Lin Yilin didn't leisurely take the subway; instead, she hailed a taxi directly from the roadside.
"Where to, little girl?" A middle-aged, somewhat greasy man with a paunch sat in the driver's seat.
But when his gaze met the rearview mirror, he froze; a cat cat gun was pressed against his head from the back seat.
"People from the Little River Society often use taxi driving as a cover for 'picking up corpses' and forcibly robbing valuables, and unreasonable charges are the norm, right?"
"...Calm down, calm down. Although I don't know how I've offended you, but..."
"Less talk. Drive to the location I tell you at the fastest speed," Lin Yilin interrupted him.
The driver dared not say more, pressing the accelerator and quickly starting the vehicle.
Zheng Fan sat beside Lin Yilin, legs crossed: "These small gangs are really completely under your thumb."
Members of small gangs, who are soft on the strong and hard on the weak and only dare to commit petty crimes, often become obedient tools with just a gun pointed at them after Lin Yilin has thoroughly investigated them.
The vehicle sped down the street.
Saying 'sped' might be an exaggeration, as Xixikeke Street doesn't really have strict traffic control, and even if it did, the police in Dadu probably wouldn't bother to enforce it.
Lin Yilin lowered her head and opened her phone. Zheng Fan watched new content constantly appear on her phone as she refreshed.
The content was about the Shenlai Firm's related actions.
It seemed to be real-time?
Tsk tsk.
Zheng Fan increasingly felt that the young woman beside him was not some small detective from a firm driven by interest, but rather an underground king who had been operating in Xixikeke Street for many years.
"The Shenlai Firm has already begun its operation. A large number of Kanneton remnants'Layout Point have been searched and eliminated. The movements of some personnel also seem to have been caught by Shenlai, who have even set up an encirclement. They have many people and high operational efficiency, which I truly envy. This time, their side will surely suffer heavy losses," Lin Yilin said as she watched.
Driver: ?
Lin Yilin's sudden soliloquy made him, already terrified, feel even more uneasy. Was this something he was allowed to hear?
"Has our target been discovered?" Zheng Fan inquired.
"Currently, there's no intention of dispatching teams for a concentrated assault, but they seem to have realized something suspicious. Advance reconnaissance teams are moving in that direction, so we still have time."
Lin Yilin said, raising her head and meeting the gaze of the peeking driver through the rearview mirror, her urgency clear without words.
The driver's cold sweat flowed freely, and he dared not think further, focusing solely on driving.
The vehicle soon arrived at its destination, a detached house in a secluded part of Xixikeke Street. From the outside, it appeared long abandoned, with overgrown weeds in the yard and no signs of human activity.
Of course, that was at first glance.
In fact, as soon as Lin Yilin got out of the car, she could detect several flaws that had been covered up but still remained.
Lin Yilin took out a bill and casually tossed it to the driver.
The driver was somewhat surprised; he had been held at gunpoint the whole way, wasn't silenced, and actually got paid for the ride?
He took it and saw it was the minimum starting fare. Even if he wasn't trying to cheat, the normal fare for such a long distance would be far more than this!
He glanced sideways and saw Lin Yilin shoot directly at his car roof.
Amidst joyful meows and the driver's terrified gaze, a bullet hole was permanently imprinted there.
"Pleasure doing business with you. Looking forward to next time," Lin Yilin said, putting away her gun.
The driver didn't stop, driving away as if fleeing for his life.
In his mind, he was already contemplating leaving Xixikeke Street, but then he thought again and couldn't quite figure out what that 'big shot' had meant by his last words...
He was destined to live in fear of Lin Yilin for a long time.
And Lin Yilin naturally didn't pay much attention to the other party. Anyway, she knew he drove a taxi in Xixikeke Street, and given his conditions and Courage , he wouldn't dare to run far.
She probably wouldn't need to borrow Uncle Drake's car from time to time anymore, which was cause for celebration.
"Someone's been watching us since we got out of the car," Zheng Fan reminded, surveying the building before them.
"After all, if my deduction is correct, this is a very important layout point... First, pay attention to that garbage truck over there," Lin Yilin looked at a large garbage truck on the roadside, where the garbage truck driver was smoking and chatting with a colleague.
"Their people?"
"Not just them. At this time of day on this road, a garbage truck shouldn't be parked nearby, and its load shouldn't be very large. But this truck is heavily loaded; the body is clearly sagging, already overweight. It's not carrying garbage inside," Lin Yilin analyzed quickly.
Zheng Fan appeared next to the garbage truck as if by teleportation, peered inside, then quickly returned to Lin Yilin's side: "You're right, it's full of very valuable-looking items. Should we stop them?"
Lin Yilin glanced down the road, where a car was driving towards them.
"Leave it to the Shenlai people. Our mission is to find Lind."
After speaking, several black Earthworms emerged from Lin Yilin's hand and bit onto the old door latch of the dilapidated door before them.
Crack!
Lin Yilin pushed open the door and walked towards the residence.
Zheng Fan transformed into a gray-eyed bat, flapping his wings and soaring over her head, entering the building first. Before going in, he called out: "Two o'clock direction, in the tree."
Lin Yilin responded by raising her cat cat gun and pulling the trigger.
Meow~.
A corpse fell from the tree and hit the ground, making little sound due to the dense grass.
Lin Yilin glanced at it then withdrew her gaze, stepping forward.
"There's a machine gun trap at the entrance," Zheng Fan's voice came from an unknown location again.
Lin Yilin quickly looked, flung out Earthworms to tightly bind several machine guns, a gnawing sound of 'creak' and a foul smell emitted, and finally, all were rendered useless.
"The door lock is for show; force the door open."
Bang!
Lin Yilin kicked open the old wooden door.
Immediately after, Zheng Fan's voice eerily sounded: "Free fire straight ahead."
Meow meow meow meow~~~.
Lin Yilin didn't see, nor did she need to; the cat cat gun's bullets already had a certain auto-tracking effect. Although they weren't as lively in her hands as when Zheng Fan used them, they were completely sufficient for the current situation.
The endless bullets and bizarre rate of fire made a pistol perform like a submachine gun.
It was just that the continuous meowing might be a bit too demonic and grotesque.
"Finished. The main hall at the entrance is completely wiped out."
Only after Zheng Fan's voice prompted her did Lin Yilin step into the house, treading through a pool of blood.
Then she heard chaotic footsteps inside the house; it seemed Lin Yilin's swift and decisive breakthrough had exceeded their expectations.
"A few troublesome guys have arrived. Retreat or engage?"
Lin Yilin was silent for a moment: "Retreat."
"Good. Break through the wall to your left," Zheng Fan had no objection and immediately instructed. Lin Yilin obeyed, breaking through a nearby wall to enter a secret passage. She immediately went deeper along the passage.
Even if Illusion didn't intentionally erase human consciousness, frequent possession and unrestrained indulgence would still lead to abnormalities in the human body. Yet, Zheng Fan would absolutely never restrain himself when using a body.
For this, Lin Yilin needed to increase her body's tolerance and further enhance her combat power. Fortunately, with the "Red Pill" produced by Zheng Fan, she could slowly cultivate herself.
Direct possession thus became a method that needed to be used with restraint. Of course, when it was necessary, neither Lin Yilin nor Zheng Fan would hesitate.
This cooperative model, where Zheng Fan's Illusion advantage is utilized to assist Lin Yilin's actions, will likely be repeated many times in the future.
The good news is that for this first attempt, their coordination was quite good.