An Ming asked Xia Linnaer to quickly memorize the surrounding map and terrain, and the general direction of the route. They couldn't waste too much time here, but they couldn't rush into an unfamiliar area without any preparation.
The rain outside the window gradually subsided and soon stopped. An Ming took Xia Linaer and sneaked into the corner of the city under the cover of night, moving eastward in the shadows of plants and ruins.
Just as An Ming thought, the city's fence has been fully formed. Patrol teams in black coats can be seen everywhere, and there are even some familiar faces from the Administration.
I wonder if I can get them to let me go? Although I thought so, An Ming knew it was impossible. Besides, I had a strange personality in the past and I didn't have many acquaintances, let alone an idiot who was willing to make trouble for me at this time.
An Ming quickly brought Xia Linna back to the wild grassland where they had chased each other before. This grassland was originally an abandoned corn field, and after the farmers moved away, it became a wasteland overgrown with weeds. The wasteland was very wide, and An Ming had to stand up and look out to finally catch the jagged city skyline of the port area at the end.
There used to be a long road in the south of this wasteland, and it would take less than half an hour to get to the port area from there. But now it has been completely blocked by the checkpoint, so there is no way to get through.
An Ming hid not far away and observed the wasteland, not missing a single movement. The strange thing was that although additional personnel were deployed to the surrounding areas, they only missed such a large piece of wasteland.
Was it true that the level was created in a hurry and this was missed?
This extremely strange arrangement has a very obvious purpose.
"It's a trap."
An Ming made a straightforward judgment.
"But isn't this trap too conspicuous?" asked Xia Linaer.
"Sometimes it's simple things that are easy to be fooled, right? What's more, I think they probably don't know that you have an extra helper, so they judge that you are unfamiliar with the place and will definitely take advantage of any loopholes you leave." An Ming explained.
Although he explained it this way, he still had some concerns in his heart. The surrounding blockade network was arranged in a textbook-like manner, and even some changing patrol teams were arranged from time to time, so that suspicious people who tried to cross the blockade could not easily see the pattern.
It was obvious that this commander was an A student.
However, such an excellent student just ignored such a big loophole? This is so suspicious that it seems like a provocation from the other commander.
What a bad-humored fellow.
Although he said so, An Ming couldn't help but smile.
"What should we do?"
"Of course, someone has 'set up a banquet' and invited us over, so why shouldn't we attend? We are just two fish now, and the bait in front of us is so rich, wouldn't it be unfair to ourselves if we don't eat it?" An Ming paused and smiled a little wickedly, "It seems that the other side has forgotten one thing, using big bait to catch big fish, you may capsize if you are not careful."
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In the dark night, on the rooftop of a three-story abandoned building.
Angelus held up a telescope and observed the grass in the distance. The machine behind him kept making clicks under the raincoat, and paper tapes kept going in and out. Behind him was a light command post communication device, which was used to build a temporary command center on the front line. The headset on his head was connected to various containment units in real time.
"Chief, is it really okay for us to just sit there and do nothing? What if they come from somewhere else..."
The adjutant's trembling voice came through the headset. He was not at the scene now. Angelus had placed him at the front line of the encirclement to command the battle.
"All signs indicate that our 'cargo' has an assistant, who is most likely also a federal agent. Unfortunately, we don't have his information. But from their intentions, I guess those guys are generally preparing to leave the Western Continent from the port area."
As Angelus spoke, he did not forget to receive messages from various people through his earphone.
As soon as he finished speaking, the bushes not far away moved. A figure wearing a long raincoat, carrying another person on his back, left the building complex at a very fast speed and rushed into the wasteland.
Looking from a distance, one could only see the half-human-high weeds swaying continuously, leaving a clearly visible path in the grass.
"Here they come, surround them."
Angelus gave the order quickly.
Then, the grass on the pasture also moved. Four or five shadows stood up from the haystacks and quickly moved towards the position of the first shadow. Then, hundreds of people stepped out of various buildings and formed a long interception line behind the wasteland. Every black-clad person in the team held a steam pistol and aimed at the grass in front.
