Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Every Peicheng citizen knows that gangs are not good things from a very young age, but gangs never worry about recruiting members, because the daily lives of many Peicheng citizens are not nourished by gangs. Able to remain humble. By joining a gang, you can not only improve your relative status in the food chain from the beginning, but you may even have the opportunity to continue climbing up.

The living conditions of some gang leaders are similar to those of middle-level managers in companies, and even have more freedom. They can enjoy large apartments, servants, and naturally grown and raised food... Such treatment is something that ordinary people may not be able to enjoy after working hard for a lifetime or even several lifetimes. The expensive price is one thing, and the lack of corresponding channels is another.

There are only a few ways to rise, and they are all written in the company's articles of association. Either you are extremely talented, have excellent shadow follower adaptability, study hard all the way for exams, become a shadow follower designer (only with good grades can you avoid becoming a shadow follower manipulator, also known as exchanging lives for money), and survive a wave of Waves are eliminated, the shadow slave ability is improved as much as possible, and more shadow slave implants are installed. This is Colonel Taff's path.

Another path is to become a company employee, climb up by any means necessary, choose the right leader and path, make great contributions to the company, pass various trust tests, and become the person in charge of a certain region. In Peicheng, such people are basically concentrated in Taiping District, with a small number still in Shangcheng District. Although they are considered to be popular, it is not certain whether they can enjoy all-natural food.

The third way is to join a gang. To put it bluntly, he is also a company dog, just a black dog. The competition on this road is also fierce, but its competition threshold is very low, and everyone can try it. To put it bluntly, if you get out of the gangster career and fight your way out, if you are ruthless and decisive enough, there is hope.

There are very few gang members who can take this road, there are only six in Peicheng, and Zhuang Xuteng and the others have their eyes on one of them. Rosa Miles, one of the three elders of the Canghuo Gang, was once known as "Ms. President". She had an [-]-square-meter mansion in Taiping District. This place is often used to hold the most important meetings of the Canghuo Gang. It is usually heavily guarded, and the security force equipped is equivalent to the level of the heads of the Peicheng branch of the four major companies. The only problem is: the security guards here are all from gangs, and their personal strength is definitely not as good as the company's internal security department.

The chaos in Peicheng caused by Zhuang Xuteng intensified. Moat's mercenaries, PCPD and other forces also participated, adding fuel to the fire. The attempts of the gang leaders to reduce the intensity had little effect. To avoid losses, gangs began moving assets that were not readily digestible, transporting and hiding them in safer neighborhoods.

Rosa Myers doesn't like the fact that her house has turned into a gang warehouse, but she also knows that by helping the gang, she is helping herself. At the age of 54, her physical fitness and energy began to decline, and her tolerance for imaging implants and various imaging enhancement devices also began to decline. Although she still maintains her authority and management of the gang and has a loyal force under her, she must start thinking about finding a successor and gradually fade out of the gang.

It's not that easy to leave a gang. It's not like a mercenary getting out of a gang and retiring anonymously. No, the only way to safely retire from the gang was to enter a corporate position or to seek an official position in a constitutional government under a corporate appointment. The simplest but most unsafe channel is to become a member of parliament. You can do it by just paying for a ticket. The problem is that if you get up easily today, you don't know when you will be easily removed.

Madam President's ambitions are not that low. She wants to be a judge, preferably a criminal court judge. If successful, she can continue to provide conveniences to the gang and create value for the company. And in that position, as long as it does not damage the company's interests, it is basically a lifelong career, and the position is quite stable.

Spring elections for the court system were imminent, and she was busy trying to make connections and get herself involved in the system. This kind of thing cannot be done in one step. Go in first, perform well, and then adjust. In three to five years, she can clear herself and become a justice in Peicheng.

At this time, it is best to reduce your contact with gangs, especially when you appear in the same scene with low-level gangsters. There is also competition within gangs and between gangs. She can't play with the secret and shady methods. Who can't play with the overt methods of taking a photo and sending it to the media to destroy her "system"?

Whether she is a judge or not, whether she wants to retire, has nothing to do with Zhuang Xuteng, and he doesn't know the news; Zhuang Xuteng thinks that the things stored by the Canghuo Gang in her family's vault have something to do with him, and it is best to keep them in his pocket. .

