Chapter 10 The Intruder
Chapter 10 The Intruder
"What's going on?" Chen Qing approached Dr. Fang with a gun in hand. "What happened here?"
"It's obvious, we've been hacked." Dr. Fang strode over to a computer and pointed to a black switch-like object on the wall: "Could you pull that switch?"
After pulling down the gate, Chen Qing went behind Dr. Fang and found that the computer screen showed images of other parts of the hospital.
"There's surveillance footage?" This was the first time Chen Qing had seen surveillance footage in the apocalypse.
"Most of the cameras were installed in the hospital before the apocalypse. To save power, I redesigned the circuitry. All the cameras are now connected to a separate power supply line and are normally powered off. They are only used in critical moments, like now." Dr. Fang clicked the mouse repeatedly, and the screen was divided into eight areas, showing the situation in different parts of the base.
Through monitoring, Chen Qing had a clear understanding of the situation at the base.
The other residents were gathered in the canteen and guarded by five burly men armed with submachine guns. Judging from the three corpses lying on the ground, some people had tried to resist but failed.
The generator room and the water filtration station are each guarded by two people.
The armory was in the worst condition, with six intruders engaged in a fierce firefight with Ajay and his group.
In addition, three other people were searching other parts of the hospital.
Chen Qing left the computer and searched the corpse on the ground for weapons. He found four handguns, took two for himself, and left two for Dr. Fang.
They also took the butcher knife that had been held to Dr. Fang's neck earlier.
"Mr. Chen, this might come in handy." Just as he was about to leave, Dr. Fang handed him a walkie-talkie, which was wrapped with thick tape and connected to a mobile phone earpiece.
Chen Qing immediately understood what was going on: Dr. Fang had modified a walkie-talkie and a mobile phone headset into a covert communication system.
Putting the walkie-talkie in his inner pocket and the earpiece in his ear, Chen Qing, carrying his weapon, strode into the fire escape.
Once on the ground, Chen Qing headed straight for the armory, where the situation was now most critical.
In reality, Chen Qing only slept one night at Shuguang Hospital, and his whereabouts were limited to the canteen, bathrooms, and dormitory; he didn't go to many other places. However, with Dr. Fang guiding him through the surveillance footage, this wasn't a problem. He didn't take any wrong turns and arrived at the armory as quickly as possible.
Bang bang bang!
The six intruders split into three groups of two. One group hid behind a car, while the other two groups hid in the buildings on either side, firing wildly at a relatively low building in the center.
Chen Qing crept closer to one of the groups, slashing one of them down with a single blow. The intruder next to him was startled and turned his gun to fire, but Chen Qing swiftly thrust his arm forward, stabbing the intruder in the chest with a soft thud.
The group behind the car heard the commotion and turned around in unison, but before they could even turn their guns around, they were quickly shot dead by Chen Qing.
The last group had a chance to shoot at Chen Qing. Chen Qing pulled one of the intruders he had stabbed to death in front of him to block the bullets, and then fired two more shots. One shot hit an intruder in the head, and the other shot hit another intruder in the palm, causing the gun in his hand to fly out of his hand.
"Don't move." Chen Qing pointed his gun at the intruder and walked step by step in front of him.
This was a burly man of similar stature, with an unremarkable appearance, but a prominent scar on his right cheek.
He looked at Chen Qing, but under the threat of the gun, he dared not make any rash moves.
"Brother Chen!" Ah Jie walked out of the armory. "You saved my life again."
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, but Brother Li and Brother Zhao..." Ah Jie looked at the scarred middle-aged man with hatred, raising his hand to kill him.
"He can't die yet, I still have a use for him." Chen Qing stopped A-Jie, "You guys go to the morgue, Dr. Fang is there alone right now."
"Brother Chen, be careful." Ah Jie and the other two left together and headed to the morgue.
"Do you want to die or live?" Chen Qing asked the scarred middle-aged man.
"Stop talking nonsense, kill me or torture me, come on!" the scarred middle-aged man sneered.
boom!
Chen Qing raised his hand and fired a shot into the scarred middle-aged man's arm, then pointed the dark muzzle directly at the man's head. "I'll ask you one more time, do you want to live or die?"
"I want to live." The middle-aged man with the scar was sweating profusely from the pain. "What do you need me to do?"
"Take me to say hello to your 'friend'." Chen Qing grabbed the scarred middle-aged man and pointed a pistol at his waist.
Ten minutes later, the scarred middle-aged man appeared in the cafeteria dragging a "companion." The "companion's" clothes were covered in blood, one arm was wrapped around the scarred man's neck, and his head was drooping, as if he had already fainted.
The people in the cafeteria turned around at the sound of the commotion, but when they saw that it was the middle-aged man with the scar, they relaxed their guard.
"Old Ghost, what happened to this?" a middle-aged man in camouflage asked.
"Don't even mention it, we were ambushed," the scarred middle-aged man said breathlessly. "Stop talking nonsense, come and lend a hand."
The man in camouflage went to help the unconscious "comrade" being dragged by the scarred middle-aged man, but before he could even touch him, a sharp pain shot through his lower abdomen as a gleaming knife was plunged into his abdomen.
Chen Qing reacted extremely quickly. After stabbing the man in camouflage with a knife, he hid in front of him and fired his gun swiftly. Every shot hit its mark, and he killed the other four men with four consecutive shots.
During the incident, someone fired back, but missed Chen Qing; instead, they hit the camouflage uniform in front of him.
In less than a minute, only the scarred middle-aged man remained standing among the intruders. He looked at Chen Qing with pleading eyes, "You said you would spare my life, you have to keep your word."
boom!
His response was a bullet.
There were children, women, and the elderly in the canteen, as well as quite a few men. At that time, seven or eight people picked up weapons from the dead invaders and went with Chen Qing to chase down the remaining invaders.
With Dr. Fang's "opening of the heavenly eye" through monitoring, Chen Qing's super combat power, and the addition of other combat personnel, the remaining invaders could no longer cause any trouble and were killed one after another in a very short time.
"Mr. Chen, thank you for saving the entire base." Dr. Fang left the morgue and came specifically to Chen Qing to express his gratitude solemnly: "Ah Jie is right, the base really needs combat power like yours."
"How did these people get into the base?" Chen Qing asked. "The hospital gate wasn't damaged."
"Brother Chen, it's him!" Ah Jie pointed his gun at a rather short and stout middle-aged man as he walked over. "It's this traitor. He colluded with the inside to let these people in."
"This person..." Chen Qing looked at the short, stout middle-aged man and felt a sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen him somewhere before.
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