Chapter 1 Heist

Since Brother Jue had a hostage, and that hostage was the head of the base, the other side dared not act rashly for the moment and could only do as he said.

"Yes, that's right, slowly… put the gun on the ground." Feng Bujue watched the other party's movements and commanded, "Okay, now, push the gun along the ground."

This move of his was undoubtedly learned from police movies, but... it was quite practical.

Soon, the pistol slid across the metal floor and came to rest at Feng Bujue's feet.

"Hmph… very good, now please leave." Brother Jue picked up the gun and gave the order, "I'll contact you with the walkie-talkie when needed."

"Listen… Austin, you better know what you're doing… and the consequences of doing so." Before exiting the electronic door, Gore said very seriously to Feng Bujue again.

But this degree of deterrence, in Brother Jue's view, was like a fart—just listen to it; taking it seriously was just being cheap.

"Of course I know what I'm doing, and I'm very clear about the consequences…" Feng Bujue said, raising his gun and aiming at the security guards at the door, "…but you don't seem to understand the current situation…"

Bang—

He suddenly fired a shot at the doorway.

The bullet didn't hit anyone, but it made the gang outside break out in a cold sweat.

"Damn it! What do you want?" Gore immediately shouted and cursed.

"I want to use action to illustrate a fact." Feng Bujue replied, "That is… I don't mind using any means, any reason… to kill anyone here." He paused, giving those people some time to think, "You have two choices. First, ignore Kozmo's life or death and take me and him out together; second, put away those meaningless threats and continue to play this hostage game with me."

Having said that, he blew away a wisp of white smoke from the muzzle of the gun, and looked at Gore at the door and the camera probe in the corner of the room, "Vice Captain Gore, and everyone who is listening to me through the monitoring equipment at this moment… We all know very well that no matter what the outcome of this matter is today, I have a slim chance of survival. And the problem you urgently need to consider and solve is…" His eyes swept across the faces of the people at the door like a knife, "How many people will be buried with me, and… what is my real purpose."

He perfectly interpreted the image of a desperate man who was both crazy and rational with his words and actions. As the weaker party, he created great psychological pressure for the Foundation personnel.

"Whether you want to play or not, this game has already begun." Two seconds later, Feng Bujue continued, "Play your roles well, so I can have more fun." After saying that, he raised his gun again and pointed it at Gore and the others at the door, "Understand? Boys."

After the voice fell, the security guards hesitated for a moment, then silently exited the room, and the electronic door closed again.

Almost at the moment the door closed, Feng Bujue pushed Kozmo, the human shield, away. Then, Brother Jue moved a chair to a corner of the room, stood on it, and smashed the surveillance camera with the butt of his gun.

More than ten seconds later, he did the same thing and took care of the surveillance in the other corner of the room.

After doing this, Brother Jue walked to Kozmo, moved him to the chair, and then unlocked the handcuffs that had been cuffed to himself with a tool and re-cuffed them to Kozmo's wrist.

Pa pa pa pa…

A moment later, Kozmo was slapped awake in a series of continuous slaps.

"Ugh—damn…" He couldn't tell whether his head hurt more or his face hurt more. Anyway, the feeling was very unpleasant.

"I'm sorry, if conditions permit, I would also like to wake you up in a gentler way, such as splashing water." Seeing that Kozmo had regained consciousness, Brother Jue immediately mocked with a tone and expression that showed no apology at all.

"You bastard…" The swear words in English are not as rich as in Chinese, and the translation is roughly the same, so Kozmo's unfriendly words sounded harmless to Brother Jue, "I swear… I must skin you alive with my own hands…"

"Hehe…" Brother Jue smiled easily when he heard the words, "You are not young anymore, you should understand… for those things that you are not sure you can do, it is better not to swear." He waved the gun in his hand, "Right now, whether you can survive from my hands is a question… but you are considering how to retaliate against me, is that okay?"

Kozmo wasn't stupid either. He looked at the walkie-talkie on the table and quickly deduced where Brother Jue's pistol came from: "Hmph… starting to play the hostage-taking game…" he snorted coldly, "If you think it's useful to play this with us (the Foundation), then you are…"

"…dead wrong." Feng Bujue directly said the other party's lines, and continued, "You don't need to tell me these things…" He said very calmly, "I know very well that in the face of the Foundation's interests, anyone can be sacrificed. Not to mention the head of a base, even everyone in this entire base… as long as the situation is urgent enough, a nuclear bomb will send them all away."

"Hmph… you kid are really from the 'Chaos Splitters'…" Kozmo had suspected this before. After this period of contact, he basically determined that Brother Jue was a well-trained agent who had infiltrated this facility as a D-level personnel.

"It's your freedom to think of me as anyone." Feng Bujue said, "I don't care about that kind of thing at all." As he spoke, he opened the briefcase on the table, "I only hope… you can honestly answer a few small questions I'm going to ask."

