Chapter 353 Zhoubao (Part )

The story background of Zhoubao is very complicated, and everyone has a hundred minds. The battle in Zhoubao is very direct and simple. Cui Jian and Duanmu find the ghost and kill the ghost. The ghost finds an opportunity to kill the enemy.

Cui Jian was quite disappointed that the trip mine did not reveal the ghost, and at the same time, he became more alert and careful. In the quiet night, he stepped lightly with each step and slowly passed the large staircase in the middle of the living room. There were two ghosts hiding above the stairs. The straight-line distance between the two sides was less than ten meters.

Duanmu took cover, leaning against the pillar, aiming his gun at the stairs. He had a bad feeling, there was light on the first floor, but not on the second floor, and the ghost might be hiding in the dark and shooting at him, but he couldn't see the ghost.

Sharpshooter Cui Jian held the gun with both hands, his eyes constantly scanning the fan-shaped area in front of him, and his ears listening to any sounds.

No. 30 was watching the tablet computer surveillance. Seeing that the prey was about to walk through the stairs, he could not help but want to come out of the darkness. However, No. 29, who was listening to the sound at the stairs, shook his head repeatedly to stop No. 30 from rushing to the first floor.

After 15 seconds of suffocation, Cui Jian successfully passed the open space at the entrance of the big staircase and reached the southeast. Cui Jian covered Duanmu, and Duanmu walked backwards towards Cui Jian. He believed that Cui Jian could solve the trouble from behind him.

As they were walking backwards, when they reached the entrance of the staircase, Duanmu's heel kicked a small stone, which rolled half a meter and hit a worn wooden board. Although the sound was not loud, it could be heard far away in a quiet environment.

Cui Jian was nervous, he didn't know from which direction the enemy would appear, or if he would not appear. Then he saw a shadow appear at the entrance of the restaurant.

When several beams of light are shining on each other, the shadow cast by the bright light becomes more and more obvious, while the shadow cast by the dim light becomes more and more blurred. This phantom is one of the two shadows cast when the light is not strong enough.

Ghost 03 knew the location of 29 and 30. Since he hadn't heard any movement, he decided to add fuel to the fire and let them fight. 03 flashed out of the restaurant and saw Cui Jian 30 meters away at first sight. Although he couldn't see his eyes clearly, 03 felt the murderous intent, so he immediately gave up the idea and turned back.

But the bullet, which was 1.5 times the speed of sound, had already taken the lead. 03 turned around and dodged the bullet in his chest, but he could not avoid the bullet. The bullet shot into 03's left arm. 03 could even feel the bullet tearing the flesh and sliding past the bone. His feeling might be right. The bullet penetrated his arm and hit the bulletproof vest. After 03 dodged, the bullet head fell to the ground.

03 immediately evacuated to the basement to bandage his wounds. Although he had been convincing himself to look at Cui Jian with a high attitude, he did not think in his heart that he was weaker than Cui Jian, otherwise he would not have been leisurely sending messages with Feidi when others were setting an ambush.

03 thought of many possibilities of the Zhoubao battle, but he never thought that he would be the first person to lose part of his combat effectiveness due to injuries. Sure enough, brains and skills are calculated separately. Bullets will not stop bothering him just because he is smarter than 29 and 30. Besides, they are all insiders, who can tell who is worse than who?
As soon as Cui Jian opened fire, 29 and 30 moved immediately. The undisguised footsteps made Cui Jian turn his gun immediately. He also found that the light above the stairs was dim, and he and Duanmu were under the light, so he fired continuously at the possible enemy positions before seeing anyone.

The bullets suppressed the two ghosts. Duanmu quickly crossed the open area, turned around, pointed his gun at the stairs, and said, "It's not just one person."

Cui Jian said: "Three, at least three." Damn, these three people are all very skilled. If they were to unite with him to attack him or Duanmu, they would basically not be able to escape. His reasoning ability was far inferior to his battlefield perception ability, and he could not infer the background stories of the three ghosts.

No. 29 and No. 30 were suppressed by bullets and missed the golden opportunity. They dared not chase further down and retreated to the second floor. After exchanging gestures, they separated and disappeared into the darkness.

The rooms in the southeast were mostly empty, without doors, and the ground was littered with fallen leaves, dead branches, and broken bricks. Cui Jian gestured, "This is not their living area."

They carefully went to the last room, where there was a simple remote control on the floor. Duanmu was guarding the door, and Cui Jian approached the remote control, squatted down and looked at it quietly for a while, then reached out and picked up the remote control. There was only one red button on the remote control, and on the button was a sentence in English: Press the button and you can see the person you want to see.

Cui Jian took the remote control and left the room.

One minute ago, No. 30 slipped from the second floor to the southeast window of the room, only one wall away from Cui Jian. He found through the surveillance in the room that although Cui Jian focused on the remote control, the muzzle of the gun in his right hand was stable and always ready to fire.

