“Fast!”

Inside the van, Big Face Cat cursed loudly.

“That bitch actually dared to trick me!”

He looked at Lin Xian, who was wearing an Ultraman mask.

“Brother, you know about my father and daughter, and you know about my three lackeys... I knew you were no ordinary person, I trust you!”

“But, you said you could take me to find tons and tons of gold bars, is that really true? I’m not doubting you, brother, I’m just curious, where in this city would there be so many gold bars?”

…

After Lin Xian stopped Big Face Cat in the square, he called him into the van to chat in detail.

Given the vast difference in intelligence between the two, Lin Xian quickly used his information advantage to gain Big Face Cat's trust.

And the second step was to persuade Big Face Cat to abandon his past grievances and join his cooperation plan.

Lin Xian nodded, looking at Big Face Cat.

“Since I’ve told you so many secrets, why would I lie to you about this?”

“I’m very familiar with this city, I know where the money is hidden. You have to know, there are people in this world whose money they don’t dare to keep in the bank, and even if you steal it in front of their faces, they wouldn’t dare call the police. Robbing this kind of money is the safest.”

“But…”

Lin Xian looked at his watch and shook his head.

“But it’s definitely too late for today, I can only take you to rob it tomorrow.”

“Hey!”

Big Face Cat patted Lin Xian’s shoulder and laughed.

“What’s the difference of one day! Tomorrow it is! So what do we do today?”

Lin Xian opened the car door and jumped out.

“You just wait here, I’ll go get that cryptography expert. Remember our agreement, I’ll take you to make money tomorrow, and the grudges between you two will be wiped clean. Today, both of you will listen to my commands.”

…

After getting out of Big Face Cat's van, Lin Xian closed the door.

He adjusted the mask on his face.

Lin Xian walked to the other side of the square.

Soon, he spotted CC’s location.

Still the same.

Nothing had changed.

The wide black trench coat, the bulging bun, the slender model-like figure, and the Ultraman mask on her face as a rendezvous signal.

“CC.”

Lin Xian walked straight up to her.

“Long story short. My goal and yours are the same, to open the safe in the bank vault with the name [Lin Xian] on it.”

“This isn’t a simple matter. Your little computer can crack the vault’s combination lock, but the safe uses an old-fashioned mechanical lock. Your specialty, electronic decryption technology, is useless. Before the main power is restored, there’s no time to open the safe.”

“Believe me, I’m much more familiar with that vault and that safe than you are. I know how to open that safe, and I’ve already taken care of Big Face Cat for you. If you want to open that safe… then join my team and let’s cooperate.”

CC looked at Lin Xian with a puzzled expression.

But she patiently listened to him.

Then she took a step back and re-examined Lin Xian from head to toe.

“You know the safe’s combination?”

“I don’t know,” Lin Xian said truthfully.

“But opening the safe doesn’t necessarily require the combination.”

“I plan to steal a set of [oxyacetylene cutting torch] equipment from the building materials market first, and use the high-temperature flame it generates to directly cut open the safe. It’s more efficient and stable than cracking the combination.”

“So… do you want to join us?”

Lin Xian looked at his watch, turned his wrist to show CC the time.

“Without you, we might waste a little time at the vault’s electronic combination door, but it’s not like we can’t use C4 explosives to clear the way.”

“We’re short on time, I’ll give you 30 seconds to consider.”

“…”

CC was silent for a while.

“I only have one question.”

“Speak.”

CC looked at Lin Xian.

“You seem to know a lot of information. Since your goal is also the [Lin Xian] safe… then can you tell me, how much do you know about this Lin Xian?”

Lin Xian shook his head.

“There are too many people in the world named Lin Xian. I’m not sure if the Lin Xian written on the safe is the Lin Xian I know.”

“Then what kind of person is the Lin Xian you know?” CC stared unblinkingly at Lin Xian and asked softly.

“I’m very curious, why do you also want to open this safe, what is your purpose?”

Lin Xian chuckled.

“I don’t have any purpose, I’m just curious. On the contrary, you’ve been hiding things, right? Are you willing to exchange information? I’ll tell you what kind of person the Lin Xian I know is, and you tell me your reason for wanting to open the safe, how about it?”

“…”

As expected, CC was silent again.

Lin Xian wasn’t surprised.

She was stubbornly tight-lipped about the two things, "why he treats her differently" and "the purpose of opening the safe," refusing to reveal any information.

Lin Xian had long given up trying to pry her mouth open.

He looked at his watch.

“5 seconds left.”

“I’ll join,” CC answered directly, crossing her arms.

“But only if you really took care of Big Face Cat, he’s not an easy character.”

Lin Xian lowered his wrist and pointed his thumb at the van parked by the side of the road.

“Happy cooperation.”

“Let’s go, I’ll take you to meet our teammate.”

…

With the advantage of overwhelming information, everything went smoothly.

Lin Xian opened the sliding door of the van's back seat, invited CC to sit in first, then followed her into the back row and pulled the sliding door shut from the inside.

Bang!

The rickety car door closed, causing the entire car to shake a few times.

“…”

“…”

“…”

For a moment, no one spoke.

The three most unlikely people to sit together were quietly sitting in a van.

Big Face Cat swallowed and glanced at the back row through the rearview mirror in the car.

He saw two upright, stern-looking Ultramans staring straight ahead, while in the corner of the rearview mirror… a Rhein Cat squeezed into a face full of fat, forcing a smile.

This combination was too strange!

“Cough cough!”

Big Face Cat coughed twice and turned around, looking at the twin Ultramans through the small holes in the masks.

“Um… which one of you two better explain what’s going on?”

“Female Ultraman, you don’t need to be so wary, our business is over, the male Ultraman said he’d help me solve the money problem.”

“Male Ultraman, didn’t you say you were going to direct tonight’s activities? You should tell us the plan!”

Lin Xian also sorted out his thoughts for what came next and said,

“Enough small talk, let’s get to work.”

“Big Face Cat, you go to the building materials market in the east first, let’s go there and see if there’s an oxyacetylene cutting machine.”

“If not, take a lap around to the advertising storefronts on the south side, we need that thing to cut open the safe.”

Vroom—

The van started and drove towards the building materials market.

Along the way, the three of them didn’t have any interaction.

Lin Xian was very calm.

He crossed his hands over his stomach, watching the streetlights rushing backwards at a steady pace, like the passing time, like his repeated cycles in the dream.

Inside the safe…

What exactly is hidden inside?