Perkins was starting to feel some regret!
This time, she felt that having a powerful top-tier killer backing her up,
who was also very skilled at long-range sniping,
meant that even if he only provided long-range support,
with her skills, she could easily complete this commission.
But what Perkins completely didn't expect was that they had overlooked many problems with this mission from the very beginning.
She had been too careless and had been unwilling to spend more continental gold coins.
As a result, she only spent one continental gold coin.
The intelligence bought from the Continental Hotel in Las Vegas was incomplete.
To the point that they never imagined Vera Tseleski, in the Charles Tower where he lived,
would actually arrange so many bodyguards to protect his safety.
"Hunter, come help me!"
She sent out a plea for help to Hunter through her earpiece.
Afterward, Perkins followed his instructions and stubbornly held the room she was in.
Bang!
Boom!
Bang!
The sounds of several different firearms continuously rang out inside and outside the room.
Perkins held the door firmly while also keeping an eye on the side window.
Two grenades and two flashbangs hung at her waist, which Hunter had given her before the mission.
Originally, Perkins had been somewhat indifferent toward the grenades he had forced upon her.
Now, she suddenly felt that just two grenades might really not be enough.
The room Perkins was hiding in was a guest room.
The walls were very thick and seemed to have been soundproofed.
On one wall, there were only two small windows near the top for ventilation.
This was the reason why Perkins was able to hold out until now just by guarding the door.
Of course, she also had to admit,
Hunter's two precise long-range sniper shots earlier, which killed the two bodyguards trying to break into the room from the door, had served as a powerful deterrent.
Otherwise, if those people had all rushed in at once,
Perkins really couldn't be sure if she could have held them off.
Feeling that the noise in the corridor outside was getting louder and louder,
Perkins also noticed that the bodyguards at the door were itching to make a move.
Her heart sank, knowing the other side was very likely about to launch a forced breach.
She couldn't help but take a grenade from her waist. After pulling the pin, she threw the grenade out the door.
Immediately, a burst of cursing and terrified voices came from outside.
Boom!
After the explosion, the noise became even more chaotic.
Along with it, several bodyguards rushed into the room to avoid the grenade.
Bang... bang... bang... bang...
Perkins quickly raised her assault rifle and emptied the remaining bullets in the magazine, finally taking them down.
She felt along her tactical belt, and her heart couldn't help but sink.
"Out!"
She only then remembered that she had previously thought Vera Tseleski's residence only had a dozen or so bodyguards, so there was no need to carry much ammunition.
Therefore, besides the magazine loaded in her gun, Perkins had only taken two extra.
She hadn't expected Vera Tseleski to actually hide so many bodyguards in this building.
Forget three magazines; even three more wouldn't have been enough.
Without bullets, the assault rifle in her hand was no better than a fire poker.
Perkins was decisive. Once she confirmed the assault rifle was empty,
she immediately discarded it and drew two handguns, holding one in each hand as she aimed at the doorway.
Just then, suddenly, the ventilation window high on the side wall shattered with a loud crack.
At the same time, something was thrown in through the small ventilation window.
"Oh no!"
Perkins instinctively rushed toward a corner away from the object that had been thrown in, using the bed as cover, and quickly curled into a ball.
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a blinding white light, she briefly lost her vision.
Inside the room, gunfire rang out again.
Perkins hadn't expected a flashbang grenade to be thrown in, so she had to endure the physical discomfort and barely managed to raise her gun to return fire.
"Pop!"
After a gunshot, Perkins immediately felt a sharp pain in her shoulder.
She realized immediately that she had been hit.
As the side effects of the flashbang grenade faded, and after her vision began to recover,
she quickly adjusted her aim and, enduring the pain in her shoulder, kept pulling the trigger.
"Click!"
The bullets in one handgun ran out, but Perkins didn't have time to change the magazine.
She threw away the empty handgun, quickly grabbed another hand grenade from her waist, pulled the ring, and threw it out.
"Bang!"
A few seconds later, an explosion was heard again.
Perkins took the opportunity to reload the other handgun that had also run out of ammunition.
Hearing the cursing from outside, she unhooked another Flashbang, ready to throw it at any moment.
"Pop!"
Something Perkins didn't clearly see was thrown in from outside, landing not far from her.
After glancing at it instinctively, her expression changed drastically.
She lunged from one side of the bed to the other, and at the same time, Perkins pulled the ring of the Flashbang and threw it towards the door.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Two explosions rang out one after another; the first explosion immediately shattered the windows in the room.
The bed that had blocked many bullets for Perkins was also blown into pieces after that hand grenade exploded.
The other explosion felt like a heavy hammer, striking everyone's head fiercely.
In an instant, most of them lost their ability to fight.
"Hey, can you hear me?"
...
At the last moment, Perkins reached out to cover her head and closed her eyes.
But the successive detonations of the hand grenade and the Flashbang still made her brain feel indescribably uncomfortable.
A wave of dizziness and nausea, which made her feel intensely unwell, kept washing over her.
So much so that when a voice finally came through the headset after a long while,
Perkins didn't hear it at all; she only felt her head and ears buzzing.
Gunfire soon began to ring out outside.
"Da da da da!"
It was the sound of a machine gun firing wildly. Hunter, with beads of sweat the size of beans on his head, was holding an m249 machine gun, suppressing all targets he could see within his line of sight.
After rushing to Charles Tower a few minutes ago and finding that all the elevators were locked and unusable,
he had run up the stairs from the emergency exit in one breath.
In less than two minutes, he had charged from the first floor to the seventeenth floor.
Even though Hunter's physical fitness had reached nearly five times that of an average adult male, he was still drenched in sweat at this moment.
The m249 machine gun in his hand fired wildly, thanks to the passive effect brought by his max-level Shooting skill.
Any target seen by Hunter fell under his muzzle.
He held the machine gun with both hands, firing as he walked.
Body after body quickly collapsed onto the floor, following the tongue of fire spat out by that m249 machine gun.
Finally, Hunter rushed outside the room where Perkins was, quickly cleared all the bodyguards in the hallway, and forced the remaining ones into an adjacent room.
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