Chapter 19

Xu Yanan stood like a frightened kitten, not daring to move an inch, only looking at Ye Yun with her eyes filled with grievance.

Surprisingly, she had not a single thought of blaming Ye Yun, for the perilous situation they were in meant that if she had attracted those terrorists, both of them would have been torn to pieces by bullets in the next second.

In fact, although the cold water made her body suffer greatly, her heart was unusually calm, especially when she saw the man's busy expression. She suddenly felt a sense of unprecedented security.

How could Ye Yun know what she was thinking? He was worried that she might bear a grudge and cause trouble halfway. He said coldly, "If you want to live, follow me closely. I will take you to a safe place. Remember, no noise, no fuss, do as I say."

Pulling down the curtain that covered the bathtub to wrap the naked beauty, Ye Yun suddenly produced a P99 pistol: "Stay calm at all costs, or I will kill you before the bandits come. Understand?"

Xu Yanan nodded pitifully.

Stepping on the washbasin, Ye Yun pulled out the ventilation duct on the wall. When he gently placed it on the ground, he felt the pain in his shoulder, where a bullet had grazed him, still dripping blood.

He hadn't noticed it earlier due to the adrenaline rush, but now that he felt it, there was no need to treat it. He tore off a piece of cloth to plug the wound and extended his hand to Xu Yanan: "Come up!"

Pushing the obedient Xu Yanan into the ventilation duct, Ye Yun also crawled in. The mess in the bathroom didn't matter; the bloodstains were so obvious that the bandits would immediately realize someone had escaped through the duct. There was no point in wasting time cleaning up.

The two of them crawled through the dark duct, one after the other. Every ten meters or so, there was a duct opening where they could go down, but neither dared to stop.

The light from the duct openings faintly revealed Xu Yanan's round, plump buttocks, and the curtain only covered her thighs. The part above her thighs, not covered by underwear, was barely visible under the curtain. Under normal circumstances, this would have made Ye Yun, a novice, nosebleed.

But at this moment, Ye Yun was too busy being vigilant to pay attention to anything else. He was always on guard for any noise from the duct openings and quietly guided Xu Yanan forward according to his mental map.

After several twists and turns, they were now between the corridor and the exhibition hall. Through the metal grilles of the duct, Ye Yun clearly saw that the nearly thousand-square-meter exhibition hall, except for the Hummer, had no living people!

The Hummer had just stopped next to the three final exhibits. When the doors opened, four masked bandits in black combat suits walked out. One of them, holding a walkie-talkie, said, "This is Vulture, Yazi, how's it going on your side?"

A voice came from the walkie-talkie: "We encountered strong resistance below the 35th floor. There are at least five cops, and it's not easy to move up a floor."

The "cops" he mentioned were probably CT players, as there were hundreds of military and police below the 35th floor, not just five.

The walkie-talkie asked again: "How about you?"

Vulture laughed: "Surprisingly smooth! There's not a single cop here, and we easily took out all the chickens in the exhibition hall."

Yazi pondered: "Be careful, it shouldn't be this simple. This is a major event; it can't be that easy to achieve the goal."

"Let's see! We'll know if there's a conspiracy once we get it!" Vulture was unconcerned.

"Be careful, it might be a trap."

Vulture paid no attention to Yazi's warning. He extended his hand, and a D9 dagger appeared in his palm.

Without much effort, he slashed the glass casing of the Kusanagi sword, and a diagonal crack instantly appeared. The upper part of the casing then slid to the ground along the crack.

"What kind of dagger is that!?" Ye Yun's pupils constricted!

If the glass casing were just ordinary glass, even a child wouldn't believe it. According to Ye Yun's estimation, this casing was likely made of bulletproof glass, and the degree of hardening was so high that even a rocket might not shatter it. How could it be so easily cut by a dagger?

As he was stunned, Vulture stepped forward and picked up the Kusanagi sword, then his eyes suddenly lit up with joy!

He shouted into the walkie-talkie: "We got it, it's the real thing!"

Yazi immediately shouted back: "Extract the blood, prepare to retreat!"

"Sure thing!"

Vulture's eyes shone with excitement. He signaled to the person next to him, who immediately took out a strange test tube—a glass tube about twenty centimeters long with precision instrument-like metal caps on both ends.

"Ready!"

