115: Consciousness trap!

Deep within the seafood market, next to the cold storage, a clear burst of laughter suddenly erupted.

“Hahaha…”

It was Lin Jia laughing, tears almost streaming down her face.

She watched Wang Lin with interest, while his face had turned a bit green.

He shot Lin Jia an icy glance, even showing a rare hint of warning.

Such a look was enough to make many women instantly freeze like cicadas in winter, but Lin Jia was not an ordinary girl to begin with.

Especially since she was certain she was going to die, she could be described as completely unrestrained.

She ignored the warning in Wang Lin’s eyes, Lin Jia even deliberately put on a curious expression like someone who had just heard juicy gossip, she scrutinized Wang Lin’s face with great interest, and asked probing: “Young Master Wang, you seem to be on the verge of breaking down?”

“If you have something to say, just say it, it’s so uncomfortable to keep it bottled up.”

She continued solicitously: “It’s okay, I understand. After all, Young Master Wang previously boasted about how professional and reliable your lackeys are. Yet in an empty area, with surveillance helping, and even having a numerical advantage, you couldn’t even catch an unarmed intruder.”

“You didn’t hire a bunch of disabled people as lackeys, did you?” she asked curiously, “If that’s the case, I can only praise you, Young Master Wang, for truly having boundless love.”

With a crisp “crack”, Wang Lin accidentally cracked his knuckles while clenching his fist.

…

Wang Lin was a calm, even cold person.

Of course, this calmness was actually the result of self-control. Big Eye was very clear that Wang Lin was essentially a person with an extremely volatile temper.

He usually appeared very approachable, and even when angry, he wouldn't yell.

But Big Eye knew that the colder Wang Lin’s voice was, the more he was suppressing his anger.

This made his voice completely devoid of emotion, like a machine.

Anger was like a flood; it's better to divert than to block. The result of suppression was an even more violent outburst.

And Wang Lin’s outbursts were actually very simple and very cruel: kill.

During this time, Big Eye and others, under Wang Lin’s orders, did a lot of dirty work. To completely sever the leads, they didn't just kill Sun Xiangdong, but also several key figures in the smuggling group.

Some of these people felt the pressure of Police investigation and started to play both sides, while others sensed that Wang Lin was preparing to abandon this smuggling channel and then threatened Wang Lin.

As people who lived by the blade, Big Eye and the other lackeys weren't really too afraid of death. After all, when they got into this line of work, they couldn't help but think that this day might come for them too.

However, everyone had attachments, and Wang Lin wouldn't find people who had no attachments, or rather, no leverage. And the lackeys present all had families, including Big Eye.

Big Eye knew that if he really messed up Wang Lin's big plan, Wang Lin would drag him to hell even if he died.

And that included not just killing him, but also his family!

Given Wang Lin’s extremism and cruelty, this was practically a certainty!

And now Wang Lin was enraged to the extreme, Big Eye knew that his own life was also in imminent danger.

“Don’t worry, Boss, he absolutely won’t get away.” he said cautiously.

Letting this person sneak in wasn't a big deal, and not being able to catch the other party for a while wasn't a big deal either.

But if this person were to escape, that would be a real disaster.

Big Eye would absolutely not let himself fall into this state of eternal damnation!

He bent down and casually pulled out a gun from a safe on the ground used to store various documents.

This gun clearly bore the raw marks of manual manufacturing, which was unavoidable. After all, gun control was extremely strict now. Not to mention buying a real gun, even going to a hardware processing plant and asking them to make some parts under the guise of processing would result in Police showing up at their door.

The weapons used by Wang Lin's lackeys were all modified from the repair equipment and necessary flare guns on the ship.

Moreover, they didn't actually need overly advanced weapons, because their transaction targets also didn't have weapons.

It wasn’t just that local gun control was extremely strict, but also that in Japan, Wang Lin’s main trading partner for smuggling, gun control was also extremely strict. This resulted in the notorious Yamaguchi-gumi, which had been among the top three gangs in the world for so many years, having to use small knives for dirty work when they went out.

This was the only thing worth praising about Japan.

The pistol modified from a flare gun was crude and lacked power and accuracy, but it was enough to deal with a weakling who only had a stun baton.

However…

Big Eye’s gaze returned to the surveillance screen. The young man on the screen had once again resumed a leisurely appearance.

