Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 98

Chapter 98: Infiltraion
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Chapter 98

Wei Jun knocked on Li Wei’s door. After a few rushed steps, he heard from the other side a cautious tone, “Who’s there?”

“It’s me.” Wei Jun knew she wasn’t sleeping when he spread out his Qi earlier to gauge the men outside his door. Li Wei’s room was also in his range and he could feel her sitting on the bed, with a table lamp in her hand and wrapped in a thick blanket.

He knew she couldn’t sleep given the circumstances, whatever memories she had of Shannau city were too much for her to let loose while she was in the city.

She opened the door slowly, and even though she knew it was Wei Jun, she still didn’t undo the chain on the door. “Yes, boss?” She asked, in a little quaky voice. Wei Jun redid his analysis. She wasn’t awake all the time, she fell asleep sometime in there only to be woken up by a nightmare.

Wei Jun somewhat understood her circumstances so he didn’t act harshly and said, “You need to come with me.”

“Where?” She asked, her worry evident in her every word.

“Somewhere.” Wei Jun gave an ambiguous reply and left saying she had five minutes.

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After five minutes, Wei Jun saw Li Wei coming out of the lift that was connected to the garage. He had already dealt with the cameras in the parking lot and any of the cameras that raised suspicion to them. Of course, he had to go a little extra to turn the attention of the police somewhere else if it ever came to an investigation.

“Get in.” Wei Jun simply said while he himself entered the black SUV with tinted glass. Only the front glass of the car wasn’t tinted that was dealt with. Wei Jun had applied special tapes that prevented cameras from catching them. All they would see would be a bright flash in the recording.

As Wei Jun drove through the city, his first destination was a warehouse. Li Wei knew what this warehouse was. She was the one who had included it in her report. She wanted to tell Wei Jun that it would be dangerous going in there but she kept quiet. Although she hadn’t seen it herself, she knew Wei Jun was strong, ‘Maybe… Just maybe…”

A small ember of hope flickered inside of her.

“Stay here.” Wei Jun simply said before he stepped outside. Although Li Wei was familiar with her biker suit persona, Wei Jun preferred not to show her his inventory.

Wei Jun used an electric hot wire to cut through the fence and entered inside. He kept his presence at an all-time low and even his Qi was hidden quite well. He hadn’t mastered many things about Qi as according to the system, he had just touched the real miracles of Qi.

Wei Jun spotted a pair of guards with guns going down the sideway, chatting with each other and checking the doors of the warehouse. Wei Jun snuck behind them and once he was upon them, he hurriedly snapped one’s neck from behind and used Qi to boil the other one. Since he used the entire five points of Qi, the body of the man visibly melted from the inside while the skin from the outside was crimson red.

Wei Jun knelt down to observe the changes. He touched the man just as he had touched Hui Ying. The only difference was that the man was completely melted from the inside. However, Wei Jun still entered a space similar to Hui Ying, only this one wasn’t full of shiny threads but dark and desolate. Either it was a sign of having no Qi, or the man was dead so the space was like this.

Wei Jun decided he would keep his next victim alive. Moving on, Wei Jun observed the empty space once again and found that his thread was still there in that empty space, still shining bright. Wei Jun tried to attract it but once again, like earlier with Hui Ying, the yellow thread didn’t move.

That one didn’t move because Hui Ying’s Qi was constricting it but why wasn’t this one moving? Wei Jun had no idea and the system didn’t help with an answer so Wei Jun could only let it go.

Seeing that for a normal person, just one point of Qi was enough, he decided to limit his consumption of Qi since he didn’t have a lot of Qi in the first place.

He stood up, dragged the bodies to the side, and covered them up so no one would see them. Wei Jun then moved forward and checked the doors. As expected, all of them were locked. Wei Jun observed the outer layer of the building to decide which part would be the best to infiltrate.

He decided on the east wing after killing all the guards on the outside of the warehouse except for the one in the guard post or the entrance because there was a camera there.

Once Wei Jun was inside, he once again slowly moved, watching out for the cameras. This large warehouse was used to store liquor of the Quan family who was in the business of importing liquor to other countries and all over the empire as well.

Wei Jun looked around for a while before his gaze settled on a room with a sign ‘Authorized personnel only’. Since there was a lack of cameras inside the warehouse, just two or three which he could effortlessly dodge, Wei Jun came in front of the room.

However, he stopped by the corridor because there was a camera on top of the door. While he was wracking his brain for what to do, he heard a pair of footsteps his way. Wei Jun hurriedly climbed up the wall using his hands and feet and remained there while the people passed underneath him.

They were talking about different things and they were headed to the room Wei Jun was eyeing. They stood in front of the camera and after a few seconds, the door buzzed and opened up. Wei Jun saw a group of armed men inside, almost nine of them, only that he could see.

Wei Jun didn’t waste time and pulled out a gas bomb with a little enhanced something mixed in and before the door closed, he threw it in. The men noticed the object and distanced themselves away from it while they also stood alert for the surroundings.

One of them stepped forward and chuckled, “Goggles out. It’s just a smoke bomb.” Before he turned and said, “Find the intruder. He must be close by.”

But, before the armed men could leave the room, the smoke emitting from the smoke bomb suddenly intensified and covered everyone in the room. Before any of them could even respond, they began to fall like mosquitoes under the effect of mosquito-repellent smoke.

Luckily the camera above the room wasn’t a security camera but an access camera so no alarm went off. Wei Jun quietly entered the room after equipping a gas mask.

Wei Jun took a risk not getting rid of the electric circuits before entering but had he done so, the room full of guards would have been alert. His cautiousness saved him some trouble but it could have also gone terribly wrong if that was an alarm camera on top of the room.

However, inside the room was a treasure trove. It was filled with explosives and guns. Wei Jun took all the guns in the room and the extra ammo along with explosives. It wasn’t an alcohol storage warehouse; it was an arms storage. Wei Jun took everything because none of it was traceable to him anyway. He then killed everyone who was knocked out with his dagger since he couldn’t waste Qi.

Pity there was no money in there but that was okay. Wei Jun knew the real purpose of everything here wasn’t money but to keep the law enforcement of the city under control through terrorist attacks.

Once he was done with the warehouse, he placed a few explosives at strategic places. Since there was alcohol in the warehouse, there was no need to place that many of them. He used the ones from the storage, not his own.

After that, he went out the same way he came in, avoiding everything. He made sure to check the situation at the guard post to make sure it really wasn’t an alarm camera inside. Everything was normal at the post but Wei Jun knew it wouldn’t remain that way for long. Soon, the remaining guards would notice the lack of numbers among them and that would rattle everyone. He had an hour at most.

However, his plan had changed from earlier. Before, he had a shortage of explosives he bought from Zi Huan, but now he had enough to light the city on fire so there was no need to infiltrate the rest of the locations he had in mind. He could just tackle that problem with quantity.

He entered the car and took off his balaclava mask and said, “That’s one. We’re short on time so let’s go with the rest as well.”

Li Wei nodded and drove to the locations Wei Jun had marked on the map.