This is absolutely a weapon of war used by a group of ambitious individuals!
No wonder the rabid dog died such a tragic death...
Looking at the world, apart from SMMH, which is ahead of its time, only PRO under Tarot and the X Organization, these two top research institutions, can do it... Chen Xu is certain of that!
Chen Xu also had other ideas.
A glimpse of the leopard through a tube reveals only a part of its brilliance.
Judging from the manufacturing process of this robotic arm, Chen Xu was already certain that this organization was leading the world in many fields!
Alloy Construction: This robotic arm weighs about the same as an average person's hand, only two or three pounds heavier. This indicates that the alloy is very light, and its strength appears to be quite high. Although Chen Xu hasn't tested the specific specifications, he feels that even an aircraft shell wouldn't be much stronger. Using this alloy, very lightweight yet extremely tough materials can be manufactured, and these materials have many applications… for example, in space!
The organization's ability to combine machinery with human neurons demonstrates its world-class medical capabilities, which goes without saying.
Furthermore, with such a high level of mechanization, they probably won't be bad at robot manufacturing technology either!
The falling leaves signal the arrival of autumn!
Of course, the specific details will only be known after the robotic arm has been thoroughly and carefully inspected.
Guan Yi's question was different from Chen Xu's.
Chen Xu approached the matter from a technical perspective, speculating on the organization's formidable strength. Guan Yi, on the other hand, wondered: given Yu Lang's background, although he was destined for a life of mediocrity, at least he carried the blood of the Yu family. Could this experiment, conducted on a member of the Yu family, hold any special significance?
Thinking back to the smart drugs and the seven people who took them, now that Yu Lang has been arrested, Mad Dog is dead, and there are still five people left, do they also have some secrets?
Does this mean that someone is using certain methods to win over seemingly hopeless scions of aristocratic families? What are their thoughts and plans?
Or is there some conspiracy involved?
Guan Yi felt a chill run down his spine just thinking about it!
Because of those seven people, Mad Dog was a member of the Dong family, Yu Lang was from the Yu family, and the butler also had a good-for-nothing. The other four people came from four other prominent families!
The families to which these seven individuals belong are all at the pinnacle of the world today, possessing terrifying wealth and power! Let alone all seven families, any one of them could cause a global earthquake with a stomp of its foot!
However, someone actually set their sights on all seven major families at the same time... If this is just a coincidence, that's one thing, but if it's intentional and there are other actions involved... then the mastermind behind this is incredibly audacious!
Chapter 357 Encirclement and Kill
It was late at night.
Just to be on the safe side, Douglas had prepared a very potent tranquilizer gun, enough to subdue even a fully grown bull. With such a dosage, this guy probably wouldn't wake up for a while.
There was no point in staying any longer, so Chen Xu and Guan Yi decided to head back. Dr. Charlemagne and his nurse stayed to conduct further examinations and research. For safety's sake, Douglas and Nangong Lan also stayed. They agreed to come back tomorrow; once the guy woke up, they thought they could get some information out of him before making further arrangements.
Pushing open the door, the dry, cold night wind from the suburbs cleared Chen Xu's head a bit.
They were in a manor outside Las Vegas, a manor that was usually deserted. Nobody knew that the manor was bought by the young lady who was the housekeeper years ago. In Las Vegas, there are many such abandoned houses because it is a city of sin. Many rich people lose everything overnight and commit suicide, while many poor people become rich overnight and completely forget about the doghouse they used to live in.
In short, this is a very inconspicuous place, and should be a very safe place.
Actually, Chen Xu didn't want to go back, because it was already very late, and it would take an hour or so to drive back to the city.
However, there was clearly no place for Miss Guan to sleep in the manor, and Chen Xu didn't want Guan Yi to suffer, so he drove her back first. They could also go back to prepare some tools and such, and come back tomorrow.
But just as Chen Xu pushed open the door and stretched halfway, Xiao Min's alarm suddenly rang in his mind!
"Danger! Extreme danger! Find cover immediately! There are people lying in ambush 32 and 47 degrees to your left, and 53, 40, and 65 degrees to your right! There are also people behind you. The enemy is aiming at you with a sniper rifle. Take cover immediately! Take cover immediately!"
