"Hahaha, well done!"
In a deserted mountain, Zhao Yan looked at the neatly packed boxes of gold in front of him, a smile on his face.
Thirteen armed men stood guard around them.
"Brother Luo, what exactly is going on here?"
Er Pi, Fei Zai and Xiao Shuai's faces didn't look too good. Zhao Yan had made these arrangements without telling them, which made them feel he didn't trust them.
"Don't overthink this. I do trust you guys, you just need to know that no matter who I've wronged, I would never wrong you," Zhao Yan said.
Only then did the three men's expressions ease up a little.
"Ding ling ling, ding ling ling..."
An urgent ringtone sounded from the phone.
Zhao Yan took it out and saw it was Huang Guofeng calling. This time, without hiding it from Da Lei and the others, he directly answered the call, "Hello, Officer Huang."
The agreement he signed with Luo Jiajun only stated that he could not actively expose his undercover identity.
But it didn't say he couldn't be passively exposed!
Making use of this little loophole should be fine, right?
Next, he was going to step into the spotlight. It would be better for them to find out about his undercover identity sooner rather than later.
"Luo Jiajun! What are you doing! Why did another group snatch away the gold halfway! How do you expect me to explain this to the boss!" Huang Guofeng thundered furiously.
Xiao Lei and the men keeping guard instantly changed expressions, looking at Zhao Yan in disbelief.
Zhao Yan remained calm as he spoke to Huang Guofeng, "Officer Huang, do you think I'm God? If you hadn't called me, I still wouldn't know that the gold was hijacked halfway by someone else."
"You can't return to the team for now. You have to help me retrieve that gold," Huang Guofeng said firmly.
Zhao Yan smiled, "Officer Huang, after working with you for so many years, I've been wanting to say something to you."
"What is it?" Huang Guofeng thought he was going to try to appeal to his emotions.
Slowly enunciating each word, Zhao Yan said, "F**k your mother."
After that, he directly ended the call.
"Big brother... You... You're a mole?" Da Lei looked at Zhao Yan, his lips quivering, voice shaking.
Zhao Yan nodded calmly, straightforwardly admitting, "That's right, I'm the police's mole. Older Brother Cai was also taken down by me. What, do you guys want to avenge him?"
"You're our big brother. I just want to know if you're going to arrest us?" Xiao Shuai pursed his lips.
Zhao Yan laughed heartily, "What's there to arrest about you guys? My hands are only for catching women."
Hearing this, the four men revealed smiles.
"What about you guys?" Zhao Yan looked towards those thirteen men.
The thirteen men looked at each other, and eventually one of them spoke up first, "When Older Brother Cai was around, we were just little brothers in a branch company. We weren't close with him. As long as Brother Luo doesn't look down on us, we're willing to work for you."
"You all think this way?" Zhao Yan smiled gingerly.
The crowd shouted in unison, "Brother Luo!"
"Good. As long as I, Luo Jiajun, don't fall, you will always have a mountain to lean on," Zhao Yan said as he took out a cigarette and put it between his lips.
Da Lei used his lighter to help light it for him, then asked, "Are you going back to the police force now?"
"Going back to the police force?" Zhao Yan chuckled lightly. He flicked some cigarette ash, then stood with his back facing everyone, one hand in his pocket, the hand holding the cigarette pointing at Lincheng below the mountain, "That is our Lincheng, full of extravagance and debauchery.
"Being a cop can only protect this city, but this city doesn't belong to the cops. So I want to become the master of this city! The true master!"
The wind blew, making his trousers flutter. Looking down on Lincheng, hair slightly messy, he was high-spirited.
"Ding ling ling, ding ling ling..."
His phone rang once again.
Zhao Yan put the cigarette in his mouth and answered the call.
"Luo Jiajun! How dare you curse at me! Do you believe that I can make you unable to return to the police force for life and be a gangster forever!" Huang Guofeng yelled furiously.
Zhao Yan smiled playfully, "Officer Huang, I have something good here that I want to share with you."
Next, he took out a voice recorder from his other pant pocket and played the recording from the other day of Huang Guofeng personally permitting him to kidnap Huo Tianyu.
