Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

Ge Gongdao finally took time to get rid of the complicated affairs of Moat Company, got rid of his bodyguards and possible trackers, and secretly came to Lucy's music restaurant. He hadn't seen Zhuang Xuteng for a while. He missed him and was enthusiastic, and gave him a bear hug as soon as he came up. He laughed, as if he had made a huge profit.

"Let go! I am Naike, not Prince!" Zhuang Xuteng poked Brother Dao's ribs with his finger, causing pain and causing him to let go. The strength of this big guy is too great. Even if Zhuang Xuteng can bear it, the little white mouse in the bag will be squeezed to death.

"How funny! I know you are Naike, so you are so cruel..." Ge Gongdao rubbed his waist. The place where Zhuang Xuteng poked him was sore and painful, and the word "uncomfortable" was highlighted. He waved helplessly to Lucy and the two sisters Nightingale and Yanque, and said, "Everyone, it's been a long time no see. I miss you very much."

"Hello, Brother Dao." Nightingale and Yanque responded with smiles, but Lucy shook her head and said, "We had a meeting together the day before yesterday, so I don't count them as long time no see."

"Moat Company's meeting is just a formality. What can really decide the matter has to be in the intermediary's office." Ge Gongdao sat down, looked at Zhuang Xuteng, and said, "Call me here specifically. Did you encounter any entrusted tasks? Problem?"

"Yes!" Zhuang Xuteng sighed and said, "Cambi's residence is not a manor at all, but a fortress. Let Nightingale tell you about the latest discovery!"

Nightingale nodded, took over the topic, and said: "The matter started when Naike went to the scene to investigate. He found that Camby James's house was very tightly guarded and vigilant. It was beyond the state of the house. This caused a stir. He was alert. At his reminder, we re-examined the intelligence collected through the Internet, libraries and other channels, including horizontal cross-comparison and vertical comparison according to the timeline. The conclusion is: these materials have been tampered with."

While she was speaking, Yanque took out a folder and handed it to Brother Dao. The areas that may have been tampered with were marked in red. Ge Gongdao flipped through it and found that more than 60% of the twelve pages of information were colored red. He was stunned for a moment, and then said: "So many? This is not called tampering, it is completely fake, right? Moreover, you only have one piece of information here and there is no comparison. How do you know that it has been tampered with?"

"When we suspected that they had tampered, Naik came up with an idea: to connect this matter with Assassin Property." Nightingale said: "The date when Canby Mansion and Assassin Property started to cooperate is confirmed, and we We collected information during that period, analyzed the files using the best cracking and encryption technology at the time, and then found clues in the scans of several design drawings.”

"The content of the scan itself is almost flawless, but the file itself has traces of modification. Well, you can think that you have seen a beautiful pastry cake, and the appearance is enough to satisfy you. But it is not formed at once. The interior has undergone many modifications, which can only be discovered after cutting them open. Most people will not cut these files - it is too time-consuming, and you must know the correct way to cut. If Naike hadn't insisted, the two of us would have ignored the cake problem. "

Ge Gongdao rubbed his brows and said: "I don't understand information technology. Just tell me the result directly: Did Assassin Property deliberately modify the situation of the house in order to set a trap and lure us in?" ?”

"It shouldn't be a trap, just a fortress." Lucy said: "I looked at the data of the two sisters and analyzed it. Assassin's method is very clever and the purpose is very simple, just to strengthen the defense. I think if based on the current situation, The intelligence operations found will definitely underestimate the defense there, and at the same time be misled, unable to find the real key targets, and will also increase the possibility of being discovered and eliminated."

"They are quite cunning!" Ge Gongdao put down the folder, rubbed his hands and said, "It seems that the plan will be revised. Naike, if you have any ideas, just tell me."

Zhuang Xuteng shook his finger, then pointed at Nightingale and said, "Nightingale hasn't finished speaking yet. She has made another discovery."

"Yes, we wanted to find out the original and real design drawings, so we went to investigate the construction company at the time, but we saw information that was inadvertently left in a forged scan. It's on the fourth page of page seven. Figure, the part marked with a blue circle in the lower right corner.”

