"A ninja?" Li Jia said calmly, watching the figure disappear immediately after missing its target.

Ninja. The most distinctive and representative profession in Japan. Originating in Japan during the 16th century, a period of over a hundred years marked by fragmentation and the nominal existence of the shogunate, the Iga region, already weak under central government control, saw the emergence of dozens of separatist forces. These forces rebelled and fought amongst themselves. Due to limited land and military strength, they relied on training "spies," or "ninjas," for reconnaissance, raids, and assassinations. Soon, over thirty ninja factions emerged in Japan, the most famous being the Iga and Koga.

Li Jia dodged the shuriken from the unidentified ninja and immediately sought cover in the shadows. The figure that had flashed by earlier had vanished without a trace. "It must have been a low-ranking ninja on guard duty. This place is actually quite intriguing," she thought to herself. Using the bushes and rocks on the hillside as cover, Li Jia made her way towards the villa closest to the outside.

Suddenly! A blurry shadow appeared behind Li Jiadi, holding a dark, unyielding ninja sword. Without a sound, it thrust towards Li Jiadi's back. Hearing a faint whooshing sound behind him, Li Jiadi broke out in a cold sweat. His body suddenly accelerated forward, the shadow following closely behind. The ninja sword continued its relentless thrust towards Li Jiadi's back.

"Such speed!" As everyone knows, ninjas are always dressed entirely in black. They can leap across rooftops and jump over city walls with incredible speed and unpredictable movements. After Li Jia suddenly dodged the ninja's sword to the left, he turned back to look for the ninja who had ambushed him, but there was no trace of him.

After two rounds of combat, Li Jia had a basic understanding of the ninjas' strength here. Two black darts appeared at his fingertips. Then, he walked unhurriedly towards the villa, his eyes darting around with a hint of fear.

When Li Jia had walked about ten meters, the tense look in his eyes suddenly turned into a playful smile. His dart shot out like lightning, and a muffled groan came from behind him. A man dressed in a ninja outfit, his head wrapped in a black cloth, still held his ninja sword in the air. Red and white semen was gushing from his black-clothed head. In an instant, the ninja collapsed to the ground. His ninja sword clattered onto a stone. With that sound, three figures suddenly appeared side-by-side before Li Jia, their clothing and height almost identical.

Three people stood in front of Li Jia for about two seconds. The one in the middle raised his ninja sword and slashed diagonally at Li Jia's head. The other two ninjas, however, leaped to the sides as the middle ninja attacked, instantly disappearing into the bushes.

The ninja's swordsmanship was also quite skilled, unleashing over a dozen strikes at Li Jia in one go. Every time Li Jia tried to retaliate, a shuriken would fly out from the shadows or a shadow would suddenly appear and ambush him, hindering his attacks. After several rounds, Li Jia felt a little frustrated, thinking, "These rats... their teamwork is quite impressive."

After silently muttering a phrase to himself, Li Jia's body suddenly sped up considerably, heading straight towards the villa complex. The three ninjas, thus losing their advantage in the terrain, had no choice but to give chase.

Looking at the three figures relentlessly pursuing him, Li Jia smiled faintly. A dart appeared at his fingertips, and his body suddenly accelerated. Seeing Li Jia's sudden acceleration, the three figures immediately pushed their own speed to the limit. The distance between them and Li Jia suddenly shortened considerably. Just as the three were wondering why Li Jia was so fast, Li Jia's face suddenly appeared in front of them. "Ah!" The reason for their surprise was that Li Jia's body suddenly reversed direction; his high-speed movement was abruptly reversed in an instant, and with the three of them accelerating at full speed, Li Jia's sudden turn, like a horse turning back, caught them off guard.

In that sudden, startling moment, before the three men could even pull out their smoke grenades, they felt a sharp pain in their throats. A two-inch-long dart had pierced their throats beneath their face masks, and crimson blood hissed like a punctured pipe. The three corpses fell stiffly to the ground. Meanwhile, blood from Li Jia's dart dripped slowly from her fingertips onto the weeds on the hillside, as black as ink under the pale starlight…

Finally, no one appeared to disturb Li Jia anymore. Under the cover of night, Li Jia's figure stealthily crept into the huge villa complex. The moment Li Jia entered the complex, she noticed several security cameras installed on the exterior wall of the largest villa. The cameras' angles almost completely covered all the villa's blind spots. "The guy who installed these cameras is definitely a master!"

After silently muttering to herself, Li Jia hid in the shadows, her eyes fixed on the security cameras on the villa's exterior wall, calculating their angles in her mind. About five minutes later, Li Jia finally found a blind spot with only a dozen degrees of angle. The only thing to be careful of was the moving camera at the highest point of the villa. Every three seconds, that camera would turn to reach the blind spot, pausing for about two seconds. The entire rotation of the camera took about four seconds. "That's it!"

After calculating the time difference, Li Jia finally found a gap of about two seconds among the many cameras. This two-second gap was the only opening for Li Jia to enter the villa. "Four, three, two, one, now!"

Li Jia's figure suddenly emerged from the shadows. The rotating camera on the exterior wall had just turned to the other side, and when it turned back again, Li Jia's figure had already disappeared outside the villa. The camera footage, however, remained perfectly calm.

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