48 Hours a Day

Chapter 1062: Signal Tower

Zhang Heng stepped on the accelerator and drove Qiu Ming to the red dot on the electronic map.

That was the location of the locator, and it had been parked there for a long time. If everything had gone according to plan, Mr. G should be there.

On the other side was Qiu Ming in the passenger seat. He fastened his seatbelt, grabbed the armrest, and leaned back. Initially hoping the operation would be exhilarating, he never expected it to be so exciting before the battle even began.

As Zhang Heng drove the car onto the main road, however, Qiu Ming’s attention finally shifted from the vehicle’s speed to another place.

Previously, because their police team had taken a slightly different route, other than the group of people who had been scouting the police at the grocery store, they had only encountered seven or eight enemies behind them. As a result, it wasn’t a very intense battle.

Now, this street should be the area Mr. G’s men had set up their defenses. With a sentry post every 100 meters, many armed forces had also been deployed to guard it in an attempt to stop anyone from passing through.

Unfortunately, they could not stop anyone now.

Even with Qiu Ming’s mental endurance, he could not help but frown when he saw the scene along the way.

The entire street was dead silent like a cemetery. Corpses were everywhere on the roadside, in the sentry posts, and in the nearby buildings. Not only were the rioters who followed Mr. G lying on the ground… there were even several unarmed civilians who had lost their breath. Only the bullet-riddled bunkers, broken glass windows, and the burning vehicles told the story of what happened here not long ago.

“I thought my heart was tough enough. After all, what I’m doing now is equivalent to erasing a person’s soul. Compared to Mr. G, however, I’m still far from that,” Qiu Ming lamented, “For his own goal, he even sacrificed tens of thousands of people. Moreover, these people would probably still believe in him until the day they die. This is because they believe in the future that he’s promised.”

“You created him,” Zhang Heng reminded.

“No, I only opened the door, so he saw the outside world. As for whether a demon or angel comes out from behind that door was never something I could control,” Qiu Ming shrugged.

“At least now you have a chance to put the devil you released back into the box.”

“I hope I live to see the end of this,” Qiu Ming said as he checked the rifle in his hand.

…..

After driving only two blocks, Zhang Heng already saw the end of the trip through the car window.

It was a white signal tower, about 400 meters tall. It provided the signal exchange service for the entire first-floor space. Since, according to the official records, the height of the entire first-floor space was only 486 meters, it meant this signal tower was already close to the foundation of the second floor.

And now, right above the top of the tower, there was actually a huge thread probe that was about 20 meters in diameter. From top to bottom, it drilled through the projection screen that simulated the sky.

“F*ck!” Upon seeing this, even Qiu Ming couldn’t help but curse.

“Even this f*cking works?!”

As everyone knew, New Shanghai 0297 was divided into five layers of space, and the only thing that connected them was the central shuttle in the city center. However, Shengtang Morgan had long since suspended the central shuttle on the first floor, and it was only when police were transported to the first floor would a vehicle be authorized to pass through. At the same time, heavy troops were also deployed at the station on the first floor.

In Qiu Ming’s previous speculation, Mr. G used the riot to attract the Shengtang Morgan’s Type-VI Hunting Robots to the first floor, thus creating the condition for a sneak attack on the base. However, even if his team of exoskeleton warriors really succeeded in capturing the management, it wouldn’t be easy to take a captive back to the next level and encode the memory.

But now, Mr. G had shown Mr. Qiu that his fears were misplaced.

Mr. G’s men did not choose to take the central shuttle back to the first floor. Instead, they directly drilled a hole in the second floor with the drilling machine, and it was facing the place where the memory was encoded. Whether it was from the perspective of imagination or the angle of operation, Qiu Ming was astounded.

After the drill broke through the ground, it was pulled back up again. Then, two soft ladders hung down from above. Qiu Ming saw someone climbing down the ladder, but because of the distance, he could not see the person’s face clearly.

After that, he clearly felt the car speed up again. This time, even if he closed his eyes, he could feel his heart jumping out of his throat.

At the same time, Zhang Heng lowered the window on the other side. Holding the steering wheel with one hand, he stuck a gun out the window with the other before firing a salvo of rounds at the sentry post in the middle of the road ahead.

The checkpoint had also been baptized by the Type-VI robot. The people who initially manned the checkpoint had already died, but Mr. G had probably sent another team to restore order in the surrounding area. Just as the group was setting up a new roadblock, who would have thought that a car would suddenly appear from the other end of the street.

The car was speeding, and in the blink of an eye, it was right in front of them. Before they could determine if it were a friend or a foe, the people on top had already opened fire.

Zhang Heng remained merciful. He had basically aimed at their lower bodies. Those who had been shot would not have died, but at least, they would not be able to move now. Lying on the ground, groaning in pain, they could only watch as the car pass through the checkpoint and sped forward.

Despite all that, however, they did not panic. They knew they were merely the first group of guards. There were other people behind them, and unlike them, having just arrived at the checkpoint, the roadblocks there had already been completely restored. If the car that had appeared out of nowhere tried to break through those, it would only end in destruction and death.

Furthermore, when the car passed them by, they saw only two people. Heaving a sigh of relief, they quickly relayed the news to the people behind them.

Zhang Heng didn’t slow down at all after passing through the first checkpoint. One kilometer ahead, the people there had already gotten the news and had prepared in advance. They took cover and set up their guns.

However, before they could see the target vehicle, another Asura-like demon was already there.

A black figure with eight legs and the shape of a human jumped down from the mall next door and landed behind them. Without saying a word, it swung the giant sword in its hand at them.

They were completely caught off-guard.

Two unlucky men were sent flying on the spot by the giant sword. Suffering several broken ribs, they rolled on the ground a good bit before losing consciousness.

The rest of the guards did not care about the car anymore. They hastily turned their guns and pulled the trigger on the killer droid in front of them. However, when the bullets landed on the robot’s body, other than sparks, they caused almost no damage to it.