Chapter 23 Paradise Hunting (Edited) “Then let’s not talk about it anymore, we can’t let it out…
The man sniffed and stared at the girl not far away with a gloomy look in his eyes.
That woman, Reiko Shimizu, really gave him a big surprise.
Brought such a beautiful woman...
It was said that he had escaped from Tokyo. Haha, he didn't know how to be on guard in an unfamiliar place, he deserved to fall into his hands.
He put on his hood and fell far behind Lin Xi.
The girl seemed oblivious to this, strolling leisurely down the street, even buying a few snacks and ice cream cones on the way.
What a big eater... the man complained in his heart.
He wanted to follow the woman onto the tram and find out where her home was so that he could visit her later.
As a result, the girl didn't seem to be in a hurry to go back. Instead, she walked into the narrow alley, and the number of pedestrians around her was visibly decreasing.
The man was ecstatic. If he walked here, today he could get this woman...
He hurried to catch up.
Outsiders from Tokyo were completely unfamiliar with Yokohama's topography. This area was a dead end, with the back half still occupied by dilapidated buildings. Cries for help here went unheard, and nothing was heard.
The girl seemed to realize something was wrong and walked faster and faster, but the direction was still wrong.
She entered the narrow, winding alley, and the man followed closely behind.
The wall here was quite high and the road was narrow, so the man lost track of the girl in an instant.
Strange...isn't she walking a little too fast?
The man took off his hood and looked left and right.
All that could be seen were broken walls and ruins, with no sign of the girl.
He paused in confusion.
Where could that woman go?
"Excuse me, are you looking for me?"
The voice sounded behind him like a ghost, frightening the man: "Who?!"
Just behind him, the young girl stood gracefully with a polite smile on her face.
The man broke out in a cold sweat.
But he quickly calmed down: the girl in front of him was alone and unarmed. Now that he had found her, she was definitely his prey.
"You've followed me all the way, right? According to courtesy, you should tell me who you are first." Lin Xi said with his arms crossed.
"Haha, the little girl is really brave to come to a place like this alone--" The man said as he reached out, trying to grab Lin Xi, but his hand froze the next second.
The black muzzle of the gun was pointed at his forehead, but the girl's expression remained unchanged: "Name."
"you……"
The man's mind was filled with thoughts like "Real gun!" "I got tricked!" and "This guy is no pushover at all!" It wasn't until Lin Xi pulled the safety that he finally woke up and said, "Nishio Masaharu! My name is Nishio Masaharu..."
A familiar system prompt sound came to Lin Xi's ears.
"Story missions have been updated."
"Players please enter the plot list to view."
“…” Lin Xi looked up and down at the wretched man in front of her.
This guy is actually a plot character?
It's completely invisible.
Speaking of which, this guy's facial features are indeed quite distinctive - ugly in a unique way - and quite different from the other NPC flat faces.
And... besides the strong smell of smoke, this guy also has a special stench.
"Are you a drug addict, Masaharu Nishio?" she suddenly asked.
"W-what?"
The man's pupils shrank slightly and he was frightened again.
"It seems so." Lin Xi stepped back a little, "Please subdue the smell, you're making me sick."
The smell on Masaharu Nishio's body is the unique sour smell of drug addicts, which comes from the sweat smell caused by their endocrine disorders and the smell of the burned drugs left on their bodies after each use.
The smell was almost covered by the heavy smell of smoke on Nishio Masaharu's body, but Lin Xi's Lv3 reconnaissance skill came into play - her nose was very sensitive to such tiny smells.
"Who the hell are you?" After being pointed out as a drug addict, Nishio Masaharu actually gained some courage and angrily scolded Lin Xi: "Did that woman Shimizu Reiko ask you to come?"
Lin Xi gave him a puzzled look and said, "You know Shimizu Reiko. Did she tell you that I had an appointment with her here today?"
"You tell me who you are first, I——"
Lin Xi fired a shot.
The bullet grazed Nishio Shoji's ear, leaving a scorch mark on his hair.
"Please answer my question." Lin Xi still had a polite smile on his face. "You are a local of Yokohama, so you should be more familiar with the terrain here than I am. This is a deserted dead end, and no one will find us. If we die here, there's no telling when our bodies will be discovered."
"...Shimizu Reiko, yes, that's right, she was the one who told me that she would bring a beautiful woman to dinner today." A drop of sweat dripped from Nishio Shoji's forehead. "I, I..."
Lin Xi nodded: "Then you targeted me. You followed me, trying to find out my address and commit sexual crimes against me. And Miss Lizi acquiesced. Well... there really is no free lunch in this world."
She ignored the shivering Nishio Masaharu and clicked on the system's plot list to check.
『Unfinished』
『■■■■■』
On April 4th, a security guard was shot and killed by armed assailants during an armored car robbery in Yokohama. The three robbers were Reiko Shimizu, Suehiko Ito, and Masaharu Nishio.
After robbing the armored car, the three men quarrel over the division of the loot and their relationship. Shimizu Reiko plans to eliminate the unstable, drug-addicted Nishio Masaharu and his persistent pursuer, Ito Mihiko. To stop Nishio Masaharu from harassing her about the stolen money, she uses Lin Xi as bait, and the lustful Nishio Masaharu sets his sights on Lin Xi.
