Ark Traveler, I want to take a day off today too

“What method?” When Chen asked this question, she regretted it because Lin Lei’s expression did not look serious at all!

"As long as the terrorists don't have hostages, they will have nothing to threaten them with, so as long as we take the lead in eliminating the hostages..."

"What kind of terrorist behavior is this? Only Ursus would do this." Chen sighed. "Most of the kidnappers in the Guard Bureau building are Sarkaz, and they all have the symbol of the Integration Movement on them. You can recognize them at a glance."

“So can you do it? If not, I will personally lead the team to attack from outside the building.” Chen’s ruby-like eyes still sparkled under the dark clouds, and that upright and resolute look made Lin Lei feel a sense of courage.

“How are you going to launch an attack from outside the building? Let me do it. This way there will be fewer casualties.” Linley patted the other man on the shoulder and said, “Don’t always be so harsh in rejecting other people’s kindness. Not everyone wants to harm you.”

"What's your good intention? Isn't it all about money?"

“But you can only believe what I do if I’m paid. A halfling once said, ‘Those who brag about not needing any reward are the ones who are truly untrustworthy.’” Linley said as he put on the hood of his coat and walked towards the still brightly lit Dragon Gate Guards building.

The only flaw in this building is that thick smoke is billowing from several floors, and the glass curtain wall and nearby reinforced concrete have been destroyed by explosives.

"The last time I saw the defense center itself fall was when the Queen took down Korhal?"

While muttering to himself, Lin Lei went straight around the side of the building. Similar to the city where Lin Lei had lived in the past, there would not be many houses nearby a government violence agency like this one. However, compared to the extremely smooth front, both the air conditioner outdoor unit and those beautiful edges and corners became fulcrums for Lin Lei to climb.

At the same time, the Sarkaz mercenaries had been staying inside for some time. Because most of the Guards' manpower had withdrawn when the mercenaries officially took charge of the building, these mercenaries were unable to break out from inside the building.

Some of the more ambitious Sarkaz captains have already begun to pressure W: "W, why do we have to take on this kind of work?"

"You can ask Tallulah questions like this when you are still alive." W naturally didn't want to answer them at all. "Keep an eye on those hostages who are ready to make a move, and then wait, okay?"

"What are you waiting for? If we don't find a way to break out with the help of these hostages, the Royal Guards will come charging in! That green-haired female ghost is not human at all! I only have five of my men left!"

"That's right, the remaining integration movements that said they were going to surround a point and attack the reinforcements are simply a bunch of rabble!"

"We have hostages in our hands, why are you so anxious? Or are you eyeing my position?" W fiddled with his nails in boredom. "We are mercenaries. Since the Reunion Movement has paid us, we naturally have to complete their contract."

"If you have any objections, you should have raised them before executing my orders, not now." The little devil raised his head and looked around at the four team leaders. After he became the leader of the mercenary group, these guys had always had objections to his orders.

More importantly, they used to be the confidants of the deceased Garson. Now they are forcing the emperor to abdicate at this time, firstly to seize power, and secondly probably to avenge that bastard Garson.

"Or are you interested in my current position?" W narrowed her eyes. She had always looked down on these guys. Even though Ines and Hedley were gone, she still looked down on these bastards. Facing W's question, after a brief silence, the leader of the Sarkaz team whispered:

"W, give up your position as the leader, and then attract the firepower of the Guards Bureau. You still have a chance to survive."

Before the Sarkaz finished speaking, several people behind him drew their crossbows and pointed them at the girl: "Or you will die here. I saw that night that your friend Ines was killed by Draco's men!"

"Miler, can you please mention her name again?" W suddenly raised her head and looked into the other person's eyes. In her hand, she had a detonator and a grenade with a loaded warhead. "Do you believe that if I press this, we will all die here together?"

"Come on, W, the people who cleared this floor with you are all my people. They didn't see you placing explosives here." Miller showed a hint of sarcasm on his face: "Or do you think that the grenade in your hand can kill all of us here at once?"

"Looks like you've already defeated me?" W put down the grenade launcher in her hand after seeing a dark shadow outside the building. "Then it looks like you win." She took out a badge engraved with the Kazdel logo from her pocket - this was also the token of the mercenary group leader.

"Of course, we have been planning this for a long time..." Just as Milel was about to proudly take the badge from W's hand, a gunshot was heard.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

The crisp yet extremely heavy sound of gunfire rang out four times quickly. Four bullets, like the thorns on roses, passed through the explosion-proof glass of the Guard Bureau and directly hit the heads of these team leaders!

