Chapter 72
Chapter 72
Yun Jianyue frowned. “What do you mean?”
Cai Zeyu said, “What happened with Gao Weimin may also be connected to the Evil God. The mastermind targeted Gao Weimin, who is the son of a martyr and the descendant of a general.”
Cai Zeyu did not need to say the rest. Everyone understood.
The mastermind’s true target was the very lifeblood of Hua Nation.
Gao Weimin was only the beginning.
“So you need to be careful on this trip to Dongwu. Also, you can’t trust everything the Evil God says. You must remember that, Yun Jianyue.”
Three days later.
Dressed in distinctly Dongwu-style clothing, Yun Jianyue dragged a huge suitcase through the streets and alleys of Dongwu. An unusually excited Lu Changxue followed beside her.
To prevent her jade pendant from being confiscated after they infiltrated the scam ring, Yun Jianyue had simply brought out Lu Changxue’s corpse and let Lu Changxue possess her own body again.
The Paranormal Bureau had also prepared a fake identity for Lu Changxue, while Si Wuming had worked a little magic on her body. Lu Changxue now looked no different from an ordinary living person.
However, this minor spell had a time limit. After a month, Si Wuming would have to cast it again.
Si Wuming was also dragging a large suitcase as he followed at a measured distance, pretending not to know Yun Jianyue and Lu Changxue.
After following the navigation app for quite some time, Yun Jianyue entered a narrow alley and stopped outside a milk tea shop.
She called a man named Brother Wolf. The instant he answered, she switched to a sugary, high-pitched voice. “Brother Wolf~ My bestie and I are already at the place you told us about. Where are you~?”
Lu Changxue gagged. “Ugh…”
“I’ll be there soon. Wait a few minutes,” Brother Wolf said. “What was that noise?”
Yun Jianyue clapped one hand over Lu Changxue’s mouth and cooed, “Oh, it’s nothing~ My bestie just isn’t used to the local climate, so she’s throwing up over here~”
After hanging up, Yun Jianyue returned to her normal voice. “I’m warning you one last time. Take good care of your body. If it rots, I won’t help sew it back together.”
“I knooow~” Lu Changxue imitated Yun Jianyue, pitching her voice so high she nearly choked herself.
She hurriedly caught her breath before complaining, “My vocal cords were already frozen stiff. I nearly snapped the damn things trying to squeeze out that voice.”
About five minutes later, Brother Wolf arrived with two lackeys.
Brother Wolf had a close-cropped buzz cut and a prominent knife scar at the corner of one eye. In his hand was a strand of sandalwood prayer beads polished smooth and glossy from handling. One glance was enough to tell that the bracelet was worth a fortune. Back in Hua Nation, it could have bought an apartment in a second-tier city.
As for his lackeys, one had bright red hair and the other bright yellow. They were impossible to miss.
Yun Jianyue stared at the sandalwood bracelet, practically drooling.
“What are you looking at?” Brother Wolf rubbed his sandalwood beads, inexplicably feeling a chill run down his back.
“I was just thinking how pretty your bracelet is, Brother Wolf~” Yun Jianyue continued in her sugary voice.
Brother Wolf grinned smugly. “You’ve got a good eye, Xiao Yun. Work hard for me, and you’ll be able to have as many bracelets like this as you want.”
With exaggerated coyness, Yun Jianyue leaned halfway against Brother Wolf and playfully punched him in the chest. “I just knew Brother Wolf was the best~ When are you going to take me to make lots and lots of money~?”
Lu Changxue tried her hardest to keep her expression normal, but the muscles in her face kept twitching beyond her control.
What the hell was “lots and lots of money” supposed to be?! Could Yun Jianyue please stop talking? She was seriously going to puke!
Brother Wolf nearly coughed up blood from that bashful little punch. But when he looked at Yun Jianyue, who appeared every inch a shy, delicate young woman, he began to question his entire existence.
Had he been slacking off on his training lately? How had a girl who only weighed around ninety to a hundred pounds nearly knocked him off his feet?
Despite what was going through his head, Brother Wolf’s body responded with complete honesty as he edged farther away from Yun Jianyue. “Wait a little longer. I’ve still got one more person to bring to the company.”
As he spoke, Brother Wolf’s sharp eyes spotted Si Wuming at the mouth of the alley. “Xiao Si, over here!”
Si Wuming wore the same cold expression as always. He walked over, passed Yun Jianyue and Lu Changxue without acknowledging them, and gave Brother Wolf a nod.
Brother Wolf wasn’t offended. Instead, he clapped Si Wuming on the shoulder appreciatively. “A top student really is different from people who never went to school. You’re handsome and classy!”
A top student? Lu Changxue was dumbfounded. She looked at Yun Jianyue in confusion, silently asking, What kind of persona is the Show-Off King supposed to have?
From an angle where the others couldn’t see, Yun Jianyue mouthed to Lu Changxue, Top finance student. He’s here to launder money.
Lu Changxue could feel herself losing control of her expression again.
The Show-Off King? A man whom Yun Jianyue had practically swindled out of all his money was supposed to be a top finance student?
Last time, Yun Jianyue had said she couldn’t afford food, and the Show-Off King had transferred her a hundred thousand without a second thought.
The time before that, Yun Jianyue had said the chain on her chainsaw had gone dull and she wanted a new one. Once again, the Show-Off King had transferred her a hundred thousand without a second thought.
And the time before that…
Once the pleasantries were over, Brother Wolf shot a meaningful glance at the yellow-haired and red-haired men. They immediately understood and went to take Yun Jianyue and the others’ suitcases.
“Brother Wolf, what are you doing?” Yun Jianyue asked in an exaggerated show of confusion.
Lu Changxue: …Screw it. Let the criminal organization poison her best friend so she’d never speak again!
Si Wuming: …Does Yun Jianyue really have to sacrifice this much for the mission? I’ll put in my report that she deserves a bigger bonus.
Brother Wolf, however, was clearly a man who had seen it all. He calmly replied, “You’ve had a long journey. Let us carry your luggage.”
Yun Jianyue showered Brother Wolf with another barrage of flattery, raising one bashful little fist as she moved closer to him.
This time, Brother Wolf nimbly dodged her. Looking somewhat embarrassed, he said, “Ahem. We’re still a man and a woman, after all. No need to stand so close to me.”
Si Wuming: …He remembered the briefing describing Brother Wolf as a sex-crazed lecher.
Brother Wolf led the three of them through the network of alleys. After countless twists and turns, they entered a cramped alley barely half a meter wide.
At the very end stood a dilapidated two-story building surrounded by high walls. Its entrance was a solid iron door with no openings.
Brother Wolf knocked on the door in a pattern of three long knocks, one short, one long, and two short. Two minutes later, two men chewing betel nuts opened it.
When they saw the three unfamiliar faces with Brother Wolf, the two men signaled him with their eyes and let him lead the group inside.
The moment everyone was through, they shut the door.
Once Yun Jianyue and the others entered, they discovered a vast compound hidden behind the small building.
The two-story building was merely an Illusion Technique. Behind it stretched a huge open lot, with seven or eight densely packed rows of single-story buildings at its center.
The buildings were grayish brown, their walls mottled and peeling in places. Neatly arranged as they were, they looked disturbingly like rows of coffins.
Yun Jianyue put her acting skills to full use, allowing just the right amount of disdain to show on her face. In the same affected, sugary voice, she continued, “Brother Wolf, is this really our company? It looks so run-down! Can such a shabby company really help me make lots and lots of money?”