Girls Frontline: Griffin Security

"At least let me eat my meal..."

Xu Bin couldn't help but complain, but because of his "duty", he had no choice but to open the extremely ugly tablet computer and start checking the task details.

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Emergency Mission: Mall Crisis

Mission details: More than 60 members of the extreme right-wing organization "Restoration Front" in the island country launched a terrorist attack in the FUKUMARU shopping center in Qingshan City. They have now controlled the entire mall building, killed and injured dozens of civilians, and held 13 hostages in a shop on the fourth floor of the mall. The organization has now issued a statement demanding that the island country immediately repeal the "Peace Act" and rebuild the army, otherwise the 13 hostages will be beheaded and broadcast live to the world. In addition, there are more than a dozen injured people in the mall who cannot be evacuated and urgently need medical treatment.

Mission objective: Rescue 13 hostages and defeat the extremist organization's actions (unlock system store and humanoid manufacturing function)

Secondary goal: Provide timely treatment to the wounded trapped in the mall and prevent them from dying (reward gold coins)

Additional objective: Kill or capture all extremists involved in the attack (a mysterious gift box will be awarded)

"Commander, the system has automatically opened the novice gift pack for you."

Obtained: Basic combat equipment, basic command equipment

Received reward figure: UMP40

Obtained: One-way transfer ticket x2

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As the system's prompt sound ended, many glowing particles immediately appeared on Xu Bin's body. These particles gradually turned into combat equipment and were firmly worn on his body, including a mask, a combat vest, an automatic rifle, binoculars, a portable walkie-talkie... everything. Then a black shadow suddenly pounced on Xu Bin's face.

"Commander, I'm UMP4O!"

A smartly dressed girl with long light gray hair was hanging on him at the moment, rubbing her head against Xu Bin's chest like a kitten.

"Ahhh, I know, I know, you come down first, we still have work to do!"

Xu Bin was suddenly knocked off balance by UMP40 and finally managed to regain his balance. After pulling her off his body, he continued to check the instructions on the tablet computer.

"The humanoids have highly bionic appearances, powerful bodies, and fire control cores, which enable them to exert combat capabilities far beyond those of human soldiers. The system will generate their personalities and combat habits based on the background history and performance of the weapons they have 'branded' with."

The weapon in the hands of the girl in front of him was the UMP40 submachine gun, just like her name. Xu Bin nodded to her as a greeting, then opened the command tablet and selected the teleportation location for this mission.

FUKUMARU is the largest shopping mall in the city. It is a rectangular building with five floors high, an underground parking lot, and even a helipad for helicopter takeoffs and landings on the rooftop.

Outside the building is a city park for residents to walk and relax. This park was built around the shopping mall and has a flat and open terrain. The extremists who controlled the mall had previously told the police not to approach the mall building, otherwise they would immediately start executing the hostages. This made the police surrounding this place very passive, and the SAT (special police force of the island country) team members tried to crawl through the blind spot several times but failed.

Fortunately, Xu Bin used to go to that mall often to buy things, and he also obtained two teleportation tickets from the system, which allowed him to teleport directly into the mall with UMP40.

"Let's teleport here! UMP40, get ready to go!"

"Oh! Please give me more advice~"

After Xu Bin set up the teleportation point, UMP40 immediately went into operation, and stood beside Xu Bin with a gun on his back. As Xu Bin operated on the command tablet, the two of them turned into white light and disappeared into the air.

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FUKUMARU MALL

2061/ 6/ 11

13:26

Outside the toilet on the second floor, two gangsters armed with rifles were leaning against the wall, smoking and observing the police's actions outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Fukuyama-kun, this time we have to sacrifice ourselves for the organization, right? No matter how you think about it, the Congress and the Cabinet will not hand over power to the restorationists just for these dozen citizens."

"What a foolish thing to say, Youshan-kun. Think about it carefully. Even if we kill all the hostages and die here this time, can't we continue to do this in the future? If we sacrifice ourselves today, there will be thousands and thousands of us in the future; if we kill these dozen citizens, there will be thousands and thousands of citizens out there who will sacrifice themselves for the restoration of the country. Sooner or later, those Western lackeys will compromise!"

"I see! Fukuyama-kun is indeed a backbone member who has received mid-level training in the organization. Our nation has a bright future!"

The two "national future-minded" bandits were admiring themselves, not realizing that danger was approaching from their side...

"Crack!"

Xu Bin raised his knife and cut the carotid artery of one of the gangsters with the dagger. Then he immediately dragged the bleeding gangster to squat down. At the same time, UMP40 raised his submachine gun and shot through the head of another gangster.

In fact, most weapons will make a lot of noise even if they are equipped with a silencer, but the UMP40 is different. The .40S&W pistol bullet it uses has a much smaller charge than a rifle, which allows the energy of the gunpowder combustion to be more fully absorbed by the silencer. Coupled with the low initial velocity of the bullet, the noise made when shooting is even smaller than that of the MP5 gun that uses a smaller caliber bullet.

After dealing with the two enemies, Xu Bin and UMP40 immediately lifted a corpse each and hid in the shop next door.

