Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 571 Johor Bahru City (4)

After crawling along the ventilation duct for a distance, Adenauer's contractor equipment intercepted some communication channels within the secret laboratory. According to the content of the channel, some sentries rushed to the laboratory and reported the situation to the management. At this time, Adenauer only had a direction to move, but no specific target, so he stopped moving temporarily to listen to the reports of the sentries, perhaps to get some clues.

"Yes, a researcher in the laboratory was killed... Yes, it was one of the experimental subjects who was sent here not long ago... Yes, we have sealed off the laboratory, and the target will not... Understood."

The first communication was not very informative. It was just the sentry reporting to someone at the captain level that the researcher had been killed, and the captain did not provide any useful information.

"There's nothing wrong with the experimental samples. We're checking the sequences of each culture system, and no issues have been found so far..."

The second communication was about a senior researcher reporting on the status of the cultivation system to the person in charge, which was also not very informative.

"...Understood. Our team has arrived at the FK-1 area and is recovering the sample. We will ensure its safety, but where should we move it?"

"HGY-133. Once we get there, someone will take over."

"clear."

After checking several unproductive communication channels, Adenauer found an intriguing clue: a sentinel team appeared to be transporting a sample to another area. According to the contractor's equipment, the FK-1 area, where the team and the sample were located, was a secret area within the institute. The area later referred to as HGY-133 was not even within the institute's boundaries.

This sample seemed so important that as soon as the alarm sounded, a special team quickly arrived to protect the sample and immediately took it away from the institute to another area where there were even special personnel to take over. Just sounding like it made people very curious. Adenauer, who currently had no accurate target, naturally locked the position of this team based on the communication signal at the first time. They were exactly 90 meters away from Adenauer's current location.

Since the entire facility's protective gates were closed, the team escorting the secret sample would have to pass through these blocked areas and wait for the gates to open if they wanted to leave the facility. This would give Adenauer ample time to maneuver through the narrow ventilation ducts and reach their vicinity, even getting ahead of them and finding a suitable engagement position. According to the contractor's calculations, Adenauer had at least ten minutes.

The team's location had been locked down by the contractor's equipment, so there was no need to worry about it for now. Adenauer then needed to find a suitable position, far from the institute's exit. There were no protective gates outside to delay him. If a fight broke out, the patrolling sentries outside would rush in, making it impossible for Adenauer to escape. He also couldn't get too close to the center of the institute, as the laboratory where he had killed the researcher was located there, and many sentries were currently gathered there.

Taking all the requirements into account, Adenauer quickly found a suitable location using calculations from the contractor's equipment. It was a static test chamber located 100 meters from the institute's eastern exit. It housed dozens of incubators requiring life support systems. The equipment was fully automated, with no researchers present. Crucially, due to its size, it was one of the chambers not enclosed by a security gate. The entire chamber spanned two security gates. The escort team, needing to save as much time as possible, would have chosen to detour through the static test chamber. This location was far from the institute's interior. As long as Adenauer and his team entered and used the contractor's equipment to seal all the chamber's exits, they would have ample time to annihilate them.

While time wasn't exactly pressing, it wasn't much either. Adenauer had originally intended to find some weapons, but time was running out, so he had to rely on his class skills. Honestly, Adenauer didn't particularly enjoy using these skills because they were so unstable. He had chosen this class solely to acquire weapons that would improve his skills. However, at this point, he could only rely on his luck.

Following the instructions of the contractor's equipment, Adenauer quickly reached the top of the static test chamber and used a simple screwdriver to remove most of the screws on the ventilation duct inspection door in advance, so that when the time came, Adenauer could jump directly from here to launch an attack.

The team escorting the sample was inching closer to the static test chamber. Adenauer began using his class abilities to summon weapons. This time, he was lucky, summoning a charged hand cannon. Despite its short range and moderate fire rate, the weapon was still powerful enough. However, the upcoming battle would also be a close-quarters one, so the range and fire rate disadvantages were not very serious.

"Beep, beep, beep."

A minute later, the heavily armed Sentinel escort team used the authorization key to unlock the entrance to the static test chamber. Adenauer's speculation was correct; to save time, they were indeed planning to use this static test chamber to bypass the two protective gates. Adenauer prepared to seal the entrances and exits and cut off the power. He began charging his hand cannon and waited quietly at the inspection hatch.

As the entire team entered the test chamber and reached the inspection hatch, Adenauer sprang into action. Using contractor equipment, he quickly sealed all exits and cut off the power, plunging the chamber into darkness. Simultaneously, his hand cannon fully charged, he kicked the inspection hatch open and leaped down. The hatch crashed down hard on the sentry's head, and Adenauer's weight, combined with his weight, shattered his helmet, killing him instantly.

Rising quickly, Adenauer swung his arm violently, thrusting his charged hand cannon directly into the back of a sentry's head. The fully charged hand cannon unleashed a powerful beam of light, instantly piercing the sentry's head. The blazing beam extended outward, vaporizing the back armor of another sentry in front of the second one killed, melting off a large chunk of his flesh. The sentry screamed and fell forward. The squad then realized they had been ambushed. They were thrown off balance by the sudden attack in the darkness, but they quickly reacted, swiftly located the attacker, and immediately launched a counterattack. But the relatively dense marching formation gave Adenauer more opportunities. He quickly approached one of the sentries, snatched a pistol from him, and immediately opened fire. This pistol was a live ammunition weapon and could not effectively penetrate the armor of these sentries. It could only repel them a little. So after discovering that shooting was useless, Adenauer immediately changed his method and used it as a melee weapon, accurately hitting the opponent's helmet with it.

