“Fatty, you sure that little thing went in here?”
A sinister, raspy male voice came through the earphones.
Yue sharpened her focus.
It seemed those two “tails” had already chased to the restroom entrance. She adjusted her earphones, then pulled up the monitor feed and kept quiet.
For the moment there was no one in the monitor image, because those two traffickers had not come in yet. Only the voices of their conversation could be heard.
“Hoh…”
“Something’s off… she definitely noticed the two of us. Look at that looping route of hers, plus the awareness of counter-tracking. That is absolutely not something an ordinary kid could master. You dare believe a creature that calm would panic and flee into a restroom to sit and wait for death?”
“Hoh…”
“Heh. Say whatever you want. This daddy doesn’t buy it.” The sinister man paused, then his tone sank a few degrees darker. “She definitely has some purpose…”
“Hoh…”
“Forget it. Don’t give me this and that. You sure you saw clearly? That little thing really is premium goods?”
“Hoh…”
“Tch. Don’t blow smoke at me. Besides peeping, what the hell is that [Absolute Inspection] of yours even good for? A few times that little thing almost got away, and in the end didn’t we still have to rely on my [Shadow Tracking]?”
“Hoh…”
“Tsk. Who cares what medicine she’s selling in that gourd of hers. Two Chosen Ones like us can’t even catch one kid? In a crowded place this daddy wouldn’t dare make a move. In this old district, what’s there to be afraid of!”
“If that little thing really is like you said, selling her to that old thing will pay several times what the last job did. After we finish this ticket, this daddy’s fleeing abroad. I still haven’t tasted what a foreign girl is like. Those legs, that ass, tsk tsk tsk…”
“Hoh hoh hoh hoh…”
“All right, stop laughing. Stand at the door and keep watch for me. If anyone comes, say the restroom is under maintenance. I’ll go in and drag that little thing out.”
“Hoh…”
“Tsk, relax. This is merchandise for a deal. I won’t go overboard. At least… I’ll make her look intact on the surface. Jejeje…”
[Absolute Inspection] and [Shadow Tracking], huh…
So these two traffickers were Chosen Ones as well. No wonder she had looped twice and still failed to shake them.
In the earphones the voices vanished. A gray human shadow soon appeared in the image, dirty gloves still carrying an orange-red toolbox.
This fellow was that sinister man.
He had changed outfits.
He really did look a bit like a repairman. The partner outside who apparently could not speak normally was probably in the same getup.
As for what was in that box… it was definitely not repair tools. Probably some tools for grabbing people.
For example a sack, rope, and an anesthetic gun, the trafficker happy trio.
Yue had tied people up before when carrying out missions, so she had a bit of experience.
Of course, he was different from these two pieces of scum who only made a move on the weak.
In the image, the sinister man set the toolbox on the ground and opened it, kneeling on one knee. Because the shot was of his back, it was impossible for the moment to see what he had taken out of the toolbox.
But that motion… seemed to be loading ammunition.
The “conversation” just now had made the two traffickers’ final goal clear: sell for money.
The better the quality of the goods, the higher the price, so what was in his box naturally could not be the kind of lethal hot weapon that would leave holes in a person.
It was a gun…
Little effect on the body’s outward appearance…
Could capture a person…
What was that if not one of the trafficker trio, an anesthetic gun?
This fellow… would not even say hello on meeting, just came up shooting. Truly too rude.
Yue pursed her lips, eyes locked on the monitor image.
Anesthetic guns had categories too. Yue needed to determine what kind of gun the sinister man was holding in order to form a countermeasure…
Mm… a countermeasure for which posture would be more comfortable to lie down in after getting shot later.
She was not joking. She was serious.
Look at the time. [Hua Jun] had ten seconds left at most before arriving.
And the anesthetic effect of an ordinary anesthetic needle needed two or three minutes to kick in.
There would be enough time to explain things. In that case, taking a needle like that was not out of the question, and it could save a great deal of trouble.
She trusted her partner.
Looking at the phone screen, the sinister man was already down on his stomach with the gun braced, the muzzle aimed at the gap under the stall.
He was aiming at the part of Yue below the knees.
No nonsense, not a second wasted. This kind of fellow was a repeat offender at a glance.
Look again at the one in his hand.
A BMQ dagger anesthetic gun.
This kind of gun had two types of ammunition.
The first was ordinary anesthetic fluid, effective in two or three minutes, with the person shot waking naturally in ninety to one hundred twenty minutes.
The second was special anesthetic fluid, effective within one minute, but an acute recovery agent had to be injected immediately after the person shot fell unconscious, or there would be danger to life.
Who knew whether these two traffickers would use the second type of ammunition in order to save time.
If it was the second type, then this needle was better not taken.
What if these two used the acute recovery agent to threaten the arriving [Hua Jun]?
And what if [Hua Jun]’s logistics stores happened not to have this model of acute recovery agent?
Tsk. Truly would not let a person save worry.
Yue stared at the sinister man’s fingers in the monitor image, ready to jump the instant he pulled the trigger and dodge the anesthetic needle flying over.
To be honest, the transmission of the image inevitably had a little delay, so she also could not guarantee she would dodge a shot from such close range.
But she had to try anyway.
A brief silence…
Bang—
Only after the gunshot entered her ears did the finger in the image pull the trigger.
Yue silently said this was bad.
It was already too late to jump.
Moreover, outside there seemed to come the sound of something smashing onto the ground.
But… why was there not the slightest sensation in her foot?
The anesthetic took effect that fast?
Yue lifted the hem and raised her foot to look.
Left foot, smooth as jade.
Mm?
Right foot, fine and tender.
Mm?!
Yue looked at the phone screen in confusion. The sinister man had already stood up, and on the ground not far in front of him, the black BMQ dagger gun had snapped into two pieces.
Yue hurriedly scrubbed the live recording backward and saw a scene that made her click her tongue—
The gun had blown its chamber.
That was right. An anesthetic gun, chamber blown!
After the sinister man pulled the trigger there was a muffled bang. First many sparks burst from the middle of the gun body, then transparent liquid sprayed from the muzzle together with a lot of broken glass.
At last the sinister man stood up on reflex, threw the gun in his hand away, and it smashed clang on the ground into two sections.
Was this reasonable?
This was simply…
…simply an idiot falling into a river—reasonable as hell!
It seemed the effect of [Misfortune] had already ended completely, and with the blessing of [Strong Luck], there was no one who could harm Yue, including herself.
As for that fellow outside, his cognition had probably already been overturned.
An anesthetic gun could blow its chamber too?
Heh. Who told you to modify firearms wildly.
Changing the power from mechanical impact to gunpowder explosion in order to solve the short range of an anesthetic gun. You two really had something.
Yue pursed her lips and suddenly noticed a red phantom flash across the screen she was staring at.
This fellow…
She pulled the hood down another fraction. On the face under the shadow, an undetectable smile appeared.
…Not a hair off from the estimated time of arrival.
Right, Liuli?
After a brief silence, a voice both cute and charming sounded in Yue’s heart:
“Aree? I got found out by accident~”
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