387: Chapter 387 Infrared Rays in the Dark

"Zzz—Zzz—!"

The deep blue cutting sparks, like a maddened venomous snake, gnawed frantically at the 1.2-meter-thick titanium alloy giant door.

This was a safe house fifty meters underground. In the absolute darkness of a complete power outage, that piercing firelight became the only illumination.

Molten liquid metal from the high temperature dripped one by one along the door crack onto the concrete floor, sending up waves of nauseating burnt smell.

"Crazy... they're all crazy!"

Captain Zhao Tie pressed himself tightly against the corner, his legs shaking uncontrollably.

He gripped the communicator, which no longer had any signal, his knuckles pale from excessive force.

"This is a military-grade blast door! Even an anti-materiel sniper rifle couldn't penetrate it! What on earth did they use?!" Captain Zhao Tie's voice was filled with extreme despair, his throat making a heavy, bellows-like wheezing sound.

"Shut up, Captain Zhao."

Chen Mo's icy voice drifted from the other end of the darkness, devoid of any emotion. "Your breathing is too loud; it's affecting my ability to hear."

"Hear? Hear what!"

Captain Zhao Tie roared in collapse, "Outside is a bunch of lunatics who don't even care about their lives for money! They have night vision goggles, thermal imaging! Once the door opens, we'll all be shot into sieves!"

"Su Qingxue." Chen Mo ignored Captain Zhao Tie's hysteria.

"I'm here." Su Qingxue's voice came from not far away. Although it trembled slightly, she still maintained the composure expected of a criminal investigator.

"Drag him to the blind spot of the ventilation duct at the three o'clock position. No matter what sound you hear or what firelight you see later, cover his mouth. You absolutely cannot make a single sound." Chen Mo spoke very fast, yet surprisingly steady.

"Understood!" Su Qingxue walked over in the dark, grabbed the strap of Captain Zhao Tie's bulletproof vest, and forcibly dragged this strong man, who was about to go limp, toward the blind spot.

Nightingale didn't make a sound, but Chen Mo could feel that the ghostly girl had completely blended into the darkness, like a bat hanging upside down in the shadows of the ceiling, ready to harvest throats at any time.

Chen Mo stood alone in the open space less than five meters from the door.

He closed his eyes.

In this lightless iron can, vision had become a burden.

Deep in his mind, he pushed the power of the Heartbeat Localization system to its limit.

"Thump—Thump—"

The faint yet clear heartbeats penetrated the blast steel plate being cut and were projected directly onto Chen Mo's retina.

It wasn't the red of vision, but deep red light spots representing vital signs.

Outside the door, there were six light spots in total.

Arranged in a professional double-triangle indoor assault formation.

Two of them had heart rates of around ninety beats per minute, revealing the excitement of impending slaughter;

Another three were around seventy, steady;

And the one standing right in the middle, closest to the door crack...

His heart rate was actually only fifty-five beats per minute!

Cold-blooded, cruel, and without even a hint of emotional fluctuation regarding the imminent breach.

The corners of Chen Mo's mouth curled up slightly.

That was the excitement only felt when a hunter encounters top-tier prey.

"The High-Frequency Cutter has stopped working."

Chen Mo spoke suddenly, his voice extremely soft, yet it reached Su Qingxue's ears in the blind spot with unerring accuracy.

"Cover your ears, open your mouth wide, and keep your eyes tightly shut."

Just as he finished speaking.

"Creak—Bang!"

Amidst the tooth-aching sound of tearing metal, the titanium alloy door panel—which had been tormented by liquid nitrogen and High-Frequency Cutters for a full five minutes—was violently kicked flying from the outside by a massive force!

A half-meter square gap appeared abruptly!

Immediately after, two crisp "ting-ting" sounds rang out.

Two cylindrical metal objects rolled in at high speed through the gap.

Stun Grenades!

"Boom—!!!"

Over twenty million candelas of intense white light instantly filled the entire safe house, accompanied by a terrifying roar of over a hundred and seventy decibels.

If exposed to this explosion without preparation, the optic nerves and eardrums would be completely destroyed within 0.1 seconds, and the brain would fall into a state of severe dizziness lasting several minutes.

But Chen Mo was prepared.

An instant before the Stun Grenade exploded, he had already turned his back to the source, eyes tightly shut, and hands covering his ears.

Even so, that terrifying shockwave still made his chest feel tight.

Before the light had completely dissipated.

The deep red light spots in Chen Mo's mind moved!

"Whoosh—whoosh—"

Two extremely agile dark shadows, stepping through the lingering smoke and dust, lunged in from the gap like arrows released from a bow!

They wore Individual Low-Light Night Vision Goggles on their heads and held Submachine Guns equipped with silencers in their hands.

This was a top-tier tactical assault! Utilizing the blinding window of the Stun Grenades to conduct an indiscriminate sweep!

"Puff, puff, puff, puff!"

The muffled gunshots instantly tore through the air, bullets pouring out like an invisible net of fire toward several general hiding spots within the safe house.

However, they were all spraying at conventional hiding positions.

The first killer to burst in was the guy wearing a clown mask.

His heart rate had now soared to a hundred and ten beats per minute, a morbid climax brought on by slaughter.

"Come out, little ten-million-dollar mouse! Your meat must be very tender!"

The Joker sneered in raspy English, the green light of his night vision goggles scanning quickly through the darkness.

Nothing.

There was nothing at all!

The center of the safe house was empty!

Just as the Joker was about to turn and give a tactical hand signal to the second assaulter.

He suddenly felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.

A cold wind carrying a thick scent of death suddenly struck from his visual blind spot—the shadow pressed tightly against the left wall!

Too fast!

So fast that the Joker had no time to turn his gun!

Chen Mo was like a black panther that had been lurking in the dark for a long time, not making a single footstep.

He perfectly avoided the scanning angle of the night vision goggles and even bypassed the trajectory of the bullets.

His eyes were still closed.

In the radar of Heartbeat Localization, that red dot beating at a hundred and ten times per minute was the best bullseye.

"Whoosh—!"

Under the explosive power of Chen Mo's terrifying upper body strength, the half-meter-long solid steel pipe tore through the air, letting out a chilling whistle!

"Crack!"

The hair-raising sound of bones fracturing exploded inside the safe house!

This strike accurately smashed into the Joker's right wrist, which was holding the gun!

A comminuted fracture!

The Submachine Gun flew out of his hand and crashed against the distant wall.

A heart-wrenching scream had just squeezed out of the Joker's throat, but before the sound could pass his vocal cords—

Chen Mo's wrist flicked eerily, and using the rebounding force, the steel pipe traced a cold semi-arc in the air; the second strike followed immediately!

"Bang!"

This time, one end of the steel pipe slammed into the Joker's throat like a sledgehammer!

His Adam's apple shattered instantly.

His trachea was severed on the spot.

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