Qingchen arrived at the front of the defense line.
breathe.
With a breath of cloud, the snowflakes that filled the sky swirled back like a waterfall. Before they could melt into water on the ground, the crystalline snowflakes transformed into blades, slicing through the muscles and bones of the rat horde.
This breath of cloud completely wiped out the swarm of rats in front of him. After the snow fell, only the pale skeletons of thousands of rats remained on the ground!
The secret agents watched silently. They had originally thought they would have to fight to the death to escort their new boss out of the danger, but they never expected that he would single-handedly open a passage through the rat swarm!
"Charge out!" Qing Chen shouted.
Including Qingyi, 30 secret agents dressed in black combat uniforms followed Qingchen without hesitation as they charged outwards. For a time, no rats could get close to them.
Faced with the swarm of rats, these people did not even choose firearms, but instead carried special alloy ceremonial swords made by the Secret Service.
The next moment, this tactical infiltration team of 30 secret agents, under the watchful eyes of the refugees, broke through the defense line with Qing Chen just as the rat swarm was surging!
After they broke through, the rat horde, like a rising tide, surrounded them again.
“They fought their way out…” one of the refugees said in a daze.
They actually managed to break through!
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Qing Chen led 30 secret agents forward at a rapid pace. He was responsible for clearing the way ahead, while the agents were responsible for guarding the left, right, and rear.
Without any shortcuts, they continued to advance through the swarm of rats. The members of the Secret Service were impervious to the water as they brandished their ceremonial swords, the gleaming blades shining brightly in the early morning moonlight.
Qingchen's marionettes sliced through the air, turning swarms of rats into ashes.
The sixth transparent thread was already formed, and the seventh was about to grow halfway.
"Don't linger in the fight, conserve your energy," Qing Chen said, and began to accelerate. The rat horde kept surrounding them, but their speed in closing in was not as fast as Qing Chen and the others broke through.
The encirclement of the rat swarm surrounding Qing Chen and the others grew thinner and thinner until they were finally broken through!
"Go!" Qing Chen took the lead and ran wildly. They ran so fast that the main force of the rat swarm couldn't catch up at all!
This unit of 30 spies starts at level C, with an average level B, while the rat swarm, no matter how much it evolves, is only at the mid-level of level F.
Therefore, even if they encounter the main force of the rat swarm, Qing Chen's troops are fully capable of escaping.
Qing Chen led the spies and charged out. Perhaps the rat swarm hadn't seen such a brave team in the past few days, and they were momentarily stunned by the charge.
They paused for two seconds before remembering to continue the chase!
"Turn left!" Qingchen shouted.
"Turn right!"
"keep going!"
Qing Chen had already memorized the map of City 10 and had also planned a route to the PCE Safety Committee headquarters.
The spies felt that following this boss was really easy; all they had to do was hack and slash, without having to use their brains at all.
This feeling is absolutely amazing!
Return countdown: 14:29:20.
Qing Chen had already spotted the PCE headquarters building: "Speed up and get inside. Immediately locate the police station, act swiftly, rescue the Kunlun members, and then evacuate immediately. The rat swarm is still following us."
Qing Chen led his team quickly into the PCE headquarters.
To Qing Chen's surprise, there was no sign of a large-scale battle breaking out here.
Upon entering the headquarters building, Qing Chen quickly surveyed the surroundings: there were only the remains of agents, not the remains of Kunlun members.
When Qing Chen arrived at the police station, all the filing cabinets were open, indicating that Kunlun members had been there. After all, even if refugees came here, they wouldn't bother to look through the PCE headquarters files.
He then went to check the equipment room.
The fact that the backup power supply was activated indicates that someone attempted to turn on the computer afterward.
Qing Chen checked the 32 computers in the emergency response department and found that the slim, plug-in hard drives inside had been taken away.
Federal's hard drive is as thin as a playing card, plug and play, yet this thin card can store 128PB.
1PB = 1024TB.
1TB = 1024GB.
This type of hard drive storage is truly massive.
“Strange, they arrived here successfully, took the hard drive data I wanted, and there wasn’t even a fight, so why didn’t they return to the Lower Three Districts to reunite on time?” Qing Chen said.
"Sir, could it be that they took the wrong path and passed us by on another route?" Qingyi asked.
“No, the path I took was the route I planned for them,” Qing Chen shook his head. “They didn’t intend to go to the Lower Three Districts, but went to other places.”
But where will Kunlun go?
What exactly happened at PCE headquarters that ultimately led Kunlun to abandon its original plan? If it weren't for the rat swarm attack, what else could have stopped them?
At this moment, the spy in charge of searching the entire building came to join us: "Boss, everyone in the building is dead. I just found this on the ground, and then I confirmed that all the hard drives in the surveillance department were also destroyed."
Qing Chen looked over and saw that the other person's hand was a hard drive that had been twisted to pieces!
