The dark corridor that should have been silent was broken by light and noise at some point. Holding a flashlight, Richard was currently searching carefully with his brows furrowed, pushing open the door of the passing room from time to time in the corridor.
There is no doubt that in order to find the fabric rope that can bind the ladder as soon as possible, the security captain who has participated in the war has done everything he can and is frantically searching alone in the huge north area of the first floor. To be honest, like other security guards, Even though he is the most skilled and courageous among all the security guards, Richard does not dare to go to the second floor. After all, he is also afraid of death. Therefore, knowing that there is a maniac on the second floor, he will not go there unless he has to. He will not go to the second floor, which is also the reason why he is still on the first floor. That is true, but unfortunately...
As time went by, as he passed through various corridors one after another, after constantly opening the doors along the way and observing the room environment, Richard gradually frowned deeper and deeper, and his inner uneasiness became stronger and stronger, which made him more and more nervous. The reason for uneasiness is precisely that the search was fruitless.
Walking along the corridor, Richard was very careful. He opened the door and looked at almost every room. He was very careful, but no matter where he searched, what he saw was always useless things, or piles of stuff. Weapons warehouses were either empty houses. Although some rooms were scattered with shabby furniture, there were only no ropes or fabrics and clothing that could be used to make ropes. In fact, seeing this, Richard vaguely guessed There is a reason. The reason is not that there is no fabric on the first floor, but that it has been manually cleaned long ago. In order not to affect the visual sense of tourists, unlike the already tidy second and third floors, the museum has in all likelihood been the dirtiest. On the first floor of the messy castle, we sorted out the old fabrics and broken furniture that had no ornamental value due to the erosion of time. In the end, only the armory and some well-preserved furniture items were left. If this is the case, then...
"There is nothing we can do. It seems we have to go to the second floor."
At this moment, standing in an empty room, Richard murmured to himself and decided to go upstairs alone to take risks. This was the thought and the same reality. Richard was indeed a very courageous soldier. As soon as he made up his mind, the man gritted his teeth and turned around to go out. Yes, he no longer planned to continue doing useless work on the first floor. At the same time, he also did not plan to force the timid team members. He wanted to go to the second floor alone to find ropes. Risk your life for all the security guards.
only……
clatter.
He turned around and walked a few steps, that is, the moment Richard just stepped out of the door, whether it was an illusion or other reasons, he smelled a smell that was very familiar to him.
The smell of blood!
Yes, just now, when he stepped out of the room and the people were about to leave, he smelled the smell of blood in his nose. A faint blood filled his nose. Because the smell was light and not obvious, others might not be able to detect it, but As a retired veteran who had slept in a pile of corpses, Richard could clearly smell it. No, not only he smelled blood, he also heard a whistling sound caused by moving too fast!
Next…
brush!
Richard moved, bowed his head and bent down by instinct without thinking, and made an evasive action in just one second! While he was hiding, he saw the dagger. A dagger flashing with cold light passed over his head under the flashlight, and the person who controlled the dagger was a hand stained with blood!
Sneak attack!
Someone attacked me secretly, and someone actually planned to kill me! ?
Relying on a soldier's keen sense of danger, Richard narrowly avoided attack after attack, barely escaping the fatal blow that should have cut his throat. However, escaping the attack did not mean that he had saved his life, nor did it mean that the matter was over. !
"Ah ah!"
Xu Shi didn't expect that the other party had successfully dodged the dagger. On the opposite side, the sneak attacker was stunned for a moment. However, it was precisely because of his surprise that in a flash of lightning, Richard found an opportunity without even thinking about it. After he stabilized his body, the man roared and immediately counterattacked. His left hand touched the back of his waist with lightning, and his right hand gathered into a fist and suddenly raised it, hitting the opponent's chin with the most standard uppercut.
Unfortunately, Richard failed. It is true that the attacker was stunned for a moment, but the opponent also reacted very quickly. In fact, when Richard roared and punched to fight back, the opponent had already broken free and recovered. After that, he retreated hastily at a speed not inferior to his own. While adjusting his body and retreating hastily, he put his hands into his arms!
Oops!
Realizing that the opponent had reached into his arms, Richard secretly exclaimed that something was wrong. His left hand, which he had hesitated to reach to his waist just now, broke free and moved quickly. He drew out his pistol at lightning speed, took aim, and fired!
Similarly, at the same second that Richard pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger, the sniper on the opposite side also pulled out his pistol at exactly the same speed and immediately pulled the trigger without saying a word!
boom! boom!
For a moment, with two roaring gunshots, the two sides aimed at each other and fired at the same time. Each fired a life-killing bullet at the other! ! !
