Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 522 The Polluted City (16)

The dense footsteps, accompanied by the monster's roar, gradually approached the third floor. However, after a series of dense gunshots, the monster's roar soon quieted down. Judging from the gunshots, these firing guns were all high-powered weapons, and the roaring sounded very similar to the big guy that Adenauer and the other two had encountered before.

"Squeak..."

"How's the team doing?"

"No one was injured, but some ammunition was consumed, it's not important."

"Keep going. We have to find the previous team before the recovery mission is completed. Where are their bodies now?"

"According to the last image transmitted by the helmet's internal recorder before their vital signs went offline, they should be in the hall ahead."

Another team emerged from the stairwell. Aside from the different weapons they used, the equipment they wore was almost identical to the team that died in the lobby on the third floor.

Veteran police officers Juan and Madison were currently hiding in the room closest to the stairwell. It was a small office, visible in full view, with only the doorframes to hide. To avoid arousing suspicion, the door was left open, so the two officers tried to minimize their breathing and make no sound. However, precisely because the room was small, the heavily armed Adenauer couldn't hide there. He was currently hiding on the fire escape outside the hospital building, using the heavy rain to conceal his presence.

Soon, the team carrying large-caliber weapons left the stairwell and went through the corridor to the hall where the dead team was. Just as their team was about to disappear around the corner of the corridor, the two people hiding in the office suddenly discovered that Adenauer had quietly returned to the third floor from the fire escape and followed him directly.

"call out."

Just as the last person in the team was about to turn the corner of the corridor, Adenauer arrived behind him. He pulled out a silenced pistol and reached out to the man. As his hand passed through his armpit, he suddenly opened fire. The bullet from the silenced pistol accurately penetrated his neck through the gap between his bulletproof vest and helmet. Although the man did not die immediately, he could no longer speak. At this moment, he felt someone dragging him backwards.

"call out."

"Ping."

Just as he was dragged back to the corner of the corridor, he saw a gun pointed at his head. It seemed to be a rifle with a silencer. The rifle bullet easily penetrated his helmet and shot through his head. Before he lost consciousness, he suddenly had a doubt.

"Why did the equipment in my helmet malfunction? Maybe the bullet hit the processing system in the helmet directly?"

Adenauer saw the intelligent devices and systems carried by this team as no different from those of primitive humans. However, he couldn't directly use the contractor's equipment to destroy these systems. It wasn't because he couldn't do it, but because the rules of this instance required that upon the death of these soldiers, their devices would send an alert to their surviving companions. Therefore, especially with many people watching the live broadcast of the game, Adenauer had to find a reasonable way to prevent the alert from being sent.

Fortunately, the equipment that could send warning signals was located inside the helmet. If they could find the correct location and destroy it, then everything would be fine. This was also why he had spent so much time examining the helmet when he retrieved the equipment from the deceased team. Add to that the cautious tactical style that other players regarded Adenauer as, and this situation made sense.

After killing a soldier, Adenauer did not immediately start to replace the soldier with a better weapon. Instead, he placed the soldier's body there and immediately continued to move forward, caught up with the team, and mixed in with the back of the team, replacing the position of the person he killed. From the stairwell to the third-floor hall, the corridor needs to turn several corners, so Adenauer took advantage of the gaps in the turns and followed the same method, quietly eliminating the team members one by one. And this team, whether it was due to their poor tactical skills or to avoid attracting the mutant townspeople as much as possible, almost did not communicate, which also gave Adenauer a great help. Adenauer's combat skills were excellent, so considering the above situation, when the team arrived at the location of the death squad's body, almost all of the team were killed by him quietly, leaving only the person walking in the front, probably the captain or something like that.

"All the equipment and weapons on these guys are gone? Has anyone else been to the hospital?"

"I don't know. I'll report the situation right away."

"Forget it, it's not important. Let's recover their bodies first. Some guns and ammunition are gone, so be it, but we can't leave any evidence of our presence here."

"clear."

After the brief conversation, the captain felt something strange. The voices of his team members seemed unfamiliar. At first, he thought it was because they were wearing helmets, but even so, he shouldn't be completely unable to recognize his team members' voices. So he turned around to check, and before he could react, he saw the rifle silencer pressing against his helmet.

