Chapter 9 Regarding this organization, Gu Sheng decided to...

Gu Sheng decided not to tell Li Qingyue about this organization for the time being.

After all, Gu Sheng doesn't know anything yet.

After saying that, Li Qingyue glanced around and then lowered his voice to say, "Shen An is currently handling this case. He went to an art gallery that might be connected to that organization. If you're interested, you can ask him. He might know something."

Is this something he can ask? Will Shen An answer if he asks? In Li Qingyue's eyes, are he and Shen An on good terms?

Gu Sheng was full of questions, but he didn't dare show them, so he just nodded slightly.

"Alright." Li Qingyue took a sip of water, then stood up. "There's still a lot of work waiting for me."

Seeing that Li Qingyue was about to leave, Gu Sheng decided to get up as well.

Just then, a car drove by with its headlights on outside, and Gu Sheng was suddenly blinded by the reflection of something.

Before he even realized what it was, the word "sniper rifle" popped into his head.

There's a sniper rifle on the building across the street.

The gunman is on the fifth floor.

The sniper rifle is pointed this way, but the target isn't me.

His target is Li Qingyue.

Li Qingyue is in danger.

These thoughts flashed through Gu Sheng's mind in an instant.

He didn't even understand what he was thinking.

Gu Sheng paused for a moment, then, after sorting out his thoughts, silently thought: Hmm, the passive skill has been activated.

Seeing Li Qingyue get up, Gu Sheng called out to him, "Wait a minute."

Li Qingyue stopped what she was doing, looked at Gu Sheng, and asked with her eyes, "What's wrong?"

Out of the corner of his eye, Gu Sheng saw a sign on the counter that read, "New Arrival: Premium Yellow Peach Cheese".

So he said, "I'll treat you to peach cheese."

Li Qingyue looked surprised: "Don't you dislike sweets?"

So it turns out "he" doesn't like sweets, but Gu Sheng quite likes them. But none of that matters now. He said, "I want to try some."

“Oh,” Li Qingyue sat down again and said, “There’s never enough work to do, let’s take a break a little longer.”

Gu Sheng went to the front desk and ordered two servings of cheese. Then he returned to his seat and said to Li Qingyue, "I'm going to the restroom."

Li Qingyue waved his hand and said, "Go."

Gu Sheng didn't leave immediately. He said, "Sit here and don't move."

Li Qingyue seemed to sense something. He glanced out the window and said, "Hmm, I won't move."

He looked at Gu Sheng and said, "I believe in you, Gu Sheng. Just do what you want to do."

Gu Sheng didn't say anything. He turned around, went into the bathroom, and closed the door. His heart was pounding in his chest.

What does it mean to believe him? He doesn't even believe in himself.

He even told Gu Sheng to do what he wanted, but Gu Sheng didn't know what he should do.

In such a situation, of course you should contact the police station. It's just one block away from here, and the officer should be able to arrive very quickly.

Gu Sheng turned on his phone and found that it had no signal.

We're almost in the city center, how could there be no signal?

Someone must have done something to it.

What to do? Gu Sheng was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

That sniper could make a move at any moment. Li Qingyue is currently in danger and must deal with that sniper as soon as possible.

Thinking of the trusting look in Li Qingyue's eyes, Gu Sheng took a deep breath.

He told himself, "You're a super-skilled undercover agent." Although he didn't know exactly how skilled he was, he knew he could disarm someone with his bare hands. If he could take a gun, he could definitely handle the current situation.

It's just taking care of a sniper, right? Easy.

Gu Sheng closed his eyes, relaxed his body, and let his body's instincts guide him.

Gu Sheng opened his eyes, looked at the window on the wall, took two steps, easily jumped onto the window, and slipped out.

Outside was a dark alley.

Gu Sheng took off his coat, turned it inside out, put on his hat, and instantly became hunched over, looking like a completely different person from before.

Gu Sheng walked out of the alley with his head down, crossed the road to the other side, and instead of entering the hotel through the main entrance, he went around to the back of the hotel.