This was definitely not something Kunlun shattered. Before Kunlun arrived, someone destroyed the hard drive here. They didn't want anyone to analyze the Rat King's location in advance!
Age of Gods!
"gentlemen……"
Qing Chen said in a low voice, "Quiet."
His pupils suddenly narrowed, revealing a golden light within.
His powerful brain was working at an unprecedented speed, taking in every detail of his entry into the building and analyzing it.
In an instant, his gaze passed over the spy in front of him and landed behind the spy, as if the spy had never existed.
The spy felt a chill run down his spine; he felt as if he had been seen through!
In the eyes of the boy, reality and illusion gradually overlap.
Qingchen could almost see the Kunlun members sneaking in silently, bringing in snowmelt from outside and leaving footprints on the ground.
Iodine ordered his subordinates to activate the backup power, while he led his men to infiltrate the emergency call center, rummaging through drawers and cabinets to find all the necessary information.
The backup generator started, and the building was lit up again.
Iodine turned on the computer, only to find that it couldn't start at all. He then discovered that the hard drive on the back of the all-in-one computer had been damaged.
what to do?
Qing Chen said in a low voice, "Iodine solution, what would you do if you were in this desperate situation?"
In the illusory image.
“No, we must find relevant clues, we must complete Qingchen’s orders,” Iodine said. “He’s still waiting for us!”
One of the Kunlun members said, "But what he wants isn't here."
Iodine solution: "Then find a substitute for him!"
Qing Chen said softly, "Yes, given your personalities, you won't leave until you complete the mission. You must have gone to help me find new clues."
The illusory figures before him were all deduced by Qing Chen based on clues.
At this moment, Qingchen said, "The Traffic Management Bureau automatically stores traffic surveillance footage from the past three months for map analysis and vehicle analysis data. Kunlun went there."
Only there can you find a substitute.
There is no surveillance in the lower three districts, but there is in other districts. Qing Chen only needs surveillance from other districts so he can observe the streets through the surveillance.
“But the hard drives here have all been damaged, and the hard drives at the Traffic Management Bureau are probably the same,” Keiichi said. “If Chika Kamishiro had thought things through so thoroughly, he wouldn’t have missed that place. But Iodine was unwilling to go back empty-handed, and he decided to gamble his life on being faster than Kamishiro.”
At this moment, Qingyi suddenly noticed Qingchen's exhausted expression, and blood suddenly flowed from the other's nose, a result of brain overload!
"Sir!" Qingyi asked anxiously, "Are you alright? Why don't you find a place to rest first?"
“Let’s go to the Traffic Management Bureau,” Qingchen said. “No matter what the outcome, we have to go and see.”
An hour after the team left, the rat swarm arrived, following the scent, but they always seemed to be one step behind Qingchen.
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Return countdown: 10:02:09.
After leaving the PCE headquarters building, Qing Chen felt a wave of dizziness. Fortunately, Qing Yi supported him in time and pleaded, "Sir, you really need to rest. Otherwise, if we need to fight a big battle to get to the Transportation Bureau building, and you are already exhausted, the Kunlun members will die too."
Qing Chen remained silent for two seconds, listened to the sounds around him, and finally chose the optimal solution: "Rest in place for one hour."
Qingyi is right. No matter how anxious he is, he must make sure he has the strength to fight.
He sat down on the spot: "Don't go inside the building to rest. Be careful of a rat swarm surrounding the building. Rest here, and leave if you encounter a rat swarm."
Qing Chen then looked at the secret agents in front of him: "Sorry, I'll have to ask you all to come with me to charge into battle and die."
At this moment, a woman dressed in special operations uniform and wearing a black face mask pulled down her mask and laughed, "Boss, what are you saying? As members of the Secret Service, we've long since disregarded life and death. If Qingling can risk his life for you, why can't we?"
Yan Chunmi was the first falcon Qingchen met.
Qing Chen smiled and looked at her: "You're here too? I was so tired that I didn't even recognize your footsteps."
Yan Chunmi shook her head and said with a smile, "It's normal that the boss didn't recognize it. I used to wear high heels, which were very sexy, and even the sound of my footsteps was different."
“Speak like a human,” Qingchen said.
Yan Chunmi became serious and pulled an ear from the tactical pocket on the outside of her thigh: "Boss, this is Qingwen's right ear. He wanted to evacuate to the garrison at the beginning of the disaster, but I intercepted him halfway. He is dead, and his ear is my congratulatory gift for you becoming the director of the Secret Service."
Qing Chen was stunned for a moment.
Qingyi: "Holy crap!"
"You've worked hard," Qingchen said.
He knew that Yan Chunmi spoke of this matter with ease, but who was Qingwen? He was one of the shadow candidates, and also Qingyun's only beloved son.
The rules of the Shadow Wars stipulate that the highest level of protector for a Shadow candidate is C-level. But how could someone as ruthless as Qing Yun not have a B-level expert secretly protecting her only son?
Even if an A-level appears, Qing Chen wouldn't be surprised.