The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician-Chapter 580 - 299: Deception Group! Smiling Face! Making a Comeback! (Haha, Day 1 of 6000/day!)_3
Their mission was daunting, and they had to familiarize themselves with the interior of the Sages Building in the three hours that followed.
The enhanced mice had three-dimensional recording chips implanted in their bodies, enabling them to record the terrain they traversed in the simplest geometric images. After completing their all-around exploration, all they had to do was find a place with a signal to transmit the information back to headquarters, to the Mouse King Phil.
After Liu Tingruo’s casual modifications, this set of chips and systems had a larger detection range and stronger signal reception. One could say they were comprehensively strengthened.
In the living room, Fox watched silently as the swarm of mice scurried across the living room floor, then turned to look in the direction of the bathroom.
If the range he needed to clean was originally the size of one room, now, after the mice had passed by, he needed to clean two rooms plus a corridor.
No way, he had to call Wolf Tai and Fang Yue back. It wouldn’t be fair to just let him enjoy this benefit alone.
Fox nodded to himself, making a decision.
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Jiang Shu first took a bath, then came downstairs wearing simple casual clothes.
In the living room, Liu Tingruo was sitting on the couch, hugging her legs and watching TV.
The TV was broadcasting news. In her sporadic free time, Liu Tingruo wouldn’t watch movies, just the news channel broadcasting all day long.
"Ruo-jie," Jiang Shu walked up from behind her, then gently embraced her.
"Mhm," Liu Tingruo responded lightly as usual.
"Are you hungry? Let’s eat," Jiang Shu knew she had calmed down by her tone.
"I want to eat on the couch." Liu Tingruo said this, then turned to look at Jiang Shu, inquiring, "When are you heading to Thirteen District this afternoon?"
"Probably around... five or six o’clock. I’ll start during the Sages Group employees’ dinner time," Jiang Shu said offhandedly, "At that time, the security personnel’s response to emergencies will be slower."
"Mhm, as long as you know." Liu Tingruo wasn’t concerned about Jiang Shu’s plan; in her eyes, swiping a high-up from a small group was certainly not a difficult issue.
Sure, except for the Three Major Groups, the others were all small groups, without exception.
"So, for the next three hours, it’s just the two of us," Jiang Shu glanced at the time and said with a smile.
Liu Tingruo glanced at him, clearly understanding the deliberate and accidental implications in Jiang Shu’s words. She shrugged indifferently, "Fine by me, just make sure someone doesn’t turn into a limp shrimp during the evening’s big activity."
"..." Jiang Shu pursed his lips, unable to deny; he was just teasing Liu Tingruo casually.
There was a mission that night, and doing those things in the afternoon would indeed be a waste of important time.
"Go get the lunch, we can sit here, eat, and watch TV. Isn’t that nice too?" Liu Tingruo saw his resigned attitude, chuckled, and said with a light smile.
"O-okay," Jiang Shu replied, turning towards the kitchen.
It seemed Liu Tingruo preferred the warmth of this calm and ordinary routine, and naturally, Jiang Shu wasn’t averse to it either.
That was just fine.
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Thirteen District. Sewers.
"We have about ten minutes, according to the results of Tablet Spirit’s deductions, eight minutes will be more than enough," Jiang Shu checked his wristwatch, "I’ll ask one last time, any problems?"
"None," Fox answered.
Wolf Tai and Fang Yue nodded too.
Of course, they would never have any objections.
Wolf Tai naturally followed Jiang Shu’s lead, while Fang Yue did so because he knew he couldn’t outsmart either Fox or Jiang Shu with his brain. It was better to just follow orders.
"Now, it’s 5:25 PM, let’s sync our watches," Jiang Shu then said. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
Upon hearing this, Wolf Tai, Fox, and the Painter nodded and adjusted their wristwatches to match Jiang Shu’s time.
After some investigation, they all had a profound impression that the defense level of Seges Building far exceeded anything they had seen before.
It seemed after the last lesson, Sages Group had completely upgraded its security system.
It was an embarrassing situation; as the leading company in the security system industry, they had been infiltrated by several different forces some time ago, which naturally turned them into a laughingstock in the industry.
But obviously, it was not due to a lack of ability, but rather negligence caused by an oversight. Once they got serious, the security level shot up to a point where even Jiang Shu found it troubling.
Firstly, there were the intricate entrance systems.
The interior of Seges Building was full of secure doors that required triple identity authentication to be opened.
These secure doors were fully enclosed, and since Jiang Shu’s Derivative Entry was Invisibility, not Disappearance, and he couldn’t phase through walls, these security doors were a problem for him.
Fang Yue could phase through walls; all he had to do was draw the walls as non-existent on his sketchpad, and the walls would actually disappear.
The sketchpad possessed the power of Creation and Disappearance, but it was limited to simple Creation and Disappearance. He couldn’t affect anything too intricate or any living creatures.
Even so, this was still an extremely overpowered ability, coupled with the Painter’s unique quick-drawing skills, which often allowed him to create the necessary combat scene within seconds.
To maximize the use of this power, one needed, firstly, extremely high drawing skill; and secondly, an extremely quick mind to analyze the situation instantly and visualize the needed scene in one’s mind.
