Shanghai, as an internationally renowned metropolis, is always bustling no matter the time.
During the early hours of sunrise, the streets are filled with people at the market stalls and breakfast stands.
Jia Yan stepped out of his rented accommodation and encountered a group of citizens queuing up to buy breakfast at the doorstep.
There aren't many breakfast shops in this city due to high rent costs, so the scarcity has made this particular establishment very popular.
Jia Yan didn't pay much attention to the bustling breakfast shop; he simply observed the position of the sun and flew towards a bus stop in a certain direction!
His mood was somewhat gloomy.
Not only because of the fatigue from the previous night, but also because he was about to visit a place that held unforgettable memories for him.
He didn't have to wait long before the morning bus arrived.
With his experience hitching rides and mingling with humans in the city for the past few days, Jia Yan boarded the bus without any unexpected incidents.
People who are up early are generally in a drowsy state, and although some did catch a glimpse of Jia Yan flying, they merely glanced and refrained from saying anything.
Nobody is really energetic in the morning.
While on the bus, Jia Yan allowed himself to relax his mind a bit.
Even insects need rest, although it's not quite the same as what humans call 'sleeping'. However, a slight relaxation of the mind is not much different from sleeping for insects.
Of course, as mentioned earlier, Jia Yan is capable of sleeping and even dreaming, but his case is quite exceptional.
After about half an hour on the bus, Jia Yan transferred to another bus.
And after another ten minutes or so, he arrived at the outskirts on the bus he boarded.
This was the terminus, and Jia Yan alighted from the bus.
Gazing at the scenery he could never forget, Jia Yan became even more silent.
He flew forward.
Not long after, Jia Yan arrived at a small road branching off from a main road.
This place used to be an important economic transformation trial area launched by Shanghai City, with some residential areas and buildings inside. However, due to various issues, the projects and approval procedures here have been stuck, resulting in signs of abandoned construction projects.
There are very few vehicles here, and sometimes not a single one passes by for hours.
Jia Yan controlled his body and flew to the road in front of an abandoned building.
To others, this place didn't seem any different.
But for Jia Yan, this place was simply a hell of difficult memories!
It was here that he was beaten up by security personnel hired by the Yu family and died with resentment!
Even when he was dying, he was thrown by the roadside and then said to have died in a car accident!
A car accident? Is that even possible! In a place where there's nothing?
The pain and helplessness of that time, everything, I'm going to make you experience it again soon!
Yu Yuan! You will also die here, at my hands! Everything I experienced back then, you will experience it too!
Scum, your days are numbered!
Jia Yan was not very willing to recall the indescribable feeling of death. He slowly controlled his body and flew towards a dark corner.
He was waiting.
Finally, as the newborn sun gradually rose, it was probably around nine o'clock in the morning.
A silver domestic minivan, nothing special about its appearance, drove near the abandoned building!
"Xiaoyao, is this the place?" The driver, with a stubbly beard, asked the young man wearing glasses sitting behind him.
Both of these men had very serious expressions. If it was indeed a trap, the best time for the other party to strike would be now.
They both carried firearms, and even a few grenades. If something unfavorable were to happen, they would have to find a way to escape!
But since the other party knew so much about them, there were too many ways to ambush them. It didn't make sense for them to expend the effort to lure them out through online chat just to ambush them!
"It should be here." The young man with glasses sitting in the back seat had a small laptop in his hand. His fingers moved across the keyboard, and then the screen showed two points on the map overlapping.
"Should I go down? If anything happens, you support me!" The stubbly-bearded man opened the car door.
As these two men conversed inside the car, a male Chinese mosquito, much larger than the average mosquito, had already flown out from the dark corner of the road as soon as the car stopped, hovering over the vehicle, seemingly eavesdropping on their conversation!
Yes, Jia Yan was eavesdropping!
They were wary of him, but he was also wary of them!
The stubbly-bearded man walked cautiously step by step to the entrance of the ruined building.
He looked around and then entered the building's ground floor.
And a mosquito following him also flew in a leisurely manner, entering the ground floor along with him.
"The person said the left-turn room, should be here!" The stubbly-bearded man, after entering the ground floor, saw a room on the left side of the hall of the bare room and walked straight toward it.
