I Am Your Natural Enemy

Trying to set Wen Yan up, making it look like the Three Mountains and Five Ridges are stirring up internal strife—pinning that label right on him.

That guy better pray he gets stuck sewing in prison for the rest of his life, otherwise if his identity gets out, he’ll be in even more danger on the outside.

Really thought everyone in Three Mountains and Five Ridges was some nice guy, huh?

Wen Yan never met up with anyone during the whole process, but since this involved the Three Mountains and Five Ridges, the Scorching Sun Department managed to dig up even this guy’s shitposting from tieba ten years ago within two hours, pulling it out from the grave.

Once the Scorching Sun Department got their hands on the equipment, there’s no more hiding anything.

Wen Yan looked at the material that got sent over—this spam-bot boss was still building up his network, but in a world full of non-normal people, recruiting isn’t so easy.

This dude went full psycho, dragging a bunch of regular folks along for the ride.

This job came from the forum too, and the money was paid by buying up stuff this guy had listed online.

There were a lot of buyers, but as long as you’ve got a thread to pull, with current priority, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Sure enough, after tracking things around, shockingly, it ended up being connected to the live stream gambling case Jingchu County’s been working on lately.

Some of the money flow in that case overlapped with what was found here.

Now that’s great—another excuse to keep those bosses detained; this is not only about gambling, but also about telecom fraud.

Wen Yan looked at the list and gave Feng Wei a quick call.

After eating, Wen Yan got up to leave, with eight energetic girls, each with their own vibe, escorting him all the way to the front door.

At the entrance, the girls surrounded Wen Yan in the middle.

”Mr. Wen, our boss is about to get his bank cards frozen. Can you help find us eight jobs in Nanwu Commandery?”

”Yeah, we’re fine with screwing screws or hauling bricks, we’re stronger than most guys.”

”Brother Wen, do you need a housemaid? I’d do it for 1,800 a month.”

Wen Yan’s head was pounding from being surrounded like this, so all he could do as he left was give each of them another blessing of Yang Energy.

Then, under the girls’ wistful gazes, he hurried off.

Once Wen Yan left, Zhang Qihui showed up, and the girls closed in on him again.

”Boss, that call you just got—was it your family?”

”Mm...” Zhang Qihui was a bit deflated. ”I feel like I’m really in deep shit this time—not only did I piss off a Ghost of the Sea, there’s also some reckless moron among the crew. I keep saying none of this is my business, that I don’t know anything, but honestly, even I don’t buy it myself...”

”Boss, let’s just go to Nanwu Commandery.”

”Yeah, didn’t you promise Mr. Wen you’d get him two prosthetic eyes?”

”Yeah yeah, Mr. Wen saved us! We gotta get those to him ASAP!”

The girls kept chiming in one after another, and Zhang Qihui pretty much guessed what they were up to.

But he couldn’t deny, what they said wasn’t wrong—he really should get this settled before his cards are frozen and he can’t even pay for travel.

He booked nine plane tickets and left in a hurry with everyone.

He’d invested in a doll factory before, and also put money into some materials R&D company.

His standards were high, the prices weren’t cheap, but the stuff was seriously good.

Especially this artificial skin—at least to the eye, you can’t tell it’s fake; even hospitals buy the same skin the eight girls are using.

The eyes were his highest spec—pricey as hell, but damn, they really did look bright and real.

He flew out, while Wen Yan had already taken a shortcut, passing through the Nether Path and arriving at Central Plains County.

...

In Central Plains County City, Scorching Sun Department’s office, a man around thirty was being interrogated.

”I already explained—I only met that Luo Liang by chance. He was eating next door, knew a guy on our side, came over for a toast.

That’s how we met. After that, when I had meals with my friends, he’d show up sometimes.

I’m really not that close with him.”

”Section Chief Li, it’s pretty much wrapped up here, you can go.” The person across from him checked the file a bit more, stood up and shook his hand.

”Section Chief Li, you’ve always led from the front and are famous for your courage, we’ve all heard of it. Today’s just a routine inquiry, that’s all.”

”I get it; I should cooperate with the department anyway.”

The man left the office and went home, saw his wife all dressed up and ready to go out with her handbag.

”Heading somewhere?”

”Out to eat with friends.”

”Director Wang’s wife, huh?”

His wife shot him a look and said nothing.

”Alright, then put in a word for me, would you? Next time Director Wang’s free, invite him to come try this private restaurant—I guarantee it’s good.”

”Got it, got it. You never stop with that.” She didn’t say much more, just strutted off in her heels.

Section Chief Li watched his wife leave with a smile, but the second she was gone, the smile vanished.

”This identity’s about to be useless too...”

He pulled out his phone to check out the latest events.

Then looked at the story about five Great Demons getting killed, shaking his head in pity.

He kept checking other stuff, found a spot haunted by a Ghost, but unfortunately, that Ghost was way too weak.

After flipping through for a while, he finally found a case that felt just right.

There was a Fierce Ghost that only came out at night for two hours, super vicious. Everyone around had already been evacuated, and the ghost was sealed inside the building.

Putting his phone away, he took out the Gold Bars he’d changed at the bank earlier, stuffed them in his coat, and left.