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For patient individuals, time always seems to pass quickly, especially for Nancy and the two snipers. When she raised her sniper scope again to observe the factory, Tianzhou City had already plunged into darkness.

“Hattori, be careful when infiltrating.”

After quietly instructing through the internal team terminal, Nancy looked around. It was too dark. This area was originally an abandoned industrial zone, with most infrastructure destroyed. Streetlights and such were unusable; even if intact, they remained unlit. The municipal government saw no need to maintain these facilities here, as there wasn’t a single soul around.

However, this didn’t deter Nancy. She lowered her head again, activating the night vision mode on her sniper rifle. Instantly, her vision became as clear as daylight, and all living beings within the scope of the sniper lens appeared before Nancy’s eyes.

For dealing with these traffickers, after discussions with Hattori, Nancy decided to adopt an infiltration and subsequent elimination approach. With Hattori, a professional assassin, on hand, and Nancy able to provide spotter and fire support with the hijacked sniper rifle, this plan was the best for the duo who were just starting out.

“Hattori, crouch halfway up the stairs at your nine o’clock, holding the smart rifle.” Nancy reported the positions of each enemy to Hattori through the sniper scope’s biological sensing.

A dozen seconds later, the guy who seemed to be dozing off or on alert was quietly taken out by Hattori.

“Continue up the stairs. There are three guys playing cards upstairs, but they’re all in the blind spot of the stairs… Wait,” Nancy suddenly paused. “Two of them got up and are moving toward the stairs. They’re not carrying any weapons, probably going to the restroom in pairs.”

Upon hearing Nancy’s prompt, Hattori quickly filtered through several assassination scenarios. A minute later, the two unfortunate guys who had just pulled down their pants had their necks silently slit by Hattori.

“All right, now there’s only that guy playing cards left. Proceed cautiously. There are other enemies on the third floor.”

……………

It had to be said that Hattori was indeed worthy of being an assassin cultivated by the organization using various means. His assassination skills were undoubtedly the highest Nancy had seen among assassins. Hattori could not only quietly take out ordinary people carrying weapons but also make the process seem aesthetically pleasing—a terrifying feat.

In her previous life, Nancy had protected core figures of nations and had encountered countless assassins and agents from various countries. However, none could match Hattori. If she had faced an opponent like Hattori in her previous life, perhaps the only solution would have been to deploy a highly informationized reinforcement team to protect the target around the clock.

As for a one-on-one confrontation between Nancy and Hattori? It would be no different from an archer being caught by a warrior or an assassin. Even if Nancy had brought over the meticulously trained tactical team from her previous life, they would have been defeated effortlessly.

“Miss, all standing enemies on this floor have been eliminated. Do you have any further instructions?” Hattori’s voice came through the internal terminal, describing the one-sided slaughter in a casual tone, which momentarily stirred Nancy’s mind.

Once again, she silently congratulated herself on her decision to recruit Hattori. Finally, Nancy quickly composed herself and looked back through her sniper scope.

Though the traffickers tonight were well-equipped thugs, they seemed a bit weaker compared to the Basileus mercenaries from the previous night. This was evident from Nancy not even needing to fire her sniper rifle tonight. Hattori alone had taken out over thirty thugs in a single building tonight.

“Remove all the network modules from their smart firearms; the conventional firearms can stay put,” Nancy thought for a moment before issuing the order to confiscate weapons. Unlike the previous night, this time Nancy only wanted the smart firearms, specifically the most valuable networking modules.

After all, the main feature of smart firearms was their information networking and bullet trajectory modification; without networking, they were worthless.

Nancy had already confiscated dozens of weapons the previous night. Even if she rescued this batch of Basileus slaves, each person having one would be more than enough. Therefore, having more guns was unnecessary now; what Nancy lacked was ammunition.

However, the ammunition issue could be addressed later. The main problem now was to locate those slaves.

Nancy once again activated the positioning module of her smart sniper rifle. This was a locator placed on one of the slaves by Hattori when he had just found this group of people. Although it was a makeshift locator by Hattori himself, it could still connect to the network and display the location of that slave on Nancy’s smart firearm.

At this moment, the screen showed that the slave was not on the surface, indicating that there was another building beneath this factory, at least one basement.

Nancy had downloaded the three-dimensional blueprint of this abandoned factory from the network. The platform was provided by Hattori’s online black market, but it seemed the other party wasn’t entirely honest.

Shaking her head, the snowy-haired girl didn’t dwell on this matter any longer. After all, buying things from the black market like this involves double the risk.

“Hattori, see if there’s any passage leading underground and inform me immediately once found.” Time was of the essence, so Nancy immediately gave Hattori the command.

Upon receiving the order, Hattori immediately began searching the factory for possible hidden passages and mechanisms. As expected, he eventually found a hidden map on one of the gambling thugs. Following the map, Hattori soon found a hidden underground passage in an abandoned workshop in the factory.

This passage was opened using iris recognition, giving it a futuristic feel that sharply contrasted with the desolate atmosphere outside. Faced with this door that required iris recognition, Hattori was stumped.

Hattori had originally wanted to forcefully break open this door, but even when Nancy arrived and put away her sniper rifle, he still hadn’t opened it. This door seemed seamless, and Hattori couldn’t figure out how to open it, let alone where to start applying force.

“Miss, this…” Hattori’s expression was awkward.

If you asked Hattori to assassinate someone, he could give you hundreds of non-repetitive plans. However, when faced with such high-tech equipment, he was at a loss.

After all, did you think Hattori didn’t want to use smart firearms? It was just that he didn’t know how to connect weapons to network terminals.

“Let me see… Iris recognition?” Nancy frowned at the door. She had seen iris recognition doors before; many countries had similar security measures in their high-security facilities in her previous life. However, this door in front of her seemed more advanced.

After some thought, Nancy suddenly realized something. If the slaves were behind this door as expected, and if it was indeed iris recognition, then there had to be at least one thug among these traffickers whose iris could unlock the door in front of them.

But… among over thirty thugs, whose iris could open the door?

With a trial-and-error mentality, Nancy walked up to the thug where Hattori had found the map earlier, crouched down, took out a dagger, and without hesitation, stabbed it into the corpse’s eye, then proceeded to extract the eyeball.

One minute later.

As the girl shook off the rotten flesh and blood on her hand, the white door in front of her turned into a white powder and disappeared into a flow of light. The door, was open.