The one following him, Jia Yan, looked somewhat complicatedly at the room on the right.
This room on the right was where he suffered before his death in his previous life...
The reason the rendezvous point with the stubbly-bearded man and the others was set on the left was that he never wanted to see the scene in the room on the right again!
The stubbly-bearded man had already entered the room on the left, and Jia Yan hurriedly and cautiously flapped his wings, following from above!
"What does this person mean, that we can just leave the stuff in the corner of this room? What's with the secrecy? If someone takes it before he comes, it would be a big joke!"
The stubbly-bearded man stood in the empty room, frowning.
This building was supposed to be prepared for a small hotel or something similar, and this left room was used as a storage room or a staff rest room, so it wasn't big.
The stubbly-bearded man had something in his hand.
Jia Yan flew almost close to the ceiling, staring down at the stubbly-bearded man with his cold compound eyes.
"Forget it, as long as I deliver the goods, it's fine! They know all our information, but we can't see anyone from their side. This kind of cooperation is really unfair..."
The stubbly-bearded man grumbled, then placed a small bottle on the ground with extreme care!
Jia Yan, in the air, looked at the extremely small bottle.
The bottle was only about two centimeters tall, filled with a red liquid.
With every shake, the red liquid continued to flow inside the bottle. The liquid inside seemed to have a kind of magic, irresistibly fascinating.
The stubbly-bearded man's fingers were very careful as he gently unscrewed the bottle cap.
Then he stood up, exited the room, and left the building!
Jia Yan's compound eyes flickered as he looked at the bottle below, then glanced at the stubbly-bearded man leaving the building, and then his wings vibrated
Then his wings vibrated, and he followed the stubbly-bearded man!
"How's it going? Any updates?" The young man with glasses, who was sitting anxiously in the car waiting, couldn't help asking when he saw the stubbly-bearded man return.
"No updates!" The stubbly-bearded man opened the driver's side door and sat down.
"Xiaoyao, do you think this guy might be observing us somewhere?" The stubbly-bearded man looked around cautiously and whispered.
"It's very possible. And he asked you to open the cap of 'CHr-379' and place it in the room, probably as a precaution. You see, many highly toxic liquids emit strong odors, and there are also portable devices that can detect toxicity from a distance through the smell."
"So you mean, after we leave, this guy will probably use some device to test at the door before entering the room? No wonder he asked me to open the cap first. That's too cautious!" The stubbly-bearded man shook his head incredulously.
"That's why you can't become a top assassin. If you don't have even this level of vigilance, it's difficult to become a top assassin! But we indeed didn't tamper with it. That bottle of liquid is indeed the real 'CHr-379', a variant of the 'nucleopolyhedrovirus'!" The young man chuckled.
"Let's go. We've already shown goodwill and complete cooperation. Now it's up to the other party whether they honor their word..."
The stubbly-bearded man nodded, then started the van, and amidst the sound of the engine starting, slowly returned along the same route.
And at the place where the car departed, Jia Yan's large male mosquito body floated in the air.
He had heard the entire conversation between the two just now!
This way, he could be sure that the other party hadn't tampered with it.
"'CHr-379,' a variant of the nucleopolyhedrovirus?" Jia Yan fell silent for a moment, then flew back to the left room of the abandoned building.
"Now the biggest variable in my cooperation with the other party is this thing!"
The negotiation between Jia Yan and the two killer men seemed complex but was actually quite simple...
There was not much communication, and the entire process could be said to have been conducted under Jia Yan's semi-threatening conditions!
Time returned to the early hours.
"What if we say we're not interested in cooperating with you?"
Just as Jia Yan proposed cooperation, he saw a message flash on the screen!
His response wasn't quick, but still concise.
"Unfortunately, I will inform the Yu family of your information. I believe you will have a very happy life on the run!"
The other party remained silent for a long time again, then seemed to concede and sent another message...
"Okay, so how do you propose we cooperate? You surely don't intend to make us your cannon fodder, do you?"
Jia Yan gripped the pen cap tightly and banged it on the keyboard!
Then, on the computer screens of the stubbly-bearded man and the young man with glasses, a row of messages flashed!
"No no no..."