The night was deep and far away, and many people were sound asleep in the quiet city.
Unruly young men and women swayed their hips under the neon lights of the bar, then collapsed into a trash can at three in the morning to vomit.
When the light fades, the filth of a city just begins to surface. Compared to the rationality of daytime, this moment always seems both ambiguous and real. Darkness can shroud not only buildings but also evil-doing humans.
A few thugs idly waited outside a bar to pick up unconscious, beautiful, and somewhat naive girls. Meanwhile, a young model in high heels and black stockings, her long legs exposed even in the dead of winter, got into a rich second-generation's luxury car and sped away.
As the taxi passed by the Changhuan River, several men vomited loudly in the wind. The driver calmly said that the vomiting was happening on the second floor of the car.
A person was hiding in a narrow alley near the residential area. A tiny light flickered in that spot, so indistinct it was almost impossible to discern. The light could be the foil from a cigarette pack reflecting the bright moonlight, a carelessly discarded piece of plastic film, or a shard of small glass.
In fact, it is a precision telescope.
The somewhat rough-looking man was wearing a light blue work uniform stained with paint. He looked like one of the countless ordinary construction workers in Lanjing, and it was unclear why he was here at three in the morning.
He had been lying low in Lanjing for over a month, acting suspiciously and not looking like a good person. His binoculars were pointed directly at the sixth floor of Building * in Huanjiang Residential Area, which was Jiang Cheng's room.
The man had scouted the area several times and made a meticulous plan to avoid all surveillance cameras. He would bypass the blind spots in the alleys and take the main road, which was impossible. Anyone with a brain could tell what kind of martial law was in place around a scientific researcher like Jiang Cheng.
As a seasoned assassin, he was fully prepared. Inside his seemingly ordinary liberation shoes was a poisoned dagger, the size of an eyebrow razor. Once it touched a human body coated with poison, it could instantly kill a strong ox.
This endangered tree, originating from tropical rainforests, is called "poison arrow tree," also known as "the tree that kills with blood." Once it enters the bloodstream, it can cause internal organs to turn black and stick together, resulting in instant death.
In addition, he carried an M1906 pocket pistol in the bandages around his waist. It was a Browning-style pistol with an effective range of only 30 meters, but the assassin was confident that he could kill Jiang Cheng the moment he saw him.
With all preparations complete, the assassin leaped lightly, bracing himself against the walls of the narrow alley with both hands the instant he jumped, climbing upwards until his arms reached the security window of a first-floor balcony.
He was clearly a grown man, yet his body was as light as a feather. The slender, hollow steel pipe not only supported his weight but also made no sound. The assassin used his waist and abdomen to swing his legs backward, and the momentum propelled him forward, making him as agile as a monkey among the branches of a jungle tree.
However, they are "trees" made of reinforced concrete in the city.
The assassin stood on the air conditioner unit of a room. It was too dark to see his expression. Right inside the window, an ordinary office worker was fast asleep in her bedroom. She had no idea that just through the glass, a man in worn-out work clothes was staring at her.
This extremely terrifying aspect is hidden in the layers of darkness.
Yes, the assassin's method of evading surveillance was to climb onto rooftops, leap between closely packed buildings, and land inside the Huanjiang residential complex, using the shadows of the buildings to conceal himself, repeating the same trick. The gloves he wore were high-tech devices that allowed him to cling to walls like a gecko; he intended to climb all the way to Jiangcheng's window!
Kill him!
Complete this arduous and momentous assassination mission! He can live out the rest of his life in peace, retire from crime, and his legend will be passed down in the industry—a killer who changed the world's landscape!
Just imagining it made the ugly man's eyes gleam with fanaticism; he was already feeling excited, intoxicated by the richness of future glory.
What a wonderful thing this is... like the assassin Zhuan Zhu killing King Liao of Wu, Yan Dan sending Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin, and John Wilkes Booth sneaking into the opera house.
The leader sitting on the throne will have his head severed, and his glory will be forged in blood!
The assassin took a few deep breaths, repeatedly telling himself to calm down and forcing his trembling hands to steady. He took a few steps back on the rooftop and then suddenly ran forward!
Under the bright moonlight, atop a towering building, the man strode forward, his arms waving in an eerie arc. His muscles were taut as he leaped through the wide gaps, like a flying man.
Everything seemed to be exactly as he had predicted, down to the last detail, even the route was meticulously planned. Jiangcheng's fall seemed inevitable, and the swarming assassins were all figures who had emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
However, the moment the man landed in Huanjiang Residential Area, the hem of his clothes brushed past the opposite garage between the two buildings, and the two hidden beams of light were suddenly blocked, only to reconnect half a second later.
The assassin hid in the shadows of the high-rise buildings, but he did not expect that the entire Huanjiang residential area was covered with interconnected "new type of lightless infrared rays." The moment they were triggered, in another residential area, in an empty house, the mechanical arm charging behind Gu Qingwan in the cabin suddenly retracted.
She stepped straight out of the cabin, the blue technological light illuminating the living room. Gu Qingwan sensed the invasion of the enemy; someone was approaching Jiang Cheng's location.
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