Realizing that the temporary disbandment was merely an excuse to make it easier for everyone else to investigate on their own, during this trip to experience the lives of ordinary participants,
Fang Ran felt like he had learned something else and followed Serica with a slight sense of embarrassment.
He got into a car with Annabella and Lynn, following behind the car carrying the two men.
On a suburban highway beneath the night sky, the four of them drove toward the rival gang's base.
There had already been the precedent of someone erasing every trace yet leaving behind an ambush, so unsurprisingly, they had not managed to learn anything about that "thief" at the bar tonight.
Still, relying on Lynn's intelligence to obtain information on the two men was not exactly a fruitless endeavor.
Incidentally, although he was quite skilled at probing people, Fang Ran had waited outside this time.
After all, an unknown C-Rank who had shone brightly in Houston and possessed troublesome abilities was simply too conspicuous. Not getting to see what Calgary's bars looked like left him deeply disappointed.
Finding a suitable target in the bar, negotiating a deal through verbal maneuvering, investigating high-end entertainment venues whose existence was not publicly disclosed,
hacking into internal networks to investigate the guest list, hacking the surveillance network to investigate whether the two of them had gone there tonight,
and finally intercepting them.
Thinking about all the actions that had followed over the hour after arriving at the bar, Fang Ran once again understood that tracking someone down was indeed an extremely difficult task requiring experience, connections, skill, and initiative.
Other than the final act of making a move, there was not a single step in that entire process he knew how to do.
Tsk, no matter how he thought