No. 30 didn't dare to gamble, and he didn't want to gamble. On the surface, he obeyed No. 29 and went around to attack Cui Jian. In fact, No. 30 knew very well that Cui Jian was difficult to deal with, and even No. 03 didn't want to fight Cui Jian head-on. No. 29's purpose of letting him go around and attack was not to score points, but to let him fight with Cui Jian first.

From the perspective of the bet, there could be two winners for the 3 ghosts, but in fact there is only one, because 03 only gave one new identity, and one of No. 30 and No. 29 was destined to stay, which was a big trap that 03 dug for them. As long as No. 30's brain was not broken, he would not go hard against Cui Jian.

No. 2, who was hiding on the second floor, discovered from the surveillance video that 29 was injured and went to the basement to bandage his wounds. No. 03 was a little frightened. Cui Jian was more difficult to deal with than he had imagined.

29号并没有把03负伤的消息告诉自己的盟友30号。29号心中已经有了决定：不招惹崔建，而把端木拿下，让03和30号去抢崔建的人头。这样一来，无论03、30和崔建谁死谁活，他都是赢家。

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The remote control was very thin, and Cui Jian observed it for a long time, and only took it away after he was sure it was not a bomb. After leaving the room, Cui Jian passed by Duanmu who was on guard, put the remote control in his hand, and took his place on guard. This meant: press it or not, it's up to you.

Cui Jian didn't want the following situation to happen: I pressed it, Hailan died, and you blamed me. I didn't press it, Hailan died, and you still blamed me.

Duanmu thought for five seconds, then turned his back to Cui Jian and pressed the button. If the remote control was a bomb, with his body as a cushion, Cui Jian would not be affected.

After pressing the button, the two listened quietly. A few seconds later, the sound of plaster falling to the ground was heard from the living room.

Duanmu remembered: "The living room has a suspended ceiling."

"Yes." But the structure of the ceiling collapsed and it looked like an unfinished ceiling.

Duanmu: "Go and have a look."

Cui Jian: "Don't be anxious. Hailan is the bait. As long as the fish is not hooked, the bait is still there." In Ghost's opinion, Hailan herself has no value. Killing Hailan will only lead to losses for Duanmu and Cui Jian, and will not benefit them at all.

There was not much hatred between the two sides in the Zhoubao game. Duanmu and Ghost 03 might have some emotions, but for Cui Jian and Ghosts 29 and 30, this was just a fight without any personal grudges.

Cui Jian was still the vanguard, exploring the way forward, while Duanmu covered the rear. No. 30 climbed into the remote control room through the window, but unfortunately he was a step too slow. When he chased out, Duan and Cui had already passed the corner. No. 30 typed a message to No. 29: No chance.

The closer Cui Jian got to the living room, the more uneasy he felt. If there was no ambush on the way to the living room, then the living room was the ambush.

The large living room is 180 square meters in size and is in a rectangular shape. If you lay the rectangle horizontally, the main entrance is on the wide left side, and the large staircase is on the wide right side. There are exits at the upper left, lower left, upper right, and lower right. There is a long corridor at the upper right and lower right of the large staircase, and two rooms at the upper left and lower left.

Cui Jian and Duanmu occupied the upper left room, which was designed to be an office or study. The front door led to the large living room, and the back door led to a five-meter corridor with three rooms on both sides. I think they planned to design this area as a private area. Since there were no doors, each room on the first floor had at least two entrances and exits.

Duanmu was guarding the back door of the upper left room, and Cui Jian went all the way to the front door. After many attempts, no one was ambushing him, so Cui Jian slowly leaned out and saw Hai Lan hanging in the middle of the living room. In the living room, Hai Lan was tied up like a dumpling with nylon ropes, hanging in the air, about four or five meters above the ground. The rope was fixed to the top hook. This was the center of the living room, where a large lamp like a crystal chandelier should have been placed.

Hailan's clothes were still intact. After all, ghosts were people of status and would not take off their pants when they saw a beautiful woman. However, Hailan's left cheek was red and swollen, there was dried blood at the corner of his mouth, and a piece of his hair and scalp was torn off, with blood coagulated on his forehead.

Cui Jian knew at a glance that Hai Lan's injuries were not caused by torture, but by beatings, and the number of times was not large. This type of injury should be caused by Hai Lan angering the other party during communication, causing the other party to attack her.

Good news, it feels like Hailan is still alive.

Bad news, Hailan seems to have fallen into a deep sleep, and is most likely drugged.

The worse news is that even if there were no three killers around, Cui Jian and Duanmu would not be able to take Hai Lan down in a short time.

Use a gun to shoot a rope? Mythbusters have done experiments and found that it takes multiple shots to hit the same spot on the rope to break it. Ghost uses nylon rope, which is not only slippery, but also tougher than the hemp rope used in the experiment. Even if the nylon rope is pulled to the end, straightened, and placed in front of him, Cui Jian is not sure that he can break the nylon rope within one magazine.

Throwing a flying knife? Cui Jian was confident that he could throw the dagger at close range and pierce the nylon rope, but it would be extremely difficult for him to control the blade to cut the nylon rope.