Vulture shouted, holding the tip and hilt of the Kusanagi sword and forcefully bending it. The ancient black iron sword broke with a snap.

At the same time, a dazzling, sun-like light rose from the break. Even though the exhibition hall was brightly lit, Ye Yun was still blinded by the white light.

Vulture seemed to have been prepared. He quickly put on a pair of light-blocking goggles... Ye Yun and the others almost simultaneously took out the light-blocking goggles given by Wu Tianyun and put them on.

Then they saw that at the break of the sword, the thing emitting a blazing, sun-like light was actually a drop of liquid!

From the refraction of the goggles, the liquid appeared to be a drop of blood. This blood seemed to have an extremely flammable force, and even from a distance, Ye Yun felt the heat of the drop of blood travel through his line of sight into his eyes and then spread throughout his body.

It was a terrifying heat that would burn the soul with just a glance!

However, the drop of blood seemed to only give a 'hot' 'feeling' and did not harm Vulture and the other three, who were right next to it.

The blood was exposed to the air for only three seconds before Vulture snatched the strange test tube and filled it with the blood. Once the blood was completely inside and the metal cap of the test tube buzzed slightly, Vulture finally breathed a sigh of relief and said into the walkie-talkie: "Got it! Retreat!"

"Ha! Too easy! This is the first time I've experienced such an easy major event task!" Yazi was also extremely pleased.

"Naive."

A calm voice drifted into everyone's ears, and the four people in the hall immediately raised their guns and stood back-to-back, aiming at their surroundings.

But they saw no one.

"Thank you. Although we've had the Kusanagi sword for a long time, we haven't found a way to preserve the blood after extraction. It seems that the T side has more good things than our old CT side, as they said."

The voice remained calm, but including Ye Yun, the five people found the source.

It was a speaker spread across the walls of the hall.

Vulture sneered and put the test tube in his waist pocket, saying, "Hiding your head and showing your tail, do you even deserve to be called counter-terrorists?"

The voice replied calmly, "Whether you deserve it or not isn't for you bandits to decide. Now, put the test tube in the drawer that appears on the wall, and I'll spare your lives."

Vulture laughed: "When did CTs become so naive?"

"Naive? No, no, no, the naive ones are you."

As he spoke, heavy metal doors with a black texture slammed down from the five doors around the hall!

A mechanical whirring sound followed, and at least ten metal storm machine guns extended from the wall mechanisms!

What is a metal storm? It is the most terrifying killing machine below explosives, capable of firing 16,000 specially designed bullets per second!

To say nothing of four people, even four armored vehicles would be instantly destroyed if the electronic pulse ignition nodes of the metal storms were activated.

Faced with such a terrifying killing machine, even though the four bandits were wearing masks, Ye Yun could clearly see their faces turn green.

"I'll give you one minute to decide. Cherish your remaining lives," the voice from the wall said calmly.

"You...," Vulture stiffened for a few seconds, then quickly drew the test tube and pressed it to his chest, shouting, "Fire away! Come on! You went to all this trouble to stage a play and sacrifice so many rich people's lives, just to get this 'high-sensitivity floating test tube' from us? Fire away!"

He shouted madly to the surroundings, "If you fire, all your efforts will be in vain! So many people's deaths, a precious drop of blood, see what you get after you fire!"

"..." The other side was silent.

This was what the bandits feared most about the counter-terrorists: their crazy actions and disregard for their own lives. Although not everyone was like this, even one or two were enough to give the CT side a hard time.

After a long time, the speaker said, "This stalemate is not in your favor."

"Ha ha ha! Come on! Do I fear you!?" Vulture, knowing that the opponents were hesitant, laughed even more wildly.

At this moment, Xu Yanan, who had been crawling in front of Ye Yun, noticed no one behind her and crawled back. Seeing Ye Yun looking at something and the outside becoming quiet again, she couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

Her voice was not loud, but it was enough to attract attention outside.

Ye Yun knew it was bad and hadn't had time to say anything when Vulture already shouted, "Who's there?" and pulled out a three-barreled Gatling M197 from the counter-terrorist badge.

The Gatling gun, known as the Vulcan, had a firing rate of up to a thousand rounds per minute, even in its lighter M197 version.

As the whirring of the rotating barrels began, Ye Yun's heart sank to the bottom. If the other side opened fire, he would be shredded to pieces in this narrow ventilation duct with no room to move.