24 hours to save the world

From Zhu Shijiu's perspective, he could see many things that he couldn't see in the previous round.

Although everything in the telescope was quite blurry under the cover of night, he still got valuable information, such as the number of people in this team, the route chosen, and the action plan for arrest.

This team has a total of eight people, three of whom squatted by the window, three went around the teaching building, and the other two were on guard around.

He saw with his own eyes that the three people squatting by the window took out something, then slowly approached the window, and seemed to do something.

"So that's it, is this how I got tricked last round?"

Zhu Shijiu muttered to himself, and began to review in his mind.

In the previous round, he and Li Hua were caught and fainted in the dormitory without any preparation, probably using the same method.

Three people were responsible for knocking him out, three people were responsible for blocking the back road, and two people paid attention to the surrounding movements.

In the previous round, the black-clothed man quietly invaded the balcony, and perhaps there were still a few people guarding outside the door. Then, using the same operation, I don't know what, the room in the dormitory was filled with a substance that could cause stun. The gas masks on the heads of these men in black were probably used to prevent this substance.

In the sight, the blacks waited for a while, then gestured to each other again, and quickly entered the teaching building one by one, crouching down.

Zhu Shijiu confirmed the time from the time the stun drug was released to the time they took action again.

"Twenty seconds."

Zhu Shijiu took a breath of cold air.

"In such a large classroom, it only took twenty seconds to make people lose consciousness? Even if you wet a handkerchief with a stun drug to cover your mouth and nose, it wouldn't be that fast, right? And from the last round, it seems that this thing is colorless and odorless. There is such a gas?"

Zhu Shijiu is not a science major, so he doesn't know much about chemistry. After thinking about it carefully, he didn't go into it, but he was more afraid in his heart.

This means that if he faces this group of people, he can't stand in front of them without any defense, because the evaporation and diffusion speed of this gas is amazingly fast.

If he gets a little bit of it when he gets close to them, it will probably have an impact on his body.

"I wonder if ordinary gas masks are useful." Zhu Shijiu decided to buy a gas mask next time to try.

While he was thinking silently, a voice came from the phone.

"The first phase of the operation is over, and the target person has been controlled... Wait! What is this...?"

Discovered.

The communication was not interrupted, and the communication time on the mobile phone interface was still jumping every second, but the voice on the other end of the phone disappeared immediately without a trace, and turned into a dead silence.

In the silence, Zhu Shijiu was also thinking.

The voice of the black-clothed man reporting proved that they had the means to contact the backstage at any time, and this operation was carried out under the real-time command of the backstage.

The other end of the phone continued to be silent, and even the sound of clothes rubbing could not be heard. This means that these people are keeping a motionless posture at this moment.

Zhu Shijiu felt something was wrong.

Even if they were overwhelmed by the sudden situation, they shouldn't be silent for so long, right? What are they waiting for?

Zhu Shijiu thought calmly and came to a logical conclusion almost in the next second.

They are waiting for the follow-up instructions of the commander behind the scenes. This means that they have no right to make their own decisions.

These people should be commanded throughout the whole process. If they encounter an emergency, such as an uncontrollable accident in the action, they must obey the command of the commander behind the scenes.

—— Although these sound very rigid, they also make Zhu Shijiu feel cold in his heart.

This way of action that is highly dependent on the commander behind the scenes also means that they are quite unified internally, and even in terms of thinking, they maintain the greatest degree of obedience, and completely regard themselves as chess pieces. They almost made the same choice at the first time-stay still.

They didn't even choose to hang up the call at the first time.

This unified and cold reaction like a machine is really terrifying when you think about it carefully.

Zhu Shijiu thought a lot, and seeing that the other side was still silent, he took the initiative to speak to the phone: "Hello."

"..."Silence.

Zhu Shijiu waited for a while, which was equivalent to forcing these people to communicate with him.

"Hello." The person on the other end of the phone answered. The voice through the gas mask and then through the mobile phone microphone did not sound like a normal person's voice, just like speaking with a voice changer.

It unexpectedly sounded very polite. But Zhu Shijiu would not be fooled by their illusion. The experience of the previous week told him that this group of people were cruel and sadistic lunatics, mentally abnormal anti-human elements.

Zhu Shijiu tried to calm his voice: "I didn't expect him to fall into your hands so quickly. From 8:20 in the evening to now at 10 o'clock, only about an hour and 40 minutes have passed. You are really efficient."