This is a defensive line. The shooting distance of the steam pistol is 20 meters, so this human wall forms a shooting area with a width of 20 meters. Anyone who dares to enter will be shot into a plug.
The shadow seemed to have discovered the four enemies that were surrounding him, and he immediately stopped and prepared to turn around and retreat.
The corners of Angelus' mouth curved up slightly. Everything was going as planned.
They successfully used the broken thread to lure out the "little mouse" and her "little friend". However, the four people who surrounded them were not ordinary humans, but four white giants.
Cretaceous beasts, and all four of them are complete forms, equivalent to four "champions".
This is a game that is impossible to crack.
However, Angelus' smile soon froze.
The figure stopped in the middle of the two groups, observing back and forth, and finally turned around without hesitation and rushed towards the cretaceous beasts again. Not only was he not afraid of the fierce appearance of the cretaceous beasts, he even moved flexibly between the cretaceous beasts like dancing, dodging the attacks by the slightest gap, and in the next breath, he took advantage of the gap between the opponent's attacks to launch a counterattack.
Due to the violent movement, the hood on the figure's head fell down, exposing the dark hair and delicate face to Angelus's field of view through the telescope.
Angelus couldn't help but frown. From her appearance and the way she fought, he was sure that the girl was the intruder in the old train station not long ago.
It turns out that the helper of the "cargo" was the black-haired girl whom he failed to kill.
"Is it her?"
Angelus put down the telescope without thinking and quickly pulled out a new weapon from the backpack beside him.
The "Steam Pump-Driven Sniper Gun" was produced by the Institute of Weaponry Science of the Imperial Capital Polytechnic University. The muzzle diameter is 22mm, and it uses a whole military steam core to charge when firing. The jettisoned firing can accelerate a sharpened bullet to the speed of sound.
Maximum flight distance 800 meters.
Although this beauty has great parameters, it cannot fire continuously due to its long charging time, and its core will be burned after one shot, so the cost of killing enemies is extremely high.
But Angelus now felt that it was worth it. The black-haired girl had repeatedly hindered him, Medici, and the Federation. Angelus firmly believed that she must be an important factor in the failure of this mission.
Therefore, he must eliminate this destabilizing factor.
Setting up the gun, loading, charging, all the actions were done in one go. Angelus had been trained with this kind of long gun, but this was his first time using it.
Angelus took a deep breath and listened to his heartbeat. This scene seemed to be repeated a few hours ago, the only difference was that this time he was prepared.
The girl in the distance was fighting fiercely with four chalk beasts. No, three. She killed one in a blink of an eye.
Seven, six...
The girl quickly dispatched one more. She jumped up to avoid the attack, but the other one was also in danger.
It's dead now.
Five, four...
There was only one left, and it seized the opportunity to counterattack the enemy.
three two...
But it was just a deliberate trick by the girl. She quickly seized the opportunity and ripped the throat of the last enemy.
...one!
Angelus pulled the trigger and heard the sound of the steam core burning behind him. The sharpened bullet was instantly accelerated to the speed of sound. This was an attack that ordinary people could not avoid.
It's three hundred meters away from here, and the bullet takes no more than one second to fly.
But Angelus saw a cunning smile on the girl's face through the telescope.
"caught you!"
Angelus read the lip language. Almost at the same time, the girl seemed to have predicted this action, and pulled the corpses of the four monsters, hiding in the thick flesh as a fortress. Angelus then discovered that the corpses of the monsters had been piled up next to her at some point, forming a natural wall.
She predicted it! She predicted that this time she would get a last hit when she killed the enemy, even if no one was hiding behind cover to last hit.
But even so, what does the last sentence "I got you" mean? Did he see it wrong?
Just as Angelus was puzzled, another petite figure in a cloak suddenly rushed out from the buildings, bypassed the human wall and headed straight for the building where Angelus was hiding.
She jumped up lightly and landed on the wall of the small building. One step, two steps, she quickly ran up the wall as if defying the laws of nature. Her speed was so fast that she left gravity behind and ran wildly on the wall. When she encountered a step, she leaned over and climbed over it.
