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Chapter 399 The Figure Flying Over the City

The streets were bustling with traffic, and the city was shrouded in rain.

The tires made a long, hissing sound as they rolled over the wet asphalt.

At the ground floor entrance of the Noah Building, a figure wearing a black hoodie stood quietly in the rain.

The man looked up, as if measuring the colossal structure, which was over three hundred meters tall, with his gaze.

A few seconds later, he took off his soaking wet coat and threw it on the ground.

He revealed a black combat suit that clung to his body, outlining a strong and lean muscular physique.

Judging from his physique, he should be a very strong man.

He twisted his neck, clenched his fists, and slowly stretched his shoulders, back, and chest backward, as if he were doing warm-up exercises.

The moment his warm-up ended, he suddenly leaned forward, took a few steps forward to run, and pushed off with his toes on the smooth marble countertop at the entrance.

He was launched nearly ten meters into the air like a cannonball.

His body traced a graceful arc in mid-air, his fingers precisely gripping the decorative beam above the third-floor window.

Immediately, the figure's feet dangled in the air, firmly pressed against the outer wall.

He raised his head and looked up at the top of the building again.

This is already located at the highest point of the podium building.

Further up, there is the main building section, which is almost completely vertical and smooth.

Rainwater continuously washed down the glass curtain wall.

Soon, his black combat uniform, which had just been revealed, was soaked through.

"Could it be... that he's trying to bypass the security measures on the ground floor and sneak into the building from the third floor?"

Gao Jin stood on the opposite rooftop, staring intently at the man behaving strangely.

They were anticipating the other party's next move.

With a powerful swing, the body suspended in mid-air shattered the windowpane with its legs.

Then, with a twist of the waist and abdomen, the body can move as nimbly as a monkey and slip into the room behind the outer wall.

However, the figure did not perform according to Gao Jin's "script".

Then, something even more surprising happened.

He exerted force with both arms, and his dangling legs pulled in and pushed off.

Just like doing a pull-up, his arm muscles and core muscles unleashed terrifying power, violently pulling his body up.

Without any ground support, the person suddenly leaped upwards.

With a "whoosh," it shot up more than three meters high and arrived directly at the main floor covered by the glass curtain wall.

And just as his body was leaping through the air, about to fall.

He suddenly reached out his right hand again, his five fingers like claws, and forcefully grabbed at the smooth exterior of the curtain wall.

Gao Jin's eyes flickered slightly, a hint of doubt flashing in them.

"What does he want to do?"

The rain-soaked glass surface was so slippery that it obviously couldn't provide enough support.

However, the instant his fingertips touched the curtain wall, a violent friction seemed to be generated, causing his leaping body to freeze for a moment.

In the fraction of a second before the slippage was about to occur, he exerted force with his right hand again.

The next second, instead of descending, his body rose, actually shooting upwards more than half a meter along the glass curtain wall.

Upon seeing this, Gao Jin's eyebrows twitched, and he instantly understood the man's intention.

He wasn't trying to fight against gravity and slide down, but rather using the powerful friction as a fulcrum to move upwards.

really.

Immediately afterwards, he used his left hand to grab onto a protrusion on the exterior of the curtain wall, then pulled his body upwards and jumped up.

Each grab and exertion is like a pull-up performed in a vertical plane.

He actually planned to continue climbing up the glass curtain wall!
Climb a skyscraper with your bare hands on a wet, rainy night.

In the eyes of any extreme climbing expert, this is pure suicide.

Leaving aside the issue of limited visibility at night, making it difficult to clearly see the location of the support points.

Modern skyscrapers generally use unitized glass curtain wall structures with a smooth, mirror-like surface, which allows rainwater to form a deadly water film on them.

The only thing that can be used for support is the metal cover of the vertical main keel and the horizontal secondary keel that divide the floor-to-ceiling window.

Its edge is less than one centimeter wide and is equally slippery.

This is a test of the climber's finger strength, core strength, balance, and mental fortitude, comparable to climbing to the heavens.

However, these basic physical principles seemed to be completely ineffective in the face of that figure.

He continued to do things his own way, ignoring all obstacles.

You could even say that his movements couldn't be called "climbing" at all; they were more like a vertical sprint against gravity.

The figure raised its left and right hands alternately, its five fingers resembling steel eagle claws.

Each time it extends out, it finds the most stable support point on the smooth, damp curtain wall.

The body is pressed tightly against the facade, and the muscles contract and explode in a highly rhythmic manner.

Rub rub rub rub -

The person was like a gecko clinging to the wall, rising rapidly along the vertical central axis of the building at an incredible speed.

