"Clack," a slight sound rang out. After checking his gear, Lin Yuan gently pushed open the door.
The corridor outside was deserted, and there were no cameras installed.
Comparing the map in his mind, he realized he was near the room where Luna and the others had escaped. wp.kanshuwu.net
He didn't go looking for the children first. His priority was to eliminate the enemies before considering how to rescue them.
Following the map, Lin Yuan smoothly reached the church's main hall. He didn't rush in, instead peeking through the keyhole to assess the situation.
He found nothing, but Lin Yuan couldn't be sure. The field of vision through the keyhole was very limited, and he couldn't see everything.
"Time to use the secret weapon."
Lin Yuan took out a box, a piece of advanced technology given to him by Carol Anna.
It was a biomimetic mosquito reconnaissance device.
He first attached the thin monocle to his gas mask and tapped the frame lightly.
"System booting, scanning eye movements."
A line of text appeared on the lens.
Two seconds later, the text changed: "Eye movement capture complete. Please blink twice quickly to activate."
Lin Yuan complied, blinking twice rapidly. The field of vision on the lens instantly switched to the biomimetic mosquito's perspective.
"Activation complete, vision switched. Please control the reconnaissance device with eye movements."
This text disappeared after two seconds, leaving Lin Yuan to his own devices.
He had practiced with the reconnaissance device a few times during training flights, so Lin Yuan could now operate it smoothly.
The biomimetic mosquito flew in through the keyhole without making any of the buzzing sounds a normal mosquito would, like a ghost drifting into the hall.
After hovering around for a couple of circles overhead and finding no one, Lin Yuan controlled the mosquito to land on a cabinet, preparing to push the door open.
Suddenly, a woman in a nun's habit appeared on the monocle.
This particular style differed significantly from traditional nun's habits and featured some peculiar patterns.
Seeing someone approaching, Lin Yuan dared not linger and ran towards a room on the other side.
To reach the "coffin room," he had to pass through the main hall. Entering from the outside was also impossible, as there were no windows on that side.
"If all else fails, I'll have to force my way in," Lin Yuan whispered, hiding in the electrical room, his hand gripping the pistol tightly as he intently watched the biomimetic mosquito's vision. kanshuwu.xa
The woman in the video entered, muttering curses, "Damn it, how can there still be intruders now? These guys are idiots too. They know the important stuff is in the church, but they still deploy so many people to capture..."
Suddenly, her voice stopped. The woman's gaze snapped directly towards the biomimetic mosquito. Many black, fine threads emerged from within her nun's habit.
The suffocating sensation of being watched, the kind you get when playing hide-and-seek and feeling someone's gaze, washed over him instantly.
But Lin Yuan knew that from her angle, she couldn't possibly see the biomimetic mosquito. His eyeball remained fixed, unmoving, and the mosquito also stayed still.
This couldn't be discovered. In a snowstorm, a mosquito flying around would surely attract attention.
"Strange, I feel like someone is watching me."
After saying this, the woman began searching the hall for the source of this feeling of being spied upon.
However, Lin Yuan had already hidden in the electrical room, several rooms away from the main hall.
Moreover, during his movement, Lin Yuan's "human scent" had been completely wiped away by the heavy snow.
His combat suit wouldn't emit any odor, and the filtered air from the gas mask was normal.
It would only be perceived as the "human scent" from within the town.
After finding no trace, the woman stood guard in the hall, unmoving.
This made Lin Yuan anxious. The others from the church would return soon, and he couldn't come back empty-handed.
He had to find a way to lure her out.
He still had two fragmentation grenades on him, and he had to reluctantly use one.
While pulling out a grenade to prepare it as a makeshift timed explosive, Lin Yuan suddenly remembered that the kitchen was marked on the map.
There was definitely something that could go "boom" in there!
Bypassing the main hall, Lin Yuan headed straight for the kitchen. Along the way, he still didn't encounter anyone. It was as if the entire church was now occupied only by him and the woman in the main hall.
Reaching the kitchen without incident, the scene inside was still clean and tidy, and the food looked normal, at least on the surface.
"Aha, so much flour!"
These bags of flour, stacked on the moisture-proof shelves, numbered close to forty, each marked with a 50kg weight.
Without hesitation, Lin Yuan cut them open with his knife and quickly tossed the flour into the air.
The kitchen wasn't large, and by the time he had dispersed twenty bags, the flour in the air had almost obscured his vision.
The concentration was definitely around 9.7g/m³.
He grabbed a strip of cloth, dipped it in some oil, flipped out of the window, and quickly closed it. He then wedged the cloth into the window crack and ignited it with a windproof lighter.
He then quickly ran to the side of the church with no windows to hide.
With no wind, the burning cloth wouldn't be extinguished. In about ten seconds, he would hear the commotion.
During this time, Lin Yuan quickly brushed off the flour clinging to his clothes. If he had barged in with flour all over him, it would have left a trail of footprints.
"Five, four, three, two..."
"Boom!!!" Before he could even count to one, a violent explosion, comparable to three C4 charges, erupted from the other side of the church.
It was accompanied by the clattering sound of bricks colliding with each other.
This sound was sure to alert everyone. After brushing off the last bit of flour, Lin Yuan went directly into the main hall through the front door.
During the explosion, the biomimetic mosquito had seen the woman guarding the main hall get up and go to investigate the situation. Thus, there was no one in the entire first-floor main hall.
After entering, Lin Yuan locked the door and rushed towards the left side of the main hall.
The moment he stepped into this area, Lin Yuan felt a chill pervading the air.
This cold, which his combat suit couldn't even resist, penetrated to the bone.
"Hoo, what kind of place is this?"
He recalled that Tristan had mentioned the church was an expansion of something else. He didn't know what it was before, and the townspeople never mentioned it. It seemed that by the time they had lived there, that place already existed, and it had been abandoned.
It remained so until the church was built.
He took a few steps back into the main hall, and once the warmth of the church enveloped him again, he adjusted his gear and re-entered.
No wonder Luna and the others were still wearing single layers when they came out. This place felt as if the heating was on year-round.
Aside from this area, even with preparation, Lin Yuan still felt a sense of unsettling chill.
On this side, there were rooms only near the interior of the church, totaling thirteen.
Most rooms allowed him to see inside through windows in the walls. Only the innermost three rooms were completely sealed, with only doors for entry.
Luna hadn't told him exactly which room contained the coffin.
This was his objective for this trip: to disrupt the ritual while also acquiring some materials that could be used as weapons.
He would have to search them one by one.
However, these doors were not unlocked. The three doors corresponded to different keys.
The first door depicted a Pharaoh.
The second door depicted the Eye of Horus.
The last door depicted Isis's Garden of Life.
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