Cui Jian stood guard against the solid wall and contacted Duanmu through the headset, explaining the situation to him: "The living room is drafty on all sides, and it's pitch black outside the east. There's a large staircase to the west, and there must be someone hiding up there. The northwest and southwest are the main corridors, and someone could be killed at any time. In addition to guns, the other side should also have grenades, stun grenades and other weapons."

Duanmu: “Photos.”

Cui Jian pulled out his cell phone from the tactical pocket on his thigh, took a picture of Hai Lan and sent it to Duanmu.

At this moment, with a bang, a stun grenade was thrown at Duanmu's feet. Duanmu immediately turned around and squatted down with his head in his hands.

Cui Jian was about ten meters away from Duanmu. When he heard the bang, he subconsciously avoided the light, so the stun grenade did not have much effect on him. He only hoped that Duanmu could stay awake and believe in him unconditionally.

If Duanmu had a clear mind, he would know that at this time he could only trust Cui Jian unconditionally, and the only thing he could do was to reduce the area affected by the bullet.

Cui Jian took the initiative and fired at the back door. The back door had a solid wall on one side and a brick wall on the other. No. 30 knew the structure of Zhoubao very well and hid on the solid wall side.

The current situation is very favorable to No. 30, who can see Duanmu's buttocks raised after squatting from his oblique angle. The first shot hits the buttocks, and Duanmu will inevitably lose his balance, and the second shot will kill him.

But No. 30 heard incredible footsteps. Cui Jian actually sprinted towards the back door. Was he going to kill him face to face?

No. 30 made a prompt decision and fled backwards while shooting at the back door, preventing Cui Jian from rushing out of the back door. No. 30 cursed in his heart: How could such a reckless man survive until now?

Cui Jian was certainly not a reckless man. He had no intention of running out the back door. He had already pulled out his stun grenade while running. If No. 30 wanted to stay and shoot Duanmu, he would definitely be hit by a stun grenade. Being attacked by a stun grenade in a narrow corridor was not much different from death.

This move is not to besiege Wei to save Zhao, but to besiege Wei. As for whether Zhao lives or dies, the decision lies with Duanmu and No. 30.

No. 3 and No. 29 were nearby, and they wanted to use the small chaos to break into the upper left room, but their most taboo Cui Jian still had combat power. In addition, their trump card was Hai Lan, so they had a better chance.

Duanmu, who was huddled in the corner, struggled for a minute and finally recovered.

Seeing this, Cui Jian, who had returned to the upper left position, leaned against the wall and began to curse: "Is this a game? A remote control, a mechanism, this is the so-called game? Where are the lines? Where is the script?"

Unexpectedly, there was a response. A voice came over the radio. This time it was an electronic voice. I guess they didn't want to reveal their location because of the voice, so they used a typed voice: "If you think you have a lot of time, you are too naive."

Cui Jian asked: “Oh?”

Broadcast: "Look carefully."

Hailan was originally facing Cui Jian sideways, but because the rope turned, Hailan turned to Cui Jian. Cui Jian looked at the phone on the ground, turned on the camera, and Hailan was in the camera. Cui Jian saw a small bomb stuck in the middle of the rope, five centimeters below Hailan's neck. There was a simple display screen on the small bomb, but Cui Jian couldn't see it clearly, so he asked, "What's written on the display screen?"

Broadcast: "Countdown."

Cui Jian said: "You can adjust the bomb that was set to explode at 4 o'clock to explode at 3:30, which means you have a remote control. We will put Hailan down, and when you press the remote control, we will ascend to heaven with Hailan. It's no fun to play games like this. I have a suggestion. Let someone disable the remote control function of the bomb. In this way, we can only rescue Hailan before 3:30, and you can take the opportunity to kill us."

The original intention of shortening the time by 30 minutes was to intimidate special forces fighters, but unexpectedly, the fact that he had a remote control in his hand was exposed. This was Ghost's first major mistake.

Cui Jian's proposal sounds weird, but it is reasonable if you think about it carefully. No matter what method Cui Jian and his team use to save Hai Lan, Ghost can detonate the bomb. Cui Jian and Duanmu are not the protagonists in movies and TV series, so it is impossible for them to do such a stupid thing.

Once Cui Jian and Duanmu gave up rescuing Hai Lan and left Zhoubao, the three ghosts could no longer sit back and wait, but had to take the initiative to attack in order to contain them. With the combat power evenly matched, such behavior was unwise.

Give the remote control to Cui Jian? No, Cui Jian won't believe there is only one remote control.

Therefore, the best way is Cui Jian’s proposal, that is, to have the special services personnel dismantle the remote control system in the bomb and retain the timing system.

Duanmu said: "This is the first time I have encountered a situation where a third party is allowed to intervene in a life-and-death struggle."

Cui Jian said: "Because they want to kill us, we also want to kill them." He looked at the time and it was now 15: in the morning.

(End of this chapter)