Chen Xu's expression changed, and almost instinctively, he jumped back, knocking Guan Yi behind him into the doorway. Just as he jumped back into the door, a powerful force suddenly struck his waist, and he knew he had been shot!
Fortunately, during the previous operation, Chen Xu and his team wore liquid bulletproof vests as a precaution... even Guan Yi was no exception. And luckily it was winter, so the bulletproof vest was quite comfortable to wear as underwear, and it had a good heat retention effect, so they never took it off. It saved Chen Xu's life at this moment!
After Chen Xu fell to the ground, he rolled into the house with Guan Yi in his arms, kicking the door shut as he did so. He then shouted down to the basement, "Enemy attack! There are enemies, at least five or more, and they have sniper rifles!"
Guan Yi panicked for a moment and quickly pushed Chen Xu off her, shouting, "Xu, how are you?!" She had heard the faint gunshot just now; the other side had even used a silencer!
"I'm fine, I'm wearing a bulletproof vest!" Chen Xu looked down and saw a bullet tucked into his vest. He picked it up, glanced at it, and cursed, "8.59mm caliber, L115A3 sniper rifle bullet, they're really ruthless!"
However, this was not the time to curse. If they were going to lose their lives, there would be no point in arguing. At this moment, Douglas rushed over, pulled Guan Yi into the basement, and threw a pistol to Chen Xu.
"Any big guns?!" Chen Xu gritted his teeth and said, "You bastards, they're carrying sniper rifles!"
"Whoosh, whoosh," two bullets struck near Chen Xu and his group. Douglas, experienced as he was, said, "They're also equipped with infrared vision devices. Hurry up! Those two shots were just bullets deflecting as they passed through the wall; otherwise, they would have killed you already!"
Chen Xu rolled to the basement. Douglas thought for a moment, then rolled to the fireplace, threw the liquid alcohol next to the fireplace into it, lit it, and said after getting down, "The other side also has infrared equipment that can determine our location in the room based on our heat. Now I'm lighting the fireplace to raise the temperature in the room... hoping to interfere with them. Who is the enemy?!"
As expected of an experienced bodyguard, Chen Xu shook his head and said, "I don't know. I didn't even see a shadow of them. I sensed something was wrong as soon as I stepped outside, so I jumped back into the house, but they still opened fire without hesitation. If I hadn't been wearing a bulletproof vest, I would definitely be dead! They're really ruthless!"
Actually, Chen Xu should be more grateful to Xiao Min!
The liquid body armor was very effective and saved Chen Xu's life, but if Xiao Min hadn't reminded him, and several people had fired at the same time, a bullet hitting his head would have been fatal.
This is the guarantee that Xiaomin provided for Chen Xu's survival after Chen Xu opened the second level of permissions and the human-machine combination between them!
Xiaomin's self-protection ability!
After the second layer of defense was activated, Xiaomin transformed into a necklace hanging around Chen Xu's neck, creating a special magnetic field around him, allowing direct communication with him. Furthermore, it could provide constant vigilance!
This is something no bodyguard could do!
And this kind of protection has a very, very important characteristic—surveillance!
Future scientists have discovered that human eyes contain a certain amount of energy and magnetic fields. Although this energy and magnetic field are extremely weak, so weak that ordinary people cannot detect them at all, they are still traceable. For example, people often have this experience: if you are sitting still and someone is staring at you from behind, you can detect it. Many people have probably had this experience.
In particular, some people's gazes contained unusual emotions—such as hostility, admiration, or curiosity...
Scientists have proven that a person's gaze contains a certain magnetic field and energy, and the strength of this energy depends on the person's emotions.
The more intense the emotions, the stronger the energy in that gaze, and the easier it is for the person being gazed at to feel it!
Therefore, there are some legends, and some children are born with "superpowers" - I remember a report that mentioned a child in Nevada, USA, who was considered a demon after birth - because anything he stared at would disappear! The famous online novel "Ghost Blows Out the Light" also mentions that there was a Jingjue Queen in the ancient Western Regions. Legend has it that the queen's eyes were the road to the underworld, and whoever she looked at would turn to ashes.
