The gunshots on the fifth-floor restaurant stopped abruptly. As they looked at the empty elevator, the emergency response team members had rather rich expressions on their faces.
Finally, when the bullethole-ridden doors were closed, the elevator continued to ascend towards the thirteenth floor. At the same time, all the team members looked at 0, who stood at the side.
It was rare that 0 would make wrong moves. Fortunately, the surprise in the latter’s eyes lasted only a few seconds. After that, he returned to normal. Immediately, 0 contacted the sergeant for the first time, asking him to send someone to the kitchen and pay extra attention to the hotel’s entrance, sealing Zhang Heng’s two escape routes.
However, Zhang Heng was nowhere to be seen at the back door or in the kitchen. The latter seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. On the contrary, the gunshots just now had exposed the location of the emergency response team. With their enemy hiding in the dark their location being made known, it was the worst thing that could happen to them right now. So, 0 made a decisive decision and took the three teammates around him, immediately withdrawing from the restaurant.
And about two minutes after they left, the two pitted elevator doors opened again, but this time, forcibly, by someone from the inside. A hand was stretched out the elevator, and Zhang Heng climbed out.
0 now considered Zhang Heng his number one enemy. Zhang Heng too had also placed great importance on 0. From the very beginning, Zhang Heng deduced that the hotel’s peripheral line of defense would eventually lead him to do something that could lead to his demise. Although he pressed on the thirteen-floor button, he did not get into the elevator. Instead, he waited for the elevator to ascend first. After that, he got into the shaft and started to follow the moving elevator by climbing up. Thus, the spot where the emergency response team fired was actually very close to Zhang Heng—right on the top of his head. 0, however, did not expect Zhang Heng to pull off such a bold move. Even after realizing that there was a problem with the elevator, he still chose to get into the elevator shaft.
After exiting the shaft, Zhang Heng did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he squatted on the ground and carefully observed the bullet marks on the elevator door. He managed to roughly restore the ballistic trajectory at that time and inferred how many were firing their guns.
Zhang Heng wanted to know if the emergency response team had gained control over the monitoring room.
In order to ensure the safety of the guests and avoid unnecessary disputes, most hotels often installed countless surveillance cameras in the hotel. As long the monitoring room had someone in it, the entire situation in the hotel could be observed. Before Zhang Heng entered the Four-Continents Hotel, he had checked the building’s blueprint and found out that the monitoring room was on the seventh floor, which was not far from where he was.
Judging from the ballistic trajectory, at least four people had fired at the elevator earlier. Since they suspected that Zhang Heng might be in a police uniform and attempt to blend into the crowd, the emergency response team stationed all the federal police on the first floor, leaving only four emergency response team members. In other words, the emergency response team left no one in the monitoring room.
If that was the case, there could only be one explanation for such a scenario—the four special operations team members had destroyed all the monitoring equipment in the monitoring room. For Zhang Heng, this was half the good news. Among the three parties, he was the last to enter the hotel. If the monitoring equipment could still operate normally, it would definitely affect his next actions.
Now, the three parties in the hotel did not know the other’s location.
Hide and seek? Zhang Heng raised his brows. It happened to be his best game.
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The four members of the emergency response team retreated all the way from the restaurant to the seventh floor. According to 0’s original plan, if they failed to stop Zhang Heng at the elevator, they would return to the monitoring room. It was because 0 believed that Zhang Heng would think about the existence of surveillance. In such cases, most people would choose to check the surveillance room for any remaining footage of the special operation team members that could indicate their hiding spot.
At least, that was what he thought. When he arrived here, he found out that all the monitoring equipment had been destroyed. After that, No.4 went to check on the smashed hard disk. It was so severely damaged that salvaging any data would be virtually impossible. Therefore, it was pointless to go to the monitoring room anymore.
But Zhang Heng, who was the last to enter the hotel, did not know about it. Thus, if they prepared well, the emergency response team could ambush Zhang Heng over there. 0 had always been very confident in his judgment, but he started to doubt his next move after he was greeted by an empty elevator.
He realized that Zhang Heng was more cunning and cautious than he expected. Whether Zhang Heng could see through the trap in the monitoring room like how he saw the trap at the elevator, 0 wasn’t too sure about anything anymore.
No.5 saw that 0 was in deep thought, and he looked at No.7 and No.2 on the other side. His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he decided not to say it out.
After that, the three hid behind the monitoring room and the drinking fountain according to 0’s plan, quietly waiting for Zhang Heng’s arrival.
After a quarter of an hour, nothing happened.
No.5 finally could not help but remind 0 euphemistically, “Captain, should take possession of the package first? There are four of us, after all. Is it really necessary to pay so much attention to one man?”
No.5’s words made 0 come to a realization. He immediately realized that he had ended up in a dead-end. It seemed he had been paying too much attention to Zhang Heng. Since Zhang Heng killed half of his team, 0 regarded Zhang Heng as his biggest enemy. There was no problem with this attitude and judgment, but the party that held the biggest advantage in the hotel was still the emergency response team. Even Zhang Heng couldn’t fight the four of them at the same time.
Therefore, there was no need to take such an extreme defensive strategy to guess where Zhang Heng would show up. On the contrary, as long as they killed the four remaining members of the special operations team and obtained the package, Zhang Heng would naturally force them to go to them.
Now that he knew where the problem was, 0 swiftly made adjustments to his strategy and outlook of the entire picture. Of course, he still regarded Zhang Heng as his biggest threat, and he was still cautious of him, but he no longer gave him excessive attention. Instead, he began to actively take advantage of their formidable force, taking the initiative to engage their enemies. Soon, the emergency response team began to move into the hotel.
While the emergency response team ambushed Zhang Heng in the monitoring room, Zhang Heng discovered something interesting.
