Chapter 138 Infiltration
Chu Zihang carried the long sword on his shoulder, the scabbard swaying slightly with his movements, and his black windbreaker swaying gently in the night wind, like a silent dark cloud covering him. The black baseball cap on his head covered most of his face, leaving only a pair of cold eyes.
Caesar was also wearing a black windbreaker, with Ukiyo-e patterns faintly visible on the lining of the hem. It was gorgeous and had a strange oriental feel. The two of them stood motionless under the dim light of the hotel, like two sharp blades that could be unsheathed at any time.
Based on their observations over the past few days, they asked someone to make a uniform for each of them, the Executive Bureau of the Japanese Branch.
Finkel looked at them, his eyes full of helplessness and jealousy: "What about me?" He looked down at his oily T-shirt and baggy shorts, with a look of despair on his face.
"We don't have enough money, so we can only make two sets." Caesar shook the corner of his windbreaker nonchalantly, like a picky noble. "When the time comes, Chu Zihang and I will rush to the front, and you just need to cheer us on from behind."
Finkel smacked his lips and leaned against the wall weakly. "Alas, useless people have no human rights. However, none of us can speak Japanese. Even if we put on the uniforms of the Executive Bureau, wouldn't we still be exposed if we were asked a few questions?"
Caesar and Chu Zihang looked at each other, and then Chu Zihang took out a map and placed it on the table.
"This is a map of Genji Heavy Industries. Genji Heavy Industries is the headquarters of the Snake Eight Families, and Kaguya is inside. Based on what Caesar and I have observed over the past few days, Genji Heavy Industries is a heavily guarded building. However, the first to 20th floors are ordinary office buildings, and the floors above the 20th floor are the office areas used by the Snake Eight Families. In and out, access cards are required, and there are security patrols. Those security guards are armed and will question anyone who looks suspicious. If we want to get in here, we can only sneak in through the sewers."
During this period, Finkel has been staying in the hotel to investigate what is happening on the Internet, while Chu Zihang and Caesar have been investigating the base camps of the Eight Snake Families respectively.
"So even if we wear the Executive Bureau's clothes, we can't get in, so why do we make these two pieces of clothing?" Finkel said.
Chu Zihang and Caesar exchanged glances. Chu Zihang remained silent, but Caesar shrugged his shoulders with a meaningful smile on his face: "This is called tactical camouflage. We may not be able to enter the core area, but in an emergency, a uniform can at least buy us a few more seconds. In a battle, every second is crucial."
Chu Zihang nodded, his tone calm but with a hint of unquestionable coldness: "Especially when retreating, these few seconds may be our chance to survive."
The corners of Finkel's mouth twitched a few times, and he couldn't help but complain in a low voice: "Young people just like to act cool, I can understand, there is no need to make up a bad excuse. After all, I, your senior brother, was young once, and those were really nostalgic middle school years."
Caesar glanced at Finkel with a hint of sarcasm on his face: "If you weren't the only technical person in the team, we would have abandoned you long ago."
Finkel rolled his eyes and spread his hands helplessly: "Fine, fine, good, useless people can only be ordered around. But aren't you afraid that I'll be in a bad mood and won't help you hack the system?"
"Then we will tie you up in the sewer and come back to fish you out after the mission is over." Chu Zihang's tone was flat, but it carried an unquestionable tone.
Finkel shuddered and shook his shoulders: "Why are you guys so cruel?"
Caesar didn't bother to pay attention to his complaints and pointed his finger at the sewer entrance on the map: "Fingal, your mission is simple. After sneaking in, immediately hack into the system of Genji Heavy Industries and shut down the monitoring and alarm systems. We need you to give us fifteen minutes of interference time."
"Fifteen minutes?" Finkel's eyebrows shot up. "Do you think this is breaking into the primary school broadcasting room?"
"We'd appreciate it if you could do it longer," Caesar said slowly.
"Don't worry. I may be useless, but my skills are world-class." Finkel snorted disdainfully and patted his laptop. "You just need to be responsible for killing people, and I will be responsible for hacking the system. We each have our own responsibilities."
In the early hours of the morning, three men stood fully armed on a remote street corner in Tokyo. Under the dim street lights, only their shadows were cast lonely on the wet street.