"Ping!!"

The sentry at the rear of the team saw this and immediately prepared to distance themselves and use the main weapon in their hands to fight back, but before they could move, they found that Adenauer quickly threw something. After a crisp sound, a strong feeling of dizziness and nausea immediately flooded into their brain and body. They temporarily lost the ability to move. While they were trying to control themselves and restore their combat ability, Adenauer was not idle either.

"Buzz~~!!"

After the recharged hand cannon was charged for the second time, Adenauer quickly shuttled through the sentinels' ranks and used his body strength to push two or three sentinels onto a nearby incubator. Then he quickly raised his arm and once again pushed the hand cannon onto the helmet of the sentinel in front of him. The powerful energy beam directly pierced through the heads of the three sentinels and the incubator behind them.

"Highly active secondary virus detected."

The liquid in the culture chamber did not seem to be culture medium, but some kind of virus. However, it had no effect on Adenauer, so Adenauer naturally did not care about it.

These sentries were indeed quite capable. They quickly recovered from being knocked unconscious, and the two sentries close to Adenauer also successfully raised their weapons. However, at this time, Adenauer had already dealt with all the sentries in front of the queue and was now approaching them rapidly. Although they had not yet reached the right angle, the situation was urgent, so the two sentries still pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

“Buzz~~!!!”

However, Adenauer had already reached sufficient distance. He braced himself on the nearby railing with one hand, then thrust his feet forward, landing directly on top of the two weapons. Using his weight, he lowered the muzzles, shifting their angles. The two beams of light sliced ​​through the ground, creating two furrows. Landing, Adenauer punched one of the sentries and pierced the chest of the other. He discarded his expiring hand cannon and summoned another weapon. This time, it was a rather unwieldy looking device. Adenauer immediately used it to empty its ammunition at the sentries behind him, suppressing them. It was a submachine gun-like weapon that fired energy pellets, but it wasn't powerful enough. While it could damage the sentries' armor, it wasn't strong enough to penetrate it. After emptying its ammunition, Adenauer immediately discarded the weapon, pumping his fists to maintain the pressure, and summoned another weapon. This time, it was a massive weapon the size of an automatic shotgun.

"null!"

Although there was no time to confirm what kind of weapon it was, its power was indeed enough. With just one shot, this strange energy weapon directly destroyed half of the body of the sentry that was hit. After several consecutive shots, only the two people carrying the samples were left in the entire sentry team.

The samples that the two men were escorting were two objects protected by forearm-sized metal cans. Because he was not sure whether the weapons in his hands would directly destroy the samples, Adenauer did not fire directly. Instead, he quickly approached the opponent, preparing to get the specimens first and then continue the attack.

Seeing their teammates quickly dispatched, the two men began to retreat. One of them quickly handed over the samples and opened fire to provide cover, while the other took the two samples and fled, intending to leave through the entrance to the static test chamber. Adenauer quickly hid behind one of the incubation chambers, dodging the first round of fire. Then, while the opponent's weapon was recharging, he quickly leaned out and shot half of his body.

After eliminating the enemy, Adenauer quickly threw away the gun in his hand, picked up the broken railing that had been affected by the impact on the ground, and quickly rushed towards the last sentry. Before the other party raised his pistol, he directly pierced the other party's arm, snatched the pistol from his hand, quickly lifted the other party's helmet, emptied the ammunition from the gap, and eliminated the last sentry.

Throwing away his weapon, Adenauer quickly picked up the fallen sample. The outer protective layer appeared to be very strong, and the sample inside was intact. It looked like some special plant, but there was no time for detailed analysis. Adenauer immediately opened the protective tube, removed the threaded sealing tube inside, and stuffed it into the pocket of his sentry uniform. Then he quickly returned to the bottom of the vent, took a two-step run, stepped on the nearby incubator, grabbed the edge of the ventilation duct with both hands, and flipped directly into the ventilation duct, quickly leaving the area.

After moving a distance and confirming the area was safe, Adenauer retrieved the two threaded sealed tubes and prepared to analyze them using the contractor's equipment. The analysis was quickly completed. This particular plant sample bore some resemblance to the parasites previously found in the secret laboratory in Stirburg. A possible connection between the two was suspected, but a live sample of the parasite was needed for a complete analysis. Currently, no similar biological activity had been detected within the contractor's equipment's coverage area. So, Adenauer temporarily put them away.

However, at this moment, Adenauer sensed an abnormal energy fluctuation. This energy fluctuation was very weak, not even the contractor's equipment could detect it, and it spread very quickly. Adenauer could not sense where it was going, but soon, the alarm of the entire institute sounded, and soon, a large group of sentinels quickly rushed to the previous static test chamber. This was very wrong, because Adenauer had used the contractor's equipment to block the alarm system and monitoring sequence of the entire test chamber, as well as all the communication equipment on those sentinels. Now the blockade of the institute has not been lifted, and no one has passed by here. It stands to reason that no one would know that the team of sentinels transporting samples had been killed, but according to the large group of sentinels who have now arrived there, the news here must have been known to someone.

The contractor's equipment was fine, so it couldn't be that he had overlooked some system. Instead, these dead Sentinels had sounded the alarm in some way that the contractor's equipment couldn't detect. Based on the current intelligence, Adenauer could only suspect the weak energy fluctuation that had just disappeared.