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Chapter 477 Airport
"With 30 seconds left in the game, Titans' Johnson broke through a triple team and drove into the end zone! Titans win 14-10!"

In the terminal building on the east side of the island, a bored air traffic controller was lying in a chair with his legs on the table, a baseball cap on his face, listening to the replay of a rugby game on the radio.

Despite being called an airport terminal, it was really just a low-rise two-story building. As the game announcement ended, the air traffic controller yawned, jumped off his chair, stretched, and went down to the second floor.

Epstein's Boeing 727, registration number N908JE, is parked at the end of the runway. The aircraft is over forty years old, originally belonging to TWA, before being purchased by Epstein who invested heavily in its renovation.

Its interior is quite luxurious, featuring cushions, velvet lounge chairs, couple seats, and a luxurious king-size bed. The bedroom linens are changed every time the flight takes place.

Of course, no matter how extravagant the facilities are, they have absolutely nothing to do with ordinary employees like air traffic controllers. They have signed extremely strict contracts and confidentiality agreements with the management, and at most their salaries are a little higher than their counterparts outside the industry.

As for the staff on the island, they are not people they can touch.

"Huh? What are you doing with guns?"

The controller had just come downstairs to buy a pack of cigarettes from the vending machine when he saw a group of security colleagues, unusually dressed in bulletproof vests and carrying firearms.

"We just received a message instructing us to guard the airport and helipad, and to prevent anyone from leaving the island."

The security personnel also sounded somewhat doubtful. The higher-ups had not revealed what exactly had happened at the underground winery on the west side of the island, but the employees on the island could communicate with each other via walkie-talkie, and the rumors spread like wildfire.

"Could it be a terrorist attack?"

"How could that be? There are so many important figures on the island, who would dare to attack them? Bin Laden?"

"You know what, it's actually quite possible. The density of important people on this island is probably only slightly lower than at the Al Smith charity dinner."

While everyone was talking in the terminal hall,
"rustle--"

A strange noise came from the bushes, and everyone instinctively raised their guns and aimed at the direction of the sound.

A few seconds later, a square brown cardboard box slowly emerged from the bushes.

It is made of corrugated cardboard, about one meter in length and width, with a fragile and moisture-proof label on the top, barcodes for logistics and express delivery companies printed on the sides, and the bottom is open, so children's shoes can be vaguely seen hidden under the cardboard box as you walk through it.

It was clear that someone was crouching inside the cardboard box, moving it slowly.

"Stop! Stop right there!"

The heavily armed security guards, on high alert, immediately ducked most of their bodies behind the vending machine, aimed their guns at the cardboard boxes in the distance, and shouted, "Don't move! Crouch down and slowly open the boxes!"

Stop, don't move, squat down and open the box. These three commands are mutually exclusive, seemingly a left-brain attack on the right brain, and Jianjian begins to think.

However, this is also a characteristic of US military and police departments, especially police in large cities.

Because of the generally poor security in the slums of major American cities, frontline police officers are under constant stress, and their adrenaline surges when faced with emergencies, leading them to issue absurd commands when addressing suspects.

For example, the suspect was asked to lie face down on the ground while raising his hands, and move forward by rubbing his hips against the ground to leave the house;

Alternatively, the suspect in the driver's seat may be required to take their identification from their pocket without using their hands and then open the car door to leave the vehicle.

After the shout, the hall was deathly silent, and the brown cardboard box remained motionless in place.

"I'll repeat myself! Squat down! Slowly open the box!"

The security personnel shouted loudly, but there was still no response.

The air traffic controller hiding in the corner looked at it more and more, and muttered to himself, "This thing looks like a prop from Metal Gear Solid."

Before he could speak, the security personnel in the lobby exchanged glances and simultaneously pulled the trigger on the box.

Bang bang bang!

The dense hail of bullets struck the surface of the box; it could easily penetrate not only the corrugated cardboard, but even a car door.

However.
After the shot was fired, all the bullets were embedded in the surface of the cardboard box and failed to penetrate.

"Hmph hmph hmph hehehehe."

From inside the cardboard box came the Joker's cunning, maniacal laughter.

【Item Name: INVISIBLE Cardboard Box】

[Type: Technological Item]

[Quality: perfect]

[Special Effect 1: Stealth. After crawling into a cardboard box, your presence will be greatly reduced, decreasing the chances of being detected by sentient beings and AI recognition programs.]

[Special Effect 2: Lure. Placing a specific type of poster (real-life or anime-style) on the surface of a cardboard box can attract nearby sentient beings, drawing them to the surrounding area.]

[Special Effect 3: Optical Camouflage. Allows the user to enter a cardboard box, making it optically invisible and immobile during use.] [Special Effect 4: Bulletproof. Allows the user to enter a cardboard box and block all machine gun fire and bullets with a caliber smaller than 23mm for 15 seconds.]

Cooldown: 10 minutes. Cooldown time for each effect is calculated separately.

