Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 711: Clone Death Soldiers
"Who are you? You--" Ke Lan walked towards a man in black who had landed on the roof and asked loudly. But before he could finish his question, the other party had already raised his gun.
But the other party did not open fire immediately. Instead, he instantly turned the gun towards the instructor in Ke Lan's hand and pulled the trigger!
"Dang! Ding! Ding!" A burst of sparks accompanied by a crisp sound of metal collision rang out in front of Ke Lan - when the other party raised the gun, Asano Akira had already flashed to Ke Lan's side and swung his knife to block all the bullets.
"Asshole! What are you doing?!" Ke Lan threw the instructor in his hand to Asano Akira for protection, and rushed forward instantly, kicked the man in black to the ground, and stepped hard on his chest.
" Who is your commander?" Ke Lan almost shouted.
The man in black did not say anything. Ke Lan pulled off his mask and found that the guy had committed suicide by taking poison. A streak of black blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
The other men in black rushed over here. Ke Lan and Asano Akira used their bodies as human shields to protect the two instructors of the heretic sect behind them. Seeing this, the men in black did not choose to shoot at them, but turned around and rushed towards the staircase door.
"Asano Akira! Stop them! Don't hold back!" Ke Lan roared, "Also, rush to the entrance of the underground floor before them. No one is allowed to enter the underground part of the building without my order!"
"Okay." As soon as Asano Akira's voice was received by Ke Lan's ears, his figure disappeared from the spot - when he first appeared, he had already jumped down the stairs.
The men in black who were overtaken by him paused at first, and then a large amount of blood spurted out from their ankles.
Although Ke Lan told them not to hold back, Asano Akira still did not choose to kill them. He simply chopped off the legs of the men in black.
These men in black who fell to the ground did not utter a groan, and soon stopped struggling - just like the first guy knocked down by Ke Lan, they all chose to commit suicide by taking poison without any hesitation.
"Damn... they are a bunch of assassins." Ke Lan cursed angrily, "I can only pray that Asano Akira arrives at the basement before everyone else and guards the door... otherwise, we will be in big trouble."
"I just asked the special agent team responsible for guarding various intersections... They said that the passes this group of people got were from the Undead Crew, and that the passes were jointly issued by at least three crew members... So, even if you guard the intersection yourself, you can't stop them." Aya said to Ke Lan.
"The certificate jointly issued by three crew members... That means there are at least three traitors?" Ke Lan couldn't help but clench his fists. "Damn it, these bastards, don't they even want to act anymore?"
"Can you identify these people?" Ke Lan brought the nearest body of the man in black to Aya.
Aya just took a look and shook her head: "The Ark Citizen Archives do not have the identities of these people. They are 'illegal residents'... I think they are most likely from the wilderness."
"They didn't come from the wilderness." Ke Lan rejected it outright... The words "β-type replicants" emerged in his mind.
These people may have just been born from artificial wombs for less than 24 hours, but the false memories set up during infancy and the bodies adjusted by biochemical technology are enough to make them qualified soldiers. As for the control chips implanted in their brains, they have turned them into machines with self-awareness but only obey orders...
These men in black are essentially no different from autonomous robot soldiers.
But Ke Lan also noticed one thing - these men in black did not shoot at them, which means that the few traitors who controlled them at least had a "bottom line"... As for the purpose of these men in black, there was no doubt that they wanted to destroy the evidence in the Nova Chamber of Commerce.
"What should we do now?" Aya asked anxiously.
All the men in black who landed on the rooftop had been dealt with by Asano Akira, but those who had rappelled into the building and those who had fought their way in from the main entrance were still engaging in fierce exchanges of fire with the people from the Nova Chamber of Commerce. The sounds of gunfire, screams, and explosions continued to be heard from every corner of the building.
"Let's go to the basement. Asano Akira will be in charge of guarding the door. We will find a way to get the 'evidence' out!" Ke Lan said.
The so-called "evidence" is mainly the "BOSS" himself - Ke Lan can basically be sure that it is a bionic puppet. As long as it can be intercepted, it will be known who is supporting the New Star Chamber of Commerce behind the scenes.
As for the fusion species imprisoned in the dark room, it is indeed a trouble... But in the current situation, Ke Lan can only choose to bite the bullet and do it. If those traitors are forced into a corner, what may come next may not be another group of men in black, but a super-long-range attack from the battleship's main gun.
The three members of the Undead Crew have full authority to shut down part of the Ark's energy shield and mobilize warships to fire into the Ark.
Moreover, Ke Lan fully believed that they could do it!
"What about my subordinates? Should we let them into the Chamber of Commerce building?" Aya asked. To be fair, she was not willing to let those ordinary agents of the Security Bureau intervene in this matter... From Ke Lan's reaction, she had vaguely guessed whose troops these men in black belonged to. If the agents who entered the building clashed with the men in black, these men in black would probably shoot them without hesitation.
The men in black didn't shoot at themselves because Ke Lan was here, but when facing ordinary agents, they would not show any mercy.
The mission comes first. Apart from the mission target, everything else can be abandoned, sacrificed, and destroyed... There are such people in the Security Bureau, but the superiors will not use such agents unless it is absolutely necessary... And each of these men in black is this kind of person.
In order to facilitate camouflage, the weapons carried by the Security Bureau agents who infiltrated the economic development zone were mostly pistols and folding submachine guns, with a few CQB-type short assault rifles occasionally. As for heavy firepower, there was none... Facing these black-clad men whose equipment was completely comparable to that of the top special forces, the agents would definitely suffer huge casualties once a firefight broke out.
This was a scene that Aya didn't want to see.
"There's no need to let them in. They won't help the situation at all." Ke Lan resolved Aya's inner struggle with just one sentence. "Let your men go to maintain order and evacuate the people - we must be prepared for this block to be saturated with bombardment by the fleet's artillery fire!"
