Anna and Zhang Jie both slumped to the ground, their limbs weak. Maksim, wearing a gas mask, walked in and looked at the two people sprawled on the floor.
"Didn't expect this, did you? You still ended up in my hands."
Maksim extended his right hand, clenching it in the air, as if everything was under his control.
He walked up to Anna, looked at her, only her eyes could move, and he started to laugh, "Didn't expect this, beautiful?"
He half-squatted, looking at Anna.
"Actually, if you had just been obedient, perhaps nothing would have happened, including your identity wouldn't have been exposed. It's a pity you were too greedy."
Maksim's voice held a hint of excitement.
"You shouldn't have come to inquire about this box. It held no benefit for you. Though it's too late to tell you this now."
Maksim stood up, then walked to the table and picked up the briefcase.
"Some things are not for you to touch."
With that, he turned and walked towards the door. His subordinate, who was guarding the door, walked in, raising his gun to kill the two, but Maksim suddenly spoke to stop him.
"Don't send them to Satan so quickly. The fun game isn't over yet, and I still need them to cover for me."
Maksim didn't want them to die so quickly; dying like that would be too easy for them. Moreover, he needed these two to provide some cover so he could quickly have someone take the briefcase out of Russia.
Seeing this, his subordinate put away his gun and retreated outside the door.
Maksim glanced at the two again, "The paralysis from the gas only lasts for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, you'll have to run for your lives."
After speaking, Maksim left the safe house with the briefcase.
By this point, Zhang Jie was completely unable to speak; his tongue was numb, his body limp, unable to move at all. Apart from his eyes still being able to move, his ears still able to hear, and his breathing still relatively normal, there was nothing he could control.
As time gradually passed, Zhang Jie also felt some sensation return to his numb limbs.
It felt like sitting on the toilet for too long, his entire thigh going numb, as if it didn't belong to him.
However, it was precisely because the door was still open that they were able to recover quickly.
Barely able to move, Zhang Jie struggled to his feet, and Anna did the same.
"Damn it, is this the safe house you were talking about?"
Zhang Jie couldn't help but curse. He really couldn't understand why the so-called safe house was always so full of holes.
Anna was also extremely frustrated. She couldn't understand how her safe house had been exposed.
Unless there was an inside man in her organization!
After a few more minutes, both of them finally recovered completely. The first thing Zhang Jie did after recovering was to immediately replenish all his ammunition.
He also grabbed several grenades, stun grenades, and flashbangs from the safe house's armory.
Finally, Zhang Jie picked up a GM6 Lynx anti-materiel sniper rifle.
This gun is a foldable sniper rifle; its barrel can retract into the gun body when not in use, which significantly shortens its overall length. After packing it into its specialized weapon bag, Zhang Jie slung the gun onto his back.
Its combat weight is 11.5 kilograms, overall length 928 millimeters (carrying state), barrel length 730 millimeters (standard type), and caliber 12.7 millimeters (compatible with both 12.7 × 108mm and 12.7 × 99mm ammunition). It has a magazine capacity of 5 rounds, an effective range of 1500 meters, and a maximum range exceeding 2000 meters.
As for ammunition, Zhang Jie directly grabbed two boxes of 12.7 × 108mm armor-piercing rounds from the armory's bullet storage.
Its power can penetrate a 250-millimeter concrete wall within 100 meters, and when using armor-piercing rounds, it can penetrate 20 millimeters of homogeneous armor, posing a serious threat to targets behind cover.
This was Zhang Jie's final safeguard for himself. Afterward, the two unhesitatingly left the safe house. Before leaving, they also made some arrangements in the safe house.
There was no car, so the two of them could only walk.
"My dear beautiful Anna, can you still tell me how many safe houses you have left?"
Zhang Jie was truly furious. The two of them had risked their lives to retrieve the briefcase, only for Maksim to snatch it away before it had even been in their hands for three minutes.
Moreover, their current situation was extremely dangerous.
Sure enough, shortly after the two left the safe house, a special operations team had already surrounded it.
These teams were very professional; before entering, they first used launchers to fire special smoke grenades directly into the safe house, after which white smoke could be seen seeping out.
They then immediately began a direct assault, but after breaking in, they found no one inside.
They knew the people had escaped, but Zhang Jie, observing from a distance through his scope, decisively pressed the dial button on his phone.
The special operations team members, who were preparing to retreat from the safe house, suddenly heard the landline in the living room ring. A sense of unease quickly spread through his heart, and he immediately shouted loudly.
"Retreat!!!"
Two of them were closer to the door and quickly rushed out, but the others were not so lucky. With a violent explosion and flash of fire, all the special forces members inside the house were eliminated.
The two special forces members who had been close to the door and had already run out were also thrown to the ground by the shockwave, their expressions dazed.
The four logistics personnel on the outermost perimeter quickly rushed towards the two injured individuals.
At this moment, Zhang Jie had also adjusted the scope of his GM6 anti-materiel sniper rifle. He shifted the crosshairs up slightly, then pulled the trigger.
"Bye-bye!"
Bang!
With a gunshot, 1.3 seconds later, the head of one of the logistics personnel exploded.
Blood instantly splattered onto the nearby individuals.
Before they could react, the chest of the second standing logistics personnel was also instantly blown open by a bullet.
Whoosh!
The remaining two uninjured logistics personnel quickly pulled the two dazed special forces team members on the ground and ran towards cover.
But the next second, another bullet directly struck one of the logistics personnel in the thigh. In that instant, his thigh was directly broken, with only muscle still connecting it.
"Ah ah ah ah!!!"
He didn't feel the pain at first, but when he fell to the ground and saw that his right leg had been broken, a surge of fear and pain immediately washed over him.
The last logistics personnel no longer bothered to pull the injured special forces team member and instead just ran. But unfortunately, another bullet awaited him.
Whoosh!
Splat!
His left chest exploded in an instant; the 12.7 mm full-power armor-piercing round, carrying immense kinetic energy, completely gouged out his left chest.
He himself lost the strength to run, falling heavily to the ground, his vision gradually turning black and white, then blurring.
The remaining two special forces members, who had been thrown back by the shockwave, watched this scene unfold. Before he could react, two more bullets came flying.
Whoosh!
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