Not to mention how this group of people found this place as a foothold, this fact has greatly facilitated Haibara Ai's movements.
At the end of the corridor is the lobby, and in front is the elevator leading to the ground, but most of it is unusable, and she doesn't dare to use it if it can.
This is the second underground floor. Apart from the direct elevator, there is only a secret safety passage leading to the top next to Yulu's original office.
It's just that the passage requires a card to open... I don't know if it's still working now, or if it was destroyed by the fire.
Haibara Ai decided to go take a look. She signaled Suzuki Sonoko to stop wandering around the hall and follow her.
After opening another door with his bare hands, Haihara Ai found that the elevator was indeed unusable, and the safety brake door could not be opened, so he had to continue walking forward.
"Shouldn't we go out from the hall just now?" Suzuki Sonoko was puzzled. According to normal people's logical thinking, if there are corridors on both sides, the exit should be in the middle hall.
Haihara Ai couldn't explain it. Fortunately, Yulu's office was not far from the hall, so he didn't have to go through another door.
She remembered...the switch seemed to be a fire hydrant...well, a little high.
Haiyuan Ai stepped on her feet and found that she couldn't reach the button of the fire hydrant on the wall. She stood there in silence for a moment and gently tugged on Suzuki Sonoko's sleeve.
"What...press this? Will this sound an alarm?"
"The electrical system here should be installed afterward. There is not even a light in this half, and the emergency device should be broken."
What's more, this is not an emergency device at all, and it won't sound if pressed. And in order to prevent internal power outages like now, this switch uses a mechanical brake.
Suzuki Sonoko was doubtful and refused to act, but Akira Sugitani, who was standing aside, jumped up and shot towards the red button.
Akira Sugitani landed on the ground, and the next moment his eyes widened as he watched the black wall in front of him crack open in the middle, revealing a metallic door.
He turned back to look at Haiyuan Ai in disbelief. Not only him, almost everyone looked at Haiyuan.
Haiyuan stepped forward to check the card swiping machine and found that it was really out of power, so he opened the metal door in the same way.
The steps at the door lead directly to the top.
"Follow here and you should reach the surface." She breathed a sigh of relief.
Everyone almost cheered, but several of them carefully covered the mouths of their companions, suppressing the cheers to a minimum.
At this moment of complete silence, the sound of "pa, pa, pa" applause came from the dark corridor.
"Who?" Haibara Ai blocked Ayumi beside him, while Sugitani Akira also stood in front and looked warily into the depths, but used one hand to push Amamiya Shoko toward the door.
A person slowly walked out of the corridor. Compared with the slovenly person who guarded them before, this person was well-dressed and completely incompatible with this dirty and messy environment.
"We haven't found this secret door here for so long. My kid, how did you find it?"
His voice was not as rough as that of a kidnapper with facial makeup, but had a gentleness to it. If she compared it to the people she knew, some would be like Jin Kuroki and Oka.
The man asked curiously and took a photo of something. The next moment, the alarm bell blared in the corridor.
Hui Yuan Ai's face was expressionless, "Do you think I will tell you?"
"It doesn't matter." The man watched as his men took out guns one by one, surrounded the group, and chuckled: "You will always say, there are so many people here, there will always be someone who can make you talk."
"Extorting a confession under severe torture? Do you think I will be afraid of this?"
The man raised his eyebrows slightly. Haiyuan Ai's reaction caught him by surprise. It was not at all like the reaction that a seven or eight-year-old child would give.
Didn't you notice that the people next to her were almost crying?
There were footsteps on the left getting closer and closer. Akira Sugitani, who was near the emergency exit, thought it was the children who had just entered who were going to share the joys and sorrows and came back. Just when he was about to scold him, he saw Shoko Amamiya being brought back by his collar.
"...Damn it." Akira Sugitani cursed in a low voice.
"Stop struggling pointlessly." The strong man who came down from the stairs threw Shoko Amamiya down. Akira Sugitani took two steps forward to catch her, and the two of them rolled half a circle on the ground.
"Boss, if you ask me, these people should remove their arms and legs, so that they can be honest."
The man smiled softly and walked forward slowly. As he walked, he said: "Don't be so harsh on our cash cow. After all, it is already very painful for such a young child to endure such a disaster. If you put more pressure on me, I will It’s terrible that they stopped breathing before they could create any benefits.”
The man walked out of the darkness, and Huihara Ai could clearly see his facial features: a sickly pale face, gold-rimmed glasses with a gold chain hanging down the bridge of his nose, very much like the gentle scum described in the novel.
After seeing the appearance of their boss, the big man at the stairs and the subordinates who came behind him held their breath and dared not speak at all.
They knew very well that the boss, who had begun to fall ill, could not distinguish between friend and foe.
The man walked three meters in front of Haiyuan Ai, squatted down without warning, and said softly: "Kid, can you give me the gun in the hand behind your back?"
Haiyuan Ai calculated the probability of success in her sudden attack as quickly as possible. The strong sense of crisis rising in her heart made her hesitate.
She has also received firearms training for a period of time in the organization. Among other things, she is very skilled in quickly opening the safety of a pistol, aiming and firing. Even if the opposite person is an adult man standing three meters away from her, she You can also be more certain to shoot before the opponent rushes over.
But the sense of crisis was too strong, so strong that she almost had to tell her that if she fired, there would be irreversible consequences.
Haiyuan Ai pulled out a gun from behind. The men around him were subconsciously on guard, but they were defused by the man raising his hand.
In full view of everyone, Haihara Ai turned the pistol upside down and slid it along the ground in front of the man.
The man made a pityful "tsk" sound.
"It's a bit difficult for me to know the current affairs so well..." He said it was difficult to handle, and with a wave of his hand, a group of subordinates took everyone under custody, "This kid will stay, and the others will be taken back."
"If you dare to let me go this time, you will be fed to the dogs."
The corridor soon became empty. The other party was wearing a straight suit, but he sat on the ground without caring, and walked over to Haiyuan Ai.
"Now, you really can't tell me, why do you know there is a passage here?"
Hui Yuan Ai's hair stood on edge. She felt the danger of this man in horror, and she resisted not retreating and looking directly at him.
"What's in it for me?"
"I can spare your life...maybe?"
Hui Yuarai sneered, "You don't even believe it yourself."
"Hey, don't say that." The man said in that disgustingly gentle tone, "If the value you create exceeds yourself, maybe I will really consider accepting you as my partner. "
"I'm so lonely. This boring life is really uninteresting, but..."
"I seem to be starting to wonder about your secrets."
"Na na..."
"Be friends with me."