The hotel had security bars on the first floor, but that didn't stop Gu Sheng. He easily jumped up and squeezed through the open window on the second floor.

The door to the room he entered was open, or rather, all the doors to the rooms on this floor were open.

Outside, the cleaning lady is cleaning room by room.

Gu Sheng walked naturally into the corridor, and accidentally bumped into the cleaning lady as he passed by.

Gu Sheng apologized repeatedly, but the cleaning lady just glanced at him with a puzzled look and said it was nothing.

It wasn't until Gu Sheng entered the stairwell that she realized, wasn't this floor currently unoccupied? Where did Gu Sheng come from?

Gu Sheng walked up to the fifth floor, holding a black room key in his hand, which he had taken from the cleaning lady.

He fiddled with the card, feeling somewhat melancholy. He never used to have such fast reflexes; now he really felt like a thief.

Gu Sheng stood in the corridor, calculated the location, and arrived outside room 508.

He picked up the room key to open the door, but stopped halfway through the action.

Gu Sheng stared at the door in front of him, his gaze meeting that of the assassin inside the room.

Inside the house, the assassin held a pistol pointed directly at the door.

His years of living a life of constant danger made him more sensitive to danger, and he sensed something was wrong when Gu Sheng walked to the door.

Now, he will pull the trigger if there is anything unusual outside the door.

Gu Sheng unconsciously held his breath, almost blending into the white noise of the corridor. If he didn't look, he wouldn't notice anyone was there.

The assassin inside the room also held his breath and stared intently at the door.

The standoff lasted for several tens of seconds.

Gu Sheng recalled the second floor he had just passed. The rooms in this hotel should all have the same layout, with the bathroom on the left side of the door.

Gu Sheng had an idea.

He silently jumped onto the door frame and got stuck in the upper part of it.

Then he placed the room key on the door with a very contorted motion.

"drop"

"Bang"

The sound of the door being opened and the sound of gunshots rang out simultaneously.

The moment the gun went off, the assassin realized he hadn't hit the person outside the door.

The bullet passed through the middle of the door, and Gu Sheng was above it, so it did not hit him.

The first shot missed, and the assassin instantly slipped behind the bed. He fired another shot, this time hitting the area below the door, but it was another miss.

Clearly, the assassin hadn't expected Gu Sheng to be up there.

Two shots were enough time for Gu Sheng to react.

He grabbed the doorframe the moment the door opened, which was also the first time the gunshot rang out, and jumped from the top to the bathroom on the right.

The moment he jumped, which was also the moment the second gunshot rang out, he threw the thing in his hand away and then landed steadily in the bathroom.

The room fell silent.

Gu Sheng threw out a room key card. He didn't know where he got the courage to use a room key card against firearms.

A heavy thud came from outside.

Gu Sheng smashed the bathroom mirror, picked up a piece of the mirror, tied it to the clothes rack, and looked out. Then he saw blood all over the room.

Gu Sheng was stunned. Could one person have so much blood?

He mustered his courage and went outside, then saw the assassin lying by the bed, blood gushing from his neck.

Gu Sheng was somewhat surprised to see the room key inserted into the wall behind the assassin. Could a room key really be used to kill someone?

That room key must have slit the killer's throat, otherwise there wouldn't have been so much blood.

The assassin seemed to want to see what had killed him. He turned around with all his might, stared at the room key, and breathed his last.

Seeing the room covered in blood, Gu Sheng silently closed the door, thinking it was better not to let anyone see it.

Gu Sheng never expected that his first murder would happen like this. He knew that this day would come sooner or later, but he didn't seem as scared as he had imagined.

Perhaps it was because the process was too simple? Or perhaps it was because Gu Sheng knew he was saving people and killing bad guys, so he didn't feel any psychological burden.

Gu Sheng walked to the window, intending to open it and call out to Li Qingyue across the street. Just then, a hissing sound rang out, followed by someone's voice: "01, prepare for action. 01, prepare for action."

