Those Classmates who Suddenly Disappeared
Chapter 1354: So Difficult, So Difficult

Chapter 1354: Chapter 1354: So Difficult, So Difficult

To infiltrate a heavily guarded place, you need to know the blueprints of the place, the guard scheduling, which room a particular guest is staying in, and many other details. However, even with all that information, it isn’t guaranteed that you can blend in.

Obtaining the blueprints of the East Nobles’ residence was easy, Gu Fan had asked Catherine for a copy. As for the guards’ schedule, Catherine didn’t know, after all, it was their work schedule, which could change at any time.

The most irritating thing for Gu Fan was that Catherine had no idea where this special guest was staying or what she looked like, only that she was a beautiful oriental woman.

The X Family was predominantly Western, with very few Easterners, and beautiful Eastern women were even rarer. Gu Fan figured that as soon as he saw this Eastern beauty, it would likely be her.

For some reason, whenever the topic of Eastern beauties came up, Catherine would look at Gu Fan with a strange gaze, after all, Gu Fan also had an Eastern appearance. Was it a bit too coincidental?

The difficulty of the mission was extraordinary now, Gu Fan could only take his chances. So, he spent the whole day studying the blueprints of the residence. The place was too vast, remembering every detail was brain-consuming. Wouldn’t it be terrible to finally blend in and then get lost inside?

"Getting lost, right?" Gu Fan saw a glimmer of hope. With so many rooms and corridors, even patrolling guards wouldn’t necessarily bump into Gu Fan.

Thinking it over, Gu Fan had a few problems to solve. First, how to know the layout inside the East Nobles’ residence, second, how to infiltrate it, third, how to avoid surveillance inside, and fourth, how to find that Eastern beauty.

From the blueprints, the residence of the East Nobles had gates in the walls, with a front and back entrance. Entry and exit seemed simple but were indeed perplexing.

Gu Fan had already passed by the residence once, the gates were tightly closed, there was surveillance outside the gate, and what lay behind the gate and the walls was unknown.

That gate, that wall, blocked the view and left Gu Fan feeling at a loss on how to proceed.

Moreover, the greatest difficulty of this mission was to avoid creating any disturbances. If anything unusual happened, even if Gu Fan managed to escape, once the opponent reviewed the footage and identified it as Gu Fan, then all of Dark City would be stirred up, and Organization X would surely mobilize everyone, digging three feet into the ground to find him.

Gu Fan couldn’t imagine facing thousands from Organization X alone, even with the Destiny Stone Body Guard, it might still be hard to cope.

"My god, I hate this mission!" Gu Fan thought hard but couldn’t come up with a good plan, feeling like his head was about to explode.

After his frustration had passed, Gu Fan calmed down a bit, sighed, and decided since he couldn’t come up with a plan while staying at the residence, he might as well go and take a look at the place.

So Gu Fan left. He acted like a passerby, walking past the house, glancing over briefly, and then looking again, trying to behave like the other passersby.

Looking at that large mansion, which stood like a majestic, spectacular castle. Gu Fan couldn’t help but exclaim, "Helen, oh Helen, why build such a massive house? Does your family have that many people? Can you even use so many rooms? You have to walk so much from your room to the dining room, aren’t you tired? Just cleaning would exhaust your cleaners, you have no regard for the working people..."

"Wait a minute?" Gu Fan ran to a corner and then sneakily glanced again at the mansion, furrowing his brows.

Right, no matter where you live, what kind of house you live in, daily life is essential. You need food and drink, you need people to clean the house. Gu Fan thought that just focusing on this point might provide a breakthrough.

Such a large mansion must house many people, which means a lot of food would be needed daily.

Aside from the residents, there would need to be security, cleaning staff, chefs, delivery personnel, and others.

Gu Fan thought about how to use these identities to blend in, so he could enter without alerting anyone or being discovered.

Maybe a delivery person, but all supplies in Dark City were firmly controlled by Organization X. Goods including food and beverages would definitely be delivered by people from Organization X, so that avenue wasn’t promising.

Mostly, the security would also be people from Organization X, and there might even be acquaintances, so Gu Fan didn’t desire that either.

As for chefs and cleaners, they generally had fixed people, and these people usually lived in the residence, serving the nobility thereby making it hard for Gu Fan to blend in.

Not to mention how hard it was to find a good job in Dark City, even if the East Nobles were looking for a chef and gave Gu Fan an opportunity to apply, would he dare to go? The interviewers would definitely be from Organization X, with strict vetting at every level, they might easily identify applicant Gu Fan, wouldn’t that be like jumping into the net?

"Big brother, big sister, what do you actually want me to do?" Gu Fan returned to his residence, feeling physically and mentally exhausted, and collapsed onto his bed.

Since the possibility of successfully infiltrating the East Nobles’ residence was zero, Gu Fan thought of a different approach, to have a good talk with Catherine, asking her to switch to someone else, or suggest to Catherine to bribe someone to get the intelligence she wanted.

Images of such scenarios floated in Gu Fan’s mind. Catherine would probably see this as too difficult and not require Gu Fan to execute the mission, but since Gu Fan already knew Catherine’s intentions, she might think of silencing him by murder.

"My god, isn’t there any way to go?" Gu Fan looked despondent.

Suddenly, an idea sparked in Gu Fan. He thought of a way to figure out the patterns of people coming in and out of the East Nobles’ residence, hoping maybe that routine could offer a breakthrough.

So, Gu Fan bucked up again and specifically went to the streets near the East Nobles’ residence, memorizing the camera numbers on several streets.

Subsequently, Gu Fan informed Catherine’s subordinates about the locations and numbers of those cameras, needing the surveillance footage from the past few days.

Catherine expressed no problem with this, as she knew people who specifically managed the surveillance footage, capable of handing over these videos to Gu Fan without anyone noticing.

Although Gu Fan did not explicitly explain what he needed the surveillance footage for, Catherine vaguely guessed a part of it, even wished Gu Fan success, and even high-fived him in a friendly manner, treating Gu Fan almost like a friend.

Although Gu Fan actively expressed his determination to try his best, he inwardly despised it: What "wishing you success" when there was no mention of any reward, it was simply exploiting labor.