dognovel Chapter 140 Target: Dragon's Ridge Trench!
Chapter 140 Target: Dragon's Ridge Trench!
Binhai Port, Abandoned Cold Storage No. 3.
This place was abandoned during early planning, leaving only a pile of rusty tin boxes.
The waves crashed against the abandoned dock, which was covered in white foam, while a torrential downpour was falling from the sky.
Rainwater streamed down from the brim of his down jacket's hood. Sun Heizi wiped the water from his face and reported, "Brother Chen, we've figured it out. There are twelve men outside, all armed. Two lookouts are on top of the crane, and the rest are patrolling the container aisles."
Lin Chen glanced at the system panel in his mind.
Red countdown: 24 minutes and 50 seconds.
The "Marine Resource Heat Map" has now been replaced by an infrared scan.
In my line of sight, a dozen or so red dots moved about in the shadow of the shipping container.
"Hei Zi, you stay outside and keep a close watch on the entrance. Don't let anyone who goes in escape," Lin Chen instructed.
"Understood, Brother Chen, be careful."
Sun Heizi crouched down and disappeared behind a row of broken tires.
Lin Chen took a breath, and the icy rainwater flowed down his neck and into his clothes.
He opened the system store and looked at the toolbar.
"A miniature sonar jammer requires 800 points."
"Change."
A black, button-sized disc fell into his palm.
This thing can emit a special kind of sound wave that can destroy radio waves and the balance in a person's ear within fifty meters.
Lin Chen attached the jammer to the outermost metal sheet of the shipping container and turned it on.
A hundred meters away, the two guys smoking under the gantry crane swayed, and the cigarette butts in their hands fell into the muddy water.
"What's wrong... I feel so dizzy..." One of them was holding onto the metal frame, but before he could even finish speaking, Lin Chen had already jumped down from the top of the container.
Lin Chen landed on both feet, grabbed the back of the man's head with his right hand, and slammed him against the metal frame.
Just as the other man was about to draw the homemade gun from his waist, Lin Chen had already put his fighting skills to use.
He shoved the other man into his arms, then swiftly chopped him in the neck, striking his carotid artery with his right hand.
The man rolled his eyes and went limp.
Lin Chen caught the falling homemade gun, unloaded the bullets, and threw it into a nearby puddle.
The red dots on the system panel went out one by one.
The second one, the third one... With the help of the heat map, Lin Chen used the shipping containers as cover.
As soon as a guy with a machete turned the corner, a hand reached out from the darkness and covered his mouth, followed by a knee strike that crushed his spleen.
In less than ten minutes, the eleven guards on the perimeter were all killed without uttering a sound.
At the very back of the cold storage was a room made up of three large shipping containers, which served as a temporary command post.
Emergency lights were on inside.
An eight-year-old girl was tied to a chair with wire, her mouth was taped shut, her eyes were red and swollen, and her body was trembling.
It's Lu Xiaomeng.
Above her head, a steel beam hung with a bundle of detonators wrapped in wires, and red numbers flashed on the screen: 09:12.
In the middle of the shipping container, a shirtless, muscular man sat on a sofa, peeling an apple with a Swiss Army knife. He had a black-spotted sea snake tattooed from his chest to his neck.
This guy, nicknamed "Viper," is the leader of this kidnapping operation.
"Boss, why haven't the guys outside made a sound for five minutes?" A henchman with a shotgun asked, looking at the monitor screen.
The screen was full of static.
Viper took a bite of apple and said, "What's the panic? I've planted thirty kilograms of explosives here. If Lin Chen dares to come, I'll send this whole dock to the heavens. Sister Sea Serpent said we want the Water-Repelling Pearl, but Lin Chen's life must be spared as well."
He glanced at Lu Xiaomeng, who was tied up, and said, "When the time comes, send her straight to meet the King of Hell."
"Yeah?"
The sound came from the top of the container.
Before the person inside the box could react, the tempered glass window shattered with a "crash".
Lin Chen rushed in with the wind and rain.
"Damn it! Kill him!"
The viper threw away the apple and drew the gun from its waist.
In the blink of an eye, Viper raised his hand, and Lin Chen twisted his body in mid-air, dodging the bullet.
After landing, he did a forward roll and cut right in front of the viper.
"court death!"
The viper reached out and grabbed Lin Chen's neck.
Instead of retreating, Lin Chen advanced, crouching down to dodge the grab.
He planted his right foot firmly on the ground, exerted force from his waist, and delivered a powerful punch from below, slamming it hard into the viper's chin.
This punch sent the 200-pound viper flying off the ground, crashing into the metal wall behind it.
Viper's jaw was shattered, his mouth was full of blood, and the pistol flew out of his hand.
Lin Chen pushed off the ground with his right foot and lunged forward, catching the falling pistol in mid-air, while his left hand casually grabbed the red detonator hanging on Viper's waist.
He ripped the detonator off and pressed the stop button.
On the steel beam, the numbers on the detonator screen stopped at "03:45".
Just as the henchman with the hunting rifle was about to raise his gun, Lin Chen, without even turning his head, fired a shot that pierced through his shoulder.
The younger brother fell to the ground, and his hunting rifle also fell to the ground.
Lin Chen put away his gun, walked to Lu Xiaomeng's side, and used his military knife to cut the wire and tape on her body.
"It's alright, little girl," he said.
Lu Xiaomeng burst into tears and hugged Lin Chen's arm.
Outside the container, police sirens blared.
Dozens of police cars and armored vehicles belonging to special police surrounded the entire dock. The provincial department even called in the special police team.
Sun Heizi and his men helped the special police handcuff all the guys outside.
Lu Guoqiang rushed into the container, saw his granddaughter, and immediately knelt down, hugging Lu Xiaomeng and crying.
"Mengmeng! My Mengmeng!!"
After crying for a while, Lu Guoqiang raised his head and looked at Lin Chen standing next to him.
"President Lin..." He pulled something wrapped in oil paper from his pocket, held it above his head with both hands, "This is what Brother Dafa left behind. I kept it a secret for thirty years. Today, I'm giving it to you. I only ask that President Lin spare the lives of my grandfather and me."
Lin Chen took the oil paper package and unwrapped it.
Inside was a yellowed piece of paper.
It was a fragment of Lin Dafa's nautical log, on which a string of latitude and longitude coordinates was written in blood.
At the very bottom of the coordinates, four characters were written: "Sea Eye Gate".
Lin Chen looked at these four words.
Two hours later.
Huangni Village, Longji Ocean Shipyard.
The torrential rain stopped, and only a light drizzle remained on the sea.
Lin Chen stood alone beside the huge open-air dock.
Before him lay the keel of the deep-sea exploration mothership, the "Leviathan".
Lin Chen held the diary paper in his hand, gazing towards the Dragon Ridge Trench in the distance.
Just then, a golden pop-up window appeared in his mind from the system.
The ultimate clue for exploration has been detected; the coordinates of the "Sea Eye Gate" have been loaded!
The main quest "Exploring the Sea Eye" has officially begun!
Mission Phase 1: Complete the construction and launch of the "Leviathan" to the deepest part of the Dragon's Back Trench.
Mission Reward: Unlock Level 5 Shop and obtain exploration access to "Deep Sea Civilization Relics"!
Looking at the golden light screen in front of him, Lin Chen put the diary back into his pocket.
The Eye of the Deep Sea. It's time to settle our score under the Eye of the Deep Sea.