“Where did you guys put him?”
The moment they heard these words, the man named BOSS subconsciously turned his muzzle to point in the direction where the sound came from.
However, there was no one there. He only saw something the size of a can flying past the door and rolling into the room.
The moment he saw the thing, his pupils suddenly shrank. He had a horrible feeling in his heart, but it was too late to react.
The burst of flames instantly injured most of the militants in the house. The man called BOSS quickly squeezed the trigger in his hand and shot a wave of bullets toward the door.
He saw a blood-covered figure.
However, before he had time to be excited, the moment he saw the face clearly, his heart sank to the bottom of his stomach.
The blood-stained face was not the face of the intruder but his colleague whom he had arranged to guard the door.
There was no time left for him to react. His magazine was empty. He pulled out the battery from the side of the barrel. He used the body in front of him as a meat shield and came crashing over.
After a few gunshots, the militants standing next to him groaned before falling onto the ground.
So strong!
No, not just strong…
Is this guy really a human?
There was a wave of panic in his heart as he desperately pulled out a grenade, threw it forward, and rushed to the side.
The heatwave of the explosion blew over his back, followed by the wailing of his teammates in the communication channel. Before he could see the tragedy on the battlefield, he rushed to the metal door on the side, running toward it with the full power of his exoskeleton.
There was only one thing he wanted to do and that was to escape from here…
However, his expectations eventually fell through.
A hand grabbed him from behind, and a huge force pulled his feet off the ground.
Then, he felt like he was being dragged by a truck from his neck. His body, along with his 300 kilograms of exoskeleton armor, was thrown onto a wall.
“Damn it…”
Exhausting all of his strength, he drew a pistol from his waist, but before he could point the muzzle at the person, an oncoming dagger split the barrel of the gun.
With a painful cry, he released the grip of the gun. Before he could react to what had happened, a hand had grabbed his neck.
The blood dripping from his forehead blurred his vision. He looked at the man in fear. He exhausted all his strength and squeezed a sentence from his throat.
“Who are you…?”
“That is none of your concern.” Wang Peng continued in a cold tone after cutting off the power to the exoskeleton armor and looking at the militants who were still breathing, “Now you answer my question.”
“What do you want to know…? I just collect money and do business. As long as you are willing to let me go, I will tell you everything.”
“Where is Academician Lu?”
“I do not know… Ah ah ah!” A dagger was stabbed into his shoulder, and he was pressed against the wall as he screamed in pain. But no matter how he struggled, he could not escape.
“I’ll ask you again, where is Academician Lu?”
“I’m not lying, I really don’t know—” When the man in front of him took out another dagger, he quickly shouted, “Wait a minute, wait a minute! I know where he is!”
Wang Peng’s hand slowed down a bit. He looked at him blankly and put the dagger against his left shoulder.
“My patience is limited, so you better don’t try to play tricks with me.”
The man nervously glanced at the dagger against his left shoulder as he gulped nervously and said quickly, “Mayor Xiao hired us.”
“I asked where Academician Lu is.”
“Wait a minute! He was sent to the town hall. I don’t know the exact location, but I am sure that he was sent there!”
“Town hall?”
Wang Peng frowned and looked at him suspiciously.
“Are you playing games?”
“I’m not! I swear!”
Boris could no longer hold on. He was just a mercenary. Money was one thing, but it was not worth losing his life over.
He only regretted one thing, which was that he took this damn mission and got himself involved in the battle between the colony and the Pan-Asian Cooperation. If it were just to rob a merchant ship or take on the job of a killer, he would have never run into this monster.
Wang Peng couldn’t tell if what this guy said was true or false. After he pondered it for a while, he looked at him and continued to ask, “What do you want to do with Academician Lu?”
“Warp drive!”
Wang Peng glanced at Boris suspiciously. His right hand pressed slightly forward as he spoke.
“Xiao Hong told you this?”
“This is not a secret at all, almost everyone in the Alliance Army knows!”
“Alliance Army?” Wang Peng frowned slightly. He then asked in confusion, “What is that?”
Looking at Wang Peng in surprise, Boris murmured, “You don’t know? I thought you guys had already discovered it…”
Wang Peng said impatiently, “Explain.”
“Calm down, I’ll explain,” Boris said quickly when he felt the force pressing on his shoulder. “A long time ago, the colonial cities on Mars reached an agreement to seek the formation of a Martian regional alliance that make their own decisions… Just like the Pan-Asian Cooperation. This includes Tiangong City, New London, and New Virginia… The top leaders of the alliance are all respectable figures in the local cities.”
“Get to the point.”
“In order to be independent, we need weapons!” Boris stopped talking nonsense and continued nervously, “The Pan-Asian First Fleet is too strong, and even the entire solar system fleet combined is not worthy to be their opponent. But if we master faster than light technology, our ship can appear where we want to appear.”
The suspicion on Wang Peng’s face became more and more obvious.
It was hard to imagine that a mercenary could know so much when a security agent like him knew nothing.
“You said you were just a mercenary?”
Boris said tremblingly, “I am indeed a mercenary. In the Alliance Army, there are many people like me who do things for money. After all, not everyone is like them and cares about who the ruler here is…”
Seeing the man in front of him fall into silence, Boris gulped and continued in a quiet voice, “I have told you everything I know… Can you let me go?”
Wang Peng glanced at him and threw away the dagger in his hand.
However, before Boris could breathe a sigh of relief, he watched him pull out the pistol from his holster belt.
The hair all over his body stood up as he struggled like a fish on the shore, yelling in horror.
“Wait, this is not what we agreed on…”
“What did we agree on?”
Wang Peng’s cold voice was followed by a gunshot.
Looking at the man falling into a pool of blood, Wang Peng inserted the pistol back into the holster.
He would never let this guy go.
If he had time, he would spare his life and hand him over to the authorities.
If he had time, he would still be able to save his life and hand him over to the law to be judged.
“Town hall… My guess is indeed correct. We are still a step slower.”
Although he knew the whereabouts of Lu Zhou, the expression on Wang Peng’s face was not relaxed at all.
Town hall…
The power center of the entire Tiangong City was located below the center of the city dome.
There were not only militia groups and guards but also countless drones patrolling around. It was almost impossible to sneak in.
It was unrealistic to attack the place head-on either.
Although there were no air defense rights on Mars, the ground defense forces were still quite powerful. In order to guard against the threats of space pirates and other colonial cities, the militias here were even equipped with heavy weapons such as electromagnetic tanks.
Even all of the intelligence personnel on Mars combined might not be able to get in.
“It seems that I can only apply for support…”
Wang Peng took a look at the messy stronghold. He then walked to the desk and reached out his index finger, clicking on it twice.
Soon, a holographic video window appeared in front of him.
His fingers quickly clicked and entered the password on the keyboard. He quickly connected to the communication base station deployed on Phobos and sent a brief message to the intelligence receiving satellite located on Earth, reporting the location and situation of Lu Zhou to his superiors.
He did not need to elaborate on the importance of the warp drive. Moreover, considering the important role Lu Zhou played in the space elevator project, he believed that Captain Xing would make the right judgment.
Without waiting for long, Wang Peng quickly received a reply.
The reply was short.
[We are already on our way.]
