Chapter 25

Although Fang Ping had wanted to rely solely on himself, he felt that tact was crucial at this state .

He decided to call the police after a while . If that did not work, he could think of some other way .

When night came, Fang Ping left under some excuse and called the police with a public phone .

The result was just as Fang Ping had predicted . He had told the other person that he suspected his upstairs tenant to be fishy while refusing to divulge his own identity .

The female operator had nothing to say to that . She reassured him instead of reprimanding him . “We’ll definitely ensure the safety of everyone and their possessions . We’ll send someone to patrol the area…”

As if what she said was real… Fang Ping knew the answer without needing to think .

This was the norm, seeing as the police’s manpower was limited, and he had not exactly provided enough concrete proof to warrant an investigation and the deployment of a number of officers .

If that happened, the police would not have time to work on real crimes; their time would be devoted to inconsequential affairs such as those .

There were many who issued false reports . The possibility of them really deploying someone here was low, unless Fang Ping told them that he was going to die .

Fang Ping did not even tell them who he was, which promptly lowered the possibility of them coming by a notch .

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Fang Ping was not reluctant to report his name, but he feared that the man above him had some way of getting inside information .

If he had told them his name, the man might take prompt action in the case of him harboring malicious intent towards him and that he knew Fang Ping knew .

Now he had called the police as an anonymous citizen . If the man had gotten wind of it somehow, he would not guess that Fang Ping was the one behind this when there were so many people living in the area .

The first time, he tried to report anonymously and it did not yield any results . Fang Ping was a little helpless .

Sun City was not a sprawling metropolis . Police manpower was limited, and the extent of their patrolling was too . It was often that they left many things be .

It was rare that they would take action on a report in which the suspect had not committed any visible crime yet, especially when it was called in from a public phone .

Fang Ping could forget about seeking assistance from the police .

He could only rely on himself . He could search the suspect for evidence after he had disarmed him . It was not too late to call the police after all that .

If he found nothing…

Fang Ping rubbed his forehead . He must cause a scene even if he had found nothing .

He himself would be arrested if he could not find any evidence of the crimes committed by the upstairs tenant .

He, a heroic teen, had done something out of line in the process of helping the police to capture a criminal, and would have to apologize to the police for those misdeeds…

The police would definitely take notice, no matter if the suspect was a criminal or not .

If the suspect was not, that would be nice . He would apologize for his mistakes and pay for them before going on his merry way .

It would be even better if the suspect was really a criminal . He could probably get a commendation out of this fiasco .

After weighing the pros and cons, Fang Ping reached the conclusion that the worst he could get was a reprimand, which was not really a huge loss .

That was a risk he was willing to take if that meant that his life was not at stake .

After thinking it through, Fang Ping relaxed and started thinking about how he could disarm the man .

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That night, Fang Ping continued with his training .

He eyed the window on the second floor, feeling someone’s eye on him .

“He’s observing me!”

Fang Ping reached this conclusion . He was more convinced that the man upstairs was after him .

He hit the nail on the head by accident .

Huang Bin really gazed down for a while from his place upstairs, but he did not watch for long, he had his own matters to attend to .

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The next day .

While Fang Ping went out for school, he met Huang Bin again when the latter was back with his breakfast .

The last morning Huang Bin did not greet Fang Ping as he could pretend that he did not know him .

But then this changed after he met Fang Ping the previous night . In order to preserve his “honest man” image, he greeted Fang Ping with a smile .

The greeting did not work in his favor, for Fang Ping immediately suspected his unsolicited goodwill .

If Huang Bin had known what he was thinking, he might go mad from repressed grievance .

How was greeting him was an act of unsolicited goodwill?

If he had not greeted Fang Ping, the other might have suspected him because he pretended not to know him .

Suspicion worked like that . If you suspected one of wrongdoing, he would seem suspicious no matter what he had done .

Now that Fang Ping suspected that Huang Bin was after him, he seemed fishy no matter what .

After basically confirming that the other did not harbor goodwill against him, Fang Ping was even firmer in his intention to dispose of the man .

Either deliberate or not, he had his ways of going about that .

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In the morning, Fang Ping appeared to be concentrating on his studies, but he was devising his future plan of action .

He had disappeared instantly after the morning classes ended .

Chen Fan watched as he bolted out . Aside from exclaiming over his physique, he could only admire the other’s capabilities .

Fang Ping had arrived exactly before afternoon classes commenced .

No one discovered the extra few small bags in his pockets .

Sleeping pills and tranquilizers would work best if one wanted to immobilize someone else, but, of course, they were hard to procure given that they were both prescription drugs .

Fang Ping did not intend to purchase those from the start . Their effects were mediocre at best, and they would take a long time to take effect .

Plus the other was a martial artist, which meant that his resistance to drugs was stronger than the average civilian . Off-the-rack sleeping pills would not work on him .

Except if took huge doses of them in one go . He was not stupid, though, at least not gullible enough to take a pile of sterilely white pills .

An ordinary student would find himself stumped in this situation .

