Li had another floor he needed to climb but was stopped in his tracks at the staircase when a barricade had been placed in his way. A display with a message said Repairs still in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Li narrowed his eyes at the display, but quickly moved on and exited out the staircase. He would have to move all the way down another floor to get to the second staircase. Li kept his back close to the wall as he methodically moved through the hall. He was right to be cautious as his ears picked up footsteps around the next corner.
The hall still stretched straight ahead but was split in the middle that had two extra directions, one of each side. Judging from the pattern of the footsteps and its heaviness, he could immediately tell it was a Kodak agent. Not knowing what level the enemy agent was, Li played it safe. Li placed his pistol on the side of his coat and touched the wall with his modified gloves.
He felt a solid connection between the material of his gloves and the wall. Li put his other hand higher on the wall and his gloved hand attached itself to the surface. He began climbing the wall. Even on a flat texture, Li’s gloves were specially designed to grip well against various surfaces, allowing an agent with the ability to climb walls when grappling equipment or the strength to make jumps wasn’t an option.
Li climbed the wall until he was at least seven meters off the ground. This hotel had pointlessly high ceilings which he would use to his advantage. The footsteps picked up and finally the Kodak agent emerged from the corner and headed down Li’s hallway. The agent didn’t bother looking up. Because why did he have to?
Over and over again, Li was amazed at how blind a human could be, whether through blindspots in senses, the unfavorable environment or wilful ignorance, he saw it time and time again. Even with supposedly enhanced agents with better senses than the average man, all this Kodak agent had to do was look up to see Li. But it was too late. Li already had the element of surprise and could kill this agent in any way he pleased.
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He initially contemplated allowing the agent to pass but reconsidered, thinking it was best to minimize the number of enemy agents roaming around.
Li moved his body in methodical increments to get himself in the ideal position while also keeping an eye on the Kodak agent’s movements. He let go of one hand from the wall and placed his foot and kicked, releasing the other hand. Li dropped from the wall and landed perfectly behind the Kodak agent. His knife was already in his hand as he placed the blade in front of the agent’s neck and pulled back in one smooth motion.
His other hand was used to push the back of the agent’s head through the knife, in which the blade shredded through the flesh of the enemy’s neck.
The Kodak agent gurgled before dropping to his knees. The mess from the bloodshed was minimal, as the nano coating on Li’s knife congealed the agent’s blood at a fast rate. By the time Li’s knife departed from the flesh, the agent’s neck had already been slashed and, if he wasn’t dead already, the artificially induced congealing of blood will create oversized clots that would suffocate bloodflow to the head.
The Kodak agent had no chance of surviving. Li watched with cold professionalism as the agent finally fell to the floor and stopped moving. His fingers twitched one last time before Li knew that life had left the agent’s body.
Li walked to the nearest hotel room to check for its vacancy status. He then checked the next room and found it empty. He walked back to the agent’s corpse and liften and dragged the body toward the room Li had found. Having someone stumble upon the body of a dead Kodak agent would instantly raise alarms and Li wanted to remain in the shadows, living up to his agent codename.
Using the keycard to access to room, he opened the door and dragged the agent’s body to the bathroom. He opened the door, tossed the body onto the floor and then locked the door from the inside. Li felt a tiny bit of pity for the room service staff once they opened this bathroom.
Li walked slowly towards the door and opened it. He glanced both ways before closing the door behind him and continuing his walk through the hotel and to the security room.
He smiled to himself, knowing his hyperactive and hotheaded teammates Angie and Dan could never kill with such grace and subtlety.