Chapter 1 Opening

"You mean... you have the same dream every day? And you wake up on time at 00:42 every time?"

The man wearing a cartoon cat mask looked at Lin Xian:

"Then you're so excited, buddy! You can kill whoever you want in your dream! You can do whatever you want! You can also experience various death-defying games! Hiss...it's exciting just thinking about it!"

Click.

The man pushed the magazine into the pistol and loaded it: "But you don't have to look for excitement in your dreams tonight, I'll show you something real!"

He pointed his finger at the bank across the street:

"My little brother pried open the bank door, come with me!"

Lin Xian nodded, straightened the Ultraman mask on his face, stood up and kept up with the man:

"What do you call me, big brother?"

"People call me big-faced cat on the street."

The man grinned, and the flesh on his face made the cartoon cat mask look more two-dimensional: “Just call me Brother Face.”

"Brother Face, what is my mission?"

"It's not time for you, the cryptography expert, to take action. Follow me and don't run around."

swish swish...

After a trot, Lin Xian followed the big-faced cat to the door of the bank.

"Is everything done?" the big-faced cat asked.

The younger brother nodded.

The big-faced cat put a pistol against his younger brother's forehead——

Bang! !

Blood splattered all over the wall! He wiped the muzzle of the gun casually and patted Lin Xian on the shoulder:

"Now that there is one less person to share the money with, we can share a lot more money!"

"Isn't he your little brother?"

"His hands and feet are dirty. For our safety, we cannot keep him!"

The big-faced cat said as he pulled Lin Xian inside.

The two came to a fork in the passage.

A masked man was tinkering with a distribution box.

"Not okay yet?"

The big-faced cat urged.

Click.

The masked man cut off a wire and wiped his sweat with his hands:

"It's done, the alarm system has been disarmed!"

Bang! !

Another shot in the back of the head! The distribution box is full of blood!

"No, big brother, I feel very insecure when you do this!"

Lin Xian pointed to the corpse on the ground: "You, my little brother, have unclean hands and feet?"

The big-faced cat snorted: "This guy's hands and feet are pretty clean, but he seduces your sister-in-law! Do you think I can keep him?"

"Are you so difficult to be a big brother?"

"Oh, don't worry about these little details! Shouldn't you be happy that you don't have enough money for me?"

Lin Xian opened the hand he held and said: "You're not going to destroy me and keep the money for yourself soon, are you?"

"That must not be the case!"

The big-faced cat patted his chest and abdomen, then took out a gray object stuck with tape from his waist and handed it to Lin Xian.

"What's this?"

"C4 explosive."

The big-faced cat pointed at the switch and explained to Lin Xian:

"Brother Face, I am an honest man! I never do anything mean! If you think I want to kill you later, just press the switch and blow up Brother Face! Are you relieved now?"

"Okay, reliable!"

Lin Xian gave a thumbs up and accepted the C4 explosive.

swish swish...

The two moved on.

A masked man ran up from the underground passage: "Boss, I cut off the main power supply line——"

Bang! ! ! Yi Di Nao Hua.

"Brother, this person..."

"It's okay, brother face." Lin Xian waved his hand, indicating that he was used to it:

"Can you just tell me how many people are left to share the money?"

"It's just the two of us! Hehehe...it's just the two of us!"

The big-faced cat pushed Lin Xian and walked quickly inside: "Look, we've arrived at the warehouse! It's your turn, the cryptography expert, to take action!"

In front of me...

It is a thick black wall with a silver password door in the middle.

"What's the password?"

"Bah! If I want to know the password, why should I ask you, a cryptography expert?"

The big-faced cat pointed at the watch:

"Stop it, brother, hurry up! We don't have much time left! Once the main power is restored, the security system will automatically alarm!"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry yet."

Lin Xian walked to the coded door and started tinkering.

The big-faced cat paced back and forth, the flesh on his face twisted into a ball: "How long do you need?"

"10."

"10 minutes!?" The big-faced cat exclaimed, "This is too long!!"

"9...8...7..."

? ? ?

The big-faced cat looked at Lin Xian running out with a shocked expression!Then he turned around and saw the C4 explosive attached to the coded door!

And the ever-changing red numbers on the detonator! !

"Shift!"

Pounce against the wall——

boom! ! ! ! !　　Boom! ! ! ! !　　Boom! ! ! ! ! The thunderous explosion penetrated his eardrums!

Countless bricks and ironA block hit him!

"Cough cough cough... cough cough cough!!"

The big-faced cat wiped the blood from his face and yelled:

"What the hell... aren't you a cryptography expert? Is this how you crack the code!?"

"Just say it's efficient or not."

Lin Xian covered his ears and walked over, pointing to the collapsed wall in front of him: "Look, there is a warehouse inside."

The big-faced cat got up and cursed: "There are no reliable experts..."

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Lin Xian walked into the big hole that exploded in the wall.

This is the first time in his life that he has entered a bank warehouse, but it is completely different from the scene he imagined...

"Why don't you have any money?"

The warehouse was empty.

There are no piles of banknotes as imagined, nor mountains of gold bars as seen in movies.

The walls surrounding the warehouse are inlaid with safes arranged neatly one after another.

Lin Xian walked closer to check.

Each safe has a different name written on it.

Wang Shuo.

Liu Liping.

Wei Shengjin.

Lin Xian.

king--

? ? ?

Lin Xian took a step back and stared at the name on the previous safe.

【Lin Xian】

Guaranteed replacement if fake.

Why does your name appear on this safe?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　click.

