A Space Devoid of Everything

The opening ball for the large oil tanker was on April 18.

Today is April 15th.

In other words, Fang Li and Aria actually had enough time, a full three days to prepare.

However, despite the word "preparation," there's really nothing major to do.

After all, the Equipment Department procurement was finished, and the intelligence gathering was almost complete. All that was left was to prepare for the ball.

What kind of job?

1. Formal dress.

Since it's a high society ball, preparing formal attire is essential.

2. Invitation letter.

On the day of the opening ball, only upper-class entrepreneurs invited by the organizers were allowed to attend; without an invitation, no one could get in.

To this end, Fang Li and Aria divided the work: one prepared the dress, and the other prepared the invitations.

"In that case, leave the invitations to me."

Aria immediately decided on her job.

That's only natural.

After all, Aria was a England nobleman.

With that kind of status, it would be a piece of cake for Aria to get an invitation to the opening ball.

In view of this, Fang Li took charge of preparing the formal attire.

This is not a difficult task either.

In Armed Detective High School, there is a special investigation research department, abbreviated as C Research Department.

That was a department that only allowed beautiful girls with stunning looks to enter.

The purpose of this discipline is to cultivate talents who can skillfully use honey traps to achieve espionage, subversion, whistleblowing, and infiltration.

Therefore, almost all the people in this discipline are girls, and they are girls who are in no way inferior to super idol stars.

Due to the unique nature of the C Research Department, students in this discipline often need various outfits to decorate themselves, or to dress up, or even to seduce mission targets with special clothing fetishes.

Therefore, students at the Armed Detective High School often commission members of the C Research Department Institute to make costumes for them to complete various missions.

Fang Li was also familiar with this place.

Of course, Fang Li wasn't like the other guys who approached the C Research Department Institute for all sorts of ulterior motives. He was just a workaholic who had worked in jobs that required specific clothing, so he had only been here a few times.

As S-Rank Armed Detective, Fang Li is very popular with the C Research Department. Every time he enters C Research Department, he is surrounded by a large group of fans, all of whom have the looks of idol stars and look at him with sparkling eyes.

However, every time, Fang Li would say something like this at this time.

"Stop with your nonsense. You're only after my money. I'll spend what I need to spend, but I won't overspend. So don't try to use what you've learned on me."

Upon hearing this, the beautiful women Fang Li would promptly and decisively disappear, leaving everyone speechless.

Today, Fang Li used the same method to deal with this group of shameless beauties. He asked an acquaintance to make a dress for the ball before leaving.

Immediately afterwards, Aria went to Fang Li.

"Let's prepare a backup plan."

With that, Aria led Fang Li to the second girls' dormitory.

This is the top floor of the second girls' dormitory.

Aria led Fang Li to one of the rooms on this floor, and then, without even knocking, simply pushed the door open.

"The door wasn't locked?"

Fang Li blinked, and when he saw the scene inside the door, he was immediately speechless.

It was an empty space.

That's right, it's space.

At the very least, Fang Li could not possibly call the Matoba before him a room.

There were no tables or chairs inside.

There was no decoration inside.

There was no paint in there.

There is no floor in there.

What you see is just a space with bare concrete slabs exposed to the air.

A light bulb hung in the middle, illuminating the space, but it didn't bring any warmth; instead, it made people feel a chill.

The room was so empty that it looked like a newly completed house, not like anyone lived in it at all.

Aria seemed to be used to this scene. Without even changing her shoes, she walked straight into the depths of the room, came to a door, and opened it.

Fang Li, who was following behind Aria, saw the scene inside the door immediately.

Behind the door, there was still an empty space, seemingly designed to be used as a small room.

In this small room, there is only one table, on which various tools for preparing firearms are neatly arranged.

At the table, a girl with shoulder-length, glass-like hair sat upright, preparing Sniper Rifle.

That was none other than Leiji.

"Click... click... clang..."

With practiced skill, Leiji disassembled the Sniper Rifle beautifully and used the tools on the table to clean each of the disassembled parts.

Leiji didn't refer to any instruction manual for this step; she relied entirely on her own skills, as if she remembered every part, every component, and every structure of the Sniper Rifle perfectly, and as if she had repeated this process countless times, silently carrying it out.

That skill was comparable to that of a teacher in the Equipment Department.

To be honest, Fang Li was somewhat surprised.

Maintaining firearms is not a strange thing.

No matter what kind of weapon it is, if it lacks maintenance, it will eventually become dull and rotten.

Fang Li also frequently takes time to maintain his Glock.

However, that's just maintenance.

If every single part were cleaned and prepared like Leiji does, the process would be many times more complicated than regular maintenance.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, Fang Li would entrust the Equipment Department to do this level of preparation, which would save them both effort and worry.

I believe that more than 80% of the students at the Armed Detective High School do this, and even the teachers do the same.

However, Leiji prepared her gun entirely on her own, and it was Sniper Rifle with a more complex design.

That's fine then.

There are students who are not comfortable entrusting their guns to others for maintenance, or who are unwilling to spend the money, and therefore maintain their guns themselves.

However, judging from Leiji's skillful technique, Fang Li had reason to believe that Leiji would perform a thorough check-up like this almost every time she used a gun.

Such caution and meticulousness are truly astonishing.

Seeing that Leiji seemed oblivious to anyone approaching and continued preparing her gun, Fang Li also began to slow his breathing.