"Lin Jiu! What are you doing?" Ye Xiu shouted angrily.
Lin Jiu ignored him, stepped onto the windowsill of the men's restroom from behind him, and flipped out.
"I finally realized you have this fetish! You like to peek into the men's restroom!"
Just as the people from the Dark Night Group ran to the gate, Lin Jiu, who had fallen from the third floor, landed beside him.
Before he could make a move, Lin Jiu stretched out his hand, twisted his arms behind his back, and kicked him in the leg.
The man knelt on the ground instantly.
"you……"
Before he could utter a second word, he was knocked unconscious by Lin Jiu.
When Ye Xiu ran to the door, Lin Jiu was nowhere to be seen.
Suburbs of the Imperial Capital
The Binjiang River runs along the outskirts of the imperial capital all the way to Bincheng, where it flows into the sea.
The man from the Dark Night Group was tied by Lin Jiu between two trees, forming a "big" character.
There are few people here and the sky is gradually getting dark.
Lin Jiu sat on a rock by the river, looking towards Bincheng.
She took out a cigarette and held it to the corner of her lips without lighting it.
Li Dazhuang told her not to smoke recently, and she listened to him.
A gust of wind blew by, and the man from the Dark Night Group moved his neck. He woke up, opened his eyes, saw Lin Jiu's back by the river, and found himself placed in the shape of a "big" between two trees. He shouted, "What are you doing?"
Lin Jiu glanced at him sideways, "Awake?"
He stood up and walked towards the man step by step, holding a feather in his hand.
"Okay, it's quiet here, and there's no one around. Tell me in detail what the Dark Night Group is. What's the secret of the bracelet?"
The veins on the necks of the Dark Night Group members bulged out. "Lin Jiu, you shouldn't ask so many questions. Isn't it good to live a normal life?"
"You're spying on me, and I'm not allowed to ask you why?"
Lin Jiu pinched the feather and swept it back and forth across the nostrils of the man from the Dark Night Group, making him so itchy that he sneezed violently.
"I'm professionally trained. You won't make me surrender like this."
"I know, that's why I didn't put the knife to your neck." Lin Jiu took out a pocket watch and opened it. Inside was a photo of two people: this man and a young and beautiful girl. "If it was her, would she make you surrender?"
The man opened his eyes wide, his face flushed with anxiety, "No, I beg you, don't go to her, don't affect her life, don't tell her who I am, please."
Lin Jiu closed the cover of his pocket watch. "You've received professional training, but don't you know that carrying your girlfriend's photo with you is dangerous for her? But if you let me know the information I want, I won't touch your girlfriend."
"Dark Night Group, actually... Puff..." The man suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. He opened his mouth hard to say something, "...time...the poison takes effect..."
He tilted his head and stopped talking.
Lin Jiu put his finger in front of the man's nostrils, but he was already dead.
He must have taken poison with a limited time limit before carrying out the mission. If he did not report back within the specified time, he would die from the poison.
"If you hadn't told me quickly, the clues would have been broken, and I would have had to go find your girlfriend to investigate."
As night falls, everything is quiet except for the sound of the rushing river.
The sound of flowing water reminded Lin Jiu of the scene 14 days ago, that night by the river, when Su Moyun was eaten by a fish.
On the seventh day after Su Moyun's death, Lin Jiu was still in a coma and she could not go to the grave to pay her respects in person.
But Su Moyun's tomb... not even her bones were left. Huo Shen had her clothes buried as a cenotaph.
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