Behind him, the hot muzzle of the gun pressed against the back of his head.

"Brother Face, please be merciful."

Lin Xian decisively raised his hands in surrender:

"Brother Face, you have to be reasonable. I didn't have dirty hands and feet, and I didn't seduce my sister-in-law. If you clean up the house, you can't blame me unjustly, right?"

"Okay Brother Face, I admit that I did lie to you. In fact, I am not a cryptography expert at all... I was just walking around the square, randomly picked up an Ultraman mask and put it on, and you just jumped out without saying a word. Pull me into the car!"

"But I didn't know that this Ultraman mask was your [connection code]! Let me tell you, I just lied to you out of fun, I didn't harm you."

"Besides... if you bring that real cryptography expert here today, you won't be able to crack the code until dawn! You are lucky to have met me!"

A silvery chuckle came from behind:

"I'm not that stupid! If I can't crack the code door until dawn...who am I a cryptography expert?"

Immediately, the hot muzzle left Lin Xian's scalp.

Lin Xian turned around.

The person behind him was found to be a slender woman with bunned hair and an Ultraman mask exactly like his.

"Where's my brother face?"

The woman pointed her chin to her feet.

The big-faced cat was lying in a pool of blood wearing a cat mask, holding a gun in his hand, and there was a big hole in the back of his head.

"Did you kill him?"

"If I hadn't killed him, you would have died just now."

The woman kicked the body away:

"He originally planned to kill all of you and keep the money for himself. He is not a good person."

"Your team is really difficult to lead..."

"Don't take me, I'm not on the same side as them."

The woman pushed Lin Xian away and walked towards the safe on the wall: "This is also the first time we met. I don't recognize him, I only recognize the cartoon cat mask."

"Can your joint code be more retro?"

The woman ignored Lin Xian.

She passed Lin Xian and glanced at the safes on the wall one by one.

Finally, she stopped in front of the safe with [Lin Xian] written on it.

Looking at the eight password wheels on the box, she snorted and threw away the small computer in her hand:

"It turned out to be a mechanical lock..."

The woman put her ear against the safe and clicked the combination wheel.

"What's in this [Lin Xian's] safe?" Lin Xian came over from behind.

"have no idea."

"Do you know Lin Xian?"

"I don't know."

"Then why did you open his safe?"

"Where do you get so many problems?"

Through the Ultraman mask, the woman glared at Lin Xian fiercely: "Go and stay where you can!"

She continued to pull at the combination lock.

Lin Xian looked at the eight code wheels on the safe and pondered...

"Try 19990320."

"What?"

The woman looked at Lin Xian angrily.

"I said, try the password of the safe, 19990320."

"What number is this?"

"My birthday." Lin Xian replied affirmatively.

"..."

"..."

"Are you mentally ill?!" the woman asked sincerely.

"Listen."

Lin Xian took a deep breath.

He looked at the other Ultraman seriously through the Ultraman mask:

"The alarm will sound at any time. No one would joke on such an occasion. You and I have the same purpose. Even...I am more curious than you about what is hidden in this safe.""Believe me."

Lin Xian took a step forward with a serious look on his face: "This password is absolutely unmistakeable!"

…

The woman looked at Lin Xian and said nothing.

But obviously, she was convinced by Lin Xian's confident aura.

"You...say it again."

"19990320."

Click, click...

The woman dialed the eight code wheels, looked back at Lin Xian, and pressed the lock button——

Click!

Not open.

"Al?"

Lin Xian was stunned. The password was wrong!

The woman's eyebrows twitched and she took a deep breath:

"I really should have let your cat brother beat you to death just now!"

"He insisted on calling him Brother Face..."

"Enough!!!"

The woman couldn't bear it anymore and pointed a gun at Lin Xian!

Word by word, gnashing of teeth: "Say one more word! I will kill you!"

Lin Xian raised his hand and took two steps back honestly.

He is not afraid of death.

But he was more curious about what was hidden in the safe.

…

Click, click, click...

The woman kept trying to crack the code, but made no progress.

Lin Xian squatted on the ground, holding his chin and thinking, but had no clue.

Click!With the crisp sound of a circuit being connected, piercing alarms sounded all around.

It seems that the main power supply line has been restored and the alarm is automatically triggered.

The woman punched the safe and sighed.

Lin Xian raised his watch and glanced at the time:  【00:41:53】

He stood up and stretched:

"No time, come back tomorrow."

"Haha! Tomorrow?"

The woman seemed to have heard a big joke and laughed out loud:

"You blew this place up like this! Do you think you have a chance to come in tomorrow?!"

"You really have no chance..."

Lin Xian smiled slightly: "But I can. I can do it every day."

He waved to the woman: "Bye~"

boom! ! ! ! !　　Boom! ! ! ! !　　Boom! ! ! ! ! The sudden arrival of white light! The whole world is bright! There is no time to feel any pain, no time to react!

The hot white light swallowed everything instantly! Evaporate this world to nothing! …

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call……

The night wind blows up the window screen, making shadows dance.

The moonlight shines through the glass and casts frost.

From downstairs, the shouts of men playing with wine and fist-fighting could be heard from the night market stalls.

The sound of flushing water came from the pipes in the bathroom next door.

The manuscript paper on the desk undulated in the wind, and the notebook opened and closed like a river clam.

On the bed in the corner of the bedroom.

Lin Xian opened his eyes...

He sniffed and sat up, looking at the electronic clock on the bedside table——

【December 7, 2022】

【00:42:01】

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【00:42:02】

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【00:42:03】

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【00:42:04】

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(End of chapter)