Chapter 42: The Spit Hasn’t Even Dried Yet!
Delighted, he collected the little devil’s corpse, then Cao Weida tapped the wall twice with his feet and leaped back onto the wall, hiding in the shadows to silently check his harvest.
【Slacking Points: 81】
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“？？？？” Cao Weida was stunned, rubbed his eyes and looked again, but the number still hadn’t increased; he was dumbfounded.
“What’s going on? Didn’t I just kill a little devil? Why aren’t the Slacking Points increasing?!”
“Damn it, brain-dead! It can’t be limited to two little devils per day, right?!”
Cao Weida was so angry he wanted to curse his mother; he already regretted missing out for so long.
If he’d known earlier that this could earn Slacking Points, he would’ve started killing long ago—this much time had passed, and he felt like he’d lost not just one billion, but at least ten billion!
He’d finally discovered it and was planning to make up for lost time by finding more, but unexpectedly, the damn system even had purchase limits.
“Broken system, wasting my emotions! I’m going back to sleep!”
Seeing that killing more yielded no harvest, Cao Weida could only curse under his breath as he left.
Already three little devils had been killed. Although the little devils outside didn’t know, they weren’t brain-dead, so it was enough to raise alarms.
If they still dared to come in one or two at a time to die, that would be ghostly; it was better to slip away quickly.
And just as he thought, there had been shouting just now, but suddenly there was no more movement, making the little devil sergeant feel uneasy at once.
“Long Drum, Uemura, Yota!”
He shouted toward the alley entrance, but unfortunately, no matter how he shouted, there was no response from inside.
This made his heart even more uneasy, his vigilance instantly maxed out. “Quick, flashlights! Machine gunner, aim at the alley entrance! Follow me in!”
The remaining ten little devils weren’t pig-brained, of course, and naturally noticed something was wrong. Two little devils immediately turned on the flashlights used for patrol, while the others loaded bullets, shouldered their guns, and cautiously felt their way into the alley.
Beiping’s alleys were interconnected and extremely complex; if you weren’t a local, you’d get dizzy and disoriented once inside.
The little devils didn’t dare to advance aggressively, proceeding in pairs with maximum vigilance, carefully checking the surrounding alleys.
After fighting wits with the air for a good while, regrettably, they didn’t even see a single shadow.
This didn’t reassure the sergeant at all; instead, the unease in his heart grew stronger.
“Sergeant, a discovery!” a little devil suddenly shouted.
The sergeant didn’t dare slack off and hurried over.
The shouting little devil pointed at the wet mark in the corner of the wall and said, “Sergeant, look, this is freshly pissed urine!”
By the light of the flashlight, the sergeant didn’t mind the dirt, dipped his finger in it, sniffed it under his nose, and stood up with furrowed brows.
He looked at the other wet marks on the ground and ordered:
“Protect the scene, circle up all the urine traces, notify the trace expert to come over!”
After a good while, a sedan stopped at the alley entrance. Then, a little devil who was just over five feet tall, dressed like a freakish monster, carrying a wooden chest, was escorted into the alley.
“Takuya-kun, we’ll have to trouble you next.”
“Hai.”
The little devil called Takuya deftly opened the box and took out various professional tools.
At this time, the alley was lit up bright by the flashlights.
Takuya used professional equipment to investigate around the scene for a long time, gradually showing a puzzled expression on his face.
Not giving up, he fetched a ladder to check the top of the wall.
But the more he checked, the more troubled his face became.
Seeing him put away the equipment, the sergeant couldn’t help asking, “Takuya-kun, how is it?”
“The inspection is finished. This is the investigation record.”
Takuya handed over the investigation record, but the sergeant pushed it back and said, “Takuya-kun, just tell me directly.”
Takuya wasn’t annoyed. “The killer is a professional. From the urine on the ground, we can judge that the killer first attacked from behind.”
Takuya pointed to the circled areas around and said, “Please look here. The killer likely succeeded with one strike; the two didn’t react before being attacked from behind and instantly losing combat ability. As they fell backward, urine flowed up along the wall and then splattered around.”
“Moreover, the killer is clearly proficient in anti-detection. All footprints around have been completely erased, but strangely, there’s a mark here that looks like a toe print, yet it’s not large.” Takuya pointed to a spot slightly higher than his height, where there was a small dust mark.
“I previously suspected the killer jumped down from the wall using a rope and then climbed back up along the rope to escape, but after careful inspection, I didn’t find any such friction marks.”
Takuya’s face was full of confusion:
“I’ve heard that China has masters proficient in lightness skill; ordinary high walls can’t stop them at all. But where did the three warriors’ corpses go?”
“The weight of three corpses isn’t light. I absolutely don’t believe someone could carry three corpses and still leap over the wall and escape as lightly as a swallow!”
