Under the cover of darkness, three people wearing white protective suits went out of the white van and ran towards the blind spot.
Li Nuxie was part of the track and field team way back in the university days while Li Chao has an inclination towards sports. No wonder they can ran faster than an average person. As they followed the direction Li Chanying has provided earlier, they reached the end of the alley.
"Where is that damned manhole?" Li Chao whispered before letting Huang Wensheng climbed down from his back.
Li Nuxie curled her lips. Of course, that manhole would not be so visible to the naked eye. Previously, Li Chanying has used the server to look for it. Hence, it was easy for her to locate it.
She glanced towards her back. If they cannot find it sooner, they would all be dead meat.
On the other side of the country, a cup flew towards the wall, creating a crashing sound as the pieces fell down the marble floor.
"How incompetent your people are?!" The man's eyes were almost bulging. The veins on his neck might erupt any moment from now.
"Master -"
The man's fist went directly to the face of the other man standing in front of him. He staggered back but did not create a noise for fear of angering his master more.
"I don't care how you do it but bring them in front of me as soon as possible. Alive. You understand?!"
"Yes, master," the man said before going out of the room.
Why was it that Country M was big and yet, the intruders directly went to the power plant? Could they have pinpointed it?
The man shook his head. Impossible. This was not the first time that people tried to infiltrate Country M. For the last decade, there were a lot of expeditions made. Although no one has specifically stated why they came to the country, more or less, the people guarding the area knew that they are searching for something.
There were a lot of things hidden inside Country M. All were high value but among the rest, there was the most significant. It was owned by the Yang Family of Country C.
No one admitted what they were looking for. But after making sure that no data was leaked, those unsuccessful people paid with their lives.
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The three cars that were chasing the white van stopped abruptly. Their tires screeched against the pavement before bumping the van's bumper. Men wearing protective suits went out. In their hands were high-caliber firearms.
Moving in a fast speed, these men checked the van, only to find out that it was already been abandoned.
The leader of these groups pointed towards the blind spot, signalling them to go two by two.
Meanwhile, on the side of Li Nuxie, each one of them knocked on the pavement, thinking that there were some sort of mechanism to do to locate the manhole.
All of a sudden, Li Chao's eyes went sharp. His line of sight flew towards his sister and Huang Wensheng. The two were still engrossed in what they were doing.
Li Chao played tennis. Playing the sport meant honing the five senses. The people who were after them were all seasoned fighters based on how they moved undetected. If not for his keen sense of hearing, Li Chao could not think how they would end up.
There was nowhere to go. He approached his sister and when she glanced up, he signaled her with his eyes.
Li Nuxie's expression behind the mask went dark. It seemed that they needed to fight now. They both looked towards Huang Wensheng. The teenage boy, although he grew up in the slums of City S and was not a stranger to fighting, this kind of fight was very different from the street fight.
Li Nuxie thought that this mission, although they need to put their lives on the line, can still preserve the innocence of Huang Wensheng. Obviously, she was wrong. She stood up and went behind Huang Wensheng, followed by Li Chao.
However, as she was reaching for Huang Wensheng's shoulders, she felt that her world went upside down. Literally.
In a desperate attempt to stable her feet, she looked over her shoulder and extended her left hand towards Li Chao. Li Chao saw that the ground his sister and Huang Wensheng standing on suddenly turned.
His eyes went wide as his right hand grasped Li Nuxie's hand. There was no time to scream. The three of them went down in time for the team chasing them appeared at the start of the alley.
Groans were heard as the brother and sister duo together with Huang Wensheng landed on their butts. The air around was moldy, a sign that not a lot of people have been going down here.
The cement where their butts landed was slightly wet and slippery. If they were not careful, they might sustain serious injuries.
"Don't move yet!" Li Nuxie hissed towards Huang Wensheng.
Underground tunnels can be exciting when in movies and stories but if you're in real time, it can easily take someone's life. Plus, the fact that the tunnel was inside the Country M.
There was no such thing as safe place inside the country. One wrong move and your life might slip away.
Falling down like that can already been considered as a lucky streak. Can they sustain it?