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Chapter 265
Chapter 265: Chapter 76: Complete Victory_2 Chapter 265: Chapter 76: Complete Victory_2 ...
The next day, in the wee hours of the morning.
Ji Lin, carrying a backpack stuffed with items, left the villa.
He didn’t take the private car he always used, nor was there a driver to serve him.
He walked to the side of the road and hailed a taxi.
“Where to, sir?” the polite taxi driver asked, looking at the passenger who had settled in the back seat.
“To the natural scenic area next to the university town.
...
There’s a detached villa cluster over there,” Ji Lin responded after hesitating briefly.
“Please drive slowly—I get carsick easily,” he added.
Hum...
The taxi crawled along the expressway.
With light traffic and no congestion this early in the morning, they quickly arrived at the destination.
After paying with a mobile scan, Ji Lin got out of the taxi and walked on foot into the villa cluster.
Following the guidance on the map, he arrived near a particularly quiet standalone villa.
This place was the clinic of the renowned Psychologist Doctor Liu.
Although the villa was large and the surrounding scenery was pleasant, it served only as Doctor Liu’s workplace; she did not live there.
Ji Lin approached the front, where the villa’s door was securely locked, safeguarded by an old-fashioned electronic password lock without fingerprint recognition capability.
“This is going to be simple,” he murmured.
He had prepared a suite of lock-picking tools for the job, even bringing a computer, but such an outdated electronic lock made the task much easier.
Presumably, Doctor Liu was old and paid little attention to advancements in lock technology, sticking with what the developer had originally installed.
Now, it indeed seemed obsolete.
Ji Lin took a spray bottle out of his backpack, filled with a solution of silver nitrate.
Aiming at the keypad of the lock, he sprayed twice, misting the surface with the solution.
He then pulled out his phone, switched on the flashlight mode, and shone the bright light onto it.
Quickly...
The anhydrous ethanol carrier in the silver nitrate solution evaporated, and the silver nitrate reacted with the sodium chloride residues from fingerprints under the illumination, decomposing and leaving behind more noticeable black traces on several buttons.
These marks indicated that these keys were used frequently and were most likely part of the password.
There were exactly six different numbers.
Having already researched Doctor Liu extensively, Ji Lin surmised that the numbers probably corresponded to her cherished grandson’s birth date.
With the birth dates of Doctor Liu’s family members etched in his memory, he pressed the birth date of Doctor Liu’s grandson on the keypad—
Click!
The lock opened with a click, and Ji Lin pulled the door, which creaked open.
First try success.
The elderly indeed tend to set more predictable passwords.
Upon entering the villa, Ji Lin turned on the lights and quickly found the room where Doctor Liu conducted consultations.
He approached the bookshelf.
Opening the glass door of the cabinet.
Each shelf was crammed with patients’ consultation record books, one for each person, with names clearly written on the labels at the spine.
Doctor Liu charged steep fees, so she didn’t have many patients.
Ji Lin soon found his target—
Lin Xian.
On the spine of a brown notebook, Lin Xian’s name was clearly marked.
He picked up the notebook, opened it, and in the moonlight streaming through the window, began to read its contents.
Dreams...
reality...
indistinguishable...
truth verification...
familiar strangers...
voices...
Ji Lin hummed softly to himself.
Ji Lin smiled:
“I think it’s just right.”
Zhou Duanyun clenched his teeth and pronounced every word:
“You’ve always looked down on me.
But now, Ji Lin...
no one’s got your back!”
Bang!!
Flap flap flutter...
The sparrows nesting on the villa’s eaves took flight, their wings fluttering; the muffled sound of the gunshot shattered the midnight silence.
The sudden curtain of blood covered Ji Lin’s eyes, his body grotesquely tilting forward from the kinetic energy of the bullet—
Thud!
He crashed heavily onto the ground...
Blood splattered everywhere, the brown notebook with Lin Xian’s name falling in front of Ji Lin’s lifeless, dilated pupils; the indicator lights on the electronic cuffs on his wrists and ankles shifted from the breathing green to a rapid, sinister red.
“Serves you right.”
Zhou Duanyun looked down at Ji Lin’s corpse, bent down, and picked up the notebook that fell to the ground.
He stared at the label with Lin Xian’s name on the spine:
“You too.”
Taking the notebook, he turned and disappeared into the night around the corner...
However!
Buzz———
Buzz———
Buzz———
Several police drones arrived from all directions!
Kerthump.
Two teams of armed police officers approached at a run from the road ahead!
“Fuck!”
Zhou Duanyun suddenly realized!
It was a trap!
An ambush!
Run.
He had to run!
He rushed deeper into the complex of villas!
But two policemen were coming straight at him!
Bang bang!
Zhou Duanyun’s shots hit the policemen’s bulletproof vests, the massive kinetic energy and pain causing them to instantly fall to the ground!
And just then—
Swoosh crack!
A crisp sound, and Zhou Duanyun’s head exploded in the air like a watermelon.
A sniper.
A sniper on the helicopter fired the shot, protecting their teammates.
Thud.
The caliber of a sniper rifle’s bullet was much larger than that of a handgun, blowing open Zhou Duanyun’s head on impact, his headless body fell to the ground with a dull sound.
The piercing sound of police sirens rose and fell in succession.
Special forces sealed off the area.
And Lin Xian walked slowly through the crowd, looking down at Zhou Duanyun’s body on the ground.
He bent down.
Picked up the brown notebook with his own name on it...
“Zhou Duanyun.”
He snorted softly through his nose:
“Long time no see.”