Perfectly Blending In with the Enemy

Perfectly Blending In with the Enemy

Not far away, Xiao Zha and Lin Li, still standing guard outside the private room like door gods, were already dumbfounded.

They had watched the whole thing. The person who had actually carried out the cash case had already entered the office next door.

Huang Ji had only come over afterward. He merely made a motion as if he were leaving, and the man in the suit mistook him for the person who had carried the cash case earlier.

Of course, his timing had been impeccable!

And on second thought, it was obvious that the man in the suit recognized the case, not the person.

The case in Huang Ji's hand was the very one that had previously been used to swipe five hundred thousand yuan. Only now, everything inside had been replaced with bricks and rags.

But no one could see what was inside from the outside.

The man in the suit only knew that this case was indeed one he had bought. He had purchased several cases of this style, each with his own distinctive sticker, so he recognized it at a glance.

Yet he had forgotten that the case of money stolen earlier had also been this very case.

With the situation so urgent, he had no time to think that much. The first thing he saw after coming out was someone walking away with the case, so naturally he assumed it was his cash case.

Thus, Xiao Zha and the others watched as the man in the suit frantically snatched the brick-filled case from Huang Ji's hand.

Hua Ge, that was brilliant! Xiao Zha thought.

Slap! Right then, the power went out!

The KTV was instantly plunged into darkness, with only dim red emergency lights remaining.

"Go! Move!" Clutching the case, the man in the suit knew something was terribly wrong. This was probably not a routine inspection—it was the cops closing the net! Otherwise, Cao Jing would not have made such a huge fuss or cut the power.

Fortunately, the white powder from the transaction had already been dumped, and the cash case had been recovered.

This was not his turf. He could get away now. As for Cao Jing, he was probably in serious trouble.

"Heh heh! We're pulling out!" The man in the suit gloated as he hurried off with a whole case of bricks.

This scene was also witnessed by the yellow-haired underling who had chased out after them.

The yellow-haired man had not seen clearly. He only knew that the seven men in suits had surrounded one of their "brothers" and snatched the case from his hands, just as the lights went out.

Then that "brother" hurried back and shouted at the private room entrance, "Jing Ge! The money was stolen!"

The yellow-haired man raged, "Fuck! You useless idiot! Why didn't you hold on to the cash case for dear life?"

He then turned back and asked, "Jing Ge, what do we do?"

Cao Jing was extremely anxious. He had not expected the cops to cut the power too! What kind of tactic was that?

He did not understand it, but he trusted Ma Ye's text message!

"Forget him!" Cao Jing had deliberately let the man in the suit chase after his cash case. It did not matter. That little bit of money was unimportant.

What mattered was the money in this private room right now!

"Let them take it! Why are you still standing around at the door? Want to die? At a time like this, you're still dragging your feet? Get in here and pack the money!" Seeing several brothers still lingering by the door, Cao Jing immediately cursed.

He had meant for the yellow-haired man and the brother whose case had been "stolen" to hurry inside.

But with that one sentence, Lin Li and Xiao Zha slipped in as well.

Hearing Jing Ge's words in the darkness, the yellow-haired man also assumed the two guards were their own men. He even urged Xiao Zha, "He's yelling at you! Hurry, hurry!"

Lin Li and Xiao Zha gave meek acknowledgments and walked in, somehow getting swept into the crowd.

Cao Jing quickly pulled two flashlights from a cabinet. He turned one on for himself, then switched on the other and tossed it to an underling.

Yet in the darkness, a hand reached out and precisely intercepted the flashlight in midair.

No one paid any attention, though. In the dark, who knew whom Jing Ge had thrown it to? He had simply tossed it to someone.

As long as someone caught the flashlight, that was enough. They were all their own men anyway.

Little did they know that the one who could move through darkness like a fish in water was Huang Ji.

Cao Jing shone his flashlight over a small area and used his knife to continuously rip open the sofas, exposing the cash inside!

They were all bundles of hundred-yuan bills, wrapped in plastic bags and bound with tape, packed as hard as wooden boards.

As the flashlight shone over slab after slab of cash, many underlings froze. They had never expected so much money to be hidden in the private room where they usually hung around.

Cao Jing was too slow ripping apart the sofas by himself, so he had the brothers use the weak light from their phones to help.

"Quick, rip open every sofa. There are sixteen slabs in total, and each slab is five hundred thousand."

"Go get some backpacks. Everyone takes one slab and runs separately. Go find Ma Ye—he'll arrange the pickup. If you get caught on the way, you know what to say, right?"

"I know exactly how much money there is. If anyone dares get any ideas, I'll skin them alive."

After saying that, Cao Jing ran out of the private room, intending to see how things were going with A Lei.

Ma Ye's text had made it clear: there was a "big wildcat" in the house, the "dried fish" had to be removed, and the "cat litter" had to be cleaned up.

These were the codes between him and Ma Ye. Anyone who sent that message had to be Ma Ye. If something happened, Ma Ye would notify him like this once he got word.

Usually it was just a "wildcat," meaning the cops. But this time it was a "big wildcat," which meant the matter was serious!

Moreover, not long after the warning text, police cars had arrived. That meant Ma Ye had only learned about it a little earlier. The cops had kept things airtight! It was a major operation! They must have already learned about what was going on here.

So he could not afford any wishful thinking. Ma Ye's instructions could not be wrong. He could not ruin things. The dried fish and cat litter both had to be dealt with.

The dried fish was the money. Of the eight million here, more than half belonged to Ma Ye; Cao Jing was merely holding it for him.

If the cops found it, not only would he be unable to explain it, but it would very likely be confiscated. Then he would have no way to answer to Ma Ye.

