Chapter 396 Endless Mode (IV)

Five minutes passed, ten minutes passed, half an hour passed, an hour passed, and even the criminals thought that Cui Jian had escaped while they were attacking Building 4.

Cui Jian sat on the ground in the maze with his back against the wall, looking up at the live cameras on the top. There were twelve cameras, all looking exactly the same. He tried to use the cameras to guide the way, but ended up entering the second level of the maze: the mirror maze.

The layout of the mirror maze is similar to that of the multi-door maze, except that each door is a mirror. The biggest difference is that the multi-door maze has five doors that can be pushed open, while the mirror maze only has three doors.

When he first entered the mirror maze, Cui Jian was happy, because he had cleared many mazes. But half an hour later, Cui Jian sat on the ground looking at the mirror, unable to get out.

Ye Lan felt distressed for no reason when watching Cui Jian on the live broadcast: "Why didn't you use algebra to calculate the maze?" That's right, I also learned how to use algebra to calculate the maze after looking at examples on the Internet.

Ye Lan complained: "We are competing in bodyguard skills, how can we trap people in a maze?"

Li Ran sat on a chair, lifted up the front legs, and leisurely watched the live broadcast on the big screen. When he heard Ye Lan say this, he replied, "That's right, that's right."

Ye Lan looked at Li Ran: "What do you mean?"

Li Ran smiled and said, "Boss, Cui Jian is already a pentagonal omnipotent, you can't ask him to become a hexagonal warrior. You can understand it this way: Oh, so he also has weaknesses?"

Ye Lan didn't quite understand, so Li Ran explained it more clearly: "If he is better than you in every aspect, it will not be conducive to the development of your relationship. It can be seen from the live broadcast that he has obvious weaknesses, and you have a crushing advantage in this aspect. Although it is not very useful in daily life, it is enough for him to respect you."

Seeing that Ye Lan still didn't understand, Li Ran said, "Knowledge, insights, science, philosophy, logic, and other aspects. He lacks formal academic education, so he will respect you for having these things. Similarly, he doesn't have much money, but he thinks he has a lot of money. Your wealth advantage in front of him is not worth mentioning to him at all, and he won't respect you because of your money. Whether you are a boyfriend or girlfriend, or a husband and wife, mutual respect is an indispensable part of the healthy development of a relationship."

Ye Lan laughed. What she thought was the least important was what Cui Jian valued the most. Compared with family background, wealth, appearance, and status, she thought that a master's degree was nothing. And she only went to study because she needed it.

Li Ran said: "Don't worry, I think he will come out of it."

If the competition rules did not prohibit the deliberate destruction of competition props, Cui Jian would have dismantled the entire maze.

Cui Jian stood up from the ground, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened the compass software that came with the system on the phone, and looking at the arrow of the compass, Cui Jian did not hesitate to express his contempt for himself.

With the compass, Cui Jian could no longer be trapped by the maze of all kinds of tricks and deliberately misleading information. By constantly adjusting the direction, Cui Jian walked out of the maze smoothly. Looking at the time, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

Ye Lan: "I never thought there was a compass app on the phone."

Li Ran: “Yes, yes, yes.”

Cui Jian first went into a private house and used the second-floor window to observe the situation outside. He found that the criminals began to behave in an orderly manner. At least one team of criminals was patrolling the street. They stopped NPCs and checked their clothes. On the rooftop of the hotel and the rooftop of a 5-story building at the corner, criminals used binoculars to search for suspicious persons.

Seeing this, Cui Jian had a question: Are they the criminals, or are we the criminals?
The ring bus came, and Cui Jian immediately went downstairs and hid at the stairs. When the last NPC got on the bus and the door was about to close, Cui Jian took three or two steps over and boarded the bus.

There were eleven people on the bus, including the driver. After a careful look, Cui Jian let go of his gun and sat near the back door. As soon as he sat down, he saw a gangster's vehicle approaching the bus, so Cui Jian bent down to avoid it.

Cui Jian got on the car three stops away from the safe house in Building 19. When approaching the safe house, a gunfight broke out in a residential building 3 meters away. Cui Jian looked over and saw Diudiu running wildly after catching a fat man, and the Golden Eagle behind her was blocking the pursuing criminals.

Just as the bus was approaching the station, Diudiu said on the radio: “Get on the bus, hurry up.”

As the Golden Eagle came at full speed, Cui Jian saw a gangster approaching from the side, moving from the rear of the bus to the front. Cui Jian held out his pistol, pointed the muzzle downward, and shot the gangster in the head. Diudiu followed the sound and saw Cui Jian, raised his thumb, and shot the gangster chasing him in the alley. Under her cover, the Golden Eagle successfully got on the bus, and Diudiu also turned around and got on the bus.

