48 Hours a Day

Chapter 1187: Sheathing The Blade

After switching to the rifle, Zhang Heng’s combat power was strengthened once more. With his level-3 marksmanship and [Filter Lens], no one would be able to attack from here as long as he guarded the fire escape.

The militia then organized two more attacks but were both repelled by Zhang Heng. Furthermore, there were many new casualties. However, through the window, Zhang Heng could also see new military trucks approaching from the distant street. Compared to the first group of people, the second group was probably more well-prepared. Other than that, there was also a helicopter flying toward them. It seemed to be preparing to occupy the roof and attack from there.

Zhang Heng estimated the time. The second group should arrive in three minutes.

Then he looked at the mission panel. This time, the mission was no longer a minimalist route. Not only was there a countdown, but even the number of Loki’s remaining avatars was shown. It was still five-fifths, or in other words, the battle with the doctor had not ended yet.

Zhang Heng frowned, put away the rifle in his hand, and went to the door of Scherbina’s room. He knocked on the door, to the answer of Master Kui’s alert voice.

“Who is it?”

“It’s me,” Zhang Heng answered.

“Wait a moment.”

About ten seconds later, the door opened again, and Zhang Heng walked in. Scherbina’s body was still lying on the floor, and the blood under his body had long solidified. However, this time, there were no more buzzing flies around him.

The results of the doctor and the others were quite remarkable. In a short period of time, they had basically eliminated all the flies that could be seen in the room. However, there was no sign of Loki’s incarnation among them.

Mouse and Besnova opened the closet in the bedroom and were rummaging through the clothes and towels inside, searching carefully with their flashlights. Before Zhang Heng came in, Master Kui and the doctor weren’t idle either. One was in the bathroom, while the other in the living room. However, they didn’t find anything for the time being.

They knew that they couldn’t stay here for too long. In order to help with the disaster, Scherbina had mobilized many militiamen. Now that the militiamen were constantly on their way, every minute they stayed here would bring them greater dangers.

However, the more anxious they were, the more they couldn’t find their target.

Even though they had sealed off the scene and made it into a situation where they could catch a turtle in a jar, due to the small size of the flies and the fact that the hotel was in a state of a power outage, the lights in the room couldn’t be turned on. Thus, they could only rely on their flashlights to light up the place, making it extremely difficult to find them.

The doctor was frustrated. The festering skin on his body had caused his body to lose heat. His body temperature had been maintained at around 39 degrees, and his patience had dropped significantly, “What should we do? Why don’t we just burn this place to the ground?”

Zhang Heng was noncommittal. He recalled Norse mythology and the part where Loki transformed into a fly. In the story, in order to destroy Hindley’s forging, Loki had transformed into a fly and attacked Brock, who was responsible for pulling the bellows. First, he bit Brock’s palm.

Then, Zhang Heng walked over to Scherbina’s body. Mr. Vice President had been in charge of the Soviet energy construction before his death. He promoted the use of nuclear energy with an iron fist, cleaned up the opposition, and built nuclear power plants all over the Soviet Union. In order to rush the project, he had even neglected the project’s safety to a certain extent. After the Chernobyl accident, Scherbina was also the first to rush to the scene to lead the disaster relief work. When he realized the seriousness of the problem, he once again displayed his iron-blooded side, mercilessly urging the various departments to step up the pace of relief work. This was also the reason why there were many controversies about him in latter generations.

The corpse of this important figure, however, now lay on the floor, and no one cared about it.

The players were busy searching for Loki’s incarnation, so they did not care about anything else. Only Zhang Heng squatted in front of the vice-chairman’s body.

The cause of Scherbina’s death was clear, and there was no dispute. Anyone who wasn’t blind could tell that he had died from a knife wound. A sharp knife more than 40 centimeters long had pierced his back, penetrating his heart; the murder weapon, left on Scherbina’s back.

At the time of the incident, the vice-chairman was probably drinking water in the living room. He didn’t even have time to change out of his suit, and the glass of water slipped out of his hand after he was stabbed. However, because the floor was carpeted, the glass didn’t break. It rolled to the side of the coffee table, the vice-chairman following suit and falling to the ground.

Zhang Heng only took a glance to reconstruct the situation at the scene, including the position of the murderer at the time, the angle and strength of the knife… However, that wasn’t his main focus. Zhang Heng lifted the vice-chairman’s left hand to take a look. He didn’t see anything unusual, so he lifted his right hand. This time, he finally found something. Under the back of Scherbina’s right hand, he saw a wound, as if it had been corroded by something.

This wound was almost negligible compared to the fatal knife wound on his back, but it matched with the part where Loki transformed into a fly and bit the dwarf bullock for the first time according to Norse mythology.

Then Zhang Heng checked Scherbina’s neck. This was where Loki transformed into a fly and bit bullock for the second time. Sure enough, he found the same wound, and the third time was when Loki finally succeeded, he had bitten the spot between Bullock’s eyes and eyebrows.

Zhang Heng turned the Vice Chairman’s corpse over and looked at the latter’s eyes and eyebrows.

There, he saw a bloody hole the size of a peanut. The hole was very deep, and he could already see the wall of the eye below. And in the mass of flesh lay a black figure.

It was a fly, but several times larger than an ordinary fly. It looked as if it had been mutated by radiation.

Just as the players wanted to take a closer look, the fly suddenly spread its wings and flew up from the corpse. Its speed was incredibly fast. Like a bullet, it shot up into the sky with a whoosh, then, flapped its wings and kept changing directions.

Master Kui and the others hurriedly adjusted their flashlights, trying to keep up with the fly’s movements. However, the fly’s flight path was too strange. After a few arcs, they lost track of it.

However, just as the fly was about to leave after playing around with the players, they saw a flash of light.

The next moment, Zhang Heng had already returned the [Hidden Scabbard] to its sheath.

A system notification sounded in everyone’s ears.

[Successfully killed 1 Loki avatar. 4 avatars remain. Loki’s strength has been reduced by 10%. Obtained 20 points. Head the character interface to check the relevant information….]