The next second, Xu Mo only felt his pocket become lighter.
Other people probably wouldn't have noticed at all.
After all, a beautiful woman was in his arms. At this time, who would pay attention to anything else?
Clearly no one would.
But Xu Mo noticed that the woman had stolen his phone.
A thief? Didn't seem so.
As soon as this thought came up, Xu Mo denied it.
Or was she a policewoman? Or someone from the investigation team?
That wasn't right either.
If she was really from the investigation team or the police, he would have already been caught by now.
A special profession?
The possibility was even lower.
Interesting.
Xu Mo's mouth curved up slightly, not at all bothered that the woman had taken his phone.
Compared to a phone, he was more curious about what this woman was really up to.
"Sorry, sorry, I accidentally missed a step. Did I hurt you?" the woman steadied herself and said apologetically.
Xu Mo smiled and shook his head.
"It's fine."
"That's good it's fine, sorry about that just now.", the woman said with a smile to Xu Mo.
Then without looking back, she walked down the stairs.
Xu Mo watched her go down the stairs, an intrigued expression on his face.
However, at this moment, Yang Jingxuan beside him gave a cold laugh.
"Humph, still looking? Seeing you smile, you must be drooling."
She felt very annoyed.
What exactly was Xu Mo's intention?
Whenever he met a pretty girl, he would act so indecent.
It was the same with the previous flight attendant, and now with this woman too.
But she just couldn't understand.
What was lacking in me? You're attracted to everyone else, just not to me!?
Yang Jingxuan's annoyance all came from the sense of competition within her.
The live stream viewers started complaining for Yang Jingxuan too.
"What is Xu Mo doing? He doesn't look at the beauty beside him, only looks at those outside!"
"I feel this woman isn't much, just a beauty among ordinary people. Compared to my wife Jingxuan, she's nothing."
"Not much? If she played with you, you'd probably be eager to shove your c*ck in."
"Hahahaha......"
"Take him away!"
Just then,
"Ding, activate branch line quest!"
"Crime Game: Who is the Fraud King?"
The system prompt sounded.
Xu Mo was slightly surprised.
In a flash, he understood.
The woman who had 'accidentally' bumped into him earlier was a scammer.
And she was probably no ordinary scammer if the system issued a branch line quest for her.
Xu Mo became interested.
The investigation team probably wouldn't catch her that quickly.
He was free anyway.
Tricking the trickster might be an amusing way to pass time.
Moreover, the system would surely give rewards for completing quests.
It would pass time and earn system rewards. Why not?
Now things were getting fun.
...
However, just as Xu Mo realized something was off about the woman,
the woman also realized something was off about Xu Mo.
At first glance, Xu Mo did not seem like a wealthy host.
But one should not ignore Yang Jingxuan beside him dressed in branded clothes.
Just roughly estimating, Yang Jingxuan's branded outfit cost at least 100,000-200,000 yuan.
People with so much money, would they need to stay at a small homestay that only charges over 100 yuan a night?
Clearly not.
Unless they didn't dare stay at a hotel.
Because hotels require ID, but this homestay doesn't.
In the woman's perspective, Yang Jingxuan was Xu Mo's mistress that he supported outside.
Afraid of his tiger wife at home finding the hotel booking record, they came to this kind of place instead.
And judging from the branded clothes Yang Jingxuan wore,
the woman determined that Xu Mo must be a big fish.
A guy who was very willing to spend money on his woman.
After leaving the homestay and getting into the backseat of a Mercedes-Benz parked by the road,
"Boss Wang.", the driver greeted.
As soon as she got in, Wang Yue instructed the driver in front,
"Change of plans. Tell the others we're not leaving for now. I found another big fish."
The driver was slightly surprised and turned to look at Wang Yue in the back seat.
"Big fish?"
"Yes." Wang Yue said, "I met him at the homestay."
The driver felt puzzled.
He wondered, someone staying at that kind of place could be called a big fish?
But he didn't voice his doubts aloud.
Because the person in the back was his boss.
The leader of their scam gang.
Seemingly seeing through the driver's thoughts, Wang Yue smiled and explained,
"I bumped into a man and woman earlier coming to book a room. That woman had branded clothes all over, estimating roughly at least 100k-200k. People with so much money, why would they come to this shabby place instead of a five-star hotel?"
"Because they don't dare use their ID to book a room at hotels......they have a relationship they need to hide."
The driver had followed Wang Yue for some time already.
Hearing her explanation, he immediately understood.
"I see. You plan to scam them before we leave?"
Wang Yue's expression was blank. "No rush yet. Let me gather more intel first. Can't rule out the possibility that the woman is the real rich one, and the man is just her boy toy. We'll decide the specifics on how to operate later."
Stealing Xu Mo's phone wasn't because she wanted to sell it for money.
In fact, a phone wouldn't fetch much money.
She would later pretend to have picked up Xu Mo's phone to return it to him.
What Wang Yue wanted was to find the most normal-seeming way to get acquainted with Xu Mo.
To gather useful information, then execute her plan.
...
At the same time, the Hang City police received a fraud report.
Someone was scammed of 3 million yuan.
Right now many people were gathered in the conference room of the police station.
At the front, someone was analyzing the case details.
"Judging from the report received, this fraud was not done by one person, but an organized gang."
"Moreover, this gang's methods seem very familiar. This is already the third time they have committed fraud in Hang City."
"Adding up the three fraud cases, the total exceeds 10 million yuan...."
Sitting below, Superintendent Wang's expression was very ugly.
Three major fraud cases occurred in succession under his jurisdiction.
It was blatantly challenging him, slapping his face.
"How many clues do we have now?"
The officer turned to Superintendent Wang and reported,
"We currently only have one clue. Two members of the gang were active at Qianjiang Road. We have people keeping watch, should we apprehend them now?"
Hearing this, Superintendent Wang sighed.
The other party committed fraud three times consecutively, but they only grasped one clue?
"Keep the surveillance up. Pay attention to anyone who makes contact with those two people. Be careful not to startle them."
"Add more manpower if we're shorthanded. We must get tight control over these people!"
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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)
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
