After examining the new weapon in his hands, Lu Yao first picked up a few spare magazines and then checked out what these people were actually refining.
"As expected, it's pseudoephedrine, the stuff for refining crystal opium..."
Lu Yao quickly did some mental calculations:
"Cold medicine is priced at 300 a kilogram, and after processing, it sells for at least 300,000 per kilogram... Even after accounting for losses, the profits are staggering, almost catching up to my double penetration door. No wonder Zhang Xin has grown so rapidly."
"Also, this stuff is not like growing opium, which is illegal. You just need to purchase cold medicine, which significantly reduces the risk."
As Lu Yao was reflecting, his ears suddenly twitched, picking up the sound of hurried footsteps fading quickly.
Many of the chemical materials were flammable. He casually fired two shots to create sparks that ignited them and then pursued the fleeing figures.
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A middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, slightly overweight, was clutching a briefcase tightly, being escorted by four well-dressed armed men wielding handguns as they made their escape.
"Who exactly is that person! Did you see how he shoots!"
With cold sweat breaking out on his forehead, the middle-aged man tried to alleviate his fear with words, having witnessed a slaughter on the monitors that seemed almost too ludicrous to believe.
Over twenty people were killed instantaneously like extras in a video game, too fake to be real.
"Hey, Jin Muku, are we shooting 'The Matrix' here?"
"Shut up!" one of the suited bodyguards interrupted irritably, yanking off his tie and tossing it away.
He, too, was shaken. In this line of work, it wasn't rare to have blood on your hands, but such a sharpshooting ability was a first for him.
Everyone at the scene seemed to be under the illusion that they were in an action movie.
"We had an agreement that my personal safety would be guaranteed. I am a doctor from Kyoto University..."
"You shut up! We need to get out of here first. I've already called for backup, and a field team will come to rescue us soon!"
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The group showed no intention of turning back to fight Lu Yao, hurriedly moving towards a door that resembled the vault of a bank.
The lead bodyguard stepped forward to input the password, while the other three aimed their guns at the corner, standing guard.
When the door opened, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It was an emergency exit leading outside, to be used for evacuation in case of an accident at the drug factory.
After Lu Yao dodged, the "technical advisor" behind him erupted in a puff of blood, the bewildered expression on his face split in two with a "slit," leaving a mosaic of mess on the ground.
Only then did the muffled sound of a gunshot reach him from afar, sounding like a fist thumping a comforter... It was a high-caliber sniper rifle with a silencer!
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By the sound of the gunshot and the direction of the bullet, Lu Yao instantly pinpointed the position of the sniper—on a rooftop 200 meters away!
It was a woman dressed in a JK uniform, making eye contact with Lu Yao through a 12x scope.
The woman aimed her crosshairs at Lu Yao's "Ultraman Mask," blew him a kiss, and then pulled the trigger again!
But what happened next was unbelievable to the woman! The target in her scope moved 1 meter to the side at the exact moment she pulled the trigger, dodging the bullet!
"How is that possible!"
Struggling with shock, the woman urgently contacted her teammates through her headset: [Be careful, the target is a master!]
[Received, we have entered combat range]
The office building's main entrance where Lu Yao was located was already staffed by a team armed with AR-15s, in full-body bulletproof vests, at the ready.
The muscular leader, with a full-face cover making it impossible to see his features, issued an order in Star Alliance Language: [Let's start.]
A man holding a tablet pressed a few buttons and then hit the enter key, plunging the entire factory area into darkness as the power shut off, and all the lighting failed.
The squad had night vision devices ready; meanwhile, the JK woman on the distant rooftop switched on the infrared mode of her sniper scope, turning the world into an array of odd colors, leaving nowhere for the enemy to hide!
Anything with a temperature would show up in her scope, and she quickly targeted Lu Yao, who was hiding behind a wall!
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Having realized the presence of these armed forces in the factory through his meditative state, Lu Yao understood that they were much more important and more troublesome than he had imagined!
Just then, that familiar sensation of his hair standing on end surged once more, and he violently propelled himself to safety!
Where he had been hiding, the wall exploded into a hole the size of a bowl, and countless fragments of stone shot out like shotgun pellets.
"Damn it! This woman's rifle can penetrate walls!"
"But I want it!"
Lu Yao dove deeper into the office building. He wasn't the least bit afraid; his mind was set on wiping out this group and acquiring a new toy.