Gu Sheng looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was coming from the walkie-talkie next to the sniper rifle.

"03 received, 03 received."

Gu Sheng picked up the walkie-talkie, but there was no further communication on the other end.

A few seconds later, the person who spoke first said, "02, please respond."

Still, no one spoke.

"02 Received, please respond."

Gu Sheng looked at the walkie-talkie. Did 02 refer to the dead assassin?

Gu Sheng glanced at the assassin lying on the ground, then at the sniper rifle that was already set up.

The person on the other end of the walkie-talkie seemed to sense they were outmatched, and the voice became urgent: "02, what happened? Please respond if you receive this message. Please respond if you receive this message."

Gu Sheng crouched down with his sniper rifle in hand, looking out the window through the scope.

Soon, he spotted two more people, one on the upper right and the other on the upper left, both carrying guns.

Who did Li Qingyue offend that he had to hire three assassins to entertain him?

Just then, the walkie-talkie crackled to life again: "Good visibility, prepare to fire, others provide cover."

Shoot? Shoot whom? Li Qingyue?

Gu Sheng definitely couldn't let that happen.

He pointed the gun to his left.

"02, please answer; 02, please answer..."

One shot was fired, a muffled thud came from the walkie-talkie, and then the sound disappeared.

The other person also sensed something was wrong: "What's going on?"

Gu Sheng looked to his right and saw that the person on his right was backing away and was almost out of his sight.

Without hesitation, Gu Sheng fired another shot.

It was completely quiet.

Gu Sheng carefully checked his surroundings again, and after confirming that no one was around, he looked at the fast food restaurant across the street.

Li Qingyue was seated in a very good position, as his view was always obstructed from any direction.

He must have chosen this spot on purpose; it seems he has just as many enemies as Gu Sheng.

However, it was somewhat unfair of him to hide himself while leaving Gu Sheng outside, although Gu Sheng could understand that Li Qingyue might just be sitting like that out of habit.

Gu Sheng decided that he should learn from Li Qingyue and be more cautious in the future.

Just as Gu Sheng was about to leave and return to the restaurant.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a person dressed as a waiter in the corner of the restaurant with their hand inside their clothes, and a bulge in the clothes was facing Li Qingyue.

That shape is a pistol.

Gu Sheng pulled the trigger again, hitting the man, who fell to the ground. However, Gu Sheng felt a sense of unease, as if he himself had not been the one to deliver the fatal blow.

After successfully dealing with one person, Gu Sheng carefully checked the surrounding area again.

He only left after confirming that there was no danger.

When Gu Sheng returned to the restaurant, he saw Li Qingyue still sitting there, but there was a gun on his table, and the restaurant staff were trembling and hiding in the corner.

Gu Sheng glanced at the person lying on the ground. The person had been shot twice, once in the forehead and once in the chest.

The bullet wound between the eyebrows wasn't fired by Gu Sheng; if it wasn't Gu Sheng, then it could only have been Li Qingyue.

Gu Sheng sat down opposite Li Qingyue and said, "You reacted quite quickly."

Li Qingyue said, "I'm used to it." He then asked, "How many?"

Gu Sheng said, “Three,” he glanced at the person on the ground, “plus this one, that makes four.”

Li Qingyue's eyes widened slightly: "You took care of all three?"

Gu Sheng didn't understand what was so surprising about this. Apart from the first one being a bit troublesome, the other two were easy to solve.

Gu Sheng nodded.

In fact, Gu Sheng did not know that at that distance, no one but him could have hit both of the other two assassins with those two shots in such a short time.

Li Qingyue sighed and said, "Sometimes I think about it, is there really anything you can't do?"

While eating cheese, Gu Sheng said, "Yes, for example, finding a place to live." Gu Sheng was really going crazy from looking for a place to live.

Li Qingyue was somewhat surprised: "You want to change rooms?"

Gu Sheng said, "We do have that plan."

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