"You... You were plotting against me!" In his office, Huang Guofeng was already drenched in sweat, tightly gripping his phone with a hand that had turned white. He asked in a low voice.
If this recording fell into the hands of Huo Xiaoqi, it was possible his whole family could be thrown into the sea to feed sharks.
Zhao Yan casually said, "I'm returning to the police force tomorrow. I need to be decorated with all the medals I deserve, otherwise, you know the consequences."
After saying that, he hung up again.
"Big brother, didn't you just say you weren't going back to the police force?" Da Lei was a little confused by Zhao Yan's actions.
Zhao Yan took a deep breath and let it out, smiling, "Just watch patiently. You'll understand very soon."
On the other side, after Huang Guofeng had raged fiercely in his office for a while, he tidied up his attire and went to see his superior.
He told his superior that taking down Madman Cai was Luo Jiajun's achievement, and successfully capturing Zhou Shen this time was also Luo Jiajun's achievement.
Now that the mission was accomplished, he should return to the team.
After Huang Guofeng's superior listened, he said that since Huo Tianyu had been kidnapped, and Huafeng Bank had been robbed, the citizens' emotions urgently needed soothing. So he decided to establish Luo Jiajun as a model, a hero.
They would hold a press conference to welcome him back to the team, and at the same time, the task of retrieving the missing gold would be handed to him.
...
On the afternoon of the day the bank robbery occurred.
Zhao Yan personally sent Huo Tianyu back to the Huo family home.
"Tianyu! My son! Were you hurt anywhere?" Mrs. Huo rushed forward to hug Huo Tianyu, crying tears of joy, her whole face flustered as she checked his body.
After being so frightened these days, the twenty-something-year-old Huo Tianyu bawled loudly in his mother's embrace.
Huo Xiaoqi shook Zhao Yan's hand, "I really can't thank you enough, Officer Luo. Please come in and have some tea before you leave."
"It is my honor." Zhao Yan smiled faintly, then followed Huo Xiaoqi into the living room. Sitting down, he said, "Mr. Huo, I need to apologize to you."
"What does Officer Luo have to apologize for? You have only shown my Huo family grace," Huo Xiaoqi looked at him in bewilderment.
Zhao Yan was full of guilt, "Mr. Huo, although I brought the person back safely, I don't have the money anymore. On the day I retrieved the money, the people Zhou Shen sent to monitor me took it to be laundered. I'm afraid you stand to lose about two to three hundred million."
"Then Officer Luo should not say such things. This is not your fault either. What's more, just a insignificant two hundred million is worth exchanging for Tianyu's safety," Huo Xiaoqi said heroically.
He didn't think Zhao Yan was lying to him, because from his perspective, a small policeman wouldn't have the guts.
Moreover, there were no logical loopholes in Zhao Yan's story, and the commission taken to launder black money was indeed this rate.
Zhao Yan heaved a long sigh of relief, wiping the sweat from his forehead, "As long as Mr. Huo does not blame me."
"Officer Luo need not be like this," seeing his frightened manner, Huo Xiaoqi was even more convinced there was no doubt, waving to Huo Tianyu, "Hurry and thank Officer Luo."
Huo Tianyu shuddered, shooting Zhao Yan a somewhat fearful look as he slowly walked up to him, "Th...Thank you, Officer Luo, for saving my life. I am eternally grateful."
Only he knew that the truth was completely different from what his parents believed. Zhao Yan was sinisterly ambitious!
But he didn't dare to speak out, because Zhao Yan held evidence of him murdering and secretly disposing of corpses multiple times, as well as his confession tapes blackmailing his own father.
Once it got out, he'd be done for.
Moreover, for a ruthless man like Zhao Yan, he now exuded an innate fear towards him.
Xu Tian and his bodyguards had all been killed in front of him before letting him return today.
When facing Zhao Yan, he couldn't put up any resistance.
Cough, but this seems kind of normal, right?
If he could, it would be abnormal instead.
"Young Master Huo is too courteous. This is just doing my duty," Zhao Yan said modestly.
Seeing Huo Tianyu's cowering appearance, Huo Xiaoqi thought he hadn't recovered yet and sent him to rest. Then he said to Zhao Yan, "I have always reciprocated favors. Tell me directly, what do you want?"
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
