Lu Ning took out the wooden box in the corner. Inside was a metal arm, about the same length as the forearm, but it was not constructed like a hidden sword. Instead, it had a row of narrow and sharp nails pierced through the hollow. Arranged in a central ring.
"This thing is called a sword cart." The boss laughed lazily. "It was made by a friend of mine on a whim. The principle is similar to the arm crossbow, but it can't be fired. I don't know the specific usage. It's not easy to use anyway." ,How about it?"
"That's it." Lu Ning's demand for weapons is not particularly high, as long as it can be used, "Do you still have a utility knife here?"
You can buy this thing in many places, and the boss also has it here. He found a box of blades and threw them to Lu Ning, and then Lu Ning picked some flash bombs and other things to check out.
"Okay, so many things should be packed and delivered to your door. If someone robs you on the way, I'm afraid you have to experience it yourself. Thank you for your patronage." The boss waited for Lu Ning to swipe his card before he became more enthusiastic. He was also a money-seeing person. Lord.
Lu Ning nodded, only took a bug and an electric shock stick, and put the sword carriage on his right arm - I don't know if this thing is useful, but you can't tell there is anything inside when the sleeve is put down.
"Come again next time~"
When leaving, Lu Ning felt that the boss's voice was rising. After all, this business amounted to tens of thousands.
After going downstairs, Lu Ning walked into the dining area on the third floor. There were many restaurants here, and the styles were different from those in the south to the north. She chose the northern restaurant she liked better and ordered two meat and vegetable dishes. Grab a pot of herbal tea and sit on the window seat watching the passers-by outside.
On weekends, there are many people going out to shopping malls in small groups. Most of them are young people of similar age. On the contrary, there are fewer families traveling and there are very few children.
Herb tea was served first, and Lu Ning poured a cup. Just after smelling the aroma, she heard a roar from outside, and a commotion came from a restaurant opposite.
People waiting in the restaurant also ran to the door to watch the excitement. Soon, some people in white coats ran to the opposite restaurant with medical equipment, and people began to talk about it.
"Food poisoning? Haha, I'm afraid it's poisoned, right?"
"Didn't the chef in this restaurant come here because of poisoning?"
"Really? How dare such a person use it?"
Soon, the medical staff carried the person on a stretcher and walked out of the restaurant quickly, followed by a group of people cheering, some of them friends of the poisoned person, and some of them people from the restaurant.
"You must give us an explanation! We have already concluded that it was poisoning. Who else could be the problem if it's not your Oriental cook?"
"Although we have no taboos here, if you let someone who can poison you as a chef, your people are a little too generous, right?"
"If you don't give me an explanation, I will burn this place down tonight!"
The staff in the restaurant were also incomprehensible, and the chef was at the center of the siege. He was wearing a white chef's uniform and was very clean. When Lu Ning got closer, she could smell the smell of seafood and the faint smell emanating from him. The smell of rice is probably that of a chef making sushi.
"Isn't there any forensics department here?" Lu Ning said casually.
"We don't even have a police station, so how can we get the people to do the forensics? At most, we can ask a private detective to handle it." Someone next to him sneered.
"What exactly happened?"
"The man ordered sushi, and after eating it, he held his throat and collapsed. The doctor came and said it was poisoning. That means someone put poison in the sushi."
Lu Ning took a look inside the restaurant. The space inside was not very large, and all the tables and chairs could be seen at a glance. There were overturned dishes and smashed glasses next to one of the tables, which was probably where the poisoned person ate. The three people shouting at the moment were probably his friends who came with him.
At this time, no one came into the store to take a look in the chaos, so Lu Ning walked in, approached the table and took a look at the dishes on the table. In addition to the sushi plate, the other three ordered noodles and rice bowls. and fried rice, in addition to two cages of steamed dumplings and two plates of dim sum. Several cans of beer were opened and more than half of them were consumed.
"The food in this restaurant is quite mixed..." Lu Ning looked up at the menus that were arranged on the wall to the ordering counter. He guessed that this was the kind of canteen where you can order all kinds of things, which can be considered a specialty. .
