Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 529 The Polluted City (23)

About half an hour later.

Adenauer discovered a problem. Madison, who was very familiar with the interior of the air-raid shelter, at least this branch line, had been taking himself and the old policeman Juan in circles. They arrived near the exit several times, but Madison chose to deliberately bypass the correct exit and circled around along a semi-circular passage.

But Adenauer knew what Madison was planning. After all, just before entering the shelter, Madison had found an excuse to pause for more than ten seconds and secretly take the film with him. Since Madison wasn't going to abandon the relatively easy-to-carry film, then he probably wanted to get his hands on the notebook in his pocket as well.

Open robbery was definitely not an option. Madison knew she didn't have the wherewithal, but the contents of the notebook seemed incredibly important to her. She knew what was written inside, or at least had seen the notebook. There were no proper lighting systems inside the shelter, and even if there were, they wouldn't be able to operate with the town's power outage. So, Madison planned to take advantage of the darkness and try to steal the notebook from Adenauer's pocket. To ensure this success, Madison used the excuse of avoiding running into other armed men, keeping the three of them very close together, occasionally bumping into each other.

In the past half hour, Adenauer had already noticed Madison reaching into his trouser pockets more than a dozen times. Madison had a solid foundation in surgery, so her movements were precise, quick, and gentle. While not as good as those of a professional pickpocket, others might have been able to pull off the job. Unfortunately, these few little tricks were not enough for Adenauer.

Putting aside Adenauer's exaggerated perception ability, the three of them were completely unequal in terms of visual information alone. The environment inside the air-raid shelter was extremely dim for the other two, so dark that they could hardly see their hands in front of them. But for Adenauer, it was basically no different from an outdoor square at noon.

Even without these abilities, Madison couldn't steal the notebook because it wasn't with Adenauer. After Madison's first failed attempt to steal the notebook by reaching into his pocket, Adenauer had used a contractor's equipment to teleport the notebook to his secret base on a remote island. He placed it in a replicator, created a complete copy, and used the replica to understand everything recorded in the notebook.

However, in this case, the original notebook was useless to Adenauer. To prevent Madison from going in circles, after completing his analysis, Adenauer teleported the notebook back and deliberately dropped it on the ground. As expected, Madison, noticing the sound, immediately stopped, fumbled for the notebook on the ground, and picked it up.

"Why did you stop?"

"I tripped over something, a rock, but it's okay. The exit is just ahead."

After obtaining the notebook, Madison had indeed kept it a secret. Apparently, Adenauer had been right; she definitely knew what the notebook was. Now that she had what she wanted, there was no reason for Madison to remain in the shelter. This time, she didn't take a detour, but headed straight for the exit with Adenauer and the veteran policeman, Juan.

"Ok?"

Just as the three of them entered the exit passage and were about to reach the exit gate, Adenauer discovered that there seemed to be other people outside. Those people were neither the crazy townspeople in the town nor the armed forces found inside the hospital before, but a man about fifty years old with a strange team.

This team was also fully armed, but unlike the group they had encountered before, the weapons they used looked like they came from a research institute, not any common weapons. What's more, what they wore looked a bit like the power armor of security personnel. Although compared with the security armor of Infinite Company, what they wore was at most a miniaturized exoskeleton, it was still relatively powerful in the current copy. At least they would not be like those guys who were killed by Adenauer's sneak attack, without any vigilance at all.

"The data card signal and Miss Madison's positioning signal are both in there. She should be fine. The backup data card signal is also in there."

"Madison must have brought both data cards with her. This means that all the data on the hospital's server has been deleted. Notify the team heading to the hospital and ask them to come back."

"Strange, why is there suddenly one missing?"

"What's missing?"

"Miss Madison had two life signals before, but now there is only one left."

"Could there be something wrong with the readings?"

"It's possible. After all, this rainstorm does interfere with the signal transmission of electronic equipment to a certain extent."

"Rescan the data to see if there's an error in the readings or if there really is a third person."

Those people outside had communication equipment to help them communicate smoothly in the noise of the rainstorm. Naturally, after discovering them, Adenauer immediately used the contractor's equipment to intercept their communications. Through their conversation, it can be found that they seemed to be looking for Madison. Judging from the tone of their voice when they mentioned Madison, they and Madison should not be enemies, but allies.

However, the way they were able to locate Madison puzzled Adenauer. Their conversation confirmed that the signals from the two data cards in Madison's possession were independent. If they could confirm that the person carrying the data cards was Madison, then Madison must have some other device on her that could identify her. This was unbelievable, as Adenauer had scanned both Madison and the veteran police officer, Juan, long ago, and neither of them had any positioning devices. Any mechanical or electronic device couldn't escape the contractor's scanning, and the contractor's equipment hadn't experienced any interference or malfunction, indicating that the device Madison used to confirm her identity wasn't within the scope of the contractor's detection.

As for the problem with their scanning of the three people, it really wasn't Adenauer's fault. It was indeed just because of the heavy rain that interfered with the signal of the equipment they were using.

"Okay, there are indeed three people. It must be the thunder just now that briefly interfered with the signal."

"Doctor, what do we do now?"

"We're not sure if Madison is safe yet. Stay out of the way. Send a message to Madison and tell her we've arrived. What's the situation with the team from the hospital? If they haven't left yet, have them leave the shelter and try to surround Madison and the others to keep her safe."

"Okay, I'll spread the news right away."

