In just a short while, the Four Continents Hotel was surrounded by police officers, and the lobby was under police control. Outsiders could no longer enter, and the guests inside were not allowed to go out. The hotel was in a state of lockdown.
Zhang Heng took a look inside and gave up the idea of walking through the lobby to the emergency exit. After that, he observed the passersby standing on the side of the road, and soon, he found a guy wearing a wide-brimmed hat and carrying a camera.
Zhang Heng walked up to him, talked to him for a while, shook his hand, and then walked to the back door of the hotel in his police uniform. This door was not meant for guests. It was usually used for employees and goods to enter and exit the hotel. But now, it was being watched. Fortunately, compared to the front door, there weren't as many people here.
Zhang Heng walked to the door at a steady pace, nodded to the police officer in charge of guarding the door, and said, "The sheriff asked me to go in and ask the head chef something."
"You look a little unfamiliar." The captain did not immediately step aside when he heard Zhang Heng's words. Instead, a look of confusion appeared on his face.
"Oh, I am a newcomer who has just arrived. I usually listen to the sheriff's orders. You can ask the sheriff about this," Zhang Heng said calmly.
"Is that so?" The captain looked at Zhang Heng with suspicion in his eyes. He then raised his chin at Zhang Heng, "You don't have to ask the sheriff. Let me see your police ID."
"Okay." Zhang Heng pretended to open the bracelet on his left hand.
But the next moment, the captain's face suddenly changed, and he pointed his finger behind Zhang Heng. "Hey, what are you doing? Which newspaper are you from? Didn't I tell you not to take photos?!"
Before he could finish his sentence, the guy on the other side raised his camera and took two more photos. After that, he saw that the situation was not good and ran away. The captain couldn't care less about Zhang Heng. He told Zhang Heng to wait for a while and chased after him.
However, Zhang Heng did not stay put like he said. Soon after the captain left, he opened the back door of the hotel and walked in. Although there were many police officers left in front of the door, no one could make the decision. They looked at each other, and in the end, no one stopped Zhang Heng. They just watched Zhang Heng enter the hotel.
As soon as the latter entered the house, he locked the back door. He then pulled out a pistol from his waist, held it in his hand, and walked forward.
His footsteps were very light, and under the effect of [Heart of Kreis], there was no sound at all, just like a cat.
Entering the hotel was only the first step. The real challenge was yet to come. Zhang Heng's goal was to find the memory encoder from the four members of the special operations team. However, his opponents were not only the exoskeleton warriors of the special operations team but also the emergency response team.
It was especially so for the leader, Zero. Zhang Heng had obtained a lot of information about Zero from Number 9. Even if they were all clones that were transformed into super soldiers, there was still a gap between them, and these gaps would continue to widen over time.
In Number 9's words, "Zero is different from us. He belongs to another species, a brand new species. It is a creation that cannot be explained by the existing human cloning theory. Speaking of which, the two of you are quite similar to each other to some extent. If you two meet each other, the scene will be very interesting. It's probably like Godzilla meeting Ghidorah."
Number 9 licked her lips as she spoke. The Oath Ring did not change at all, proving that what she said was true.
Therefore, as soon as Zhang Heng entered the hotel, he raised the security to the highest level. He didn't go to the lobby because it was already full of police officers, especially the elevators and the safety passageways. He wouldn't be able to use the same trick a second time.
So, Zhang Heng walked into the kitchen on the opposite side without much hesitation. Although there were still half-cooked dishes in the pot and chopped ingredients on the chopping board, there was no chef in the kitchen at this time. The police must have called them to the lobby.
Zhang Heng knew that some multi-story restaurants would install a small lift in the back kitchen. It could be used to deliver cooked meals to the upper floors as quickly as possible to ensure that the guests would not have to wait for too long. Zhang Heng was lucky that the Four Continents Hotel had such a lift in the back kitchen.
However, such a lift was originally designed to deliver meals, and it would be very crowded for people to sit on it. Basically, people would have to curl their hands and feet to sit on it. Now, it was the best choice for Zhang Heng to avoid the police on the first floor and go directly to the next floor.
Zhang Heng looked at the buttons of the elevator. There were only two floors, one of which was on the thirteenth floor, and the nearest delivery point was on the fifth floor. In other words, as long as he took this lift, he could directly reach the restaurant on the fifth or thirteenth floor.
And Zhang Heng quickly made his choice. As the doors on both sides of the lift slowly closed, it began to rise to the thirteenth floor.
However, when the lift reached the fourth floor, something unexpected happened. The speed of the lift suddenly slowed down. There was only one possibility for this to happen — the people on the fifth floor had also pressed the button!
After that, before the door of the lift was fully opened, gunshots rang out.
One could tell how many bullets were fired just by listening to the sound. So many bullets poured into the lift in just a few seconds. Considering the narrow environment inside the lift, the people on it had almost no space to dodge. They could only wait to be torn apart by the bullets.
At the same time, 0's eyes flashed in the restaurant.
No one would have thought that the emergency response team did not rush to hunt down the remaining members of the special operations team after entering the hotel. Instead, they stayed quietly in the restaurant on the fifth floor, staring at the lift in front of them.
In fact, 0 didn't care much about the remaining four members of the special operations team. In his opinion, they were at the end of their rope, and they wouldn't be able to survive for long. It was just a matter of whether they would be killed sooner or later. On the contrary, after losing contact with the three people he sent to the amusement park, 0's vigilance toward Zhang Heng had been raised to the highest level. For this reason, he did not even hesitate to put aside the matter that should have been his top priority. Instead of looking for the goods, he decided to focus on killing his competitor, Zhang Heng.
Anyway, after killing Zhang Heng, he had plenty of time to continue his search.
After making the decision, 0 also put himself in Zhang Heng's shoes, thinking about several possible ways that Zhang Heng could go upstairs. After that, he contacted the sheriff on the first floor and made arrangements for the personnel on the periphery. His ultimate goal was to lure Zhang Heng to this dead end.
And now, his plan seemed to be about to succeed. 0 admitted that such a method was indeed unfair. Zhang Heng was obviously a master, but it was likely that he wouldn't be able to unleash his full strength. He might just die on this small lift.
However, a battle was not just a competition of strength. In a battle between masters, insignificant details would always determine victory or defeat. When he thought that his biggest enemy could finally be killed, 0 could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. However, when the lift door opened, his pupils shrank suddenly.
There was nothing inside!
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