Ge Gongdao picked up the document again and quickly found the page, staring at it for a long time. It was a scanned picture with a little more shadow. It should be that an extra picture was clipped during the scan, and some of the darker parts were also scanned in. However, those shadows are very blurry and difficult to identify. At first glance, they look like noise or smearing caused by poor storage quality.

"Through technical restoration, we confirmed that it was an invoice. We could not crack the system of the Constitutional Government's Taxation Department, so we could only find the invoicing unit based on the existing information on the invoice. It took a little effort to finally find it. It was an earthwork construction company. In short, burrowers.”

The construction company went bankrupt two years ago. In order to recover losses, the creditors took the construction company to court, so its specific financial situation can be found. After a little effort, Lucy found the invoice, which was indeed the payment paid by Camby James for the underground excavation construction.

"We calculated based on the market price at that time. Even according to the highest construction standards, the amount of work was too large." Nightingale said: "We have reason to suspect that there is a huge underground space under Camby James' house. It definitely has more than two floors of activity rooms and one floor of garage. He chose the location on the top of the mountain probably just to dig down."

Ge Gongdao rubbed the beard on his chin, trying to digest this information. After a moment, he asked: "Does the municipal facility allow him to construct like that? The water, steam, sewage, electricity and communication pipelines are not directly underneath?"

Yanque said: "I checked the city map. These pipes are located on the side of the hillside, running straight up the surface, and then separated at each level. There is only earth in the center of the man-made mountain, which is very suitable for digging."

"Have you checked the electricity consumption of the house? Can you estimate how many floors it has and what facilities it has?"

"It's difficult to calculate, and they are very cunning." Yanque continued: "The municipal electricity used by the house is not abnormal, and it is in line with the consumption of frequent gatherings. I found that the house has its own pulverized coal steam generator, which uses Vehicle coal. Since they are purchased randomly in Peicheng, their total consumption cannot be calculated."

Ge Gongdao frowned tightly at this time. He realized that Camby James's house was extraordinary, and he was definitely not as simple as a "rich businessman who is easy to socialize with". There are many signs that there are very important facilities hidden under the house in Jiuchi Roulin, which are worth spending a lot of money and effort to protect.

"Besides Assassin Property, are there any signs of other security companies?" Ge Gongdao asked.

"We don't have this information about whether or how many people Assassin secretly hired. We don't have time or energy..." Zhuang Xuteng said: "Based on the current situation, I can only say that the target is Canby House III." The idea of ​​entering the safe in the building’s office and using stealth methods is not feasible, and the investigation results do not support it.”

"You can't sneak in either?" Brother Dao expressed surprise.

"If it is night and it rains heavily, I can go in. If you remove the heavy rain, I will be less sure; remove the night and it rains during the day, unless it is pouring fog and rain, the success rate is less than 50%." Zhuang Xuteng shook his head and said: "The current temperature will only make it snow, absolutely no rain. And I checked the weather forecast. It will be sunny this week, and it will be the last sunny period this year."

Ge Gongdao slapped his thigh and said, "If it must be done, what can you do?"

Nightingale and Yanque were startled by Brother Dao's words. They thought to themselves: Are they trying to force Naike to complete the task? Aren't they good partners? The two sisters did not dare to raise their heads, but squinted their eyes at Zhuang Xuteng, trying to see his response. If he gets angry, then they support Naik. To be honest, neither sister had enough confidence to attack Canby's mansion.

Zhuang Xuteng seemed to have expected such a question from Ge Gongdao, and said calmly: "I have thought about it, half sneaking in and half attacking. As long as there are no survivors along the way, no one will know that I have been here. This is also a kind of stealth."

"Tell me about your plan." Ge Gongdao continued to ask.

"In order to hold various banquets, the house consumes a lot of food and needs to go out to buy. I found an opportunity to sneak into the purchasing car, and concentrated all my strength to allow me to pass through the door. After that, wherever I was found, I would start from wherever Start killing and fight your way out. Even if you don't steal anything, it will be enough to ruin Assassin's reputation."

"You are so cruel..." Ge Gongdao scratched his head and said: "If we choose this plan, we must have a reserve team and a retreat team. I will definitely get through. But I can't get through, and I don't trust you to kill like this. So besides this plan, do you have any other ideas?”

