Lin Feng wiped his hands, offered no further explanation, merely glanced at the old man, waved, and walked out.

The old woman from before was probably a mini-boss, and the three of them were already this exhausted, let alone a team of seven.

Although he only wanted to go and see, he had no right or reason to demand that the other party take the risk with him. As for the student girl, he did not intend to get too close until there was a stable relationship of mutual benefit.

Stepping out of the building, a ray of sunlight shone through the trees and onto his face. After a night of anxiety, it was almost noon the next day. Several children who had just finished school happened to pass by and saw Lin Feng coming out of the building. They were so frightened that they ran away as fast as they could.

A small insect landed on his face. Lin Feng brushed it away slightly and quickly left the vicinity of the old building.

That night he roughly sorted out some things. From the perspective of the enemy, they would definitely try every means to collude with the government officials behind the research group.

Given the uniqueness of the participants, gaining their trust was almost effortless, and once the cooperative relationship was established... there was a high probability that the officials would send tactical teams to attack them, but surprisingly, the other side did not send anyone to attack them for an entire night.

Looking at what happened after they entered, the attack on the bus stop, the luring them into the old building, and the eerie threads on Ye Qidong and his mother's ghosts, the whole thing was filled with some strange feelings.

Besides these, Lin Feng still had a lingering doubt about how the three men in suits could so decisively fake their deaths and escape.

If we openly speculate and, according to the old man's explanation, categorize the three men in suits as belonging to an opposing team that wanted to take everything, then the matter of their faked deaths becomes even more perplexing.

Unless they discover something, they also choose to give up.

Before entering the mission world, Louis mentioned that Nightmare Space would not issue missions that force the pursuit of enemy teams, so the sudden attack upon entering was truly puzzling.

Reaching the roadside, Lin Feng waved down a taxi, gave the driver Ye Qidong's address, and tossed a wad of US dollars into the driver's arms: "I'll hire you. You'll be with me for the next 7 days."

The driver touched the thick wad of cash in his pocket, and upon seeing that it was US dollars, he immediately estimated the price in his mind. This was at least what he had earned from driving a taxi on the night shift for almost half a year. He immediately nodded and bowed, smiling repeatedly, "Okay, boss, from today onwards, wherever you want to go, I'll take you there!"

"drive."

"Yes, boss!"

The car quickly arrived at Ye Qidong's building. After getting out of the car, Lin Feng wandered around for a while before returning to the taxi and looking at the rather lively six-story residential building in front of him.

Ye Qidong's house was on the third floor. The curtains were drawn tightly, so no light could get in from either side, and no one could see what was going on inside.

Lin Feng squinted and observed for a while, then lowered his head and patted the taxi window before asking, "Driver, is there a large experimental base in the suburbs?"

"suburbs?"

The driver rolled down the window and began to recall very seriously. After muttering a few words, he thought of a place and hurriedly replied, "Yes, yes, yes, it's about an hour's drive from here, almost into the mountains."

"Has something happened there?"

“Oh, boss, now that you mention it, it reminds me of something. A few months ago, someone died there. A lot of foreigners went there, and it supposedly caused an international dispute. It was also related to a shooting in the city.” The driver reached into the passenger compartment, rummaged around, and quickly found a stack of newspapers, handing them to Lin Feng. “Look, there was a shooting in the city, with dozens of people killed or injured. One of the suspects died on a hilltop at an experimental base in the suburbs. He was a PhD from abroad.”

"But boss, let me tell you a secret, it's not just that. I have a friend who was near the shooting. The bullet whizzed past his head and almost killed him!"

The driver got more and more excited as he talked, and leaned out of the car window to offer a cigarette.

Lin Feng put down the newspaper, took the cigarette, and lit it after the driver handed him a lighter. He then held it between his fingers.

"He said that the man was like a madman. First, he fired at the air and yelled at people. Then the police came, and he went even crazier and took a sniper rifle out of his car."

"Tsk tsk..."

The driver, as if experiencing it firsthand, leaned against the car window and exhaled puffs of smoke through the haze.

"Some say the shooter used to be in an anti-terrorism unit and killed a lot of bad guys. Then those bad guys came back as ghosts to take revenge on him. But others say privately that the shooter accidentally killed a mother and child. The mother and child returned on the seventh day after their death and came back to haunt him."

"Hehe, boss, let me tell you, the day of the shooting was really eerie. A lot of people saw the ghosts of a mother and child."

"Which one do you think is true?" Lin Feng placed the cigarette butt he was holding on the roof of the taxi, letting it burn slowly.

"Really... Hahaha, boss, you're joking. I think it's all fake." The taxi driver laughed awkwardly a few times, took a deep drag on his cigarette, turned to Lin Feng outside the car, and said, "Boss, it's best to avoid these kinds of weird things. Who knows..."

A glint of light flashed in Lin Feng's eyes, and he gave the taxi driver a meaningful smile, perhaps he really did know something.

Taxi drivers in a city can be considered the primary intelligence hub; they can obtain the information they want with just a little effort.

After taking a few puffs, the taxi driver threw the cigarette butt out of the car, leaned out and pressed his head against the window, pointing to Ye Qidong's house across the street: "You just came out of that haunted building, right? And this place, the house of the main perpetrator of the shooting, all of these were shown on TV."

"On the day of the incident, my friend picked up some strange people. According to what they said on the way, these people seemed to know from the beginning that something bad was going to happen, and they kept following the main culprit."

Lin Feng approached the driver's side window. The driver, preoccupied with his conversation, turned around and was startled when he saw what was happening. He quickly smiled apologetically and continued, "Boss, don't scare me. I'm easily frightened... cough cough, to be honest, it's not strange at all. Those people are just weird. No normal person would have a bunch of weird symbols tattooed on their face."

Facial tattoos with strange symbols? It's very likely some kind of evil magic...

Seeing that Lin Feng was listening intently, the driver pretended to be serious and said in a low voice, "My friend took them to an unfinished building. I heard that a woman committed suicide there during construction..."

"Heh, always going to shady places, he's obviously not a good person..."

After he finished speaking, the driver suddenly realized that his boss had come from the building where people had died.

"Um... Boss, let's not talk about such unpleasant things. How about I take you to some fun places? I've been working here for over twenty years, I know exactly what's fun and delicious!"