Chapter 1 The so-called Getting Paid to Do a Job

As a professional like Li Ang, how could he choose to give up halfway because of such a trivial matter?

Even last time in Dusheng Village, he had properly completed Lu Maodian's commission to "resolve the strange events in Dusheng Village"!

Although Lu Maodian and his brother and father had all died, those were minor matters.

Besides, the reason was that the client had courted death himself, which had nothing to do with Li Ang.

In short, Li Ang always loved his job and saw things through to the end.

What's more, the instant the giant rat appeared, he also received the exact same cooperative mission as Wei Linglan.

Therefore, when Wang Congshan stared at him with a resentful look, he still used the tone of "young photographer Xu Haoge" and said in astonishment, "Lanlan, what's going on?"

The other diners, including Wei's parents, also looked at Wei Linglan standing on the table with shocked and terrified eyes.

The older, artistic young woman exhaled a mouthful of foul air. In fact, she had anticipated this situation the moment she took action.

Fortunately, she had already joined the Special Affairs Bureau, so she didn't have to worry about a series of terrible misfortunes caused by her identity being exposed.

"Everyone, please be quiet!"

Wei Linglan's posture with the qiang was quite intimidating. After all, the remains of the giant rats, still retaining body heat, were neatly spread on the ground.

"I am a staff member of an official institution. There is a special situation outside, and I will lead you to a safe place."

With a flip of her hand, she took out a dark green square certificate from her backpack, held the opened certificate high above her head, and shook it left and right for the whispering crowd to see.

Li Ang keenly noticed that the dark green certificate had a mental interference effect. After the certificate was taken out, the faces of the originally panicked crowd became much calmer, and they did not even show any suspicion or doubt towards Wei Linglan.

"A standard prop issued by the Special Affairs Bureau?"

Li Ang thought to himself, "It looks very effective. Is it issued to all members of the Special Affairs Bureau's Mobile Task Force?"

Official institutions are ultimately countless times stronger than individual players.

The two sides are not on the same level in terms of resource utilization. While lone wolf players are still hiding and developing wretchedly, official institutions have already begun to establish teams in an organized manner to study, pojie, and utilize the Killing Game.

Today, the Special Affairs Bureau can already produce standard extraordinary equipment and props on a small scale, and even equip the Mobile Task Force (and its extra personnel) with a complete set of equipment.

This certificate with a built-in "sense of authority from an official institution" is just one of them.

Wei Linglan continued to stand on the table and began to give instructions. She asked everyone, including the kitchen staff, both men and women, young and old, to gather in the hall.

After discovering that all communication tools had failed and she could not directly contact the Special Affairs Bureau, she walked out of the restaurant door and looked at both sides of the street.

The street was full of thick fog. Although the doors of the shops on both sides were open, there was not a single person inside.

It was as if only the people in the Yongyi Pavilion restaurant were left in the entire city.

Maintaining a vigilant posture, Wei Linglan continued to aim the grenade launcher at the street, retreating back to the restaurant, and pretended to glance at the crowd casually.

She was quietly counting the number of people.

This mission requires players to cooperate to escort 132 people in the Yongyi Pavilion restaurant to 149 Heshan Road. The final mission reward is determined by the number of people who arrive.

As an extra personnel of the Special Affairs Bureau's Mobile Task Force, Wei Linglan knew very well that the so-called 149 Heshan Road was actually a small stronghold of the Special Affairs Bureau in Yin City, which had

This also means that the system has determined that the vicinity of the Yongyi Pavilion restaurant is no longer safe.

Even on the way to 149, everyone will encounter great danger.

Clarifying the number of people is not only to better protect the people, but also to figure out whether there are players like Wei Linglan hidden in this group of people.

The system said "escort the 132 people in the restaurant," and this sentence itself is a vague hint.

132, does it count the players, or does it not count the players?

If including Wei Linglan, there are 132 people here, then it proves that the other players in the cooperative mission are likely to be mixed in the crowd.

In this way, even if that player has not taken action,

The Special Affairs Bureau can also screen and find the players mixed in the crowd by "retrieving surveillance videos afterward."

If excluding Wei Linglan, there are 132 people here, then it proves that the other players in the cooperative mission are not in the crowd at this moment.

