The Baseball Cap Youth maintained an unhurried pace as he reached the mouth of the alley, then glanced inside from the corner of his eye. What he saw surprised him: Zhang Heng and Fengzi had already vanished from the alley.
The Baseball Cap Youth froze for a moment, seemingly not expecting this development. But he was a professional, after all, and quickly calmed down. He looked up at the school building standing in the darkness in the distance.
Just as he was hesitating over whether to go closer and take a look, a new message arrived in the operations group. Numbers 7 and 5, who were coming to assist, asked for his coordinates and said they would arrive within fifteen minutes.
The Baseball Cap Youth sent them the school's address, then opened his navigation app and checked the nearby street map. He discovered that the school in front of him had two entrances. The one facing the alley was a side gate, while the main gate faced another major road.
The Baseball Cap Youth frowned. Zhang Heng and Fengzi's intentions were clear now. They wanted to pass through the school, entering through the side gate and leaving through the main gate. It was an effective way to shake off a tail. That did not necessarily mean they had discovered they were being followed; more often, people simply used this method to get rid of potential pursuers.
From Hong's corpse, the Baseball Cap Youth had already determined that Zhang Heng was highly skilled at stealth. It was therefore no surprise that Zhang Heng possessed counter-surveillance awareness. Or rather, if Zhang Heng had simply continued walking normally, the Baseball Cap Youth would instead have suspected that he had been noticed.
But a problem now lay before him. Knowing that Zhang Heng and