I Am A Killer

I AM A KILLER : CHAPTER 22 ♦ (SPOILER TITLE)

After a day of training, the students that had originally been filled with vigour and fervour went to bath and turn in for the day one by one. A while after the final bell for lights out sounded, the dorm elapsed into a succession of snores.

Suddenly, a figure sat up like a carp from one of the beds, and borrowed the moonlight filtered in through the window to check the time on the watch taken out, and listened attentively to the rest of the people snoring in the dorm. Everyone's breathing was even and deep. They were all asleep. Qin Ke Xuan got up from her bed, and pressed their sleep acupuncture just in case, before changing into her black shirt and black pants she found and even concealed her face with a black cloth.

Her dorm was on the fourth floor, not considered very high. Qin Ke Xuan leapt off the balcony, stepping on several places along the way down to ease the impact, before dropping soundlessly on the ground, and used Qing Gong to dash rapidly towards the only building that was not a dormitory in the military school.

Just as she was about to approach the building, Qin Ke Xuan saw, from far away, that there were actually guards on posts at lit up building. She quickly concealed herself in a dark area and took measure of the little machine that was able to view everything mounted on the surrounding walls carefully with a glint of her eyes. She remembered that Wolf, Jackal and Leopard had mentioned it before, that thing was called a surveillance camera.

There was a camera every few distance apart, and they tightly enclosed the entrance without any loopholes. Such tight vigilance had her all the more confident that the guns were stored in the building, and all the more so she could not return empty handed.

There was no way to go in through the main entrance with the current situation. Also, she was unsure whether there was any surveillance in the dark corners other than where the guards were patrolling on the surface. She picked up a small pebble and shot them out simultaneously in several directions. The sound of the pebbles hitting the ground in the dead of the night produced startlingly abrupt clatters.

"Who's there?!" The soldier at his post turned his head, looking at the direction where the sound was produced in vigilance but did no see anyone. He surveyed the area in suspicion, and still did not see any suspicious individuals. There was not even a ghost in sight. It had made sense; for this was a training base, there would not be anyone who would dare approach this area, and those who were capable, all the more, did not need to honour their presence at such an insignificant place.

Qin Ke Xuan lay in the dark, her sharp sight confirmed that there was only one guard at post. She stood quietly, rounding the surveillance camera from the side near the wall. If it were not for not inadvertently alerting they people inside, she would have long smashed the cameras with a pebble and strutted in with swagger.

Exhaling deeply, she tensed before leaping up, landing on the hallways that had extended past the railings without a sound. Her back against the wall, she tilted her head slightly to look into the hallways on the second floor. As expected, there was another surveillance camera there. She withdrew her head, surveyed the area for a little before her glance fell on the window.

Her hand extended to grab the edge of the wall as she inched her way to the window. Reaching the window very quickly, she stepped on the window edge, both her hands clutching the two sides of the window to stabilise herself before she released one hand to fish out a little knife. The knife was amongst the tools Wolf, Jackal and Leopard had given her, it was said that the knife was incomparably sharp.

She opened the knife and started to pry open the window carefully. Just a few tries and there was a breaking sound. As she pried open the window, and Qin Ke Xuan suddenly came to a sorrowful realisation that she was very practised with the surreptitious ways of being a thief...... She pulled open the window gently to contain the sound, lifted the curtains, and surveyed the insides of the room with the aid of the murky lighting filtered in from outside. There was only some wooden equipment. She relocated herself upstairs, and pried open the second storey window; it was military uniforms...