Sin City (Chapter 7: Just Another Saturday Night)

  "Tonight, I still have to go out and take care of some things. Not going to a nightclub to get rich, nightclubs always have so many deaths, who would go except for fools? Do you want to come with me and have some fun?

  Xu Huaiqing was organizing his equipment, he only took two automatic pistols and several hand grenades, nothing else. Lisa wouldn't let the opportunity to get rich pass her by, she just asked: "Who are we dealing with?"

  "A few annoying lawyers, get rid of them and there's no problem, no need to kill the whole family or set fire. Xu Huaqing still put on his diving suit, but he didn't use oxygen bottles and other equipment, just a diving mask and a diving suit, he prepared to swim ashore to continue his work, Lisa quickly changed her clothes and left the sailboat together."

  The high-end residential area is very far from the city center and covers a large area, so it's impossible to build a wall around it. The security guards can only patrol on electric vehicles on the lawn, and there are landscape lights in places with fake hills and ponds. The residential area is generally transparent, and the road extends from outside the residential area to the front of each villa. Almost every household has a surveillance camera at its door. However, the security personnel in this villa area are not many, but it's safe because its background is very strong.

  These villas are covered by a powerful real estate company, of course not operated by ordinary people. They can buy land at a price ten times lower than the market price, and it's natural to make a huge profit from building such beautiful houses. Property management is also not difficult, and if that little thief dares to come here to make trouble, his legs will soon no longer belong to him.

  Relying on their strength, the property company doesn't care about having fewer security personnel. Anyway, nobody looks for trouble, and the fewer employees they hire, the higher their profits. Because no thieves dare to visit, the security guards who are like decorations here become even more relaxed, drinking when they should drink, playing cards when they should play cards, and some even play computer games in the office. They're not afraid of thieves making trouble, only the thieves are afraid of being retaliated against by their backers.

  Xu Huaqing infiltrated here very cautiously, just like a special reconnaissance team parachuting from high altitude, neither rushing to enter nor eager to engage with the enemy, but carefully observing. The place was so bright that no night vision equipment was needed at all. However, in order to confirm the target, he had to enter the room and take action. The residents of this residential area were mostly wealthy lawyers and doctors, as well as some people who made a fortune from illegal businesses. To put it bluntly, if several toxic gas bombs were thrown here, not many of the dead would be innocent.

  The documents had the residential addresses of the lawyers, and Xuhuaiqing had memorized the door numbers in a notebook he carried with him. There were also photos of these people. The materials were all provided by Yufei. As long as he took action, he could do it. He used binoculars to observe the surveillance cameras at the entrance of the villa and felt that this thing was everywhere, making it easy for them to be photographed. How could they not be photographed? "Do you see so many surveillance cameras? How can we avoid being seen?" Xuhuaiqing asked her.

  "Enter from the back door, or take down the surveillance room first, you're good at this." Lisa held a gun and looked at him. Xu Huaiqing said: "The nightclub is a relatively closed place, and it's no problem to blow up the server with explosives. However, here is very open, and the security guards are scattered, not easy to take out all at once. I don't want to cause too much collateral damage, these people may not be as guilty as those thugs, why don't we sneak in and wear their clothes? There's an electric car on the lawn in front, we can wear those two guys' clothes."

  Lisa followed Xu Huaiqing, crouching and moving forward silently. They reached the electric vehicle without being detected by the two security guards, one of whom was watching a sports game on his phone while the other watched a movie. Xu Huaiqing took out a spray-type anesthetic and sprayed it directly into the noses of the two men, then used an injectable anesthetic to make them unconscious for longer. He removed the security guards' clothes and put them on himself, tying up the two unconscious guards and placing them in a thicket. The electric vehicle moved quietly along the small road inside the residential area, with no residents noticing anything unusual. The security guard in the monitoring room occasionally glanced at the screen but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

  "It's here." Xuhuaiqing drove the security patrol car to the front of a villa, and this time he didn't care about any cameras. He held a anesthetic spray in his hand and pressed the doorbell. The person who opened the door was the lawyer himself. He sprayed the lawyer with the anesthetic and solved the problem. Then he walked into the lawyer's luxurious mansion to look for his family members. Xuhuaiqing didn't intend to kill this man's whole family; he thought Yufei was just talking big, so he simply knocked out all these people, tied them up, and wouldn't let them report to the police in a short period of time.

