Zhang Heng had no idea that the Emergency Response Squad was waiting in the Monitoring Room to ambush him. After all, he was not omniscient. He had merely judged from the number of shots fired that there were no valuable clues in the Monitoring Room, and it was also the most conspicuous location in the entire hotel, so he did not go there to join the excitement.
Unlike Zero, Zhang Heng took the four members of the Emergency Response Squad seriously, but not seriously enough to alter his strategy. Especially since the Emergency Response Squad held the advantage in combat strength, if he stopped moving and they found the Memory Encoder first, then took it downstairs to join up with the Federal Police below, his position would become even more passive.
Thus, while the four members of the Emergency Response Squad were holed up in the Monitoring Room, Zhang Heng had already begun to move.
Sizhou Hotel was a medium-sized hotel with fourteen floors and 832 guest rooms. With the surveillance cameras unusable, searching every room would take quite a while.
Fortunately, Zhang Heng did not need to search room by room.
The four members of the Special Action Team were all wearing Exoskeleton Gear. This equipment gave them immense strength, speed, and combat ability, but on the other hand, it also left more traces when they moved.
On the ninth floor, Zhang Heng spotted dents in the wall that appeared to have been caused by an exoskeleton striking it. They were at the height above an ordinary person's head, but right at the shoulder level of an exoskeleton wearer. In addition, Zhang Heng found a small patch of leaking engine oil lower down on the wall. He guessed that one of the Exoskeleton Gear units had suffered a fierce