After three months of busy work, it was time to pack up and prepare to run away. The trio of Zhuang Xuteng, Nightingale and Yanque decided to do something big. They patiently collected a large amount of intelligence about the gang, and after comprehensive analysis, they believed that the benefits of Rosa Miles should be worth the risks of the operation. Under normal circumstances, most of the goods stored in gang warehouses are disorganized and of low value, and many contraband items are difficult to handle. However, the residence of "Ms. President" must have gathered the gang's most elite property, and it is highly secure, so it is unlikely to be contraband that will die if exposed.

Whether it is theft or robbery, the first thing to consider is the issue of selling stolen goods - to put it bluntly, work cannot be done in vain. Zhuang Xuteng supported this view. This time their goal was property, not killing people - they had killed enough in three months - so he also began to study how to get rid of Rosa Miles.

Without any information inside the gang, they couldn't get Rosa Myers' schedule and take action while she was away from home. The "Ms. President"'s manor was relatively independent, and Zhuang Xuteng could not find a suitable location for long-term latent observation. You must know that people living in Taiping District are either rich or noble. Every household has its own security protection. If you are not careful, it is easy to cause a chain reaction. The security guard at Ms. President's home is a gang member, and her neighbor's home may be a company security guard, or even more dangerous. This operation must be controlled to only target Rosa Miles, and cannot affect the surrounding areas, nor can it take advantage of the "convenience" of the surrounding environment. This poses a relatively severe challenge to the team.

Two intelligence officers were responsible for collecting the situation, and the action plan was formulated by Zhuang Xuteng. Nightingale and Yanque claimed that they could not understand Zhuang Xuteng's stealth and fighting abilities, so they stopped interrupting. As long as Zhuang Xuteng thinks he can do it, they completely believe it. Their only request is that Zhuang Xuteng needs to clarify his requirements for the on-site support of the two intelligence officers. What kind of effect and cooperation he wants must be clearly explained and rehearsed in advance.

"You are the one who sneaks in and takes the risk, so you can't be careless. I suggest that we take this opportunity to practice a few preset tactics, so that when you need it, we can cooperate more quickly."

Nightingale's advice was timely. Having mastered all the necromancy spells of the Wraith system, and with the fact that Miss Bone Spear and Thousand-Eyed Cloak can be put into actual combat, the tactical coordination of their team really needs to be improved simultaneously. Based on the situation of this investigation, with Zhuang Xuteng as the leader, and based on his habitual movements and common abilities, they preset several situations and carried out targeted exercises and preparations respectively.

In fact, this feels a bit like when they first teamed up to steal the casino group's treasury train. As the saying goes, slow work leads to careful work, so the three people decided to conduct three test and reconnaissance operations on the spot before actually starting to take action. Only by combining the content on the Internet with the information obtained from on-site investigation can we distinguish the authenticity and correct the omissions.

Unlike most manor mansions in the Taiping District, Rosa Myers' "Presidential Garden" is completely surrounded by a three-meter-high wall with barbed wire on top. It's all for security reasons, but it feels more like a fortress than a residence. The surrounding neighbors despise this architectural style. Even though Rosa spends a lot of money to keep the outside of the wall covered with creeping plants all year round and constantly renews the flower bushes at the base of the wall, it maintains the lush vitality that is rare in Peicheng. The crown on her head We can’t throw away the labels of nouveau riche and uneducated.

It can only be said that people have different needs and have different opinions. The high wall, which was ridiculed by the surrounding neighbors, was a troublesome problem for Zhuang Xuteng. Based on their observations, security personnel installed motion alarms on the walls and supplemented the dynamic surveillance with another system slightly further away. Continuous low-frequency sound waves constantly pass over the walls, and they work like bats, using echoes to find and track sneaking targets. Therefore, if you want to cross the wall, you must not move too fast. For example, if you move over slowly like a snail, you will be ignored by the dynamic monitoring. Slow motion consumes time, and you must consider the issues that patrollers, sentry personnel and passers-by may notice. They initially planned to attack at night, as darkness and shadows would provide the best cover. But in reality, this group of people installed more than thirty searchlights, six of which shot into the sky, constantly changing colors and shapes, imitating the light show of a carnival ball, in order to cover the other twenty-four searchlights that were constantly scanning the wall.

At first glance, you can tell that this trick was learned from the prison. Although it is extremely incompatible with the environment of Taiping District, it is really easy to use. Zhuang Xuteng used the Eye of Kaho to look at the searchlight. It not only used visible light, but also used infrared rays to detect temperature changes.

