The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician
Chapter 501 - 271: The Universal Lock-Picking Method with a 100% Success Rate

Chapter 501: Chapter 271: The Universal Lock-Picking Method with a 100% Success Rate

"Why have you stopped?" Inside the stairwell, Jiang Shu saw that Wolf had halted, so he also stopped and asked, "What do you want to do?"

"We can’t get away like this," Wolf replied, also halting before peering up from the center of the spiral staircase.

No one was coming down after them.

"Nobody’s chasing us, something’s not right," Wolf frowned slightly, then his gaze landed on a door nearby.

They had run up to the sixteenth floor, and the door next to them was the emergency door leading to the corridor of the sixteenth level.

"Ding—Drip—" But at that moment, the emergency door suddenly beeped twice, and the light on the door lock switched from green to red.

"Damn, it really is like this," Wolf exclaimed in surprise. He rushed over to the door and violently shook the doorknob, but both the doorknob and the entire door remained immovable.

It seemed like someone had locked them directly.

"Uh, are we not able to get out?" Jiang Shu immediately grasped their plight.

Thinking about it, they had taken it for granted; in such a high-tech company, how could they forget that these emergency doors might be controlled electronically?

Now all the emergency doors in the entire building were surely locked, and they were trapped in the stairwell.

"I’ll contact the police station now to have them remotely take control of the company’s internal network," Wolf said, opening his wristwatch, ready to contact Old Tang.

Jiang Shu, standing nearby, did not speak, simply letting Wolf make the call to the Thirteen District Police Station.

He was not thinking about relying on others to rescue him but turned his attention instead to the interior of the stairwell.

The entire stairwell was white: white banisters of a square-round shape, white walls, white lighting, the staircase spiraling up and down.

The place was nearly completely sealed off, with only a narrow gap about a finger’s width beneath the emergency door.

Vents...

Vents.

Jiang Shu thought of this and then carefully listened for faint sounds in the quiet space.

The sound of airflow.

So his gaze began to search within the stairwell, and soon a small white square on the high wall caught his attention.

A wall square about the size of a head, full of tiny holes.

That should be the ventilator for the stairwell, but it was too small, completely unable to accommodate a human passing through.

And a further search revealed something else to him: three white flat cylindrical objects were arranged on that wall, with a ring of black around the side of the cylinders, but it was unclear exactly what it was.

Smoke detectors?

Jiang Shu looked at the objects and guessed internally; however, that wasn’t enough for him to make a judgment, so he activated the infrared flashlight function on his wristwatch. A beam of infrared light directly hit those suspected smoke detectors.

There was a red reflection, but not on every cylinder.

This faint red reflection was probably the characteristic of a camera lens, which suggested that there was surveillance in the stairwell, camouflaged as smoke detectors.

Jiang Shu frowned slightly.

Were he and Wolf being monitored by the chairman’s people?

Not necessarily, considering that according to the earlier footage, the cleaning staff had cleaned out the monitoring room already, leaving it currently unattended.

But they still had to be cautious.

So Jiang Shu pulled out a card from his pocket, his wrist flicking slightly, and a black card turned into a streak of light, flashing through the air.

When the gaze refocused, that card was already lodged into the black part of the "smoke detector," completely destroying the camera lens.

"Ping—" The slight sound of glass shattering drew Wolf’s attention, who turned his head with a puzzled look toward Jiang Shu.

"It’s nothing, I’m just checking out the setup here," Jiang Shu casually responded to Wolf, then looked back toward the smoke detector.

There was only shattered black lens, but the black color made any changes imperceptible, and the playing card that had been inserted was now gone.

"Oh." Wolf likewise noticed nothing unusual and turned back to fiddle with his wristwatch. However, he soon gave up, responding with some annoyance, "There’s no network signal, it’s probably been jammed."

"Mhm." This didn’t surprise Jiang Shu; after all, this was a company that sold security systems, and it was only natural for it to have many unique aspects in its security system, including the ability to quickly set up signal jammers.

Honestly, Jiang Shu found the previous events rather odd; why could the White Hat from the police station invade Sages Group’s surveillance system so easily?

Was the police department’s capability too strong, or was there a problem inside Sages Group?

Was it because the Cleaner had physically infiltrated the monitoring room at that time?

Or was it something else?

"What do we do now?" There was urgency in Jiang Shu’s tone, but his expression remained calm as ever.

He wasn’t worried, or more accurately, he had nothing to worry about.

His own capabilities were clear, and his enemies were not ambitious figures like Tang or Clo, just a chairman anyway.

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