【Ruijin】Eye of the Storm

Chapter 23

They walked around the pagoda's inaccessible path all the way to a side door. Jin followed Gray and looked around, feeling that there was such a place in the pagoda.The location of this side door happens to be a blind spot between two nearby sentry posts. He obviously has lived here for almost ten years, but he doesn't know anything about it, and he doesn't know what's going on with Grey. Find such an exit below.

The sentry stretched out his hand and cleaned up the miscellaneous vines wrapped around the door. He held the doorknob with his right hand and pushed it, and the door opened.They looked at each other, Jin bent down first and nimbly got through, followed by Gray, and didn't forget to close the door again.

After getting out of the fence, Jin discovered that the door led to the open-air parking lot of a tower.Many military off-road vehicles with the logo of the tower painted with spray paint are lined up and parked there neatly.Gray took Jin around those vehicles and walked to the corner, only then did the guide find a car that obviously did not belong to the tower parked there.

He was a little strange, and subconsciously looked at the silver-haired sentinel: "This is...?"

The sentry squinted his eyes, and quickly stepped forward to open the front hood to check the engine. After confirming that there was no problem, he turned around and walked back, saying, "This is the one."

"Where did this car come from? How did it stop here?" Jin asked.

The sentry patted the dust on the gloves, and said lightly: "The car in the first tower is too conspicuous. I borrowed this car from Leishi."

Jin was speechless, and couldn't help yelling in a low voice: "Why is it him again... In fact, he hasn't broken away from his old department that is wandering outside at all! Are you so relieved of him?"

Gray reached out and pulled the handle of the driver's seat, but found that it couldn't be opened, and took the time to answer him: "Because he is the person on the side of Garderos, and he will not oppose us."

Jin thought about the stakes, and seemed to reluctantly accept this explanation.Seeing that Gray hadn't made any further moves, he asked again with some doubts: "...so where are the car keys?"

Gray shook his head: "Inside the carriage."

"What?!" Jin jumped up, "You asked him to borrow a car, but he didn't give you the key?"

"I don't know if there are any other devices on the car that we don't know about," Gray said. "He probably wants to keep himself in the back."

The sentinel took a step back, frowned, looked up and looked around, and sure enough, he found the surveillance camera hidden among the trees.He turned around and called Jin's name. The guide followed his gaze and was taken aback for a moment before he understood what the sentinel meant.

The blond youth hesitated: "Although it is theoretically possible, I haven't used my ability for a long time..."

Gray looked at him and said, "Since the ghost fox used your wizard element to do it, you must be able to do it too."

Jin opened his mouth and was speechless.Facing the serene and firm purple eyes of the sentinel, he suppressed the last trace of uncertainty in his heart, took a deep breath, turned around and stared at the dark lens above, and his blue eyes instantly darkened.

Gray keenly sensed the faint breath of guide elements floating in the surrounding air. The spiritual domain belonging to Jin took the position of the guide itself as the axis, spread out evenly, and slowly climbed up the tree trunk, entangled with the shelter in front of the surveillance cameras.

At the same time, in the monitoring room far away in the sentry tower, the monitoring screen belonging to this parking lot was sharply distorted. After a few seconds of darkening, the screen brightened again, and the two figures standing in the middle of the screen It has been completely erased, and it is as if it never happened.

After 30 seconds, Jin began to withdraw his consciousness slowly, and the spiritual network around him also retracted sharply, and the faint golden light finally converged at his feet.The guide opened his eyes, raised his hand in disbelief, and tried to shake his right fist.The feeling of regaining control over his abilities was so wonderful, the uncontrollable excitement made him almost tremble with excitement.He couldn't hide his joy and immediately turned around and ran to Gray, grabbed his arm, and looked at him as if taking credit.The silver-haired young man was not stingy with his guide. Although he didn't speak directly, he raised his hand and rubbed the hair on the back of the golden head vigorously as a reward.

The next problem to be solved first is how to open the door.Jin watched as Gray took out a paper clip from his close pocket, straightened the thin curved steel wire, then knelt down on one knee outside the driver's seat, inserted the paper clip in his hand into the keyhole of the car door, and turned it back and forth for a moment.