This can no longer be called crawling, it's more like flying, as if walking on flat ground!
Gao Jin's pupils constricted, and his breathing stopped without him realizing it.

He watched as that figure, like a black lightning bolt shooting against the current, streaked across the neon-lit city night sky, leaving the bustling, mundane world below far behind.

At the intersection not far away, a taxi was waiting at a red light.

The girl in the back seat inadvertently looked up and gazed at the misty rainy night outside the window.

She seemed to see something, rubbed her eyes, and looked again carefully.

On the glass curtain wall of a dark building, it looks like... there's a figure moving?
The girl's mouth was slightly open in an "O" shape, thinking she was seeing things.

On the rooftop, Gao Jin held a black umbrella, his gaze following the figure as it moved upwards.

The wind grew stronger at higher altitudes, causing the raindrops to fall sideways.

On the ground, countless lights and traffic streams were blurred into a halo in the rain.

The figure ran continuously on the glass curtain wall reflecting the neon lights, as if flying into the sky above the city.

The giant LED screen advertisements on the commercial buildings on both sides complement each other, making this bizarre world even more unreal.

Just as the man had climbed to nearly half the height of the building, something unexpected happened!
The huge floor-to-ceiling window in the conference hall on the top floor of the 90th floor suddenly shattered without warning!
bang——

The dull, deafening roar was shattered by the wind high above.

Countless shards of glass, carried by the wind and rain, poured down like a deadly hailstorm.

The figure was right under the cover of the glass shards.

Gao Jin, who was on the opposite rooftop, gasped and couldn't help but feel worried for the other person.

Glass shards of this density, if they hit someone falling from a height of over 100 meters...

No matter how strong one's body is, it will probably just turn into a lump of minced meat.

At that critical moment, the person made a move that completely defied the laws of physics.

Using his left hand, which was gripping the metal frame of the curtain wall, as the axis, he instantly unleashed the power of his waist and abdomen, and his entire body swayed horizontally to the right.

He then pushed off the curtain wall with both legs, and like an arrow released from a bow, he performed a "lateral dynamic leap" in rock climbing, shooting out diagonally upwards.

This difficult maneuver is typically used to overcome challenges where the rock points are too far apart or the path lacks continuous hand and footholds.

But now he used it in an unimaginable way on a skyscraper hundreds of meters in the air.

This perilous leap allowed him to narrowly avoid the area shrouded in the deadly rain.

As the figure stretched out in the air, the person seemed to sense something and glanced in the direction of Gao Jin.

A deathly pale face was suddenly revealed.

No.

It was a hideous demon mask, with bulging horns and a strangely curved grin at the corner of its mouth.

At the position of the eyes, two red crystals of unknown material shimmered with a dim light in the rainy night.

Despite being hundreds of meters away, Gao Jin could still see it clearly.

His heart trembled violently.

Who exactly is this person? Could it be Bai Xiao?

But Cheng Jiashu had already infiltrated the building, so why was he climbing it from the outside?
Clang! Crash! —

The rain of shattered glass finally fell onto the entrance plaza of the building below, breaking into even finer fragments like hail. The enormous commotion instantly attracted the attention of all pedestrians on the street.

Fortunately, the plaza and the sidewalk were separated by a green belt, and apart from the employees of the building, few people would pass by, so no passers-by were injured.

People stopped in their tracks, opened their umbrellas, looked up at the Noah Building with its shattered glass, and pointed and whispered.

Faint gasps of surprise rose and fell.

"Look, what is that?"

"Hey, it looks like there's someone up there..."

Finally, someone spotted the figure clinging to the glass curtain wall of the Noah Building, rapidly leaping upwards.

The crowd gradually gathered and became even noisier.

A figure wearing a raincoat quietly passed through the crowd, stepping over shards of glass, and reached out to pick up a hoodie that had been lying on the ground.

He looked up at the building shrouded in rain and murmured to himself:

"President... only you could do something like this."

The rain was intensifying, and raindrops slid down his wet hair.

The dim yellow light of the streetlamp illuminated his slightly thin face, revealing his dashing appearance.

He watched the figure gradually disappear into the night sky, his eyes filled with a mixture of admiration and worry.

Coming to his senses, he seemed to remember something and quickly retreated to a corner.

He then raised his hand and pressed the communicator by his ear, giving the order in a low voice:

"Attention all units! All personnel must immediately assemble, surround Noah Building, and keep a close watch on all entrances and exits and low-rise windows. Do not overlook any suspicious persons!"

"Yes, Handsome Bro."

Short responses came through the headset one after another.

He let out a light sigh of relief and then personally stood guard in front of the gate.

Tonight's operation was assigned by the chairman to keep watch on the perimeter, and he had to ensure that everything went perfectly.

