If it was just a disaster caused by natural factors, Fang Cheng could have made an excuse and drove Zhou Xiumei back to the city in person.
But what if someone secretly lays a trap and deliberately plans a shocking murder?
It's obviously not safe to run out blindly now.
Especially if you are targeted by a behemoth like Utopia, the enemy will probably have blocked all the roads going down the mountain around Golden City Resort.
Fang Cheng takes Zhou Xiumei away from Resort at this time, and will definitely encounter violent interceptions on the way.
Winding mountain roads in the wilderness are the most suitable for ambushes.
Sniper, Heavy Firepower weapons, and even various Anomaly and Aberrant methods are simply impossible to guard against.
Fang Cheng No matter how confident you are in your own strength, you cannot guarantee the integrity of an ordinary person in a fierce mobile battle.
After comprehensive consideration, it is much safer to place Zhou Xiumei in the underground Shelter with a higher defense level and be guarded by the East City Association's armed personnel than to take it with you to risk breaking out.
In this way, you can not only stabilize the enemies hiding in the dark, ensure that your advantage of foresight is not lost, but also avoid worries and free up your hands and feet to deal with all enemies.
Therefore, Fang Cheng decided to act according to the original script and maintain Golden City Resort's apparent peace.
If it was just a false alarm because of my own worries, then everyone would be happy.
But if there is an enemy who dares to show his face, then he will strike back and give those Mouse who think they are hiding well a surprise.
Hunter can often appear in the jungle in the form of Prey.
After sorting out all the clues, Fang Cheng gradually calmed down.
At this point, he no longer had the desire to continue exercising.
Since a crisis may come at any time, the first priority now is to recharge and adjust to the best condition to face the battle.
Fang Cheng walked to the center of Living Room and sat down cross-legged.
Sunlight shines through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Glass, illuminating a large bright white trapezoidal area on the floor.
The room was very quiet, with the only sound of gentle airflow coming from the Central Air Conditioner air supply vent.
Fang Cheng Place your hands flat on your knees, straighten your back, and slowly close your eyes.
As he entered the Meditation state, his breathing became steady and long.
My mind was as silent as water, and my thoughts were completely empty.
But his consciousness seemed to be freed from the shackles of the body, like an invisible ripple, spreading in all directions along the floor of the room.
This is an extremely mysterious realm.
Since he was promoted from Heavenly-Human Limit, Visualization Skill to King Grade, his mental ability has made a qualitative leap.
Not only have the five senses become more acute, but the perception of the surrounding environment has also gone beyond simple vision and hearing.
At this moment, his spirit turned into physical tentacles, penetrating the wall and extending outward.
There was a faint sound of Television in the guest room downstairs, and the sound of the rollers of the cleaning cart rolling across the carpet in the corridor.
There were also waves rippled by the wind blowing across the lake, and even the bursts of music beats coming from the Rehearsal Hall in the distance, all intertwined into a three-dimensional picture in his mind.
The consciousness continued to climb upward, passing by the Resort dark blue Glass curtain wall.
Fang Cheng feels that he is not sitting in Hotel's room at this moment, but floating in the sky, talking to the entire Western Mountains.
He could feel the trajectory of Tree Canopy swaying in the wind, the trembling of birds passing over the branches, and the vigorous vitality in the soil.
Everything is running step by step, naturally and harmoniously.
Just as his consciousness drifted into the Western Mountains's stretching Sea of Trees with the mountain wind, Fang Cheng's mind suddenly paused slightly.
He touched an unusually abrupt trace of Qi Mechanism.
It's like a flat Scroll Painting, but someone picked out a slight gap with the tip of a knife.
That Aura is cold and obscure, with a sense of desolation, floating in the depths of Mountain Forest, intermittent, but real.
"What is this?"
Fang Cheng felt a sense of doubt in his heart.
Is it the Aura that was leaked before Space Rift was formed? Or is it a sign before some kind of large-scale Formation is launched?
He also wanted to further explore the Source of Qi Mechanism.
Track Pants The phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
jingle bell--
The crisp ringtone instantly interrupted this mysterious state of perception.
Fang Cheng opened his eyes, and a sharp light flashed deep in his pupils.
The consciousness that extends outward recedes like a tide.
The howling wind around and the lingering Sea of Trees quickly separated and returned to the quiet Hotel guest room.
He let out a breath and reached into his trouser pocket to take out his cell phone.
The name A Le danced on the screen.
Press the answer button and put it to your ear.