Faced with the three extremely vicious people, how will Lin Xi, who is involved in the incident, protect himself?
How will she, who was accidentally involved, influence the course of events? 』
"Reference Option A: If you encounter a problem, learn to call the police. Report it to the Yokohama Police Station. Expected experience points: 8,000 and 1 handcuff."
"Reference Option B: If you can't solve the problem, then solve the one who created it - Robbery, kill the three robbers and seize the stolen money. Estimated experience points: 5000."
"Reference option C: Trace the source of the strange smell on Nishio Shoji. Expected experience points: 10,000, Plastic Bomb x100."
"Players are welcome to explore more options on their own."
...Wow.
"How much did you steal from the armored car?" she asked with interest. "Did you sell the stolen money? If it was newly printed bills, wouldn't they have markings on them? If they were used in large quantities, they would be discovered quickly, right?"
"How do you know!" Nishio Masaharu was frightened for the third time.
Did that woman Reiko Shimizu tell her?
No one knew about this except the three of them...
"How much?" Lin Xi repeated with a smile.
"Seventy, seven million yen."
"Oh..." Nishio Masaharu saw that the girl's expression became visibly regretful.
Wait, what is this guy regretting?
Is 7 million yen too little?!
"Hey." He raised his hands and tried to negotiate, "How about I give you some of my share of the money, and if you put down this dangerous thing in your hand, we can make money in peace, okay?"
Lin Xi glanced at him with a half-smile.
"Harmony brings wealth..." She sighed, "Actually, I also want harmony to bring wealth. But it's already two o'clock in the afternoon. Do you know what this means?"
"W-what?"
"That means I have to catch the 4 o'clock Keihin-Tohoku Line train to Tokyo so that I can finish cooking by 5:30. And you saw my face... If I let you go, it will be a waste of time to deal with it."
"So, I'm sorry."
As Nishio Shoji's pupils suddenly widened, the girl hit him on the side of the neck with the butt of the gun. He immediately fainted and fell to the ground.
Lin Xi took out a touch-screen phone from her bag.
"...Beep, beep, beep...Hello?" Vodka's rough voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Ah, Vodka. Please pass the phone to Gin."
"Eh, eh? Big Brother, someone's looking for you..."
A noisy sound.
"Who?" came a low, unclear voice.
"It's me." Lin Xi said gently, "Xiaoqin, are you smoking?"
Gin: “…”
He subconsciously put out the cigarette in his mouth: "You——"
He got stuck, a rare occurrence.
"……What's up."
"I've met a pervert. Can you help me get rid of him?" Lin Xi looked at the unconscious man on the ground. "And please find out where the drugs he has come from, and any information related to the armored car robbery on April 4th."
"? What a pervert."
"Uh, a smelly pervert?"
"Location."
"I'm in an alley somewhere in Yokohama." Lin Xi looked up. "It's completely deserted, not even a soul in sight. You know, my sense of direction has never been very good..."
"You..." Gin was speechless, "Use your email to log in to the organization's intranet and send me the real-time location."
"? What is that?"
"The organization's intranet," he repeated. "It's 2004 now, *Teacher*. The organization already has an internal communication system besides email."
"That's novel. So what's the website address?"
“…xxxxxxxx.”
"OK... What's the password?"
"The initial password is six zeros."
"Hmm... I've boarded. Let me see. Oh, I found you, Xiaoqin. I've sent you the location..."
"Got it. I'll have someone take care of it."
Lin Xi was a little bored: "Then can I leave? Since you are not coming."
There was silence on the other side for a moment: "I'm in Tokyo and won't be able to get back for a while."
"Killing people?"
“Not so bloody.”
"Smuggling goods?"
"I guess so."
"You've worked hard. Smoke less, it's bad for your lungs."
"I can't die."
"You might end up living a life worse than death, you know? Your body doesn't have a threshold for cell division. If you get cancer, it'll become a unique case in human medical history, right? Then, will you let Madeira study you and contribute to modern medicine?"
"You said I was the perfect one, so that couldn't happen."
"Okay. I'm kidding. Are you done killing people?"
"I told you they're robbing someone." Gin cracked the car window to let out the secondhand smoke created by him and the vodka. "They're almost at the location you sent. If you don't want to meet anyone else, get out of there."
"How do you know I don't want to meet them?"
"Because you're afraid of trouble." Gin said calmly, "Take the 4 p.m. train on the Keihin-Tohoku Line to avoid Tokyo's evening rush hour."
"You guy..." Lin Xi smiled, "Contact information."
"?"
"Your contact information, Xiaoqin." Lin Xi raised an eyebrow. "You didn't always want to communicate with me using Vodka's phone, did you?"
"Don't you have a mailbox?"
"It's 2004 now, *Grisha*. People have long used social media besides email, like LINE."
"...That kind of thing can easily leak information."
"Then don't talk about it. It can't be leaked. Haha, you didn't register, did you?"
“…Hang up.”
"Bye~"
"bye."
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