The police had cut off the power supply to the shopping mall, and all places away from doors and windows were pitch black, so the two had room to hide.

...

After hiding the two bodies of the gangsters under the counter, Xu Bin took out the command tablet, and the screen showed the images of the various surveillance cameras in the mall...

It turns out that the cameras in this mall are not closed-circuit. They are connected to the county police system. Therefore, using this tablet computer from the future, one can easily hack into the county police system network and see the locations of most of the criminals.

The gangsters were mainly concentrated on the second and fourth floors, and the hostages were held in the "Kitdo Café" on the fourth floor. On the third floor, only a few people were confronting the police by the window. There were about twenty people on the second floor. On the first floor, apart from two gunmen at the entrance to the fire stairwell, there were only corpses on the ground.

"...!"

Xu Bin couldn't help gritting his teeth as he looked through the surveillance footage... This was a shopping mall he often visited. In the supermarket on the first floor, there was a girl with a very pretty smile working in the vegetable section. Xu Bin had always liked her.

It's a pity that she can no longer see that smile. She is now lying in the vegetable area where she usually works. From the surveillance footage, she looks lifeless...

Shaking his head, Xu Bin realized that he had to put his emotions aside now because there were still living people who needed to be saved.

As far as he knew, every shop in the mall had a back door. After opening the back door, one could walk through the fire escape all the way to the escape ladder, and through the escape ladder one could reach each floor, rooftop, and underground parking lot.

The escape ladder is naturally the key to defending this building!

Such a convenient route would naturally not be ignored by the bandits. The Japanese people's extreme pursuit of details was reflected in the bandits at this time:

Two gangsters were stationed outside the exit connecting the escape ladder to each floor, with their guns pointed in the direction of the escape ladder. Once the police tried to launch a strong attack from the sewer -> underground parking lot -> escape ladder, only two people were needed to suppress the assault team in the narrow stairwell.

As for the lobby where customers come in and out? Attacking from there would be suicide. There was not even a shelter in the empty lobby.

Then what should be done?

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Outside the mall, in the county police's temporary command center.

Officer Kobayashi is now anxiously checking the deployment, because all the infiltration plans have been rejected. Above him are leaders who keep calling to ask about the situation, and below him are the people who are gathered outside the cordon and scolding the police for their incompetence. He is the only one caught in the middle.

"If this continues, we can only attack at night. We have night vision goggles."

The SAT commander returned to the headquarters, picked up the water and took a gulp.

"Isn't there a safer way? For example, we let them go in exchange for the hostages' safe return?"

Officer Kobayashi wiped the sweat from his head and asked.

If any hostages were injured or killed, his career advancement prospects would be over.

"They have already said they will behead the hostages at sunrise tomorrow. Do you think they will run away and slap themselves in the face in order to survive?" The SAT commander asked back:

"Extremist organizations are different from ordinary robbers. What they want is not money but demands. If they give up their demands in order to survive, then they might as well not plan this attack!"

Having said that, the commander glared at the building fiercely.

He absolutely did not want the people of the island nation to return to the system of "all people die in glory". Even if it cost him his own life, he would bite these lunatics to death here.

In comparison, Officer Kobayashi's attitude is much more ambiguous. He just wants to keep his career path...

"Officer Kobayashi, there's movement in the building!"

A police officer who was in charge of observation with a telescope reported, and then Officer Kobayashi also lay down beside him and took out a telescope to observe the building.

I saw a gangster on the third floor running laboriously to a balcony... Suddenly, a cloud of bloody mist burst out from his head, and then he fell to the ground without a sound.

"What's going on? Have they started killing their own people?" Officer Kobayashi put down the binoculars with a puzzled look on his face, and then he found that the SAT commander was also lying next to him.

"No, I didn't hear any gunshots. The criminals were holding ordinary AK47s... Maybe there was a third party operating in the building!"

Upon hearing this bold speculation, Officer Kobayashi's jaw almost dropped to the ground.

Indeed, the main task of the criminals in this operation was to conduct security and combat in the building. It was meaningless to put a silencer on their rifles, and it would make the AK47, which was already long, more inconvenient to use.

Based on this speculation, it is very likely that a third party has infiltrated the building and is fighting with the criminals.

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The one that fired the shot was UMP40.

After she and Xu Bin eliminated the enemies on the second floor and the floors below, they agreed that it was impossible to go up through the stairwell, so they made a bold decision - to climb up from the outside of the building!

However, they did not expect that while they were climbing outside, they were not seen by the police outside, but were seen by a gangster in the toilet on the third floor!

In a flash, UMP40 instantly flipped into the toilet on the third floor with a force unimaginable to humans, kicked the gangster away, and shot him in the neck.

UMP40 originally wanted to blow his head off, but because he had not yet stood firmly when he climbed in from the window, his shot missed, and the following scene was like a horror movie—the gangster who wanted to call for help but couldn't make a sound ran in front, and Xu Bin and UMP40 chased after him...

After dragging the body back from the balcony, Xu Bin, who had just had a false alarm, checked the surveillance camera... Fortunately, the other criminals did not notice the movement here, so he began to explain the next plan: