Chapter 11 How to Escape

Besides the part about his Russian girlfriend, Li Ang understood Tang Rannuo's thoughts very well. He knew the Special Affairs Bureau would be here soon, and he didn't have time to dwell on it, so he could only toss the Black Trojan Horse into the alley.

He didn't believe that Brother Trojan Horse was so weak. As a member of the Whale Song organization, he must have one or two powerful pieces of equipment as a safety net.

Moreover, from the mechanical prosthetic eye that the Black Trojan Horse was wearing, it could be assumed that after completing the Tsukumo Middle School mission, he had saved the miniature life potion.

This way, even if his limbs were broken, he could immediately recover and heal, and run away before the Special Affairs Bureau arrived, while also attracting some of the Special Affairs Bureau's investigative pressure for Li Ang.

Brother, I'm counting on you.

Li Ang thought silently, wearing Hu Ge's appearance and walking through the streets of Yin City.

Undoubtedly, the Special Affairs Bureau would definitely launch an investigation at that time, carefully checking the surveillance footage based on Hu Ge's appearance.

The question now was how to get away.

Li Ang turned left and right, walking along a riverside path next to a certain street for a while. After arriving under the bridge, he took advantage of the fact that no one was around and jumped into the turbid river water.

With the help of his modified lungs and Ripple Breathing Technique, Li Ang reduced his oxygen consumption to a very low level.

He put on a shapeshifting mask to reduce his presence, and swam quickly along the river, silently passing through the dense urban surveillance area along the Yin City waterway system.

Afterward, he used the waterway system to reach the park behind the public restroom where he had transformed into Hu Ge.

He took out the biological template from the bottom of the lake, transformed himself back into Li Ang's appearance, and put on the clothes he had been wearing at the time.

Then, using the ground-penetrating effect of the Phase Boots, he had Miss Chai drag him quickly across a distance of two hundred meters, landing ashore in a deserted thicket in the park.

Li Ang lay prone in the dense bushes, activating the Ripple Breathing Technique and slowly evaporating the moisture from his clothes and body with ripple energy.

He had chosen to transform in that public restroom in the first place because he was drawn to the many blind spots in the park behind the restroom, where some young men and women liked to stroll at night, not afraid of the cold.

After his clothes were dry, he climbed out of the bushes, patted off the dust and leaves, and walked onto the path with a calm expression.

He strolled around the park for a while, and when he felt that enough time had passed, he sent Wang Congshan a WeChat message, asking if she wanted to play a game of Honor of Kings.

Li Ang guessed that with Tang Rannuo's caution, she would definitely not return to Room 2084, but would instead evaporate from the world and completely change her identity.

But out of caution, he still used playing mobile games to monitor Wang Congshan's family, and had Miss Chai sneak into the ground and rush to the vicinity of the residential area to lie in wait.

Nearly an hour later, Miss Chai saw Police Officer Wang Fengnian and a group of suspicious people, including Wei Linglan, enter the residential area.

These people were not wearing uniforms, but were disguised, and were separated from each other by a certain distance, looking like ordinary people.

If Wei Linglan hadn't been in the crowd, Miss Chai might not have noticed anything unusual.

She immediately burrowed into the earth and rushed to Li Ang's side, and Li Ang quickly saw Wang Congshan suddenly go offline in the game, AFK in the hot springs of the base.

He asked Wang Congshan on WeChat why she suddenly dropped offline, but did not receive a response immediately. Ten minutes later, Wang Congshan sent a voice message telling him that her dad had made new progress in the case.

According to Wang Fengnian, the young lady living in Room 2084 across from their house was likely to be an overseas purchasing smuggler who had now absconded.

Obviously, Wang Fengnian did not tell the truth. The next day, Li Ang also learned from Wang Congshan that her distant cousin Wei Linglan had decided to rent the somewhat spooky Room 2084 and become their neighbor.

Presumably, the Special Affairs Bureau had tracked down Chen Furuo, who was related to Xia Junqiang's corpse and that firework, and then locked onto Hu Ge and Tang Rannuo through the surveillance footage near Chen Furuo.

From the Special Affairs Bureau's point of view, Hu Ge and Tang Rannuo had both appeared inside the residential area, and were very likely to be two players acting together.

But Li Ang had cleared away as many residual clues as possible about the identity of "Hu Ge," and Tang Rannuo had also evaporated from the world, making it impossible to track her down.

The Special Affairs Bureau was temporarily unsure whether Tang Rannuo living across from Wang Fengnian's family was a coincidence or had another purpose, so Wei Linglan, as a member of the Mobile Task Force, simply moved into Room 2084 for safety reasons.

In a way, this was actually a good thing. At least with Wei Linglan around, Li Ang didn't have to worry about Wang Congshan's life.

In the next few days, Li Ang lay low again, and only returned to his player identity after confirming that there was no Special Affairs Bureau surveillance.

The rewards for this team-based regular mission were as follows.

[Reward settlement in progress]

[Overall player performance: S+, game coins and experience points increased to 160%]

[Mission Reward 1: Excellent quality skill scroll *1]

[Mission Reward 2: Experience points 100]

[Mission Reward 3: Game coins 300]

According to the Phase Two mission notes, only an S-rank completion rating or higher could earn an excellent quality skill scroll.

The S-rank standard here required meeting multiple criteria such as Chen Furuo not committing murder, Chen Furuo himself not dying, knowing the ins and outs of the cognitive bias curse, and dispelling the curse.

"At the final juncture of dispelling the curse, Tang Rannuo ran away directly, without providing any help in dispelling the curse."

Li Ang lay on the sofa and thought silently, "She probably also estimated that her escape would cause the overall completion rating to drop several grades, and she would only be able to obtain a rare or even ordinary quality skill scroll.

She'd rather not have the scroll and escape,

Tsk, am I that scary?"

Thinking about it, that Tang Rannuo was probably not having a good time right now and had to change her identity again.

In the information society, creating a flawless fake identity is extremely difficult. Short-term living is fine, but long-term activities will definitely be detected by the Special Affairs Bureau's increasingly sophisticated information monitoring system.

The survival environment for lone wolf players is getting harder and harder—maybe the lone wolf players in India or South America are having a better time, not having to worry about omnipresent information monitoring.

Li Ang shook his head, not wanting to think so much, and opened the wooden box in the backpack bar to activate this excellent quality skill scroll.

[Skill Scroll Name: Drowning Assassination Technique]

[Attribute: Learning type, disappears after one use]

[Type: Universal]

[Rank: Excellent]

[Effect: Causes warm, pure water to gush out continuously from the nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs of a target within 200m, causing them to suffocate or even drown. The fountain effect lasts up to 1 minute. Attacking or being attacked will interrupt the spell.]

[Consumption: Consumes 20 points of spiritual energy per second]

[Cooldown time: 10 minutes]

[Note: If the target unit does not have the relevant organs, the water source will be transferred to their respiratory system]

[Note: Drink more hot water, my friend]