"Ha… ha ha ha ha…" Kozmo laughed loudly, "You want to torture me?"

"Yes." Feng Bujue replied calmly, "That's obvious."

"Kid…" Kozmo's expression gradually turned cold, "Do you know who you're talking to?"

His rather pretentious attitude was also for a reason… In the years before he joined the Foundation, Kozmo had participated in many secret military operations that were "officially denied," and had been captured twice.

Although he had never seen a tiger bench with chili water, he had experienced electric shocks, waterboarding, whippings, and branding irons…

In short, whether as an interrogator or an interrogated party, Kozmo was experienced and battle-hardened. So he was not afraid of Brother Jue's deterrence at all. He had full confidence in holding out against the other party… until the personnel outside came to rescue him.

"You seem very confident…" Feng Bujue spoke, already starting to select tools from the briefcase, "But… I will soon change your mind."

…………

Fifteen minutes later.

Just as the Foundation members outside the interrogation room were preparing to use sleeping gas for a strong attack, a voice suddenly came from the public frequency of the walkie-talkie…

"Is Agent Steven there?" That was undoubtedly Brother Jue's voice.

After a brief silence, Steven's voice also sounded: "I am Steven."

"After Mr. Kozmo was captured, you became the temporary head of this base, right?" Feng Bujue asked.

"That's right." Steven tried to make his voice and tone sound calm, "You can tell me whatever you want. But before that… I need to confirm…"

"Don't worry, Kozmo is still alive." Brother Jue interrupted the other party, "You will see him soon." He raised his voice slightly and said, "Now, please listen carefully to my request…" He paused for half a second, "Immediately let Dr. Jonathan from B3 bring Billy to see me. Note… it must be Dr. Jonathan, no one else will do."

There was another silence…

About twenty seconds later, Steven replied, "I'm sorry, I can't agree to your request, Mr. Austin." His tone sounded very firm, "Since you destroyed the surveillance camera, we can't determine whether Commander Kozmo is still alive at all. Even if he is indeed alive… letting Dr. Jonathan enter the interrogation room is tantamount to providing you with another new hostage. In addition, given that you had a cross-space transfer the last time you were alone with the puppet Billy… we will not provide you with this potential escape method."

"Hehe… as expected, it won't work…" Feng Bujue didn't express surprise at this result, "Then there's no way…"

Before he finished speaking, he used Kozmo's level-five personnel pass to open the door of the interrogation room.

Bang bang bang—

Before the electronic door was fully opened, Feng Bujue had already opened fire.

Not surprisingly, there were two security guards holding guns guarding the corridor outside the door, and they were also knocked to the ground without any precautions.

"You!" Steven witnessed this scene through the surveillance in the corridor and immediately exclaimed.

"Your people are not good enough…" Feng Bujue said to the walkie-talkie in a very relaxed tone while walking forward, "Because I was talking on the public frequency, their attention was distracted, and they took it for granted that I would not take action while negotiating."

"All squads in B7, go to the north corridor!" Steven ignored Brother Jue's provocation, and he couldn't care less about changing the frequency, and immediately shouted the order on this channel.

"To be honest, you're not good enough either, Steven." Feng Bujue's provocation still hadn't stopped, "It's too underestimating me to only arrange two people to guard the door." When he said this, he casually shot the head of a security guard who was lying on the ground and hadn't died yet, "As a commander, you are playing with the lives of your subordinates."

"All squads, be careful! You can fire directly when you see the target!" Steven responded to Brother Jue's behavior with an angry roar.

Feng Bujue looked fearless, he bent down and picked up an assault rifle, and quickly blew up the several probes in the corridor.

…………

One minute later, several team members led by Gore were the first to rush into the corridor.

However… the corridor was empty at the moment, with only two bodies lying on the ground.

"Be careful…" Gore was very vigilant. As soon as he entered the corridor, he raised his hand to signal the team members behind him to stop temporarily. He cautiously raised his gun and moved forward.

"Stop pretending… I know it's you." Gore said while approaching the corpse, "You broke the surveillance camera to make it easier to drag the corpse into the interrogation room, then put on the dead man's clothes and lie here to ambush us…"

As he said this, he had reached one of the corpses.

"Well… not this one…" Gore saw the blood seeping out of the mask and shirt of this corpse after getting closer, and he immediately thought, "Then… it's you!"

Thinking of this, he suddenly turned the muzzle of his gun and aimed it at the other corpse.

"Okay, you've been seen through, raise your hands and surrender." Gore said to the other corpse.

But the corpse had no reaction…

After a few seconds of stalemate, Gore wavered: "What's going on? Did I guess wrong?"

After a moment of hesitation, he took a step forward and tore off the mask of the corpse in front of him.