Unfortunately for the target, Fang Ping was not one .

Fang Ping had visited a sex shop during the afternoon .

In his past life, he had a friend, a reporter who conducted a clandestine investigation on ecstasy, a hot topic back then .

Results proved that the claim that the drug would induce unconsciousness and temporary loss of memory within a few seconds was bullsh*t .

If there were drugs that worked like that, there would not be any need for anesthesiologists .

There were still drugs that were similar to, and to some extent more effective than narcotics .

Those drugs magnified the anesthetic effect of it without concern for the side-effects it would induce .

Nausea and dizziness were commonplace .

That friend of Fang Ping’s had experimented on himself by drinking a little of the Amnesia Water . He did not pass out, but his mind was fogged and he found himself unable to muster the energy to move .

Fang Ping was there . He had snatched his friend’s wallet from him in front of his face .

According to his friend, he had known that it was happening to him, but he had felt powerless to stop it . Despite having the intention to stop him, his limbs felt like jelly and he could not even speak .

The effects were not as mind-blowing as previously rumored . He had only suffered the aforementioned conditions for twenty minutes .

It was probably because he had taken so little of it, but he was wary of experimenting further for fear of it permanently affecting his body .

It was due to that experience that Fang Ping knew just where he could procure the stuff .

In this time, most sex shops were selling these publicly for an affordable price .

In the afternoon, Fang Ping had visited several stores and procured three small bags for 400 bucks .

The perverted owner had proclaimed that those worked astonishingly well, and had recommended some aphrodisiacs to Fang Ping on the side .

Women would turn as stiff as a log after taking the drugs that Fang Ping had bought, he said, and that was why he would not recommend Fang Ping use them .

Fang Ping scoffed at the owner’s perverted thoughts . Did he look like a pervert?

Unbeknownst to him, Fang Ping indeed looked like that kind of person to everyone when he had visited a sex shop to purchase something like that .

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After procuring the drugs, the next thing he would need to think about was making the man consume them .

Fang Ping worried that a martial artist would have higher resistance . The owner had told him that a 5ml dose was enough, but Fang Ping had bought three small bottles that added up to 50ml .

Ten times the normal dose should even immobilize a martial artist, shouldn’t it?

The man upstairs did not cook for himself, choosing to eat outside food instead .

There was no Meituan or Eleme 1 at this point in time, so he had to bring food home for himself .

Fang Ping had taken extra notice the past day . There were meal boxes in the pile of trash the tenant upstairs came down to dispose of .

The process of lacing his food became much more tedious without a delivery guy .

Fang Ping continued to think . Just how could he make him consume the drug?

His current identity as a student and his neighbor would work well to erase the man’s suspicion towards him . The man would not put up is guard against him, would he?

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Fang Ping was scheming the whole day .

It was only when school had ended for the day that Fang Ping shook his head in bemusement . Why did he feel like an antagonist?

He stuffed the thought down . Fang Ping reassured himself . The worst that could happen was a few days’ nausea, which he could compensate for after the incident .

His target was not a woman . What could he do, take advantage of him?

If his target proved to be criminal, he would be doing his part to rid the society of debris .

After he arrived home, he shut himself into his room immediately and poured the bottles of drugs together .

After consideration, he changed into a long-sleeved shirt and donned a coat .

This would be a better disguise .

When Fang Ping emerged from his room, Fang Yuan stared at him with surprise . What was the deal with her brother now?

“Fang Ping, aren’t you feeling hot?”

The April weather was not as sweltering as summer, but the temperature was still pretty warm .

Fang Ping suddenly wore a coat upon returning home . He could not possibly have fallen sick, could he?

Fang Ping had only regained his senses at the sight of his sister . The target was a martial artist . If he failed to immobilize him, it might cause trouble . His family was home at night, so it was not safe .

His parents were both out during the day, and Fang Yuan had to go to school too .

He should take action during the day to minimize any risk .

At that, Fang Ping took his jacket off and said with a smile, “Nothing . I was just feeling a little cold . ”

“Are you sick?” Fang Yuan asked with concern .

Fang Ping was prepared to deny that, but he nodded after some thought . “I’m feeling a little unwell . If I really feel sick, I’ll take tomorrow off . I’ll probably recover after sleeping it off the next day . ”

Fang Yuan reached to touch his forehead, relaxing after knowing that he was not feverish .

When Fang Mingrong and Li Yuying heard that he was feeling unwell and thus had to take the next day off, they showed some concern over him .

Fang Ping said that his condition was not serious . Although the couple was worried, they did not say anything .

They had only thought of sending him to the hospital for a checkup if he had not recovered come the next day .

Li Yuying had prepared to take the next day off to take care of her son, too, but Fang Ping had refused staunchly .

Seeing that his condition was really not that serious, Li Yuying relented, but then she also handed Fang Ping a hundred bucks for him to take a taxi to the hospital if needed .

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Fang Ping relaxed after everything was arranged . All that was left was waiting for the next day to strike .