But what she found interesting was the overturned plate. The rice bowl was served on an iron plate, so when it was overturned, the rice was just spilled on the floor, and a paper towel was also pressed underneath. .
Seeing this, Lu Ning felt that that was about it.
"Um...can you let me go into the kitchen and have a look?"
She asked an old chef standing at the door of the kitchen with a frown. The old chef was not in a good mood now. He glanced at her and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"You didn't see the chef poisoning, did you? What if someone used the paper towels here to poison? There is no one doing forensics here. I can probably draw a conclusion after confirming whether there is anything suspicious in the kitchen..."
The old chef's eyes lit up: "Really?"
"Well... you go out and tell them like this... It's not convenient for me to say this as an outsider."
Lu Ning whispered a few words to the old chef, and after hearing this, he quickly ran to the door, while Lu Ning walked into the kitchen and opened the cupboards to check them one by one.
When she came out, it happened that the old chef found a crumpled tissue from a person's pocket. Seeing the person's panic look, everyone around him understood what was going on. And the restaurant is not silent when it suffers a loss. There is no law in this place. The two chefs directly held the man down and stuffed the paper towel into his mouth. After less than a minute, the man immediately stopped. He started to hold his throat and struggle in pain.
"What kind of hatred do you have against yourself? No one cares about you in this place. Don't you want to come to the restaurant to blame the uncle! Get out!" The restaurant owner kicked the person aside, then put on a warm expression and patted him. The sushi chef: "Kobayakawa-kun, this time I really shocked you. Don't worry, I can protect a few people in this area. Hahaha..."
The medical staff came back and took the other person away, and the crowd gradually dispersed. When the old chef turned around to look for Lu Ning, he found that she could not be found.
After Lu Ning returned to the restaurant where she was dining, she changed seats inside, asked the clerk to pack her order, and quickly left the third floor.
When she walked outside, she took out her mobile phone, swiped it twice, connected it to the listening device, plugged in her headphones and started listening to the recording. After a while, she switched to the photo album, and soon found the photo of the chef's cabinet.
"Yuichi Kobayakawa, thirty-two years old, sushi chef."
This is a very well-educated person.
Lu Ning could feel from a distance that this man was suppressing his sudden murderous intention and maintaining that innocent expression until the end. She did not doubt that if this Kobayakawa really took action, he could kill everyone present - not a dark method like poisoning, but a real massacre.
If he is really from Sin City, there is no need to be so patient and there is no need to hide his personality.
"Tourist? This status... hmm."
Lu Ning put away her cell phone and threw the eavesdropping device wrapped in paper into the trash can. Then she chose a fast food restaurant with few people on the roadside and walked in. She entered the small toilet inside and locked it. Door.
Then she began to take off her coat and carefully inspected every corner of her body. Sure enough, she found three more small black balls at the ends of her hair, the inside of her heels, and her lower back.
"This is where the experience ends. If you want to continue, you will be charged."
After a while, her cell phone rang. Lu Ning picked it up and answered it. Jiang Shanluo's voice came from the phone and became much colder.
"Tell me, how do you want to trade?"
"In a secret scenario, I won't explore your own identities and backgrounds, but I will share the information technology in your hands and provide cover when necessary. I will find those who hide their identities. What do you mean..."
"Kill if necessary."
"Okay, but I'm only responsible for the investigation part, you guys do it. Also, where's your questionnaire?"
"We are doing it. There is no need to use this as a test. I have confirmed with my friends that everyone should have the first mandatory task." Jiang Shanluo sighed, "I didn't expect to meet someone like you as the first target. Refined."
"To each other, we will contact each other in the future, but my position is not ready to be exposed at any time, so I won't keep these three little guys."
"Hello!"
Lu Ning hung up the phone, flushed the three bugs into the toilet, then marked the phone number with Jiang Shanluo's name, left the bathroom and continued walking down the street.
Having experienced such a scene once, and this time, Lu Ning felt that these encounters were not a coincidence.
