Kill the Sun - Chapter 626

Chapter 626 – Infiltration

"Really? Do you have to do that during your shift?" a guy shouted with annoyance.

"What?" a guy asked, sounding like he was chewing something. "No one's here anyway." Nôv(el)B\jnn

"I am here, Keanu. I am someone," the other guy answered.

"Why would you care? You're not my boss. What I do during my shift is not your concern, Bryan," Keanu said.

"Keanu, you never know when an important person from the city wants to enter or exit. If they see you-"

"Oh, come on," Keanu shouted in exasperation. "No important people come through here. Barely anyone comes through here. The last guy we saw appeared three days ago, and he was just a random Extractor that went to the wrong entrance. Chill out, Bryan. You're genuinely starting to annoy me with your rules-lawyering. Go deal with your own shit!"

Bryan took a deep breath as he watched Keanu shoving another black stick into his mouth.

"At least share some-"

"No," Keanu shot back before taking another bite.

Bryan grimaced with disgust and annoyance before noticeably looking away.

The only sound for several seconds was Keanu chewing and moaning in pleasure.

Nick watched all of this happen in silence from the ceiling.

The entrance was about three meters high and wide, and it was blocked by a massive gate. The two guards stood outside the gate.

Their job was to watch out for any Specters that might want to get into the city.

This was one of the side entrances of Black Mine City.

The main entrance was far larger and had far stronger guards and security measures.

According to what Nick had found out by eavesdropping on the guards of the other entrances, this one was only for guards and led directly to the headquarters of the city guards.

Naturally, the security of this entrance wasn't nearly as tight as for the others. After all, anyone who managed to get through this entrance would be entering the middle of the guards' headquarters, which was generally considered the last place any criminal or invader would want to go to.

The guards were more occupied with making sure that none of the other guards exited the city without permission.

Nick slowly slithered along the ceiling of the entrance and approached the door.

A moment later, he tried to get through the slit of the gate.

BZZT!

"Huh?" the two guards uttered as they turned around.

For some seconds, they looked at the door.

Silence.

"Must've been the wind," Keanu said before turning away again.

"The wind," Bryan repeated, unamused. "You think the wind would activate the Barrier?"

Keanu shrugged. "What else? Do you see anything?"

"Keanu, the Barrier only activates if it encounters Zephyx! We both heard the Barrier activate for a moment just now! That means it touched Specter Zephyx!" Bryan said with urgency.

When Bryan saw Keanu shrugging again, he nearly exploded with anger.

"Keanu!" Bryan shouted.

"What do you want me to do?!" Keanu shouted back. "If you want to ring the alarm for something like this, go ahead! I'm not your boss. I can't tell you what you should or shouldn't do."

An older man looked up from the sheets of paper in front of him and looked at Keanu.

Then, the older man swallowed something. "More details, please," he said with an even voice.

Keanu went into detail about what had happened earlier but didn't talk about what Bryan and he had talked about.

While Keanu was disappointed with Bryan's attempted breach of protocol, he could tell that it was just a genuine mistake.

Additionally, Keanu was no snitch.

"What's your suspicion?" the older man asked.

At that moment, the door opened, and the guy, who tried to talk to Keanu earlier, entered. "Oh? The Barrier got triggered?" he asked casually.

The older man stood up and saluted respectfully. "Yes, sir!"

The guy that wanted to talk to Keanu earlier was his boss' boss, but the hierarchy in the guards was very strict.

Keanu had to report to his boss, not his boss' boss.

"I'll check it out," the guy said casually.

"Thank you, sir!" the older man said. "Keanu, lead him to the entrance!"

"Yes, sir!" Keanu answered before turning to the other guy. "Follow me, please, sir!"

The guy nodded, and the two of them went back to the entrance.

When they were not on duty, the two of them were best friends, but when it came to work, over two ranks and levels were between them.

The door closed behind them, and the boss was left alone in his office.

Some seconds later, he took out a small stash of black sticks and shoved one of them in his mouth while moaning in pleasure.

"Oh yeah, that hits the spot!"

Luckily, nobody was there to hear him.

Nick had already left.

When Nick had noticed the boss' boss earlier, he rapidly fled.

This guy was a Mid Specialist, at least, and Nick wasn't confident in being able to hide from him in such a cramped building.

Nick had quickly found a small vent near the ceiling and entered.

While the entrance to the guards' headquarters was secure, the inside wasn't as much.

There wasn't really a reason for such paranoia. After all, only Force Specters would be able to travel through these tiny slits, and no Specter would dare to enter the most fortified place in the entire city.

Nick traveled through the network of vents before finding a humongous hallway.

'The main entrance to the city,' Nick thought as he looked at the two gigantic gates.

The main entrance was a kind of floodgate, and it was impossible to open both sides at the same time.

Nick decided to wait inside the nearest vent.

Several hours passed.

Eventually, one of the big gates opened, and Nick could see a caravan entering from the outside.

Nick watched as the caravan was thoroughly searched for several minutes before the main gate into the city opened.

Nick left the vent and attached to the caravan's gigantic cart.

Then, the caravan moved into the city.