which were bound by ropes, had already been cut. Upon hearing Yu Hanjiang's voice, he immediately activated his card and donned the Invisibility Cloak.
Old Mo had just received a notification from Yu Hanjiang, instructing him to escape in three minutes. Exactly three minutes had passed, and with the sudden, piercing alarm in the basement, Old Mo knew that Captain Yu's rescue attempt had been detected by the surveillance cameras. He quickly freed himself from his ropes, took out his keycard to open the iron door, donned his invisibility cloak, and vanished without a trace.
Following Captain Yu's instructions, Lao Mo turned left three times in a row after exiting the building, and arrived at the entrance of 201, where he bumped into Xiao Lou who was coming out.
Although the two couldn't see each other, the invisibility cloak only concealed the vision of others; it didn't make the person wearing the cloak completely disappear. The person's physical form still existed. Feeling as if he had bumped into someone's shoulder, Old Mo lowered his voice and said, " Professor Xiao?"
Xiao Lou said softly, "It's me."
The basement alarm was deafening. The two men leaned against the wall and didn't move, waiting for Yu Hanjiang to appear.
Yu Hanjiang carried Ye Qi and rushed to the entrance of 201. Although they were wearing Invisibility Cloaks and could not see each other, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang could sense each other's presence through Telepathic Connection. Yu Hanjiang said, "Old Mo is here?"
Old Mo's voice rang in my ears: "I'm here."
Xiao Lou asked, "Where's the exit?"
Yu Hanjiang said, "Turn around and go forward, then turn right, then left, then right again. There's a big iron gate… Hurry up!"
Xiao Lou and Lao Mo immediately turned around and quickly followed Yu Hanjiang. Xiao Lou asked softly, "Where's Xiao Ye?"
"He's overdosed on the anesthetic and hasn't woken up yet. I'm carrying him on my back," Yu Hanjiang replied in a low voice.
Following Yu Hanjiang's memory, the three arrived at the end of the corridor, turned right, left, and then right again...
The surveillance footage showed the corridor was empty, but the door to the secret room where the three hostages were being held had been opened, and the three hostages had vanished simultaneously, as if by magic. The woman in the monitoring room's expression changed. "Activate the emergency alert system! Don't let them escape!" she exclaimed.
Just as the three were about to reach the exit of the maze, a loud "boom" suddenly rang in their ears, followed by a heavy iron door slamming down, blocking their path!
Yu Hanjiang frowned: "This is bad!"
—The exit is blocked.
The heavy metal door was like an impenetrable wall; it had no lock and couldn't be opened with a key. Clearly, the people in the central control room had discovered their escape, activated a mechanism, and blocked the exit with this metal wall. This wall was undoubtedly impervious to blades and bullets, controlled only by a mechanism; to open it, one had to find the mechanism inside the control room.
Yu Hanjiang said with a stern face, "If we can't open this wall, we can't get out. It seems we have to go to the monitoring room."
Xiao Lou said softly, "There should be a lot of their people in the monitoring room, and they're armed. It would be very dangerous to just barge in."
But we can't just sit here and wait to die.
The Invisibility Cloak lasts for 30 minutes, during which the surveillance cameras throughout the basement cannot detect their location. Once the Invisibility Cloak fails, their movements will be fully known to the enemy, making it even more difficult for them to escape.
Yu Hanjiang thought for a moment, then whispered in his mind, "Take good care of Ye Qi."
He had Xiao Lou lift a corner of the Invisibility Cloak, quickly handed over the sleeping Ye Qi, and then hurriedly turned and left. As he reached the corner, he left Xiao Lou with the words, "I'm going to sabotage the surveillance; you cover me."
Xiao Lou responded in his mind: "Understood, be careful."
Less than three seconds later, a gunshot rang out from the corner of the corridor!
Xiao Lou's heart was in his throat—thankfully it was Yu Hanjiang, whose marksmanship was incredibly accurate; he managed to blow up that tiny surveillance camera in the dimly lit corridor with a single shot!
In the blink of an eye, Yu Hanjiang walked from the corner into another corridor. The sound of gunfire continued in his ears, and sparks flew everywhere in the corridor. The infrared surveillance cameras installed on the ceiling were shot down one by one by Yu Hanjiang until they were smoking!
In the central monitoring room, the man slammed his hand on the table: "Holy shit! Someone destroyed the surveillance cameras!" Eight screens on one wall of surveillance cameras had gone completely black. The man squinted and said, "All the surveillance cameras in Area A have been destroyed. He's still in Area A!"
"Don't worry, as long as that door can't be opened, they won't be able to escape." The woman picked up the walkie-talkie and whispered, "Sector A, the third of a Kind corridor on the left, intercept them immediately!"
As soon as the woman finished speaking, Yu Hanjiang heard a series of hurried footsteps.
He leaned against the wall, straining his ears to listen carefully—
Two people arrived, their steps quick and steady; they must have been professionally trained assassins.
The footsteps drew closer, and the next moment, a deafening gunshot rang out in the corridor—
Bang bang bang bang!
Two professional assassins, armed with machine guns, unleashed a fierce barrage of fire into the corridor where Yu Hanjiang was!
The narrow corridor would alter the trajectory of the bullets, but the two guarded the front and rear exits, cooperating seamlessly. Even though Yu Hanjiang was wearing an invisibility cloak, such a large area of firepower was enough to take him down.
Shoot them until they're riddled with holes!
Yu Hanjiang's breath caught in his throat. The instant the gun was pointed at the corridor, he immediately threw himself to the ground. A large number of bullets narrowly missed his ears, but the corridor had been blocked off. Even if Yu Hanjiang could dodge the first wave of bullets, it would be difficult for him to avoid the second wave.
He frowned, and before he could ask Xiao Lou for help, suddenly, a powerful force, like a vortex, sucked him in—
Peach Blossom Spring, collective transmission.
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