The wind howled past his ears, carrying away body heat as the force of gravity tugged at his entire body during the rapid descent.

This wasn't Lin Yu's first time falling from a great height. Previously, when entering the Mad Banquet Beyond Heaven dungeon, Lin Yu had actively jumped from a tall building.

At this very moment, the scene was repeating itself.

However, this time...

Lin Yu had no intention of free-falling.

As he plummeted through the air, he watched the layers of windows flashing by before him, accurately calculating the floors.

"Seventy-seven, seventy-six, seventy-five..."

Lin Yu counted the floors.

Finally, just as he was about to reach the seventieth floor, Lin Yu activated Most Suitable for the Virtuous and Frugal mid-air.

In that instant, Lin Yu felt time become significantly more viscous.

"So slow—even slower than I imagined."

Based on his current estimation of the falling sensation, the stretching of time flow was at least a ratio exceeding one to thirty!

"This thing is really damn useful."

One second stretched out to be used as thirty seconds, combined with Lin Yu's already sufficiently fast reaction speed, meant just one second was enough for him to do many things.

He adjusted his posture with effortless ease in the air, then began examining the rooms on the seventieth floor.

"Starting from the left should be 7001... so room 7037..."

Lin Yu quickly found room 7037—this was also a scenic room, with the balcony curtains drawn, faint light seeping through the gaps.

"This is the place."

Water surged out from the Prayer Water Necklace, and Lin Yu manipulated the water flow to provide himself with a bit of forward momentum in the air.

Then, Lin Yu nimbly grabbed the railing of the seventieth floor, deactivated Most Suitable for the Virtuous and Frugal, and flipped over onto the balcony of this room.

The flow of time returned to normal.

Through the balcony's glass door, Lin Yu could faintly hear cheerful laughter and music coming from inside.

It seemed like someone was having a group party in this hotel room.

Lin Yu took a deep breath, then...

"Bang!"

He shoulder-smashed the entire glass door. Accompanied by the shattering "crash" of glass, Lin Yu stepped into the room.

Inside the room, four men were sitting on a spacious bed, with opened pizza boxes spread out before them, the floor littered with soda and beer cans. On the large screen in front of them, the third installment of a tacky comedy series was playing.

Seeing the glass suddenly shatter out of nowhere, the men showed expressions of confusion mixed with wariness.

"What the hell, why did this glass just explode on its own?"

"Did this glass self-destruct?"

"Could it be an attack?"

"Don't be ridiculous, if it's an attack... where's the person?"

"This glass doesn't look like it was shot."

The men chattered noisily, but their expressions gradually shifted from wariness to annoyance.

"Damn White Jade Pavilion in the Sky, such an expensive hotel, and the glass quality is this bad!"

Just as they were almost convinced this was an accident...

Lin Yu gently patted his own shoulder.

"Alright, Hannah, let them see me... but slowly, make my figure gradually appear."

"Ribbit! As you command, Director!"

After giving instructions to his capable assistant, Lin Yu slowly took a step forward—he deliberately stepped down firmly.

The sole of his shoe crunched on the broken glass, making a grating sound, instantly making the expressions of the four men tense up again.

"Hey, did you guys hear that?"

"Wait... what the hell is that!"

From the invisible air, the outline of a human figure gradually materialized.

Like a ghost or evil spirit manifesting, it made them all freeze completely for a moment.

Lin Yu's voice also rang out calmly.

"Good evening, esteemed 'middlemen,' Sleepless City's finest 'brokers'—I have some matters I'd like to discuss with Mr. 'Black Snake'!"

At this moment, Lin Yu's figure had fully manifested.

And upon clearly seeing Lin Yu's appearance, though still shocked by his sudden appearance, the astonishment and fear in their hearts naturally subsided significantly!

"Where did this bastard come from, putting on this ghostly act here!"

A man with a scorpion tattoo on his hand growled, then pulled out a pistol from his chest and pointed it at Lin Yu.

The sturdy bald man beside him showed an amused smile on his face: "Ho, which company's latest technology is this, to achieve this level of camouflage!"

"However, kid, do you think getting some good gear means you can do whatever you want in front of us?"

As the bald man spoke, he suddenly raised his hand.

A flash of cold light shot out from his sleeve, directly pouncing toward Lin Yu!

At the same time, the man with the scorpion tattoo on his hand also fired.

However, at the moment the two struck, the "Lin Yu" who was hit dissipated like foam.

Indeed—Lin Yu had instructed Hannah to let them see him, but that didn't mean he wanted Hannah to drop the disguise.

What they hit was naturally an illusion.

"Oh... looks like you two intended to kill me."

Looking at the cold arrow and bullet that passed through the throat and heart positions of his illusion, Lin Yu spoke calmly.

His current position had already silently moved to...

Behind the two of them.

"Bang!"

"Shhk—"

The sound of a gunshot and a dagger slicing through skin rang out. The two who had struck first instantly had their brains and blood splattered all over the bed.

The bald man's skull exploded; the man with the scorpion tattoo on his hand had blood gushing from his throat.

Lin Yu put away the Seeking Enemy Dagger and the One-Shot Revolver, calmly wiping the blood from his face.

He patted the two men beside him who wanted to draw their weapons, slowly pushing the guns in their stiff hands back into their chest holsters.

"I said, I just wanted to talk to Black Snake. You two... which of you is Black Snake?"

Lin Yu said softly.

Of the remaining two men, one wore sunglasses, the other had a lip piercing.

Before either of them could admit it, Lin Yu suddenly raised his hand.

"Ah, hold on a moment, you two."

He pulled out an old pocket watch from his chest that was making an abnormal "click-clack" sound, then opened the watch face and smeared blood on it.

"While it's fresh, better not waste it—won't be able to collect it if it's any later."

Lin Yu spoke with a smile, then intense and painful "shrieks" erupted from the two corpses.

As if they had died all over again.

The Repaired Fog Pocket Watch absorbed two souls. Its originally dim, rust-stained casing finally returned to normal, and it no longer appeared extremely irritable the moment it was taken out.

"Haven't had a chance to kill anyone recently, so it got a bit starved, so I had to feed it first. You'd understand if you kept pets..."

Lin Yu rambled on amiably, then looked at the two men.

"Where were we again?"

As he said this, these two seemingly fierce, steady, and experienced Sleepless City brokers who had weathered many storms spoke simultaneously.

"He is Black Snake!"

"I am Black Snake!"