Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 572 Johor Bahru City (5)

However, there is no time to continue thinking about the principle of this situation. Since the follow-up support has arrived, it is only a matter of time before they find out that he is hiding in the ventilation duct. He needs to move immediately, leave the ventilation duct, and leave the institute before they can respond.

Sure enough, Adenauer's intercepted communications via the contractor's equipment revealed that the sentries had already locked onto the facility's ventilation ducts and reported the situation to their superiors. Besides immediately dispatching personnel to various locations to search, they also appeared to be preparing to use mechanical units to penetrate the ducts. Fortunately, Adenauer was not far from the facility's exit, so he escaped through the ducts before the encirclement was complete.

"We have arrived at the designated location, and now we..."

"Bone rolling..."

"what sound?"

"Ping!!!"

In front of a ventilation duct inspection door on the outer wall of the institute, a team of sentries gathered. They had just arrived at this location and were reporting the situation to the main control. Just as one of them was about to look up to check, something rolled out of the ventilation duct, passed through the inspection door, and fell to the ground in front of him. Immediately afterwards, a dazzling flash of light, mixed with sound waves of a strange frequency, immediately blinded and knocked out all the surrounding sentries.

"Bang!"

Immediately afterwards, the inspection door was violently kicked open, and a figure flashed out. After landing, he quickly snatched the weapon from one of the sentries, turned the gun around and opened fire. The powerful impact of the energy beam pushed the sentry to the ground, and the attack of this energy weapon penetrated his armor and directly roasted his heart.

"Buzz~~Bang!"

This strangely shaped energy weapon seemed to be some kind of microwave transmitter. It was extremely powerful, but its effective range was very short. Moreover, the material of the energy core made it impossible for this weapon to guarantee long-term combat. After just a few shots, the core of this energy weapon began to overheat, and the safety device also locked the energy weapon's system, making it unable to fire again.

Adenauer, taking advantage of the stun effect still lingering, used the weapon as a club to knock down another sentry. He then snatched his weapon and continued to mow down the remaining sentries. Soon, all the surrounding sentries were wiped out. Before the attack, this group of sentries was already communicating with the central control, so their encounter would surely have been immediately discovered. Therefore, Adenauer quickly left the area before reinforcements arrived, entering another area of ​​the underground complex.

After leaving the institute for a distance, Adenauer entered another building. The sentry uniform on his body played a certain role and he was able to maintain the disguise of his identity for the time being.

The building next to it seems to be a place similar to a storage warehouse. Although the area it covers is not as large as the research institute we just left, it is not small either. There are more than a dozen different cabins in it, storing various goods, but most of them are regular supplies, and there is nothing important. There are also many sentries in it, so it is not an easy place to enter and exit.

Scans with the contractor's equipment revealed no traces of plant samples or parasites, so Adenauer didn't enter the building. Instead, he continued on his way to another location in the underground complex. About 20 minutes later, Adenauer arrived at the side of another building. The contractor's scans revealed what appeared to be a large training ground, but its interior resembled a multi-sport arena.

"Similar signals of biological activity were detected."

There were a lot of sentries inside, so Adenauer had no intention of going in. However, when he went around to the back of the building, the contractor's equipment detected biological activity signals similar to those of the mutant monsters in the secret laboratory in Sterburg, which piqued his interest.

A few meters from where Adenauer was, there was an entrance to the building. However, to enter from this location, Adenauer needed a specific authorization card. This was easy to do. He only needed to make a small noise to attract the sentries at the door and get the authorization card from them. So Adenauer began to look for a suitable location and prepare for action.

However, just as he found a good position, he noticed a man in a researcher's lab coat coming to the entrance at the back of the building. He said something to several sentries at the door, and then the sentries immediately left here, and no one knew where they went. After the sentries left, the man performed some operations on the authority terminal at the door, opened the back door, and entered the building.

Adenauer had a foreboding premonition, so after the man entered the building, he immediately used the contractor's equipment to hack into the access terminal. He discovered that the man had upgraded his access level, and now the sentry's access card alone could no longer pass the authentication of the access terminal. Now the sentries were unable to open the gate and enter the building. This was a problem, because Adenauer needed to enter the building in a proper way, and using the contractor's equipment to directly open the gate would not work. He now needed to find another way to enter the building.

There are three solutions Adenauer can think of at the moment. One is to look for other locations that do not require authorization authentication, such as ventilation ducts or maintenance facilities. However, when he left the institute before, the subsequent sentries had discovered that he was moving through ventilation ducts. Now, in order to find the intruder, they must have spread the alarm to the entire underground building complex. Then the people in other buildings will certainly focus on checking these places. Then, if he enters the building through these places again, even if he succeeds, his position will definitely be located, which will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.

The second method was to find a target with sufficient authority and obtain their authorization card, but this would take a long time. Based on his current intelligence, the individual who had just entered the building had a very high level of authority. He speculated that there were no more than ten targets in the entire city of Johor Bahru with this level of authority. It was conceivable that the security forces surrounding these individuals would be greater than those of the sentries. Regardless of whether he could find these targets with sufficient authority, even if he could, with the data and values ​​of the Adenauer vest, it was not certain that he could successfully obtain the authorization card from them.

And according to common sense, since the man just now was one of the target persons with this level of authority, he should have a certain amount of guards around him, but there was no one around him. Based on this, Adenauer could judge that the other party must have a certain strength himself, and there was a great possibility that the other party's strength would exceed, or even far exceed, the strength of Adenauer's pseudonym. Therefore, if he met this person again in the future, he needed to be careful in dealing with it, and try not to get into conflict and expose his own strength.