This is actually possible, because if a person's genes mutate, their eyes mutate, causing the magnetic field of their gaze to become stronger, which can indeed cause such terrible results. As for the American child, scientists eventually developed a magnetic helmet, and after wearing it on his head for a period of time, his superpowers automatically disappeared.
This is called "demagnetization".
Future science will make remarkable progress in this area.
The "magnetic field" that Xiaomin creates around Chen Xu is a kind of protection and monitoring for all aspects of Chen Xu's body. If someone stares at Chen Xu with "high-energy" eyes, Xiaomin can detect the impact of that magnetic field and analyze whether the other party is harmful to Chen Xu.
Of course, technology is constantly advancing, and this method may not be invincible in the future.
As shields advance, so too do spears. In the future, someone might invent a "demagnetizing lens." Gaze filtered through this lens would have its magnetic field energy reduced by more than half, making it extremely difficult to discern. Therefore, this method won't be foolproof even in the future… but it's unique in the present!
Chen Xu handed over control of his eyes to Xiao Min—this sounds terrifying, but in reality, after Xiao Min merged with Chen Xu through electromagnetic waves, Chen Xu's eyes became her eyes, and Chen Xu's ears became her ears. However, in normal circumstances, this method was merely auxiliary, because Chen Xu was the primary entity, and Xiao Min was only a supplementary element.
After Chen Xu handed over control of the eyes to Xiao Min, Xiao Min became the main focus.
The advantages of using infrared, X-rays, and other methods to observe the enemy are numerous. Even in complete darkness, the enemy's location can be easily pinpointed. However, there are also many disadvantages… First, watching movies is choppy and fragmented…
Because of the persistence of vision, the human eye can create an "illusion" for a certain period of time.
However, once the visual perception was completely entrusted to Xiaomin, this illusion no longer worked for her.
Nowadays, whether it's movies, TV series, or television signals, they're all essentially moving images. It's just that due to the persistence of vision, they appear as moving pictures to the human eye... After "restoring reality" to the visual experience, Chen Xu sees TV in a choppy, jerky way! How can anyone watch TV like that?!
Therefore, Chen Xu usually takes the lead based on his own perspective, but in critical moments like this, he lets Xiao Min take the lead.
“There are eight opponents! Five directly in front of us, and three behind us,” Chen Xu didn’t care about the shocking news at this point, and counted them one by one: “Three sniper rifles, the sniper is 27 degrees to the left and 47 degrees to the right of us directly in front of us, and there’s one behind us. The other guys are carrying submachine guns… Damn, they also have grenades… I can’t tell if they are grenades, incendiary grenades, or smoke grenades, anyway, these guys are very well prepared. Judging from their build, they are all about the same size as Douglas, three white people and five black people. The guy 37 degrees to our left seems to be the leader, because his lips are moving constantly, he must be giving orders.”
Everyone in the room was stunned!
Chen Xu, through just a layer of floor and walls, actually "saw" the other person in the middle of the night?!
Does his eye have X-ray vision?!
Chen Xu glanced at Guan Yi, whose face was full of surprise, and said apologetically, "Yi, I'm sorry, there are some things I can't say..."
Guan Yi smiled knowingly, picked out a sniper rifle from a box Douglas had pulled over, and handed it to Chen Xu. He said happily, "Last time Miwad came to assassinate you, it wasn't just Nangong Lan who took care of the opponent, right? I knew it! My man must have something different about him. Gao Xiaojie and Zhan Jing probably don't know about your abilities yet, right? Well, I'm the first to know, and I'm very happy!"
Chen Xu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. What kind of logic was this woman using?! And the way she handed him the sniper rifle was just too cool. Look at Nangong Lan and the doctor next to her; their eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets—it was like a Spartan woman handing a shield to a man just as he was about to go into battle: "Either you win, or you'll be carried back by it..."
Chen Xu inspected the gun. He knew this house was actually a temporary shelter—because even the wealthy and powerful always need a backup plan, or perhaps it was used to entertain some "underworld" friends. The small manor wasn't large, and it was quite dilapidated, but in the basement, there were many canned goods, dry bread, instant noodles, and water, and of course, a lot of weapons!
