Class schedule, hair, blood, tracking, indirect approach, purchase, getting close.
Seven tasks in all, seven slips of paper.
The "tracking" task involved sending someone to follow Zheng Qing and confirm his usual movements—this was explicitly required by the client. The "getting close" task came from the Persian Cat's earlier suggestion: have a pretty, cute girl get close to Zheng Qing and flirt with him, both as a backup plan for obtaining blood and hair, and to help Councilwoman Su vet him.
The black cat felt that several devils seriously proposing to "vet" a Senior Councilor of the Under the Moon Council was an extremely ridiculous thing from any angle.
Yet it had really happened.
There were also the "indirect approach" and "purchase" tasks. The former involved sending someone to get close to Zheng Qing's friends and learn about the target's preferences and habits indirectly, providing intelligence support for the other operations. The latter required whoever drew the task to purchase biological information related to Zheng Qing through third-party channels such as Wander Bar, the school task board, or the flea market. This counted as the devils' third backup plan.
Lucifer, who had proposed the idea, offered an apt analogy. "Normal people's eyes grow in front, so it's easy for everyone to notice an attack coming from the front. That's our opportunity. When your attention is focused ahead, there's a high chance you'll overlook what's behind you."
"You said it yourself, this trick is for normal people." Belphegor lazily clicked his beak, voicing doubts about the blood bat's analogy. "But Zheng Qing... no matter how you look at him, he doesn't seem normal..."
"Whether he's normal or not, buying information is much easier than investigating personally." The little pig with white skin and black spots grunted, her face wrinkling into a