Chapter 335 324 Chapter Seems a Little Different
Chapter 335 324 Chapter Seems a Little Different
Joe Ga raised the alarm as soon as he received the FBI alert, loudly calling for Nis who was inside the room, then saw the door being pushed open…
Fully armed Dorian, Ayu, 'Spur', and the others, with their gas masks on, came rushing in.
In less than a minute, Nis had also put on a suit and, holding two gas masks, dashed out of the room in a flurry, hurriedly fitting one of the gas masks onto Joe Ga.
Thompson looked at the P·B agents arriving one after another, and with admiration, he nodded to Joe Ga and asked, "The test has come, how do you want to proceed?"
Joe Ga, removing his robe and putting on clothes, heard Thompson's words and said to Nis, "Go get him a gas mask."
Then, as Joe Ga fastened his belt and arranged his holster and magazines, he continued, "Of course, the first step is to get out of the hotel..."
As he spoke, Joe Ga suddenly remembered what Thompson had mentioned earlier, and with wide eyes, he exclaimed, "Don't tell me you want me to stay here."
Thompson put on the gas mask tossed to him by Nis, then nodded and shook his head, saying, "The FBI said there was an odd smell; theoretically, I don't believe the 'Engineers' would dare to release a chemical weapon since the consequences would be too great for them to bear.
They are 'Engineers,' not terrorists; most of them are actually real technicians. They might be technical killers but certainly not madmen."
Joe Ga stared at Thompson as if he were insane and said, "Well, I'm not willing to take that gamble!"
Thompson glanced at the people around him and, nodding, said, "You're a good boss. But to eliminate the threat of the 'Engineer,' you'll have to go against your instincts..."
After a moment's thought, Joe Ga replied seriously, "The 'Engineer' launched an attack in the room below, thinking I was staying there.
If it's not a lethal gas, then the 'Engineer' will try to kill me on the way to the hospital."
Suddenly, a lightbulb went on for Joe Ga, who exclaimed, "The ambulance!!"
Seeing Joe Ga catch on, Thompson said, "Yes, the ambulance, especially be wary of one with the license plate 'GCS-007'.
I noticed it parked three blocks away when I arrived, just outside the FBI's surveillance line of sight.
At first, I thought it was an ambulance illegally making a quick buck off night-time medical practices, but now it seems very suspicious."
Joe Ga looked at Thompson, who was full of swagger without even realizing it, and with admiration, nodded and said, "So should I be 'poisoned' now?"
As Thompson walked out, he said, "I personally wouldn't recommend it, but you're the boss, and you're clear-headed now. Face to face, the Engineers are definitely no match for you!!
Their operation this time was sloppy, uncharacteristic of their usual style. Perhaps they're novices, or their client is in a hurry."
With a gesture for everyone to follow, Joe Ga draped an arm around Nis's shoulder and said with a laugh, "The two of us have to be 'poisoned' together to make it look right.
I don't know how many Engineers there are, but, hey, I think I could take on eight of them bare-handed; you just cover me when the time comes."
Nis was rarely amused enough to laugh…
Within the ranks of the P·B, even Dorian could pose a couple of Wing Chun moves, but the legendary martial arts master from China, the boss, could only do a set of clumsy boxing, relying solely on ferocity to deal with street thugs.
Watching Joe Ga tuck a dagger into his waistband, muttering about leaving the 'Engineer' riddled with wounds, Nis hurriedly bound the dagger to his calf, and after a moment's hesitation, couldn't help but say, "Don't fight, just shoot them!!"
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Outside the Waldorf Hotel, a large group of guests had gathered, most of them wearing pajamas, and several ladies, donned only in bathrobes, had raced out, the night breeze teasing their skin into occasional glimpses that slightly lifted the mood of the men around them.
The FBI's two squads of agents had already sealed off the hotel, and a throng of police began to set up barricades in the surrounding area.
Soon Joe Ga, Nis, and two unfortunate FBI agents were helped out of the hotel in a rush, coughing violently, as if determined to cough out their lungs.
It turned out that the mixed chemical gases released in the room were indeed not lethal, but the mere fact that they caused extreme coughing was already quite severe.
The unfortunate Lesler, who had coughed all the way down from upstairs, had even coughed up his urine.
As an ambulance pulled up in front of the hotel, a disheartened Lesler waved at the two medics and called, "Save them first…"
The medics, a man and a woman, looked at Lesler, who was pale and coughing nonstop, with the younger nurse saying, "Sir, don't speak. You seem worse off…"
Lesler, aware of the 'Engineer's plan, gestured firmly with his hands, insisting, "I'm fine, save them first, take them to the hospital…"
Joe Ga glanced at the ambulance's license plate, thinking there had been a mistake, and then coughed forcefully a few times, saying with difficulty, "Quickly, check on me, I feel like I'm having trouble breathing."
The nurse, after looking at Lesler, who was obviously in a worse state, cursed 'damn the rich' under her breath, then turned to assist Nis, handing Joe Ga over to the other male doctor.
After boarding, she instructed Nis to lie on the stretcher and refused Dorian's request to follow in, then loudly signaled the driver to start the vehicle.
