The Bodyguard King’s CEO Wife Chapter 1862: Placing the Explosives

According to those researchers’ statements, the basement is composed of four sections: first, the restroom connected to the ventilation shaft; second, the security room, where alarms will go off to alert the people upstairs if anything happens; third, a monitoring zone where they can observe the mutants; and fourth, the area where the mutants are held, which is also the largest section. After all, that place was designed to hold two hundred mutants, somewhat like a prison. Each mutant is locked in a separate room, with high-voltage current on the door. But once the power is cut, that single iron door naturally can’t stop them.

Right now, no one knows the exact situation down below. Maybe those mutants have already scattered, maybe they’re still clustered in some area—no one knows. They could only pray the mutants weren’t in the restroom connected to the ventilation duct. Also, after the four of them get down there, it will take about twenty minutes to plant the explosives, and only after crawling back up through the ventilation duct will they be considered to have gotten out in one piece. If everything goes smoothly, the whole process will take about half an hour.

This mission sounds simple, but in reality it’s full of deadly dangers; one misstep and they’d be blown to pieces. Yet Ye Shikai didn’t feel nervous at all. He himself wasn’t sure where this "mysterious confidence" came from, as if he had long since decided he wouldn’t die. So even if someone put a knife to his neck, he wouldn’t panic in the slightest.

Logically speaking, with such a dangerous mission in front of him, he should at least give Chen Yuxin a call, and also Ji Qian and Su Qingyu. But for some reason he had no desire to touch his phone at all. Maybe deep down, he understood how dangerous this mission really was. If he were to tell them, Ye Shikai didn’t know how to start, and if they tried to talk him out of it, he wouldn’t know how to comfort them.

Dong, dong, dong.

Ye Shikai opened the door and saw Feng Ling standing at the entrance.

"Why haven’t you gone back yet?" Ye Shikai said coldly, waving his hand, not bothering with her.

"I heard that the son-in-law is taking part in the operation tomorrow." Feng Ling followed him into the room. The meeting at the security office earlier had been strictly confidential, so Feng Ling naturally hadn’t known. It wasn’t until the evening that she got word Ye Shikai would be joining the mission.

"That’s right, I do have an operation. So what?" Ye Shikai didn’t deny it. Since Feng Ling had come to ask, that meant Chen Yuxin must already know too—saved him the trouble of saying it himself.

"Please reconsider, son-in-law. The operation is so dangerous that the slightest misstep will lead to utter ruin. You should think more about the Family Head. Besides, this mission belongs to the police and the National Security Bureau. To them, you’re just an outsider; there’s no need for you to walk into the trap yourself."

"Feng Ling, do you know why I hate you so much, and the rest of you from the Shadow Organization?" Ye Shikai said coldly.

"I do not, sir."

"Because you’re always putting on that self-righteous face."

"I am only carrying out the Family Head’s orders. Moreover, I’m doing this entirely out of concern for your safety, son-in-law. If the Family Head ordered me to carry out the mission in your place, I would not utter a word of complaint."

"Anything I do is my own freedom. Go back to Yanjing and tell her I’m already fully prepared for tomorrow’s operation. Nothing will happen; she can rest easy." Ye Shikai said coldly. Feng Ling knew she couldn’t stop him. Besides, this operation had been arranged by the National Security Bureau—if she acted rashly, she’d definitely stir up big trouble.

"I’ve already informed the Family Head of this. As for those words, I still ask that you tell her yourself, son-in-law." Feng Ling finished speaking and left the room.

Ye Shikai’s face was expressionless. He didn’t know how much time had passed before he finally sat up from the bed, went to the desk, and picked up a pen to write a letter.

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The next day.

"Well, Mr. Ye, are you ready?" Tianjing and the other two put on protective suits and, under everyone’s gaze, arrived at the exit of the ventilation duct.

In fact, according to those researchers, these monsters could smash those heavy iron doors open with their bare hands. These protective suits were basically just psychological comfort.

"Of course, I’m ready." Ye Shikai took out the explosives, then put them back into the Storage Ring.

"All right, let’s move out then." Tianjing came to the ventilation duct and was the first to crawl in. The duct was very narrow; fortunately, none of the four of them were claustrophobic. Although moving was a bit difficult, they could still just barely squeeze through.

Ye Shikai went second, with Jing Xie and Phoenix right behind him. The four of them kept a certain distance between each other and slowly began crawling inside.

"Good thing there’s still a ventilation duct here, otherwise we wouldn’t even know how to get in." Ye Shikai sighed.

"Enough, let’s keep it down. Those monsters were all thinking about getting out earlier, so they should be gathered near the exit. We’ll use this chance to go in through the ventilation duct, get to the restroom, then set up the charges."

After about ten minutes, they finally arrived. Tianjing signaled everyone to lie flat where they were while he crawled forward himself. Peering through the crack of the window, he carefully observed the restroom. Luckily, there were no mutants in sight inside, and the restroom door was closed. It seemed those mutants had never come in here at all.

Tianjing vaulted down through the window. His movements were light, making almost no sound. He cautiously scanned the surroundings. Through the glass on the restroom door, he could clearly see the mutants outside. Even with all his battlefield experience, the scene before him still made his skin crawl. These mutants weren’t just Mothmen; there were also "Multi-clawed Men" like De from before, as well as monsters with wolf heads and human bodies, which reminded him of the Death God from foreign myths—Anubis—terrifying in appearance. Besides those, there were many other monsters. The HST project had long since gone beyond just the Mothman. These new creatures possessed greater strength, faster speed, more terrifying destructive power, and an even more brutal, bloodthirsty nature.

"All right, it’s clear here. Come down." Tianjing motioned for the others to come down. Ye Shikai didn’t dare delay and hurried over.

"Damn, that many monsters?" Ye Shikai and the Jing Xie and Phoenix behind him were both shocked. With that many monsters, if they made even the slightest noise and drew them over, it would be almost certain death.

"Not only have they failed to wipe out the HST project, it’s actually grown stronger. If we’d discovered their conspiracy a few months later, who knows what would’ve happened."

"Who the hell would even create monsters like these?"

"Enough, let’s move." Ye Shikai took out the high-yield explosives from the Storage Ring. Tianjing lay at the window keeping watch on the monsters, while Jing Xie and Phoenix began setting the charges.