Special Forces Medic-Chapter 646 - 608: Who is it?
"In the bag!" After tossing the cold weapon to Xiao Lin from the bag, he immediately felt the bag lighten significantly.
"We have two minutes left, let's prepare for action." Xiao Lin stuffed the Silver Needle and the dagger into his pocket, spreading the maps he had drawn from surveying the terrain over the past few days on the ground. "The mission this time aims to destroy their workstation, crippling their operations in a short time."
"Understood!" Hua Qingyi silently memorized the positions marked on the map.
"I'll go ignite the raw materials and finished goods in the warehouse. You handle the people outside." Xiao Lin marked an X at two positions on the map. These were the raw material storage points, whereas the finished goods were on the other end, roughly three meters apart. Between them was the work area, with no place to hide. Clearly, when constructing this place, no one anticipated intruders.
"Where's the firepower point?" This was what Hua Qingyi was concerned about as it didn't seem to be on the map.
"There is no arsenal except for the monitoring station opposite. This is purely a processing factory, and the people working here eat, drink, and defecate right here."
"You want me to kill these innocent people?" Hua Qingyi realized the issue. They might just be common folk working for money.
"You'll know soon enough." As soon as he finished speaking, it was already pitch black outside. "Let's go!"
Xiao Lin was the first to leap from the edge of the hole, diving into the entrance below, then climbed down along the lift shaft. Hua Qingyi followed behind, only realizing the enormity of the place upon reaching the ground, resembling an egg with rows of long tables and some equipment in the center.
Beside him were low buildings similar to those above, and shadows were moving towards them. At every pass, one or two people acted as guards, freezing as if to grab something and stuff it into their mouths. The entire process was slow yet orderly and dead silent.
"What are they doing?"
"Eating!" Xiao Lin answered Hua Qingyi's question while tampering with the lift's button, using the Silver Needle to sabotage the wiring. "Give me all your bullets!"
"You're crazy, if I give them all to you, it won't be enough." Hua Qingyi exclaimed silently. They hadn't brought much; knowing it would be a fight, he would have brought compressed easy-to-use bullets.
"Bullets are useless here." Xiao Lin grabbed his bag, organizing all usable items together, leaving only a gun and a bullet on him, placing the rest in the bag, tying it tight with straps, and hiding it with dirt beside one of the lift's legs.
"Just one?"
"One is enough."
As the last person entered the low building, Xiao Lin had already dashed in one direction, while Hua Qingyi was running towards the exhaust fan on the opposite side. They split up, disappearing in the darkness like two flashes of lightning.
Xiao Lin passed through the work area, avoiding the people stationed outside the dormitories as much as possible, heading towards the warehouse of raw materials. Overcoming the central area, he faced his first major obstacle, not represented on the map.
The raw materials were crucial to Fourth Master, so the person guarding this place was not to be trifled with. It was this very person who had killed Wang Canghai. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
In the dark, when vision fails, hearing reigns supreme among the senses. Xiao Lin slowed his pace, his ears attuning to faint sounds in the air.
Living beings need to breathe, need air, need to inhale large quantities of oxygen. Even if you move slowly, you need that bit of oxygen, which produces noise and smell, so Xiao Lin searched for that minimal trace.
If this person could still be called human, it might be easy to find that trace, but the individual had forfeited their claim to humanity. Having witnessed his brutality firsthand, Xiao Lin had already labeled him a beast.
A cold intent to kill flashed past before him. Xiao Lin sneered and fell back, supporting himself on one hand, as a shadow swept over him and disappeared behind. Just now, he caught a wisp of its presence, a stench like that of a corpse living in Hell. It was the first time he was so close to the opponent, and from its speed, he assigned it a level—not difficult to deal with, but not to be underestimated.
Flipping up from the ground, the shadow seemed to see him and dashed out again as he leaped, skimming the ground to assault Xiao Lin's back. It brought with it the sound of metal scraping, and sparks burst out painfully.
The shadow blocked Xiao Lin's escape route; he could only go up and couldn't land. He wasn't a bird, so he couldn't fly, but he was Xiao Lin, so he could learn to fly like a bird. The shadow didn't wait for Xiao Lin to land before it received a solid kick from him, making a muffled grunt like a bull and staggering to the side, seemingly hitting something that made a sound.