..............................

On the office building opposite Noah Building.

Gao Jin stood in the rain, holding an umbrella, his face full of astonishment.

That white demon mask still lingered in his mind.

Suddenly, the communicator in my ear emitted a buzzing sound.

Then, a voice sounded intermittently:

"Calling 'Eagle's Nest'... This is 'Night Owl Two'... Respond upon receipt, over!"

It was Zhou Liang's voice.

Gao Jin's eyes lit up, but he quickly regained his composure and replied in a deep voice:
"Zhou Liang, this is Eagle Nest, reporting your situation."

Previously, he had arranged for four team members, including Zhou Liang, to infiltrate the outer area of ​​Noah Pharmaceuticals.

The original intention was to ascertain the situation and, if necessary, create chaos to pave the way for Cheng Jiashu's evacuation.

However, they also lost contact shortly after entering the building.

At this moment, we finally got in touch again.

"Captain Gao, we're trapped on the 84th floor and can't go any further..."

Upon receiving a response, Zhou Liang immediately began reporting the situation.

The channel was filled with jarring static, clearly still suffering from severe interference.

Fortunately, basic communication can still be maintained with difficulty.

"what happened?"

"Something's very wrong here!"

Zhou Liang's voice carried a hint of solemnity:
"When we broke into Noah Building, the original circuits and backup power supplies all failed one after another, and the whole building was as dark as a tomb."

"After that, we searched upwards along safety passage B, and suddenly fog began to rise inside the building."

"It's not smoke, it's a kind of... grayish-white, extremely cold, dense fog with visibility of less than three meters, and it's constantly spreading down from above."

"We suspect that it is a leak of some kind of low-temperature toxic gas from the experimental area."

Upon hearing this, Gao Jin frowned slightly:
"go on."

"We didn't dare to venture into the fog. Besides the faint sound of gunfire, we could also hear some very eerie noises."

Zhou Liang paused for a moment, seemingly organizing his thoughts.

"It sounded like... the claws of something dragging on the ground, mixed with... a kind of laughter that sounded like a woman crying, it was very creepy."

"We tried to contact Bai Xiao, but received no response. We have set up a temporary defensive line in the security passage and are waiting for further instructions."

Are there any other people in the building?

"Aside from a few unconscious building security guards, we did not encounter any other company employees or armed men."

After a moment's thought, Gao Jin immediately issued the order:

"Mission changed. Abandon the reconnaissance operation. Take those security guards and evacuate through the security passage."

"Once we reach the ground, you will be responsible for dispersing the onlookers below, setting up a cordon around the Noah Building, and strictly prohibiting anyone from approaching!"

"Night Owl Two received, over."

Communication is interrupted.

Gao Jin's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked up at the Noah Building again.

But they discovered that the figure climbing and leaping in the rainy night had disappeared.

His gaze suddenly swept across the entire curtain wall, and it was indeed gone.

His brows furrowed into a deep frown.

You climbed to the top floor so quickly?

Or did they sneak into the building through a ventilation window?

..............................

Noah Building, 84th floor.

In the pitch-black corridor, only the emergency indicator lights cast a ghastly green glow.

All the office doors were tightly closed, and a thin layer of gray mist floated on the floor.

The elevator's display screen was completely black; it had long been out of service.

Zhou Liang released the power button on the headset and let out a long breath.

Being able to contact Captain Gao relieved a lot of his tension.

"What the hell!"

As I was deep in thought, a voice sounded from behind, followed by the soft click of a gun bolt being pulled back.

Zhou Liang turned around and saw Ali, who was quite burly.

He gripped a submachine gun in both hands, his face showing tension.

The other two team members who were stationed nearby and on guard duty also turned around when they heard the sound.

"what happened?"

"I...I think I saw a white ghostly figure flash past the window!"

Ali lowered his voice and spoke cautiously.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Liang immediately raised his gun and aimed it at the window near the corridor.

Just then, the eerie, faint sound came from the stairwell above again.

This time, instead of crying, it turned into giggling laughter.

The sound echoed in the deathly silent stairwell, as if whispering in their ears, sending chills down their spines.

At the same time, the gray mist surging down the stairwell suddenly thickened.

A bone-chilling cold spread out, and a thin layer of white frost began to condense on the surrounding walls.

The entire building seemed to be turning into an icebox.

"Come on!"

Zhou Liang acted decisively and immediately issued a retreat order according to Gao Jin's instructions.

"Ali, cover our retreat! Ayang and Xiaojie, take those two security guards and we're evacuating through safety exit B immediately!"

"Maintain battle formation, provide alternating cover, quick!"

(End of this chapter)