I'm in the Ark, a player.

"We failed! We won't get the mission rewards either!"

This is the method she came up with.

Make the most of the fact that you are seen as an NPC who issues quests!

Chen Huijie didn't know if it would work.

But she had to give it a try.

Qin Tianling frowned upon hearing this, and glanced at his mission.

It's still there; it hasn't shown any failure.

But why is this NPC saying he failed?

Oh--

I see,

The reward for perfectly completing the task is 50,000 yuan!

If you just complete the mission normally, you will only get a bow. However, if you complete the infiltration mission without killing a single person, you will get an extra reward of money!

Why weren't these mission requirements explained earlier?!

Qin Tianling felt that doing the task again was really troublesome.

But when I think about the money they gave me, and the little bit of money I got from killing monsters...

Tsk, to be honest, I really don't want to roll back, but she gave me a bit too much.

"Qload".

Since there's no reward, let's start over.

The world has turned upside down again.

Everything goes back to the very beginning.

Chen Huijie stood on a rooftop not far away, binoculars still held in front of her eyes.

She saw Qin Tianling emerge from the street corner.

This time, Qin Tianling didn't swagger in through the main gate.

He stopped at the edge of the shadows on the dock, observed the patrol route for a while, and then, taking advantage of the moment when two groups passed each other and a blind spot appeared, he slipped in silently.

After moving swiftly through the shadows of the cargo, Qin Tianling hid under the cover of the goods, quietly waiting for his opportunity.

He is very patient.

He now possesses the patience of a fisherman who, despite not catching any fish, continues to wait patiently.

The normal procedure in stealth games is to patiently look for opportunities. Qin Tianling understands this; he knows when to act and when to wait. His previous brazen charge in wasn't because he couldn't stealth, but because he felt it was unnecessary.

It's necessary now.

Therefore, Qin Tianling was waiting for an opportunity.

And the opportunity really did arise.

Chen Huijie saw one member of the two-person patrol team near Qin Tianling split up and walk outside.

In the instant he passed Qin Tianling's hiding place, he darted out like a cheetah!

Quiet, more precise

One hand covered the man's mouth, while the other gripped his throat. With a forceful pull, the man's body instinctively struggled a few times before going limp after several seconds.

After knocking him down, Qin Tianling conjured the black sword in his hand and gestured at the unconscious man, seemingly considering whether a direct strike would cause massive bleeding and death.

Then he did something that Chen Huijie never expected—

He covered the man's mouth with one hand, picked up the black sword with the other, flipped it over, and used the broad blade to smash it down like a cleaver chopping garlic.

The unfortunate man was jolted awake by the pain, his eyes widening in shock. Qin Tianling had covered his mouth, preventing him from uttering a sound. Before he could even understand what was happening, Qin Tianling choked him unconscious again.

This is not over yet,

Chen Huijie saw Qin Tianling raise his sword again.

拍，

醒，

Strangulation

拍，

醒，

Strangulation

She clearly saw that with each strike, the person's limbs would twist at an unnatural angle.

Just looking at it, Chen Huijie felt as if she could faintly hear the sound of bones cracking in her ears.

Qin Tianling only reluctantly stopped when the man's limbs were completely mangled—or rather, when there was nothing left to support his body, not even bones.

He turned the man over to examine him, then began tearing his clothes into strips, which he stuffed into the man's mouth. He then used the man's own belt to tie around his mouth to prevent the strips from slipping out. Finally, he dragged the man behind a cargo box and hid him.

Chen Huijie had probably already guessed why Qin Tianling had done that.

Was it to prevent the other party from waking up from their coma and alerting others, thus allowing them to be discovered and infiltrated?

The methods used were really excessive...

Chen Huijie frowned in displeasure, then she saw Qin Tianling circling around twice, as if searching for something.

Then he crouched down and picked one up from the corner—

A cardboard box,

Then, Chen Huijie couldn't understand Qin Tianling's actions anymore.

She saw Qin Tianling put the cardboard box over his head, shrinking inside until only his shoes were visible.

The cardboard box slowly crawled across the open ground, moving towards the red brick building at the dock.

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P.S.: I'm about to test the waters, please follow along! I'm so grateful, dear readers! I'll do anything as long as you follow along!

Chapter 17, Hardcore Infiltration (Bonus Chapter)

Chen Huijie could hardly believe her eyes.

real or fake?

Are you out of your mind, or am I seeing things?!

Why did you secretly put a cardboard box over yourself?!

Do you think that if you wriggle around with a cardboard box over your body, no one will know there's someone inside?

The enemy isn't blind!

The use of profanity in Longmen is simply self-deception!

Chen Huijie was almost laughing in anger.

She never imagined that Qin Tianling would do something so outrageous.

However outrageous Qin Tianling's actions were, Chen Huijie's binoculars remained fixed on him.

The wriggling cardboard box stopped moving.

Because someone has arrived.

Those were the thugs who patrolled with the unlucky guy Qin Tianling had dealt with.

He walked past the piles of goods, across the open space, and past the place where his companions had hidden.

Then, he walked up to the cardboard box.

Goods were on both sides, and a cardboard box was strangely placed in the middle of the road, motionless. Anyone who wasn't blind could see that something was wrong.

See? We're about to be exposed... Seriously, what are you even thinking?!

Chen Huijie felt a headache coming on when she saw this scene.

The thug stood in front of the cardboard box.

Stare at it,

I watched it for a long time.

The cardboard box remained motionless.

The thug stared at the cardboard box.

The cardboard box stared at the thug—if the cardboard box had eyes.

Then--

"strangeness.........."

The thug scratched his head, looked around, as if confirming something.

He walked halfway around the cardboard box, then circled back, stood in front of it, tilted his head, and looked somewhat confused.

"Nobody's here?"

He muttered to himself,

The thug looked at the cardboard box again, frowned, and then—turned and left.

Chen Huijie: ? ? ?

No?

Are you blind?

How could you not see such a big cardboard box and such a glaring anomaly?!

Chen Huijie could hardly believe what she was seeing.

She didn't understand what Qin Tianling had done either.

Why?

Why couldn't this guy notice?!

It's such an eye-catching cardboard box; no one could possibly miss it!

How can you make the enemy completely oblivious?

Is he really a master of disguise?

at the same time,

The thug didn't return to the patrol route. Instead, he turned a corner and headed towards another group of two people who were leaning against a pile of goods, smoking and chatting.

"Hey, how's it going over there?"

The thug walked over and casually struck up a conversation.

"good."

One of the smokers looked up.

Where are your teammates?

"That bastard went to buy cigarettes; he's a heavy smoker."

"I see..."

The two men smoking nodded without asking any further questions.

But as one of them exhaled smoke, his gaze inadvertently swept across the open space in the distance—

"Eh?"

He frowned.

"That's strange, why is there a cardboard box over there?"