Chapter 6

Tsim Sha Tsui, Zhu Village Second Cross Road, a large food stall.

"Older Brother, can you actually do it? Let me do it if you can't!" Li Yi couldn't hold back any longer. It's just killing a fish, why take so long?

"Older Brother, please don't call me 'Older Brother Two'!" Li Er said with a pained expression: "And, is there a smaller fish? Preferably one that's barely alive."

Li Yi glared fiercely at Li Er.

"No way, live fish are fresher when they're more lively. What do you know, step aside and let me do it!" Li Yi shook his head and said.

"No! Give me one more chance!" Li Er quickly said.

Li Shan and Li Shiyao, the brother and sister, were wiping the tables and curiously watching what their second brother was up to.

Li Er looked at the grouper on the cutting board with a bitter smile. No matter how hard he thought, he never imagined that the system's first task for him would be to assassinate a live fish.

This is so simple, uh, not necessarily. Li Er had never even killed a chicken before, and the live fish on the cutting board was indeed lively as Li Yi said.

"Sorry, fish brother, you're going to be killed anyway, who kills you makes no difference. Don't be a fish in your next life." Li Er held the fish's head with one hand and tightly gripped the kitchen knife with the other.

"Ah!" Li Er suddenly screamed in pain. Before he could bring the knife down, the fish on the cutting board struggled violently and slipped out of his hand.

Li Er quickly threw down the knife and grabbed the jumping grouper with both hands.

"Slap, slap, slap, slap..."

Li Er managed to grab the fish's head, but the fish's tail was still in the air. The grouper thrashed its strong tail, striking Li Er's face repeatedly.

"Puff—!"

"Ha ha ha ha..."

Li Yi and his two siblings couldn't help but burst out laughing at Li Er's swollen face, and Li Shiyao even laughed until tears streamed down her face.

"Ah! I'll kill you!" Li Er, enraged, grabbed the kitchen knife. His face was so painful it felt numb, and he chased the fish that had escaped and was jumping around on the ground.

"Ha ha ha ha—!"

Li Er, holding the kitchen knife, chased the live fish jumping around on the ground. The scene was so bizarre that Li Shan and Li Shiyao laughed until their bellies ached.

Ten minutes later, Li Er finally completed his first assassination task, and the target fish was in a rather tragic state.

Assassinate one live fish, reward experience: 20

"Here, drink more fish soup!" Li Yi continued to ladle soup into Li Er's bowl, and Li Shan and Li Shiyao, of course, didn't miss out.

Li Er's assassination target was now cooked into fish soup.

"Thank you, Older Brother! You eat too!" Li Er handed a pair of chopsticks to Li Yi.

Li Yi took the chopsticks and placed them on the table.

"You eat, I work at the food stall every day, I've eaten all kinds of good things." Li Yi smiled happily. He was very pleased that Li Er had come to help at the food stall today.

"Here!" Li Yi lit a cigarette for himself and, out of habit, offered one to Li Er, but then remembered that Li Er had quit smoking. He laughed and put the cigarette behind his ear.

It was still early, and the food stall wasn't busy yet. Only a couple at a roadside table was chatting while eating two dishes, so Li Yi had time to eat with his younger siblings.

After angrily finishing a piece of fish head, Li Er reached for a piece of fish tail. After such a struggle, he only gained 20 experience points. This system is not just unscrupulous, it's downright unscrupulous.

Li Er had carefully examined every data point in the system. Each skill in the system's skill box required over 100,000 experience points to activate, and completing a task only gave 20 experience points. Li Er felt utterly dejected; this was definitely a skill for a lifetime.

'Wait, why do I see an option to activate a skill once?' Li Er's eyes suddenly widened, startling Li Shiyao, who was sitting across from him.

"Second Brother, what's wrong?" Li Shiyao thought there might be something on her face and touched it.

"Damn, I almost got a fish bone stuck in my throat." Li Er easily found an excuse.

"Eat slowly! Although the grouper doesn't have small bones, the tail fins are all large bones. If you get one stuck in your throat, you'll be in trouble." Li Yi reminded him.

"Uh, uh!" Li Er mumbled and quickly lowered his head to eat the white rice.

'What a jerk, such important information and no warning, and the font is so small. If I hadn't been sharp-eyed, I would have missed it.' Li Er cursed the system in his heart.

"Five-minute usage period?" Li Er's breath caught, and he saw the time decreasing. It was already down to two minutes: "Damn, this is clearly a trap."

Li Er hurriedly opened the skill box.

1. Stealth Skill

2. Tracking and Countertracking

3. Lockpicking Skill

4. Combat Skill

5. Shooting Skill

6. Poisoning

Li Er's favorite was Combat Skill. Who wouldn't want to fight ten people at once, but reason told him to choose Shooting Skill. It required the most experience points, 199,800, to activate, making it the most cost-effective choice.

Li Er was still hesitating when the time was down to 56 seconds.

Li Er quickly made his choice.

"Ding! Congratulations, you have successfully chosen the Shooting Skill. The skill is now activating."

The 'Shooting Skill' in the system's skill box changed from gray to blue.

"Older Brother, I'm done eating. I have something to do today, I'll come back to help tomorrow!" Li Er, with the skill activated, immediately grabbed his coat and ran off.

