Chapter 576: Sniping 66624

"The success rate of an ambush on the road is very low."

"There are many patrol officers on the street now, and Lan Si's car is also custom-made. He only needs to hold out for a short while, and a large number of police will arrive, along with his own men."

"Even if we use explosives, it's very hard for us to rush near his car. Those men of his will shoot at us without regard for their own lives."

"And his driver can just keep driving without stopping. It's very hard for us to blow him to the sky during a chase."

"The most likely outcome is that we all end up finished, but we might not necessarily be able to take him out."

Lan Si's motorcade had been attacked more than once, but so far, the only one that came close to succeeding was still quite far off.

So, the option of attacking Lan Si's motorcade directly from the start was completely abandoned.

Bringing it up now was just to make it look like there were more options, but in reality, there hadn't been that many choices from the start.

Gao Li rubbed his temples hard and stated his analysis. "So my idea still leans toward that moment when he gets in or out of the car at the bank."

"Whether he is getting out of the car to return to his bank, or coming out of the bank to enter that bulletproof car of his, he will be exposed for about three to five seconds."

"These three to five seconds are enough for us to take him out."

Lan Si walked very fast. Before he even walked out of the bank, the car door would be opened.

Calculating from the moment the new company's door was opened, he was completely exposed in the shooting environment until he was completely inside the car—it was only three to five seconds.

Walking a few steps and diving into the car, he never dawdled.

And it was the same when he went back.

His men would open the door, and he would walk out directly and quickly return to the company, unlike some people who liked to stand by the car for a while after leaving it.

Lan Si didn't have this hobby; he would bend over to get out of the car and then walk with long strides toward the new company's door.

The security guards beside him would also follow closely behind him, shielding the situation behind him. In this situation, relying solely on a sniper rifle to kill Lan Si with one shot through two people was almost impossible.

As for why there were people closely following his back when he went back, but no one protecting his front when he came out—that was because if someone blocked his front, it would not only slow down the time but might also force him to follow someone else's rhythm.

But if the security guards stayed behind him, there were no such troubles.

So they only had one chance: the moment Lan Si came out of the bank. They had three seconds to aim, pull the trigger, and then regardless of whether they hit or not, retreat immediately.

He told Bandi about this plan, and Bandi expressed his support.

There was no other way, because he had no other methods left.

The two wandered around the vicinity and finally found an apartment diagonally opposite the new company, which had a good shooting view.

More importantly, there were apartments for rent in this building.

Gao Li didn't show his face; he let others do it. After renting the apartment on the fifth floor, they handed the key to him.

He and the sniper arrived at the apartment in the middle of the night, around two or three o'clock. The manager was leaning against his chair with his head tilted, already in dreamland, and didn't react at all to the two people carrying long backpacks.

It wasn't until the sound of the elevator being used rang out that he saw two backs in his daze.

These two backs didn't make him think too much; he wiped the drool from his mouth, changed to a comfortable position, and fell asleep again.

The two entered the pre-arranged apartment. The sniper immediately set up his sniper rifle and then leaned against the window, closing his eyes and falling asleep just like that.

Gao Li made do on the bed for the night; the mattress in this apartment wasn't very good, making him sleep very uncomfortably.

After he got up in the morning, the sniper was already there calibrating the crosshairs.

The distance from here to the door of Lan Si's new company was about 170 or 180 meters. At such a close distance, the influence of low wind speed could be ignored.

However, to avoid strong winds, the sniper still placed a small wind speed meter outside, the kind many children played with.

This kind of thing was very common, not rare, and no one would be interested in it.

From the moment he fired to the moment Lan Si was hit, about 0.25 seconds would pass. Lan Si's pace was very fast; he could walk forward about two steps, moving his position by about 80 centimeters.

80 centimeters from over a hundred meters away might be a negligible small angle for him, but it was precisely this negligible small angle that could cause this assassination to fail.

He kept adjusting his shooting posture and test-fired a few times with an empty chamber after checking the barrel.

After finding an absolutely comfortable posture, he set up the sniper rifle and began to eat.

Neither of the two spoke, just quietly staring at the street outside Lan Si's company.

If he needed to leave, his car would stop outside the main door a while in advance. As long as they saw Lan Si's car, it meant he was about to come out.

Until noon, they didn't see Lan Si come out. There was no communication between the two; they both did their own things.

Near noon, the apartment door was suddenly knocked on. The two were immediately alerted and took out their personal weapons.

