Courtyard House: Home Alone

Lin Yifan sneered inwardly, but put on an innocent and naive expression: "Sleeping soundly, Grandma Long. I'm thinking of going to the school to look for my father later. It's been several days, and I wonder where they've gone?" He used the most ordinary excuse possible.

The deaf old woman hesitated for a moment. She was very anxious and wished that Lin Yifan would leave so that she would have a chance to go to Qian Liugen and Chen Zhirong's room to check on the situation.

So she nodded, forcing a smile: "Go ahead, come back soon, be careful on the road, things aren't safe out there right now."

"Understood, Grandma Long." Lin Yifan was secretly delighted, but kept a straight face and obediently replied. Then he picked up a cloth bag and walked out of the courtyard.

Leaving the courtyard, he headed straight for Dongjiaomin Lane, a concentrated residential area for Japanese expatriates. It wasn't close to Nanluoguxiang either, and he had his own space there to cause a ruckus for a few days. He evaded Japanese patrols along the way.

They deliberately chose to travel through secluded alleys, trying their best not to attract anyone's attention.

On the streets of Beiping, Japanese soldiers and puppet troops in military uniforms could be seen everywhere, swaggering and searching passersby, and the air was filled with a sense of oppression and tension.

Lin Yifan clenched his fists tightly, suppressing the anger in his heart. He knew that now was not the time to act impulsively.

Dongjiaomin Lane, once a gathering place for embassies of various countries, has now become a "state within a state" for the Japanese in Beiping.

The streets here were clean and tidy, a stark contrast to the dilapidated scene outside. Japanese sentries, fully armed, stood at the crossroads, their eyes scanning everyone coming and going with wary intent.

Lin Yifan did not approach rashly, but instead found a corner on a relatively quiet street nearby and hid in his space.

He needs to observe the situation here first and find a suitable target.

His gaze swept over the buildings on both sides of the street, and soon a shop with a sign that read "Matsui Trading Company" caught his attention.

The shop looked quite large, with several bicycles parked in front, and Japanese people in kimonos occasionally going in and out.

"This is it!" A glint of light flashed in Lin Yifan's eyes.

Merchant guilds usually stockpile large quantities of supplies, and their defenses are relatively less stringent than those of military camps or gendarmerie.

He slept soundly in the space, and after waking up, he familiarized himself with the two types of handguns in the space, but he didn't dare to fire them. He didn't know what the consequences would be if he fired a gun in the space.

Therefore, after this operation is over, we need to hurry out of the city to test some of the gun's and spatial abilities.

While observing the situation of the Japanese expatriates' homes around him, he patiently waited in the space until the number of pedestrians on the street gradually decreased and the sky began to darken.

Night fell like a giant black cloth, slowly enveloping the entire city of Beiping. The streetlights in Dongjiaomin Lane came on, their dim yellow light casting a hazy glow over the streets.

Lin Yifan took a deep breath and used spatial manipulation to instantly appear outside the walls of the Matsui Trading Company, carefully examining the situation inside.

He found the house in the backyard piled with all sorts of boxes and sacks, and the air was filled with a mixed smell of paper and cloth.

Lin Yifan was overjoyed. With a thought, he appeared in the largest warehouse and began to collect the supplies that looked like medicine, canned goods, and cloth into his system space.

Just as he was about to empty the warehouse of supplies, he suddenly heard footsteps and voices outside. Lin Yifan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately stopped what he was doing, hiding behind a large wooden crate and using his domain to look into the backyard.

There were five Japanese soldiers outside. One of them was wearing a suit and looked like the boss. Two of the other four had samurai swords tucked into their waistbands, and the other two had Nambu XIV pistols bulging in their waistbands.

The boss said to one of the men with a pistol, "...You must keep a close watch on the warehouse tonight. This batch of medicine is urgently needed in Shanxi. There can't be any mistakes."

If anything goes wrong with these things in our hands, we'll be facing seppuku.

"It'll be fine after they're shipped out tomorrow morning, then you can rest for a couple of days. I'll leave tonight in your care." A rough, hoarse voice said, sounding like the manager of the trading company.

"Yes! We understand, sir. We'll be careful," the Japanese soldier replied.

The footsteps grew closer, and Lin Yifan's heart leaped into his throat. Although he couldn't understand what they were saying, he could guess that they were telling them to be careful that night.

He mentally loaded the captured pistol, ready to strike at any moment. If discovered, he would have to strike first, as he couldn't eliminate all five men simultaneously, so he had to be extremely careful.

Fortunately, the five people only checked the lock at the warehouse entrance and did not come in; they left quickly afterward.

Lin Yifan breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He dared not linger any longer and quickly put the remaining boxes of medicine into his spatial storage, followed by the goods in the other warehouses.

It took him half an hour to finally pack everything in the backyard house into his own space.

Next, he set his sights on the guards in the yard. There were two hidden sentries and two visible guards in the backyard today.

Lin Yifan first teleported to the sentry in the left corner, and before he could react, he reached out and imprisoned him in his spatial storage. Then, with another teleport, he appeared behind the sentry on the right and also imprisoned him in his spatial storage.

After taking down the two sentries, Lin Yifan didn't linger and appeared next to a Japanese soldier who was dozing off against the wall, and similarly put him into his spatial storage.

Now only the guard pacing at the gate remained in the entire backyard. In order to save time, Lin Yifan appeared next to the last guard without any attempt to conceal himself.

His sudden appearance startled the guard. Before he could react, Lin Yifan reached out like a ghost and pulled him into his spatial storage.

The backyard was completely quiet. He didn't dare to delay and immediately went to the front yard and main hall of the business. The main hall was dark and contained some cloth and a small amount of grain. With a thought, he went to the main hall and put all the supplies into his space.

Next, he went to the guardhouse outside the main gate. He saw that the guardhouse was still lit, and two guards were sitting cross-legged on either side of a low table, drinking sake while eating pig's head meat.

With a thought, Lin Yifan appeared beside the two guards. The two guards were stunned to see a child suddenly appear beside them, and the wine glasses in their hands fell to the ground with a "clatter" and shattered.