A muscular, menacing man stood at the door, his eyes brimming with cold murderous intent as he glared at them. The criminals all bowed their heads and hunched their shoulders, not daring to act out in the slightest.
Even so, Zuo Lin'an could still clearly identify a few students among them.
After all, no matter how well a student disguised themselves, they were still not actual criminals.
Before long, the plane took off and headed toward Sin Hunter City.
Zuo Lin'an leaned casually against the cabin wall, waiting with a completely relaxed and composed expression, looking as though he had absolutely no intention of disguising himself.
Standing out so drastically, he naturally drew the attention of many of the criminals.
However, not a single one of them dared to say a word.
Still, they silently put up their guard, resolving to stay far away from this man if they all got off the plane together.
Or perhaps they could team up with others to get rid of him first.
Yet they quickly discovered that this man was not traveling with them!
About ten minutes after the plane entered Sin Hunter City, it slowly descended and landed on top of an abandoned building several dozen stories high, which happened to have a helipad.
“You, get off.”
Zuo Lin'an knew the man was talking to him.
He stood up and left immediately, but before walking out, he grabbed a backpack containing several sets of brand-new prison uniforms.
He was going to spend quite some time in Sin Hunter City, so he couldn't do without a bag.
Standing on the rooftop, Zuo Lin'an watched the plane fly off into the distance. He soon withdrew his gaze and pulled out his map from his chest pocket.
Although it was the middle of the night, he could still roughly make out the markings on the map.
Right now, his current location was a high-end residential area.
However, this place was completely abandoned, with no criminals gathered here.
For now, he needed to leave this place and find the nearest criminal settlement.
Hmm?
Only then did Zuo Lin'an realize something. He leaned over the edge and glanced down.
“This is...”
This building was at least forty or fifty stories high!
...
So, how long would it take him to walk from the rooftop all the way to the bottom?
Zuo Lin'an didn't think the elevators here would still be working.
“Seriously, couldn't they have just dropped me off on the ground?”
Though he complained, he understood the reason in his heart.
Planes usually dropped off passengers on the rooftops of high-rise buildings to prevent them from being attacked by other criminals within Sin Hunter City.
Not that the military was afraid of them.
But they still needed to prevent unnecessary trouble.
Zuo Lin'an only grumbled a bit and didn't waste any more time.
Looking around, he found a damaged rooftop door. He kicked the battered door open and walked inside.
Instead of heading straight for the stairs, Zuo Lin'an first located the elevator shaft.
Sure enough, the elevator doors were long gone, likely having plummeted down the shaft.
He leaned in to take a closer look, wondering if he could slide straight down the cables in the shaft. However, he quickly realized that most of the cables had already snapped.
Only a few scattered strands were still holding on, and they looked completely unreliable.
“Forget it.”
Although he wouldn't die, falling from dozens of stories high... He didn't want to turn into a meat patty just yet.
“I'll just take the stairs.”
He found the stairwell. Though it was filthy and cluttered with dust and debris, it at least looked safer.
As Zuo Lin'an walked, he studied his map.
The nearest criminal settlement was only about two to three kilometers away.
Getting there from here wouldn't take much time at all.
And this criminal settlement was likely the source material site arranged for him by the higher-ups.
As for how many people he needed to kill this time to successfully convert his second rule, to be honest, he didn't know yet.
He would only get a vague, instinctual feeling after he killed his first target.
Zuo Lin'an's gaze swept over the mark representing the criminal settlement on the map. There was a number written next to it.
Sixty-one.
“There are sixty-one people over there?”
“Is sixty-one enough?”
Zuo Lin'an was currently worried that it might not be enough.
After all, when he first came here, he had to kill a total of ninety people to meet the conversion standard for the Death Rule.
“This time it's an auxiliary rule, so I probably won't need to kill as many as ninety.”
After all, the standards for the Death Rule and an auxiliary rule were bound to be different.
Sixty-one... should be close enough.
However, these criminals were also humans with minds of their own.
Once he killed a significant number of them and they noticed people going missing, they would definitely be on guard.
By then, they would either flee or band together to target him.
“I hope they don't live too close to each other.”
That would make it easier for him to pick them off one by one.
Zuo Lin'an walked down the stairs floor by floor. Fortunately, he couldn't feel fatigue in his current state; he just found it a bit tedious.
When he finally stepped out of the building, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
“What a great way to train one's patience.”
Shaking off his thoughts, he quickly confirmed his direction and rushed toward his designated destination.
It was only two or three kilometers, so it didn't take him long to arrive.
A few minutes later, Zuo Lin'an hid behind a small slope.
There were over a dozen small trees twice the height of a man, waist-high bushes, and a mix of green and yellow weeds, making it very easy to conceal a person.
After observing carefully, Zuo Lin'an realized there were no abandoned houses here.
All the houses these criminals lived in were actually built by themselves!
Fortunately, the houses weren't very close to one another.
Furthermore, the surrounding terrain was uneven, separated by bamboo groves, small patches of woods, and agricultural fields or vegetable gardens.
Any slight noise would likely go unnoticed.
Zuo Lin'an felt this was manageable.
Though it presented some difficulty, it would also save him time.
After all, if it were an abandoned residential area, he would have to search the buildings one by one, which was time-consuming and exhausting.
Right now, his specter body wasn't with him, so he had no way to sense the living aura.
But with these self-built houses, unless something unexpected happened, every single one of them should be occupied.
Under the dim starlight, Zuo Lin'an did a rough head count.
Excluding those obscured by trees and bamboo groves, there were about fifty houses, most of which were crudely built shacks.
And there were only sixty-one people here.
“They must be living separately.”
This was also good news for him.
Zuo Lin'an held the boning knife in his right hand and the pocket watch in his left.
The current time was 10:25.
It wasn't on the hour.
Not bad. For his auxiliary rule this time, he had to avoid killing on the hour.
He scanned the area ahead, constantly searching for a suitable target.
Before long, he identified his first target.
That small shack was located at the very edge of the settlement and was also the closest to him.
This would make it easy for him to scout.
The night was silent.
Once Zuo Lin'an set his target, he immediately snuck near the shack. However, as soon as he approached, he heard a loud snoring.
He paused, then cautiously drew closer to the window.
The snoring instantly grew much louder.
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