Chapter 11 - Catching an armed corporate mercenary in the subterranean lab leads to a tense shootout beneath the mansion's marble foyer floors.
A sudden sound of a metallic slide racking echoed from the dark corner of the laboratory, behind a row of metal server racks.
Julian reacted instantly, dropping behind a reinforced steel table as a silenced bullet whizzed past his head, shattering a glass beaker.
"You shouldn't have come down here, Vance!" a harsh, raspy voice shouted through the dim, fluorescent-lit laboratory space.
"Julian Vance doesn't run away from trash in his own house," Julian shouted back, aiming his sidearm toward the reflection on a chrome server.
He fired two rapid shots, striking the server casing and forcing the hidden gunman to stumble backward into the open aisle.
The attacker was a heavily built man wearing a dark tactical vest, holding an automatic pistol equipped with a high-capacity magazine.
Julian lunged forward, tackling the mercenary around the waist and slamming him hard against the concrete floor with brutal force.
The gun went off again, sending a stray bullet through the ceiling, right beneath the marble floor of the grand foyer above.
Julian delivered a devastating right hook to the attacker's jaw, knocking the man unconscious and securing his weapon in one swift movement.
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He searched the mercenary's vest, pulling out a encrypted satellite radio that was actively broadcasting a live signal to an offshore location.
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