The night wind blew through the empty streets, bringing a damp chill. Caesar squatted down and lifted the iron cover of the sewer, and a foul stench instantly hit him in the face.
"Damn, this smells even more disgusting than the rotten chicken burger I ate last night." Finkel pinched his nose and took a step back reflexively.
"Stop talking nonsense and get down quickly." Caesar kicked Finkel on the butt mercilessly.
Finkel stumbled into the sewer, and after he stood firm against the wall, he couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "You violent lunatics."
Chu Zihang followed closely behind, with one foot on the metal ladder, his fingers resting on the hilt of the knife, his expression grim. Caesar was the last one to jump down, his movements quick and decisive.
The sewer was dark and the humid air was filled with the smell of decay and sewage. Occasionally, the sound of rats' claws scraping against pipes could be heard overhead. The sound of leather boots stepping on stagnant water was light and sticky, and the echoes bounced back and forth in the narrow passage.
Finkel covered his nose and complained as he walked: "If a mouse suddenly jumped out, I would definitely scream."
Chu Zihang ignored his complaints and said calmly: "Another 600 meters, we can access the underground system of Genji Heavy Industries. It is called the Iron Dome Temple's underground water cleaning system, which is also an industry under the Snake Eight Families."
Before setting off, he prepared a map of Tokyo's sewers in advance. So under the leadership of Chu Zihang, they passed through the complex passages and arrived at the underground of Genji Heavy Industries. However, they heard the sound of electric welding not far away.
"Is that a dock?" Caesar said in disbelief. A dock built in a sewer is indeed unbelievable.
"How many people are there in there? Can they be dealt with at once?" Chu Zihang asked from the side.
"There are more than twenty of them. Judging from the clothes they are wearing and the guns in their hands, they should be the elite of the Eight Snake Clans. It's not easy to deal with them." Caesar used the sickle-weasel to detect the situation not far away, and his brows frowned instantly.
At this moment, something passed through the water not far from the dock, and then slowly surfaced.
"Oh shit! A submarine!" Finkel exclaimed when he saw that thing. It turned out to be a small submarine, a submarine sailing in the sewer.
The submarine stopped in front of the small dock, and soon a crane nearby lifted up an object more than two meters long that looked like a crude oil barrel from the submarine.
"What is that? Are they smuggling drugs or crude oil?" Caesar said.
"It's most likely a weapon or something like that. It's very dangerous anyway." Chu Zihang said from the side.
At this time, an airtight door next to the dock opened, and a man in a white lab coat hurried out and treated the metal can with disinfectant spray. His movements were nervous and hurried. Obviously, this thing was extremely important. He was eager to complete the work and even forgot to close the heavy airtight door, which was the only passage through Genji Heavy Industries.
Seeing the opened airtight door and the guards gathered at the dock, Caesar and Chu Zihang looked at each other and realized that this was a great opportunity.
"Fingal, can you hack into the system of Genji Heavy Industries now and turn off the lights here? As soon as the lights are out, I am sure I can release those guards on the opposite side within a minute." Caesar asked Finkel.
"You guys really like to order people around." Finkel muttered, but still opened the laptop in his hand, and the network interface of Genji Heavy Industries popped up on the screen.
"That's because you just need to sit behind the screen and we have to work hard." Caesar said coldly.
Finkel rolled his eyes, but his fingers quickly tapped on the keyboard: "Okay, okay, I'll start now and clear the way for you."
A few minutes later, he showed a smug smile on his face: "Done, the lights will go out in three seconds, and the camera has been paralyzed. No one will know we were here. Hurry up and work. I've bought you twenty minutes."
Caesar smiled with satisfaction: "Well done."
Then Caesar pulled out an Uzi submachine gun filled with Frigga bullets from his arms, aimed at the opposite side, and then closed his eyes. The sickle-weasel began to wander in this small underground space. Soon the lights went out completely as Finkel said, and the guards who were armed with live ammunition began to panic.
Caesar pulled the trigger at this time. The flame from the muzzle of the Uzi submachine gun was a little abrupt in the darkness, but the guards did not aim their guns in this direction. In the darkness, he was almost invincible with the weapon.
The gunshots were like a short and rapid thunder. The flames of the Uzi submachine gun flashed wildly in the darkness. The bullets whistled through the air at a very high speed and hit the chests of the guards holding rifles accurately.
