"Is he dead?" Zofia asked softly.

"Dead." Ke Lan nodded, "But he should not be the only one."

Although Ke Lan was still complaining that the villa's security personnel were a bunch of losers not long ago, no matter what, it was absolutely impossible for this attacker to break into this place alone.

"Is he here to assassinate me?" Zofia asked again.

"The target could also be me." Ke Lan picked up a piece of vase debris from the ground and used the reflection from the smooth surface of the porcelain to observe the situation in the corridor. Apart from the bodies of several security guards, there were only charred marks caused by the explosion on the ground.

"The attacker should have used a grenade to kill several bodyguards in the corridor, and then walked directly to the door with a shotgun..." Ke Lan reconstructed the scene in his mind - but the problem was that before the attacker entered the corridor, they didn't hear any sound, no alarms, gunshots or screams... It is absolutely impossible for one person to quietly eliminate all the people outside without alerting any guards or alarm devices. Even an advanced modified person like the Six Samurai can't do it.

The attacker must have accomplices.

At this time, Sofia crawled to the side of the corpse using her hands and feet, and pushed up the sleeve of the corpse's left arm.

The left arm of the corpse was a "flower arm" covered with tattoos, but unlike the "container" missionary he had encountered on the train, this person's tattoos were the kind of Japanese tattoos that are very common on gangsters.

"He is a member of the 'Arasaka Samurai Club'." Zofia pointed at the tattoo and whispered, "But he is not a member who pays membership fees. He is a 'die warrior' who sells his life to the club. The ghost mask on his left arm is called 'Prajna', which is a symbol of his identity. Inside the club, these people are called 'ninjas'."

"It is said that those warriors who advocate the old era culture look down on ninjas. How come the Samurai Club supports such a group of ninjas?" Ke Lan asked in some confusion.

"'Ninja' is just a pseudonym, because these assassins do some dirty work that cannot be seen in public, just like the ninjas in the old era, so they got this title... But one thing is certain, the ninjas under the Arasaka Group never act alone, their smallest organization is a team of three." Zofia said.

"That means there are at least two more people..."

Just when Ke Lan was about to lean out, he heard footsteps in the corridor outside, and he quickly shrank back.

"More than two," he said to Zofia.

"I have sent out a distress signal, but I'm not sure how long it will take for help to arrive." A look of anxiety appeared on Zofia's face.

Ke Lan turned around and glanced at the bedroom, finally locking her eyes on the big bed that could accommodate seven or eight people. She said, "You should hide under the bed first to avoid being accidentally injured... If a fight breaks out later, I may not have time to take care of you."

"Okay." Sofia nodded, quickly crawled to the bed and got in.

"One... two... three... a total of five people's footsteps. It seems that there are two groups of three." Ke Lan muttered to himself, took a deep breath, and suddenly extended the muzzle of the gun out from the door, turned on the full-automatic shooting mode, and fired blindly at the corridor outside!

The sound of someone falling to the ground came from outside, along with a groan of pain. Then, a dense rain of bullets poured in from outside the door. In order to avoid the damage from ricochets, Ke Lan had to leave the position behind the door.

"At least one was killed and one was seriously injured..." There were two people who fell to the ground just now, but there was only one groaning. It seemed that the other one should have been killed by me. In this case, there are three enemies left.

“Boom.”

There was a sound of something heavy hitting the tiled floor outside, and as it got closer, a dark metal sphere rolled into the room.

"Grenade!" Ke Lan's eyes twitched wildly and he quickly lay down.

"Boom!" The gusts of air generated by the explosion swept across Ke Lan's body, and the loud noise made his eardrums hurt. But that was not the worst. Two flying metal fragments pierced into his right shoulder, and the unbearable pain made him unable to even raise his gun and aim.

The goal of this group of people was to kill himself or Zofia, and they had no intention of leaving anyone alive.

Ke Lan switched the Gauss pistol to his left hand and kept some distance from the door. Before he could find a corner to hide, an attacker wearing heavy armor broke in. Unlike the first attacker who was killed, he had a low-light night vision goggles on his head and saw Ke Lan squatting next to the closet at a glance.

But he was still a beat too slow, and Ke Lan pulled the trigger before him - although it felt awkward to shoot with his left hand, the recoil of the Gauss pistol was negligible, so it didn't affect the accuracy that much. The electromagnetic bullet with huge kinetic energy easily tore through the attacker's heavy armor and knocked him to the ground.

"There are two left."

Ke Lan glanced at the display screen on the gun. There were still 31 rounds left in the magazine. If the opponent did not use explosives or some high-powered weapons that could directly penetrate the wall, it should be more than enough to deal with these two people. However, the second grenade thrown in made Ke Lan instantly give up this idea.

"boom!!"

This time, Ke Lan was not hit directly by the fragments, but a cut more than ten centimeters long was still left on the side of his waist, and bright red blood spread across his clothes.

He absolutely could not stay in the room any longer. No one knew how many grenades the attackers had brought. If one of the grenades happened to bounce at his feet or roll next to the bed, he and Zofia would have no chance of escaping.

I have to find a way to leave the room...

Zofia's bedroom only has one door, and behind the windows on both sides are highly realistic LED screens. She can't jump out of the window, and if she rushes out of the door, she will directly run into the guns of the two attackers outside...

"Zofia!" Ke Lan called softly under the bed with the mentality of giving it a try, "Does your bedroom have any secret escape route?"

"Yes...behind the wardrobe, that wall tile that can be pushed, there is an elevator behind it that can go directly to the basement of the villa." Zofia replied.

"...Why didn't you say so earlier?" Ke Lan was a little surprised. He just asked casually, but he didn't expect it to be true.

But when you think about it, it's not too outrageous. When designing a luxury villa like this, things like safe rooms and escape routes will definitely be included. It's just that escape routes are usually set up in less noticeable rooms such as study rooms or storage rooms. As for building one in the bedroom, this is the first time he has heard of it.

"I didn't have the chance to say it just now..." Sofia seemed a little aggrieved.

"Let's not talk about this for now. Go open the passage and I'll cover you." Ke Lan said, raising his gun once again and firing several shots at the corridor outside the door, trying to use ricochets to temporarily force back the two people outside.