Steel steam and flame

Nikhil looked at the limo that was getting further and further away in the scope. The red light at the rear had almost disappeared into the not-so-dense rain. In the end, he didn't press the trigger, not because he let them go, but because he simply didn't want to waste any more bullets. Now that he knew that this bullet could not pose any threat to the modified limo, he would not do anything useless. But I started thinking about it in my heart.

Because on the way here, Nickel and the others met this limo on the road in advance. The friction marks and several dents on the armored body at the foot of the building were caused by collisions with it.

I don’t know if his traces were leaked or for some other reason. When they were driving straight on the road, without any preparation or reason, a limo driving in the opposite direction suddenly accelerated and crashed into them. If it weren't for the driver's superb skills and reflexes, which nimbly avoided a head-on collision with the modified limo, and escaped the pursuit of the bulky limo, they wouldn't be here now.

"That is a limo that was professionally modified by the technicians of Webley Giant Company. Needless to say, the steam engine system inside is much more powerful than the engine of an ordinary armored vehicle. Otherwise, it would not be able to drive the bulky body of the modified limo. And the various bulletproof armors embedded in the limo are also quite thick. It’s so thick that when you look at it, you don’t even want to press the trigger.” Nikhil put away the sniper rifle and sighed, “The owner of the car must be an extremely cherished person. man of life.”

When I walked down the building and came to the armored vehicle, there was one more person there, another member this time.

"Captain, the target was rescued by the people in the modified limo. Do you need to catch up?"

"No need, with the speed of the limo, we can't catch up. We have to wait for them to stop." Nikhil opened the car door, put back his sniper rifle, then took out two transparent raincoats and handed them to There was only one person around, and the rain began to get heavier. "You wait here for the other people to come back and gather, and then drive the armored vehicle to the building where the target is." Nickel walked towards the direction of the building, "Here After a while, you contacted the family via radio, informed them of the current situation, and asked for help from the analysis institute."

"Yes, Captain." The voice was loud in the falling rain.

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Hiding in a nearby building, turbid rainwater quickly gathered in the mud pit caused by more than a dozen steel-cased bombs. The blood and minced meat were quickly washed away, and all flowed into the ground along the angle of the street. Inside the sewer. The golden bullet shells that fell on the ground were stained with mud splashed by raindrops, and then washed clean by the rain again, and so on.

Several people took body bags to the fifth floor, loaded the broken bodies of the two men, and came down. The body bags were piled aside, a dozen in number. All the snipers on the roof also went downstairs and gathered in the corridor on the first floor.

No one spoke. Everyone was silent, waiting for the armored vehicles to come over, or looking at the guns in their hands, or listening to the sound of rain in a daze.

Natalie's mood had also calmed down. The radio detection instrument in the hands of the young man on the side could no longer show Kara's exact location due to the double limitations of rain, lightning and distance. The location indicated by the above data was only an approximate , and it is still changing at a crazy speed. But as long as it is known that Kara is here in Manoma, the speed of detection will become much faster. As long as they wait for the armored vehicle to come over, they can pursue it immediately.

At this moment, from the end of the road in front of the building, a figure appeared in the rain curtain there, and a sniper spotted him in advance. But he was seen by Nikhil earlier.

Walking forward slowly step by step, Nikhil soon arrived at the building where Kara was located. There were dense water splashes on his raincoat, and Nikhil's face was also splashed with fine water droplets.

Another heavy rain that won't stop soon? Nikhil thought as he walked into the building.

The group of people in front of him looked at Nikhil cautiously, but Nikhil didn't care. At this distance, he could break all their necks with bare hands in a very short time, except for the three people who were also managers.

"Hello." After taking a look at these faces, Nikhil nodded with a smile out of courtesy to his fellow tribesmen, as a greeting, and then went straight to the fifth floor. He wanted to see where the target was hidden.

Natalie nodded. They were all members of the Meredith family. As the real special operations team of the family, Nicole had the power to punish Natalie and the others by disrupting the family rules of the action plan. Yes, after all, if they didn't get in front, the probability of Kara's escape would be even smaller.

But being able to obtain the target's location from the analysis center at the same time as them, Nickel had to consider the person standing behind them. He is not an orthodox member of the family, and if he collides with these matters, he will have a high chance of suffering a loss.

Feeling Natalie and the others following behind him, Nikhil didn't pay attention. Soon we arrived at the fifth corridor. It was obvious that the target's room was full of bullet holes. There was almost nothing left in the room, and everything was turned into fragments under the destruction of firecrackers and steel-cased bombs.

Nikhil looked carefully inside the ruins of the room and finally went to the small kitchen at the bottom. The escape tunnel was sunken, and next to it were a few broken porcelain bowls and some fallen kitchen utensils. They were all new, and it was obvious that they had just been purchased. Some relatively fresh vegetables and meat were also left aside, covered with a layer of construction debris. The kitchen has already changed beyond recognition.

"Nicole Meredith, rank, captain." Nicole suddenly turned around and said formally to Natalie, who was standing in the ruins of the room.

Surprisingly, Natalie was obviously stunned for a moment. She never thought that after greeting them politely, Nicole would still talk to them. Even though both of them are members of the same family, apart from having the same surname, there seems to be no overlap between them.

"Natalie." Nick replied simply, smiling and nodding.

"Miss Natalie," Nicole said, "do you know why the target is hiding here? Or why he returned to Manoma and stayed here for so many days?"

"I don't know." Natalie answered honestly. She had not read the report and only knew that Kara had left the family.

"The target, that is, Kara, took a mission at the military school as an opportunity to implement her escape plan." Nikhil said about the results of his investigation, "And it seems that she did not complete the escape plan alone. She also had an assistant who was her companion on the mission and the only survivor of that mission. If it were not for the doubts of a kind-hearted doctor, maybe this escape plan would be perfect."

"But she was still discovered." Natalie said, "Mr. Nickell, I don't understand why you told me these things at this time."

"Don't be anxious, Miss Natalie." Nicole continued, "According to the investigation, Kara was seriously injured and bleeding heavily, but based on her performance not long ago, the injury should have been healed. So can we assume this? , she will come back to Manoma to treat her injuries. Maybe she has an acquaintance in Manoma."

"Pnos!" A childhood companion suddenly appeared in Natalie's mind.

After hearing the name Natalie subconsciously said from her mouth, the corner of Nicole's mouth curled up.

"It seems that my guess is correct." Nikhil smiled, "Then going on, since the injury has healed, why hasn't she left Manoma, which is extremely dangerous to her? The empire is so big , there are many places where the family has little influence, any one of them is a good choice for her. And judging from the things in the kitchen, she stayed here for many days, and she was not here to recuperate, just She is just waiting here. As one of the best people among all the members of the family, I don’t think she doesn’t know what the family will do with the people who leave. If it were me or Na Miss Tully, our choice may be to leave here as soon as the injury is almost recovered."

"You mean, what is she waiting for after hiding here for so long?" Natalie asked.

"Yes, she's waiting for something," Nikhil said with certainty, and then he walked out of the house and downstairs. The roar of multiple armored vehicles came from the rain curtain, and the car to pick him up arrived.

Not paying attention to Nicole's departure, Natalie stood there and did not withdraw from her thoughts until someone behind her reminded her that it was time to get in the car and chase the target. Then the corners of her mouth raised, revealing her tightly clenched teeth inside her red lips, and you could even hear the sound of teeth rubbing together. She was smiling, a twisted smile with her teeth clenched together!

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Lying on the bed, Cassia hadn't turned off the lights yet, staring at the ceiling until her eyes were so sore that she almost shed tears, and then she looked away.

There was only one day until the dance, he told himself.