……………
In the corridor, in the darkness, the two sides shot at each other almost at the same second. However, shooting at the same time does not mean that both sides will be hit at the same time. This is true for Richard and the same is true for the sneak attacker.
Hooray!
Gulu!
Half a second before pulling the trigger, Richard instinctively moved sideways, jumping and dodging while firing. The attacker who was not far away also made a similar move and rolled sideways towards the wall. side.
Both sides are masters, and both have experienced life and death. Relying on their excellent reactions, neither Richard nor the sneak attacker hit the other side, and the bullets just whizzed past each other's bodies!
how come! ?
Seeing this, Richard was shocked. He didn't expect that the other party had the ability to dodge bullets. Although he was able to avoid danger in advance like himself, this extraordinary reaction alone was enough to surprise him. Being able to have such reaction nerves , have experienced many bloody storms, and the other party is definitely not an ordinary person. Even if he is not a soldier, he is probably a guy who has been living in danger for a long time!
who is he? Why the response so quickly? You don't look like a soldier physically, but your nerves are not at all inferior to mine?
Because the darkness obscured his vision, Richard could not clearly see the other party's appearance except for seeing the dagger with the help of a flashlight at the beginning. Until now, he does not know who the other party is, and the flashlight had already fallen to the ground in the hasty fight just now. He accidentally extinguished it, and the light source disappeared as the flashlight went out. At this point, the corridor was plunged into darkness, shrouded in darkness. He could no longer see the other party. He only knew that the other party should still be on the opposite side, and most likely still somewhere not far away. Unfortunately, He couldn't shoot, because at present he only knew the general position of the opponent, and if he continued to shoot, light would inevitably emerge. This would be equivalent to exposing his precise position, and then becoming an extremely obvious target in the dark.
Therefore, Richard did not move. He just hid his figure in the darkness and suppressed the sound. But what shocked Richard again was that relying on the unique fighting acumen of a soldier, he was smart enough not to continue shooting. Unexpectedly, the other party also fired. The same, even if he waited and observed for a long time, the other side was always silent. The sneak attacker did not fire blindly, let alone fired. He did not make even a slight sound. He was not exposed from the beginning to the end, and there was no sound that could be heard to identify the location. Tiny flaws!
Master!
This was a pertinent evaluation that Richard could instinctively draw during the observation period. He thought so, and Zhao Ping thought so too!
At this moment, with the help of the cover of the dark package, he was almost the same as Richard. A few meters away, Zhao Ping was holding a pistol and hiding on guard. Although the man's expression could not be seen in the darkness, Zhao Ping had a serious expression with sweat on his forehead, as if he was a man. With an expression of surprise, it was obvious that he made a mistake, or that he made a mistake. He did not kill Richard in a sneak attack like he had done with the previous four security guards. The reason was not that he was not careful, but that the other party had sharp reactions and also had With great skill, relying on the above two points, the opponent actually forcibly evaded his sneak attack that should have killed him in one hit. While evading the sneak attack, he was able to counterattack immediately. If he hadn't been so experienced, maybe he would have He was successfully counter-killed by the other party!
soldier? A soldier like Peng Hu who has actually been on the battlefield? .
As expected of a veteran with keen observation, Zhao Ping quickly came up with a guess from the somewhat standard movements of the other party just now, thinking that Richard and Peng Hu were somewhat similar, and the hurried, though not panic, movements were vaguely similar. Peng Hu, and Peng Hu is just a standard soldier who has been fighting drug traffickers at the border all year round. As expected, this security captain named Richard should have led the army before and most likely participated in a certain number of battles. , thus developing a pair of outstanding skills, and only such people have the ability to avoid their own sneak attacks.
What a risk. Fortunately, I retreated in time to distance myself. Otherwise, I would have been easily counter-killed by the opponent!
only……
If this happens, things will become difficult to handle.
After quickly assessing the strength of both sides, Zhao Ping's eyebrows flashed with worry. Although he had just been extremely smart to distance himself from the opponent, the initial close combat has evolved into a long-distance gun fight, and now they are hiding and falling into each other. There is a stalemate, but the problem is that this is not the way to go. Although I am experienced and capable, the other party is not a fool. With certain preparations, the other party is unlikely to be easily solved by me. Just rely on the other party's hidden voice. It can be seen from his behavior that the opponent is very experienced in combat, and he also knows how to use darkness to hide his position.
(Things are a bit tricky. If so, what should we do next?)