As a result… it was indeed a security guard, not "Rudy Austin."

Then, Gore turned around and tore off the mask of the other person, but it was also a real security guard, and he was obviously dead…

"Tch…" Gore spat, "I thought you would come up with something, but it turns out you just came out to kill two people and then hide back in the room?"

He thought about his previous reasoning again at this moment, and suddenly felt unreliable again. Originally… it was difficult to put on the security guard's full set of equipment in such a short period of time. In addition, moving the corpse would definitely leave blood stains, but there were no blood stains left by "dragging" in the corridor in front of him.

"I've dealt with this kid a few times… and I'm a little bit paranoid…" Gore thought, "Actually, he's not that clever."

While thinking, he had opened the electronic door of the interrogation room.

Accompanied by a buzzing sound, the scene inside the interrogation room was displayed in front of everyone.

But I saw… Kozmo's body was lying in the corner of the room, with a large pool of blood under him. The dazed expression on his face and the hideous wounds on his body were all shocking.

If the security guards weren't wearing masks, they would have smelled the bloody smell in the room long ago.

"What's going on?" Gore immediately realized a problem when he recovered from the shock, "Where did he go?"

The interrogation room was so big, there was no hiding place at all. At a glance, it was known that there was only one corpse in the room.

"Where did Austin go!"

…………

At the same time, in the "Emergency Safety Passage."

"It's really convenient… a secret passage dedicated to level-five and O5 personnel." Feng Bujue took the snatched firearms and walked leisurely in a narrow passage, "Let's go straight to the B3 laboratory from here…"

It turned out that a few minutes ago, Brother Jue killed the two security guards guarding the door and destroyed the surveillance, and then directly entered this emergency safety passage through the secret door hidden behind the wall of that corridor.

As for how he knew about the existence of this passage… that was naturally through interrogation.

Kozmo was indeed a tough guy. He lasted a full fifteen minutes in Feng Bujue's hands (what happened during this period… is not suitable for viewing by any age group, nor is it suitable for being described by any text). For a normal human being, this was already a miracle.

Fifteen minutes later, Kozmo confessed everything, and his only request at that time was to die quickly.

So, Feng Bujue quickly formulated a plan to escape based on the known information, and fulfilled Kozmo when the plan was set.

To be on the safe side, Brother Jue also communicated with Steven using the walkie-talkie before taking action. This behavior actually had a dual purpose. First, as he said before… to distract the two people at the door and use the inertia of "not taking action while negotiating" to create convenience for his breakthrough; second, to use Steven to confirm the location of Jonathan and Billy.

Right now, he had successfully entered the "emergency safety passage" that only level-five and O5 personnel knew about. This passage was also created using space technology, and it was accessible in all directions. He could be like Mundo… "go wherever he wants to go."

It only took five minutes for Brother Jue to arrive at the secret passage separated from the B3 laboratory by a wall.

He understood that time was of the essence. If he procrastinated, Billy might be chopped up and used as firewood. Therefore, he opened the secret door with the assault rifle and appeared in the laboratory.

"Everyone stop moving!" Brother Jue's first sentence was like a bandit's line, but the second sentence was like a hero's, "Release the puppet!"

As the saying goes, it's better to come at the right time. At the moment Feng Bujue appeared, Dr. Jonathan was about to put Billy into a strange machine.

"You… you are…" Looking at Brother Jue in D-level attire but holding a firearm, Jonathan quickly guessed his identity.

"Which one is Dr. Jonathan?" Feng Bujue then asked loudly.

The researchers did not answer his question, but the first reaction of human beings betrayed them…

While Brother Jue asked the question, he was also observing the expressions of these people. From the eyes they showed when they heard the name "Jonathan," Feng Bujue locked on to the target.

The next second, Brother Jue's muzzle was aimed at Jonathan: "Hello… Doctor."

Jonathan understood that his identity had been exposed, and he tried to calm down and replied, "If you want this puppet… I'll give it to you… please don't hurt…"

"Stop babbling." Feng Bujue didn't let the other party finish speaking at all, "It's not your turn to give orders." He moved the muzzle of the gun, "Bring the puppet over, hurry up!"

"Uh… I…" At this time, the doctor clearly showed a look of fear, and stood in place hesitating.

"I'll give you five seconds." Feng Bujue continued in a cold tone, "If you haven't stood in front of me after five seconds, I'll start strafing your colleagues."

"No! Don't do this! I… I'll come over." Now that things had come to this, Dr. Jonathan had no choice but to do as Brother Jue said.

However, just as he was walking towards Feng Bujue, a team of security guards rushed in from the door of the laboratory facing the outside…

"Don't move!" The one who led the team in this time was the security guard who was previously named "Dan," "Austin! You've been surrounded! Surrender obediently!"