Then let the witch offer her loyalty

Is it because I'm naturally quiet?

After sending the message, he ignored the voice messages that Lao Chen was frantically sending and put his phone back in his pocket.

Upon returning to Xinshi, Chen Moxin arrived at an urban village.

There are no quarantine policies in the new city and the border area, and people can move freely.

In fact, many people from the border areas come to Xinshi to work, because the economic environment here is good, and they can try their luck to change their fate.

These migrant workers from the border areas have low incomes and high living costs in the new city, so they can only live in relatively remote and underdeveloped urban areas, eventually gathering together to form urban villages.

These urban villages have frequent population movement, making them difficult to investigate, and naturally become hiding places for some criminal groups.

According to Liu Lan's confession, Zhang Hao was hiding here.

Zhang Hao used to be involved in violent gangs and had many enemies in business. He was very aware of potential crises and bought a house here under a false identity years ago as a refuge in times of crisis.

The buildings in the urban village are of varying heights, and the walls are covered with small advertisements, ranging from plumbing services to cheap rentals. Printed text and handwritten phone numbers are interspersed among them, creating a chaotic and overwhelming mess.

Zhang Hao's house was in a hidden alley. Chen Moxin came to the roof of a building opposite it, holding a tablet and controlling the "Tarantula" type bionic reconnaissance robot.

This robot is not only fully equipped with reconnaissance capabilities, but it is also very small. From its appearance, it looks exactly like a small spider. It easily slipped through the crack in the door and entered Zhang Hao's home.

Zhang Hao was at home at the time. He was a man with a face full of fat and distinctive slanted eyes, which gave him an inescapable sinister look.

They would stare at it for an entire day.

Zhang Hao has a very good daily routine; he does bodyweight exercises early in the morning.

After practicing until noon and having lunch, he took out his phone to read the news and specifically searched for the latest news from the Administration Bureau.

In the afternoon, he continued to work out, and even took a dagger and kept stabbing at the wooden dummy. His movements were skillful and fierce, suggesting that he had probably stabbed many people before.

After dinner, he watched the news, then lay on the table studying the map, marking the streets near the administration with a marker, and even went online to observe the real-time street scene from a satellite map website.

Judging from this posture, it seems they are really preparing for a "prison break".

At 10 p.m., he turned off the lights and went to sleep.

Chen Moxin slept on the rooftop for the night, wearing half of an earphone to make sure she could hear any noise.

Nothing happened all night.

The next day, Zhang Hao got up at around 8 a.m., following his usual routine.

He was having lunch when someone called him.

"Old Zhao, what's up with the call?"

"Tsk, didn't I tell you? My girlfriend got arrested by the Bureau of Justice. I need to figure out a way to get her out first."

"Stop talking nonsense. I finally obtained psionic power. Do you know how powerful this force is?"

"I'm not like you ordinary people anymore, I'm a superman now! These damn authorities want to take away my power? No way!"

"Damn it! What do you mean 'I have to pay more'? Didn't we already transfer the money to you?!"

"The ship has left? We need to rearrange things? Tsk, you son of a bitch... Hey, I'll go to the dock. It's hard to explain over the phone, let's talk face to face."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Hao put on his baseball cap and went out.

Before leaving, he squatted down by the door and fiddled with it for a while.

After I finished, I squeezed the doorknob.

Then he left.

The Twin Cities have several docks, but Zhang Hao didn't mention which one he wanted to go to.

However, even at the nearest dock, it would take more than two hours to get there and back, not including the time Zhang Hao spent talking with that prison guard Zhao.

Chen Moxin had plenty of time.

He had already checked with the Tarantula robot and found no surveillance cameras inside or outside the building or in Zhang Hao's home, so he went directly to his building.

Standing at Zhang Hao's door, Chen Moxin recalled the two strange things he did before leaving.

Zhang Hao was squatting by the door, fiddling with something.

He even shook the doorknob.

What are they doing?

Chapter 15 is about to explode!

While Zhang Hao was fiddling with the robot by the door, the image was blocked by his body on the wall behind him, so no specific details were captured.

After a moment's thought, Chen Mo put on the "Hunter 1" tactical goggles and entered scanning mode.

"Scan and analyze this door."

Soon, the outline of the door was precisely drawn in his field of vision by the tactical eyepiece system, and a flowing blue outline was generated in the virtual interface to distinguish it from the surrounding environment.

As an invisible ray swept across the doorway, its structure was marked with different colors: the central metal plate was shown in dark blue, the reinforcing support strips on the edges were marked in orange, and the lock cylinder was bright yellow. Its material composition analysis was also clearly arranged on the left side of the field of vision.

At this moment, one of the messages caught Chen Moxin's attention.

There was a note on the door seam:

[A columnar object, 60 mm in length and 0.7 mm in diameter, not part of the door structure, was detected.]

Preliminary analysis using material scanning indicates that the main components are graphite and clay.

Chen Moxin squatted down by the door and took a look.

A mechanical pencil refill was stuffed into the crack of the door.

If this door is opened, the pen refill will be snapped off.

Chen Moxin gently removed the pen refill and placed it intact on the windowsill next to her.