I’m asking you to investigate, not to ask me questions!
The sergeant was secretly annoyed and asked, “Could they have run from the alley?”
“Impossible.” Takuya answered quite confidently. “Leaving aside whether carrying three corpses could evade the surrounding patrols—which I’ve also checked, and there are no traces left at all—did the opponent erase all traces while carrying the corpses and fleeing?”
The sergeant’s emotions were somewhat irritable. “If not this, then not that—then tell me, Takuya-kun, where did my soldiers go?!”
“Regrettably, they have likely all been sacrificed.”
Eight teeth road, do I need you to tell me that?!
The sergeant’s breathing quickened. “But now, my soldiers are gone! Even if sacrificed, there should be corpses!! But now even the corpses are nowhere to be found! So tell me, where are my soldiers’ corpses!?”
“.” Takuya was silent for a moment before helplessly saying, “Sorry, I don’t know.”
The sergeant’s breathing grew even more rapid. So after having you investigate for so long, that’s all you give me—a ‘I don’t know’?!
Eight teeth road!!!
On the other side, after finding a place to scrape together the little devil corpses, besides three Type 38 rifles, he only found some military scrip and union bonds.
Cao Weida was somewhat disdainful. After burying the corpses in a garbage heap, he quickly slipped back to Youtaojing.
After erasing all traces, Cao Weida finally got into bed, contentedly hugging the warm, soft body and falling asleep.
The next morning, Cao Weida got dressed with service from the Japanese girl and left the room.
It had to be said that Japanese girls were indeed skilled in service—key point being they were great in bed and not clingy.
Not long after Cao Weida left, Fujita Sosuke and Ono Shiota sat down in the tea house.
“Fujita-kun, what do you plan to do about the transaction in a few days.”
Fujita Sosuke took a sip of tea and smiled slightly at Ono Shiota. “Ono-kun already has a decision, doesn’t he.”
Ono Shiota laughed. “Yōshi, looks like Fujita-kun has also made his choice.”
“Haha, who would complain about having too little money? I have to say, Cao Weida really knows how to make money. Keeping him might bring even more surprises.”
“He has indeed exceeded my expectations,” Ono Shiota smiled slightly. “If this matter succeeds, it will be a huge income.”
Fujita’s eyes flashed with light. “For borrowing money from the bank, I think Matsumoto won’t refuse. Leave the Maintenance Association side to me.”
“Yōshi, then leave the gangs there to me, but the next transaction…”
“I’ll handle all the passes. Special Higher Police and anti-smuggling team sides will be taken care of by Matsumoto and the multilateral association. Supplies are entrusted to you, Ono-kun.”
The two smiled at each other, raised their cups for a drink, everything understood without words.
On the other side, Cao Weida didn’t know about this, but it was all within his plan.
The weather today wasn’t great; the sky was covered in dark clouds.
A few rays of sunlight pierced through the dense gray clouds onto the world, like beams of hope emerging from the cracks.
Cao Weida looked up at the sky, reviewing the recent events in his mind.
Actually, at the beginning, Cao Weida hadn’t wanted to do the first business deal with Fujita and them.
What he thought back then was simple: connect with Ono Shiota, make money while rescuing some Chinese citizens.
But who could have thought Ono Shiota and them would come out with a royal flush right away?
After Fujita Sosuke and them stated their plan, he had no possibility of getting off the boat and could only grit his teeth and proceed.
If he hadn’t agreed then, both sides would inevitably turn hostile.
On the surface during this time, he seemed unchanged, but actually he’d been constantly on edge.
He could sense that Ono Shiota and them were preparing to make a move on him.
After all, once the white glove got dirty, the glove’s owner would most likely discard it and find a new pair.
However, it now seemed this crisis had preliminarily passed.
Otherwise, he could only go down in mutual destruction with them before they acted.
（Originally wanted to keep this a hidden line, but many reader masters seem too eager, so I can only write this line out first.）
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With his current skill, if he really wanted to run away, it wouldn’t be easy to catch him.
If his system were any other system, he could just run away, but the problem was his system was a cheating one, already bound to the Beiping Police Station. If he ran, his system couldn’t increase Slacking Points anymore—this was practically cutting off his roots!
So, unless absolutely necessary, he absolutely wouldn’t abandon this job.
Just after arriving at the police station for roll call, he was enthusiastically called to the office by Bureau Chief Xu Hancheng.
“Come, come, Cao’er, have some tea.” Xu Hancheng smiled so warmly, with such a kindly attitude—probably never this kind even to his own father.
“Cao’er, how’s it going with Officer Ono?”
“Bureau Chief, this time you’ve really screwed me over badly.” Cao Weida complained with a bitter smile. “You didn’t see it, but last night Officer Ono gave me such a scolding—you see, the spittle hasn’t even dried yet!”
