novelraw Chapter 60: Green Forest Light Supermarket: Infiltration, Hunting
Chapter 60: Green Forest Light Supermarket: Infiltration, Hunting
Tap tap tap....
Mie Mie carried Yu Yuan through the sewer system. When they encountered sewage channels that needed to be crossed, the giant sheep just leaped lightly and easily cleared the obstacles.
The man and sheep quickly passed through District 15 and entered District 10.
Yu Yuan looked at the street map around Green Forest Light Supermarket on his virtual display and frowned slightly.
The good news was that Green Forest Light Supermarket was surrounded by two main roads, allowing him to approach directly through the sewer, and the Blood-Hand Gang's numbers met the requirements for the Conquest Card mission.
But the bad news was equally obvious - the supermarket was massive in size, and if even one person escaped, his conquest mission wouldn't be considered complete.
This was exactly why Yu Yuan had eliminated Nick. The Conquest Card required complete conquest of an organization, with not a single person missed.
Considering this very point, Yu Yuan had prioritized the Giant Mutant Rat as his primary conquest target during the daytime.
"What a headache!"
Green Forest Light Supermarket had four floors total and was a comprehensive lifestyle supermarket. Floors 1-3 contained the main supermarket area, while floor 4 housed high-end appliances and office spaces.According to Nick's intelligence, the Blood-Hand Gang members were mainly concentrated in the office area on the fourth floor. The Mahada brothers occupied the general manager's office, while others were in the finance office or purchasing department.
But Yu Yuan only had the street map around the supermarket, not the internal layout of the building itself - this was the most troublesome part.
Moreover, he only had this one chance to strike tonight and had to eliminate the Blood-Hand Gang before dawn.
Otherwise, when the gang members noticed Nick hadn't returned all night, they would likely relocate immediately, leaving Yu Yuan truly cornered.
He glanced at the Magician's Ring and felt a flash of relief.
"Thank goodness I was cautious before setting out! I brought the right equipment!"
Before long, Yu Yuan successfully reached the streets near Green Forest Light Supermarket.
The supermarket's front faced Clearwater Avenue, which served as the parking plaza, with the main entrance located here.
Of the two sentries on duty on the fourth floor, one was responsible for watching this area.
The other was tasked with monitoring the escalator passage leading down to the fourth floor, from where they could also see the first-floor main entrance position.
The supermarket's west side bordered Fengwu Street, which was also the street Yu Yuan currently occupied. This was the location of the supermarket's side entrance, where delivery access, employee passages, and other service entrances were located. The third night sentry was stationed here.
Yu Yuan equipped Mie Mie, gripped his crossbow bolts, and used the cover of darkness to press against the supermarket walls while moving toward the employee passage.
Nick had left from here earlier. The person guarding the first-floor sentry post tonight was his childhood friend, which was exactly how he had managed to slip away.
As Yu Yuan slowly approached, an extremely faint snoring sound reached his ears, making him pause momentarily.
He checked the time - 3:00 AM - and immediately understood.
He followed the sound toward the sentry's position.
Sure enough, a figure was curled up in the corner of the employee passage, with the sound coming from that location.
The employee passage door had long been broken, with some supermarket shopping carts piled up here as obstacles blocking the passage entrance, leaving only a narrow gap barely sufficient for entry and exit.
Yu Yuan reached the gap, held his breath, stood on tiptoe, crossed through the gap, and arrived before the sentry. He immediately raised his knife and struck down, eliminating the target without making a single sound throughout the entire process.
Only after the sentry showed no signs of life did he slowly place the body on the ground and continue moving inward.
He needed to hurry now.
It was already 3 AM, and dawn would break around 5-6 AM, leaving him less than three hours.
"From the employee passage, turn left about twenty meters to reach the stair passage. I can go directly to the fourth floor from here without being detected by the sentry guarding the escalator." Yu Yuan recalled Nick's description of the supermarket layout and turned left accordingly.
Soon he spotted the described stair passage. He went all the way up, reached the fourth floor, passed through the passage, and encountered two branching paths. The right path led to the escalator location where one sentry was stationed, while the left path led to the office area where all the remaining plunderers were resting, including the sentry watching the parking plaza.
Yu Yuan considered for a moment and decided it would be best to eliminate the sentry at the escalator position first.
He immediately turned toward the right-hand passage and soon saw the escalator location.
"He didn't mention where exactly this sentry is positioned! Just said somewhere along this passage near the escalator." Yu Yuan frowned slightly.
He currently crouched in the dark shadows of a corner, watching the escalator direction.
But no matter how carefully he observed, he couldn't spot any suspicious figures.
Just as Yu Yuan was preparing to try other methods...
Suddenly.
A fleeting red dot in the distance caught his attention.
Yu Yuan immediately looked in that direction, and sure enough, after a few seconds, the red dot appeared again.
He also heard a long exhalation sound.
The position was behind a pillar between the escalator and the passage. Yu Yuan immediately understood.
"So he's hiding behind the pillar, no wonder!"
He also realized what that red dot had been - a lit cigarette.
The sentry was clearly using this method to combat the drowsiness and fatigue from night watch duty.
Yu Yuan also let out a long sigh of relief. Knowing the enemy's position made everything much simpler.
He gripped his cocked folding hand crossbow, crouched low, and slowly approached that pillar.
"Damn it! Stuck guarding this shitty place every day, no idea when it'll end!" A cigarette butt was flicked away, followed immediately by a soft complaining voice.
Yu Yuan's movements became even slower. The hand crossbow was already aimed toward the pillar direction. He was now only about five to six meters from the pillar.
He shifted his steps slowly leftward, keeping his body always in the optimal concealed position relative to the pillar.
As footsteps sounded, a figure moved away from the pillar's cover and appeared in Yu Yuan's field of vision.
But the person's attention was completely focused on the escalator and first-floor main entrance position, with absolutely no vigilance toward the office area behind them.
Yu Yuan thus successfully pressed against the pillar and reached behind the target.
With a flip of his wrist, the hand crossbow disappeared, and the Kukri appeared in his hand, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes.
He took one step forward, his left foot wedging between the target's legs, his left hand covering the mouth and nose, while the Kukri in his right hand already sliced across the neck.
Urgh...
A low, muffled grunt sounded as blood flowed from the plunderer's mouth and nose. His body struggled and convulsed continuously.
Yu Yuan clenched his teeth, the muscles in his left arm bulging. His current physical strength was simply no match for what the plunderer could withstand.
Within seconds, everything fell still, with no further movement.
After a few more seconds, Yu Yuan carefully laid the corpse flat on the ground, rubbed his left hand a few times on the plunderer's body, wiping the blood clean from his gloves.
After storing the plunderer's gun that had been leaning against the wall corner and the equipment items from his body into the Magician's Ring,
Yu Yuan moved the corpse behind the pillar and immediately headed toward the office area direction.
Now only the final sentry remained.