[Cost: 100 Spirit Points]

[Usage conditions: Send an abusive letter to the game company Konami, with a minimum of 1000 words]

[Note: "What? Soldier, you said you saw a cardboard box that moves by itself while on patrol? You really need to see a psychologist."]

That's right, this cardboard box is a classic prop from the classic video game series Metal Gear Solid (also known as Metal Gear Solid). Despite being the world's first serious tactical espionage stealth game to adopt a cinematic narrative style, the Metal Gear Solid series is full of all sorts of nonsensical and humorous gadgets.

For example, there are cardboard boxes that allow you to sneak around without being detected by enemies, chicken hats that reduce the difficulty of the game but will make you a laughingstock among NPCs, and balloons that can tie up enemies and send them flying into the air.

This [INVISIBLE Cardboard Box] isn't particularly powerful among items of perfect quality; at best, it's quite versatile.

However, its advantages become apparent in the current, weakened role-playing mode.

An additional debuff is added: "All effects share a cooldown time."

The special effect 4, bulletproof attribute, has been reduced to "consuming 40 points of spiritual power to block all bullets with a caliber lower than 7.62mm", but the rifle bullets issued on the island are 5.56mm.

The armed personnel present never expected that a cardboard box could withstand a barrage of rifle fire; some were stunned and stood frozen in place, while others hurriedly reloaded.

Swah——

Joker suddenly flung open the cardboard box, grabbed an MP7 submachine gun in each hand, and opened fire in front of him.

The bullets did not change in power depending on whether the shooter was an adult or a child. Several armed men were hit in the head and abdomen and died on the spot, while the others scrambled to take cover behind cover and fired blindly in an attempt to suppress the enemy with firepower.

"The airport is under attack! Repeat, the airport is under attack!"

The controller shakily pulled out his walkie-talkie and shouted, but all he heard was static – walkie-talkie communications in the area were completely jammed.

Joker pushed off the ground and moved sideways, taking cover behind an airport pillar to avoid bullets. While changing the magazine for his submachine gun, he shouted into his Bluetooth headset, "Oracle! Help me!"

His response was a 7.62mm sniper bullet fired from the hillside on the other side of the airport.

call out!
The bronze bullet whirled through the air, shattering the glass windows of the hall and embedding itself in the skull of an armed man.

The man didn't utter a sound and went straight to sleep.

More than 800 meters away on the hillside, the Oracle was lying on the ground in a standard prone position, holding a Soviet-made SVD sniper rifle in his hand.

Compared to the other sniper rifles in Li Sheng's warehouse, this gun has a slightly outdated design, but it is lightweight, reliable, and stable enough to be quite suitable for the current situation.

The Oracle, incarnated as the Grim Reaper, targeted and eliminated the security personnel exposed behind the terminal's floor-to-ceiling windows, working with the Joker to clear the area.

After the two 10-round magazines were emptied, the airport returned to silence.

"The airport has been taken over."

The Oracle spoke into the headset, calmly putting away the SVD sniper rifle, gripping the armrests with both hands, and sitting back in his wheelchair. "I need to move to a different location. Judging from the footage transmitted by the drone, the other security forces on the island have already surrounded us."

Li Sheng's calm voice came through the earpiece, "Received. Continue with the next step of the plan."

"clear."

Joker whistled as he stepped out of the terminal's floor-to-ceiling window. Looking around, he spotted an empty shuttle bus that picked up and dropped off passengers. He promptly stole the car, started it, and drove it across the middle of the airport runway.

The island of Little St. James in the fictional world is only slightly larger than Lolita Island in the real world. Its airport runway is short and narrow. All it takes is to park a long shuttle bus in the middle and then blow up the vehicle to block the runway and prevent any medium or large aircraft from taking off or landing.

The player squad split into two groups, with Oracle and Joker taking over the airport.

As for Li Sheng and Zhongtian Beiji, they were at the helicopter landing pad, a kilometer away from the runway, where they had taken down the guards and seized an S-76 helicopter developed by the American Sikorsky Company.

"fasten your seatbelt!"

Zhongtian Beiji, in the driver's seat, loudly reminded Li Sheng, who was sitting in the back, that as the head of GOC's Southeast Asia region, he had received company training in Hawaii and was proficient in piloting aircraft.

Moreover, he was once a Kobe fan and had a particularly strong impression of the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter that caused his idol's death.

The helicopter was extremely noisy during takeoff. Li Sheng gestured to indicate that Zhongtian Beiji should head north.
The northern part of the island is covered by dense forests and has no surveillance system, so the fastest way to find those SVIPs is really only by airdropping them by helicopter.

Watching the vegetation below gradually shrink, Li Sheng, carrying a shower of slime dust on his shoulder, muttered to himself, "Now that the [Death Note] is sealed, it's rare that I can't see any potential ways to die in the future. And I'm even riding a Sikorsky S-76."

Perhaps, maybe, it shouldn't crash?

(End of this chapter)