“It looks like our American cockroach lady has been forced to resign again~” Linley punched through the glass that had been punched with several holes, then walked in slowly: “You guys are really going big this time, the road movie has turned directly into a war movie.”

“This is an order from Tallulah. What can we do?” W shrugged and looked curiously at the place where Linley came in. “How did you get to stand there? I remember there wasn’t an air conditioner nearby, right?”

“Just use the Originium Technique to create a wall.” Linley shook the thorns nonchalantly, “Then let’s talk about the deal.”

082. No matter how fast you are, can you be faster than a gun?

“The Guards hope to rescue the hostages and then annihilate you all here.” Linley stated the Guards’ goal very bluntly. “But all they asked me to do is to ensure that the hostages are safe.”

“So, Miss W, what do you think?” Linley walked up to the Sarkaz girl. At this moment, W was still sitting on someone’s desk, looking at him.

"We need to leave here, leave here safely... The hostages can naturally be returned to the Guard Bureau." W said very seriously, "But I can't die, at least not before I find out the truth of that time!"

“What about the others?” Linley said as he placed his hands on either side of W’s thighs, his head leaning forward. He could already feel the cockroach lady’s unsteady breathing. “Miss W, your breathing is out of whack.”

"If you can take two steps back, my breathing will naturally return to normal." W said, and took out a bomb from somewhere: "Or do you want to die here with me?"

"Didn't you say before that we had to survive no matter what? Isn't this contradictory?"

“Tsk, you’re not afraid at all.” Seeing that he couldn’t scare Linley at all, W put away the explosives. His colleague’s cynical expression turned serious: “How can I and my men survive? Just give us a condition.”

Then she seemed to remember something and said, "Of course, if you want wooden horses, wax dripping, or tortoise shell binding, these are not allowed for the time being!"

"That anus..."

"Fuck you! You can't even think about this! Have you been holding back for too long in Rhodes Island? I can introduce you to two places where mercenaries often go to relieve themselves." W smiled kindly, "They all said that the food in that store is very grainy."

“Lakase, I don’t like backdoors, and I’m not gay.” Linley answered almost subconsciously. “How about this? I might need an identity as a Sarkaz mercenary later. Can you give me one?”

“This? No problem. I can get you one right now.” W said as he jumped off the table. He then walked over to the man who was still holding his head in his hands, yanked the nameplate off his neck, and threw it to Linley. “Just change your name.”

"So easy?"

"As long as the deceased's original team members can recognize you, then you can have everything from this mercenary." W explained indifferently, "But this Milel is unlucky. Everyone in his group has died, and soon his men will be carried away by Xingxiong and her police officers."

"But why do you want this identity? You are not a Sarkaz."

“Maybe I’ll need it in the future. And it’s not like I can’t pretend. I can just put two horns on my head and that’ll be it.” Linley said indifferently, “This sounds like a bad deal. Can I make one more request?”

"Of course you can. If our transaction is not equal, there will be no next transaction." W raised the radio in her hand while speaking. The report from her subordinates made her frown. "But you'd better hurry up. Those guys who don't listen to me will soon be killed by that green-haired ghost."

“How about a free assistance? Of course, this assistance will not exceed your ability.” Lin Lei said after considering it for a while, and W nodded.

"You know how to say a debt of favor, but I agreed... now how should I run?"

Linley pointed at the large hole behind him and said, “Of course we should go this way. Do you have any hooks or anything like that? It’s already night time, and this angle is just right for the light to hit us… If we go this way, we should be able to get back to the slums and evacuate if nothing unexpected happens.”

"Is there no better way?"

"This is the safest and most reliable method I think. Otherwise, you will have to fight your way out of the main gate of the Guard Bureau. I don't think this is very realistic for you Sarkaz mercenaries, right?"

Upon hearing this, W immediately looked out the window. The moon was high in the sky, and Lin Lei’s back was indeed in a direction that the moonlight could not reach, just as he had said. The people from the Royal Guards probably also thought that there was no way to go in this direction, so they did not leave any police officers to guard it.

The street lights outside the building had been destroyed by other roaming Integration Movement soldiers. It could be said that the place was pitch black after going down, which was also the most suitable way for them to leave.

"Hiss... That's the only way." W didn't hesitate. She picked up the intercom and asked the mercenaries in charge of guarding and alerting to come up with ropes and curtains. "Although these guys are dead, they still have about 30 people under their command. Can you handle it?"

"no problem."