Before the guards could fight back, they were pinned to the ground by Caesar's gunfire. No one could confront him head-on in this narrow dock. In the darkness, Caesar was a predatory falcon, and every shot was as precise as the sharp claws of a hunting bird.
Chu Zihang did not hesitate for a moment. His blade was unsheathed silently amid the sound of gunfire, like a ray of white light breaking through the air. His figure shuttled among the enemies like a ghost, and no one could react wherever the blade passed.
Those guards who had not yet been hit by Caesar's bullets only felt a cold chill passing through their necks, and then lost consciousness. Chu Zihang knocked them out with the back of his knife.
Caesar and Chu Zihang cooperated perfectly. The sound of gunfire and the flash of swords intertwined into an invisible net, locking all the enemies tightly. They moved as swiftly as a storm. In less than a minute, all twenty guards had fallen to the ground. The smell of blood and gunpowder spread in the air.
Finkel was stunned as he watched all this. "I say, are you two humans or machines? Did you really clear the area in just one minute?"
Caesar shrugged as he changed the magazine, a faint smile on his face: "We said it would only take a minute."
Chu Zihang didn't say anything, he just wiped the long sword with the corner of his black windbreaker, and then calmly put the sword back into the sheath.
"Let's go." Caesar whispered after changing the magazine, his eyes fixed on the still open airtight door.
The three of them quickly passed through the fallen guards and entered the passage behind the door silently as if they were stepping on a carpet of corpses. Behind the airtight door was a long and narrow corridor, with cold lights flickering on the walls, making people feel like they were in a cold maze.
Chu Zihang and Caesar remained alert, never lowering their weapons, and their footsteps were so light that they made almost no sound, moving through the dim environment like ghosts. At the end of the corridor was an elevator, and they jumped into the elevator, but when they pressed the elevator floor button, everyone was stunned.
"So which floor are we going to now?" asked Finkel.
Caesar and Chu Zihang looked at each other in bewilderment. This building had more than fifty floors in total, and they only found out that the floors below the 20th were rented out. As for what the floors above were like, they had no idea at all.
"Damn it, so we still don't know anything now." Finkel complained.
"Let's go to the 20th floor first. It's early morning now and most people are not here. Also, a large group of people left here not long ago. We can search floor by floor. With Caesar's words, we can also try to avoid other people." Chu Zihang said.
"If we search layer by layer, how long will it take? My shielding can only last for twenty minutes. What should I do then?" Finkel shouted.
"So your mission is important." Caesar slapped Finkel on the shoulder and looked at him solemnly.
Finkel looked at Caesar with tears in his eyes: "Are you planning to make me risk my life? I am a technical support, not a suicide squad!"
Caesar shrugged, a playful smile on his face: "If we fail to complete the mission, it will not be as simple as being discovered. Believe me, the Eight Snakes have many more horrible ways of dealing with people than execution."
Finkel shook his shoulders and sighed helplessly: "Okay, okay, okay, let's fight. I'll help you buy time, but you'd better finish it within 20 minutes, otherwise I really can't bear it."
The elevator slowly rose, and the three people's breathing gradually became lighter. The atmosphere in the elevator was depressing and tense. Only the floor numbers were slowly jumping under the dim light. The increase of each floor seemed to be pushing them step by step into the unknown abyss.
"We're here." The elevator made a low prompt sound on the 20th floor and the door slowly opened.
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Genji Heavy Industries Top Floor
"Dad, is there still no news about Eri? Do you want me to go out and look for her with you?" Gennosuke said to Tachibana Masamune who was looking out the window.
"No, it's useless for you to go. Besides, our headquarters is empty and needs someone to take charge. You are the best candidate." Tachibana Masamune refused.
Suddenly, Tachibana Masamune's cell phone rang and an urgent message came. Tachibana Masamune immediately picked up the phone to check. At first he thought that Eri had been found, but when he saw the message his face suddenly changed.
"Dad, what happened? Did Eri find it?" Gen Chisei asked from the side.
"No, if someone invades here, Princess Kaguya will immediately seal off the entire building." Tachibana Masamune said solemnly.
"It seems that the prestige of our Sheqi Eight Clan has been severely suppressed. Now rats have gotten in. Zhisheng, go and get rid of those little rats."