If the money was not sent away, at worst he would only be unable to explain himself.

But if the goods in the office were not properly disposed of, he would be finished.

That was why Cao Jing was even more anxious to know whether A Lei had taken care of things!

Just as Cao Jing was heading for the nearby office, Huang Ji chased out of the private room and called after him, "Jing Ge! Jing Ge! Isn't it too dangerous to just run off with the money?"

"How is Ma Ye going to pick us up?"

Cao Jing was worried about the goods. Hearing Huang Ji chase after him to ask such pointless questions, he impatiently said, "Just do it. Someone will contact you."

As he spoke, he had already entered the office.

When he pushed open the office door, he saw that A Lei and several brothers had already smashed the Guan Yu Statue to pieces under the beam of their flashlights.

At that moment, A Lei and the others were opening packet after packet of goods and dumping them into the toilet, flushing everything down the drain.

"Hurry up! Get back and take the money away. I'm going downstairs to have a look!" Cao Jing urged before running downstairs.

On one hand, he wanted to see what was happening on the first floor. The alarm had already stopped, so the cops must have arrived. He needed to stall them as long as possible.

On the other hand, he needed to stay as far away from the goods as possible. He did not want to be caught red-handed.

As he left, Huang Ji promptly called out, "Huh? Downstairs, right? Got it! I understand, Jing Ge!"

As he spoke, Huang Ji casually took the man in the suit's real case of money from the table in the darkness.

A Lei was busy destroying the evidence. Why would he notice that? Besides, he had heard Jing Ge's voice at the door, so there could not be any outsiders here for the moment.

Huang Ji kept shouting as he shone the flashlight and carried the cash case back to the private room.

When he reached the private room entrance, he even pretended to shout down the hallway, "Jing Ge! I got it! Don't worry!"

As Cao Jing went downstairs, he wondered if this underling was a fucking idiot.

He cursed, "If you got it, then do it! Stop fucking shouting!"

After Cao Jing left, Huang Ji saw that Cao Jing's underlings had already found all the money in the private room. He said, "The situation has changed. Ma Ye's people are already here. Jing Ge just said to throw the money downstairs. The pickup people are waiting below!"

With that, Huang Ji directly threw the cash case out the window.

Everyone was stunned, but they really had seemed to hear Jing Ge say something about "downstairs" earlier.

On top of that, Huang Ji had been shouting things like "I understand" and "don't worry, Jing Ge" all the way.

They all assumed Jing Ge had issued new instructions and sent Huang Ji to pass them on.

Lin Li and Xiao Zha took the lead, directly throwing the money downstairs.

"Hurry up! Wu San'er! Hua Juan'er, stop standing there!" Huang Ji said, shining the flashlight on their faces.

It was a kind of psychological pressure. Having been singled out and hit by the light, the two of them instinctively did as they were told.

"Hurry up and throw the money down! There's no time!" Huang Ji urged, and everyone moved even faster.

Huang Ji spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world. His commanding presence seized control of the pace in the room, unconsciously drawing everyone along with him.

They only felt that his words carried an extraordinarily convincing authority.

Perhaps part of the reason was the one flashlight—the only one in the darkness...

There were only two flashlights in total. Jing Ge had one, while the other had been thrown to Huang Ji.

Now that Jing Ge was gone, Huang Ji was the only person in the room holding a flashlight! That figure held a beam of light in his hand and directed the whole scene, making everyone believe him without question!

With all those overt and subtle cues, he had them completely spun around.

And with the situation so urgent, once someone took the lead, the others immediately rushed to grab the money and run to the window, afraid of being too slow!

Someone looked down from the window and saw that there really was an old man by the back door!

The old man looked around, then waved upward, signaling for them to hurry and throw the money down!

"Hey! Catch!" One thug nodded and tossed the money down.

"Hurry, hurry! Ma Ye's people are waiting below to pick it up."

Everyone scrambled, quickly throwing all sixteen slabs—a total of eight million yuan—downstairs.

Down below, Lao Wang heard thud! Thud! Thud!

Slab after slab of money fell from the sky and landed in front of him.

"Oh... oh, oh, oh..." Lao Wang was overjoyed. He clicked his tongue in amazement while bending down to collect the money.

His movements were extremely quick. Before long, he had placed all the money in the garbage bin, stacking it layer by layer.

Lao Wang looked up slightly from below and saw someone at the upstairs window waving to indicate, "That's all!"

Seeing this, Lao Wang closed the garbage bin lid and gave the people upstairs a thumbs-up.

The thugs upstairs kept waving their hands and whispered, "Go, go, go! Get out of here!"

Lao Wang nodded and gave them another OK sign, indicating that he understood.

Then, smiling broadly, he pushed the wheeled garbage bin away at a brisk pace.

Inside the private room, everyone let out a sigh of relief. Getting the money out this way was far better than fleeing in different directions while carrying cash.

Huang Ji said, "Why are you all standing around like idiots? Split up, split up! Don't make trouble for Jing Ge!"

"Yes!"

"Got it!"

The group answered and immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

Huang Ji, meanwhile, led Lin Li and Xiao Zha down a shortcut in the darkness and leisurely left through the back door.

From beginning to end, no one stopped him.

P.S. Sorry. The strongest strategy is overwhelming superiority in intelligence. Most invincible-protagonist stories these days are about invincible combat strength, but this protagonist is invincible in strategy, while his combat ability will gradually level up. I'm starting with minor characters and small incidents. In the past, I always wrote ability usage like an instruction manual, and people criticized the plots for being too thin. So I'm trying not to explain the specific uses too much—just use the abilities directly.