Trickster Hunter

Chapter 307 Ventilation Duct

"That's all we can do." Battalion Commander Geng said, "Then what are you going to do next?"

"Since no more clues can be found outside, we plan to enter Factory No. 1 to investigate." Ding Chao said.

"Okay, be careful."

The field operators of Group 67 who had reunited gathered in front of the main entrance of Factory No. 1. After using the meme detection equipment to check for the last time and confirming that no abnormalities were found, Ding Chao moved towards a short man wearing a mask. The operator wearing myopic tactical goggles nodded.

This field operator's name is Sharma, who is a quarter of Tianzhu blood, and is also a correspondent in the 67th field team.

Tianzhu is a very strange country. The illiteracy rate is as high as 50%. However, the number of programmers accounts for 0.2% of the country's total population, which is even higher than that of a country like Xiazhou Federation, which has an illiteracy rate of only 1%. high.

On the other side of the ocean, in the United States, programmers of Indian origin account for more than 70% of the total number of programmers in the United States. Even the number one IT company in the United States, "Ju Hard", the last CEO and chairman of the board was an Indian. people.

Sharma may have inherited the magical talent of programmers from Tianzhu. He has shown extraordinary talent in the field of computer programming since he was a child. He won the championship of various programming competitions in elementary school, junior high school and high school - it is a pity that this The guy went astray when he was in college and became a hacker. He relied on his excellent skills and the loopholes in the security system of a private bank to steal hundreds of millions of virtual currencies from the bank's account.

According to federal cybersecurity laws, this amount was enough to put Sharma in jail... Fortunately, the money had not been spent when he was arrested, and his talents were spotted by military bosses. , which saved him from jail... and his identity changed from a shady hacker to a white hat working for the military.

After Ye Jiu learned about Sharma's ability, he relied on his stalking skills to dig this person over. Of course, there was another most important reason: Sharma himself was very interested in investigation and investigation. He is also very interested in studying weird objects... He once saw many confidential files related to weird objects when he hacked into the federal official database. Since then, he has been deeply fascinated by these dangerous and weird things. Lived.

In addition to his talent as a programmer, Sharma also has another hobby due to his Indian ancestry: seeking death.

After Ye Jiu and Sharma sent out invitations, the two hit it off - the man was affectionate and the concubine was interested... It didn't take long for Sharma to naturally leave the army and become a member of the field department of the Tianfu City Monster Research Institute.

"It depends on your ability, Sharma." Ding Chao said.

"Team leader, just keep an eye on it." Sharma walked forward and put a suction cup that was very similar to a stethoscope on the door lock of the factory door. Then he sat cross-legged on the ground and took it out of the satchel behind him. got a laptop.

He plugged the other end of the "stethoscope" into the computer, and with his fingers tapping rapidly on the keyboard, strings of dense codes scrolled crazily on the screen.

One minute, two minutes...

Four minutes, five minutes...

Ten minutes passed, and the code on the screen was still scrolling, but the door made of special alloy was motionless, and fine beads of sweat oozed from Sharma's forehead.

"How long will it take?" Ding Chao frowned and asked softly.

"I...I'm not sure." Sharma's voice was a little dry. "To be honest, similar security programs are much more complicated than this. I have cracked a lot of them...but this door lock is really weird. Well, every time when I was about to complete the crack, its underlying code would be reset directly, causing my previous efforts to fall short... Logically speaking, it is impossible for a security program of this level to achieve this level! "

"I don't understand." Ding Chao, who knew nothing about computers, shook his head, "Can you describe it in a more layman's terms?"

"It's like I'm in a maze. Whenever I'm about to reach the exit of the maze, the road inside the maze will become unrecognizable, and my position will be reset to the center of the maze... This is nothing special. A clever security measure, because its biggest disadvantage is that it requires very high computing power.”

"How high?" Ding Chao couldn't help but ask.