  Lisa, dressed in a security guard uniform, followed them into the villa. She didn't rush to take out the lawyer first, but instead put on a pair of gloves she had prepared in advance and started looking for things she liked. Entering the master bedroom, she directly rummaged through the mistress's jewelry box, not caring whether the items were valuable or not, and stuffed them all into her bag. After all, the lawyer was very rich, and his wife wouldn't have put many fake jewels at home. Moreover, locals didn't like to use credit cards because the domestic revenue department would investigate their sources of funds, and a lot of money that went into the bank was monitored by the national law enforcement agency, and they also had to pay taxes. Many lawyers made a lot of money helping criminal gangs with their affairs, so they didn't want to go through complicated money laundering procedures to put the money in the bank again. They simply gave the lawyer cash directly. Lisa was very clear about this detail. She rummaged around the room and found a lot of money, feeling that it wasn't a wasted trip. However, she also wanted to open the safe, but unfortunately didn't bring explosives today. Otherwise, it would have been easy to open it.

  Xu Huaqing knew he had a lot to do tonight and didn't have time to linger here, so after knocking out the male and female owners of the villa, as well as their children and servants, he directly injected the poison into the lawyer's body with a syringe. This way of doing things was more interesting, silently and quietly, not everything had to be solved by guns. After finishing these things, he urged Lisa, "There are many things to do tonight, don't linger here for too long."

  Lisa had no choice but to turn around and leave the villa, continuing to drive her electric car in search of the next target. Xu Huaiqing took out his notebook and crossed off an address before moving on to the next one. The whole night, the electric cars were driving back and forth in the residential area. The residents were used to the idle security guards wandering around aimlessly, which was better than them sitting idly by doing nothing. Wandering around was also a form of patrol, after all, they couldn't just sit at work doing nothing.

  The notebook had more and more crossed-out addresses and names, by the time it was almost midnight many families had turned off their lights to rest. Xu Huaiqing felt that continuing to impersonate a security guard and knocking on doors was not quite right, as it was very unusual for a security guard to visit at midnight. In order not to arouse suspicion, he told Lisha to drive away, although they hadn't eliminated everyone, the list had fewer than a dozen people left. Tomorrow, Yu Fei would see the TV news and be delighted.

  "Your bag is full enough." Xuhuaiqing, who had taken off his security uniform, saw a puddle on the ground and threw his clothes into it. Lisa also changed out of her ill-fitting uniform. "I'm not very greedy, I'll give you half of the cash when we get back, and I'll sell the jewelry and give you some of that too. What do you think?"

  "Let's go, we should leave quickly." Xu Huaiqing didn't return the stolen car to its original location. Instead, he drove it to the nearest coastal area and then swam back to his sailboat, which quietly sailed out to sea. The only things left on the beach were the car and tire tracks, with no footprints in sight. Even if there were any, they would have been washed away by the waves, making this another stealthy attack.

  In the morning, a group of lawyers gathered outside the military camp, fewer in number than before. Yu Fei stood on the corner tower and looked around before returning to his office. On TV news, a beautiful residential area appeared first, followed by rows of police cars entering and exiting. Many people were carried out of their homes in black plastic bags. The female anchor was introducing a major criminal case. The detectives found no footprints, fingerprints, or bloodstains at the scene. All the victims were lawyers, indicating intentional murder. However, there was significant financial loss, but it didn't seem like an intentional killing. Was it a robbery? But the children, mistress, and servants inside the house only fainted, without any threats to them. They just fell asleep after being sprayed with something by a security guard. Everything seemed like a dream, except that when they woke up, there was an extra dead person in the house.

  The crime scene had no bloodstains, it was really clean and beautiful. Yu Fei, who used to be a mercenary, admired Xu Huaiqing's skills. In the nightclub, he single-handedly took down over a dozen thugs, and in the gunfight, he handled it alone. In the residential area, he silently took out so many people, it was really impressive. Those lawyers definitely didn't know who killed them before they died, nor did they know it was their own arrangement. "He's truly a genius, unfortunately, he shouldn't be doing this, he should be teaching at special forces and spy schools, that would suit him."

  "There are a lot fewer annoying lawyers, they were all at home." Wen Yong was also watching the TV in the office, but he wasn't here specifically for that. "Boss, with so many people arrested, we need to hurry up and interrogate them. The detention period is fixed, and later you'll have to take them to court. For those who have been issued arrest warrants, we should transfer the relevant materials to the procuratorate, and then just wait for the trial."

  "It doesn't matter, we'll send those things to the prosecutor today. I'm not afraid they won't file a lawsuit, nor am I afraid the judge won't deal with those scum. We have our own channels, don't worry too much about the trial results. Today, we won't go to court, let's go to the prosecutor's office." Yu Fei stood up, put on his uniform, grabbed his briefcase and led Wen Yong out of the barracks.

  The atmosphere in the prosecutor's office was dull and sleepy, with nothing but a stack of documents, crime suspect information, evidence photos, and other materials being reviewed one by one. The prosecutor seemed to be deeply engrossed in the review, but ultimately didn't ask any questions. "Alright, the testimonies and confessions are basically consistent, I think the judge will convene the trial on schedule. As for the rest, it's up to the court to decide during the trial. I don't think they'll be able to escape punishment."