Special forces soldier demobilization: Starting from the county government compound, a meteoric rise

The Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission is located on the third basement level.

The air was cold and damp, filled with a strong smell of rotting paper.

At the end of the long corridor stood a heavy alloy door, resembling a bank vault. There was no handle, only a complex electronic keypad and iris scanner, with the faint red glow of an infrared sensor flashing nearby.

Above the door, in bright red Song typeface, is a sign that reads: "Top Secret Archives, S-level, Unauthorized Personnel Prohibited from Entry."

Liu Ming stood in front of the door, her brows furrowed.

He tried swiping the universal key card that Zhou Qiang had given him.

"Beep—Insufficient permissions."

The cold, electronic sound echoed in the silent corridor, sounding particularly jarring.

"I knew it wouldn't be that simple."

Liu Ming sneered. How could that old fox Luo Binwang so easily expose his weakness? This door, apart from himself and a few of his closest cronies, is probably impossible for anyone to open from the front.

"Boss, how's the situation?"

Through the earphones, Ghost Hand's slightly nervous voice came through.

"The door lock is a Swiss-imported military-grade lock with triple encryption and a physical alarm. If we try to crack it, the entire building will be locked down within ten seconds, and the armed police inside will riddle us with bullets." Liu Ming's voice was calm, as if she were analyzing a math problem.

"What should we do then? Retreat?"

"withdraw?"

Liu Ming raised her head, her gaze falling on the central air conditioning duct on the ceiling, which was more than a meter wide, and a wild smile appeared on her lips.

"The word 'retreat' doesn't exist in the dictionary."

"Ghost Hand, obey my command."

"Give me three minutes. Within three minutes, I want all the surveillance cameras, alarms, and infrared sensors on this floor to 'go to sleep'."

"Three minutes? Boss, you underestimate me!" Ghost Hand chuckled. "One minute is more than enough!"

"start!"

……

One minute later.

All the surveillance cameras in the corridor seemed to be under a spell; the images on their screens were frozen in the empty corridor from a moment before.

Liu Ming no longer hesitated.

He took a few steps back, ran up, and jumped!

With alternating steps on the smooth wall, like the "Ladder to the Clouds" in martial arts novels, the whole person is lifted up from the ground!

He grabbed the edge of the ventilation duct on the ceiling with one hand, and with the other hand he pulled out a tool from his waist and quickly removed the screws from the grille.

Then, his slender body, like a boneless snake, silently slithered into the narrow, dark pipe.

It was filled with dust and cobwebs, and the space was so cramped that it was difficult to even turn over.

But for Liu Ming, this place felt just like home.

In the training program of "Dragon Fang", such infiltration in extreme environments is just a routine matter.

He put on night vision goggles and, like a gecko, crawled quickly and silently through the pipes.

Soon, he arrived at the top of the S-level archives.

Below lies that place, the hell that holds the truth behind his father's death...

Liu Ming took a miniature fiber optic camera out of his backpack and stuck it down through a gap in the vent.

The scene below was instantly and clearly displayed on his tactical watch.

The room is small, less than fifty square meters.

However, the security level was outrageously high!

The ground is covered with a crisscrossing network of infrared sensors! The alarm will sound immediately if anything is touched!

The walls are covered with microwave and sound detectors!

In the very center of the room, the lone black alloy safe was locked in place by a 360-degree rotating camera!

This is not an archive.

This is clearly a death cage from which there is no escape!

"Boss, what... what do we do?" Ghost Hand's voice was tense in the earpiece. "This infrared density is so low, not even a fly can get in!"

"There's a gap."

Liu Ming's voice remained frighteningly calm.

His eyes, honed through countless trials, aided by night vision goggles, instantly discerned the only, and most perilous, escape route within the seemingly flawless infrared network...

"Ghost Hand, give me thirty seconds to let that rotating camera 'take a nap'."

"Thirty seconds? Boss, are you crazy? Thirty seconds isn't even enough time for you to get down the ventilation shaft!"

That's enough.

Liu Ming's answer was simple yet brimming with undeniable confidence!

……

Countdown begins!

Liu Ming, take a deep breath!

His body, like that of a top gymnast, leaned back and slowly lowered himself down through the vent!

His hands and feet were braced against the walls on both sides at an angle that defied the common sense of human biomechanics!

His body was suspended in mid-air!

Below, there are those infrared rays, like a spider web of death!

Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Moving downwards by even an inch requires extreme control over the body's balance and strength.

[Twenty seconds...]

[Ten seconds...]

[Five, four, three, two, one...]

Just as the camera was about to restart from "sleep"!

Liu Ming's feet finally landed on that small, safe patch of ground, no bigger than the palm of her hand.

He succeeded!

Without pausing for a moment, he flashed to the front of the black safe!

However, a new problem has emerged!

This safe is a triple combination lock consisting of voice control, fingerprint recognition, and mechanical combination!

Any error in any step will trigger a physical alarm!

"Boss! It's too late! The surveillance cameras outside will be back on in ten seconds!" Ghost Hand's voice was urgent and urgent!

Liu Ming's eyes remained as calm as ice!

He pressed his ear against the cold cabinet door!

Those ears that could once hear the heartbeat of an enemy from a kilometer away now sound like the most precise sonar!

His fingers flew across the keypad!

"Click..."

"Click..."

"Click..."

First layer of mechanical lock, broken!

He then pulled out a fingerprint film from his pocket, which he had seized from the assassin!

Fingerprint verification successful!

The final layer: voice-activated password!

Liu Ming, close your eyes.

The image of his father's hasty handwriting in his diary flashed through his mind.

It also flashed past Luo Binwang's sanctimonious face.

He suddenly opened his eyes!

In a tone that perfectly mimicked Luo Binwang's hoarse and chilling voice, he slowly uttered four words into the microphone!

May the nation prosper and the people live in peace!

"drop--!"

A soft sound!

The heavy safe door that had guarded his sins for ten years finally opened slowly before him!

Inside was just a lone, dusty brown paper document bag.

And the countdown on the wall only had... ten seconds left!