"At least one supercomputer is needed to meet this demand... There is only one of this kind of supercomputer in the Tianfu City Research Institute in the entire Shuzhou region." Sharma wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand and muttered. murmured.

"Then if we use the supercomputer in the Institute of Creatures, can we crack this door lock?" Yin Xiang asked.

"Yes, but it will take at least six to eight hours." Sharma said, "I estimate it is six to eight hours, but specifically..."

"We don't have that much time." Ding Chao interrupted him, "You continue to crack the door lock, and the others will think about whether there is any other way to enter the factory without using brute force."

"Can you use a laser cutter to make a hole in the wall and get in?" a field operator suggested.

"Difficult." Ding Chao shook his head immediately. "Before I set out, I had seen the design drawings of the No. 105 factory. The thinnest part of the factory's outer wall is one and a half meters thick. Except for the concrete outer wall, the inside is all made up of steel structure modules. If the laser cutting machine has a high power, it may damage the equipment placed against the wall. If the power is low, it will be difficult to cut it quickly... At the same time, when cutting, the internal steel structure will also conduct high temperature to the inside of the factory, which will also damage those precision equipment... No!"

"Then how about digging a tunnel?" The field operator said again.

"The steel structure outer wall is fourteen meters deep underground, and we don't have the right excavation tools now... How many hours do you plan to dig?" Ding Chao said helplessly.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Yin Xiang looked up and saw a vent covered by wire mesh more than twenty meters above the ground. Inside the vent, several dirty propeller blades were slowly turning.

"Ventilation duct!" Yin Xiang said, "We can get in through the ventilation duct!"

"Ventilation duct..." Ding Chao fell into deep thought.

Although the production workshop of Factory 105 is fully enclosed, the staff lounge and office rooms inside the factory are still connected to the outside world by ventilators - but Ding Chao remembered clearly that the design drawings stated that the ventilation ducts inside the factory were all 400 mm x 550 mm in size, and normal human bodies could not get in at all... unless this person is an acrobat who has mastered the "bone shrinking skill".

"You can't get in through the ventilator..." Ding Chao said, "It's too small..."

At this moment, his eyes stayed on Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu.

Ling Xiao is still a child, and his figure is even shorter than that of the thin Sharma... As for Jiang Yu, she is thin to begin with, and her infection meme comes from Tai Sui. From a certain perspective, she can really use the "bone shrinking skill".

"Can you two... try it?" Ding Chao asked.

"I? I should..." Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment, looked up at the narrow ventilation hole, and looked a little hesitant, "Should, should be possible."

"I can try." Ling Xiao's answer was straightforward.

"I will use drones to clear the way for you. The communication inside the factory is not blocked. If the drone in front finds that something is wrong, you can withdraw immediately." Ding Chao said again.

"Okay... okay." Jiang Yu nodded.

With the help of other operators, the two quickly took off all the extra equipment on their bodies, leaving only a set of tight combat uniforms on their bodies, and even shoes were not left.

Ling Xiao hung the holster of the "God Killer Gun" around his neck, and held a sheathed military dagger in his mouth.

Jiang Yu replaced his weapon with a foldable short bow, tied it tightly to the outside of his thigh with an elastic band, and on the other side, he tied several arrows specifically for the short bow and a curved hunting knife with serrations on the back of the knife.

She untied the ponytail at the back of her head, then braided it into a pigtail and stuffed it into the collar at the back of her neck.

After being "transformed" into a hunter, her hair grew back, black and dense, not at all sparse before.

A field operator climbed to the side of the vent with the help of a climbing suction cup, cut the wire mesh with a welding gun, and removed the fan of the vent.

Then, everyone used a pulley and a rappelling rope to lift Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu to the front of the vent.

Jiang Yu glanced at the dark vent and subconsciously resisted.

"I'll go in first." Ling Xiao saw Jiang Yu's hesitation and said directly.

