I Am Your Natural Enemy

”You know Li Linlin?” Wen Yan just remembered, oh right, when he came back, Li Linlin came along to Virtue City, but he didn’t want to bring Li Linlin over here and ditched her halfway.

”Li Linlin is my bestie, we’ve been good friends for many years. She said the boss brought her here.

Today she made a call, and it seemed like the Scorching Sun Department traced it back to her.

She thought she was screwed, so she begged me to ask the boss what to do with her...”

”She didn’t leave on her own?”

Wen Yanxin wondered, could it be that everything Li Linlin said was actually true?

With her ability, if she wanted to leave, she should be able to go anywhere pretty easily.

With this kind of power, how could she be so scared by the Scorching Sun Department? She’s a bit too timid, isn’t she?

Wen Yan had thought it wasn’t worth worrying about before.

Just thinking about Li Linlin’s self-reported identity gave Wen Yan a headache.

Cai Heizi was dead, so he definitely wouldn’t vouch for someone with such questionable credentials just because of a few words.

But if he handed Li Linlin over to the Scorching Sun Department, it’s like Cai Heizi fired the first black shot at himself, stirring up everyone else.

This kind of thing, well, everyone knows, but you can’t just put it out in the open.

At least not until everything’s truly settled, Wen Yan still didn’t want others to know.

If Cai Heizi really died, at least he’d be saving his last bit of reputation, so nobody would bring up that even his death was messy...

It’s really not quite appropriate.

If Cai Heizi isn’t really dead, then helping him deal with Li Linlin’s mess, he’ll owe him two more slaps later.

Wen Yan sighed to himself. No wonder Cai Heizi told Li Linlin she could bring the matter to him.

Cai Heizi, that bastard, really got a read on his personality—business is business, insults are insults, everything in its own box.

”Go back and tell her, she’s not to go anywhere lately, stay put and keep her head down.

If the Scorching Sun Department really finds her, let her tell the truth herself.

She studied abroad, was recruited over there, sent back to act as an undercover agent.

Then I found out, and told her to sit tight and wait for things to be handled.

If nobody discovers her, then just keep her head down, I’ll deal with her once I’m done.”

”Okay, I got it.” Misha lowered her head, nodding quickly, then scurried off with her head down the whole way.

Wen Yan arrived at Old Zhao’s House Entrance, sat there waiting for Feng Wei, then took out his phone for a quick check.

Li Linlin’s study abroad documents and all that, nothing seemed off.

Her father died ten years ago, her mother is a professor at a university in Guanzhong County, an archaeology expert.

From the data, there’s nothing suspicious, plus her mother’s security clearance isn’t low—even with Wen Yan’s clearance, he could only see some basic info, and it’s clear that’s not all the data.

If his clearance were any lower, he’d only be able to see what’s on the surface, wouldn’t even get that ”insufficient clearance” notification for the rest.

To get assigned such a high security level by the Scorching Sun Department—

Either Cai Heizi added his own secret extras, or Li Linlin’s mother held this security level herself.

Most likely, it’s the latter. Guanzhong County, archaeology expert, put those two keywords together, and it’s 100% connected to the Scorching Sun Department.

Wen Yan shut off his phone, not wanting to think any more about it.

Anyway, even if that Li Linlin really is undercover, as long as she keeps her head down, Wen Yan couldn’t be bothered to care.

Everyone has eyes on each other’s turf, that’s just the way things are.

About ten minutes later, Feng Wei showed up at Old Zhao’s house.

Following Feng Wei down the Nether Path, Wen Yan watched him—he didn’t seem out of the ordinary.

During their chat, he was logical, no different from before.

They walked out from the desolate tomb, arriving at Lord Zhu’s new home.

As soon as they got there, the Celestial Sword Master and Chunjun Mace on Wen Yan’s back started glowing faintly of their own accord.

”Tell those two to settle down.”

Wen Yan patted the Gray Cloth wrapped around his chest—instantly, the Gray Cloth shuddered with a rustling sound, wrapping both weapons up tight, not a single ray of light leaking out.

Wen Yan casually added some Yang Energy as a blessing to the Gray Cloth—now it wrapped things even tighter.

Then, in front of Lord Zhu, Wen Yan blessed Feng Wei with Yang Energy and asked him again.

Feng Wei just said it was his friend, and couldn’t say anything else.

”Bring the person over.”

Feng Wei didn’t get it, still foggy from being enchanted. He went to the small guest room and found Tong Si.

”Tong Si, Lord Zhu wants to see you. Come with me.”

”Is something up?”

”No worries, Lord Zhu is the kindest soul, has helped lots of ghosts, wants to introduce you to a job—nothing to worry about.”

Tong Si, before arriving, already sensed some hidden, potent Yang Energy inside, seemed to be a living person packed with yang power.

”A living person?”

”A friend of mine. Also a friend of Lord Zhu’s. Really great guy, helped me a lot, just came to visit Lord Zhu.”

Tong Si was suspicious and uneasy, but with his current identity, he definitely couldn’t say no.

When he followed Feng Wei out to the gate and saw Wen Yan sitting there, with two weapons bundled up in Gray Cloth on his back—

His scalp almost exploded.

He finally remembered—why did this Yang Energy feel so familiar?

Because that day, in all that chaos, when he slipped out through the cracks and was about to escape, he saw from afar—this was the guy, balancing a Great Sun in one hand, Night Vigil Deity You Guang, like he was just sitting there unguarded, flattened by the Great Sun.