Zhu Shijiu's tone was quite ordinary, as if he was chatting.

If you put aside the content, people who don't know would think they were discussing boring weather topics.

There was silence for nearly a minute again.

"Who are you?"

This seemingly delayed conversation made Zhu Shijiu confirm his thoughts again.

These people were indeed contacting the commander behind the scenes, and they would answer him after the commander discussed the appropriate response.

Zhu Shijiu's thoughts were flying, but he didn't stop, and replied: "It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that we have reached the opposite side. I want to ask, where did you come from?"

There was another delay of about half a minute.

Of course he didn't answer his question

"Opposite? Do you know our actions?"

Zhu Shijiu smiled: "You don't have to test me. Also, doesn't it feel rude to let others act as a sounding board? If you want to know something, just talk to me directly."

There was silence on the other side for a short while. Then with a clattering sound, the phone seemed to be placed on the table, and something was placed next to the phone.

"You seem to be waiting for us?"

A completely different voice sounded from the other end of the phone.

Suddenly, Zhu Shijiu was stunned, and memories suddenly swept over him like a tide!

Although the sound should have come from some communication device, he will never forget this sound until his death!

When he regained consciousness after being blindfolded, the first words he heard were from this voice. During the subsequent torture process, this voice was like a devil issuing cruel orders again and again, with a calm and firm tone without any emotion.

The owner of the voice was the middle-aged man who had been seen in the torture chamber and brought Li Hua to see him for the last time.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Zhu Shijiu couldn't help the hatred in his voice and replied like this.

I've been waiting since last week.

"It seems you know our actions."

Zhu Shijiu laughed sarcastically: "Haha, are you referring to the action to capture this insignificant little person in your hands? That's easy to guess. Eight people formed a team to complete the task, which is pretty good."

He directly counted the number of these men in black.

"...Although I don't know who you are, it seems like you are luring us into taking the bait. Now we have indeed taken the bait. What do you want to do? I think we can talk."

Hearing that the other party seemed to be interested in communicating, Zhu Shijiu almost laughed.

"Let's talk? Let's talk in your torture chamber?"

The other party immediately fell silent.

It seemed that Zhu Shijiu had not expected that Zhu Shijiu could see through their thoughts so easily, which made the person on the other end of the phone very passive. Zhu Shijiu's intimate knowledge of them revealed in his words also caught them even more off guard.

"With all due respect, you are not worthy of further communication at all. Every time I say another word to you, I feel sick." Zhu Shijiu said slowly, staring at the picture in the telescope.

There is nothing to talk about when it comes to these guys who want to destroy the world.

He knew that these people were inexperienced, and even if he had a brief opportunity to talk to them as equals at this moment, he could not believe every word they said, because they would not reveal anything of obvious value in their words.

But he still won't give up communication.

Why don't you test because you don't think you can get any information? This is not his temperament, and he still wants to figure out the purpose of these people.

The refusal to cooperate shown now is just an illusion.

The person opposite said: "I think we can have a talk, right, Mr. Zhu?"

Damn, so fast!

Zhu Shijiu knew that the other party would definitely investigate his identity, but he didn't expect it to be so quick.

How many minutes has it been since these people discovered Brother Pian's cell phone?

"You investigated so quickly." Zhu Shijiu sighed, but there was no trace of annoyance in his tone.

Because he deliberately left this flaw. Knowing that Brother Pian would be found, he still used his real mobile phone number to contact Brother Pian. Zhu Shijiu just wanted to see how efficient their methods were. Now it turns out that their investigative capabilities are stronger than he expected.

Zhu Shijiu further improved his image of them in his mind, and at the same time decided not to leave any useful information next time.

There was some confusion in the other party's cold voice: "You don't care about your identity being exposed?"

"Let's stop these boring tests." Zhu Shijiu said, "You have a lot of questions, and I also have a lot of questions. How about we answer each other? One question for another."

He also made this proposal last week, but to no avail, they chose to continue torturing him.

This week, the answer he got was exactly the opposite.

--"good."

This is the difference in status and situation.

In the last week, he was just a fish on the chopping board, but now he has plotted against these people and even made them afraid. While they were temporarily helpless against Zhu Shijiu, they also had a certain sense of luck and hoped to obtain information in the process of communicating with Zhu Shijiu.

Zhu Shijiu smiled, still staring at the motionless teaching building in the distance through the telescope.

"In that case, you know my name, so I should know yours. How about we start answering each other's questions in a friendly atmosphere?"

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