"In my opinion, we still need to capture a few children as hostages."
After being repelled by the firepower from the opposite side, the members of the Lobe Gang found a classroom and began to discuss countermeasures.
Halfway through the discussion, Long Tau, who had been silent before, spoke for no reason.
Then, regardless of the gazes around him, he began to explain in a slow and logical manner why the most important thing for them now was to capture the hostages.
He said that because the heavy equipment that the company had promised to support had not been delivered, they could not break through the firepower deployed by the opponent.
Moreover, after launching the 'Realm of Silence', they failed to seize the best opportunity for a surprise attack, which gave the other party enough time to prepare.
In addition, for some unknown reason, the senior executive of Icarus, Booker Irwin, who was at the Depth 3 transformation level, happened to appear here.
So now, the right time, place, and people are not on their side.
If they still want to complete the task and get the multi-purpose printer, they must use some less glorious tricks.
"So, we need to take the children here as hostages, even just one."
Long τ finally concluded.
His words caused a moment of silence.
So everyone looked at each other, not because there was something wrong with the other person's opinion, but because...
"Stop talking nonsense, are you a goldfish with a memory of only 5 seconds? Smart boy."
After a few seconds, the veteran who led the team was the first to come back to his senses and said.
At this moment, he was using a dagger to pick out the bullets embedded in his body one by one.
Previously, he tried to rely on his modified body to break through the firepower network set by the opponent. However, under the fierce firepower, he couldn't stand it and retreated within three seconds. Although the defense was not broken, there were still more than a dozen bullets embedded in his reinforced muscle fibers.
"And if the other party's reinforcements arrive, then we can at least escape with the hostages. Instead of being captured alive by Icarus' people, and then..."
Long Tau ignored the other party and continued to speak like a mantra.
The veteran's movement of picking bullets stopped, and he raised his eyes to look at the guy who had just completed the adjustment and transformation not long ago.
"The plan to capture the hostages has gone bankrupt. We have just searched this place, don't you remember? Not to mention the hostages, there is not even a ghost... This is actually a military academy of TM, understand? Before we start After three minutes in the silent realm, the boy scouts had already completed their evacuation."
He looked at the guy in front of him who had just undergone adjustment and transformation not long ago, and said this impatiently.
I don’t know if these words convinced the other party, but Long Tau lowered his head after hearing the words. Although he was still mumbling something, he didn't reply for a while.
Seeing this, the veteran breathed a sigh of relief. He turned to look at the others and continued the arrangement he had interrupted:
"Now that we know the opponent's firepower, the possibility of continuing to attack is not very high, so we have to start from the ventilation duct..."
"Then what's the point of coming here if we don't have children as hostages?!"
It was also at this time that Long Tau, who had lowered his head before, suddenly rose up. He grabbed the neck of the gang veteran who was leading the team and directly pressed him onto a desk.
The glowing red prosthetic eyes stared at the other party, and Long Tau almost gritted his teeth and said:
"You must be lying to everyone. There must be lone children here. As long as we find them, our plan will succeed! It's impossible that you can't even figure this out. Don't you want to do it anymore?"
Everyone around him was startled by the sudden attack, and then they all came over to try to pull him away.
However, the next second, Long Tau, who had pinched the opponent, bowed his body and flew backwards.
He knocked over several desks and chairs along the way, and didn't stop until he hit the load-bearing wall hard.
The veteran who had been choked by the other party stood up from the desk. Then, he looked at Long Tau who was kicked away by his kick, and said with a complicated expression:
"Okay, then I order you to go to those lonely children alone. If you don't find them, you can't come back."
"Ha ha ha ha ha……"
Under the nervous gazes of everyone, Long Tau, who had been kicked away earlier, stood up unsteadily like a marionette, with an incomparably captivating smile on his face.
"I knew you could understand me, don't worry... I promise to complete the mission!"
After saying that, the man laughed and limped out of the classroom.
A member of the Lobotomy Gang seemed to be planning to catch him, but was stopped by a veteran who got up.
"Don't try to persuade me, it's useless."
