Chapter 481 - : Big Brother Knife (2/2)

The sides of the alley had the stereotypical residential buildings of the lair.

The alley was at most 1.5m wide. Forget about a heavy fighting vehicle, not even a normal sedan could enter the place.

The residential buildings originally had eight floors, but as the people continued building on top of them, the illegal floors continued stacking up until they reached a height of a building that was around thirty floors tall. To make the building steady, countless steel pipes and steel beams stretched out of it, and they were like Xs that stood between the residential buildings to support them.

The citizens also used every bit of space they could find to add steel plates between the steel beams, so the buildings that were already really large and swaying had multiple bulges that devoured the 1.5m width of space above the alley.

The people staying in the apartments on either side could shake hands through their windows or climb to another building on the other side.

Also, the buildings in the lair usually had underground components that were just as bad as the surface. They spread out everywhere like an insect’s nest.

If the buildings on the surface had twenty floors, then there were at least twelve floors below as well. Even though it was dark and humid, the rent was cheap, so there were usually more people staying in those places compared to the surface, which led to the shelters and air raid shelters built decades ago. They also led to other places, so they were like a maze.

In conclusion, this was a heaven for escapees and an absolute nightmare for captors.

There were naturally a lot of surveillance blind spots in this sort of place.

Besides, it was among the Three Unmanaged Areas between two gangs, so no one knew the internal structure of the buildings nearby.

Even if they brought out the original blueprint from decades ago, after the citizens built illegally, added layers, set up partitions, and did all sorts of simple, crude, and crazy modifications for decades, the internal structures had changed to the point that they were unrecognizable.

Zhou Chong could only ask the hunters to spread out as much as possible to monitor the entrances of the buildings around them.

Fortunately, the two robbers had locating chips and tapping devices.

It allowed the hunters to see that once they entered a building, they went to the third level of the basement. It was a facility modified from an air raid shelter.

Fortunately, they were not too far from the surface, so the signal still went to their interactors.

Even though based on the tremors from the robbers’ muscles and bones, the voices they heard were a little distorted, they could still hear the general content.

First came the conversation between the two robbers.

“Is this the place?”

“That’s right. The email stated very clearly that we need to bypass Bloody Claw Coliseum and enter the third alley. Then, we are to search for a graffiti of a tiger with wings on a door.”

Then, they tapped the door gently.

First, they knocked on it urgently five times, waited for half a second, then knocked urgently four times, stopped again, then knocked another three times.

The door opened with a creak.

The sounds of guns cocking could be heard from inside.

The two robbers’ heartbeats quickened.

“Big Brother Knife?” they asked a little nervously.

The person inside was silent for a moment. Then, a hoarse voice spoke. “You’re late by a full three hours.”

“The secret police has increased their guard, so we spent a lot of effort to succeed,” one of the robbers defended himself. “In the end, while we were on the run, we crossed fire with the secret police, and quite a number of our friends were captured.

“We’re the only ones who got knocked away by the impact. Fortunately, we landed at a blind spot of a surveillance camera by the road, so the secret police didn’t notice us. We then took extra care to avoid suspicion while coming to the lair!”

“That’s right!” the other robber said nervously. “Even though we’re a little late, our haul is pretty good. We’ve gotten more than ten Nightmarish Beasts’ crystalized neurospheres, one Hell Beast’s active spinal cord, and one refined supreme-grade crystal. We’ve obtained everything that the email asked us to bring!”

“It’s not a problem of your haul,” the hoarse voice said coldly. “How am I to know that you weren’t captured by the secret police during the three hours, then betrayed your friends due to coercion and ended up as spies for the enemy?”

“That’s… There’s absolutely nothing like that, Big Brother Knife, trust me!”

“We’ve stolen so many things, the secret police would definitely not spare us! We won’t betray our friends!” the two robbers shouted.

“Then, hold this and repeat what you said just now,” the hoarse voice said.

“Is this… a lie detector?” The two robbers were stunned.

Then, there was the sound of guns cocking. “What? Is there a problem?”

“N-No.”

The two robbers obediently repeated the entire story of them fleeing to the lair after they robbed their target.

While Meng Chao listened, he thought, ‘Thank goodness Shen Yupeng chose the right strategy.’

When the two robbers were unconscious, he did a minimally invasive surgery to implant the chips inside them. The wounds blended with their other injuries.

They did not know that they had become the secret police’s spies, so the problem of them not passing the lie detector did not exist.

As expected, the lie detector did not make any sound.

The two robbers sighed in relief. “Big Brother Knife, you should trust us now, right?”

“Wait,” Big Brother Knife said. “Come and stand here. We’ll scan you to see if you’ve brought something you shouldn’t have brought.”