"Who's there?" Gao Li pointed to the other side of the door, and they stood on either side of the door.

If someone rushed in from outside, that person would definitely be caught in a crossfire. The voice outside was very unfamiliar. "I'm the manager. Are you the new tenants?"

"You need to pay the sanitation fee, gas fee, water fee, electricity fee, and management fee in advance."

He listed several fee items in a row before Gao Li opened the door a crack, but the door chain wasn't removed.

The two stared at each other through this crack. The manager looked impatient and handed over a pre-payment form. "Five dollars in total. If there's a surplus next month, it will be refunded to you. Of course, if it's not enough, you'll need to make up the difference to me."

The two stared at each other for a few seconds. The manager frowned, even more impatient. "Are you paying or not?"

There was a very special aura about him, as if... if Gao Li said no, he would be torn to shreds by the manager immediately!

He suddenly felt it was a bit funny, then took a five-dollar bill from his pocket and handed it out, and took the form.

The manager turned around and left with a long face. Gao Li appeared to close the door, but in reality, he left a crack.

After a while, the sound of footsteps stopped on the other side of the corridor, and then he heard the manager's impatient urging for fees again, only then did he close the door completely.

What he didn't know was that after the manager returned downstairs, he dialed another number.

"It's me... the apartment manager."

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"Mm, yes, three new tenants have been added in the past two days, two of whom are single tenants, and there is also a married couple..."

"I just confirmed it; they are all in their rooms now... Yes, there is one thing I think I should tell you."

"The guest in 506 is very careful and vigilant. After I told him I was the manager, he still didn't open the door's security chain."

"Mm, good, I know."

He hung up the phone, picked up the newspaper, and began a new day.

On the other side, several members of the Lan Si family walked toward the apartment.

Lan Si had already had people greet the apartments and office buildings around the new company and the old company.

They were to screen the tenants added every day and confirm the situation of these tenants.

As for those office buildings, Lan Si required that rooms without people working in them could not have windows facing outside; they had to be sealed.

Whether it was the apartments or ordinary landlords, they actually supported Lan Si's decision very much.

On one hand, doing so could reduce their own troubles, and on the other hand, it could make the tenants understand the rules.

Ensuring the safety of the tenants' identities had only benefits and no drawbacks for the landlords.

At this time, Lan Si had also finished breakfast. He was about to go out and was already making preparations.

At the same time, four young men walked into the apartment building. The apartment manager recorded the room numbers of the newly added individual tenants on a piece of paper and handed it to them.

This wasn't their first time cooperating. Before Lan Si moved over, those buildings nearby that could directly see the company entrance and office had already been screened once.

With Lan Si's prestige in the Imperial District, everyone was very willing to cooperate, so now they only needed to check the new tenants.

The four young men got on the elevator with relaxed smiles on their faces. They had already come several times and hadn't encountered any accidents.

They believed that there wouldn't be any accidents this time either.

On the street, the motorcade with high recognizability drove out of the parking lot and stopped outside the company's main door.

The sniper by the window froze for a moment. He immediately swallowed the food in his mouth, drank a small sip of water, raised the sniper rifle, and prepared to shoot.

He slowed his breathing as much as possible, putting his body in the best state.

Accompanied by a "ding" sound, the elevator door opened. Lan Si walked out of the elevator, and there were already some people in the hall.

They greeted Lan Si one after another.

Lan Si was a person without airs; anyone could chat with him for a few sentences. Just as he was about to walk to the door, and the person by the door pulled it open, his footsteps suddenly paused. "I'll go to the restroom first."

He said, turning around and walking toward the restroom nearby. The moment he closed the restroom door, in the apartment nearly two hundred meters away, two young men knocked on the door of 506.

The other two went to check the other two rooms that looked more normal.

The young men's knocking was clearly different from the manager's. The two in the room looked at each other. The sniper continued to prepare for the shot, while Gao Li walked to the door, holding his breath, not answering.

Lan Si shook himself, zipped up, and walked to the sink to wash his hands. He looked at himself in the mirror and put a small strand of messy hair back where it belonged.

Then he nodded satisfactorily at himself in the mirror and turned to walk out of the restroom.

At the same time, the two young men also realized something was wrong, because the manager had said there were people in the room, but now there was no answer inside. This was very abnormal!

The two young men looked at each other. One of them took a few steps back and kicked the door hard...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 577 =====