Since it is impossible to keep the temperature of the wall and the climbing vines that are trying to grow new buds consistent with their own, they will definitely be detected by the infrared temperature sensor. Therefore, we can only go over quickly when the searchlight is not sweeping over, otherwise we will hit the motion detector. In this way, neither fast nor slow will work.
  It is difficult to climb over a wall, and airborne landings are difficult to control and risky. Relatively speaking, getting under a car and sneaking in is more promising. But when Zhuang Xuteng walked around to the front, he discovered that a lighted mirror was installed in front of the vehicle entry and exit gate. When the vehicle passed, it had to drive through a piece of extremely load-bearing tempered glass. The light under the glass would illuminate the bottom of the car, and there was a camera next to it. Each car must be inspected before entering, and no pass will be obtained without a reservation. After this series of operations, Zhuang Xuteng began to admire the lady president.

"Rosa Miles had a group of subordinates when she was in the Blue Fire Gang. They had many murders on their hands, including the assassination of unions, journalists and some law enforcement officials. This person's record is quite impressive. Maybe these protective measures are derived from Her experience." Yanque held her chin and said: "We have checked, and the results of searchlights and car mirrors are not within the manor's network system, but are directly connected to the handheld terminals of the guards on duty through wired methods. . The two of us can only modify it by directly touching the data line. But in that case, it would be better to kill the person on duty directly. "

Yanque's words reminded Zhuang Xuteng. Not alerting the enemy is a kind of stealth, so that the enemy will not be alerted, it is also stealth, so he began to think about whether it was feasible to kill all the security forces in the manor.

This is not nonsense, some mercenaries have actually done this. Practice has proven that eradicating all security forces is quite suitable for theft-type commissions - who wouldn't like the process of unlimited transportation of treasures?
  "Can you let me see the surveillance screen?" Zhuang Xuteng said to the two sisters: "No control is required, as long as I can see it. The only requirement must be real-time."

"We can get the pictures, but how do you see it? At least forty pictures, not that much screen for you."

"I use Flathead Brother to receive these signals, activate zombie mode, and then the surveillance images can be transmitted to my eyes."

"In zombie mode, you are half paralyzed..." Nightingale blinked and asked, "Isn't it dangerous?"

"I don't have to be in a semi-paralyzed state all the time. I just look at it occasionally when needed." Zhuang Xuteng smiled, avoided getting entangled on this topic, and asked: "Is it safe for you to transmit signals to Brother Pingtou? Will it be blocked? Discover?"

Nightingale said: "We also use Brother Pingtou to send signals, so that we can use the battlefield-specific communication protocol between Brother Pingtou. This protocol is only installed and used in Brother Pingtou's equipment. Unless there are other brothers Pingtou here that we don't know about, and It just so happens that it stands in our communication protocol in advance among the [-] million options, and it remains silent and eavesdropping, otherwise no one knows what we are transmitting."

Yanque added: "It doesn't matter even if it is discovered. What we transmit is the monitoring signal. We don't make any changes at all. We just watch it and our own information will not be exposed."

"Okay, let's try this method." Zhuang Xuteng recalled the floor plan of the entire building and found the best covering method and hiding spot based on the activity ranges of the sick lady, shadow, thousand-eyed cloak and resentful spirit jelly.

Since it is difficult to cross the wall, let's not cross it and start killing people outside the wall. No matter the motion detector or the infrared searchlight, they have no effect on the sick lady; even if there is shadow energy detection, Zhuang Xuteng has the Thousand Eyes Cloak to deal with it.

The key to the success of the operation is not being discovered by the enemy in infiltration actions, but becoming undetected by the enemies in assassination actions. There are two types of guards in the "President's Garden". Patrollers carrying weapons and communication equipment are considered one type, and those who use wired signals to monitor various alarms at fixed posts are considered the second type. In order to prevent signals from being hijacked, they used independent wired connections in several key systems; this connection method separated people and gave Zhuang Xuteng the opportunity to execute and defeat each system independently.

Sequence, method, and timing are the key elements of assassination. Zhuang Xuteng has to deal with a dynamic and complex defense system, which tests his brain power, especially his ability to coordinate multiple tasks in parallel. Another test is mana. The sick lady’s daily actions include maintaining the Thousand Eyes Cloak, unfolding the Wraith Jelly, and providing ammunition for the Banshee’s Wail and Bone Spear Technique...

Zhuang Xuteng suddenly missed Legion Juice. Before Boss Qian was forced to leave, the juice was very good for restoring energy and had no side effects. It's a pity that he drank it all long ago in order to practice.

It seems that I can only take a good sleep first to recuperate my energy before carrying out this mission.

(End of this chapter)