It took her less than ten seconds to jump in front of Angelus.
Angelus finally understood what that meant. The girl in the distance was a bait. She made such a conspicuous move in order to confirm the position of the commander of this operation. And that shooting exposed his position. Now that the commander's location was exposed, another companion began to move and prepared to attack Huanglong directly.
However, Angelus felt that the other party seemed a little naive.
He immediately drew out his pistol and fired two shots at the tiny enemy, then rushed forward with his sword, ready to decide the outcome.
However, the hooded man seemed to be able to see the trajectory of the bullets, and he dodged two attacks in a row by gracefully moving sideways. Although Angelus was surprised, he did not have time to give up the attack. He used the opportunity of firing bullets to block the attack, holding the "power sword" - the sword that killed Cyrol, and rushed to the hooded man.
The moist air crackled as the electrified sword slashed at it, and the sword chopped down with lightning.
Full power, full load operation!
This is the full power of the Power Sword. Running it at full capacity would burn the power core, so few people would do that. Now this sword can even cut through concrete like tofu.
However, after the enemy dodged, a red light flashed in her hand, and a strange red sword appeared in her hand. The red sword firmly blocked Anglos' attack. The power sword fell on the red sword blade with a clang, but it could not cut the red sword.
As he was surprised at the hardness of the red sword, the girl suddenly exerted her strength, and the power of the sword quickly exceeded Anglos's limit, and it was still increasing. He felt as if he was competing with an elephant for strength and could not support it at all.
"You'd better throw away this meaningless lump of iron."
There was a sound like a silver bell.
Angelus couldn't understand what she was saying, but he was sure it was not good.
"Ahhh—"
Angreus roared angrily, trying to use his momentum to block the sword.
However, the opposite happened. The red sword was like a high wall. No matter how hard Anglos tried, the opponent did not move at all.
"It's time to end."
Following the girl's voice, the little face under the hood was exposed to the light for a moment, with a hint of murderous intent in her cold red eyes.
There was a click.
Angelus then realized that the girl had pulled out another knife at some point and stabbed it straight into Angelus' heart from the back of her hand!
The hand was hidden by the cloak, and Angelus did not notice it.
However, the girl did not give up. She lifted her cloak and wanted to pursue the enemy, slashing down with two swords, one long and one short.
But at this moment, the red sword in the girl's hand flashed and shattered.
The girl was startled and immediately took out another knife and rushed towards Angelus.
But even with this moment of distraction, Angelus immediately regained his composure.
He was no pushover either. Although he wasn't as swift as the girl, he was still a martial artist. At the moment when the murderous intent from the girl's short sword touched his skin, he twisted his body with all his strength, making the blade avoid the vital parts of his body.
He immediately kicked towards the girl, and at the same time used the bounce of his other leg to distance himself from the girl.
The two men distanced themselves from each other again. Angelus took a deep breath.
He couldn't help wanting to curse.
This is not at all what we agreed upon!
Isn't this "little mouse" a little too strong?! The chilling feeling even reminded him of the Cyrol monster.
Why the hell do I have to face monsters twice in one day?
"No, I failed. But he must have been badly injured."
The girl suddenly started talking. Who was she contacting? Angelus wondered.
"Yes, I understand."
The girl answered calmly, seemingly without a trace of emotion.
The next moment, before Angelus could understand what she was trying to do, she immediately picked up a machine beside her and smashed it against the communicator beside her with great force. Amid a few sparks, the machine stopped operating.
Then the girl threw the machine in her hand at Angelus, and Angelus quickly rolled and crawled to avoid it.
When he finally caught his breath, the girl had disappeared.
Angelus slowly let go of his strength and collapsed in a pool of his own blood.
When Angelus was thankful that he was still alive, the propeller in the distance turned around and was approaching this side. Looking from the top of the building, along the road on the edge of the abandoned city, he could even find patrol vehicles constantly gathering here.
What's going on? Angelus suddenly had a bad feeling.