"call out."

"Ping!"

"Bang."

Shot in the head at point-blank range meant they were doomed. Thus, the entire team that had arrived on the third floor to recover the bodies was completely wiped out. Juan, the veteran police officer who had been following from a distance, and Madison, who knew the identities of the soldiers, slowly approached Adenauer. The fact that this heavily armed and formidable team (after all, they had taken out the giant below without a single injury) had been silently annihilated by Adenauer gave them a clearer understanding of his combat prowess.

"No need to change all your weapons, just find one that's comfortable for you and take the weapons and ammunition."

"What to do with the body?"

"Leave it alone, we don't have that much time."

"Buzz~~"

Just as Adenauer was telling the old policemen Juan and Madison what to do, he suddenly heard some buzzing sounds coming from the distance. The sound was very familiar. It was the sound of propellers and motors when a small drone was running.

"what sound?"

"Drone, they might have realized that something's wrong with the team on the third floor. It's probably because they haven't received a response in too long. Hide first and don't let the drone find you."

"This is the third-floor lobby. The surrounding rooms are very far away from us. Which direction is the drone going?"

"We're going forward from where we came from."

The drone appeared from the third-floor stairwell. Scans from the contractor's equipment revealed that this type of drone was a small detection device. To ensure speed and stealth, it lacked a large-capacity battery, typically requiring soldiers to carry a charging backpack. The lack of battery life indicated the drone's operator was nearby, suggesting another team had already reached the hospital's third floor. So, under Adenauer's command, the three men quickly ran in the opposite direction of the drone, into the opposite corridor. They evaded the drone's pursuit just before it entered the third-floor lobby.

"What should we do now?"

"We can't stay on the third floor for long. I guess that drone has already discovered the previous team and has been eliminated. We need to go to another floor."

"But there's no stairwell on this side, and the elevator doesn't work. How are we supposed to run?"

"Juan, are you afraid of heights?"

"Afraid of heights? No, wait, you don't want to... climb up from the outside, do you?!"

"Either you get beaten to a pulp by the team behind you, or you take the risk and try it. It's up to you. I'll definitely choose the team behind you."

"I knew I shouldn't have eaten so many donuts!"

Before Juan could finish his regrets, Adenauer had already opened the window next to him. He had chosen this location for a reason. Just outside this window, there was a very sturdy drainpipe, secured to the wall by numerous steel bars, like a small ladder with a pipe in the middle. As long as you held on to the steel bars, you wouldn't fall, even if the rain was pouring down outside. Of course, he disguised this as a coincidence.

"It seems we are lucky. There is a ladder here that we can use."

Adenauer was the first to climb out the window, grabbing the steel bars of the drainpipe and beginning to climb. Old policeman Juan, though complaining, followed with all his might, Madison close behind. The rain pelted down on them, blurring their vision and requiring extra strength with every grasp. This wasn't a problem for the sturdy Adenauer, nor was it a challenge for Madison, aside from the slight impact of the heavy rain. But for Juan, the heavier officer with an old arm injury, the route proved difficult.

As he neared the fourth floor, the old injury, the effects of the heavy rain, and the increased psychological pressure caused his arm to ache, but he couldn't let go; he didn't want to fall. Similarly, being in the middle of the climb, he couldn't stop to rest. Fortunately, the tense atmosphere quickly pumped up Juan's adrenaline, and he became excited, gradually easing the pain in his arm.

Adenauer's original plan was to reach the fourth floor, which was originally empty. However, after reaching the height of the fourth floor, the three of them saw that there was already a fully armed team inside the fourth floor. Entering the fourth floor now would be tantamount to seeking death, so they could only continue to climb up.

Naturally, they couldn't get into the fifth floor either. After all, that was the destination of the guys who had used the private elevator in the beginning. So the three of them could only continue to climb upwards, heading towards the rooftop of the small town hospital. However, just as they were about to reach the rooftop, a problem arose. There was a bump on the rooftop.