"Who? Who is it?" A beam of light shot down from one end, illuminating where the shadow fell so clearly. Xiao Lin rolled into the shadows outside the beam, looking up to find a hidden sentry above the raw material warehouse, difficult to detect.
The shadow let out a beast-like roar, provoked by the direct beam of light, shaking the others. Midway up, Hua Qingyi paused, wanting to see but already hearing the whistle above. "Eh? Have we been discovered?" He voiced his doubt. No way!
At the same time, a whistle sounded simultaneously from another place, echoing each other. "Could it be that my brother was discovered?" Hua Qingyi was sure it wasn't because of him, but that beast-like roar earlier—what kind of monster was that?
Time did not allow Hua Qingyi to linger and think further there; there seemed to be some action above. He leaped up with both hands, grabbing a protruding part of the ground layer, forcefully flipping onto a fixed frame of a ventilation fan. Now he was only three steps away from the monitoring cave.
And that beast-like roar echoed through the space again, each roar more piercing and angry. Such roars would soon alarm everyone here. Their time didn't permit further hesitation. Hua Qingyi quickened his pace, sneaking towards the middle cave.
Xiao Lin crouched on the ground, wanting to quickly resolve this monster, but the opponent's tenacity put him at a bit of a disadvantage. He had to divert his attention around him, with figures closing in on them, while the raw materials before him remained untouched. He didn't even have a chance to get near them, thanks to this creature that was neither human nor beast.
The rustling behind him grew closer. Xiao Lin targeted a fuel barrel placed beside the raw materials. Judging by the markings on it, it was likely used to blend some substance. In such a place, besides machines requiring maintenance oil, there were few places needing fuel. Fire was the quickest way to destroy the raw materials in one go, so he might as well try.
Having determined the target, Xiao Lin dodged the monster's charge towards the blending oil set aside, stabbing into the iron barrel, and immediately blackish-brown oil seeped out.
Accompanied by the tar smell, Xiao Lin couldn't help but cover his nose with a hand. He held his breath, flinging the blackish-brown oil onto the plastic barrels, while entangled with the person behind him, until the last drop fell, Xiao Lin drew out his gun.
"Brother, move aside!" Hua Qingyi shouted from behind. The people following him instantly dropped to the ground, and the strange weapon in his left hand aimed at the figure behind Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin swiftly dropped to the ground, and the monster, seeing this, also lunged to the ground, its hand just managing to grab hold of Xiao Lin's ankle. The bullets from above whizzed past, landing on a barrel of raw materials. Xiao Lin kicked at the monster below him, seeing him make no attempt to dodge, he delivered another kick.
Yet the opponent, as if anticipating it, rolled away with him, and the exploding raw material barrel fell where they had just been. Before Xiao Lin could react, another exploding plastic barrel fell from above, along with some sticky substance on his head and body. Yet, the person being hit wasn't affected at all, holding a serrated hand close to Xiao Lin.
"Watch out!" Hua Qingyi marveled at such a creature, no wonder it made that kind of roar, it looked like a mutated brown bear, its bulging muscles almost bursting its clothes.
"Don't mind him!" Xiao Lin stopped Hua Qingyi from approaching. He couldn't guarantee that this person hadn't taken drugs, but from his vacant eyes, he could guess that this wasn't his first time using them.
Xiao Lin grabbed a dagger in reverse, slashing it before the monster's eyes, drawing its attention to himself. "Hey, I'm your opponent."
As the light flickered beneath his eyes, the figure instinctively shielded its eyes with its hands. It feared the light. Xiao Lin's mouth curled up. Always in a mobile struggle, he finally had his first formal attack. Utilizing the reflection of the firelight, he ceaselessly changed the blade's angle, directing the light line to its eyes.
The monster could only use its hand to shield the silver light, weakly retreating, its vision filled with white light.
Xiao Lin seized the opportunity, advancing step by step. He had tested it before: it wasn't invulnerable; it was just that it couldn't feel pain, a typical drug-induced reaction. With the last flash of firelight, Xiao Lin aimed his blade straight at its eyes. Just as it was about to pierce through, a figure leapt from his left, not powerful but enough to deflect his arm.
A woman, not particularly beautiful, but with a certain allure, stood between him and the monster. "The boss's wife?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you're welcome to vote for it at qidian.com with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
