cleaning spray on the two security cameras to ensure the security personnel wouldn’t get a clear footage of what was going on. He quickly moved to the service elevator and pressed the button to bring up the elevator to the 17 th floor. After that Lucas took the main elevator and moved up to the 18 th floor.
The hallway was still empty. He headed to his room and brought Sam’s shaving foam from the washroom. As he headed down the hallway towards the service elevator, he ensured that he sprayed the foam on each of the cameras. He forced open the service elevator door and stepped down on the elevator car to obtain his backpack. After securing the same, he used the grappling hook to pull himself up back to the 18 th floor. On his way back to the room, he wiped off the foam from the security cams on the way. So by the time the security guys came up to check the glitch, the cams would be up and running once again causing minimal sense of alarm.
Sam was still lying unconscious as Lucas opened up his backpack and started assembling his stuff. He took out a couple of C4 sticks and the smoke grenades. He would need them to create utter chaos during his exit plan. He carried the explosives with him along with the pistol and his goggles. He also took out the Swiss knife and secured it in a special compartment on the sole of his right boot. He wore the goggles, changed the color of the glass for easy visibility at night and turned the inbuilt infrared lights on so that the cameras could not detect his face. He also took out a few spare tracking patches. He put the rest of the contents in the backpack and headed out of the room.
He went to the service elevator shaft and attached the bag to the cable using the grappling hook. He also closed the elevator door to ensure that no one would suspect that something was wrong. After this, Lucas went down the emergency stairs to the 17 th floor and attached a C4 stick to the fire safety system itself. The detonator was embedded which could be detonated remotely using his watch. He headed to the 49 th floor first and called up the service elevator. Next he headed back to the main elevator and went to the 50 th floor to meet Romanovich. It was time for showdown.
While the elevator was moving up, Lucas stacked another C4 stick to the elevator’s ceiling after removing the shaft. He also placed the smoke grenades there so that once the C4 was detonated, the whole elevator shaft would be covered in smoke. This would also ensure that all elevators including Romanovich’s express elevator was rendered useless. He had made enough arrangement to create a panic. He surely would not be able to carry the pistol with him while meeting Romanovich. So he had to think of an excuse for carrying one.
The elevator came to a halt at the 50 th floor. Romanovich’s personal guards were waiting outside the penthouse. Any visitor had to go through a pat down before they could head over to meet Romanovich. Lucas could clearly see four heavily built men waiting at the main entrance. They were surely carrying firearms and looked equally capable in hand to hand combat. The symbol of ‘Viper’ was tattooed on two of their necks. These guys were the very cream of Rosmus’s notorious and battle hardened security agency. Even before they searched him, Lucas handed over the pistol suggesting that being a CEO of a rapidly growing company, he had developed multiple enemies worldwide and hence he always carried the same for self-defense. However he would not need the same for his meeting with Mr. Romanovich and hence the security personnel should keep it in their custody.
After a thorough pat down, the Viper operatives determined that Lucas did not possess any other form of weapon with him. So after a brief discussion with someone on the phone, Lucas was allowed to enter the penthouse while they kept the pistol in their custody. Lucas was happy. No matter how many times