Have we been discovered?
Lu Sheng's pupils constricted. He gripped the hilt of his knife tightly in the darkness, slowly turned to look at it, and met the gaze of a pair of golden eyes.
It's a chubby orange cat.
Lu Sheng took out a few freeze-dried cat food pellets from his spatial storage and tossed them over, then gestured with his mouth towards the orange cat.
The orange cat snatched the freeze-dried treat in its mouth and slowly made its way downstairs with tiny, delicate steps.
Alert lifted.
Cats are unreliable as guard animals; they don't even try to stop the high ground in your house from being demolished.
clang.
The old standing clock in the corridor chimed heavily on the hour.
Midnight.
Lu Sheng slipped into the room and walked along the wall to the bed.
The silhouette of a fat, middle-aged man lay on the bed, and the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant and ointment.
The snoring was incessant, with the occasional sound of teeth grinding.
In the darkness, Lu Sheng's slender fingers pinched the top of the man's head on the bed and twisted it swiftly and decisively.
Click.
The sound of a cervical vertebra breaking.
The man didn't even have time to make a sound before he died in his sleep.
Don't organized crime groups require personal hygiene? Why doesn't this person wash their hair?!
Her hands were covered in oil!
Lu Sheng disgustedly took out a tissue to wipe his fingers, then tiptoed to the second room in the corridor.
The door to the second room was ajar.
She cautiously turned her back to the door frame and gently pushed the door open a narrow crack.
The two figures on the bed appear to be a man and a woman, positioned in an upper and lower structure.
Lu Sheng quickly slipped into the room and suddenly smelled a faint scent of blood.
She looked warily at the two people on the bed who remained in an upper and lower position, and tentatively touched the woman's neck.
The meat had hardened.
Just as she was about to check the man lying on the bed, she suddenly heard a very faint footstep behind her.
Lu Sheng turned around subconsciously.
A large, bony hand covered her lips.
Shh, it's me.
Xu Yi's deep, magnetic voice came from the darkness.
Lu Sheng's tense muscles relaxed, and he gestured with his eyes to the two people on the bed who were now cold, "Did you do this?"
"Um."
Xu Yi responded indifferently, "These kinds of scum usually don't suffer in silence. They'll come looking for trouble tomorrow once they've calmed down."
Lu Sheng: "..."
This teacher, despite being a role model, acted even faster than her.
No wonder she went up to the second floor without any trouble; it turns out that Xu Yi had already killed most of the people there.
"There are no living people inside, let's go back first."
Before leaving, Xu Yi opened the electrical box, modified a few lines, removed the fuse, and turned on the most powerful bathroom heater on the second floor.
They also set up some flammable and explosive materials.
"Teacher Xu, your technique is so professional."
Lu Sheng couldn't help but complain.
Following Xu Yi's method, it will soon lead to a short circuit and cause a fire.
In such a lawless, sinful city, there are naturally no fire brigades or anything like that; a single fire would be enough to destroy all the evidence.
Naturally, they won't be implicated.
Fortunately, Xu Yi is one of our own!
The two rushed out of the arcade, and after taking only a few steps, they suddenly heard a clanging sound behind them.
"It's twelve o'clock, hurry up and get ready!"
At the end of the street, near the river mouth, a dozen or so shops were frantically pulling down their roller shutters. Several waiters who were too slow were even slapped by the owner.
"If you don't want to live anymore, then hurry up and find somewhere to die, don't fucking harm people here."
The boss was so angry that he kicked the slow-moving waiter away and hurriedly locked the door in a panic.
With the river mouth as the boundary, the entire commercial street seemed to be divided into two completely different worlds. Shops closer to the river mouth were filled with panic, and everyone turned off their lights, locked their doors, and fled.
Beyond the dam, on the other side, the street was ablaze with lights and bustling with people, a magnificent sight of a city that never sleeps.
"Bathhouses, mahjong parlors, KTVs. These places only do good business at night, so why are they closing at midnight?"
Lu Sheng stared at the figure who had locked the door and was running in this direction in a hurry, his eyes narrowed with a hint of doubt.
"What are you still standing there for? Waiting for the sea monster to carry you away?"
An old man at the mahjong parlor, who was passing by, gave Lu Sheng and Xu Yi a look of utter disappointment. "Young people these days are losing their minds when they're in love. It's really terrible!"
Sea monster?
Lu Sheng and Xu Yi exchanged a glance.
Before the apocalypse, the debate about the existence of sea monsters lasted for decades, but there was never any conclusive theoretical basis to support it.
In his previous life, Lu Sheng struggled for three years in the apocalypse. At most, he had seen mutated fish in the sea, but he had never heard of sea monsters.
Moreover, the river surrounding Qinhuai City was dug by man, and there isn't even a fish in it, so where would a sea monster come from?
"Ugh! Ugh!"
As if to confirm the old man's words, a high-pitched voice, like that of a baby, suddenly came from the river mouth.
It sounded like a human voice, but also like some kind of animal.
From Lu Sheng and Xu Yi's perspective, they could only vaguely see a dark shadow, more than a meter long, floating on the river.
It's as if a giant, monstrous fish is lurking underwater, surfacing at midnight with a piercing scream.
"Fish do not have vocal cords and can only make air sounds by squeezing their swim bladders or by squeezing hard parts of their bodies to make friction sounds."
Xu Yi frowned slightly, looking at the huge, indistinct black shadow on the river surface.
His meaning was clear: this sound was not something a fish could make.
Could it really be a sea monster? Just how many secrets are hidden in this city of Qinhuai?
With many questions in mind, Lu Sheng and Xu Yi hurriedly returned to the hotel.
The group was exhausted from the past few days, and they slept until noon on the second day.
Qinhuai City truly lives up to its reputation as an entertainment hub, boasting a wide variety of delicious cuisines.
Lu Sheng and her group enjoyed a delicious and juicy grilled mutated beast meal, then had a good massage at a kung fu massage parlor run by a master in Foshan, before rushing to the teahouse to meet up with the K3 base team.
"Zhang Xiaojuan, were you beaten up? Why are there bruises all over your neck?"
As soon as she sat down, Ma Dongmei stared at Zhang Xiaojuan's neck and asked a question.
"Don't pry into the handsome young man's affairs," Zhang Xiaojuan said irritably as she carefully ordered an iced drink to soothe her neck.
Sun Tiantian couldn't help but chuckle, "He lost a game with Han Rui and said to the massage therapist, 'Haven't you eaten yet?'"
"It immediately aroused my master's competitive spirit, and he almost snapped his neck."
"Pfft."
The people at K3 base also burst into laughter.
Only the world where Zhang Xiaojuan was injured was achieved.
"Let's get down to business." After laughing, Ma Dongmei said seriously, "According to the information we found out yesterday, Chen Dongsheng is a very cunning old dog. He and his confidants have been living in a technologically advanced fortress with impenetrable walls and never show their faces."
“Almost 99 percent of the people in this city have never seen Chen Dongsheng. And a few days ago, a team of medical personnel was indeed brought into Chen Dongsheng’s stronghold.”
Zhang Xiaojuan rubbed her aching neck. "Then the only way we can find Director Xiao and the others is to find a way in."
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