Chapter 31: Escape
“Tell me about it.” Qi Yuan said.
Liu Li flipped through the information in his hand and told him of his findings, “Didn’t you ask me to investigate Ye Zhan’s motives when targeting alphas? I divided Ye Zhan’s fraud targets into two categories, one would be random targets like Wolf’s Eye where he often lays a trap, waiting for any prey to take the bait, make a lot of extra money, and leave, this category can be eliminated as his intended targets. The other target types were mostly high-ranking officials and magnates, Ye Zhan carefully planned, took the initiative and dealt with them with a clear purpose. My main focus is on this second category of prey.”
“At the beginning, I didn’t have any idea how they connected at all- you see, these high-ranking officials and magnates are distributed in Tiannan and Haibei, the turbulent times now are not like in the past when travel is very convenient so they don’t know each other, what can they have in common? The only thing in common is that they have money and power, after meeting Ye Zhan, basically everyone would encounter insignificant property losses and may have suffered some emotional injuries or something, in short, on the surface, Ye Zhan is indeed just an ordinary A and O fraudster.”
This is also in line with their initial cognition, Qi Yuan hummed and then said, “It won’t be that simple.”
“That’s right, thanks to the boss for letting me keep looking, I found that they have one thing in common!” Speaking of which, Liu Li was stunned when he finally found what they had in common.
Qi Yuan asked cooperatively, “What do they have in common?”
“I thought, what can make these powerful people of the major forces relate to each other? I thought of one thing, an auction!” Liu Li was proud of his results, “Then I went to check the list of major auctions, and it turned out that Ye Zhan’s fraud targets had all appeared on the list of the same auction.”
“Which one?”
“The Free Capital auction eight years ago that was the biggest ever!” Liu said, “These victims are likely to be VIP customers of this auction and participated in internal bidding. The threshold for participating in the internal auction is quite high, not only do they have to pay a high deposit but they also have to pay an additional five points of commission for each transaction price, even so there are still many people who can’t get in, you can imagine how good the goods sold inside are.”
“The bids offered to VIP customers are not publicized, and I have not been able to find the list yet. I wonder if it could be one of these VIP customers who took away something, which happened to be what Ye Zhan was looking for, so he came to their doors one by one…”
“Eight years ago…” Qi Yuan chewed on the number, how old was Ye Zhan at that time, and why was he looking for participants in an auction eight years ago?
“I haven’t found the list of internal bidders, but I’ve heard a lot of interesting rumors,” Liu Li said. “The internal auction, which attracted the participation of countless predators, involved clues to two very precious treasures.”
“What treasures?” Qi Yuan raised a trace of interest, just the clues of the treasures have attracted the attention of so many bigwigs, so what should the origin of these two treasures themselves be?
“The first piece,” Liu Li said in a deep voice, “is the original variety of the scarlet flower. The modern hybrid breeding system has cultivated excellent varieties of animals and plants, which are more able to meet the needs of human beings, while the original varieties mostly mean less yield, poor quality, susceptibility to pests and diseases, and so on. But when it comes to spiritual plants like the Scarlet Flower, everything is different, and the closer you get to the primitive species, the stronger the magical hallucinogenic abilities become. At present, the best quality Scarlet drugs on the market are in the hands of an organization called Dream Country, and the Scarlet Flower they grow is completely different from other inferior imitations just by smelling them.”
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The Dream Country was founded less than ten years ago, and it came out at the same time as the Scarlet Flower, as soon as it was born, like a flower blossoming, it grew into a huge empire invincibly, and even he doesn’t know how many people were red-eyed over their success. The original variety of the Scarlet Flower is tantamount to a big gold mine in the new century, no wonder so many people flock to it, Qi Yuan snorted lightly, “What about the second one?”
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“Leave it to me, boss!” Liu Li hung up the phone in a hurry.
There was a beep on the other end of the phone, the faucet still rattling, but the words still echoed in his ears.
In the years after leaving the Qi family and believing that he had died, Ye Zhan went to great lengths to find the participants of that year’s auction, what was he looking for?
The secret of resurrection from the dead… Qi Yuan smiled silently at the mirror, it was a smile that hid a secret madness. Am I making a fool of myself, or maybe Ye Zhan is more affectionate than he imagined?
He took out a box of gummies from his pocket, threw them into his mouth one by one, and chewed them slowly as more memories surfaced: the auction of the Free Capital eight years ago was indeed a very grand one, Kong Zhao ran to participate, and when he came back, he simply brought back a zoo: a three-tailed fox, a half-man, half-fish merman, a mammoth… and a bronzed Alpha lover. As far as the pomp of the eldest young master of the Qi family is concerned, Qi Yuan has reason to believe that he participated in the VIP auction, and if he didn’t join in the excitement, he wouldn’t be Kong Zhao.