This place is practically a mini armory!
However, that's all there is. Although there is a basement, there is no secret passage to escape to the outside.
"How on earth did they manage to sneak up here?!" Douglas finished setting up his sniper rifle and calmly checked the other weapons—weapons must undergo a safety check before use, otherwise, a misaligned crosshair is a minor issue, but a barrel explosion would be a major problem. "Alright, everyone, don't worry, I'm sure these guys won't dare to attack now."
Why do you say that?
Douglas pulled out his phone: “Look, they brought a signal jammer. They're not worried about us having a chance to call for help, nor are they worried about us escaping. Since that's the case, they're willing to wear us down—that's human nature, assassins are no exception. If they can eliminate the enemy with minimal losses, they won't rush in without being sure of success… They have infrared detectors, but I set the closet on fire, and we're underground. The temperature inside the room is very high, which will interfere with the infrared. So, if I were their leader, I would also wait, until the fireplace fire goes out, or until the infrared detectors work, before ordering the charge when I'm confident.” He paused, then smiled: “Of course, that's assuming I don't know who's in this room…”
"So what if I know?"
"Ha, if I knew that the person in this room was the butler's young lady, the founding disciple of SMMH, and a Chinese martial arts master, I would have ordered them to storm in right now! I would even have mobilized more people, regardless of casualties, to get in!"
"Why?"
"Because if any of us escapes, it will be a nightmare for them!" Guan Yi answered the question for her. The woman's face was filled with murderous intent: "Would SMMH sit idly by and watch its apprentice be murdered? I am the first in line to inherit our family's throne. According to the family rules, if the head of the family dies in an accident, the family will set aside at least five billion US dollars as a revenge fund, sparing no expense to hunt down the murderer and anyone connected to him! We are not afraid of a fight to the death!"
Chen Xu couldn't help but shudder upon hearing this, but then he could only smile bitterly to himself... If he were to die, SMMH would truly not avenge him—because SMMH would also be dead by then. However, these words were not something he could say to others.
As for why the other party found this place so quickly—indeed, as Douglas said, if they wanted to murder SMMH's disciple and the young lady of the house, eight people would be far from enough. In other words, these people were definitely not after them—they were after Yu Lang!
The fact that they were able to quickly gather manpower, bring weapons, and chase after Yu Lang after his abduction, and carry out such a meticulous plan, shows that these people are definitely not ordinary people—in fact, Chen Xu knew this was obvious; could an ordinary person research and develop such a high-tech mechanical hand?!
There must be a huge organization backing them up, it's either Tarot or X!
Before coming here, no car had followed us along the way... Chen Xu's heart sank: Yu Lang probably has a tracking system on him!
But when Chen Xu carried Yu Lang into the house, he had already thoroughly checked him and found no tracking system. Furthermore, to prevent any accidents, Chen Xu had stripped Yu Lang naked on the way, and the only thing he was wearing was his underwear, which had just been changed. There shouldn't be anywhere on his body that could hide an electronic component… even if it was extremely small!
Unless, this positioning system was originally hidden inside Yu Lang's body!
Chen Xu was startled; a possibility had occurred to him…
Chen Xu immediately instructed Xiao Min to start searching for radio waves in the room—the principle of a location system is actually similar to that of a computer Trojan.
Because a location system always needs to transmit a signal via a specific frequency band to send a distress signal, just like a Trojan horse needs to connect to the network to send a stolen account to a designated email address.
With Xiaomin's search, Chen Xu immediately discovered a small component that was constantly emitting signals... That thing was installed in the palm of Yu Lang's mechanical hand! Moreover, what shocked Chen Xu even more was that this positioning system had not been activated before because it was connected to the artificial skin on the layer of Yu Lang's mechanical watch. Only when the artificial skin was damaged would this little thing automatically send out a distress signal!
No wonder I didn't notice it before!
It wasn't that the National Revolutionary Army wasn't trying hard enough; it was just that the enemy was too cunning!
Chen Xu thought to himself, although he had suspected Yu Lang's left hand before, he never expected such a terrifying result.
Using the surface of the skin as a switch for a distress signal location system—that's quite a clever tactic for this organization!