The Colt's gun was aimed at the man who just walked out of the tunnel. In his infrared vision, Zero could clearly see that his hands had turned into thorny vines that were twisting and turning. They stuck out from the sleeves of the man's windbreaker like a dozen or so vipers coiling together, like octopus tentacles, ready to violently wound at any moment.

When the man walked out of the passage, Feng, Su and Ma Pei had pointed their guns at him. Gounabel did not place Feng and ...