To be honest, this scene is a bit weird, and Jin didn't expect Gray's method to use such a primitive "skill".Originally, the sentry in the tower naturally wouldn't teach such indecent moves as wire unlocking during professional training.The guide rubbed his nose, tried not to laugh, and stood aside honestly, thinking that Gray and he were also forced to learn a bunch of weird "life skills" when they were in Dengeru, although they Those wild ways are indeed a bit useless on the table, but sometimes they work unexpectedly in actual combat.

The sentinel who was working hard was naturally not aware of the associations that Jin had gone through countless turns in his mind. His face was expressionless, but his technique of prying the keyhole was very skillful. After a while, he heard a crisp sound from the car body.Gray paused for a moment, immediately retracted the paper clip, stretched out his hand again, and smoothly opened the car door.The two sat in the car separately, Gray picked up the key in the car slot to start the car, put the car into gear skillfully with his right hand, and kicked the accelerator to drive out of the monitoring range of the parking lot.

Jin sat in the co-pilot and buckled up his seat belt, turned to Gray and said, "Speaking of which, I've wanted to ask for a long time, did you know that Ghost Fox Tianchong before?"

Gray stared ahead, held the steering wheel with one hand, nodded and said: "He is a C-level guide before the first tower. After graduating from the Sanctuary*, he directly entered the intelligence department of the tower and was assigned to my team. "

Jin was a little surprised: "But I don't seem to have any impression of him at all..."

Gray took a look at him: "All you know are players with higher ranks in the team who are capable enough to go out with S-ranks. At that time, Guihu Tianchong was just an ordinary C-rank, and he didn't have any special talents, so I can only stay in the tower to do logistical work, it is normal not to have seen it."

"He is not an unremarkable person, especially in an environment like the tower where the strong come first." Gray paused, and continued, "If you can't improve your rating, the essence is that you have lost the opportunity for promotion. There is no place here, even as a guide."

Jin Wenyan was silent for a while, then nodded.After thinking for a while, she said, "Kelly said earlier that after the incident a year ago, many people were hurt and retired. That ghost fox...?"

"Because it couldn't perceive you at the time, the tower had to send a lot of people to look around, and many low-level sentries and guides had to participate in the operation," Gray said. After that accident, he also reported his feelings of withdrawal to the tower, but now it seems that he may have used some short-term effective inhibitor to disguise himself, so that he can escape the supervision of the tower in a logical way."

"But why?" Jin couldn't wait to ask, "Did he already think of using my guide element to make illegal drugs from the very beginning?"

Hearing this question, Gray's voice immediately cooled down: "Don't you think it's strange, how did you get caught?"

Jin was stunned, recalling, and slowly said: "...At that time, I had already got what the tower asked me to take, and the communication side told me to go to the meeting place immediately, and someone would take me away with me, but wait for me When we got there, the people from that organization had already—"

He stopped talking suddenly, his thoughts seemed to be cleared up suddenly, and his whole body was terrified: "——They seem to have known that I would go there...someone betrayed me, it is a tower, a person from a tower Tell them I'll retreat there."

Gray turned the steering wheel, turned from the wide road into another narrow alley, and stopped the car in a hidden shadow.When the two got out of the car, Jin was still thinking about what he had just mentioned in the car. After a while, he realized that the surrounding environment was both strange and familiar—this was indeed the luxury hotel where he was kidnapped back then.But in just one year, it seems that it has been transformed into other uses.The location where they parked should be the back door on the southwest side of the building. Jin walked a few steps forward and walked out of the alley to the front door to have a look, and found that it had turned into a fashionable nightclub.

Jin subconsciously felt embarrassed for a while, and hurried back to find Geri, only to find that he was taking out two long trench coats of the same style and different sizes from the trunk, and when he saw him coming back, he threw them to him in the air.

"Put it on." The silver-haired sentinel said concisely, and he put on his clothes neatly first, and the hem of the windbreaker just covered the gun holster at his waist.

