At the airport pickup area, there was only one taxi left.
Even so, Xu Mo still hadn't gotten on the car. He gave the driver two hundred yuan for no reason, asking him to take the empty taxi for a spin.
Xu Mo said it was to mess with the investigation team.
He did mess with their eyes, but now there were no taxis left!
The two of them waited there for over twenty minutes without seeing a single taxi.
Yang Jingxuan started complaining.
"Xu Mo, we've been waiting for twenty minutes already without a taxi showing up. What should we do now? The last taxi, you didn't want to take, so what now? Don't tell me we can't leave..."
Xu Mo calmly said, "Let the bullets fly a little longer."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean soon there will be many, many taxis coming over."
Yang Jingxuan frowned, feeling like Xu Mo was lying to her. "How is that possible? I don't believe it..."
...
Five minutes later, the taxis came.
Not just one, but a whole group.
Too many to count, they started coming over.
Seeing this scene, Xu Mo let out a deep sigh of relief.
Contrary to his nonchalant words earlier, he had been uncertain!
Xu Mo was gambling.
Betting that the driver from earlier would tell the other drivers about getting easy money at the airport.
Betting the other drivers would believe him and come to the airport to get easy money.
Clearly, he gambled right.
Now, the way Yang Jingxuan looked at Xu Mo changed.
Her eyes filled with admiration.
Her tone was full of surprise.
"How did you know so many taxis would come? Can you read the future?"
"No, I can't," Xu Mo laughed.
"Then how did you know?"
"Because the driver from earlier must have told the others about getting easy money at the airport. Hearing about easy money, of course the other drivers would want to come get some too. No need to read the future, just use your brain a little."
Yang Jingxuan: Σ(⊙▽⊙"a
Seeing this scene, the livestream exploded again.
"Damn, he's showing off again!"
"Nine out of ten times he's bluffing, but the one time he pulls it off feels so good."
"I clearly saw Xu Mo breathe a huge sigh of relief, he didn't even know himself if his guess was right!"
"Nice bluff this time, promise me don't do it again okay? Or else my Jingxuan will become yours..."
With all the new taxis around,
Yang Jingxuan looked at Xu Mo.
"With so many cars now, can we go?"
"No rush, haven't messed with their eyes enough yet," Xu Mo smiled and shook his head.
Xu Mo knew clearly that when the investigation team got to the airport, they would check the surveillance footage.
He also guessed they would split into two groups after realizing the first taxi was a smokescreen. One group would keep checking footage, the other would go follow the taxi.
What Xu Mo had to do now
was mess with their eyes as much as possible.
Splitting into two groups was no big deal for the investigation team.
But what about splitting into twenty groups?
Surely they didn't have that many people right?
Reaching into his pocket, he took out the money prepared beforehand.
He waved over one of the drivers.
"Damn, he's really giving money?"
"That guy didn't lie! There really are fools with more money than they know what to do with."
"Get paid two hundred for doing nothing, this trip is awesome!"
Xu Mo didn't beat around the bush.
Taking the money in his hand, he gave each driver two hundred yuan.
"Go drive around and relax, I bet you haven't gotten a break in a long time. Take this chance to really enjoy your day off. We're shooting a short video, this episode's theme is caring for the people working hard in the city..."
It was the same speech Xu Mo had used earlier.
The drivers didn't get suspicious at all.
After taking Xu Mo's money, they thanked him one after another.
Most of the drivers also felt Xu Mo made sense.
Although they didn't plan on taking the whole day off, half a day shouldn't be a problem.
After handing out money for a while, Xu Mo put the remaining money on the ground.
"I won't hand them out one by one, drivers who didn't get money can come get some. Split this up and take a day off."
After saying that, he casually pulled open a taxi door and got in.
"Driver, let's go."
...
Xu Mo's operation this time
really messed up the investigation team when they arrived at the airport an hour later.
Earlier they had chosen to split into two groups.
Han Fei, Li Chen, and five officers stayed at the airport to check surveillance footage.
Shen Manni and Chen Ke took five officers to West Lake to follow the taxi and look for clues about Xu Mo.
Right now, Han Fei and the others were watching the footage.
Seeing a bunch of taxis arrive on the screen, Han Fei's heart thumped instinctively.
He had a bad feeling about this...
And it was a very strong feeling!
Right after, a taxi drove away from the airport pickup area.
Seeing this, Han Fei first looked at the airport staff.
"Rewind the footage five seconds and zoom in on the license plate."
Then he turned to one of the officers.
"Xu Mo might be in that car, call and ask where it is now."
Hearing the order, the officer quickly made the call.
Contacting their colleagues in traffic, he soon got a reply.
That taxi was currently stopped at the provincial museum.
Han Fei looked over at Li Chen beside him.
"Take two officers and go check the museum!"
After making arrangements, Han Fei went back to watching the footage.
In the video, another taxi drove off.
Han Fei: "???"
Are you kidding me?
He was a little pissed.
But nothing he could do except keep investigating.
Having the officer call to check, they found out this taxi went to Qinghefang.
So Han Fei sent another two officers to Qinghefang.
Now only him and one other officer were still at the airport watching the footage.
But that wasn't the end of it.
Another taxi drove off on the monitor...
Then another...
Han Fei counted a total of fifteen taxis leaving in just those few minutes!
Not to mention the one from twenty minutes ago that went to West Lake, that made sixteen.
Fourteen people on their team.
No way they could split into sixteen groups!
Seeing this, Han Fei was completely exasperated.
Rubbing his hands over his head over and over.
Eyes wide, mouth hanging open.
A completely dumbfounded expression.
After staring blankly for a bit, Han Fei started cursing up a storm, unable to restrain himself.
"Mother****er!"
That's right, Xu Mo had messed with the investigation team again.
They could split into two groups because they had a decent number of people.
The four person investigation team, plus the ten officers from the Hangzhou police totaled fourteen people.
Even splitting into two, each side would have seven people.
But...
They only had fourteen people total.
Yet fifteen taxis had already left the airport.
No, with the one from twenty minutes ago, it was sixteen.
Fourteen people, how could they split into sixteen groups?
"Hilarious, just too funny hahahaha..."
"Han Fei: **** your mom! I quit!"
"Even donkeys on a farm wouldn't put up with this hahahaha!"
"Captain Han, promise me you'll stop investigating okay? You can't beat Xu Mo."

grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)

rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!

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.”

ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!