Meng Ran rested for a night, and the next day, as usual, he happily rode his bicycle to school; weekday life was always like this.
As Meng Ran pedaled his bike, the Venom inside him was also singing.
"I want a life in full bloom~"
"Like flying in the vast sky~"
"Like traversing an uninhabited wilderness, possessing power beyond the ordinary~ Awoooo~ !"
Venom was straining his hoarse voice, trying to make his life bloom.
This song, of course, was also taught to him by Meng Ran; Meng Ran was truly fed up with him yelling with his voice, it was too awful to listen to.
So Meng Ran played a few songs for him.
Don't get him wrong, Venom's hoarse voice was quite suitable for singing this song, it was just that he couldn't hit the high notes.
Soon, he arrived at school, Meng Ran parked his bike and entered the classroom with his schoolbag.
Seeing Gwen holding a book and yawning, Meng Ran knew she hadn't gotten enough sleep.
Meng Ran took out a bottle of refreshing water from his bag, twisted it open, and handed it to Gwen.
"Drink some water, this is quite refreshing."
Gwen, looking a bit dispirited, took the water and gulped down a large mouthful.
"Phew~" After a big gulp, Gwen indeed felt more energetic and let out a sigh of relief.
"Meng, thank you so much, otherwise I would definitely fall asleep in class," Gwen said with a smile, her spirits revived.
Meng Ran sighed, "Gwen, you can't keep doing this for long; no matter how good your body is, it won't be able to handle it."
Gwen looked at Meng Ran, who was lecturing her again, and cutely shrunk her neck, saying, "Oh dear~ I know~ I just had a bit of insomnia last night."
Meng Ran replied, "You said that yesterday too."
"Why don't you stop going out every day? I'm here every day anyway, and the crime rate has already dropped a lot recently."
Gwen shook her head and said, "No, no, Ghost has to fight alongside Ghoul."
"I'll make sure to go back and rest earlier every day; it'll get better once I get more used to it."
Gwen then looked at Meng Ran and said, "Look at you, aren't you energetic every day?"
Meng Ran shook his head and said, "It's different; I have special cultivation methods, so I can rest a little less."
After speaking, Meng Ran sighed again, "It's a pity I can't teach you, otherwise you wouldn't be so tired."
Gwen, upon hearing this, covered her small mouth in surprise; so Meng Ran knew those ancient Huaguo cultivation methods, those things in novels were real!
Seeing Meng Ran sigh, Gwen also comforted him, "It's okay, I'm sure I'll find a way to get enough rest."
"I am the famous Ghost!" Gwen said powerfully, raising her small fist.
Meng Ran couldn't help but laugh at the cute Gwen.
As more people arrived in the class, the two also switched to discussing daily life; time passed quickly, and Thanksgiving was approaching, followed by the winter break in less than a month, and the two were discussing some holiday plans.
While Meng Ran was in class at school, the computer in his bedroom was working non-stop; before Meng Ran left, he had asked Xiaobai to search for information about Blackwater Security Company and their connection with the Crocodile Gang.
By the time Meng Ran returned from class, he would be able to directly see the information Xiaobai had already organized.
Soon it was time to leave school and go home; Meng Ran said goodbye to his friends and rode his bicycle home.
Today, Zhao Li came home early, and dinner was also eaten early.
After dinner, Meng Ran returned to his bedroom and began to look at the information Xiaobai had found.
First, Blackwater Security Company; this company outwardly provides legitimate security services, but behind the scenes, it offers irregular security and mercenary services.
According to the data, the personnel of this company are also graded; currently, traces can be found of ordinary mercenary missions and a small number of C-level mercenary missions.
As for higher levels, they have special confidentiality measures, which Xiaobai is temporarily unable to access.
According to Xiaobai's analysis, the two mutant assassins who appeared last time should belong to C-level, although no clues were found online.
However, based on the small amount of information Meng Ran obtained from their minds last time, these two came to ambush Meng Ran because of a mission from the Crocodile Gang.
But unfortunately, Blackwater Security Company's estimation was off; they thought Meng Ran was just a stronger, well-trained ordinary person.
The video Meng Ran sent to the Crocodile Gang at the time was also processed; not only did it prevent the terrified Crocodile Gang and others from seeing Meng Ran's abilities, but it also self-destructed automatically after playback.
So the people of the Crocodile Gang also had no effective information to provide to Blackwater Security Company.
Blackwater Security Company, on the other hand, obtained information through news and cases related to Ghoul, which also led to deviations in their estimation, making them believe that two C-levels were a sure thing.
The result was that the two C-levels directly disappeared, and the chips implanted in their brains also showed self-destruction, causing Blackwater Security Company to suffer a huge loss.
After reading the information on Blackwater Security Company, next was their connection with the Crocodile Gang.
There was also an interesting thing here; when Meng Ran previously looked up information on the Crocodile Gang, he had seen that the leader of the large gang above Bob had suddenly disappeared.
Meng Ran had already guessed at the time that things weren't that simple, probably Bob had hired someone to kill him.
Now the result was indeed so; the information collected by Xiaobai showed that Bob had paid to hire people from Blackwater Security Company to directly kill that leader.
Not only that, but Blackwater Security Company also had a hand in the infighting among the leader's subordinates; Bob had similarly hired them to stir up chaos at the time.
Later, when the Crocodile Gang reaped the benefits and absorbed other gangs, they also hired people from Blackwater Security Company.
Therefore, Bob and Blackwater Security Company had quite a lot of business dealings.
It was only in recent years that the Crocodile Gang enjoyed sole leadership, with nothing to threaten them, so their business with Blackwater Security Company had been cut off for a few years.
But the recent appearance of Ghoul reminded Bob of his old friends.
Meng Ran finished reading the information, leaned back in his chair, and closed his eyes, contemplating.
It was indeed time to clean up the Crocodile Gang again, but for the sake of stability, Meng Ran couldn't just kill them all at once.
Now there was also a Blackwater Company that hadn't revealed much information.
Meng Ran killing their people meant they must already know, and they would definitely continue to send people.
It was impossible for Meng Ran to kill those two people, and then Blackwater Security Company would just back down and not come; that was absolutely impossible.
This already concerned Blackwater Company's reputation, and of course, they would definitely demand Bob to increase the price, after all, if C-level couldn't solve it, then it would be a different price.
Meng Ran pondered, feeling a bit of a headache.
How about picking a puppet from the Crocodile Gang, and then after Meng Ran takes out Bob, use the puppet's hand to stabilize the situation, allowing George enough time to wrap things up.
Then, after the cleanup is complete, kill the puppet as well, which would perfectly deal with the Crocodile Gang without causing instability.
The puppet, of course, couldn't be chosen randomly; first, this puppet needed to have a certain amount of influence to control the overall situation after Bob's death.
Secondly, he needed to have enough subordinates to suppress the unrest of other leaders; if this condition was difficult to achieve, Meng Ran could also kill a few leaders first to reduce his pressure.
The more Meng Ran thought about it, the more feasible this plan seemed, but it still lacked one most important thing.
That was the means to control this puppet.
Meng Ran decided to go directly to the mall to see if any useful tools could solve the problem directly.
If it could be solved with tools, there was no need to engage in those superficial methods of persuasion, threats, or winning over.
Because those things were ultimately illusory and difficult to control.
For Meng Ran, it was best to minimize risk and maximize controllability.
Meng Ran looked at the special items in the mall, and after searching for a long time, finally found a suitable one.
Meng Ran directly chose to exchange it.
Looking at the small worm in the box in his hand, as well as the bottle of pills and the bone flute next to it, Meng Ran smiled.
"Conditions are met, the plan begins!"