Visitors in the scene will naturally interact with each other... as if something is attracting everyone to meet. Although not all of them, Lu Ning could feel that he could meet at least half of the tourists in the past two days. It was not certain whether he could identify the other person's identity.
The secretive scene made this goal even more difficult. At least if Jiangshanluo didn't put a bug on her, she would not be able to identify the other party's identity. The last sentence she sent to contact the other party was also a lie.
At this moment, Lu Ning felt someone slowly approaching her.
This is already a sidewalk that crosses a street, and there are far fewer pedestrians on the road. There is no need to walk so close.
She stood still and turned to look, but when the other party saw her movement, he also stopped.
This is a man with a good appearance and a well-proportioned figure. He is holding a black briefcase in his hand and wearing a dark blue striped shirt. The top button is unbuttoned, and a snowflake is tied to a thin red thread. The badge hangs from his neck, adding a bit of interest to his meticulous dressing.
"Lu Ning."
The man directly called Lu Ning's name.
"Who are you……"
"Don't panic, I just came to see what you look like after being talked about by Xiang Yi and Milly until my ears hurt." The man pursed his lips, raised his hand, took out a business card from his pocket, and handed it to Got her.
Lu Ning already knew the man's identity, but she didn't quite understand his behavior and didn't reach out.
"My name is Shang Chi, don't worry, I came to see you just out of personal interest... Our Assassination Department did not receive the order to get rid of you, and the few boys and girls you are playing with now are also out of personal interest. That’s it. It’s not a bad idea to join forces in this scenario.”
"Fairytale paradise?"
"We are not those guys who play cheap tricks. You know our superiority."
Shang Chi flicked his hand, and the business card spun and fell into Lu Ning's pocket.
"I'll give you a piece of advice... It's none of our business what you do with those little guys who don't have any positions. Life or death is the result of your own struggle. But don't have an excessive sense of justice to interfere with our regular actions... We But this is an organization that can compete with four large organizations for a long time and still survive."
After saying that, he turned and left. From the beginning to the end, Lu Ning didn't feel any murderous intention from him, and there was no sense of oppression at all. He was really just like an ordinary office worker. Apart from the words he said, there was nothing unusual.
She pulled the business card out of her pocket.
[Shangchi, Xingtiandi Office]
Behind it is the title, phone number, email address, and the firm’s website address.
An ordinary business card, no poison, no tracker, no mechanism.
"It's really nerve-wracking..."
Lu Ning turned around and continued walking her own way.
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On the top of a tall building in the distance is a rooftop garden. With careful care, it has gradually taken on some shape, and some flowers are gradually blooming.
However, the owner here turned a blind eye to this. He sat on the edge, facing a picture frame in front of him, and couldn't put down a single stroke for a long time.
His name is Zhang Yufeng, a famous painter in Sin City. His paintings are called "hell scenes" and he is still very famous even outside the city. But in fact, he only showed a corner of the city.
Now, as his status has improved, he has moved into a safe apartment-style home, and at the same time, he is far away from the places where he can see "hell". The depletion of inspiration makes this somewhat neurotic painter keep looking for places that can bring him closer to "hell".
This is the current identity of tourist Zhang Yufeng.
Playing the role of a neurotic artist is not particularly troublesome. For those who can advance to the second level, they have practiced some basic acting courses even if they have not learned it. It is not this kind of problem that gives Zhang Yufeng a headache.
The reason why he participated in this test site was to avoid the kill order of the doll party. Generally speaking, as long as they are not grouped together at the beginning, it is not particularly difficult to hide your identity, except that you are called by name as soon as you come up. assigned a particularly famous status.
This time, he was unlucky enough to meet a famous painter.
Zhang Yufeng didn't know if anyone from the puppet party had sneaked in this time. As far as he knew, those who handled kill orders were usually the Assassination Department, but occasionally there would be little guys who had just been promoted who would like to give it a try. If it was the latter If so, he wouldn't mind killing the people a few more times.
After staring at the canvas for a long time, he finally stood up, intending to finish the damn mandatory task first.