So, will Kong Zhao remember a special exhibit in the internal auction eight years ago? Qi Yuan snorted, but it was Kong Zhao, and it was destined that he could not try to pry information from his mouth in a normal way.
He still has to wait to see if Liu Li can find another breakthrough. At the last minute, Qi Yuan decided not to see Kong Zhao, because he didn’t dare to guarantee that he would not be able to resist a punch to his beautiful face—he had wanted to punch such a face for as long as he could remember, and he now had such strength.
The next day, Qi Yuan left home early, he declined the driver’s kindness, walked out of the door, and first called Feng Rao.
“Help me investigate someone.”
“Who?” said Feng Rao as he moved his phone away and yawned widely.
“Feng Cheng.”
“Who?!” Feng Rao subconsciously asked. In fact, he heard it very clearly, but he just didn’t want to believe his ears.
“Your mother.”
“Leave me alone, boss…” Feng Rao whimpered, “It’s too late for me to hide from her, can’t you see that it is not easy for me to live to be so big…”
“That’s it, the specific information will be sent to you by text message in a moment.” Qi Yuan hung up the phone.
“Hey, hey, boss!” Feng Rao listened to the busy sound on the other side and fell head-first into the pillow.
Qi Yuan went to the Dragon Scale Legion to get the monitoring forms, and Ye Zhan was left idle and locked up at home alone.
It’s not appropriate to say that he is alone because there’s also a robot beautiful girl who cares for him in every way.
The peacock still wore a short skirt made of metal feathers, and its long black hair was tied into a high ponytail, like a delicate and beautiful doll in the window.
As long as Ye Zhan’s range of movement did not exceed 30 centimeters, she stood quietly and motionless. However, as soon as Ye Zhan moved, she would move in unison, and the metal feathers rubbed against each other, making a soft clattering sound.
This is not a robot, this is clearly a resentful spirit.
When the robot delivered his meals before, he had already compared strengths with the peacock once, and he had a full understanding of the difference in force between the two sides.
After tossing and turning on the bed for a while, Ye Zhan sat up, put on his shoes, and walked out.
The peacock followed impenetrably.
“This lady,” Ye Zhan leaned against the toilet door in pain, “I am going to the toilet, do you want to follow me?”
“I will not lose my reputation just for following you into a toilet.” The peacock was unmoved and even switched the beautiful royal sister’s voice to a mechanical rod reading.
“No, you won’t because you don’t have a reputation but I do, I can’t pee in front of a robot with the appearance of a girl.” Ye Zhan forcibly pushed her away a little, squeezed into the crack of the door like a loach, and then pulled the door up and down.
Boom!
The sliding door slammed heavily on the ten slender jade fingers inserted into the crack in the door and was almost broken, and then the two hands slipped in like a snake, grabbed the door, and slowly but firmly pulled outward.
Ye Zhan tried his best to defend the last of his underwear inside, but the door still opened a crack under his desperate gaze.
“It doesn’t matter,” said the peacock’s delicate little face, which appeared behind the crack in the door, “your genitals, in my eyes, are only fragile and useless organs.”
“Qi Yuan asked you to look at me without leaving an inch of consideration?” Ye Zhan asked with his forehead against the door.
“It’s not that iron-clad, the owner said that if you are in a bad mood and want to relax, I can tie a chain around and go around the garden outside, allowing a distance of three meters.” The peacock said.
Ye Zhan scolded Qi Yuan with tons of swear words in his heart, but a smile appeared on his face, “Then has he explained any special circumstances where you better not be present?”
This time the peacock nodded, “The master said that when it happens or the atmosphere is good enough to have sex, I should avoid you but I’ve always been confused by the criteria for ‘atmosphere’, and maybe the owner should upgrade my knowledge in this area.”
“Okay, good, sex isn’t it…” Ye Zhan’s smile gradually became hideous, “I am going to jack myself off in the toilet now, you get out of here!”
A trace of confusion flashed on the peacock’s face, and her hand subconsciously let go, Ye Zhan slammed the door shut, snapped the lock, and did it in one go.
With his back against the sliding door, Ye Zhan quickly took two deep breaths to calm himself down, looked around the bathroom, curled his fingers, and tapped a few times on the mosaic tiles in turn. The wall where the towel rack hung suddenly opened a door silently, and inside was a staircase that went down.
Hmph, fighting with me, have you lived in this house for as long as I do? If you want to hate someone, hate the Qi family’s habit of making tunnels everywhere!
The tunnel was black and empty, and there was a clammy and cold air, Ye Zhan played with the lighter in his hand, and without looking back, he drilled into the secret passage, triggering the internal mechanism, and the door closed behind him.
At this point, his improvised escape plan came to an end. All that was left was left to this dark and seemingly never-ending road, and his determination as unshakable as ice.