"Mr. Fang, I'm disturbing your rest."
The voice of A Le came from the receiver, with a bit of urgency.
"What happened?" Fang Cheng said calmly.
"That's right, I followed your instructions this morning and led people to check Resort inside and out."
A Le paused and then reported respectfully:
"Originally everything was normal, but when I checked Electrical Room on the east side of the main building, I found something wrong."
Fang Cheng's eyes brightened:
"Tell me more specifically."
"There is a thumb-sized signal bridge stuck in the gap under the main cable."
A Le swallowed and continued:
"Its location is very hidden. If the brothers hadn't scanned the area with Detector, they wouldn't have been able to see it at all."
"In addition, we also touched the micro probe behind the baffle of some ventilation ducts."
Fang Cheng heard this and immediately asked:
"Have you checked the surveillance video? Can you tell who placed it?"
"Checked."
A Le answered immediately:
"I personally went to the security room to check the video, but I didn't see any suspicious people at all."
"Camera in those key positions happened to have screen freezes and snowflake glitches during the time when the equipment was installed, and nothing useful was captured."
Fang Cheng's eyes flashed slightly and he said in a deep voice:
"Equipment failure is just a symptom, it's human intervention."
On the other end of the phone, A Le's tone became urgent:
"Mr. Fang, since someone has sneaked in, do you want me to immediately lead people to seal off the entire building and search every room?"
"No, don't alert the enemy just yet."
Fang Cheng decisively stopped him.
To be able to destroy surveillance and install equipment right under the East City Association's nose is no ordinary little thief.
Carrying out a large-scale search now will only force the other party to jump over the wall.
Fang Cheng thought for a moment and then issued the order:
"Pick a few smart people yourself and secretly investigate all the strange guests who have stayed at Resort in the past five days."
"You don't need to arrest people. You just need to screen out those who are acting suspiciously and make a list for me."
"Understood." A Le responded seriously.
"In addition, the investigation work cannot stop."
Fang Cheng then warned:
"Since there is a suspicious device, it means there are more that have not been found."
"Just let the public know that you are responding to Official Authorities's call to conduct routine fire safety inspections. Act naturally and don't let others see your intentions."
"Okay, I'll do it right away. Don't worry, Mr. Fang."
A Le makes a guarantee immediately.
The phone hangs up.
Fang Cheng glanced at the time displayed on the phone screen.
Before I knew it, it was past one o'clock in the afternoon.
Xiumei didn't call me. Apparently the filming of the show was quite busy, so he should be eating lunch on site again.
Fang Cheng put the phone on the sofa next to him, stood up, and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.
Reminds me of the Chilling Aura I captured just now during Meditation.
He raised his head and looked past the sparkling Artificial Lake to the endless stretch of Dense Forest in the distance.
The mountain wind made the Tree Canopy rise and fall violently, like a piece of green Ocean about to set off a violent wave.
Fang Cheng stared at Sea of Trees and whispered to himself:
"The wind is really blowing..."
Six o'clock in the evening.
Golden City Resort Main building, executive suite on the 23rd floor.
The afterglow of the setting sun slanted onto the carpet through the floor-to-ceiling windows, giving the room a dark orange halo.
There was no light on in Living Room, and there was a faint smell of gun oil in the air.
A Mang is sitting on the edge of the sofa with a tactical Canvas Bag between his legs.
He was stuffing several pieces of plastic explosives the size of duck eggs into the compartment of his bag, then picked up several silver electronic detonators and stuck them into the equipment slots of his belt one by one.
On the carpet not far away, Sanchai crossed his legs, holding a piece of flannel dipped in special maintenance oil in his hand, and wiped it back and forth along the barrel of a large-caliber sniper rifle.
A Kun wore the monitor Earpiece and stared at the two laptops on Coffee Table.
Dozens of surveillance images were divided on the screen, and the fluorescent light reflected his anxious face.
"Damn, what's going on? Two more black screens! How did they find these guys?"
A Kun was cursing and typing on the keyboard with his hands from time to time.
Pei Tianci was sitting on the sofa next to him, holding a building structure diagram in his hand and slowly scanning the computer screen.
"Don't worry, keep watching and count the number of destroyed monitoring points."
At this moment, there was a sudden knocking sound at the door.
Two short and one long. After a two-second pause, there was another heavy tap.
The room instantly became quiet.
Sanchai picked up the sniper rifle, moved the muzzle silently, and aimed it at the entrance.
A Mang touches Dagger on the lower back with his backhand.