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Caesar was the first to stick his head out and looked around. The corridor was empty except for a few cold lights hanging on the ceiling, casting cold light. The walls of the corridor were covered with ancient Ukiyo-e murals, which gave off a strange and depressing atmosphere.
"No one." Caesar said softly, waving for the others to follow. They had already searched five floors but found nothing useful.
The three of them filed out silently and moved quickly along the corridor. Finkel's fingers were pressed against the laptop screen, monitoring the route ahead of them at all times. His expression was tense and focused, like an acrobat walking on a tightrope, who would fall into the abyss if he was not careful.
"Turn right ahead, there is a security gate." Finkel whispered, "I can go around it, but it will take fifteen seconds."
"You have ten seconds." Chu Zihang responded briefly and coldly.
Finkel gritted his teeth and quickly operated: "You guys... are so cruel."
Caesar and Chu Zihang stood on both sides of the corridor, weapons in hand, watching the movements around them vigilantly. Time passed slowly in their nervous waiting, and the air seemed to freeze.
"Done!" Finkel whispered, and the red light at the security gate instantly turned green.
Caesar immediately opened the door, and the three of them quickly passed through the security area and entered a spacious office area. The furnishings in the room were simple and low-key, and every piece of furniture revealed extraordinary value. A huge family emblem was hung on the wall, which was the logo of the Eight Clans of Sheqi.
Chu Zihang's eyes quickly swept across the room, and his sight stopped on a tightly closed wooden door. "What's behind that?" he asked.
Finkel quickly pulled up the map and frowned: "According to the floor plan, that should be an important data room."
Caesar raised an eyebrow: "That's where we are looking for."
Without saying a word, he walked to the wooden door and gently turned the door handle but the door was locked.
"Let me do it." Chu Zihang drew out his long sword without hesitation, and the blade flashed a cold light in the air.
With a "click", the door lock was cut off and the door slowly opened.
They walked into the data room, and the lights from overhead slowly lit up, illuminating the filing cabinets and files in the room. Each cabinet was numbered and labeled, and it was obvious that the most confidential information of the Eight Snake Families was stored here.
Caesar looked around with a calm look in his eyes: "Split up and find what we need as soon as possible."
Chu Zihang nodded and started searching immediately. His movements were quick and decisive, and he was racing against time every second.
Finkel stood guard at the door, his laptop still connected to the network, the data on the screen kept jumping like flowing water, his fingertips flew on the keyboard, and he whispered from time to time: "I can only delay for another ten minutes... please hurry up."
Chu Zihang flipped through the documents for a while, and suddenly pulled out a document from a filing cabinet. On the cover were a few conspicuous words: "Longyuan Project."
"This looks important," he whispered, handing the document to Caesar.
Caesar took the document, flipped through it quickly, and sneered: "Interesting."
"Retreat." Chu Zihang gave the order concisely.
The three of them quickly scanned the documents into their portable devices, then turned and left the data room. Time was running out, and they had to evacuate the building before the enemy discovered them.
Just as they were about to enter the elevator, they heard Finkel's panicked voice: "It's not good! A group of people are approaching your position. They may be the elite troops of the Eight Clans of Sheqi!"
"Damn it." Caesar cursed under his breath, "Why are they so fast?"
Chu Zihang's eyes were calm and cold: "The elevator may be blocked, take the stairs."
The three of them quickly turned and rushed to the stairwell, their footsteps echoing in the stairwell along with the sounds of nervous breathing and heartbeats.
"Can we get rid of them?" Finkel asked breathlessly.
Caesar sneered and said, "You'd better pray that they can't catch up with us."
But just when they reached the seventeenth floor, they suddenly heard heavy footsteps and hurried shouts behind them; the pursuers were arriving.
"Hurry!" Chu Zihang growled, drew out his long sword, and stood at the back of the team.
Caesar also quickly pulled out his Uzi submachine gun, turned around and opened fire, bullets rained down on the pursuers, the sound of bullets hitting metal and walls echoing in the stairwell.
"I can't hold on for too long!" Caesar shouted while firing, "Chu Zihang, take Finkel away first!"
Chu Zihang didn't waste any words. He grabbed Finkel's collar and dragged him to the next floor: "Hurry up!"
Finkel ran and panted: "I really shouldn't have come to Tokyo this time..."
(End of this chapter)
