"That depends on how important your intelligence is. General intelligence can go to compartments 1-4 across the way, I can also evaluate it here. Important intelligence can even go to the main building, someone will guide you there. So, do you have important intelligence?"
"Who's in charge of the main building? I have important intelligence."
"About what? I need to do an assessment first."
Henry raised both hands, and two small throwing knives 15 centimeters long and weighing 40 grams flew out like lightning, piercing the guard with the revolver in his right eye and throat respectively, causing him to fall backward as his gun clattered to the ground.
"Raise your hands, don't shout loudly. Trust me, you're definitely not faster than me." A 1.2-meter swift sword appeared in Henry's hand from nowhere, its tip pressed against the red-haired youth's throat.
Seeing this incredible scene, the red-haired youth was stunned. Feeling the sharp, cold sword tip at his neck, he felt a chill, goosebumps rising on his neck.
He immediately raised both hands high, stammering: "Buddy, I don't know how you did that, but you absolutely can't escape. There are dozens of heavily armed tough guards outside."
"Answer my questions, or you won't need to worry about the guards. Who's in charge of the main building? Who's the boss behind the black market?" Henry said expressionlessly.
"The main building is run by our boss Dressler, he's on the second floor. I really don't know who the boss behind everything is."
"Besides the 10 guards on the second floor of the main building, how many more guards are inside?"
"I really don't know, we're not allowed to enter the second floor of the main building."
"How many guards are around this villa? Where are they?"
"They're all in nearby buildings. I don't know exactly how many, but there must be over 100."
"Where is the intelligence center or archives here?"
The red-haired youth hesitated slightly and immediately felt his neck being pierced, blood seeping out. He quickly said: "On the first floor of the main building."
"Besides here, are there other black markets in Denver?"
"As far as I know, only this one."
"How many exits are there total? How do you get there?"
"I know of three, but it's hard to explain the routes clearly, though I can guide you."
"No need for guidance. Have a good journey."
The red-haired youth was shocked and tried to push back with his legs, but instantly the swift sword tip pierced his throat, angling upward to penetrate his brainstem and exit through the posterior fossa of his skull.
The red-haired youth immediately lost consciousness and died, like a shrimp pierced by a bamboo skewer.
Henry withdrew the swift sword, collected money pouches and weapons from both bodies, found a small stack of cash in the drawer, and stored all the documents from the drawer in his space.
Opening the door, Henry flipped the white wooden sign to show black facing outward.
As soon as he stepped out, he noticed a guard in the center of the garden had been watching him.
It seemed each guard had designated surveillance areas.
The security here was too tight!
Henry realized he couldn't silently eliminate all the outside guards, let alone the guard in each compartment.
He could only do his best, delaying discovery as much as possible. At minimum, that Dressler couldn't be allowed to escape, with the archives as the second priority.
Henry walked forward a few steps to get closer to the garden center, then activated his ten-fold Super Reaction state. His hands again danced with eight-armed afterimages as throwing knives shot out like a string of pearls.
After one second, the five guards within fifteen meters of Henry each had two knives in their necks, while the five guards twenty-plus meters away each took one knife to the chest and abdomen, letting out piercing screams.
Henry focused his mind and used one gray pearl to eliminate his abnormal condition, while two double-action revolvers appeared in his hands, firing repeatedly at the ten guards on the second floor of the main building twenty meters away.
"Bang bang bang" - accompanied by rapid gunfire, ten guards were consecutively shot in the head within one second.
Caught completely off guard, they all died without firing a single shot.
"Bang bang!" Henry sent the last two bullets to the two guards who first rushed out of the compartments across from him.
Instantly switching to two new double-action revolvers, Henry continued shooting at guards rushing out of the compartments on both sides.
That feeling of all things reflected in his mind reappeared - the cicada senses autumn before the golden wind moves.
Henry's dual guns picked off guards in order of when they rushed out to shoot, always managing to kill the emerging guards one step before they could fire.
Within one second Henry emptied two guns' 12 bullets, then instantly switched to two new double-action pistols to continue shooting.
One second later Henry switched to two more new double-action pistols and continued firing, as if practicing on a shooting range with high-speed moving targets. Whenever guards rushed out of compartments trying to shoot, deadly bullets would immediately follow to harvest lives.
Except for the 5 guards initially hit in chest and abdomen by throwing knives, few other guards managed to scream. At such close distance, Henry almost universally achieved headshots.
Halfway through the third round of revolver shooting, the villa's main door was suddenly pushed open. Eight guards at the entrance raised rifles and surged in, immediately shooting, but most bullets hit granite stones that appeared from nowhere in front of Henry.
Chest-high granite stones also appeared from nowhere on Henry's left, right, and behind.
"Bang bang bang" - Henry immediately redirected his aim at these eight guards. At a distance of just over ten meters, it was almost all headshots.
At this time eight guards rushed out from the main building behind, firing frantically at Henry with rifles.
Six white pearl shells and six gray pearl shells dissipated.
After emptying the third round's 12 bullets and bringing down all eight front guards, Henry switched to two new double-action pistols to shoot the eight rifle guards behind him, followed by crowds rushing out of compartments on both sides.
Because of the disruption from the eight rifle guards front and back, Henry's rhythm of shooting guards emerging from compartments was thrown off. With the distance too short, by the time Henry emptied the 8th round of dual guns, another 4 white pearl shells and 28 gray pearl shells had dissipated.
Each of the 19 rooms had 3-4 people rush out, and even those who came to take missions were driven to shoot at Henry.
At peak intensity, Henry was focused upon by over 30 people at distances of just over ten meters for about 3 seconds. Even if they averaged one shot per second, that was 100 shots.
Without the four granite stones blocking, Henry's hit count would have more than doubled.
Close-range firefight, rapid-fire like cannons - life and death decided in an instant.
From when Henry threw his knives to defeating all enemies took only nine seconds!
This was truly an attack like thunder.
Henry wasn't in a hurry to finish off enemies. He first quickly checked all 19 rooms to see if any cowards or cunning individuals were hiding.
Indeed there were three more! Henry sent them off one by one, with one more gray pearl shell dissipating - after all, Henry was currently the ambushed party.
(End of Chapter)
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