"Two ways: kill Camby James directly, or don't go to that bad place at all." Zhuang Xuteng said.

Hearing this, Nightingale and Yanque looked at each other, and both of them saw confusion from the other: What unfolding is this? It turned out to be just stealth and theft, or at best a robbery job. Why did it suddenly become polarized, with either killing someone or not doing it?

Only Lucy could keep up with their thoughts because she had spent more time with Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao and knew them better. She raised her hands, clapped her hands, and agreed: "What a great turning point. Either kill or retreat. It's much better than taking the risk. The key is how to kill and how to retreat?"

"I am less inclined to kill Camby, even though it is a simpler way." Zhuang Xuteng told the truth: "I have no inclination towards Camby James. His head is only linked to Assassin's corporate capabilities. I don’t feel comfortable killing people for such a reason. And from another perspective, from the perspective of the entrusted task alone, killing Canby is only the minimum completion of the task, and there is no additional benefit to us. Relatively speaking, it is a bit more gain than loss."

"The fundamental target of the commissioned task is Assassin Company, and the Camby James mansion is just a means. I chose this mansion because, on the one hand, it is more representative and can form a topic for easy manipulation later. Secondly, there is money in it. It is more attractive to mercenaries and has higher returns. These reasons were all right in the beginning, but now there are problems with these reasons, so we need to reconsider it all."

Zhuang Xuteng talked eloquently, Lucy listened carefully and nodded slowly. What she likes most about Zhuang Xuteng is this kind of overall thinking. No matter how much energy or brain he puts into a task, it does not prevent him from observing and controlling the overall situation from a higher perspective.

There is no shortage of "focused" people in the mercenary industry, and guys with leadership skills like Zhuang Xuteng rarely appear. What's even more valuable is that Zhuang Xuteng can not only control the overall situation, but he can also go deep into the front line and actually lead the team to solve complex and changeable specific problems. Both comprehensive and specific can be completed well. This is an extremely excellent captain quality.

"I'm thinking, since the target is Assassin, wouldn't it be enough to kill Assassin? Their headquarters is in the uptown area, and the difficulty of killing Assassin is one level lower than that of Taiping District. Use the Canby mansion to kill Assassin. The reserve forces are mobilized, and then I go to Assassin's headquarters, stealing first and then destroying it. This kind of slap in the face has a better effect, right?"

Ge Gongdao scratched his head, looked at Lucy first, made eye contact, and then turned to Zhuang Xuteng and said: "We also had a meeting to discuss it, and everyone finally reached a unanimous opinion that only by creating panic among Assassin's customers can we Really kill him. None of those clients care about the attack on Assassin's headquarters, and Assassin can fool it with a fire, gang activity, or a drill."

Zhuang Xuteng smiled and said, "Then we'll fight back. With the trouble at Assassin's headquarters as a foreshadowing, we don't need such high intensity to cause trouble to its customers. A little trouble today, another little trouble tomorrow, as long as Just let its customers believe one thing: the strategies Assassin used to protect them were stolen, and none of them are safe anymore. Based on our observations, Assassin's planning skills are very strong, and the plans they made in advance The arrangements are quite clever, which gives them a great advantage and gives their customers great confidence. If this confidence is taken away, Assassin will be half broken."

Lucy clapped and said: "It is easy to prove that you have been stolen, but it is too difficult to prove that you have not been stolen!"

Ge Gongdao did not immediately express his support. He continued to ask: "Besides being more feasible, are there any other benefits?"

Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said: "We don't know what Canby is doing underground, and what kind of transactions and relationships there are behind it. Act according to my plan and avoid friction with forces we don't know about, which is conducive to risk management." "

"Specific implementation plan?"

"Fake attack on Canby's mansion, use force in three directions. The first direction is the procurement vehicle, use time bombs, non-lethal weapons, such as shock bombs, etc., to make people think that someone has sneaked in. The second direction is the hillside , let people pretend to be sneaking, stay outside its warning zone, and be discovered by them on purpose. In the third direction, drill in from the municipal pipe, pretending to drill into the hidden part of the house underground. Get a few more drills to generate enough Vibration. Do you think there will be vibration detection in that underground part?"

"If it were me, I would definitely pretend." Lucy said.