Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 697: Killing One Person Every Ten Steps
With the reaction ability of ordinary people, vision cannot catch up with the movement speed of high-level enhanced people... The guard only saw a black shadow flashing from the top of the stairs and rushing towards him. Before he could even raise the muzzle of the gun, a huge force coming from the chest pushed him against the wall.
It was a deer hunting knife with gray-white lines on the blade. It pierced the guard's left chest, and about half an inch of the tip of the knife came out from the back. This knife not only killed the guard, but also pierced the corrosive seed that was parasitic in the guard's body.
Many tiny tentacles struggled to drill out of the guard's eye sockets, nasal cavity, ear canal and mouth, but before they could escape from the dead container, they themselves turned into corrupt pus and flowed down the cheeks of the corpse.
Ke Lan pulled out the deer hunting knife, avoiding the blood spurting out of the wound, wiped the blade with the guard's clothes, and put the knife back into the scabbard in his sleeve.
This knife was made by Layton on behalf of Ke Lan after the Alexander incident. The material and forging standards are exactly the same as Asano Akira's sword, but the appearance has been changed to a hunting knife with a blade length of 15 cm and extra thickening and weight on the spine and head to enhance the chopping ability according to Ke Lan's usage habits.
Hunting knives are usually used more as tools than weapons, but the knife in Ke Lan's hand can definitely be regarded as a combat knife tailor-made for him. Combined with the high-level enhanced human strength and speed, it can exert terrifying lethality in hand-to-hand combat.
Ke Lan laid the body against the wall down, searched his body for a while, and finally took out a "work permit" from his chest pocket.
However, this work permit does not belong to the New Star Chamber of Commerce, but comes from a PMC organization called "Black Shark Security Consulting Company".
"He's a mercenary." Ke Lan said, throwing the work permit to Aya.
"Black Shark Security Consulting Company... was established in the year 919 of the New Era. It is considered a long-established security contractor. It has business dealings with several large financial groups and often provides escort services for civilian transport teams in the wilderness... However, according to the clues obtained by the Security Bureau, they have no connection with the Nova Chamber of Commerce and the 'Tower of Babel'." Aya said.
"Of course I know Black Shark... It's one of the largest PMC companies on the Ark. If they are also the remnants of a heretical sect... then the situation will be troublesome." Ke Lan muttered.
As far as he knew, Black Shark Security Consulting Company had at least two thousand employees, of which about five hundred to eight hundred were combat personnel. In terms of weapons and equipment and personnel quality alone, these mercenaries were even stronger than ordinary garrison forces.
"This certificate is fake." Aya suddenly said, "I just sent this person's personal information back to the headquarters. The headquarters said that this person was not found in the list of registered employees of Black Shark Security Consulting Company, and the identification code was also forged. "
"It seems to be just a cover ." Ke Lan nodded.
The three of them walked down the stairs. The corridor on the seventh floor was still dark, with only the "Emergency Exit" sign in the corner emitting a faint green light.
However, there were many guards in this corridor. Ke Lan looked over and saw at least a dozen of them gathered there. Each of them had a gun and stood silently at his post.
"Has the operation been exposed?" Ke Lan's heart moved... Even if the New Star Chamber of Commerce is really the base camp of the remnants of the heretical sect, then under normal circumstances the defense should not be so strict. This posture of facing a powerful enemy... Could it be that they already know that they are being targeted?
Or was it that the fifteen-second power outage just now alerted the enemy?
"The situation is not optimistic..." Ke Lan looked at Aya, "Do you have a weapon that can kill all these guards instantly without being noticed?"
"If there are only half the number of guards, it's possible..." Aya shook her head. "The fire control system of this cyborg can only lock onto seven targets at the same time. If there are more, the accuracy and stability cannot be guaranteed."
Ke Lan couldn't help but regret not bringing Sanshisan with him. Otherwise, with his abilities, he could have manipulated those inconspicuous blades to cut the throats of the dozen guards at the same time.
Just when Ke Lan was thinking about how to bypass these guards, Asano Akira suddenly said: "If Breya can take out the seven guards at the farthest point, the rest can be left to me."
The depth of this corridor is about thirty-five meters. There are a total of thirteen guards guarding here, including six guards in addition to the seven guards at the farthest end. The farthest guard is fifteen meters away from the staircase where Ke Lan and the others are.
If Asano Akira could really kill all six of them before being noticed by the guards...
Ke Lan couldn't help but think of a famous poem: "Kill one person every ten steps, and leave no trace in a thousand miles."
But to use it here, it has to be at least multiplied by five, to kill five people in ten steps, in order to make it match.
"How sure are you?" Ke Lan asked.
"More than 90%."
Ke Lan knew Asano Akira very well. He never exaggerated. If he said he was more than 90% sure, then he was more than 90% sure.
However, Aya turned into a "bargainer" at this moment and asked, "What about the remaining 10%?"
"The failure rate is less than 10%, not 10%." Ke Lan corrected.
"It's no different." Aya said, "I can guarantee that I can kill those seven people 100%, but you still have a chance of failure. It's no different from gambling... In my opinion, it's a 50-50 chance, half success and half failure."
"Was your statistics taught by the physical education teacher?" Ke Lan couldn't help but complain in his heart.
"The 10% chance of failure refers to the situation where there are enhancers above level eight among these guards, and their bodies are parasitic with mutants that can enhance the defense of the 'container'." Asano Akira said.
An enhancer above level eight, and one with a mutant parasitic in his body that can enhance the defense of the "container"... Ke Lan couldn't help but curl his lips. Asano Akira was too modest. In fact, it would be the same if you just said you were 100% sure.
"Okay, same as usual. I count to three and you all attack at the same time." Ke Lan said, "Prioritize killing the guards. There's no need to force a one-on-two attack. If there are any surviving Corrosion Seeds, you can finish them off in the second round."
"One through two" means killing the "container" and the seed of erosion inside the "container" together, just like what Ke Lan did just now. This has very high requirements for the part of the attack - assuming that the core of a seed of erosion is located in the abdomen of the human body, attacking the abdomen will also be fatal, but it will not be able to make the opponent lose the ability to move in the first time... If any of these guards fires a shot or shouts, then everything will be too late.
