Chapter 101: Z Package

Chapter 101: Z Package



Adam followed behind Kang.

They entered the store's back room, and there, Kang flicked a hidden switch that opened up a secret passageway that headed down into the basement.

Through the spiraling staircase, they arrived at the dark basement with a lonely light bulb hanging from the ceiling.

It had a singular rope hanging from it.

Kang tugged on it, and a dim light stretched across the basement.

Adam looked past the hanging light bulb and saw that there was another door at the end wall of the basement.

It looked like it was part of the same stone wall as the rest of the basement.

However, there was a door handle on it, and its edges stuck out slightly from the rest of the wall.

"This is the center of our operations." Kang said and pushed open the door.

A sight opened to a very large underground room filled with monitors and computers.

In the seats, there were several people typing furiously on keyboards.

On the monitors, there were maps and live footage of various locations around the city.

Kang took a seat on a big meeting table, then pointed at the chair on the opposite side of the table.

Adam sat down on the chair Kang had pointed at.

"Sir." A man said from the monitor side. "There're some people lurking about outside."

"Is that so?" Kang raised an eyebrow and then looked at Adam, believing he had something to do with that.

Yeah." The man looked at Adam. "They seemed to have been following him."

"They've been following me from Dust King's Bar." Adam answered truthfully.

"From Dust King's Bar..." Kang chuckled. "That's at the center. I wonder why they didn't make their move sooner."

"Who knows." Adam shrugged his shoulders.

"Let's go straight to the business." Kang said and interlocked his fingers. "How did you find out about my business?"

"The word spreads around." Adam said. "One of your clients couldn't keep their lips shut tight."

"Hmm, yeah, that can happen." Kang said, but then chuckled. "I let your lie slip because I don't really care."

"I am not that bad of a liar, or am I?" Adam asked with a smile.

"Not necessarily, but what you said didn't make any sense." Kang said. "I only offer my services to a special group of people. I don't just help any common thug with loose lips."

"That's true." Adam put his baseball cap down on the table and leaned back in his chair. "I guess I was too careless with my lie."

"That's fine. Let's talk business." Kang said. "Z Package, was it?"Điscover new chapters at novelhall.com to be friendly, and then they can enter without any issues."

"What is that person who never did that?" Adam asked with a frown.

"The machine is also able to think by itself." Kang said. "Like, if you are guests, the machine can identify them as friendly based on how they and you act.

"Otherwise, if you hadn't put them as friendly beforehand, the security measures will activate and fill your guests with holes from head to toe. We can't let that happen now, can we?"

"So, the person, in theory, was killed by a guest of his?" Adam asked.

"How did the murder happen?" Kang asked.

"Apparently, the person woke up one day; there was a masked individual already there, and after an altercation, the masked individual ended up killing the person."

"I can only think of one way." Kang raised a single finger. "That masked person once visited the person as a friend. Therefore, the machine identified them as friends based on how they acted with each other.

"And when the masked person returned to kill him, the machine didn't activate the security measures because he was already registered as friendly."

"I see..." Adam said out loud with an enlightened expression.

'That narrows it down. I was only visited by a couple of people...

'Sapphira, Fleur, Dean, Perseus, and Kiernan. One of them is my killer...'

It hurt him badly.

They were one of his closest companions-they fought side-by-side for years, bled together,

and trusted each other with their lives.

'It's hard to remember...' Adam touched his head. 'Everything is so fuzzy. I remember that the attacker sounded male, but there're convincing voice changers, and based on its body type, it also seemed like a male, but that can also be faked...'

"Are you alright?" Kang asked.

"Yeah..." Adam wrote something on the paper and gave it to Kang. "This is the address. Can

you start as soon as tomorrow?"

"That can be arranged." Kang said and then looked at the monitors. "However, if you happen

to die, we won't do it since you can't finish the payment."

"I understand." Adam stood up and slung the backpack over his shoulder, then put the cap

back on. "We won't be helping you with them." Kang said. "It would be rather disappointing for a S- ranker such as yourself to die in the hands of such common thugs."

"I'll take care of myself, thank you." Adam nodded and headed to the exit.

"You have confidence in yourself." Kang stood up slowly and said, "However, the world is a

dangerous place, and you stepped into the heart of that danger. Be careful out there."

"Mm." Adam nodded and left the basement.

Kang walked over to the monitors and smiled. "Will he be able to get away?"