translator: loop
No matter what, these were the people that Chu Si trained. When they collectively flung themselves to the ground in front of Sa’e Yang, Chu Si felt his own face was lost along with theirs.
He sighed speechlessly and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, promise me that you won’t say you’re from the special training camp when you go outside in the future, okay?”
The three people: “Huh?”
“Huh what? Roll over and get up.” Chu Si said expressionlessly.
The people who came out of the training camp had conditioned reflexes unique to the military, especially since they were trained by Chu Si back then. Almost as soon as they heard these kinds of words, they got up and almost trotted over to report.
Everyone stood together on the transportation pad. As they were all highly trained agents, they were no strangers to this kind of thing.
Although a transportation pad was also used to travel between the 70 floors of the Security Building, it was a modern version, more high-end than this one. This one looked a bit like the glass elevators of the olden days. The moment people entered, they would be scanned for their DNA sequences and compared to the building’s internal files. Only those whose identities passed the verification could be transported successfully.
Unidentified visitors would be locked by the touch sensor at the bottom of the transportation pad, and wouldn’t be able to move unless their legs were chopped off.
Chu Si used this every day going up and down the stairs, and was long since used to it.
He raised his hand almost subconsciously to start scanning, and the starter area turned on automatically.
The moment the red light swept across his palm, he reacted abruptly and withdrew his hand: “…”
He’d inadvertently regarded this place as the Security Building. There his authority was at the top level, so of course he could press the starter to scan the DNA of his palm because there was absolutely no need to worry about failing the verification. But it was different here. This was Fort Barney.
Even though this old version of the transportation pad seemed to only need to verify the identity of the initiator, its security was not that high, but…
A place that was banned since he was only fourteen years old, where would he get the permission?
Before the three fools could react, Sa’e Yang had already said in a teasing voice, “Our executive has his moments of carelessness, but that’s okay.”
He fished out the dismantled SkyEye system core disk and winked at Chu Si. “I hate cleaning up messes for other people, but if it’s you, Executive, I can begrudgingly—”
Before his words were finished, an unfamiliar electronic voice interrupted him. “Identity verification passed, transportation pad activated.”
Beep—
With a soft sound, the whole transportation pad shuddered and slowly descended toward the next level.
Sa’e Yang: “…”
The three fools: “…”
Even Chu Si looked at his palm with a bewildered expression, and then frowned, “Passed?”
Sa’e’s transparent eyes scanned Chu Si up and down before finally staring into Chu Si’s eyes, like staring at a nearby prey.
Chu Si disliked being stared at like this. His gaze wasn’t scrutiny, but a kind of neither light nor heavy oppressive feeling. Executive Chu was most annoyed by this so-called “sense of oppression”.
Just when he was feeling a little unhappy, Sa’e Yang suddenly moved his gaze, pouted, and reached out to touch the starter in the transportation pad.
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Red light swept under his palm.
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Chu Si frowned and looked at Sa’e: “…does not having a fight per day make your bones itch or something?”
Sa’e just smiled at him: “My dear, you’ve wronged me, I was just stating the facts.”
“En, you have a point.” Chu Si said.
Tang suddenly turned around and looked at Le Pen with a strange face, Le Pen in turn looked at Liu with a strange face, and Liu had no one to look at: “…” Don’t look at me, I don’t understand them either.
The east underground second floor of the Central Fortress, being more than 40 meters high, was one of the largest spaces in the entire Central Fortress, the other being the west underground second floor. Enormous and intricate equipment was placed from the bottom of the wall all the way to the top, cold and impressive.
When the transportation pad reached the bottom, the opening on the top was sealed, and a metal wall completely enclosed the space on the second underground floor.
However, the door of the transportation pad seemed to be dead, and there was no movement.
“Hmm?” Tang raised his hand and patted the transparent door, frowning, “This door isn’t deteriorating too, is it? Why is it so sluggish?”
Just as he said this, another electronic voice came out of the starter, “Command source beginning verification.”
“Command source? What command source?” Le Pen spun in place, “That sounds a little familiar.”
Beep—
“Command source S001 not detected.” The electronic tone sounded again tonelessly.
Le Pen’s face suddenly changed, “Fuck, S001? That message really fucking came from here!”
They subconsciously fished out their communicators, but this time they received no message. The electronic voice then said, “Wrong identity, self-destruct sequence initiated, countdown: 5—”
The moment the number “5” was said, a row of black jets suddenly protruded from the top of the sealed glass of the transportation pad.
The group was horrified.
“4—”
Tang immediately took out a pocket bomb and popped it out. Liu held it down and shouted quickly: “Are you crazy?! We’d be the ones exploding such a small space!”
“3—”
Bang—
They were taken aback by a crisp sound behind them, almost thinking that lunatic Sa’e Yang was going to blow up the fort again regardless. Only when they turned their heads did they realize he was standing next to the starter, the outer cover of which was shattered to reveal the intricate chips and wiring inside.