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The male doctor was checking blood pressure and heart rate and couldn't see anything wrong with Joe Ga; just as he was about to check if the equipment was faulty, he found a gun pressed against his head.
Joe Ga, grinning from ear to ear, looked at the two shocked medicos and said with a smile, "Surprise, surprise, is this unexpected?"
"'Engineer' isn't that big a deal, huh?"
As he spoke, Joe Ga looked at the female nurse with the syringe, frozen in place, and with a smile, leaned in to take the syringe from her hand and asked, "What's this?"
The female nurse, with tears whirling in her eyes, said in a trembling voice, "It's, it's dexamethasone, a medication to relax the airways."
Joe Ga didn't believe her words, and he stabbed the needle into the male doctor's thigh, swiftly injecting the medicine.
Watching the male doctor tremble all over, Joe Ga chuckled and said, "It's poison, right? You know it, don't you? How long do you have left to live?"
The male doctor looked at Joe Ga as if he were insane and said with a trembling voice, "Sir... sir, I'm a doctor, don't kill me!! Please, don't kill me, I have a family and kids, I can't die..."
At that moment, Joe Ga started to feel that something was off. He pulled out the syringe to check that all the contents had been injected into the doctor.
But half a minute had passed, and the guy was still fine.
"It really is medicine?"
The female nurse, seeing Nis's emotionless eyes, said with a shake in her voice, "What exactly do you want?"
Nis had seen too much fear, and she could easily determine whether the female nurse was telling the truth or lying.
Seeing the nurse's demeanor, Nis slightly turned the gun barrel and said to the baffled Joe Ga, "I've gotten on the wrong car..."
Upon hearing this, Joe Ga, frowning, pressed the gun against the male doctor's head and said, "Why is your ambulance parked near the Waldorf Hotel?"
Terrified, the male doctor said with a quivering voice, "We, we occasionally help some people who've partied too hard to deal with some issues, someone gave us 5000 US dollars to be on standby nearby..."
"We often do this, we didn't mean to hurt anyone, we just wanted to make some money."
"Upon receiving the message, we rushed to the Waldorf right away, at first we thought it was just a drug overdose, we really didn't know there was another problem."
"Please, please don't kill me, there's cash in my pocket, I can give it all to you..."
Joe Ga looked at the male doctor whose pants were now wet with urine, exchanged a glance with Nis, and said, "What did we miss?"
While Joe Ga was speaking, the ambulance suddenly jolted violently, then stalled...
Just when Joe Ga was about to check out the driver's cab to see what was happening, Dorian's voice came through his earpiece...
"Boss, watch out, there's an ambush, exit through the rear door, we've got them suppressed..."
As he spoke, a string of bullets was fired from the front of the ambulance, turning the driver into a sieve. A few stray bullets entered the rear compartment through tiny cracks, causing a pitter-patter of cracking sounds, which made the female nurse scream in terror.
The equipment inside the ambulance served a great purpose, as most bullets could not penetrate it.
Meanwhile, Dorian and his group, who had intentionally collided with the car attempting to cause the accident, had gotten out of their vehicle. A group of fully armed soldiers killed the guys on the 'suicide car,' then retreated, surrounding the ambulance and engaging in a shootout with a group of gunmen who had already been ambushed nearby.
Joe Ga and Nis, holding down the male and female inside the compartment, pushed open the rear door and charged out of the vehicle.
After stuffing them under the vehicle, Joe Ga leaned against the left side of the rear compartment and shouted at Thompson, who was hiding not far away, "What the hell is going on? Is this how the 'Engineer' operates?"
Thompson appeared very calm, crouching by the front wheel of an SUV, tapped his earpiece, and said, "Boss, I think we might have been misled. The 'Engineer's' real target is not you."
Upon hearing that, Joe Ga shook his head in dissatisfaction and said, "Then who the hell are these guys?"
After a moment of thought, Thompson called out, "These are mercenaries...
Notify the FBI, the 'Engineer's' real target must be one of their people. Only their people would be worth such a big fuss from the 'Engineer.'"
Stunned, Joe Ga pulled out his phone and dialed Lesler's number, and without giving him a chance to speak, yelled, "Notify Cooper, the 'Engineer' might be after him."
After finishing, Joe Ga leaned out, holding the gun with his left hand, and fired three shots at the cargo truck colliding with the ambulance, killing a guy trying to start the truck.
"King Kong, pin them down..."
Upon Joe Ga's command, Ayu, who had been holding back, finally took out the PKM from the vehicle...
"Tat-tat-tat-tat-tat..."
The machine gun bullets, like a whip, lashed out towards the direction of the ambushers, and the vehicles parked on both sides of the street were peppered with impact, setting off continuous alarm sounds.
There were a total of eight gunmen. Although Dorian and his well-prepared group had killed one at the outset, they did not plan to give up. With rich experience, they found cover for themselves and launched a counterattack the moment Dorian's group showed their superior firepower after disembarking.
After exchanging a round of gunfire across an ambulance, Joe Ga, growing impatient, was about to ask Ayu to provide cover so he could find a spot to shoot a few of the attackers himself when Nis suddenly drew her gun and aimed at the rooftop to the right...
"Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop..."
"Sniper!!!"