Murder the Dream Guy

It was now late at night.

The city, however, was not asleep.

Now that it was almost Lunar New Year, people were excited to enjoy the holiday and experience the joy of getting together with their family and friends.

Under the countless lights, the people enjoying the coming holiday did not know that in this joyous and harmonic atmosphere, crime was actually breeding. They didn’t know that there was a group of people risking their lives in order to protect their lives and safety.

At 11:40p.m., Bai Muchuan received news from the Intelligence Team of Serious Crime Division One.

It was Salimu who called him.

“Captain Bai! The Dark Clan’s crime platform just sent a message to all of their participants!”

“What command is that?” Bai Muchuan clenched his fingers.

“Operation is brought forward! Let’s party at midnight today.”

At the moment, the Dark Clan did not seem to have noticed that their server had been broken into and the police were actually monitoring their activities. That might be why they issued a command to all participants via their server.

Bai Muchuan’s previous decision was correct – Leaving the Dark Clan’s website and server active and not contacting the people inside the name list since they couldn’t get all of them in one fell swoop gave them this edge. If it wasn’t for Xing Yuanhang’s case, An Ying wouldn’t have time to bring forward their plans at all. When they attempt to execute Operation Heaven’s Wrath the next day, as their website and server were already taken over by the police, all those in the name list would have been caught.

Xing Yuanhang and Zhou Yun’s case was unexpected.

It was an unforeseen ‘accident’ to the Dark Clan.

It was the same for the police as well.

Due to this unexpected case, the original plans of both parties had been disrupted.

Bai Muchuan glanced at his watch. “We still have 20 minutes. Salimu, I have a task for you.”

Salimu replied, “Sure! Just tell me, boss!”

“In ten minutes, seize control of the system and cut off contact between the administrators and the participants. Are you able to do that?”

Salimu pondered over a moment. “I can do that. But I’m worried that they’ll go to another social platform to contact each other…”

“It’s unavoidable, but this is their main platform after all. As long as we are the ones in control, with the name list on hand, we can confuse all of them. We can send a message that they won’t be able to tell if it’s real or fake. Let them bite each other and throw them into a state of confusion! ”

“Boss, what do you mean?”

“Ten minutes after you seize the system, send another message to all of the people in the name list — celebrate on Lunar New Year’s Eve, see you there.”

“Ahh!” Salimu was instantly enlightened. “I understand what you mean now.”

The participants would not know which was the real message and they would be thrown into confusion.

They had been making use of their website to gain members, the police could also use it to their advantage.

They would use these people’s ‘bones’ to make their ‘soup’.

“That’s a smart move!” Quan Shaoteng let out a yawn with his legs crossed and put an arm on Bai Muchuan’s shoulder. “Little Bai, the most correct thing that I’ve done in my life is to make friends with you.”

Bai Muchuan paused for a moment. “Are you sick somewhere?”

Quan Shaoteng said sincerely as he shook his head, “It’s true, I dread to think about being your enemy as they would end up in a really bad shape. You’re too scary, too sly and you’ve got too many tricks up your sleeves…”

Bai Muchuan continued to look at his watch. “Don’t compliment me anymore! Go! Get your team to do some workouts and stay alert!”

“What for?” Quan Shaoteng refused to move. “Do you bleeping know how many hours have passed since you wanted me on standby? I’ve been sitting here for so long that my butt feels cold and nothing has happened at all. Little Bai, if you hadn’t rushed over and stayed with us, I would have beaten you up to a pulp, do you believe me?”

“…”

Bai Muchuan looked up at the dim yellowish light.

“It will happen.”

“What will happen?”

“Your mission will happen… An Ying might also appear.”

…

At another location—at an earlier timeline at 10:40 p.m.

Everywhere seemed dark.

There was even a ray of moonlight on the sky.

In the cold winds, Huang He was whistling. He was walking back to the car after he went to relieve himself. Soon, he got in the car and stretched leisurely, yawning.

“Drive faster.”

“Brother Ying called earlier,” said Tian Danyue.

“Mm? What did he say?” Huang He seemed confused.

“He said we need not return to the Capital but look for him in Jin City instead.”

“Jin City?” Huang He furrowed his eyebrows as he looked at the roads outside the window.

By the roadside, he saw an endless field, dark hills and shadows of trees dancing in the wind.

Huang He tapped on his knee gently. “We’ll be on the highway in another 20 miles.”

Tian Danyue added, “That was all that Brother Ying said.”

Huang He asked, “Did something happen?”

Tian Danyue shook her head. “Brother Ying didn’t say anything about it. Huang He, let’s go back to Jin City.”

They had just left Jin City in less an hour. In order to avoid being stopped by the police, they had specially picked this time and this road… But they were now told to go back?

The driver mumbled in dissatisfaction as he turned the steering wheel.

“We went to so many places but didn’t get anything done. What a day!”

Tian Danyue kept quiet while Huang He just gave a snort. “Just follow the arrangements.”

“Hmph!” The driver was not pleased. “Fine.” He puffed a sigh. “I’m someone who listens to orders.”

After that, no one else said anything.

There were hardly any cars on this road, and there were no lamp posts.

Mountains and hills stood beside the road like black shadows that haunt people’s hearts.

While on the journey back, the three of them hardly talked. Tian Danyue received another call from An Ying who instructed her something. Tian Danyue nodded her head as she took the call. After ending the conversation, she told the driver to go to a place.

“Little Zeng, go to Grand Orchid Pavilion and stop at the back door.”

“Mm.” That was all the driver said.

Huang He, on the other hand, turned to Tian Danyue. “Grand Orchid Pavilion?”

“Yup.”

“Why are we going there?”

“Brother Ying said so.”

“…”

Tian Danyue seemed to be using the method of “I don’t know anything and will only listen to orders” to reply to him.

Huang He let out a soft chuckle. “That’s a familiar place.”

Tian Danyue remained silent.

Huang He used to work as a security officer in Grand Orchid Pavilion.

Tian Danyue also got to know Huang He at that place.

All the later stories of the two started from there.

…

The driver drove very fast for their journey back to Jin City.

They were back in Jin City about 40 minutes later.

There wasn’t a lot of traffic and pedestrians.

The roads were smooth, and after another 20 minutes, they arrived at Grand Orchid Pavilion.

It was 11:40p.m. That night, it was business as usual in Grand Orchid Pavilion.

The main entrance was decorated with warm, atmospheric lights, while the back door was facing a shabby street with several big garbage cans located by the walls. Some stray cats were darting around the street searching for food. There were also remnants of firework sticks lying around on the ground, making the place rather messy.

The car stopped.

The back door was a dark colored security door.

During the mass brawling incident that took place months ago, Huang He had acted courageously and was praised by netizens, he had come out of Grand Orchid Pavilion via this back door.

He went to knock on the door familiarly.

Screech!

The door opened a little and a head popped out.

“Who are you looking for?”

“It’s me.” Huang He spoke casually.

The other party turned back for a look before stretching his head to look out at the street.

“Come in!”

Huang He got the driver to wait there while he entered the back door with Tian Danyue.

Although he had left Grand Orchid Pavilion for some time, it seemed that everything was still the same.

Not long after, they arrived at a stairway to the second floor.

“Brother Ying’s waiting for you both upstairs.”

An Ying is actually here? thought Huang He.

He nodded his head and did not say anything.

Tian Danyue looked at his back and she clenched her fingers.