“2—”
“Com—” Sa’e reached out without raising his head, and before he could finish his sentence, Chu Si’s had jerked the communicators out of everyone’s hands and thrown them to him.
Sa’e caught them and whistled at him, “I’m so glad that after all these years—”
“Shut up and hurry up.” Chu Si said, looking up at the black holes in the tops of the jets.
“One—”
Sa’e deftly connected all the communicators to the wiring, flipped his fingers and typed a long string of characters on one of them, and simply connected SkyEye’s core disk to it.
“Liquid nitrogen preparing to—”
As soon as Chu Si heard this, he immediately picked up the barrel of the rocket launcher that Sa’e was leaning against his leg and propped it over his shoulder, gleaning a handful of pocket bombs from Liu’s hand and feeding them into the launcher.
Beep—
The moment the liquid nitrogen was sprayed out, Chu Si blasted the rocket launcher toward the holes overhead.
The moment the explosion fired, the entire Central Fort shook.
“Oh shit—” Tang and the others jumped. In this kind of sealed place, this kind of lethal weapon couldn’t just be fired at any time. Even if you were crazy, you wouldn’t do this kind of thing!
“Why are you jumping? Isn’t this the best time to blow up the fort?” Chu Si narrowed his eyes through the scope to look at the blast of fire and said casually.
Sa’e, however, burst out laughing and seemed to find it very exciting. He bit the tip of his tongue, his eyelids lifted, and he swept a quick glance toward the top of the pad, his finger movements not stopping at all. He took time out of his busy schedule to free his right hand to snap his fingers in Chu Si’s ear, “Not bad for my executive!”
“Focus on your own fucking business!” Chu Si moved the barrel of the launcher threateningly. If Sa’e wasted just one more second, he would’ve blown the bastard’s head off.
The moment the fire exploded, the extremely high temperature vaporized the liquid nitrogen in an instant.
Thick fog wrapped in scorching heat rushed straight down from the top.
Ding—
The familiar electronic voice of SkyEye was like the voice of an angel: “Interference of data successful.”
All the electronic screens in the second basement of the entire east Central Fort suddenly lit up, like a giant beast opening its eyes.
The dismantled starter once again gave a “beep”: “Unlocked successfully, cleanup procedure started.”
The moment the fog sank, the glass door opened at first.
The sudden whiteness of the environment dazzled Chu Si’s eyes, and his old problem recurred at a critical moment. He felt someone tugging at his wrist and immediately went in that direction.
There was an extremely ear-piercing sound. Chu Si closed his eyes then opened them again, and saw the hole on the top buzzing as a huge suction instantly wiped away all the dense fog and fire.
There was only a little fog left on the class of the transportation pad, which quickly and cleanly disappeared.
The place where Tang fell was closest to Chu Si. He slumped to the ground and mumbled with a dumbfounded expression, “Fuck? We’re okay?
“Thanks.” Chu Si spoke and loosened his shoulders, then rolled over and stood up, holding the barrel of the gun for a cursory inspection.
Tang: “Huh?”
“Tugged me.” Chu Si said casually.
Tang: “Huh?”
When Le Pen and Liu also got up from the ground, Sa’e had already entered the glass transporter again and tapped on the communicators for a moment.
The wall full of equipment was drugged up, saying:
“S001 command source.”
“Command source found.”
“S001 activated.”
“Command source interfered with.”
“Program error.”
“Beep…”
The group: “…”
Sa’e pulled out all the communicators and held them in his hands. He laughed mockingly amidst the electronic voices, leaned against the glass door, took a casual glance at a communicator, and said: “The programs on this screen are piled up in a mess—”
His words had not yet finished when Le Pen huffed and raised her hand: “Mine.”
Sa’e raised his hand and threw it over, then picked up the next one. “Who has the screen edge chewed by a dog?”
Tang said dryly, “Mine.”
Sa’e threw it over again, looked at the two remaining communicators, picked one up with a raised eyebrow, and threw it directly at Liu.
Liu: “…”
“Executive, come and get your communicator.” Sa’e curved his eyes and shook the thin device at Chu Si.
Chu Si: “Throw it over.”
Sa’e drawled, “Shouldn’t a certain long-legged Executive be showing some gratitude for being yanked by me when he was blind just now?” He paused for a moment and added with narrowed eyes, “To the right person?”
“…” Chu Si looked at him for three seconds and spoke, “Thanks.”
Sa’e: “You’re welcome.”
After saying that, he lifted his foot and walked over, patting the communicator into Chu Si’s hand.
Chu Si finally couldn’t hold back, “Are you that immature?”
“I’m very well-developed, but thank you for your concern, Executive.” As Sa’e spoke, he had already walked around Chu Si and headed straight to the center console. “Let me see where that naughty 50001 is.”
Chu Si: “….” That really sounded fucking wrong no matter how you heard it.
So many mysteries and questions! 🤔