Diudiu came over, but before he could speak, he saw through the rear window that two criminal vehicles were chasing the bus, only 300 meters away. Diudiu cursed and retreated to join Jinying. The two of them discussed in a low voice, looking at Cui Jian from time to time. It seemed that they hoped Cui Jian would help them break out.

When the bus stopped, Cui Jian avoided Diudiu's pleading gaze, and like a rabbit, he went to the back door and got off the bus leisurely. He didn't even look at the gangster at the back of the bus, and walked straight to the newspapers on the sidewalk.

Two gangsters ran past Cui Jian and used the back door to fight Diudiu. After finally reaching the exit of the bus station, Diudiu crouched and rolled up all the windows. After doing everything, Diudiu found that there were already four gangsters following the bus. Diudiu looked at Jinying in despair, and Jinying shrugged his shoulders, saying that he had no way to solve the current dilemma.

The only way to save them now is a miracle. Only if new bodyguards and VIPs appear near the bus, they can take the opportunity to get off the bus and escape into the alley. For half a day, the short-handed team has been running around. They have to find a map and transfer the VIPs. They are very busy.

At the newsstand, Cui Jian put the newspaper back, put on his jacket and walked towards Building 19 two hundred meters away, and then he found the resurrection point.

Bodyguards can only revive their teammates by spending points to buy resurrection medicine, while gangsters have free resurrection points. If a gangster dies in a team, the team needs to send someone to the resurrection point, and the gangster can be resurrected after an hour. If all team members are killed, or no one goes to the resurrection point, the dead can only be resurrected after 8 hours.

Cui Jian looked at the bus and the gangsters' convoy going away, then turned around and walked into the resurrection point: the vehicle-related affairs handling hall. The four gangsters sat in a daze on the chairs, and the corpse they wanted to resurrect was placed behind the counter. There was an hourglass in the middle of the two. The corpse and the gangsters stared at the hourglass together, quite bored.

Cui Jian drew his gun and started killing. His purpose was simple and pure: to find water to drink.

Cui Jian emptied out the contents of a gangster's backpack, packed two bottles of water, and took the gangster's pistol and two magazines that came with the gangster's pistol. As he turned to leave, a gangster pushed the door in to handle the resurrection business, and Cui Jian killed him. After thinking for a second, Cui Jian stripped the gangster's clothes and pants, changed his jacket, and put the gangster's clothes and pants on himself, regardless of the corpse's struggle.

Then, AI01's voice came through the headset: "Bodyguards and criminals cannot wear each other's professional suits."

Cui Jian said nothing, put on his jacket again, put the gangster's camouflage uniform on his back, tied the sleeves in a knot and put them on his chest, covering the bodyguard's nameplate on his left chest. Cui Jian walked out of the resurrection point, and not long after he walked, his strange clothes attracted the attention of a gangster.

The criminal looked again and again, but because of the glass cover, he couldn't see Cui Jian's appearance clearly, so he couldn't confirm his identity. Cui Jian was wearing a pair of trousers, which belonged to the professional suit of a bodyguard, but many NPCs dressed as office workers wore the same trousers. He didn't see a professional suit, so he might be wearing it under a jacket.

Is he a bodyguard posing as a gangster, or a gangster seeking individuality?

The two men walked towards each other, Cui Jian raised his left hand to signal, and the gangster nodded politely in return. As they passed each other, Cui Jian pulled out the rubber dagger he had found on the gangster and slit his throat.

After walking and killing along the way, dealing with stragglers, Cui Jian finally arrived at a roadside food truck 19 meters away from Building 30. Cui Jian sat down on a bench next to the food truck and looked towards Building 19. At the door of Building 19, four gangsters were sitting on the stairs, and a team leader was standing and giving a speech, or explaining the next action plan. Building 19 might be their temporary base.

Cui Jian discovered that the other party was an acquaintance: Hancheng Security Team 1.

Cui Jian looked around for the camera location. He tried to walk under the trees on the sidewalk as much as possible, using the tree canopy to block the camera. But the last 30 meters was an open area with no shielding. If there was a firefight with the enemy, the address of the safe house would be exposed, and the team might be trapped and killed in Building 19.

After waiting for a few minutes, a team from Hancheng got in the car and drove away. Cui Jianben planned to take the opportunity to enter Building 19, but just as he was about to stand up, a feeling of uneasiness came over him. It was not a feeling of danger, but a feeling of being watched.