If excluding Wei Linglan, there are 133 people here, then it proves that there must be another player in the crowd.

134 people, then there are two players,

135 people, then there are three players.

As long as the number of people is counted, the number of cooperative players other than Wei Linglan can be determined...

The older, artistic young woman's mind is not slow, but Li Ang realized this faster than her. The first time he heard the mission description, he began to quietly examine the crowd.

At this moment, there are no pregnant women in the Yongyi Pavilion restaurant (if there are pregnant women, the number of people can be confused). Including him and Wei Linglan, there are 132 people in total.

In other words, players are also counted among the 132 people.

The system has already marked this as a cooperative mission. After Wei Linglan finishes counting the number of people, she will guess that players are mixed in the crowd.

The Special Affairs Bureau will also discover this afterward, start screening, and then threaten Li Ang's stable daily life.

Li Ang is not so sick that he would actively destroy innocent people to complete identity protection, not to mention that Wang Congshan is here, and he cannot let her be irreversibly frightened.

Therefore, when Wei Linglan took out the grenade launcher and violently abused the giant rat, Li Ang thought of a countermeasure.

He let Chai Cuiqiao, the eldest lady hiding in his body, put on a brand new outfit and drilled into the ground.

Recently, Chai, who has completely evolved into a modern young woman, not only continues to indulge in various romance stories,

She is also obsessed with ACG, registered an account on Bilibili, and used the pocket money Li Ang gave her to get a VIP membership.

All day long, she is either frantically watching various anime, or watching young ladies dance in the dance area, appreciating performance art in the ghost animal area, or watching cats and dogs in the life area.

Li Ang could only let it go—anyway, Chai's usual expenses are small, and he can still afford it for the time being.

At most, it's just burning a few colorful origami clothes for her when Chai wants to cosplay.

That's right, as long as you pour your emotions into exquisite and perfect origami works and burn them in front of Chai Cuiqiao, she can receive the paper-made things.

Western armor, sailor uniforms, Akatsuki robes, Tiger tanks, chainsaw swords...

Although these things are just appearances without any substance, and they cannot be maintained for a few days,

But it is enough to deceive ordinary people.

"After Wei Linglan finishes counting the number of people, she will guess that players may be mixed in the crowd."

Li Ang thought silently in his heart, "To avoid this situation, we can only create a fake player identity and walk in from outside the restaurant,

So that Wei Linglan mistakenly believes that among the 132 people currently in the restaurant, she is the only player."

There are many people in the restaurant, and this fake player identity cannot be played by Li Ang himself—he still has to be the young photographer Xu Haoge.

Raise Chai for a thousand days, use Chai for a moment,

Chai, I'm counting on you this time!

Step, step, step.

When Wei Linglan finished counting the number of people and her face changed drastically,

Heavy footsteps sounded on the street, getting closer and closer.

A magnetic voice sounded,

"The wind today is quite noisy."

Everyone's eyes moved to the door.

A long-haired woman wearing a full-body heavy bronze armor walked in.

Her face was covered with a half-covered owl-shaped mask, covering the upper half of her face.

Only her cold and arrogant eyes and the mouth with an evil and wild smile were exposed.

An indescribable terrifying aura accumulated around her, the temperature was dropping, and even the moisture in the air seemed to be frozen into ice by her majesty.

The crowd in the restaurant who had just stabilized their emotions began to panic and commotion again.

Chai, who had no idea which anime character she was cosplaying, continued to smile lightly, glanced at Li Ang almost imperceptibly, and clearly expressed, "I'll take care of things, you can rest assured."

Li Ang said he was very worried.

"Hmph."

Chai Cuiqiao, who was possessed by a drama queen, snorted coldly, ignored the noisy crowd, stared at Wei Linglan, and said with disdain, "You, are you my teammate this time?

Woman."

Wei Linglan's face was tense and she didn't dare to relax, "You are..."

"Me?"

Anyway, this is also a one-time vest, which can be discarded after use. Naturally, it is how to play happily, how to come.

Chai smiled playfully, completely ignoring Li Ang's eye hint of "Be steady!", and her little brain was running fast,

Thinking about what evil and wild name to give her temporary vest.