Pei Tianci looked away from the drawing and raised his chin in the direction of Coffee Table.
A Kun took off Earpiece, walked to the door, looked through the peephole, and unscrewed the door lock.
The door is open.
A circle of transparent ripples spread out in the air like water waves.
Immediately afterwards, the figure of Du Juan appeared out of thin air at the entrance.
She closed the door tightly with her backhand and locked it with a clang.
"Brother Tian, something happened."
Du Juan walked quickly to the center of Living Room and said softly:
"The security level of Resort has suddenly been raised to a higher level. The number of patrol teams on the periphery has doubled, and all of them have been equipped with Firearms loaded with live ammunition."
A Kun heard this and immediately turned around, lowered his head and tapped on the keyboard to retrieve the surveillance screen.
"Shit, three more peripheral probes have been cut off!"
He frowned and pointed at several boxes that turned into snowflakes on the screen:
"They must have used military-grade broadband signal jammers."
A Mang touched his bald head and spoke angrily:
"The bombs I buried in Load-bearing Pillar and the foundation are directly integrated into the interior of Concrete. They shouldn't be able to sweep them out with Detector. But if they are hidden outside..."
"The bomb underground has not been discovered by them yet."
Du Juan then followed up with his words:
"But I just followed a patrol team and saw them taking out radio frequency scanners and checking Electrical Room and ventilation ducts floor by floor. Some even entered the guest room, saying it was a fire safety inspection."
"It is estimated that most of the signal bridges and micro probes installed by Sanchai and A Kun will be exposed as a result."
Everyone heard the words and talked a lot, and then they all looked at Pei Tianci who was sitting in the main seat.
Pei Tianci folded the drawing in his hand and placed it on the round table.
He took off the Gold-rimmed Glasses on the bridge of his nose and wiped the lenses with the corner of his clothes, without rushing to a conclusion.
"What is the specific time for security Level Up?"
He looked at Du Juan and spoke calmly.
"It will start around noon."
Du Juan answered.
Pei Tianci put on his glasses again and continued to ask:
"Are there any specific patterns in the routes they investigated? Are they targeting us, or are they casting a wide net?"
Du Juan recalled for half a second:
"There is no clear target. We started from the underground garage and carried out a carpet search upwards layer by layer. The person leading the team looked very nervous, as if he knew there was an enemy."
Pei Tianci stood up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and looked down at Resort, which gradually lit up Landscape Lights.
"A blanket search indicates that the other party is aware of Danger, but does not yet know the specific source of Danger."
He turned around, and a cold light flashed through his lens Backstep:
"If we wait for them to eliminate all surveillance measures, half of our trump cards will be wasted. We can't wait any longer and take action now."
"Now?"
A Kun was stunned for a moment and took his hands off the keyboard:
"Boss, didn't you and that Mr. Ye say we would take action at eight o'clock in the evening? If we take action two hours in advance, does it count as a breach of contract? What if the other party is stuck with the balance and refuses to pay?"
Sanchai also put down the gun in his hand, hesitating a little:
"Boss, is it too early now?"
Pei Tianci walked to Coffee Table and said in a deep voice:
"Let me ask you, if that Mr. Ye really just wants us to stage a Terrorist Attack, tie up a few celebrities, and explode two hours earlier, will there be any difference in the damage to the East City Association's reputation?"
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Since there is no difference in the result, then why bother with so much time?"
Pei Tianci A sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:
"Unless they have evil intentions and have arranged other means to use us as bait to delay time."
He glanced at the four men in front of him:
"I only accept money, not my life. Now that the situation has changed, we have to set the rules."
A Mang grinned and pulled up Canvas Bag's zipper, making a scraping sound.
"The boss is right, no matter what the bullshit Mr. Ye is. Let's go and tie up those little stars now, get the money and leave Sewer!"
Sanchai stopped talking nonsense and simply disassembled Sniper Rifle and put them into the long black guitar case.
"Check the communication channels and switch all to the backup internal line."
Pei Tianci raised his wrist and looked at the time:
"Depart in five minutes. A Kun is going to cut off the regional power grid of Auxiliary Building, and Du Juan is responsible for clearing the hidden sentry. Follow the second plan."
"Understood!"
Several people acted quickly, put their bulletproof vests on the inside of their work clothes, and hid their weapons close to their bodies.
Pei Tianci picked up the dark casual Suit jacket from the back of the chair and put it on.
He straightened his collar, took one last look outside the window at the western mountains and forests submerged in the dusk, then turned and walked towards the door.