The gunshots in the restaurant on the fifth floor stopped abruptly. Looking at the empty elevator, the members of the emergency response team had an interesting look on their faces.
Finally, when the bumpy elevator door closed, the elevator continued to rise to the thirteenth floor. Without exception, all the team members shifted their gaze to 0.
In their memory, 0 rarely made a mistake in his judgment. Fortunately, the surprise in his eyes only lasted for a moment before he returned to normal. After that, 0 contacted the sheriff on the first floor and asked the latter to send someone to the kitchen. After that, he asked someone to guard the back door of the hotel, blocking Zhang Heng's two escape routes.
However, Zhang Heng was nowhere to be seen at the back door or the kitchen. It was as if he had vanished into thin air.
On the contrary, the gunshots just now had exposed the location of the emergency response team. It was a taboo to be in the open while the enemy was in the dark. Hence, 0 made a prompt decision and withdrew from the restaurant with his three teammates.
About two minutes after they left, the two bumpy elevator doors opened again. This time, someone forced them open from the inside. First, a hand reached out from the inside, and then Zhang Heng climbed out.
Just like 0 now regarded Zhang Heng as his number one opponent, Zhang Heng also paid special attention to 0. From the very beginning, he noticed that the peripheral defense was a trap. Hence, although Zhang Heng pressed the button for the thirteenth floor, he did not get on the elevator. Instead, he waited for the elevator to start rising before climbing up the elevator shaft. Hence, the place where the emergency response team fired at was actually very close to Zhang Heng, right above his head. However, 0 did not expect Zhang Heng to be so bold. After realizing that there was something wrong with the elevator, he still dared to take this route.
After getting out of the elevator shaft, Zhang Heng did not rush to leave. Instead, he chose to squat on the ground and carefully observe the bullet marks on the elevator door. From this, Zhang Heng could roughly restore the trajectory of the bullet at that time, and he could also speculate how many people were standing here.
The reason why Zhang Heng did this was because he wanted to know if the emergency response team had taken control of the surveillance room.
In order to ensure the safety of the guests and avoid some unnecessary disputes, hotels often installed a lot of cameras. As long as someone stayed in the monitoring room, they could see most of the situation in the hotel. Before entering the Four Continents Hotel, Zhang Heng had already checked the building's layout and found that the monitoring room was on the seventh floor, not far from where he was.
Even if Zhang Heng planned to ambush him as soon as he arrived, the other party had no reason not to take control of the surveillance room on the seventh floor first. As long as they took control of the surveillance room and placed someone in it, they would be able to know the situation in most areas of the hotel.
However, from the trajectory of the bullets, it could be inferred that there were four people shooting here just now. Worried that Zhang Heng might sneak in wearing a police uniform, the emergency response team left all the federal police on the first floor. They only had four people available. In other words, the emergency response team did not leave anyone in the monitoring room.
There was only one possibility for this to happen. The first four members of the special operations team had destroyed all the surveillance equipment in the monitoring room. This was good news for Zhang Heng. Among the three parties, he was the last to enter the hotel. If the surveillance equipment was still working, it would inevitably affect his next move.
However, this meant that none of the three parties in the hotel knew each other's location.
Hide-and-seek? Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows. This happened to be the game he was best at.
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The four members of the emergency response team retreated all the way from the restaurant to the seventh floor. According to 0's original plan, if they failed to stop Zhang Heng at the elevator, they would return to the monitoring room. 0 believed that Zhang Heng would definitely consider the existence of the surveillance cameras. In this case, most people would choose to come to the monitoring room to see if they could use the surveillance footage to find out where the remaining special operations team members were hiding.
That was what he thought. However, when he came here, he found that all the surveillance equipment inside had been destroyed. After that, Number Four checked the smashed hard disk and said that it was difficult to restore the data inside. Hence, the monitoring room was completely useless.
However, Zhang Heng, who entered the hotel last, did not know about this. If he was well-prepared, there was a high chance that he could ambush the target here. 0 had always been very confident in his judgment. However, after he failed to find Zhang Heng at the elevator, he had a rare moment of hesitation about whether he should follow the original plan or not.
That was because he found that Zhang Heng seemed to be more cunning and cautious than he thought. Whether Zhang Heng could see through the trap in the monitoring room like he did behind the elevator, 0 was not sure.
Number Five saw that 0 was deep in thought, and he looked at Number Seven and Number Two on the other side. Their lips moved as if they wanted to say something, but in the end, they did not speak.
After that, the three of them hid behind the monitoring station and the water dispenser according to 0's previous arrangement, quietly waiting for Zhang Heng's arrival.
After a quarter of an hour, nothing happened. There was not even a shadow of a cat in the corridor outside.
Number Five finally couldn't help but remind him, "Captain, shouldn't we solve the problem of the goods first? After all, there are four of us here. Is it really necessary to care so much about one person?"
Number Five's words also stunned 0, and he immediately realized that he had indeed walked into a dead end. He cared too much about Zhang Heng because the latter had killed half of his team one after another. Hence, 0 regarded Zhang Heng as his biggest opponent. There was nothing wrong with his attitude and judgment. However, the problem was that the emergency response team had the upper hand among the three parties in the hotel. Even Zhang Heng could not fight against the four of them head-on.
Therefore, there was no need for them to adopt an extreme defensive strategy to guess where Zhang Heng would appear. On the contrary, as long as they killed the remaining four members of the special operations team and obtained the goods, they would naturally force Zhang Heng to come to them.
Now that he knew where the problem was, 0 quickly completed the adjustment. Not only did he adjust his strategy, but he also adjusted his mentality. He still regarded Zhang Heng as the biggest threat, and he remained vigilant. However, he was no longer overly cautious. He began to take the initiative to use his side's advantage in combat, and he took the initiative to seek contact with Zhang Heng. Even the emergency response team began to move quickly in the hotel.
However, while they were lying in ambush in the monitoring room, Zhang Heng had already discovered something.
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