Searching for someone in northern Myanmar, and you call that earning tuition fees?

The next day, the black market in Ban Sai town.

It's more chaotic here than in town, with the air thick with the smells of marijuana and cheap perfume.

As agreed, Blind Li led Su Ming to a stall selling secondhand mobile phones.

The stall owner was as thin as a monkey. He glanced at Blind Li, then looked at Su Ming with disdain.

"Is it him?"

"Yes, that's him," Blind Li replied, forcing a smile.

"Domestic college students? In debt to online loans?" Skinny Monkey curled his lip. "We've seen plenty of this kind in our park. They can't take a beating, can't do any work, and will be crying for their parents in less than three days."

Su Ming acted nervous yet stubborn, head down, clutching his backpack strap tightly, looking like a young man with nowhere else to turn.

"Don't worry, I can endure hardship," he said softly.

"Heh." The skinny monkey sneered, pulling a black hood from his pocket. "Put it on."

Li the Blind Man looked at the black hood and his heart skipped a beat. He couldn't help but look at Su Ming.

Su Ming didn't hesitate for a moment, took it and put it on his head.

Darkness descends, and sight is taken away.

But Su Ming's other senses suddenly became incredibly sharp.

He could hear the whispers of Skinny Monkey and Blind Li making their deal, smell the lingering sweat and blood on the hood, and feel a rough hand grab his arm.

"Walk!"

He was roughly shoved into a car.

The car door slammed shut, shutting out the noise from the outside world.

Li the Blind Man stood there, watching the dilapidated Toyota van speed away, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

He took out his phone, hesitated for a long time, and finally dialed an encrypted number.

On the other end of the phone was a hunter friend he met on the "Zhongxun" APP.

"Hey, Lao Wang, I need to tell you something. 'The Scholar'... he's finished."

"What do you mean? Wasn't he going to rescue people in Zone K?"

"Save him my ass!" Blind Li couldn't help but curse. "He crawled in himself! I watched with my own eyes as the people from District K took him away like a pig! That kid's a madman! A stupid idiot who walked right into their trap!"

The news quickly spread on the hunter's internal forum of the "Zhongxun" APP.

[Breaking news! Top hunter "The Scholar" took a job with Angla, only to end up in jail!]

"Hilarious! Does he really think he's some kind of elite soldier? He thinks he can just barge into the K district of Angra like that?"

"He's lost his mind. Now look what's happened! He didn't get the bounty, and he has to wait for his family to bring money to ransom him."

"Three minutes of silence. Yet another rookie blinded by a huge bounty."

……

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, in the Criminal Investigation Department of Jiangnan Province.

Police technician Xiao Zhang also intercepted the message, and he suddenly stood up from his chair.

"Boss! Something's wrong! Target 'The Scholar' has been confirmed to have entered Angla K District, but... he was captured and brought in like a 'coolie'!"

The middle-aged captain was drinking tea when he heard this, and his hand trembled, spilling tea all over himself.

"What? He's been arrested?" He strode to the screen, staring at the anonymous message sent by Blind Li, his brows furrowed.

Is the intelligence reliable?

"The reliability is 90%. The sender is a well-known smuggler on the border. We have been monitoring him for a long time."

The captain's face darkened.

It’s over.

This was the first thought that popped into his mind.

Even the most skilled amateur can become a sitting duck if they fall into a telecom fraud zone where they have no one to turn to for help.

"Activate the emergency plan immediately! Contact our informant in Angla and confirm 'The Scholar's' fate at all costs!" the captain ordered in a deep voice.

The atmosphere in the computer room suddenly became heavy.

Everyone believed that the legend of this mysterious tycoon, codenamed "The Scholar," had ended before it even began.

……

The bread cart was shaking violently.

Su Ming was flanked by two people, one on each side. He appeared to be stiff with fear, but in reality, he was using his body to feel every turn and every bump in the vehicle.

He was using the principle of "pacing" to reverse-engineer the vehicle's trajectory and speed.

Turn left 30 degrees, drive for about 1.2 kilometers, and go over a speed bump...

Turn right 15 degrees, go uphill, the slope is about 5 degrees, drive for 800 meters...

He gradually drew a clear route in his mind, comparing and correcting it one by one with the map he had written down the night before.

About half an hour later, the car stopped.

The hood was suddenly ripped off.

The blinding sunlight made Su Ming squint, and then a huge park, like a steel fortress, appeared before him.

The towering walls were strung with coils of electric fences, emitting a hissing sound. Every few dozen meters, there was a cold, impersonal camera and a heavily armed sentry.

At the entrance, a line of large, blood-red characters was shocking:

Enter Zone K, and your life will take off together!

A man in camouflage with a burly face walked up to Su Ming, poked him in the chest with his stun gun, and grinned menacingly.

"Welcome to heaven, piglet."

Su Ming looked at him, his eyes filled with just the right amount of fear and timidity.

He lowered his head, hiding the slight smile on his lips, but his eyes held the sharpness of a hunter locking onto his prey.

The game has officially begun.