According to further conversations intercepted by the contractor's equipment, these people had come to the town because they had received Madison's call for help. Since they claimed to be able to pass the message to Madison, it meant that she had the means to receive it. This inevitably made Adenauer even more curious, after all, she didn't have any working communication equipment on her, except for a cell phone with no signal.

"Wait, a cell phone?"

Adenauer suddenly woke up as if from a dream. In fact, he had already known how Madison transmitted the message. It was just that his long experience made him automatically exclude the most basic communication tool when scanning, which was the mobile phone that Madison always carried with him.

For Adenauer, mobile phones were considered very backward tools, so unless there was clear evidence or clues pointing to something like a mobile phone, he would generally skip it when searching with the contractor's equipment. After all, the people he had dealt with before basically did not use mobile phones or leave any important evidence in their phones.

As for the lack of mobile phone signal, that is not a problem. Some expensive high-end mobile phones often have special emergency communication methods, which may be through satellites or have effects similar to radio stations. These configurations can allow users to communicate normally outside the service area without network nodes. Madison's mobile phone has the effect of a radio station. She probably used this to notify those people outside before.

Soon, changing the search direction, Adenauer did intercept a regular string of radio signals, which were transmitted to Madison's phone. She deliberately slowed down her pace, quickly took out her phone, and took a look, and got the news.

"But how they were sure that Madison's phone was with her still remains inexplicable," Adenauer thought, but this was not the most important issue at the moment.

Now that he knew the news Madison had received, Adenauer naturally also knew that there was another team approaching from behind them. Just as he was thinking about whether to take action in advance, an unexpected situation occurred.

"An abnormal energy reaction has been detected."

Surprisingly, when they were only twenty meters away from the exit of the air-raid shelter, the contractor's equipment detected some familiar energy reactions, which were the same forces that Han Zu had found before, which could allow him to evolve further. The emergence of this situation immediately changed his priorities. Nothing was more important than this situation.

"Scanning and mapping in progress... Completed."

"Energy reaction similarity: 97.715%."

An energy similarity of over 90% proved that the object that emitted the energy reaction was a huge improvement for Han Zu. All other plans had to be put on hold; he had to get this thing. Han Zu was a little excited, and his energy was agitated for a moment, but he immediately suppressed it. He had to get the thing, but he couldn't give up on Adenauer, the vest he had painstakingly cultivated for several months.

"Locating energy signature... Completed."

"Teleportation process is being initiated...Transportation is in progress."

"completed."

Recalling his previous state after absorbing the energy, Adenauer finally suppressed the urge to rush over. He used the contractor's equipment to locate the object emitting the familiar energy, and then used the teleportation device to send it back to the secret base on the remote island. This unexpected discovery made Han Zu somewhat excited, but he quickly controlled his emotions and returned to his usual Adenauer self.

Compared to the power that was readily available, whether they were synthetic or not was no longer that important. Adenauer suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and his mood naturally improved a lot, so when the team that came from the hospital quietly appeared from behind the three of them, Adenauer did not immediately open fire to kill them.

"Om."

The gate to the front exit opened, and the man led the team from outside in. Equipped with excellent lighting, they, along with the team behind them, dispelled the darkness surrounding the three men. Veteran policeman Juan was extremely wary of the two teams that had suddenly appeared and surrounded the three men, acting as if they were facing a formidable enemy. Madison, already aware of their identities and movements, wasn't surprised, but slowly retreated toward the team behind them. But after a few steps, she bumped into someone and turned to see Adenauer standing behind her.

Madison felt a little embarrassed and was about to say something, but she immediately noticed that Adenauer's hand was already quietly on the rifle, and the other hand had pulled out a pistol. Madison suddenly realized that without knowing the other party's identity, according to Adenauer's thinking, his first choice must be to engage in a firefight with the other party. Madison quickly opened her mouth, trying to stop Adenauer's actions.

"咻咻~~"

"boom."

"No! We're one of us!"

However, Madison was still a step too late. He saw Adenauer's movements suddenly doubled in speed. The pistol in his hand fired rapidly. After a few crackling sounds, the three lighting equipment being used by the two teams were all broken, and the air-raid shelter fell into darkness again. Madison felt a sudden gust of wind around him, and there was obviously a space around him. Adenauer must have left his original position. As for where he was going, it was hard to say.

The man in his fifties reacted quickly to the sudden incident. He immediately stopped his men and asked them not to shoot to avoid accidentally injuring Madison.

"Hold your fire!"

Less than two seconds after he shouted, he felt something pressing against his right jaw. Judging by its shape, it must have been the silencer on a pistol. He also felt a huge force dragging him to the right, away from the center of his team. Strangely, he didn't hear any footsteps.

"Don't touch Adenauer! They are not enemies!"

A few seconds later, the other people in the team turned on other lighting equipment and began to confirm the situation. Fortunately, it seemed that Adenauer did not kill anyone, but his figure was no longer between the two groups.

"Adenauer! Where are you?!"

"At this."

Madison snatched a lighting device from one of them, began to look around, and called Adenauer's name, but the voice that responded to her did not belong to Adenauer, but to another person she was familiar with, the man in his fifties, the one called Doctor by others. He was also Madison's mentor.

At this moment, he was at the entrance of a narrow passage, with his back to the darkness and his hands raised. He could see something pressing against his right jaw. Using lighting equipment, he could confirm that it was the silencer muzzle of a pistol.

"Don't get excited.. We're not here to cause trouble."

"Don't rush Adenauer, they are not enemies!"