A swift and decisive victory in the early stages, a post-apocalyptic survival story in America!

After entering the restroom, Li Qi relieved himself and then took an Inspiration Capsule from the system and swallowed it. The effects of the drug quickly took hold, and his vision suddenly became clear.

With 9 points of basic mental attribute and 5 points of mental attribute from the medicine, Li Qi instantly felt the difference.

The limescale on the tiles has been there for years; it seems it has never been cleaned...

The toilet seat is upright, and there are some yellow stains on the ceramic edge, suggesting the previous user may have had prostatitis...

The bathroom heater on the ceiling is blackened by smoke; it'll probably burn out soon...

The lock on the bathroom door was clearly loose, as if it had been pulled forcefully...

Having tried the effects of the Inspiration Capsule before, Li Qi thought he wouldn't be surprised anymore, but now that his energy level has reached 14, he feels a significant and dramatic change.

The difference between eleven points of spirit and fourteen points of spirit, although both are three points, is much greater than the difference between six points and nine points of spirit.

Previously, my mental state was up to 11 o'clock, but the details in front of me were rich, the colors were obvious and strong, and my mind was full of countless ideas and thoughts, so my concentration was also higher.

But once the mental state reaches fourteen points, much known knowledge and experience mixes with many unknown speculations and hypotheses, transforming from a tangled mess into a clear and organized whole. Countless clues are randomly arranged and combined, forming countless guesses and hypotheses.

This feeling is really great!

Having lived two lives, aside from his original body's memories, this was the first time Li Qi had experienced the joy of the American Pleasure Pill.

If I could maintain 14 points of sanity all the time, wouldn't that be awesome?

Outside the restroom, Lola looked at Li Qi, who suddenly seemed radiant, and asked in surprise, "What did you do? Why do you feel...?"

Beyond his good looks, he possessed a captivating charm that made the ICE female agent, who was already infatuated with Richard's beauty, even more infatuated.

Li Qi hugged Lola, whose legs were about to give way, and glanced around before easily coming up with a possibility.

"A hidden door doesn't necessarily have to be on the floor or in the wall; it could also be..." Li Qi looked towards the corner of the living room near the bedroom, where there was an inconspicuous curtain cord, "...on the roof!"

Lola was taken aback and followed Li Qi's gaze, but still couldn't see anything unusual.

Li Qi found a clothesline pole in the corner of the living room and used the hook on it to hook the curtain cord hanging from the ceiling.

As he pulled, a row of ceiling panels near the TV wall descended one by one, and a cleverly designed metal staircase slowly appeared in front of him.

The two looked at each other, both seeing surprise and admiration in each other's eyes.

Of course, Lola's surprise and admiration stemmed more from her keen insight into her lover than from Nick's ingenious scheme.

Li Qi's admiration stemmed from Nick Grant, who designed all of this.

Holding onto the handrail made of ropes and wires, Li Qi took the lead and stepped forward with a Beretta pistol in hand.

There was a faint smell of dust in the attic of the sloping-roofed house.

Everything in front of me is normal, without the slightest abnormality, except for the wall between the living room and the master bedroom.

The walls were unusually thick, and at the top of the walls, there was a brick staircase leading down.

Press the switch, the lights come on, and not far ahead, a doorway opens on the right side of the steps, which leads directly to the backyard.

After helping Lola up, Richard turned and went down the steps to the basement.

Turn on the light, and suddenly everything becomes bright.

Looking around, apart from a few load-bearing columns in the middle, there are no other architectural elements in the basement. Instead, there are rows of metal filing cabinets.

Near the stairwell, in the open space, there was a huge table about four meters long and two meters wide, piled with messy documents and files.

On the side of the long table away from the stairwell, a laptop was plugged in but not turned on.

Opposite the laptop, against the wall, is a locked metal cabinet. Looking through the wire mesh of the cabinet door, you can see various firearms neatly arranged inside.

On the four-tiered shelf next to the metal cabinet were stacks of bundles of US dollars, roughly estimated to be in the millions.

At the very bottom of the shelf, in an inconspicuous wooden box, were gold bars of various shapes and sizes, their glittering light visible even from a distance.

Standing at the door, Li Qi stopped Lola from walking forward, his eyes scanning the room. His fourteen points of mental focus and accounting skills worked together to examine everything in the room.

Nick, that old bastard, couldn't have designed the basement so meticulously that it wouldn't be without any hidden traps.

The gold and US dollars were displayed too conspicuously.

Sure enough, Li Qi soon discovered that a barely perceptible metal wire lay across the only path to the gold.

The thin metal wires were painted the same color as the cement floor, one end connected to the shelf, and the other end connected to the legs of the long table.

A pulley turns the filament, and the end of the thin metal wire lies beneath the long table.

Li Qi crouched down to examine it closely and found four "M18A1" Claymore anti-personnel mines strapped under the long table.

"Damn it..." Li Qi cursed aloud as he looked at the dense, spiderweb-like metal wires under the table.

Nick is definitely lazy and cunning, not just clumsy!

The four Claymore mines under the table are triggered by the same tripwire mechanism, meaning that no matter which metal wire they encounter, all four Claymore mines under the table will detonate simultaneously.

In this way, neither the triggerer nor the triggerer's companions can escape unscathed.

Four anti-personnel Claymore mines were evenly placed around the long table, each slightly tilted back, with a kill radius that covered almost the entire room.

Unless you hide behind those rows of filing cabinets...

With a sudden thought, Li Qi looked at the filing cabinets.

With the effects of the medicine about to wear off, Li Qi hurried to look for any clues.

Upon closer inspection, another anomaly was discovered.

In the aisle between the four rows of filing cabinets, there were identical thin metal wires. Since the Claymore mines had not yet been deactivated, Li Qi could not observe them up close, but it was reasonable to speculate that these thin metal wires were also ambush devices connected to lethal triggering devices.

Lola's face turned deathly pale. If it weren't for Li Qi, she would have rushed forward to check the files on the desktop and the contents of the computer by now.

Four anti-personnel Claymore mines...

I can't even imagine!

Without hesitation, Li Qi received another Inspiration Capsule from the system.

The capsule may be precious, but nothing is more precious than life!

The drug took effect again, and Li Qi carefully entered the basement, meticulously dismantling the triggering device of the Claymore mine. After everything was done, he went to the filing cabinet aisle and removed the metal wires one by one.

These metal filaments all have easy dismantling mechanisms; otherwise, Nick Grant would spend a lot of time just dismantling them every time he comes here, and he wouldn't have time to do anything else.

In addition to these devices, Li Qi continued his search.

Given Nick's character, it's impossible that he would only set up an ambush in these two places.

Whether it's the Claymore anti-personnel mine or the pull-string grenade hidden in the crevices of a filing cabinet, these are all everyday defenses. Li Qi put himself in Nick's shoes; if he were Nick, he would definitely have a backup plan to destroy everything in a critical moment.

After patiently searching around, he still found no clues. He glanced at the countdown timer on his sports watch; the drug's effects were about to wear off.

Li Qi was very confident in his fourteen points of wisdom, but he couldn't find them even after searching so carefully. Could it be that Nick, that old bastard, hadn't prepared a final backup plan?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

I must have overlooked something...

If an ordinary person rushed into this place, instead of law enforcement officers like Lola or Julie, what would attract them first?

Li Qi turned his head, his gaze falling on the overly conspicuous pile of US dollars and gold.