With the cover of darkness, facing the stalemate, Richard was cautious and Zhao Ping thought hard. Both sides chose to wait under the threat of firearms, waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the other party to be unable to resist and open the exposed position first. Is that so? Wrong, but in the situation where the deadlock has formed, no one can do anything to the other in a short time. The two people who are neither fools will not and cannot attack first and expose themselves. Unless a third party appears to break the deadlock, Richard dare not Escape, Zhao Ping is also unable to retreat, and can only maintain a confrontation in this narrow corridor no matter what, but...
After all, Zhao Ping is Zhao Ping. As a ruthless character who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, he has the ability to solve any crisis, even the situation in front of him that is unsolvable in the eyes of ordinary people.
After waiting for a moment, seeing that the other party still made no move, he squinted his eyes, and the man's lips slightly raised into a sneer. During the sneer, he put his left hand into his pocket, obviously intending to use his backhand to kill.
He seemed to be taking out something, seemed to be using this thing to break the deadlock, and was even extremely confident that he would be able to successfully solve the opponent while using this thing, completely putting Richard in danger.
Unfortunately……
In the end, he did not take out this object and did not use the means to kill Richard as he had just imagined. Yes, he gave up the fight and no longer focused on killing Richard. The reason that caused him to terminate the action and give up killing was also It was not that his conscience showed up and he let this person go, but that an accident occurred at the scene, a terrible incident that was enough to make Zhao Ping give up his plan in an instant and just run away!
Two seconds ago, at the critical moment when Zhao Ping was about to trick someone and planned to kill Richard directly, the deadlock was broken, and it was instantly broken by a purple light that appeared out of thin air.
(Um?)
In the darkness, that is, in the corridor between the two sides, light emerged, and a purple halo of unknown origin appeared out of thin air from the top of the corridor!
indistinct!
Because the purple light appeared too suddenly, although the light easily illuminated the area, both Zhao Ping and Richard had given up attacking. Instead, they were collectively attracted by the strange purple light that appeared above their heads, and they instinctively raised their heads. Looking up, as far as the eye could see, a circle appeared on the roof. A large round aperture filled with various symbols was floating on the roof without any warning. The aperture was so bright and dazzling, so beautiful and dazzling. It was completely okay. Let anyone be immersed in it and unable to extricate themselves. This is the description, and the same is true. As the purple circle appeared above his head, at this moment, Richard was stunned. His eyes widened instinctively, his mouth opened slightly, and his throat squirmed frequently. He couldn't help but sigh, and let out a unique shocking emotion.
"Come on, God..."
Faced with the irresistible and rare beauty, Richard murmured to himself and was stunned. He was attracted by this absolutely rare and brilliant aperture, and then became addicted to it. However, nothing is absolute. If the gorgeous purple light is to Richard For Zhao Ping, it is a rare beauty that one would rather ignore the enemy while immersing in admiring. However, for Zhao Ping, it is equivalent to a disaster, a kind of catastrophe that is enough to drive him and all the executors into the abyss!
evidence?
The evidence soon appeared. As the purple aperture became clearer, through his glasses, Zhao Ping soon made another discovery. He found something protruding in the middle of the aperture, and a human head with long hair slowly lowered from top to bottom. A woman's head with the exact same color as the aperture!
Ding!
Seeing the purple hair that was the first to stand out, Zhao Ping's heart suddenly trembled. His face, which was already faintly pale, turned pale instantly. A voice suddenly appeared in his mind, a stern warning that was almost roaring:
"Run, run now, run away immediately, otherwise you will die, and you will not even leave a body behind!"
This was the only voice in Zhao Ping's mind when he saw the aperture protruding from his head. His intuition was urging him to run away immediately, but he couldn't do it. It wasn't because he didn't want to run, but because God made a joke on him. The malicious joke he got into hell.
First of all, it is certain that as an executor who knows a lot about supernatural beings, Zhao Ping knew what it was as early as the first time he saw the aperture. Not only did he know what it was, but he also guessed what the aperture was about to release, so , as soon as he spotted the purple halo, and without even waiting for the warning in his mind to end, Zhao Ping retracted his firearm and took action. He immediately turned around and ran away, running along the corridor at an unprecedented and astonishing speed, heading straight towards the road he came from. He ran very fast and could run out of the corridor before the owner of the head appeared, but...
It was precisely at this time that God's joke came, a malicious joke that directly sent him to hell.
At the flash of lightning, just as Zhao Ping was about to run out of the corridor and even half a meter away from the scene and hide in the corner, two people rushed out from the opposite corner, two white security guards in camouflage. Then, he was beaten. At the same second when the two parties just met, one of them kicked him in the body. He was kicked back to the corridor and fell back to the scene.
bump!
"Woo!"