The third method was to find a way to cut off the power to the building in front of him. However, according to the contractor's equipment scan, to do this, Adenauer would need to find the energy facilities within the underground complex, from which he could bypass the authority and control the power supply to various locations in the underground complex. Fortunately, the people of Infinite City were unfamiliar with the situation in this area and naturally unaware of this. Therefore, he could simply find a location similar to a transformer, perform some random operations, and then use the contractor's equipment to directly shut off the power to the building, thus successfully disguising it as a legitimate method. Infinite Company probably wouldn't be able to understand the true situation anytime soon, so as long as the surface was convincing, no one would be suspicious.

Near the back door of the building, there was a transformer box that actually controlled the nearby street lights. Using this transformer box, Adenauer manipulated it and successfully created a "circuit fault," shutting down the access terminal at the back door and gaining entry.

Not long after entering the building, Adenauer arrived at a shooting range-like area. He could see many men in white uniforms engaged in shooting training and learning about various live ammunition and energy weapons. Using his clairvoyance, he could confirm that these men training were all second-generation synths. This gave Adenauer a heads-up, so he took a look at the sentries patrolling the corridor and discovered that they were all second-generation synths as well.

"Are all the Sentinels I've seen so far synthetic?"

With this question in mind, Adenauer continued on his journey, seeing various training grounds one after another. There were areas for close combat training, areas for essential skills like running and swimming, areas for training in operating various technological equipment, and even a room where the synths could learn about the current social environment. It was now almost certain that this was a comprehensive training center, designed to allow the synths to master a wide range of skills and knowledge. Perhaps it was simply for training reserve sentinels, but Adenauer believed it was more likely to prepare these synths to replace humans in advance.

However, compared to the entire size of Johor Bahru, the buildings housing these training grounds were quite small. Therefore, while there were a significant number of synths present, they were likely only a small fraction. Honestly, the combat effectiveness of these second-generation synths was modest, perhaps slightly stronger than normal humans, but not much behind. Therefore, Adenauer didn't actually take these synths in training seriously.

His original purpose for entering the building wasn't the synths, but rather the life signals detected by the contractor's equipment, similar to those of the monsters in the secret laboratory in Sterburg. Based on the equipment's positioning and his own perception, the source of these bio-signals was somewhere on the third floor of the training center. However, to reach the third floor of the training center, Adenauer needed to resolve a few minor issues first.

To move up and down in this building, you need to take the elevator. To use the elevator, you not only need an authorization card, but there are also biometric devices in the elevator. They are easy to solve. The sentries inside the training center, although they can no longer enter and exit the training center freely due to the authorization cards on them, can still use the elevator inside. Moreover, the biometric device is not obvious and is hidden in the elevator camera, so you only need to get another authorization card.

But the problem wasn't that. It was the other sentries guarding the elevators. They'd likely received orders from control center to require anyone using the elevators to go up or down to a floor to undergo an identity check. Besides the standard identification information, they'd also have anyone removing their helmet or dust mask to inspect their appearance. Even if they could use the contractor's equipment to modify all electronic files and data, they couldn't change their own appearance. Furthermore, perhaps one of these sentries could memorize the faces of everyone in the training center. Using the elevator rashly was too risky and not worth the effort.

The training center building did have stairwells, but the guy in the researcher's lab coat was currently outside the third-floor stairwell, talking to someone via his personal terminal. Without knowing the other person's strength, using the stairwell wasn't safe; perhaps they had some kind of perception similar to his own.

However, there is a solution. The simplest way is to make some noise and let the guy on the third-floor stairwell leave. But to achieve this effect, it will inevitably attract the attention of other people. After a brief thought, Adenauer came up with a solution that would have the best of both worlds.

A few minutes later.

"Drip! Drip! Drip!"

Inside the training center, the alarm blared loudly, resounding throughout the entire building, successfully attracting everyone's attention. The person on the third-floor stairwell immediately used his authority to check the alarm system through the personal terminal in his hand. According to the display above, the source of the alarm was located in an area on the second floor.

"what happened?!"

"Report! There's a small riot in the training room on the second floor. We're heading over to suppress it."

On the stairs, he heard dense footsteps below, and soon saw a team rushing up the stairs. He called one of them and asked about the situation. After learning the details, he let the team go, but he himself did not leave his position.

He thought for a moment, then quickly returned to the third floor and looked towards the elevator. Two sentry teams were just taking the elevator up. The captain of one of the teams was not wearing a helmet. This captain had just communicated with him.

"Dr. Li."

"What are you doing here?"

"Master Control asked us to come up and assist."

"You guys wait first!"

"Yes!"

Dr. Li immediately contacted the control center via the terminal and, after inquiring, confirmed that the message had indeed been sent by them. After receiving an accurate reply, Dr. Li relaxed his guard somewhat and issued orders to the two sentry teams.

"Guard the stairwell and elevator. From now on, no one is allowed to enter or leave the third floor!"

"understand!"

"Follow me and guard Labs 4 and 7. No one is allowed to enter or leave except me. Do you understand?"

"understand!"

Dr. Li took a look at the location of the stairwell and left the elevator with a team of sentinels. However, what he did not notice was that one of the sentinels from another team followed quietly behind this team of sentinels. His movements were so natural that no one noticed.