The drainpipe passed directly through the ridge, so it wasn't a problem for it. However, for the three people climbing up, it was a significant challenge. Since the edge of the ridge and the drainpipe were not close together, to reach the rooftop, they had to leap diagonally from the drainpipe, then precisely and firmly grasp the edge of the ridge, and then use the strength of their arms to climb up. Adenauer was the only one who could do this; veteran police officer Juan and Madison were unable to do it for some reason.

Needless to say, the old policeman Juan was unable to do this because of his fat body and old arm injuries. As for Madison, it was because of the excessive psychological pressure of this action that led to fear. So although Madison was able to do this action physically, he was afraid that his hands might slip due to the heavy rain and he might not be able to grab the raised edge, or the direction of his jump might be blurred by the rain, leading to misjudgment, or the guns and ammunition on his body would increase his weight and cause him to fall directly. This fear continued to increase his psychological pressure, making Madison hold on to the steel bars that fixed the drainpipe tightly, his eyes wide open.

"Wait here! I'll see if there's any way to get you up there!!"

In the pouring rain, even Juan, the old policeman following behind Adenauer, could not hear clearly what he said, let alone Madison at the back. The rain gradually soaked their clothes and became cold. Although the cold rain made them calm down a little, it also began to make their limbs numb. If they could not find a way to leave the rain as soon as possible, their situation would be dangerous.

Adenauer was not afraid of this scene. He looked at his position and jumped directly to the back, leaving the drainpipe. He used both hands to grab the edge of the protruding building accurately, just like doing pull-ups on the horizontal bar on the ground, and pulled his body up. Soon, in Juan's sight, Adenauer's legs disappeared over the edge of the protruding building.

For Juan, what he witnessed was actually nothing. He did not feel scared, but was just regretting his indulgent lifestyle over the years. However, for Madison below, seeing Adenauer successfully climb to the roof not only failed to reduce her fear, but increased it. After all, the moment Adenauer took off, she realized how far the raised edge of the building was from the drainpipe.

In fact, the location of the raised edge was not far from the drainage pipe where they were, only about one meter away. However, under the psychological effect, this one-meter distance suddenly became as far away as the Grand Canyon in Madison's eyes. The fear made her hair stand on end, but it was soon suppressed by the cold rain. The cycle repeated, making Madison's heartbeat speed up rapidly, as if she had run a marathon in one breath. However, in fact, if it were not for the influence of heavy rain and the influence of altitude, their exercise volume would not be a big deal. Even for Juan, it was far below the normal amount of exercise.

Only a few dozen seconds had actually passed since Adenauer's figure disappeared over the raised edge of the building, but to the two people waiting on the drainpipe, it felt like several years had passed.

"Snapped."

At that moment, a rope ladder suddenly dropped from the roof. The two men looked up and saw a head peek out from the edge. It was Adenauer. He seemed to be shouting something at them, but because of the torrential rain and occasional lightning and thunder, neither of them could hear what he said. Perhaps understanding their predicament, Adenauer stretched out his arm and pointed at the rope ladder. Only then did the two realize that Adenauer had found a way to get them up.

"You go up first!!"

"it is good!!"

Juan noticed Madison's condition, so after grabbing the shaky rope ladder and pulling it over, Juan shouted to Madison below, asking her to climb up first. Madison's fear was finally relieved when she saw the rope ladder. She immediately grabbed the ladder and slowly climbed up. As soon as she passed the raised part of the building, Adenauer stretched out his arm and pulled her up directly.

"Come and help!!! If the rope ladder breaks, we can still pull Juan up!!"

"it is good!!"

Although Adenauer did not need any help at all, he still had to pretend. Fortunately, the rope ladder was strong enough, and Juan quickly climbed up the bulge and was pulled up by Adenauer and Madison.

"You should lose weight Juan!!!"

“I think so too!!”

After the old policeman Juan was pulled to the roof, he lay on the ground gasping for breath, but when the heavy rain poured into his mouth and almost choked him, he crawled up from the ground and leaned against the wall.

Adenauer pointed to a door not far away, which was the stairwell leading to the rooftop. Juan and Madison nodded, got up from the ground, and followed Adenauer towards the door.