Chapter 137
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Chapter 137 Guardian
Su Rui’s arm moved swiftly, thrusting the four-edged military dagger forward again, with the sharp tip aimed directly at the assassin’s kneecap!
Against the hard bone, the military dagger made from various alloys cut through like a steel knife through tofu, cleanly and effortlessly penetrating his knee!
Su Rui’s movements were extremely fast, stabbing and withdrawing in an instant, causing blood to spray immediately!
The assassin let out a scream of agony, then clutched his knee wound and fell to the ground!
Su Rui naturally wouldn’t miss such an opportunity. He stepped forward, and this time, the invincible military dagger in his hand instantly pierced through the opponent’s shoulder blade!
This was a throwing dagger personally customized for Su Rui by Russian weapons master Zelnikov, something truly priceless! It should be known that this weapon was one of Zelnikov’s few most proud creations in his lifetime!
Invincible! Unstoppable!
This time after penetrating the shoulder blade, Su Rui didn’t immediately withdraw the dagger, but instead gripped the handle and rotated it violently!
The four edges of the military dagger made a teeth-grinding friction sound against the assassin’s bones!
The hard edges forcibly rotated within the dense bone, turning all surrounding bone into fragments. Anyone who hasn’t experienced this firsthand could never imagine what kind of terrifying feeling this is!
The assassin howled and passed out!
Su Rui pulled him up and dragged him behind a table, then formed his hand into a blade shape and chopped forcefully at the carotid artery in his neck!
This guy wouldn’t wake up for at least an hour!
This series of actions seemed to take a long time, but in reality, it was only half a minute!
After completing these actions, Su Rui’s expression became slightly solemn.
Regarding martial arts skills, he was undoubtedly qualified to comment. Although he had managed to take down this assassin relatively easily, the speed and agility demonstrated in the assassin’s first few moves showed extremely sophisticated skills. If not for the assassin’s somewhat lacking ability in direct confrontation, Su Rui might not have been able to defeat him so easily.
The appearance of this assassination expert was enough to indicate that certain people had already invested significant resources!
Now Su Rui had no time to carefully examine what else the assassin was carrying. He had more important matters—finding Lin Aoxue!
The formula for Tricholoramine meant nothing to him; the only important thing was Lin Aoxue’s safety!
Su Rui leaped to the air conditioning control panel and activated the ventilation system of the research center!
As soon as the switch was pressed, one could clearly see with the naked eye that the white mist began to be sucked out through the ventilation ducts!
Visibility in the laboratory was improving! The mist would probably completely dissipate within five minutes!
On the other end, Lin Aoxue clearly felt that the footsteps were getting closer and closer to her, or rather, getting closer to the computer just two meters away from her!
Lin Aoxue couldn’t help feeling that she had made a tactical error. She shouldn’t have hidden right next to the core database. If she had fled randomly with the chaotic crowd like a headless fly, her situation might not be so dangerous!
Just then, two consecutive screams came from the direction of the laboratory door! These screams immediately made Lin Aoxue’s heart tighten! In this tense state, she couldn’t determine whether the sound came from Su Rui or not!
At this moment, Lin Aoxue didn’t realize at all how much she cared about Su Rui’s safety!
When the screams sounded, the approaching footsteps paused, as if hesitating for a moment, then continued walking toward her!
Step by step, getting closer and closer! Almost reaching the computer that contained all the experimental data!
The newcomer gave a sinister laugh, pressed a series of buttons on the computer, but then frowned!
Because the computer was password-protected!
He was a computer expert, and ordinary passwords couldn’t stump him, but the password here was a level-five encryption program! It was specially designed for Lin Fuzhang at great expense! It wasn’t something that could be easily cracked! If he tried to force his way in, it would take at least an hour!
Obviously, he didn’t have that much time!
If he couldn’t crack it, then he would forcibly take it away!
Taking the entire host computer would be too conspicuous, so why not just remove the hard drive and crack it later at leisure!
However, just as he was about to open the computer case, he stopped his actions!
Because he suddenly saw that outside the computer case, there was a steel plate box firmly fixed to the ground!
And on the surface of the steel plate, there was an advanced combination lock!
This was a precaution Lin Aoxue had taken to prevent the database from being stolen! Without the password, there was no way to open the box, let alone take away the hard drive!
To get the hard drive, one had to know the password! There was no other way!
The intruder shook the box a few times, but the steel box was fixed firmly in place without the slightest movement. To take it away, one would have to tear up the concrete beneath the floor as well!