Zhang Hao made two gestures before leaving.

The thing being fiddled with by the door is this automatic pen refill.

So, what was the purpose of shaking the doorknob later?

Analysis using a tactical eyepiece revealed that the door handle had a normal structure and contained no foreign objects.

Chen Moxin stared at the doorknob for a moment, then gently grasped it and felt it.

A short while later, he gave a brief laugh.

"She does have a bit of cleverness."

Chen Moxin first went downstairs and bought some fake gemstones of varying value from nearby vendors. Then she returned to Zhang Hao's door and placed her fingertips against the lock.

With a thought, he left a phase imprint on the door lock cylinder.

At the same time, he took out several newly purchased fake gemstones and left phase markings on them.

After several attempts, one of the fake gemstones successfully completed a phase transfer with the lock cylinder.

The fake gemstone was replaced in the lock cylinder, and the lock cylinder ended up in his hands.

He pulled the doorknob, opened the unlocked door, and entered Zhang Hao's home.

To prevent prying eyes from outsiders, Zhang Hao kept his curtains tightly drawn. Because the windows hadn't been opened for ventilation for a long time, an unpleasant smell hit you as soon as you entered.

Wearing tactical goggles, Chen Moxin searched the house and found a modified pistol in a hidden compartment of the bookshelf.

Although these pistols are not official standard firearms, they can fire 9mm bullets, which is more than enough to kill a person.

In the border black market, if you have connections, you can buy this kind of pistol for about 2000 euros.

He continued searching and found a fairy wand in the drawer.

Yes, it's like the fairy wand that Sailor Moon uses to transform, it's pink and lights up when you press the button.

This is clearly not Zhang Hao's stuff; it's probably something Liu Lan bought and left here.

I never expected that such a mature and sophisticated woman would still have a childlike heart and like such childish toys.

After a moment's thought, Chen Mo smiled brightly.

He touched the modified pistol.

Then I took apart the fairy wand, put a small gold bean weighing about 3 grams inside, put it back together, and touched it.

"whee."

He put the two items back in their original places and went to the dining table.

There's a bottle of bitter melon juice here, which Zhang Hao drank with lunch. He only took a few sips before leaving the house.

Chen Moxin took out the small blue tablets she bought from Chu Fan, crushed all 12 tablets in the box, poured them into the bitter melon juice, shook them well, and then put them back in their original positions.

After doing all this, Chen Moxin walked out of the room and reactivated the phase imprints of the inferior gemstone and lock cylinder to restore the door lock.

After closing the door, he inserted the mechanical pencil refill that was on the windowsill back into the crack in the door.

Finally, I shook the doorknob.

Then he turned and left.

...

at dusk.

When Zhang Hao returned to the urban village, his face was somewhat gloomy, clearly indicating that he was in a bad mood.

"Damn that Zhao guy, he's trying to raise prices on the spot... Once I've calmed down, I'll definitely get him."

"I wonder what's going on with Liu Lan. Those bastards at the Management Bureau probably won't do anything to her, right..."

"This woman isn't very bright to begin with, she wouldn't be stupid enough to betray me, would she...? Probably not..."

Zhang Hao didn't go straight home. Instead, he circled the winding alleys several times to make sure he wasn't followed before returning to his residence.

Years of hard work in society have given Zhang Hao an unusual sense of vigilance.

However, he doesn't like installing surveillance cameras at home because big data is too powerful these days, and cameras are easily interfered with or hacked. He might get caught because of it someday.

Therefore, he prefers to use some "primitive" methods.

Zhang Hao squatted down by the door and looked at the automatic pen refill stuck in the crack of the door.

In good condition.

He pulled out the mechanical pencil lead and threw it out the window, his eyes still alert.

Although this layer of security measures is in place, it is not enough.

This tactic might work against people with little infiltration experience, but it's easy to be exposed by skilled infiltrators.

He used to do this when he was involved in violent groups; he had a habit of using mechanical pencil refills to tamper with doors when he went out.

However, one time, his trickery was discovered by his enemies.

That day when he came home, the mechanical pencil refill on the door was perfectly fine, but when he opened the door, he found someone squatting inside. He was stabbed on the head, and the scar is still on his head.

Having learned his lesson, he now installs two layers of security on his doors, one visible and one hidden.

This automatic pen refill is an exposed safety feature.

In addition, there is a very hidden insurance policy.

Zhang Hao placed his hand on the doorknob, feeling it carefully.

The handle of this door is a bit worn out. Besides its normal spring-back parallel state, you can rotate it upwards and lock it in place with a little force.

Before leaving the house each time, he would deliberately raise the doorknob about 10 degrees.

If you come home one day and find that the doorknob is in a self-rebound state, even if the mechanical pencil lead is intact, it is very likely that someone has tampered with the door.

Zhang Hao gripped the doorknob, feeling its condition.

The same feel as usual.

no problem.

He was relieved and took out his key to open the door and go inside.

After spending most of the day in the sea breeze at the dock and not drinking much water, he was a little thirsty. He picked up the leftover bitter melon juice from his lunch on the table and drank it all in one go.

He threw away the plastic bottle, took off his clothes, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.