“Well, I’ll let these guys receive this message later. See you again if we’re lucky, Derejie.” W did not hesitate and directly pulled out an extremely thick hemp rope from the room next to him, tied it to the steel bars next to him and began to descend quickly, while Lin Lei shrugged and began to walk downstairs.

It was his first time visiting a police station on Terra. Although there were no policemen in the building, it was still a novelty for a certain person. Linley whistled and walked towards the lower floor with his hands behind his back.

No one knew what W had said on the radio. All the Sarkaz that ran into him on the stairwell pretended that Lin Lei did not exist and simply avoided him. Two of them even whispered to Lin Lei:

“I don’t know if those guys can keep an eye on the hostages on the fourth floor. After all, we still have to rely on them to delay time!”

Oh, it was on the fourth floor. It looked like he didn’t have to search floor by floor. Lin Lei was happier now.

Three minutes later, Linley arrived on the fourth floor. In addition to the hostages kneeling on the ground and trembling, there were also a dozen injured Sarkaz mercenaries whose equipment was severely damaged. The moment they saw Linley, they raised their crossbows and asked, “Who are you?”

“Of course you are here to rescue them, but how did you end up in such a miserable state?” Linley narrowed his eyes and memorized the location of every Sarkaz mercenary in his mind. “I see that the brothers who ran up are not injured.”

After hearing this, the mercenaries realized that they had been sold out: "W that bitch! Fight this bastard and kill all the hostages..."

Before he could even finish the word "kill", Linley had already pulled out the thorns, and nine bullets slanted out! It was just a fixed target with more angles, could it be faster than my gun?

083. Devil's Kiss (Fourth update!)

By the time Xingxiong and the commandos arrived on the fourth floor, Lin Lei was already enjoying a hug from one of the clerks. Well, it must be said that these girls from the Fengti tribe have great figures and nice personalities.

I don't know how the bread man of Penguin Logistics ended up like this. It's really sad.

“If you have solved everything, can you come down and help us? I was almost shot by a bastard with a crossbow.” When the clerk saw Xingxiong coming towards her aggressively, she immediately let go of her hand and drew a clear line between herself and Lin Lei.

“You are a senior inspector of the Longmen Guard Bureau. Do you need support?” Linley gave Xingxiong a gentle hug. “Is it okay to do this in a place like this?”

“Of course it’s no problem. But that girl with the best figure is one of the best among us. Do you want me to get her phone number for you?” Xingxiong said with a fake smile. Upon hearing this, Linley shook his head like a rattle.

"Of course we don't want that, but are they the only hostages? Are there no others?"

"There shouldn't be any left. Where are the remaining Sarkaz mercenaries?"

“They left from upstairs.” Linley pointed at the ceiling. “After all, Mr. Chen only asked me to rescue the hostages and didn’t ask me to wipe out all the mercenaries, so I naturally just did my job.”

“I think it’s because you have a good relationship with that white-haired Sarkaz~” Xingxiong said sinisterly, but in such a public place, she still chose to let Lin Lei go. “I will give you a thorough ‘interrogation’ when I get back later... You will be back tonight, right?”

“Well, I will be back, but it looks like my work is not over yet.” Linley said softly. He didn’t know if it was his illusion, but just now a black-cloaked shadow guard ran directly in the direction where the Sarkaz mercenaries were retreating.

Although W's strength is a little stronger than the average Sarkaz mercenaries, he is definitely no match for the Shadow Guards, and this group of Sarkaz mercenaries must leave Longmen alive! After all, as long as they are there, the integration movement in the hands of Tallulah or Kosche will not be a solid block!

“Did you see something?” Compared to Lin Lei, Xingxiong only felt a rather gloomy aura flash past from the outside. If it weren’t for Lin Lei’s expression, she would have even thought it was just a breeze at night.

“Something I can’t really talk about. Once you’ve dealt with the problems here, go home and wait for me.” Linley said as he jumped out of the Guards building without looking back. “Also, I’ll be back.”

"This guy is really..." Xingxiong could only sigh with his hands on his hips, while the clerk next to him clenched his fists and approached the female ghost:

"Inspector Xingxiong, are you and that person a couple?"

"Yes, but don't tell anyone." Xingxiong could only smile and took out his phone to send a message to Chen: "Old Chen, the hostages are safe, but many of the Sarkaz mercenaries have escaped."

In less than a minute, Chen replied.

"It's okay as long as everyone is fine. I'll bring people back to reunite with you after I clean up the surrounding battlefield. Shi Huaiya said that their place is indeed the base of the Reunion Movement, but it is now deserted. That guy Dredger and Rhodes Island were right - Chen Huijie."

