Chapter 1 Longheng Plaza

Yin City Longheng Plaza is an integrated complex of retail malls and two office buildings, built in 2001 and located on the north side of Jinnan West Road.

Its two office buildings are exquisitely and gorgeously designed, with 70 floors above ground and 3 floors underground, reaching a height of 320 meters and a total construction area of over 160,000 square meters. Many multinational corporations, information technology companies, and fashion enterprises have set up offices here.

The Longheng Shopping Center, with five floors above ground and one floor underground, totaling six floors, is composed of three interconnected buildings, forming a long strip shape with a total area of 55,000 square meters.

It gathers flagship stores of a batch of world-renowned fashion brands, including but not limited to hugoboss, louisvuitton, cartier, el, dior, escada, etc.

Exquisite, luxurious, high-end, grand, with consumption levels and service standards that are world-class.

These are the labels of Longheng Plaza.

As midnight approaches, Li Ang, dressed as a white-collar worker, is sitting in a fast-food restaurant across the street from Longheng Plaza, swiping his phone screen.

Catching the app sent to him by Mule, Li Ang quickly scrolled through today's Longheng Plaza surveillance videos at five times the speed.

Unfortunately, there are too many cameras in the mall, and the number of videos is too large. He still hasn't finished watching them all at 11:20.

Li Ang sighed, pushed up the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, picked up his briefcase, walked out of the fast-food restaurant, crossed the road, and walked into the underground parking lot below the Longheng Plaza office building with a calm expression.

He walked to the far left of the parking lot, pretended to open the car door, turned around and went around to the Hidden Dead Angle behind the support column.

He took off his suit and leather shoes, put them in his briefcase, and took out the same yellow and white janitor uniform as inside Longheng Plaza and put it on.

Wearing white gloves and a mask, Li Ang, disguised as a janitor, walked out from behind the support column calmly, pulled down the brim of his hat, and walked into the employee channel door at the innermost part of the parking lot, using lock-picking tools to pry open the special lock in less than three seconds.

After entering the employee channel, he climbed the stairs to the first floor underground, passed through an L-shaped corridor, and entered the first floor underground of the Longheng Shopping Center.

At this time, the mall had closed down, and the magnificent hall was silent, with all the shops shuttered.

The warm-toned lights that were on during the day have been replaced by dim and cold night lighting.

Li Ang looked up and saw that the glass dome above the mall was completely transparent, and a dim, yellow full moon was hanging high in the sky.

His boots stepped on the beige limestone floor, making a crisp sound. His gloved hands lightly stroked the golden copper alloy handrail, and the touch was as smooth as silk.

The shopping center has three interconnected buildings, a, b, and c. Building A is located in the center, Building B is on the left, and Building C is on the right.

Li Ang started from Building C, put on a shapeshifting mask in the shape of an orange tabby cat, and arrived at the main entrance hall of Building A at 11:40, where he found that four figures were already standing there.

Just like the countless player experience summaries in the luntan, the most important thing when performing tasks in the real world is to hide your true identity.

Once the true personal information is exposed, not only will you be in danger, but even your family will be targeted.

There have been rumors that a certain energetic social group in Mexico has frantically kidnapped a player's family and coerced them to work as coolies, performing tasks again and again, and handing over all game currency to the group.

Low-level players are not strong enough to contend with modern firepower, and even if they have strong extraordinary powers, they are still caught in a dilemma when facing family members who are hidden somewhere.

Therefore, the general consensus in the player luntan is that once the true identity is exposed, the best way is to immediately surrender to the Special Affairs Bureau and request protection for themselves and their families.

Compared with the completely unscrupulous consortiums and energetic social groups, the credibility of the Special Affairs Bureau is undoubtedly much stronger.

However, surrendering also means that one's family will be under heavy protection and completely separated from normal society—this is not only the Special Affairs Bureau's way of restricting players, but also to prevent consortia and other forces from holding players' families hostage.

Taking everything into consideration, hiding one's identity is still the most cost-effective—at least for now, the world's supernatural phenomena have not become so numerous that players are actively sending their families to the Special Affairs Bureau to request protection.

In order to prevent personal information from being leaked, the four figures standing in the main entrance hall of Building A were all wrapped up tightly like Li Ang.

The first person was of medium build, wearing a fully enclosed black motorcycle helmet, a brown leather jacket and pants, boots, and stood with his hands behind his back, leaning against the wall of the hall.

The second person was tall, burly, had a buzz cut, wore a full-coverage pig-nose gas mask, a black windbreaker, gloves, and boots, standing in front of the main entrance looking outside.

The third person was thin, with a black headscarf wrapped around his head and face, wearing a supermarket employee uniform, reaching out and fiddling with the paper flowers by the door.

The fourth person was wearing black night clothes, with a ponytail, carrying a compound bow on his back, and a quiver hanging from his waist.

The four of them were standing in the Hidden Dead Angle outside the door, preventing the crowds that occasionally passed by from seeing them. At this moment, they heard footsteps and all looked towards Li Ang.

Li Ang, wearing a big cat mask, fearlessly met their gazes head-on, scratched his armpit, and said with a strange laugh, "I'll blush if you stare at me so eagerly."

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The four people who had been waiting for a long time were speechless. Li Ang walked over slowly, quickly opened the player's friend list in his mind, and sent a private message to Liu Wudai.

"Is that you?"

"It's me." Liu Wudai, who also vaguely recognized Li Ang's signature mask, replied in the friend chat.

The two disguised people exchanged glances imperceptibly, and tacitly did not reveal the information that they had known each other for a long time.

Teamwork tasks do not mean that team members can unite and work together.

Once danger is encountered, the so-called "teammates" will all be ready to sacrifice others to save themselves... Not to mention giving a brother a hand, not throwing stones down the well or pulling people to take the blame is already considered good.

Compared with these "teammates" whose details are completely unknown, Liu Wudai and Li Ang, who had performed tasks together, at least knew each other well and could be trusted to a certain extent.

Pretending not to know Liu Wudai, Li Ang quietly turned on the cat eye's spiritual sense detection function, wanting to scan everyone, but heard the thin figure question unkindly, "I said, you come up and turn on spiritual sense to probe team intelligence? Are you even following the rules?"

The player wearing the supermarket employee uniform obviously also possessed spiritual sense-like props or skills.

He noticed Li Ang's cat eye being activated and spoke up to stop it in advance.

Leaking information is unacceptable to players, and investigating teammates is indeed not very ethical. If it were a grumpy old brother, he would probably have already greeted him with military physical training.

Li Ang didn't pay much attention to being exposed, but honestly put away the cat eye's spiritual sense function, and said with a smile, "Sorry, I'm a newbie, I don't understand very well."

"Hmph."

The man snorted coldly and didn't say much, but folded his arms across his chest and continued to stare at Li Ang unkindly.