"Still... I'll go in first." Jiang Yu gritted his teeth, "I'm older than you and I'm a hunter, so I should be the first."

"Whatever you want." Ling Xiao said, still expressionless.

A drone in the shape of a remote control car was first put into the ventilation duct. After the drone drove forward for a minute, Jiang Yu carefully untied the rappelling rope on her body and got into the ventilation duct.

Then came Ling Xiao, biting the dagger.

The duct was very narrow. With Jiang Yu's slender figure, she couldn't stretch her hands and feet - she could only curl up into a ball, like a caterpillar, and crawl forward in a creeping manner.

Fortunately, the Tai Sui meme gave her amazing muscle strength and some anti-human movements that ordinary people could not do at all. Even if she was creeping, Jiang Yu's speed was not too slow.

Thanks to the outrageous family environment and scarce material conditions, even among his peers, Ling Xiao's figure was thin and short. Compared with Jiang Yu, a former athlete, he could crawl freely on all fours in the ventilation duct.

"The drone found nothing unusual." Ding Chao's voice came from the headsets of the two people, "You can continue to move forward, maintain this speed and distance."

"Understood..." Jiang Yu replied, her voice was very low, as if she was afraid of waking something up.

Ling Xiao, biting the dagger, did not reply, he just followed Jiang Yu closely and crawled forward silently.

From Ling Xiao's perspective, as long as he looked up, he could see Jiang Yu's hip curves outlined by the tight combat uniform and the white feet under his buttocks - but Ling Xiao, who was deprived of all emotions by Anna, would not think about those things between men and women at all. The only thought in his mind was how Jiang Yu could perform those incredible movements with the human body structure.

"Are you two okay?" Ding Chao asked, with some worry in his tone.

"I'm fine... I was a little uncomfortable at first, but I'm much better now." Jiang Yu replied while squirming in the pipe.

Ling Xiao said "um" with a nasal sound, indicating that he was also fine.

"I just looked at the design of the No. 1 plant again. The one you entered is the A3 ventilation vent, which is connected to the three employee lounges, a locker room, a general equipment storage room and an entertainment room on the fourth floor of the plant. These six rooms have exits. The closest one to you should be the entertainment room... Move forward 20 meters and turn a corner, and you will see it."

As Ding Chao said, Jiang Yu climbed 20 meters, twisted his body and squeezed through the right-angle bend with great effort, and then saw a downward branching pipe not far ahead. The light cut into countless small pieces by the mesh grille was projected from below and shone on the pipe wall.

"The entertainment room is below. The drone is not equipped with additional equipment and cannot open the pipe mouth. It depends on you." Ding Chao said.

"Okay..."

Jiang Yu crawled forward a short distance, stuck her upper body in the main ventilation duct, and stretched her lower body into the branch duct - the branch duct was only half a meter long, and Jiang Yu's bare feet stepped on the cold metal grille at once.

"Just use brute force... to kick it open?" Jiang Yu asked.

"Well, try to be careful."

After getting a positive answer, Jiang Yu took a deep breath, grabbed the edge of the main duct with both hands, concentrated her strength on her right leg, and stepped down hard.

With a "click", several screws used to fix the metal grille flew out instantly, and the severely deformed metal grille also fell down at the same time - fortunately, the floor of the entertainment room was covered with a thick layer of flocked carpet, and the metal grille did not make any alarming noise when it fell on it.

Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, loosened her hands, and fell into the room.

The area of ​​this entertainment room is not large, only more than 30 square meters, with no windows and only a closed door.

A pool table was placed in the most conspicuous position in the room. There were two old leather sofas against the wall, and two dartboards were hung on the wall.

There was also an electric mahjong table near the door... but the mahjong table seemed to have some problems. There were constant sounds of gears getting stuck and slight sounds of mahjong tiles colliding with each other.

"I came in." Jiang Yu said while pressing the headset, "There were no traces of humans or monsters in the room."