Volume 1 Chapter 102: The Correct Way to Sneak In
“There’s an intruder in the Human Resources Department... r-repeat, there’s an intruder in the Human Resources Department!”
As the sun set, loud alarm sounds echoed through the Disaster Management Bureau building in the Wutong District. The pedestrians passing by downstairs were so startled that many gathered together and looked up at the building, all eager to watch the excitement.
“I repeat... the intruder is in the Human Resources Department... wah!”
Before the trembling office girl could finish speaking, she was hit by a not-too-heavy chop to the neck. Her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed on the spot.
“Tch, I clearly cleaned the area beforehand, so how is there still someone left behind? Damn it!”
A pretty girl wearing a cowboy hat slowly stepped out from the shadows. Her golden hair was tied into a high ponytail, and her face was full of annoyance as she muttered to herself.
“I hope I can find out what secrets that mental hospital is hiding behind the scenes... otherwise this trip will be a complete waste.”
The blonde girl was naturally Amber. At that moment, she glanced toward the stairway from the corner of her eye before returning to the shadows behind the door and crouching down carefully to observe.
Urgent footsteps came from the distance, and the beam of tactical flashlights quietly appeared at the stairway entrance.
I already dealt with the surveillance room beforehand... those guards shouldn’t be able to find my hiding place directly.
Amber stared closely at the light source. With the superhuman senses she gained after transforming, even the smallest sounds could easily be caught by her ears.
“One, two, three...”
Amber bit her lip and silently counted on her fingers.
“There are about twenty of them. For now, I should hide first and watch the situation.”
The footsteps grew clearer and clearer. The floor shook slightly as guards dressed fully in black quickly rushed over.
After receiving the alarm, they all raised their guns. The leader crouched beside the unconscious girl and carefully checked her condition.
“Her breathing and heartbeat are normal. She was only knocked unconscious.”
She turned around and asked the others,
“Did the cameras capture the intruder’s face?”
“Report! The surveillance system was hacked before this happened! We didn’t capture a clear image of her face! We’ve already called someone over to repair it as quickly as possible!”
“Oh? Sounds like an experienced professional. How long will it take to fix the cameras?”
“Uh... the technician still hasn’t arrived. And it’s rush hour right now, you know how bad traffic in the city is...”
“Damn it!”
The captain knocked on her helmet, clearly having a headache.
“Could this be a group operation? One person hacking the cameras while another person acts?”
According to regulations, departments like the Disaster Management Bureau and the Special Investigation Department, which deal with disaster beasts and monsters, had to assign security personnel.
However, the Disaster Management Bureau’s secrecy level was far lower than the Special Investigation Department’s, so their guards were naturally not as professional or talented as the specialists assigned there.
After all, normal people would not be stupid enough to openly invade their building in broad daylight. And if someone actually did something like that, it would probably be one of those brainless monsters that could not communicate properly.
And if monsters truly invaded, specialists from the Special Investigation Department would naturally come to support them later anyway. Nobody expected these guards to play a major role.
So in the end, their group mainly existed as a form of deterrence. To put it more bluntly, most of them were people who had failed the entrance selection for the Special Investigation Department. They originally thought they would never encounter an invasion event before retirement, but who could have expected this...
Hearing the captain’s question, the team members looked at each other awkwardly before answering.
“B-But according to witness reports, there really was only one person...”
“Are you kidding me?”
The captain’s voice suddenly rose sharply.
“You’re trying to tell me that one person sneaked in here, destroyed the surveillance system, and also had enough anti-tracking skills to play everyone around like fools?”
“Can an ordinary person even do that? Why don’t you just tell me she’s a magical girl instead!”
“W-We don’t know either, but based on the information we currently have... that really does seem to be the case!”
“Also, no one along the way has been killed or injured. At the very least, this shows that the intruder has no intention of killing anyone.”
Another guard quietly added.
“That may be true... but if someone really had been killed, the Special Investigation Department would’ve already sent people to lock this whole place down. Why would they still leave it to us?”
The captain rubbed her forehead helplessly. Earlier, that big boss surnamed Liu had died miserably in his office, making the Special Investigation Department extremely nervous. They practically wanted to search all of Wangdu from top to bottom. If someone also died inside the Disaster Management Bureau this time...
That would become a huge incident that could shock the entire city.
“Maybe... maybe they just came here to steal some information?”
Another guard suggested a new possibility.
“But what information could there possibly be worth stealing here...? Housing price reports? Weather forecasts? Or developer information?”
The captain frowned and thought for a long time but still could not figure it out. Seeing all her team members staring at her and waiting for instructions, she suddenly coughed awkwardly.
“Anyway! Begin a full search immediately! We must find the intruder! If any important information was really stolen, we’ll all be punished for this!”
“Yes, ma’am!”
Hidden in the shadows, Amber desperately covered her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud after hearing the guards talk back and forth.
Seriously? Although she had already expected the Disaster Management Bureau’s security to be weak, these people were way too... amateur.
This was not the first time she had sneaked into a confidential organization. In her previous city, aside from the more troublesome Special Investigation Department, the other departments related to disaster beasts were basically like her own backyard.
Bai Muxue had once been very surprised by Amber’s information-gathering ability... but how could she know that Amber never actually gathered information herself?
She simply waited for other people to collect it first, then boldly came over to take it!
Still... guards like the ones in Wangdu’s Disaster Management Bureau were something Amber had never seen before.
They had some professional awareness, but not much. The whole group gave off the feeling of employees just waiting to clock out and go home.
“Well, this actually makes it easier for me to investigate things!”
After confirming that the guards had already left this floor, Amber adjusted the brim of her hat and moved through the building like a ghost, freely searching almost every office she could enter.
The girl’s infiltration was clearly very successful...
After all, as long as anyone who discovered her immediately lost consciousness, then technically nobody had discovered her infiltration!
Meanwhile, the guards’ radios had already become complete chaos.
“Report, report! The intruder is on the third floor... ahhh!”
“No, no, she’s clearly on the second floor!”
“I spotted the intruder in the meeting room!”
But no matter where they reported seeing her, every message always ended with a scream.
For a while, the already small number of guards became completely overwhelmed, as if dozens of people had infiltrated the building at the same time.
Yet while the guards were panicking and running around in confusion, the person responsible for all of this wore a proud smile as she calmly walked into the archive room.
“No matter what, I just hope this place has what I’m looking for...”
For some reason, Amber suddenly remembered the letter someone had specially sent her after that performance ended.
—The show was really great. I liked it very much.
Just looking at those short words was enough for Amber to imagine the smug smile on that person’s young but overly clever face.
“Heh... I still don’t know how you figured out who I was... but!”
“If you casually expose my identity like that, you’re going to pay the price! Once I find the real mastermind behind that incident back then...”
“I’ll settle this score with you properly!”
Amber gritted her teeth and thought viciously.