But Big Eye no longer dared to underestimate the other party.

In his eyes, even if the other party just casually took a step forward at this moment, it exuded a sense of profound and unpredictable ease and grace.

This caused an lingering doubt to surge in Big Eye’s heart.

What method did this kid use to make it impossible for the two people with surveillance assistance to catch him?

Why was he able to brush past Lao Hei and Gou Zi, but they couldn't see him?

Magic?

Or perhaps, some kind of high-tech that he couldn't understand?

…

Big Eye was not a high-IQ criminal; he hadn't even completed basic compulsory education.

Of course, if he had completed basic education and truly learned, he would know that things were not like before.

Now there were surveillance cameras everywhere, and various identity verification devices were ubiquitous.

These devices had formed a vast network, and as the saying goes, the net of heaven is vast and sparse, yet nothing escapes it.

In this era, being a low-level criminal, like committing murder or arson, had no future. This was the trend of the times, and Big Eye and the other lackeys did not yet know this.

It was precisely because of their lack of education that they would instinctively attribute certain things they couldn't understand to the unknowable realm, such as immortals or magic.

Su Yue certainly didn't know magic, and he didn't believe that such a thing existed in this world.

This wasn't high technology either.

It was just a simple skill.

When Su Yue first obtained the Intelligence Outpost System, the System rewarded him with two skills.

One was disguise, and the other was tracking and counter-tracking skills.

Calling them skills was actually just knowledge.

The System only rewarded him with knowledge in this area; applying it and mastering it was Su Yue's own business.

It was by using these techniques that Su Yue was able to freely enter and exit Lan Zijun's office and pass notes whenever he wanted.

And as Su Yue upgraded the Intelligence Outpost, the originally just basic disguise and tracking/counter-tracking techniques also upgraded accordingly.

In other words, Su Yue now possessed intermediate-level disguise techniques and intermediate-level tracking and counter-tracking knowledge.

The intermediate-level disguise technique gave Su Yue the knowledge to change his voice by altering the position of his resonance cavity, making it impossible for people familiar with him, like Lin Jia, to recognize his true voice.

As for the intermediate-level tracking and counter-tracking, what it gave Su Yue was what was called stealth!

From the very beginning, Su Yue had understood that tracking and counter-tracking, in essence, was a combination of personal ability and psychological game.

Stealth was the same; besides having keen observation skills and agile movements, the key was to understand the opponent's psychology!

Human consciousness and thought were actually a program full of bugs.

These bugs were set by the Creator; in biology, this type of bug had a scientific name called instinct.

These bugs were set for the continuation of the human race and all animal species. For example, people all over the world have different appearances, cultures, and aesthetic views, but everyone instinctively finds large heads and small bodies adorable, and irresistibly so.

This was a bug, a bug that prevented humans from ancient times to the present from roasting and eating their own or others' babies with cumin.

Another example is that people value first impressions. In most cases, upon meeting for the first time, a person's image is already fixed in one's mind, and this ingrained impression is difficult to break.

This was also a bug, a bug that made almost all parents in the world, no matter how their children turned out or what bad things they did, still feel that their child was the same adorable baby from back then, unconditionally loving and protecting them, shielding them from wind and rain, and defending them against danger.

Instinct was something very difficult to overcome. The Creator set too many bug-like instincts for humans. And what psychology called targeting human weaknesses was, in essence, exploiting human instincts.

Li Haoyang fell into the trap of instinct; he instinctively believed his ingrained impression. Not to mention that Su Yue didn’t reveal any flaws at all, even if Su Yue had told Li Haoyang his identity directly, it would have been difficult for him to believe.

Including in terms of vision, humans also had instincts.

The human eye's ability to capture moving objects was far stronger than its ability to capture static objects. If walking in the dark and there was a closed door in front, there was a high probability of directly bumping into it.

But if standing in front of the door and it suddenly moved, almost everyone would be able to detect this movement and react in time.

This was an instinct towards danger; the brain sacrificed the ability to capture static objects and strengthened the ability to capture dynamic objects, which were dangers or predators.

Therefore, in dimly lit places, people actually relied more on the relative motion of objects caused by their own movement to perceive their surroundings.

Furthermore, there was another instinct.

Humans instinctively tended to look to the right!

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