But for him now, such demolition was completely impossible! There were no conditions for it, only the option to crack the password!
Although this combination lock was considered high-grade, compared to those encryption programs of level three or above, it was still quite primitive.
He was a computer expert who could quickly crack level-three encryption programs, let alone this simple combination lock, right?
But this seemingly simple combination lock was truly not simple—because it couldn’t be computed by computer, only manually input!
A total of nine dials, each with ten number choices, resulting in nearly 100 million possible number combinations!
The most primitive lock would stump the strongest computer expert—because it had almost nothing to do with computers!
If there were corresponding connection ports that could be used for computer calculations, it might take only two minutes to complete such high-intensity calculations, but manually? It would probably take a lifetime to solve!
Over 100 million possibilities—how long would it take to try them one by one?
Hearing his hidden companion emit two consecutive screams, the intruder wearing a white mask and full white cleanroom suit sensed a hint of danger.
His name was Greet, and his companion was called Ekma. The latter was extremely skilled in stealth assassination, with infiltration skills that ranked him around the top fifteen on the Western dark world’s assassin ranking list. Considering the abundance of talents in the Western dark world, this was already a very impressive ranking!
However, Ekma, who excelled at hiding in the shadows waiting for the right moment to strike, had let out consecutive screams and then fallen silent!
Obviously, he had encountered a close-combat expert and was instantly defeated!
How powerful must someone be to instantly defeat a figure ranked in the top fifteen of the Western dark world’s assassin ranking list?
Greet began to panic. Before coming, he had believed this operation would be foolproof, but now it seemed completely different from what he had imagined!
China actually harbored such experts!
Not only had he failed to obtain the crucial experimental data, but Ekma was also about to be lost here!
For them, this was undoubtedly a fatal outcome!
Time was running out!
Since he couldn’t open the steel box to get the hard drive, there was only one person who could help!
Who was this person? The answer was obvious!
It was Lin Aoxue, the CEO of Bikang Group, who possessed the core technology of Tricholoramine!
Even without the hard drive, capturing her would be equivalent to completing the mission! At the very least, the synthesis methods were all in her head!
After disguising themselves and infiltrating Bikang’s core laboratory, Greet and Ekma had familiarized themselves with the routes countless times. They knew where the computer storing the key data was located, and they also knew where Lin Aoxue would definitely work every day!
Before the explosion, they had clearly seen Lin Aoxue near this test bench!
Not much time had passed since then, so Lin Aoxue definitely hadn’t gone far and should still be nearby!
Greet angrily kicked the steel-protected computer case, then looked around with a vicious expression.
By now, much of the mist had been drawn away by the ventilation system. Previously, visibility was less than one meter, but now it had increased to three or four meters, and the density had also thinned considerably.
Lin Aoxue quietly clenched her fists, but she had no idea that Greet, who had carved out a place for himself in the Western dark world, relied not only on his computer skills but also on his quite impressive martial arts abilities.
After all, a technical lamb without combat skills could never survive in that dark and bloody world.
Greet’s eyes swept around and immediately spotted the corner of a cleanroom suit sticking out from beside a table leg.
When Lin Aoxue had hurriedly hidden, she had forgotten to tuck in all the corners of her clothing. The white mist was too thick, and she lacked experience in this area, so it wasn’t her fault.
Greet saw the clothing corner, smiled sinisterly, took a few steps, and stood in front of Lin Aoxue.
Lin Aoxue knew she had been discovered and no longer tried to hide. She stood up and coldly looked at Greet.
“Either open the computer, or I’ll take you away.” Time was running out, and Greet grabbed Lin Aoxue’s arm, saying coldly.
Lin Aoxue remained silent, saying nothing. She grabbed his arm in return and delivered a merciless knee strike!
Just like she had done to Su Rui before!
Su Rui had been caught off guard and hadn’t wanted to defend himself, but Greet was well-prepared. He simply moved his body slightly to the side and easily avoided Lin Aoxue’s attack!
However, this move from Lin Aoxue thoroughly angered him!
Greet sneered, roughly twisted Lin Aoxue’s arm behind her back, and hissed, “Quickly unlock the password, or I’ll take you back with me! What kind of inhuman torture you’ll suffer then is hard to say!”
Lin Aoxue’s eyebrows twitched, but she still remained silent. She knew that being taken away by this man would have unimaginable consequences, but she could never reveal the computer’s password.
Because inside was Bikang’s hope.
