After exercising, Gu Chenan looked at Fang Yuanyuan's enchanted expression beside him and softly said, "Sister Fang, I want you to reassign my two small teams to Donghai and Suhang respectively."
Fang Yuanyuan nestled into Gu Chenan's arms like a kitten and murmured softly.
"Alright~"
...
The next day.
Suhang.
That night.
In a dark alley.
"Five million to kill someone."
A man in a black suit took out a photo from his inner pocket.
"Five million? That's quite generous, sir."
From the shadows, a man wearing a black trench coat and a black fedora took the photo and looked at it, startled.
"You... you want to kill him?"
The man nodded, "Yes, him. Five million. Will you take it?"
"This... I need to ask the organization."
"Fine, I'll wait for your reply."
The man nodded and walked out of the dark alley, revealing his face in the neon lights.
It was Ma Bing.
On the outskirts of Donghai.
A black sedan was parked on a small road along the coastline.
Inside sat a young woman, lighting a slim cigarette and occasionally glancing towards the end of the road, as if waiting for someone.
Soon, an SUV drove up.
A man dressed as a bodyguard got out, looked around, then walked up and gently knocked on the woman's car window.
The window lowered.
"Help me kill someone, five million," the man said, taking out a photo.
"Oh?" The woman raised an eyebrow, surprised by the price.
She took the photo and looked at it, shocked.
"You... who are you? Why do you want to kill him?"
"You don't need to know who I am. I just want him dead. Can you take it or not?" the man said.
"This... I need to ask the organization. Please wait."
The woman got out of the car and walked to the side, taking out her phone and dialing a number.
"Hello, Captain, someone wants to issue an assassination order for Mr. Cao Mang."
On the other end of the phone.
Wang Meng, the captain of the second team, who had dyed his hair black, sat up on the bed in the bathhouse.
"Take it," he nodded.
"But Mr. Cao is..."
"I said take it, don't argue."
"Understood, Captain."
The call ended, and the woman walked back quickly: "We've accepted this commission."
...
At the same time.
Li Chuan, the captain of the first team, who was driving, also received a phone call.
"Speak."
"Captain, someone wants to issue an assassination order for Cao Mang, one of the Twelve Owls. We can't accept this, right?"
"Can't accept? Who told you we can't accept? Take it!" Li Chuan shouted angrily.
"Yes, Captain!"
...
In the office, Gu Chenan was looking through documents on his desk.
Just then, a phone call came in.
"Hello, Mr. Gu, this is Wang Meng. My subordinates have received an assassination order for Cao Mang."
"Good, I know. Send the commission information to the organization."
"Understood."
As soon as the call ended, his phone rang again.
"Hello, Mr. Gu, this is Li Chuan. I had my subordinates accept an assassination order for Cao Mang, and I've already sent the commission information to the organization."
"Well done, excellent work," Gu Chenan praised.
As the call ended, two messages came in.
They were from Ma Bing and Gu's bodyguard respectively.
Both messages were identical, stating that the assassination orders had been accepted.
Gu Chenan rubbed his eyes, stood up and stretched, producing a series of crisp bone-cracking sounds.
Two assassination orders targeting Cao Mang had been sent to the organization. He believed that tomorrow these two orders would appear on Cao Mang's desk.
At that time, it would be up to Cao Mang to decide how to handle it.
...
Early the next morning.
Cao Mang walked into the office with a cigarette in his mouth and his hands in his pockets.
"Brother Cao," Lin Yu, who had been waiting for a long time, stood up to greet him.
Cao Mang nodded and sat down in his chair, putting his feet up on the desk, looking very casual.
"Lin Yu, hasn't the First Seat assigned you a new position yet?"
Lin Yu shook his head and said through gritted teeth, "No, Gu Chenan's two small teams have gone to Suhang and Donghai. I have nowhere to go!"
Cao Mang snorted and said, "Looks like you want to go to Suhang and Donghai too."
"But you don't need to be so pessimistic. Gu Chenan has already received his own assassination order. If this matter hasn't spread throughout the organization by today, it means Gu Chenan wants to keep it under wraps."
"That's when I'll step out and expose Gu Chenan, making it impossible for him to stay in the organization!"
"Once he leaves the organization, not only will your position among the Twelve Owls be returned to you, but we can also take his life at any time!"
Lin Yu nodded, "I understand."
It could be said that the Black Owl organization was extremely united.
The reason Cao Mang could come up with this method to eliminate Gu Chenan was precisely because Gu Chenan was also a member of the organization.
Within Black Owl, internal strife was deeply abhorred.
If Cao Mang were to make a move against Gu Chenan, Cao Mang would become the target of the entire organization.
Even if he had deep relationships with many people in the organization, the consequence of violating the organization's taboo would only be death.
But as long as Gu Chenan left the organization for any reason, Cao Mang could then make a move against him.
This was exactly what Cao Mang wanted to see most.
Thinking about this, Cao Mang couldn't help but feel a bit elated.
Damn, to come up with such a despicable and shameless plan, I really am a genius!
"Brother Cao, Gu Chenan has the First Seat backing him up. The First Seat, she..." Lin Yu felt a bit uneasy.
He always felt that it would be impossible to eliminate Gu Chenan using this method.
Fang Yuanyuan was already on Gu Chenan's side. If she still wanted to protect Gu Chenan at all costs, it wouldn't be difficult at all.
But Cao Mang didn't think so.
He gave Lin Yu a disdainful glance.
"So what if he has the First Seat backing him up?"
"The organization's rules state that anyone on the assassination list, whether themselves or their relatives, cannot be spared. Even the First Seat must abide by this!"
"If she insists on protecting Gu Chenan at all costs, not only will I not agree, but the other Owls definitely won't agree either!"
Cao Mang was very confident about this.
He was certain that Fang Yuanyuan would not make the unwise decision to protect Gu Chenan at all costs for the sake of Black Owl's reputation and her own authority.
Besides, how long has Gu Chenan been in the organization?
Fang Yuanyuan and Gu Chenan have only known each other for such a short time. How could Gu Chenan make Fang Yuanyuan protect him repeatedly at all costs?
It doesn't make sense!
After hearing Cao Mang's words, Lin Yu pondered for a moment.
It did seem to be exactly as Cao Mang said.
How could Fang Yuanyuan disregard Black Owl's image and her own authority to protect Gu Chenan at all costs?
Absolutely impossible!
Thinking of this, Lin Yu was overjoyed.
Gu Chenan, oh Gu Chenan, this time Fang Yuanyuan can't possibly protect you at all costs. Let's see how you get out of this predicament!
Knock knock knock~
Just as Cao Mang and Lin Yu were feeling confident, a data clerk knocked on the office door.
"Come in."
The data clerk, with a solemn expression, quickly approached Cao Mang: "Brother Cao, here's the new assassination list. Please take a look quickly."
Cao Mang waved his hand dismissively: "Put it on the desk. I'll look at it when I have time."
The data clerk swallowed hard: "Brother Cao, you'd better take a look now."
Cao Mang suddenly became angry: "Didn't you hear me say I'll look at it later?"
"I spoke out of turn."
Seeing Cao Mang's anger, the data clerk didn't dare say anything more. He could only place the assassination list on the desk and leave the office.
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.”
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
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?!
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)
