Chapter 375: a doppelganger robot

Crick! Crick!

The wheels of the mini-train made soft rhythmic noises as it slowly moved through the underground rail, apart from this sound no sound could be detected on the rail and not from the soldiers too.

Clark had a poker look on his face as due to boredom started simulating different results of this assassination attempt in his head. Despite the numbing silence, he did not try to break it.

Only the sound of their breaths could be detected, following the up and downward movement of their hearts in a rhythmic manner.

From the reaction of the few assassins, Clark easily deduced that they received special training to curb the effects of such silence. And though Albert was affected, he could still control himself to keep quiet also.

Clark didn’t know for how many minutes they’ve been moving, but from the mini-train’s speed, he knew that they’ve crossed dozens of kilometers.

Clack! Clack!

His heightened senses detected it immediately when there was a slight change to the movement pattern of the mini-train. Analyzing it, he quickly deduced that they were now going upwards.

As the mini-train slowly climbed back upwards in an almost imperceptible manner, the other assassins inside it finally jolted as they felt the boisterous noise of the outside world reverberating down now.

The mini-train finally started slowing down.

At this moment, Captain Drake’s serious but hoarse voice reverberated in the small space inside the mini-train.

“Take and were this hair band”.

“We don’t know our names, from this moment on we’ll know ourselves only through our band numbers”. As he said this, his hand was already distributing the hair bands to the 9 allies beside him.

Albert looked down at his. “9”.

Clark took his and also looked down at it. “10”.

“Are we clear?” The hoarse voice of the captain asked.

“Yes, leader”.

“Good, we’re starting now”.

As soon as he said this, he came down from the mini-cab, brought out what seemed to be a drilling device, and started soundlessly drilling away.

Almost at the same time that he did this, Clark and the others also came out of the mini-train. Then the small train jerked a bit, started making the clicking noises again as it slowly retreated.

Without saying a word, Clark and the others surrounded the captain who was drilling the hole. In less than 2 minutes, a hole was drilled to the surface.

Captain Drake activated a device, then he boldly came out of the hole. Clark and the others quickly followed. As the captain worked on filling the hole back, Clark finally took in his surroundings.

The capital city of the Radan republic, Arial City.

With just a glance, Clark didn’t need to see much before he confirmed that the difference between here and other places in the republic was as vast as that of heaven and earth.

They emerged from the ground at a relatively deserted street. Though some people were on the street, they couldn’t see them due to the strange device that Captain Drake activated.

As soon as the captain closed the hole up, restoring it to its previous look, the group of assassins immediately divided into a pair of groups before moving out.

Naturally, Clark paired with Albert as they both left and easily blended with the other citizens in the town. With the help of their camouflage devices, they were able to easily blend in without any trouble.

As Clark walked down the street with his student, he suddenly grinned. Even from his location, he could already hear the hypocritic voice of the Radan minister.

“We remain dedicated to fulfilling the will of the citizens…”

“We will always remember our vow to put our citizen’s wishes above all else, that is a creed that we’ll always abide by…”

Amid the voice of the Minister, Clark and his student quickly arrived at the front of the main gate of the Radan public development headquarters.

“Where is your invitation?” The stern-faced soldier at the gate asked.

Clark fished out a gray card with golden linings. The soldier carefully scrutinized it properly, after confirming its authenticity it finally gave it back to them and allowed them entry.

This was not the plan that was proposed by Captain Drake. But Clark was not obligated to follow his plans to the book, this was in the situation where he had a better and more efficient method to infiltrate.

This was a low-grade country Afterall.

With the level of his and his student’s camouflage gadgets, though the country may buy high-quality gadgets from other countries too, Clark guessed that they were not in use here and he was clearly right.

For a government that cared only for themselves, apart from the Presidential Villa, Clark doubted if any other place in the country was fortified all-round.

Entering the public development headquarters, he finally arrived before the sheer number of people who came to listen to the minister spout nonsense today.

The land territory of the headquarters was very big, but it was filled to the brim with people. Not paying attention to all these, Clark walked through the headquarters casually with his student in tow.

Going around the corners of the headquarters, they immediately picked one of the numerous tall buildings around as their target.

They didn’t meet much resistance as they easily infiltrated the tall story building and climbed up to a sufficient vantage point. After climbing up to a position that satisfied him, Clark finally stopped.

“Lock the door”. He instructed his student.

As Albert went back to hack the door and lock it both virtually and mechanically, Clark went to the nearby window before smoothly bringing his bag down from his back.

He unzipped the bag, sprawled it on the floor before carefully arranging the scattered parts again to form a sniper rifle in less than a minute.

He kneeled to have easier access to the window, then he opened his windowpane with his free hand while putting the small muzzle of the sniper rifle through to face outside.

After doing this, he relaxed his mind. Albert silently arrived beside him, not daring to make a noise lest he disturbed him.

Clark suddenly felt like chuckling. “Actually, this is the first mission that I had to start with a sniper rifle”.

Quickly removing all errant thoughts from his mind, he tried to visualize his target on his mind who was kilometers away. In seconds, his visualized image stacked with what was being reflected by his sniper’s telescopic vision.

The Minister of Finance of the Radan republic had a smile on his face as he gesticulated while explaining his revolutionary ideas to the masses. “I believe that this charity bill will change lives for good”.

“There are too many poor in this country, people are suffering, that is why we took this measure again to fight poverty!” He stretched the word poverty and clenched his fists at the air.

“Will this charity bill, more charity organizations will be opened to feed and help the poor. I believe that this is the first step to heralding a new era in our dear country”.

He suddenly took a pen and placed it on paper, all the cameras focused on the paper. “With the authority of the President, I now sign the public development charity bill…”

Whoosh!

The sniper bullet arrived so fast that before people could blink, it already hit the minister. But at the last moment, it didn’t hit completely, a bright blue light erupted and an energy shield materialized to protect him.

The space suddenly seemed to have frozen. The nearby alarmed soldiers immediately rushed closer to protect the professor, but another high-caliber bullet came from a different direction.

Despite dimming from the first shot, the shield was still able to hold firm.

Seeing this from afar, Clark narrowed his eyes before finally pulling the trigger. The sound accompanying his shot was clearly different from the first 2, a silvery streak of thunder seemed to have struck the minister.

Bam!

The high caliber bullet tore through the shield and into the minister’s head, but the expected blood did not fly about, what instead flew out from the points of impact was metallic shrapnel and screws.

Clark’s pupils constricted. “A doppelganger robot!”