Lin Yu's statement undoubtedly gave everyone a renewed understanding of the seemingly ordinary young man's arrogance.

Indeed, Lin Yu's words sounded quite reasonable.

After all, in Sleepless City, while the tech trees of any of the three major corporations could create individuals with extremely strong combat power, none of their technologies were without side effects.

Very few core nobles were ruthless enough to subject themselves to high-grade combat power modification procedures.

Alt Mercury, who once served as the head of the Mercury family, was now certainly just an ordinary, frail old man.

If one could truly sit face-to-face with Alt Mercury, he would indeed be very easy to kill.

But...

"You'd need to bypass dozens of bodyguards and corporate elites who are even fiercer than those gang bosses just to get close to this old man. The enforcers raised by the nobles are not for show," the Team Leader calmly reminded him. "I believe you're not here to be a suicide soldier either, so you also need to consider how to make a clean getaway after the kill."

Hearing the Team Leader's reminder, Lin Yu still maintained his earlier arrogance. "I know. But as you said, this old geezer acting as proxy family head was fifty years ago."

"He's already washed up!"

"So, there must be ways to bypass the remaining security, there must be ways to withdraw."

"Moreover, no matter how many people protect him, as long as he himself remains fragile, there is ample room for me to maneuver..."

He stood up.

"Alright, I already know who the mission target is. So, everyone, see you at the Sleepless Sky Manor in three days."

With that, Lin Yu stood up and walked straight out of the private room.

"Hey, wait."

The Team Leader looked at Lin Yu. "You don't plan to discuss matters of cooperation with them?"

Bone Spur also frowned. "Yeah, you can't really think assassinating Alt Mercury is a simple task, can you?"

Lin Yu stopped and waved his hand. "I said, I know a little bit of everything. So rather than cooperating, you'd be better off treating me as a Plan B, another active team."

"Precisely because this mission isn't simple, we shouldn't put all our eggs in one basket, right?"

The Team Leader furrowed his brow.

"I don't object to you acting freely, but... I need to ensure you won't leak information."

Lin Yu looked at him and spoke calmly. "Then you should have prepared countermeasures. Because even if I didn't take the initiative to leave, you should have prepared means to 'seal everyone's lips' and prevent any of us from being a mole."

After all, the screening method for selecting people was too crude—it emphasized only ability, not background.

Such a crude screening method for such a crucial mission must be accompanied by extremely tight confidentiality measures.

The Team Leader looked at Lin Yu, took a metal bracelet from his pocket, and threw it to him.

"You're right. Wear this bracelet."

"Don't worry, it doesn't have any tracking or eavesdropping functions. It's simply programmed for 'emotion' detection. If you develop thoughts of 'betrayal' or 'leaking secrets', the corresponding emotional fluctuations will be captured by it, and then I will know everything."

The Team Leader spoke, then added as if making a suggestion. "This thing is prototype-level sensitive. In other words, even if you've undergone professional anti-emotion training, it's hard to fool it—unless you are confident you can act with complete single-mindedness, completely convinced you are not betraying or leaking secrets while actually doing betrayal or secret-leaking things."

As the Team Leader spoke, Lin Yu directly fastened it onto his wrist.

The bracelet automatically tightened, fitting snugly and seamlessly against Lin Yu's skin as if embedded within it.

"Don't worry, I won't leak secrets... I want to complete this commission more than anyone."

With that, Lin Yu walked straight out of the private room.

He let out a long sigh.

"Hah..."

"What a complicated team."

Every single person in that room was not simple.

That was precisely why Lin Yu grabbed the mission target and hurriedly left.

Admittedly, staying with this team might provide some temporarily somewhat useful teammates... but the risks also increased exponentially.

Lin Yu's 'Promotion' achievement, passing this [dungeon], required completing the assassination commission to obtain the reward.

So he could not afford to take any risks.

He had to complete it in the most secure way possible.

And the biggest problem with this team was that they were unreliable!

Not to mention there was a suspected Player, and possibly even a high-ranking Player, 'Zhu Rong', mixed in.

Just that Team Leader alone was no simple character—he was too suspicious.

A mere confidant of some noble absolutely wouldn't be that wealthy, nor would he have such high privileges for a mission of this level.

Those people were blinded by the reward, but Lin Yu was not!

And that Big Ball wasn't right either—this guy seemed to know almost everything?

Was this the knowledge base an ordinary mercenary should have? This absolutely couldn't be brushed off with a casual "I'm good at maintaining equipment."

He even displayed excessive familiarity with certain information about the nobles.

The Team Leader was a noble's confidant, so it was understandable for him to know some noble information... but you, a mercenary from Gray Three Streets, where did you get this information?

As for Bone Spur... this guy was probably the only truly normal mercenary.

No hidden identity, a past history as a clean-cut mercenary who killed and set fires.

But he was just incredibly stupid!

The remaining three had eight hundred schemes between them, and Bone Spur would inevitably become the "contested territory" and "tool" of the entire team.

Therefore, Lin Yu was very certain that the best choice was not to get involved with this team.

The waters here were too murky—this time, Lin Yu didn't need to muddy the waters.

After walking out of the bar, Old Zheng's voice sounded.

"I used my perception to confirm. The general function of that device should be as described. It doesn't have any eavesdropping functions..."

Lin Yu nodded.

"Thanks, Old Zheng. That puts my mind at ease..." 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"It's my duty. But I'm curious—although if it were me, I also wouldn't team up with those scheming individuals of unknown origin, if you act alone, how will you infiltrate the manor and complete the assassination?"

Lin Yu smiled.

"I don't know the specifics yet either, but... I have a rough idea for now, and I'm going to test it."

"It's just relatively risky, so I don't plan to expose it in front of them."

As he spoke, Lin Yu's hand brushed over his face. [False Face] activated, and he began to play with the [Counterfeit] in his hand.

Then...

Lin Yu walked out of Gray Three Streets and onto the streets of the outer city.

Many unlicensed taxis were parked along the outer city streets. Lin Yu found one and leaned against the car door. The Driver leaning against the door looked at Lin Yu and spoke lazily.

"Where to, handsome?"

The [Counterfeit] in Lin Yu's hand spun, transforming into a baseball cap which he placed on his head.

"To the inner city, Truth Corporation headquarters."

Lin Yu spoke with a Henan Province accent.