...Longmen Slums...

W tightly grasped the grenade in his hand and looked at the black hat in front of him: "As expected, you are the real power of Longmen?"

Facing the question from the Sarkaz girl, the black-capped shadow guard simply shook his knife. The streets of this slum were already filled with the bodies of Sarkaz mercenaries, and the dark red blood had gathered into a stream flowing at W's feet:

"Do you think I'm a dead man?" W gave a bitter smile, and what responded to her was a sudden downpour, and along with the rain came the shining long sword.

The knife was too fast for W, so fast that she couldn't react, and her men died that way... Now it seems it's her turn.

"Am I going to die?" Unlike most people who closed their eyes and waited for death, W still stared directly at the blade that was about to chop off his head. At this time, two shurikens carved out of ice crystals directly hit the blade!

Ice crystals? Frost stars?

The two spinning shurikens seemed to have infinite destructive power. The black-capped shadow guard put away his sword without hesitation and used the scabbard to hit the two shurikens directly!

"Dang~dang~"

Accompanied by two crisp sounds of metal striking metal, the black-capped shadow guard took two steps back and stood with a knife in hand: "Why are you trying to stop me, sir?"

“Because I promised her that she would not die.” Linley’s indifferent voice came from the other end of the alley, “And Rhodes Island needs her alive.” Then, as W looked shocked, Linley stepped on the puddles and slowly walked to her.

"Then I am sorry for the offence!"

The black-capped shadow guard no longer hesitated, unsheathed his long sword and aimed it at Lin Lei's face, while Lin Lei directly drew out the short sword made of the same material as Chi Xiao to block the powerful blow!

Dang~

Unlike the standard sword that Chen had lent him before, this short sword named "Residual Light" by Lin Lei had an unusual hardness and toughness! Then the dark red residual light and the long sword of the black raincoat shadow guard began to collide violently!

The speed of the two was more than one level faster than the previous opening move! If there was no water and blood on the ground, W would not even be able to see the position of the two people clearly! And I don’t know if it was the girl’s illusion, the dense rain seemed to be still, and each drop of rain was cut into two sections by two knives, one long and one short, and then slowly fell!

This time, the collision between the two no longer involved any so-called sword intent, but only the two most important qualities for a swordsman - strength and speed!

"Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!"

This breath-holding attack in pursuit of the ultimate lethality lasted for nearly three minutes. When Linley and the Black Cotton Shadow Guard reappeared, the man’s coat had been ripped into holes by the opponent’s long sword, while the Black Cotton Shadow Guard’s raincoat and hat were obviously damaged.

"Sure enough, that broken copper and iron sword has limited your strength."

“Maybe. Should we continue to fight? I’m not sure if I can hold back any longer!” Linley put away his dagger and replaced it with two scythes that carried a chilling aura—one for ‘Silence’ and the other for ‘Wild Howl’.

"I will report this matter to Lord Wei." As if sensing the danger from the two sickles, Hei Suo did not stay any longer and retreated directly.

“Huh… It’s really dangerous to deal with this kind of guy every time.” After seeing the man leave, Linley saw the sickle retracted into his body. Just as he was about to turn around and say a few words to W, the Sarkaz girl had already hugged his neck.

The alluring red lips were directly imprinted on Lin Lei’s lips, and the two of them just stared at each other in silence…

After a long time, their lips parted, and the demon walked back into the night without looking back.

084. Going Home (th update!)

Soon after W left, the Rat King walked out from the shadows, and the Gray Tails behind him silently dealt with the Sarkaz corpses on the ground.

The old man looked at Linley with a complicated expression, “Young man, you have quite a variety of tastes. Forget about the ghosts, Lupert, and Carters, but you even don’t let the Sarkaz go?”

“Can I say this was an accident? I didn’t expect her to get so close to me.” Linley scratched his head awkwardly. “By the way, old man, do you have any other clothes? I can’t go back wearing this.”

“Humph, you still know about the Gu family... Come with me.” The Rat King didn’t say much and turned his back to lead the way, while Lin Lei followed slowly behind him.

"Don't you have anything you want to ask me, old man?"

"What's there to ask? Anyway, the young master has vented his anger, and you have saved his life... But if I were 20 years younger, I would definitely join forces with the shadow guards to keep you here regardless of the consequences." The Rat King said indifferently, "But now, even if it hurts me, an old man, I still have to clean up your mess."