We offered you a summer job, but you went and became a mercenary?

Lin Ye looked at the message and, instead of feeling nervous or afraid, rubbed his hands together excitedly.

"Three elite squads?"

He licked his lips, his eyes gleaming with the fervor of seeing his year-end bonus.

"These aren't assassins! They're three giant, mobile red envelopes!"

He had barely finished speaking.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Three dark figures, accompanied by the sound of wind cutting through the air, simultaneously darted up the rusty iron ladder from three different directions below the water tower.

Their movements were as fast as ghosts, using both hands and feet to climb the vertical ladder as if it were flat ground. In just a few breaths, they had already climbed more than halfway up.

Immediately afterwards, a fourth figure strode out from the shadows in front of him.

He was a burly man over two meters tall, who wasn't carrying a gun, but rather two gleaming, massive axes.

Instead of climbing the ladder, he walked to a support pillar of the water tower, his arm muscles bulging suddenly.

"roar!"

He let out a beastly growl, wrapped his arms around the reinforced concrete pillar that was thicker than his waist, and shook it so hard that it groaned and creaked.

He wants to dismantle the entire water tower!

Hundreds of kilometers away in a mobile command vehicle, the generals watched this scene through satellite images and all gasped in shock.

"It's the ace of 'Shadow Network'! 'Scorpion,' the leader of the 'Stinger' squad, and his three insane henchmen!"

"They even brought heavy weapons! That guy with the axe is a cyborg injected with banned substances!"

Su Qingqing's heart sank to the bottom.

Without any heavy weapons or even a decent cover, how will Lin Ye deal with these four battle-hardened top assassins?

Top of the water tower.

Lin Ye carefully picked up the secondhand laptop and gently placed it in the most stable corner in the center of the platform. He even used a few pieces of scrap metal to shield it, fearing that the fight later might affect his beloved game console.

After doing all this, he slowly stood up, stretched his wrists and neck, and made a series of cracking sounds from his bones.

He didn't reach for the heavy machine guns in the snakeskin bag, but simply pulled out the Glock 17 that was most comfortable to use from his back waist.

Looking at the four assassins rapidly approaching from different directions below, Lin Ye's face revealed the fervent smile of an excellent employee about to start his performance sprint.

"Let's finish this quickly, I still need to play my game."

However, just as he was about to fire...

【Ding! 】

That cold, emotionless, mechanical voice of the system suddenly rang out in his mind without warning!

[Host detected encountering malicious price-cutting competition from rivals; SSS-level hidden chain quests triggered!]

[Mission Name: Special Operation to Eliminate Illegal Firearms and Unlicensed Vehicles]

[Mission 1: Eliminate the "Stinger" Squad. Mission Reward: One million US dollars!]

[Mission Two: Eliminate the second wave of reinforcements. Mission Reward: Two million US dollars!]

[Mission 3: Eliminate all "Shadow Network" squads and destroy their vehicles in the Arkham region (forced demolition). Mission Reward: God-tier skill - Advanced Crisis Prediction!]

A series of system notification sounds, like the most beautiful musical notes, exploded in Lin Ye's mind.

He froze completely.

It wasn't out of fear, but out of extreme excitement—the ecstasy of winning the lottery jackpot three times in a row—that made his blood boil.

"A series of...chain transactions?"

Lin Ye's lips were trembling. He looked at the string of zeros on the system panel and felt like he was about to faint from happiness.

One million!

Two million!

There's also a god-tier skill!

This is hardly a hunting mission.

This is clearly the system trying to stuff money into his pocket!

It's a super big bonus for boosting year-end performance!

"Illegal firearms...unlicensed vehicles...that's a perfect description!" Lin Ye nodded vigorously, his face showing genuine admiration for the system's professionalism. "These assassins drive around in planes and tanks all day long; aren't they just unlicensed vehicles? They must be eliminated! They must be forcibly dismantled!"

The sense of justice of the working class was completely ignited by money at this moment!

Just as Lin Ye was basking in the joy of his impending windfall, the four members of the "Stinger" squad, who had already made their move, took action below the water tower.

There were no slogans, no communication.

Two dark, stun grenades were silently launched onto the water tower platform from two different, tricky angles.

This is an assault tactic they've practiced thousands of times, specifically designed to deal with enemies occupying high ground.

Once the stun grenade explodes, the target will suffer at least three seconds of blindness and tinnitus, which will be the golden time for them to reap lives.

However, just as the two stun grenades left his hand...

A faint electric current emanated from Lin Ye's cerebral cortex.

[Initial Crisis Prediction] Initiated.

He didn't even need to look; his body's instincts had already calculated everything.

He closed his eyes.

It wasn't to avoid the bright light, but because he didn't need to.

Holding his precious secondhand laptop, Lin Ye leaped off the water tower platform, which was more than ten meters high, like a father holding a child!

"boom!!"

Two stun grenades exploded the moment he leaped off the platform.

A blinding white light and a noise loud enough to tear eardrums instantly engulfed the entire top of the water tower, sending countless pieces of rust and debris flying everywhere.

But all of this had nothing to do with Lin Ye, who was in mid-air.

His falling figure drew a perfect arc in the darkness, just avoiding the core area of ​​all the shockwaves.

Below, two assault soldiers who had just thrown stun grenades and were preparing to rush up the iron ladder to finish off the attackers looked up in astonishment.

They saw a figure wearing flip-flops descend from the sky.

They were met with two faint, almost negligible gunshots.

boom!

boom!

Lin Ye was in mid-air, holding a laptop in his arms, his Glock 17 held in one hand, the muzzle of the gun only twitching casually twice.

Almost simultaneously, two plumes of blood erupted from the heads of the two assault soldiers.

The astonishment on their faces froze forever, and their bodies went limp as they fell down the iron ladder.

Lin Ye landed on both feet with his knees slightly bent, perfectly dissipating the force of the fall.

He even had the leisure to check the laptop in his arms, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the screen was not cracked.

"Thank goodness, my game console is fine."

His casual self-talk, however, struck the remaining two "Stinger" team members like a thunderclap.

The expressions on the faces of Captain "Scorpion" and the cyborg wielding the machete completely changed.

How is that possible?

Their tactical coordination, which they were so proud of, was actually cracked in the first instance?

And the other side even managed to kill both of them in mid-air?

"Kill him!"

Scorpion reacted extremely quickly. He abandoned all stealth and tactics, let out a roar, and pounced on Lin Ye like a cheetah.

The military knife in his hand drew a deadly silver line in the dim light, aiming straight for Lin Ye's throat.

The cyborg was even more ferocious. He discarded the deformed pillar, wielded two door-like axes, and with a fierce wind tearing through the air, blocked all of Lin Ye's escape routes from another direction.

Faced with the combined onslaught of two top assassins, Lin Ye made a move that baffled everyone.

He neither retreated nor blocked.

He simply placed the laptop he was carrying gently in a relatively clean corner on the ground.

Then, he looked up and frowned as he saw the two men attacking from both sides.

"Go easy on me."

Lin Ye's tone was filled with annoyance at being disturbed from his peace and quiet.

"Don't break my computer, this thing is second-hand and doesn't have a warranty."

Before he finished speaking, his figure vanished from the spot.

[Advanced Combat Techniques], unleashed in full force!