After removing the cover plate, Kid did not hurry out.
He lay at the mouth of the duct and raised an instrument before his eyes.
Looking through its special lenses, countless crisscrossing beams gradually appeared in the otherwise empty, unused exhibition hall. If he had walked straight through just now, Kid had no doubt the alarm would soon have echoed throughout the entire building.
Kid: "..." This density was absurd. The Second Investigation Division really had plenty of funding...
He removed the instrument from his eyes. Rather than attempting to break through the dense beams, he raised his head and looked diagonally upward.
The duct opening in the wall where Kid was located happened to be halfway up the wall, some distance from the floor and no closer to the ceiling.
But for Kid, that distance posed no difficulty at all.
He lowered a hand and swept it across his waist. A brand-new Grappling Gun soon appeared in his hand.
—Earlier, he had used this kind of Black Technology Grappling Gun to move between the surrounding buildings and observe the area. But when he ran into Jiang Xia riding a Black Panther, the gun had probably been severed by the leopard's fangs or sharp claws... Fortunately, Jii Konosuke had not been far away, and Kid had obtained spare equipment from him.
Thinking of Jiang Xia and his miraculous constitution, Kid sighed with mixed feelings.
Then, without giving it any more thought, he dutifully focused on the task at hand.
He raised the muzzle of the Grappling Gun, aimed at the ceiling, and pulled the trigger.
Amid a deliberately muffled launching sound, a conical hook flew out trailing a length of rope. It blossomed like sharp claws in midair and firmly embedded itself in the ceiling of the vacant exhibition hall.