Jin reached out to catch the clothes, and reluctantly put them on, thinking that Gray had come prepared, as expected, he had sneaked here to spy on the scene a long time ago without telling him.

The two staggered half a body, and stepped into the gate of the clubhouse one after the other.As soon as he walked in the door, the deafening music sounded overwhelmingly, shaking Jin so much that he couldn't recover for a long time.He has only lived in Yita and Dengeru since he was a child, and it just so happens that these two places are isolated from the world in different senses. Although due to missions, Sentinel guides often go to some social occasions, but Midnight Carnival nightclub, he is indeed the first contact, Jin Guai even if it is the sentry around him, it should be the first time.

The two walked a few steps in, and right in front of them was a small stage, on which a beautiful woman in revealing clothes was writhing her body to the music.There were too many people on the dance floor, and while paying attention to the dangers of the environment, one had to keep up with Gerry. The air here even made it difficult for Jin to breathe.He tried his best to reach Gray's sleeve and tugged at it. The sentinel, who had a grim expression on his face, immediately turned around, grabbed Jin with his long arms, dragged Jin out of the crowd, and held Jin firmly in his arms.

The internal structure of this building has changed too much, and there is no shadow of that year.The two managed to squeeze out from the crazy crowd, and Jin squeezed Gray's hand, panting and pointing to the far bar.Gray understood immediately, and the two walked to the high chair by the bar and sat down. The bartender behind the counter greeted him with a smile, handed him a drink menu, and at the same time looked at Gray twice as if he didn't think it was obvious.

The sentinel didn't move, so Jin had to take the list and read it by himself.He scanned the names and prices of the items on the menu, and secretly muttered, "It's so expensive."The sentries and guides living in the tower don't really have much concept of money, because all food and clothing can be exchanged for the points in the tower. They are soldiers, and their tasks are their daily routines. Naturally, there is no need to prepare for them. Coins used by ordinary people.To put it simply, from the moment he and Gray left the tower, they became two out-and-out "paupers".

"So, what do you two need?" The bartender stood in front of them with a smile, and had already taken out the pen and paper for keeping the bill.

Jin glanced at Gray, who was still sitting quietly, and did not respond to the bartender's inquiries.The guide had no choice but to pull out a smiling face, returned the menu, and said, "Well, uh, give us two glasses of water first, thank you."

The bartender's smile froze for a moment, but he still maintained his usual professionalism and responded politely, then turned and left to prepare two glasses of water.

The background music was too noisy. Jin looked around to make sure that no one was paying attention to them, then leaned slightly to Gree's ear and asked, "Are you okay? Do you want to adjust your five senses?"

Gray shook his head slightly, narrowed his eyes and looked at the direction the bartender was leaving, and lowered his voice: "First ask where the entrance to the basement is."

Kim nodded, and before he could respond, the male bartender returned with a tray.

The guide watched the other party put glasses half full of water in front of them one by one, and suddenly raised his voice and said, "Hello, we want to ask you something."

The bartender was stunned, looked at Jin, and repeated with uncertainty: "Are you... calling me?"

Jin nodded with a smile, and said to the other party, "I want to know where the original basement entrance is."

After hearing this question, the blond guide was keenly aware of the sudden defensive aura around the other party.As soon as his heart moved, he knew that this person must be related to the ghost fox.The sentry also noticed this, and the moment the other party turned around to run, he quickly and firmly clasped the bartender's right wrist that was placed on the table.

After realizing that he couldn't move no matter how hard he tried, the bartender realized that his identity had been exposed, his eyes widened in horror, and his whole body trembled like a sieve: "You...you..."

Sitting on a high stool, Jin suddenly stretched out a hand and clasped the other's chin. With a little force, he forced the bartender to face him directly. The coercion of the S-level guide was transmitted in an instant. Jin looked deeply into the man's pupils full of fear with his transparent blue eyes, and said slowly and clearly: "Now, tell me, the basement Where is the entrance."

TBC

*Sanctuary: An institution under the jurisdiction of the tower, responsible for finding sentries or guides who are awakening, and gathering them for systematic training and education.