“Oh, I forgot to tell Xiaojuan I already ate dinner at the lane!”

He slapped his forehead. Thinking that Huang Xiaojuan had been busy all day and still had to come home after work to cook dinner for him, a look of realization crossed Su Mo’s face and he quickened his pace.

Before long, after his figure had completely entered the courtyard, viewed from above, the little courtyard in the middle of the street turned into a lone boat on a vast ocean, silent and lonely.

And this already remote little street soon returned to its usual quiet.

Ten minutes passed. From one end of the street to the other, no sound came.

When twenty minutes had passed, Su Mo, who had gone in, came out to fetch the broom hanging by the door, and still the street was silent.

Half an hour...

An hour passed, until laughter and cheerful voices rang out in the room, and Oreo’s excited barking could be heard over and over.

Only then did the soil on both sides of the street slowly crack open, revealing six round camouflaged heads.

“Did he notice us?”

“Don’t know, probably not. The files say he only moved here... a day and a bit ago, right?”

“Right. We’re so well disguised, how could he notice?”

“But I always feel like he glanced over at us?”

“That’s your illusion. That’s how it is with peeping on people. You think he looked at you, but he was really just glancing around at random...”

They talked for a while without reaching a definite conclusion, so the six sank back down and gradually vanished into the ground.

No matter who came by, they would have found it hard to discover what means they had used to hide so well.

“Xiaojuan, I’m off to work. Don’t prepare dinner for me tonight.”

“Okay!”

It was only a little after half past six, and Su Mo, full of energy, had already climbed out of bed, washed up and got ready to go to the lane for work.

Watching Huang Xiaojuan wave excitedly behind him, Su Mo tightened the backpack on his back and, without letting it show, glanced at Oreo.

Only after seeing the latter nod slightly did he feel at ease, pull open the courtyard gate, and head toward the lane along the route he had taken home yesterday.

Along the way, Su Mo walked very fast. In just over a minute his figure had completely vanished from the little street of Gutian Third Street.

Because it was too early, Sun Quan could not be waiting at the front of the lane today.

Su Mo did not mind. After only opening the door of his own workroom, he quickly shut it again and sat down.

“Sure enough, I’ve been targeted!”

Only after confirming that he was back in the room did that strange feeling of being watched disappear, and Su Mo’s face suddenly turned ugly.

Last night, just as he arrived at Gutian Third Street, a sixth sense in the dark had already warned him that someone nearby was keeping watch.

Later, after confirming it with Oreo, Su Mo had even found the place where the other side was lurking.

Considering that they had not shown the slightest killing intent, Su Mo had thought at the time that these people were sent by Qiankun Grain Store to keep watch, and had not taken it to heart.

But only one night passed, and by morning,

on the road from home to the lane, wherever he walked, that feeling lingered around him without a break.

Even after he reached the inside of the lane, the feeling did not disappear. It only grew stronger.

“This is definitely not something Qiankun Grain Store could pull off. Otherwise how could Zizai Liang Lane ever have been able to fight them!”

To have been infiltrated from inside overnight without a sound, this was far beyond the scope of what a small grain store could do.

He had no idea which “big Buddha” in the territory had its eye on him, so Su Mo could only take several long, deep breaths and suppress the stirring in his heart that urged him to act and find out for himself.

In terms of strength, at the moment all he had was a set of close-combat skills that were still passable.

But if the other side had guns, those skills would have no meaning at all.

Before he could even touch the corner of their clothes, the bullets that burst out would pierce him straight through, and he would have no chance to fight back.

As for going to Feng Long...

“If these people have only noticed that I am abnormal and are watching me here, that would be fine. I don’t plan to do anything these days anyway, so their watching me is useless.”

“But if I go to Feng Long and alert the snake, and they act directly, that would be lifting a rock only to drop it on my own foot, confessing without even being questioned!”

With his mind made up, feeling the heavy sense of threat in his heart, Su Mo grew tense at once.

For now, setting everything else aside, he had to make sure of his own safety at least, and only then could he talk about reconnaissance and a counterattack.

And among the resources he could use at the moment, looking this way and that, there was only this miniature development platform and the materials Zhang Min had provided.

He had to rely on these things to develop and make a suitable weapon and piece of equipment, and only then would he have the ability to stand against these people.

“Before, I even planned to make a high-power charging gun and snipe Sun Bahu from a distance, leaving him nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.”

“But now I have to think about defense. Only if I can withstand their firepower can I counterattack.”

The more functions a piece of equipment was required to have, the more technical content it needed, and the two rose together.

And the more requirements there were, the higher that rate of increase became.

He took a sheet of blank paper and quickly listed several attributes he urgently needed right now:

First, considerable defense.

Using the materials Zhang Min had collected, it might be a bit difficult to make defense enough to resist cannon shells, but standing up to ordinary bullet fire should not be a problem.

Only by being able to withstand the opponent’s first wave of attacks after a sudden outburst would there be any possibility of a counterattack afterward.

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