The other party shook his head.
Looking at the man's retreating figure, the member of the Lobe Gang asked carefully:
"Long Tau, what's wrong with him?"
In my own impression, the other party was not such a person in the past...
"nothing."
The veteran who led the team straightened his collar and said with a complicated expression:
"He's just another madman who can't bear to adjust and reform himself, and his mental index has fallen into the uncanny valley of his mind... Just treat him as a dead person."
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After completing the extra assigned data architecture homework, Xia Hu put down her headphones and felt something was wrong around her.
It's so quiet... At this time on weekdays, there should be a lot of excitement outside the corridor. But after he opened the door and went out, there was not even half a person outside.
"Is there a movie playing in the lounge again?"
Walking in the deserted corridor, listening to the echo of her own footsteps, Xia Hu couldn't help but shudder, and then quickened her pace.
After quickly passing through several corners, he almost ran into a dark figure head-on.
"Ah, right..."
After raising his head and seeing the dark figure clearly, Xia Hu's subconscious apology was stuck.
The person who came was a tall and burly man. There was a ferocious suture like a centipede on his skull.
The opponent has a prosthetic eye that always lights up red, and his hands are covered with a layer of metal scales like snake scales.
At this moment, those metal scales were trembling slightly like a rattlesnake, making a spine-chilling dangerous sound.
"Kid, are you lost?"
The man was looking at him with a smile on his face and asked in a very gentle voice.
In addition, for some reason, there was a recessed shoe print on the other person's clothes, near his lower abdomen.
Xia Hu didn't know this person.
No adult in Chiron's family looks like the other person, and in my impression, none of the volunteer uncles and aunts who usually bring snacks here have anyone with his appearance.
Although the teacher often taught them not to judge people by their appearance, the moment they saw the other person's honor, Xia Hu had already classified the other person as a "bad guy" in her heart.
"I'm not lost. My teacher is still waiting for me in the lounge... I'll leave first."
Xia Hu said this as she felt her heart pounding.
With that said, he planned to bypass the other party and quickly go to the health room to find brother Liao Qi and uncle Booker.
But the other party stretched out his hand to stop him.
"But kid, my uncle is lost now. Can you help him lead the way?"
After stopping himself, the other party still looked at him with a smile on his face, and then continued:
"Can you take uncle to the safe house where you usually evacuate?"
Hearing this, Xia Hu, who was sure that there must be something wrong with the other party, gritted his teeth suddenly, turned around and ran back.
But the other party did not catch up immediately as he had expected. Instead, he stood there and laughed for a while.
After several seconds, the man's voice caught up with him from behind:
"Run, kid, run far away, and remember to hide yourself. Uncle will come to find you soon."
…………
"Are you really sure you want to go?"
Winston asked worriedly as he looked at Liao Qi, who was quickly putting on his tactical equipment.
"Do not worry."
The latter picked up the Scorpio-type pulse pistol that had been placed on the weapons rack, and then answered briefly.
"But you have just completed the adjustment and transformation, right now..."
"Then why do you think I need to be restructured?"
Jiang Zhou asked rhetorically after sorting out his equipment.
Winston sighed and then said:
"The comrades who were guarding the intersection said that there were at least three adjusters among the intruders."
"learn."
Jiang Zhou answered.
That can be used to test your own strength after adjustment.
he thought.
"So what I mean is that the G72-Wolfhound must stay and guard here."
Winston continued.
G72-Wolf Dog is a police support mechanical dog developed by Vista Intelligent Control Company. Although it is used for support, it can withstand a machine gun squad in the past with full firepower in a short period of time.
"Don't worry."
After walking over the nearly thirty steps of the basement to the door, Jiang Zhou opened the blast door and looked back at Winston.
"After I rescue the little shrimp tiger, I will come over immediately to support you... By the way, are there any handy melee weapons here?"
…………
Xia Hu held her breath when she heard the approaching footsteps.
The personal terminal on my body didn't have a signal, and the way to the health room and security department was blocked by the other party, and I couldn't take the bad guy to the direction of the dormitory.
