Chapter 216: Operation Wolf Slayer. (Part 04)
Mr. Pike, Rose, and Kirk were in the banquet hall as well, and going by the positions of the green dots, they were keeping to the outer perimeter, remaining near one of the doors leading to the interior of the mansion. The news should have reached them by now, so they were likely preparing to execute the plan.
A sudden wave of anxiety washed over Dante at that moment. How wrong he was to think that the mission difficulty couldn’t climb any higher. With Blue Ember under siege, escaping with the artifact seemed next to impossible. The NVPD had already killed someone for daring to go past them, so they were all trapped inside until the siege ended.
Dante had a few options for escaping the blockade. The main one was Type 8-5 Teleportation, but he wanted to avoid relying on that if possible. Type 8-4 should be able to extend the range of Rift Creation, and Type 5’s Instant acceleration should make it possible to outrun anything the NVPD or BEO have, unless they somehow got Hyperdash or one of the other speedster heroes to play tag today.
The more he thought about it, the more it felt like finishing the heist solo was the right way, but somehow he felt that he was missing something.
’Hm?’
Looking at the 3D model once more, Dante noticed something odd. Three of the red dots that had entered through the ground level were moving through the building with great speed, climbing from one floor to the other using the emergency stairs on his side of the building.
’Strange...’ He thought. ’Give me a visual on this one.’
A screen appeared right away, showing the landing between the twentieth and twenty-first floors. The area seemed as clean as the rest of the hotel, although a lot simpler in its flooring and the railings of the stairs.
Blue Ember didn’t have the conventional stairs on the first three columns and relied entirely on elevators to move things and people between the first and the fifteenth floors. It still has more than one fire escape for emergencies, however, and that seemed like the perfect route for anyone looking to infiltrate the building.