As mentioned above, because he was full of fear and just ran away, Zhao Ping was caught off guard and was kicked over by the opponent on the spot. He was suddenly hit hard. The man with glasses let out a groan and flew back. Until this moment, he was flying upside down in the air. The identity of the visitor was revealed to be none other than two security guards who came after hearing the news. They were the patrol security guards named Jim and Thomas in my impression!
Yes, because there was a gun battle between Zhao Ping and Richard not long ago. Although the deafening gunshots may not be transmitted upstairs, there is no problem in echoing to the first floor. It is precisely because of the loud gunshots that Jim, who was originally searching elsewhere, Naturally, the two of them noticed it instantly, and then rushed towards the north area on the first floor where the gunshots were heard. Of course, due to their lack of courage, the two of them did not run too fast, but timidly trotted lightly. Their purpose was obvious. It is a priority to check the situation, but...
When they ran to the corner of the corridor and saw with their own eyes that the attacker was not a human being but also a gentle-looking man with glasses, Jim's courage doubled and Thomas' courage doubled. The two people who had been so timid earlier and planned to peep suddenly changed. Becoming a brave man, Jim attacked first. The moment he met Zhao Ping at the corner, he raised his foot and kicked him without saying a word. He kicked the man with glasses far away on the spot. However, his courage increased and he kicked out, but it was just right. It was his untimely kick that kicked Zhao Ping back to the starting point, thus extinguishing the man's hope of survival by chance, and thus sending Zhao Ping into eternal hell!
"Fake! You bastard, you dare to sneak up on the captain. I've long seen that you guys from the East are not good birds. You must be here to steal the collection... hmm? Then, what is that?"
As the saying goes, everything is relative. When he saw the bespectacled man fall to the ground, Jim rushed forward non-stop to prevent the man from escaping. He and Thomas ran into the corridor to catch the man, cursing him repeatedly in the process. However, he had just run a few times. Stepping forward, the two of them stopped and swallowed back the curse words they were about to curse. They were immediately dumbfounded and questioned. The reason that caused them both to stop and question was the aperture, the strange purple light floating at the top of the corridor. , no, not just the aperture. In addition to the aperture, if you look closely, you can further find something in the aperture. It is a person, a woman, a purple-haired woman with her head and feet falling slowly. Currently, it is like this from the aperture. Emerge slowly and unhurriedly!
At this moment, looking at the gorgeous scenery in front of him, Jim was dumbfounded like Richard standing opposite. Thomas was dumbfounded and ignored Zhao Ping. The two of them were attracted by the sudden gorgeous scenery. Then his expression was horrified and his eyes widened. It is true that this situation is strange, but...
So beautiful!
It is so beautiful. Not only is the purple aperture dazzling, but the purple-haired woman wrapped in the light is even more eye-catching. Even if the woman is still slowly landing on her head and feet, even if the other person has not completely escaped from the purple aperture, her figure alone is enough. Eye-catching, grab the attention of any man.
"Captain, what is that?" Remaining stunned in shock, Jim murmured a question to himself in a daze, seemingly asking Richard, but in fact, both Jim and Thomas remained stunned and stood side by side. Looking up, yes, under the overly beautiful picture, they were already intoxicated and in a trance. They no longer cared whether Richard answered or not. All they wanted was to watch and appreciate, and thus they were completely immersed in a certain beauty called anticipation. Expecting the woman to be fully exposed, expecting the other person to turn around, only in this way can they really see clearly the woman's appearance that is enough to attract them just by her body posture.
As for Richard…
I don't know whether it was out of the soldier's intuition or because this situation in disguise activated some kind of consciousness that had been hidden for a long time. There is no denying that he was immersed in the beautiful halo at the beginning and couldn't extricate himself. However, as time passed, when the aperture The moment a human head emerged from the protruding hair, his obsessed expression did not change, but a sense of crisis appeared inexplicably in his heart, a less obvious but real dangerous intuition, which seemed to be similar. Some impressions.
I remember that he and a group of comrades once guarded a certain factory. Due to the war and the later stage, and it was clear that the enemy was about to surrender, during the guarding period, the soldiers, including himself, were in a relaxed mood. Almost no one thought that the enemy would attack the factory. , so the vigilance was relaxed and they didn't take it seriously. Unfortunately, they thought wrong. Everyone thought wrong. After a few days of leisure, they thought they would be waiting for news of the enemy's surrender. However, what was waiting for them was five planes. Heavy bombers roar incoming!
The moment he heard the roar, Richard had an ominous premonition. But at this moment, looking at the beautiful aperture, he suddenly had a similar feeling again, the same or even stronger sense of death crisis that he had before he was bombed by the plane. ! ! !
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