Therefore, he finally chose to go back and run towards the teaching floor.
It was already time for get out of class to end, and there should be no one else in the teaching staff except myself.
This is what Brother Liao said in the past. On the street, when you are being chased to the end of the road, you must not lead the bad guys towards home.
It can be seen that the other party has undergone prosthetic transformation, and if he just runs, he will definitely be caught up by the other party... Even if he doesn't, it is impossible for him, a child, to outrun an adult.
Therefore, Xia Hu finally found a hidden storage room and hid in it.
If the other party didn't notice him and continued to walk upstairs, he could take this opportunity to run out, go to the health room, find Brother Liao and Uncle Booker, and beat the shit out of the bad guy.
"Kid, you have to hide, uncle is coming to find you soon~"
As the footsteps got closer and closer, Xia Hu gently raised his hands and covered his mouth and nose.
"One, two, three... one, two, three..."
When he reached a certain distance, the man suddenly made a counting sound with unknown meaning.
There are several narrow gaps on the cabinet door of the storage room for ventilation. But unless she put her eyes on it, Xia Hu couldn't see what was going on outside. She could only see a few rays of light coming in from the outside.
Of course, he would not be stupid enough to get closer and take a look. In order not to let the other party notice him, he had avoided those gaps early in the morning and huddled in the corner of the locker.
The footsteps are getting closer and closer, and the other party seems to be approaching this room.
"One, two, three, kid, have you hid in here?"
The other party's footsteps obviously stopped at the door of the room, and then walked in.
"Let me take a look, open! One, two, three..."
With a "pop" sound, the locker door was suddenly opened.
Xia Hu covered her mouth and closed her eyes tremblingly.
"Not in this."
There was a row of lockers, and the one he opened was not the one Xia Hu was hiding in.
"Could it be this one? Open! One, two, three..."
This time, it was the sound of a door opening closer to me.
Although this time, Xia Hu knew that it was not his cabinet door that the other party opened, but when he heard the "pop" sound, he could not help but tremble slightly, and tears flowed down involuntarily.
"Not here either."
It’s over…
Xia Hu thought desperately.
If the other party opens the cabinet doors one by one, they will reach their own cabinet within a dozen seconds at most.
"Open! One, two, three..."
"It's actually not this..."
…
After opening five cabinets in a row, finally, the light coming through the gap in the cabinet door where Yu Xiahu was hiding was blocked by a shadow.
"One two three, one two three, one two three..."
For some reason, the opponent's counting speed suddenly became faster.
"Then let's see if this is it."
After a pause, the other party said.
But also at this time, a loud "bang" sound suddenly came from above. It sounded like something slammed into the roof of the building.
"Boss?"
The man standing outside the cabinet seemed to be confused and muttered to himself.
Immediately, the shadow outside the cabinet door disappeared along with the sound of footsteps.
Only then did Xia Hu realize that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage while holding his breath.
However, even if he let go of his hand, he still didn't dare to take a big breath. He just opened his mouth wide and gasped silently.
Let the snot and tears keep flowing down.
Although he didn't know what miracle had just happened to save him, at this moment, he thanked the other party from the bottom of his heart.
After dozens of seconds, when his hands almost stopped shaking, Xia Hu carefully looked out through the gap. After confirming that the other party was not hiding around, he pushed open the cabinet door very slowly.
Fortunately, fortunately, I was not discovered by the other party...
"one two three……"
After walking out of the closet door, a voice came from behind him.
Xia Hu froze in place as if frozen.
His neck got stuck one after another, and he turned around with difficulty, and then he saw...
The other person was squatting on top of the locker, looking at him with a smile.
He never left!
"one two three……"
After speeding up and reciting the unknown numbers, the other party smiled and said:
"Listen, your heart rate is getting faster now."
Amidst the screams, the man jumped up from the cabinet, and his hands covered with silver scales strangled Xia Hu's throat.
Then, Long Tau, who was stagnant in mid-air, was beaten by Jiang Zhou who rushed from the door with a titanium alloy crowbar and flew to the locker behind him.