In the criminals' command room, two supervisors used surveillance cameras to look through the tree canopy and stared at Cui Jian on the bench. They had been eyeing Cui Jian since he got off the bus, but their goal was obviously not as simple as Cui Jian. After all, Duanmu's team was a big customer and could buy resurrection medicine. Killing Cui Jian would not determine the outcome of Duanmu's team. They hoped that Cui Jian could lead them to find Duanmu's team's temporary location.

Han Cheng Supervisor: "Why don't you move? Should we put some pressure on him?"

Director Berlin: "We can only pass on information, we cannot give orders to any team."

Supervisor Han Cheng: "I am mainly worried that one of our people might pass by and disturb him, so that the big fish of Dayin Security will escape."

In the Rainbow Valley safe house, Duanmu saw Cui Jian sitting on a bench through the window. Duanmu picked up his phone and typed, showing the screen to Ye Rannuo. Ye Rannuo understood, started recording the video, and then replaced the surveillance with the recorded video. Duanmu said on the channel: "That person, go."

Cui Jian stood up and walked towards Building 19. In the scene seen by the criminals' command center, Cui Jian was still sitting on the bench.

Cui Jian successfully entered Building 19 and was about to take the escalator when he heard a girl's voice coming from the second floor: "Oppa, wait for me." The voice was loud and a little coquettish.

Korean? Thinking of the Hancheng Security Team 1 at the door, Cui Jian flashed into the nearby dried fruit shop.

Five members of Hancheng Team 2 came down the escalator, four men and one woman. Cui Jian was surprised to find an acquaintance he hadn't seen for a long time, who was not really an acquaintance: Nangong.

Nangong, like Cui Jian, is the first graduate of the security school. She has a high IQ and excellent grades, but she is cowardly and introverted. She was trained by Hancheng Security to be a hacker. Unexpectedly, Nangong is now a beautiful woman with a cheerful appearance and who will act like a spoiled child in public.

The criminals' headquarters, who had been watching the surveillance cameras, suddenly found that Cui Jian had disappeared and could not be found anywhere, so they immediately began to analyze Cui Jian's whereabouts, and they first ruled out Building 19. Because Building 19 was the base of two Hancheng security teams, and during the period when Cui Jian disappeared, a team of Hancheng security teams was at the door of Building 19.

Cui Jian entered Rainbow Valley, passed through the lobby, knocked on the door, and when the door opened, the first thing he saw was a cell phone pressed against his face. On it was a message: "You idiot, you dress like this, are you afraid that people won't notice you?" No matter whether they were bodyguards or gangsters, anyone who saw Cui Jian's mixed outfit would take a second look.

Cui Jian did not refute, he also felt that he was being followed.

Duanmu pointed inside and Cui Jian entered a small hall. This was the supply station of the safe house. There were instant noodles, canned food and water, as well as pistols, stun grenades and bullets. Bad news: limited quantity. Good news: no points needed.

Duanmu dragged Cui Jian over. Cui Jian pointed at the instant noodles in Gui Yi's hand and Gui Yi nodded.

Duanmu dragged Cui Jian to the table and pointed to the map on the table. There was a line of words written on the map: Set out tomorrow morning and sneak to the retreat point. There were two routes drawn on the map, and a circle was drawn at one of the intersections, with the annotation: blocking point. If being chased, the team went to the alley and left a bodyguard to block the criminals.

The paper map was painted with a lot of colors by Duanmu, but the writing was very clear. Every location and every change was projected three-dimensionally on the map.

Cui Jian heard the noise and looked at the VIP girl. The girl was thrown on the sofa with her hands and feet tied, twisting her body for attention.

Duanmu typed: "During the transfer, she suddenly coughed violently, which attracted the attention of the criminals, and they were almost killed by her."

The little girl didn't cry or make a fuss, but she looked unhappy.

Cui Jian typed: "Did you know that Building 19 is the resting place for the two Hancheng security teams?"

Duanmu was surprised: "I don't know, where is it?"

Cui Jian: "Somewhere between the second and fourth floors. I guess it's probably related to food or a resting place."

Duanmu suddenly realized: "There is a bedding store 50 meters away from Rainbow Valley, and next to the store is a burrito shop." As long as they don't waste it, the criminals can rob food. Of course, this robbery is not real robbery, it is equivalent to getting food for free. The criminals can also find their favorite resting place.

But none of this matters, Duanmu never looked down upon Hancheng Security. Seeing Cui Jian distracted, Duanmu immediately pulled Cui Jian's attention back and asked him to memorize all the information on the map. Because Cui Jian was Duanmu's first choice of sniper, his exclusive employee for making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, and his chief representative for luring the tiger away from the mountain.

(End of this chapter)