Unconventional security

"Wow, that's really impressive, it has a high-tech vibe."

As Chen Bei entered the park, he looked around.

The layout here is not much different from the parks I remember, but the vegetation here is all 3D holographic, with each leaf shimmering with light and shadow images.

"Don't you think this place looks a bit like a scene from a game?"

Ye Zhixue, who was looking around, suddenly spoke up, and Chen Bei thought for a moment before replying.

"Mission Lobby?"

Once Chen Bei was in this scene, he found it difficult to look directly at the park. The area where he accepted the mission was now the bounty board in the mission hall.

The surrounding flowers, trees, and mechanical dogs running around on the ground are all like NPCs.

The two walked to the task list, put on their exclusive VR glasses, and immediately several tasks unfolded before their eyes, like a river flowing around them.

This way, it won't delay other people from accepting tasks, nor will it cause a situation where people can't get tasks due to overcrowding.

A dazzling array of task bars were displayed before Chen Bei's eyes. These tasks directly displayed task information and were public tasks. There was a password icon on his lower left. Private tasks required a specific password to accept.

Chen Bei typed 091, and a task popped up suddenly.

[Mission Requirements: Steal the Moon, 5404]

Simple and clear, yet... a smokescreen.

Even if someone guesses the password correctly, they still won't know what the specific task entails.

[You have accepted the task. There is no time limit for this task; it will continue until someone submits a result that is accepted.]

"Let's go."

Not long after the two left, another person wearing VR glasses opened the password and silently entered 091.

......

"Weren't you talking about alleys in Lianyungang? You call this an alley?!"

Before Chen Bei stood a towering skyscraper, its sides lined with windows for every household, like a giant reflector.

"The alley might just be a name..." Ye Zhixue looked at the building in front of her, equally shocked.

The naming is in no way inferior to that of the Wudaokou Vocational and Technical College from hundreds of years ago.

"According to the mission prompt, Miao Yun's residence should be apartment 3 on the 57th floor. Could there be some kind of access control system using iris recognition?"

Chen Bei muttered as he walked to the building entrance, and sure enough, something like a camera scanned his entire body.

[Scan approved, welcome homeowner!]

"Eh?"

The two were taken aback, then realized that it must have been Cao Chengxiu who made the move. Since the other party dared to send them, he must have made all the arrangements.

But when did he scan their iris data?

Just how powerful is Level 5 computing power... it's unimaginable.

The two took the elevator to the 57th floor. There are three rooms per floor, and room number 3 is on the far right. As a top-tier luxury building, the security level is absolutely top-notch, except for powerful figures like Cao Chengxiu.

The two were still thinking about how to knock on the door to get Miao Yun to come out, or even that she didn't need to come out at all, just a crack in the door would be enough.

Ding!

The elevator stopped, and the elevator doors slowly opened.

The two of them stopped in their tracks as soon as they stepped out of the elevator, along with the questions they were pondering.

"Why is this door open?"

Ye Zhixue spoke up, "It's a mess inside, we've searched it. Scientist Miao was robbed in his home?!"

He practically flew into the room, where the furniture was in disarray, many cabinets were overturned, and all the drawers were pulled open.

It looked exactly like a home invasion robbery.

"Didn't they say she had people protecting her? Where are they protecting her?!"

The house is very large, a full 200 square meters, with dozens of individual rooms.

Chen Bei and Ye Zhixue split up and searched room by room.

If Miao Yun was kidnapped, was the kidnapper after money or sex?

Why did this have to happen at this time?

The first room was a study, where some framed famous paintings and expensive writing implements had not been taken away.

The second room opens to reveal a walk-in closet filled with all sorts of clothes and lingerie, and even some mysterious private photos.

The third room was a bedroom, and city-state coins were scattered on the bed, but they hadn't been taken away.

In an instant, a thought arose in Chen Bei's mind.

If these robbers don't recognize those famous paintings and can't see their value, that's one thing, but why don't they take the city-state coins all over the bed?

If it's for sex, wouldn't the other party also take all those clothes and underwear, and even those mysterious private photos?

If they weren't robbing anyone of money or sexual assault, what could these robbers be after? A revenge killing? A crime of passion? Simply seeking retribution?

Miao Yun has been focused on scientific research in recent years, so where would she find love and romance? With the technological capabilities of the 9th District, she doesn't need to go out and meet people at all, so how could she possibly make enemies?

The only thing that could attract this group of people is her identity. So what is the most important thing that Miao Yun has right now?

The answer is self-evident.

"Virus chip".

Chen Bei felt a chill in his heart. He couldn't believe he'd run into a fellow robber and kidnapper!

The door to the fourth room opened!

no one.

Chen Bei looked around and, excluding the room with the door open on Ye Zhixue's side, there were only three rooms left.

Miao Yun was given a virus chip made by the AI ​​android camp under orders. There is a possibility that the other side will use her and then discard her, but it is unlikely, since she herself has already defected to the AI ​​android side.

Cao Chengxiu wouldn't invite two people at the same time. The restricted area is full of mutated creatures, leaving only the human councilors... the people from the upper city.

"This is difficult. The people coming from the Upper City are all at least three-stage gene lock awakened individuals."

boom!

He kicked open the sixth door, and inside the bedroom, five people wearing rainbow masks turned to look at him.

Chen Bei looked at one of them and saw that the man was holding a small green safe. He had just pried open the safe, and inside lay a chip.

"Gotcha!"

"He's an accomplice, kill him!"

Both sides shouted almost simultaneously. Chen Bei called for Ye Zhixue's help, while the other side prepared to silence her.

As for Miao Yun... I didn't see her.

But there's no time to worry about that now. She might have taken the opportunity to escape and get help, since the other person said "helper" the moment they saw him.

The first masked man to rush up swung a metal rod at Chen Bei's head. Chen Bei ducked and rolled to the edge of the bed, grabbed the edge of the mattress with his backhand, and yanked it up, sending the heavy latex mattress flying into the air and crashing down on the bodyguard.

The mattress, imbued with the power of three gene locks, slammed the person against the wardrobe door. The wardrobe door cracked open, and neatly folded clothes spilled out, burying the person.

The second masked man choked Chen Bei from the side, and Chen Bei was now standing on tiptoe, just enough to reach the metal lamp on the bedside table.

The lamp holder slammed into the masked man's hand. In the instant he released his grip in pain, he grabbed the lamp cord, wrapped it around the man's wrist, and used the force to throw him onto the dressing table. The bottles and jars on the glass dressing table shattered, and perfume and hairspray spilled all over the floor.

Someone picked up a solid wood stool and threw it at him. Chen Bei jumped onto the bed and used the momentum to leap into the air, sliding on the soft mattress to dodge. The stool hit the bed frame, making the springs rattle.

He seized the opportunity to rush to the dressing mirror, pried off the metal frame of the mirror, and swept the bodyguard's knee with the thin iron frame, twisting his neck as the bodyguard felt the pain.

The remaining two were stunned. They had never seen anything like it, where such power could be unleashed using only furniture without weapons!

After Chen Bei's mental strength increased significantly, not only did he think at an incredibly fast pace, but he was also able to integrate everything he had read in the past. He had to thank Brother Cheng for this.

The leader, a man in a rainbow mask, had a sun icon added to his mask. He reached down to his waist and pulled out a black gun barrel, pointing it directly at Chen Bei.

"Are you good at fighting?"