He wanted to contact the front immediately, but then he remembered that the communicator had been destroyed. So he could only use all his strength to get up, climb down the roof, and go to the front line to ask his adjutant.
"Chief, we've followed your orders and gathered all the reinforcements here! How are you going to surround those guys?" the adjutant asked excitedly.
Angelus was stunned and asked vaguely.
"What's going on? What's the order?"
"Director, didn't you use your authority as Director of the Judiciary Bureau to issue an 'Emergency Assembly Order' not long ago?"
The adjutant showed the small single-channel communicator in his hand. The dot matrix light showed a string of numbers - I1326.
This is indeed a special order under the authority of the Director of the Court. I stands for the Federal Court, and 1326 stands for 13 articles and 26 clauses, which means that there is an emergency and everyone needs to gather around the Director immediately to rearrange the tasks.
Damn it! Angelus finally figured it out!
This whole thing was a trap. Angelus thought he had set a trap to lure them in, but who knew that the other party actually knew the special identification code of the director of the Judiciary Bureau, and even used the communicator to release false information, and even let his companions destroy the communicator. The girl's target was not him from the beginning. The assassination was just a cover. Their plan from the beginning was to delay all the patrol troops.
Now the communicators of the people around Anglos were all single-channel, and they could not issue orders to the people who were gathering to return to the team. By the time these people really gathered together, the situation would have been out of control.
He has always been confident in his abilities, but what happened today almost made him lose all confidence.
Fortunately, this plan was jointly organized by him and his brother.
"You can never have too many plans. I should really thank my brother for providing me with the plans."
The other side must be happy that the plan was successful. However, what they don't know is that they are facing three lines of defense. The chalk orc wall is the first line of defense, and Angreus himself is the second line of defense. However, this plan also has a third line of defense as a backup.
The port area they were heading to was now well guarded. They had practically walked into a trap.
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"Damn it!"
After An Ming escaped from the grassland, he quickly ordered Xia Linaer not to fight and meet him, and then immediately rushed to the port area.
An Ming had learned from Xia Linna'er that her magic was in a semi-sealed state for some reason and was extremely unstable. The red sword was summoned by magic and could only stay in place for a dozen seconds.
That's why An Ming arranged this subterfuge plan to destroy the opponent's communication network and withdraw most of the patrol teams.
However, as he approached the port area, he was shocked by the battle in front of him.
The port area was already surrounded by search teams that had come in advance, and there were three helicopters hovering in the air. The original port function was completely stopped, and the merchant ships that had finished loading were blocked at the dock and could not leave or unload their cargo to go home. The merchants gathered outside the room at the dock in dissatisfaction, staring at the black-clad men who had trapped them here with bloodshot eyes. They knew that these federal guards would not dare to do anything to them, so they dared to stay here and confront them face to face.
The Federation had never blocked a city with such a battle in many years, and it was not a war period. Even so, even if a war really broke out, they would be the fastest group of people.
"Tsk."
An Ming smacked his lips hard.
He anticipated the enemy's defense method and replacement plan, and even knew the approximate location of the enemy's ambush with the help of Xia Linnaer's detection magic. He deduced the ambush location of the enemy commander and even laid a false plan to allow Xia Linnaer to risk the risk to attack.
However, one layer was still missed.
"Don't think too much. This is a common thing." Xia Linaer comforted him.
Indeed, victory and defeat are common in war.
That said, making mistakes in matters involving life and death is another matter. Sometimes one misstep can lead to a complete loss, so you can never just say "don't think too much" and let it go.
Perhaps he had lived too comfortably in the past three years, and the "Black Scythe" had lost its edge.
An Ming couldn't help but sigh as he repeatedly looked at the city's security model.
It seems that I can't escape today. He came to this conclusion with dissatisfaction, then retracted his head and hid back in the bushes.
Just as An Ming continued to think about his next move, the grass moved.
An Ming and Xia Linaer immediately became alert.
However, before he could prepare himself, a figure suddenly jumped out from the bushes.
An Ming was a step lat