"..."

Li Yi and the others looked speechlessly at Li Er's back.

"Older Brother, you've been tricked by Second Brother again. I told you he wouldn't do something good for nothing." Li Shiyao huffed.

"That's not true, Second Brother isn't that kind of person. He gave me fifty dollars for school fees the day before yesterday!" Li Shan quickly shook his head in disagreement.

"Second Brother gave you money?" Li Yi and Li Shiyao looked as if they were hearing a fairy tale.

Li Shan nodded: "Yes, Second Brother had just received his salary that day. You weren't home, and when I asked him, he gave me the money and told me not to tell you."

Li Yi looked in the direction Li Er had left, nodding in satisfaction. Perhaps, Li Er had really grown up.

......

"Why is it always me?" Li Er complained with a face full of unwillingness.

"We're short on people in CID!" Li Xianying laughed: "Now that you've been transferred, we can work together. We'll definitely make a good team."

Li Er remained unmoved.

"Is it a raid on prostitution or organized crime?"

Li Xianying whispered: "A raid on a gambling den!"

"Will it be dangerous?" Li Er asked worriedly.

Li Xianying waved his hand and laughed: "What danger? Just some small-time gamblers. Are you afraid they'll pull out knives?"

Li Er nodded, that was more reasonable. If it was dangerous, he would turn and run immediately.

"We're here! Ah B, you and Li Er are responsible for the eastern window. Chen Tao and Li Min will cover the back door. The rest of us will go up the stairs. Any questions?" The CID team leader quickly arranged.

"No questions!" Everyone answered in unison.

This was just a routine CID operation, so there were no issues.

"Aren't you going to climb up?" Li Er saw Li Xianying about to climb up the water pipe on the outside of the apartment building and couldn't help but ask.

"Not me, both of us!" Li Xianying laughed.

"Which floor?" Li Er looked up at the building.

Li Xianying: "Ninth floor!"

"Are you crazy? Climb yourself, I have acrophobia!" Li Er said firmly.

"Don't be like that!" Li Xianying laughed: "You climb first, I'll follow below. If you fall, I'll catch you!"

Li Er glanced at Li Xianying: "You can't catch me!"

Li Xianying: "I can!"

"Fine! If you can catch me, I won't argue. You go ahead!" Li Er waved his hand.

"Aren't you that bad?" Li Xianying said, somewhat disappointed.

Li Er immediately asked: "I'm not bad, what's the purpose of us climbing up?"

"To surround them from all sides. Based on my years of experience, the gamblers will definitely try to escape through the back window." Li Xianying said confidently.

"Then wouldn't it be the same if we just stayed downstairs? Can they fly?" Li Er said, speechless.

Li Xianying laughed.

"Li Er, you don't understand. We need to catch them red-handed. If they escape the gambling room, we can't charge them with gambling."

Li Er was stunned; he really didn't know this.

"Let's go! I won't let you down." Li Xianying laughed heartily.

"Eight floors!" Li Er's face darkened.

"So what? I can climb eighteen floors!" Li Xianying said matter-of-factly.

Li Er definitely wouldn't climb. As a穿越者 with a cheat, if he fell to his death, it would be a laughingstock.

"I won't climb!" Li Er said firmly.

Li Xianying looked disappointed, thinking Li Er was a kindred spirit.

"But we can go down!" Li Er said, pointing to the building's rooftop.

Li Xianying looked up and quickly understood.

"Ha! I didn't misjudge you. Li Er, you're a genius. Let's go!" Li Xianying laughed heartily.

"Bang—!"

"All of you, don't move, police raid!" The door to the gambling den was kicked open. As Li Xianying had predicted, although most of the gamblers obediently put their hands on their heads and squatted down, some still tried to escape through the window in the toilet.

"Shut up, hurry up, don't block us!" A few of the escaping gamblers whispered.

"Can't hurry, all of you, get back in, or I'll shoot your heads off!" Li Xianying said casually, a gun pointed at their heads.

One of the gamblers, halfway out the window, saw the gun and quickly shouted: "Sir, be careful, the gun might go off, I'll get back in!"

The building was only nine floors high. Li Er and Li Xianying had taken the elevator to the top floor and then descended to the window, ensuring no gambler could escape.

Although the result was the same, Li Xianying and Li Er had it much easier.

The operation was over.

The CID team leader praised Li Xianying: "Ah B, you're getting better at thinking."

"Sir, it was Li Er's idea, my brain isn't that sharp!" Li Xianying laughed, not taking all the credit.

The CID team leader nodded approvingly at Li Er. Their department needed flexible and adaptable officers.

"Hehe, if every operation could start from the top floor, that would be great!" Li Xianying laughed.

"Ha, Ah B, are you dreaming? Wouldn't it be better if they were all on the first floor?" The other officers laughed.

Li Er also laughed: "Actually, the floor doesn't matter. We can just knock on the door of the apartment above the target floor. If it's the seventh floor, we knock on the eighth, if it's the eighth, we knock on the ninth. It's much safer than climbing stairs."

The CID officers in the police car were stunned. Yes, such a simple idea, and they hadn't thought of it.