Planning

Fang Linyan realized that once he had to kill Fang, he began considering one thing: bringing in outside help.

Because he knew very well that relying on his own strength alone, he absolutely could not accomplish this by himself.

As for where the outside help would come from, of course it would be Fang's enemies!

That organization capable of easily dispatching several million-dollar luxury cars like Lincoln Navigators, with personnel wearing tailored suits and carrying firearms!! Such a massive organization—just thinking about it with your toes told you it couldn't be simple!

From the videos and photos he had taken at the time, Fang Linyan found the distinctive black-and-red triangular logo of Anmoreya Corporation in multiple places. A quick search online, and everything came to light.

Then Fang Linyan discovered that Anmoreya Corporation was the world's largest biopharmaceutical company, with business divisions including innovative drugs, healthcare, generics, vaccines, and animal health products. It had seventeen laboratories and sixty-two factories worldwide! Even its security department was known as one of the top three global security agencies.

So it wasn't hard to deduce that the Retroviral Vector Injection was this giant company's latest research achievement, and the dock handover was an internal company operation—just shipping the injection from the European region to the Asian region. Fang's brazen murder and theft had definitely offended the company to the death, creating an irreconcilable conflict between them.

Next, of course, came determining Fang's whereabouts.

Fang Linyan had previously heard the dead man Gale reveal a crucial piece of information: the Retroviral Vector Injection was a quest item for some B-rank hidden mission. With it, one could successfully approach that president suffering from pancreatic cancer, and thereby obtain a ticket to enter Area 51.

Fang Linyan didn't know about any hidden mission, but he did know that since that was the case, Fang, as Gale's counterpart, wouldn't be using the Retroviral Vector Injection for himself after getting it. More likely, he would take it to find someone and complete the mission!

As for the president with pancreatic cancer, Fang Linyan searched online again and found the news: "High-tech Enterprise President Randall Travels While Ill, Heading to Tai City, the Financial Center of the Asia-Pacific Region." And what Randall had was exactly pancreatic cancer.

Since that was the case, this president was right here locally, so Fang definitely wouldn't go far either—he would stay put in the area.

Then, combining this with the clothing fragments Fang had left behind, Fang Linyan judged that he lived a luxurious life. For someone like that, the choices for food, clothing, housing, and transportation wouldn't be too many, and the hotel he stayed at certainly wouldn't be shabby.

So the scope for finding Fang could be narrowed further—directly search the systems of Tai City's five-star hotels and high-end restaurants for him. The target's characteristics were: black man, only three fingers on his left hand, wearing top-tier handmade luxury items, and his identity might be a soldier, a baseball player...

At this point, Fang Linyan went straight to a certain online marketplace, found a Crown-level shop, and asked them to check hotel check-in records from the past ten days that matched the target's characteristics.

Customer service Xiao Li: "Dear, we need an ID number."

Fang Linyan: "400." (The starting bid was originally 120)

Customer service Xiao Li: "Dear, this is very difficult to handle."

Fang Linyan: "800."

Customer service Xiao Li: "Dear, it's really not easy to do."

Fang Linyan: "1000. If you won't do it, I'll find another shop."

Customer service Xiao Li: "Dear, could you repeat your requirements? Uh... 1500. We'll take this order for 1500 and get back to you within an hour."

Fang Linyan: "Order placed. Please change the price."

Forty minutes later, Fang Linyan obtained information on four potential targets, but he quickly eliminated two of them. Finally, he paid an extra 800 to get the surveillance footage from when the target checked in, successfully locking down Fang's accommodation location:

The Lansikadun Seven-Star Hotel!!

Fang's alias was Von. Dumus, and his nationality was French.

So, after sorting out the cause and effect, Fang Linyan went to an internet café, registered a new account, and sent his conclusions along with the dock photos he had taken to Anmoreya Corporation's official contact email, making it clear he wasn't just bluffing.

Fang Linyan believed that Anmoreya Corporation wouldn't swallow the insult. Their conflict with Fang was practically inevitable from here on.

At this point, Fang Linyan's first half of the plan was complete. But finding Fang wasn't hard, and stirring up conflict between him and Anmoreya Corporation wasn't really technically challenging either—Fang Linyan was ninety percent sure of that.

The most critical part was still the second half of the plan.

How to profit from the clam and the sniper locked in struggle!

Because, whether it was Anmoreya Corporation or Fang, to Fang Linyan they were both behemoths—a flick of their fingers could crush him to dust!! To snatch a chestnut from the fire between the two, and for Fang Linyan to pick up the scraps, that was truly difficult.

So, when formulating the second half of the plan, Fang Linyan estimated the most optimistic success rate was only forty percent. But for him, forty percent was already satisfying, because the chance of curing late-stage lung cancer was one in ten thousand!

It must be added that when making the plan, Fang Linyan hadn't calculated the subsequent developments of the situation. His fundamental goal was absolutely not to kill Fang.

It was to get his hands on the Retroviral Vector Injection.

At first glance, it seemed only Fang had the Retroviral Vector Injection right now, but don't forget one fundamental thing: this injection was invented by Anmoreya Corporation—they also had the Retroviral Vector Injection!!

Therefore, Fang Linyan's initial planning approach was a two-pronged strategy. On one hand, he considered obtaining the Retroviral Vector Injection from Fang, but more so, he considered getting it from Anmoreya Corporation.

The first step in formulating the second half of the plan, Fang Linyan pawned the only heirloom left to him by Uncle Xu, who had raised him.

What was it?

A watch. Back in Uncle Xu's heyday, he had made a bet with a German expert and hand-crafted a part that was identical to one produced by Germany's highest-precision lathe at the time. The proud German conceded defeat, greatly admired Uncle Xu, and took off a Chopard watch from his wrist to give to him.

Even in his toughest times, Uncle Xu hadn't sold this watch, because it was like a witness to the most glorious moment of his life.

But now, Fang Linyan was desperately short of money, so he pawned the watch for eighty thousand.

With that eighty thousand in hand, Fang Linyan also purchased information on Fang's movements over the past month, discovering that he had arrived in this city seven days ago and started staying at hotels, switching four hotels in seven days. But Fang Linyan found a common thread: all four hotels were near large rivers or right by the sea.

Combined with the powerful swimming skills Fang Linyan had witnessed when Fang chased Gale into the water, he could roughly conclude that Fang had prepared a trump card for himself—escaping by diving into the water when necessary.

So, after some investigation, he also found a piece of good news: the river near the Lansikadun Seven-Star Hotel wasn't a shipping lane. About three kilometers further into the city, boats were prohibited from entering, so there were very few vessels on the river.

Thus, Fang Linyan formulated three plans: A, B, and C.