West City Land
In the private room of Chuncan Pavilion, bursts of laughter and noise were heard continuously.
"Oh, you, drunkard, are still so funny and humorous, and you are getting more and more handsome." The man laughed.
The wine monster laughed and said, "You're not bad either, water lizard."
"Oh, sorry, I'm late." Two women walked in.
"Hey, beautiful lady Chenxi. It's not too late."
"You only saw Chenxi and not me." said another woman who walked in.
"Where? Who else is there?" The strange monkey pretended to look back.
"Yihou, you——" The woman pretended to hit Yihou.
"I'm not saying, can we not be that funny girl? Look at your online name, 'A mountain of monkeys, my butt is the most popular'. What status do you put the strange monkey in? Your previous online name was so nice, 'Invisible Wings'. Don't imitate the young people nowadays. We are not young anymore. I can't even pronounce your name."
The man's words offended both of them at once, "Who are you calling old?"
The strange monkey jumped onto the man's back and locked his neck. "Hey, what do you mean? Whose butt is red?"
The others watched and laughed as everyone made a noise, creating a very relaxed and lively atmosphere.
"Alright, everyone. If you keep this up, the roof of this place will be blown off before my party even starts."
"We're almost all here now, except for... God Y."
Su Chengen said, "Everyone, please wait a moment. It's not time yet. God Y will not be late."
Su Chengen and the people in his team who knew Ye Lin were also there. The others regretted it so much that they missed the team battle with God Y because of training, and they insisted on coming to this party.
Someone couldn't help but be curious, "Cheng'en, your team has seen Y in person, right? What does she look like? Although we are all very familiar with each other online, the rest of us have more or less met together privately, but Y has never shown up. Now that we are about to meet her suddenly, I don't know how to get along with her." The man scratched his head.
Su Chengen and his teammates looked at each other and smiled without saying a word.
"You'll know soon enough."
The others were waiting, watching the clock on the wall reach the exact time. The door of the private room was pushed open, and a young and beautiful girl came in. Everyone in the room looked at her. The girl glanced at the people present. Taozi saw that she seemed to be looking for someone and said, "Hello, are you in the wrong place?"
Su Chengen came forward and said, "Come here, Master Ye, and sit here."
This is—Y?! The atmosphere in the box fell into a strange silence.
"How come the person you were waiting to see has arrived, but now you have nothing to say?" the team members joked.
"God Y, it's been so long since I last saw you. I missed you so much." Team member Xiao K said coquettishly with red eyes.
Bah, this little K is relying on being the youngest on the team and looking innocent to seek favor. The other teammates despised him in their hearts, but they all rushed to surround Ye Lin, "God Y, I missed you too." "Me too."
The WIN team surrounded Ye Lin. Familiar with her and having not seen her for a long time, they all opened up and chatted. After all, they were all brought up by Ye Lin herself. If it weren't for that letter, Ye Lin might have joined them, and the WIN team would have been much more than what it is today. Ye Lin looked at the people she once knew, and she felt the urge to beat someone up again.
Su Cheng'en watched them playfully with a smile. Taozi next to him sneakily moved to Su Cheng'en's side and asked, "Hey, is this really Y?"
"Um."
"That's her you've been seeing all along."
"yes."
"Are you sure this is him?" Taozi questioned.
"I'm not sure about the others, but I was the first one to meet Ye Shen. She is the one." Su Chengen looked at Ye Lin with eyes full of emotions. The others in the box also heard this secretly. After all, they were all paying close attention to the movements here.
Ye Lin noticed this and looked over. The other members of the team followed Ye Lin's gaze and looked over, pausing what they were saying.
Taozi caught a glimpse of Ye Lin's gaze, avoided her gaze and looked away, her body slightly stiff as she sat upright.
Ye Lin looked at everyone and said, "Hello, I'm Y."
It was this voice, it was indeed Y. No one expected that Ye Lin had such a nice voice and looked young and pretty. They thought she was using an onomatopoeia device, but it turned out to be her real voice.
Then Ye Lin looked at Taozi, "Taozi."
It was this tone, this was the voice of God Y calling my name. When Taozi heard this voice, she felt a sense of familiarity. The strange and alienated temperament that she had just felt from Ye Lin was gone, and she returned to the feeling of being with Ye Lin online.
"God Y." Taozi rushed to Ye Lin's side. She was a little excited now.
Taozi bravely started talking to Ye Lin, and the others were no longer so reserved.
"I've wanted to meet God Y for a long time, and today I finally get to meet him."
"Yeah, yeah, I didn't expect Y-god to be so young and beautiful. He's also so good at playing games and so perfect."
“…”
There was a joyful and peaceful atmosphere in the box. Everyone was eating and chatting. Su Chengen knew that Ye Lin had the habit of not talking while eating, so he didn't deliberately give Ye Lin topics to talk about.
"God Y, try this. It's a specialty from our place. It's super delicious." Teammate He An brought a dish to Ye Lin.
"Hmm, this smell is too strong. Master Ye won't like it." Su Chengen said.
"Captain, how do you know that Ye Shen doesn't like it? Although it doesn't smell very pleasant, it definitely tastes unique and is not inferior to those delicacies from land and sea." He An defended his favorite food.
"You've known Ye Shen for so long, but when have you ever seen Ye Shen touch something this heavy?"
He An thought about it and it seemed that it really had not happened.
"Cheng'en, how did you get to know Y-shen? You're all in the same grade, so are you classmates?"
"That's a long story. I'm from No. 3 Middle School, and Ye Shen is from No. 1 Middle School. We've known each other since high school."
Ye Shen?
"Oh, I remember now. I was wondering why Y-goddess looked so familiar. I saw it on a forum. The most outstanding beauty in the history of No. 1 Middle School later got admitted to Kyoto University. Her last name was Ye, and her name was Ye something. She must be Y-goddess, right?"
Ye Lin raised her eyes and asked seriously, "What forum?"
"It's called ars, it's an external network, you have to be a premium member to use it."
Ye Lin thought of Xia Zaoan's mention of Ye Lin on the school forum when she first returned to China. "Excuse me."
Ye Lin stood up and left the room. She went into the bathroom and showed the bracelet on her left hand, which also had a "Y" logo on the inside.
Ye Lin touched her wristband, and a screen appeared before her. Her hands moved swiftly across the screen, and she quickly learned about the "ars" forum. This was an information platform based in China, channeling signals from foreign sources. It contained a wider variety of content than you'd find on regular forums.
Ye Lin checked the information about herself and found a clear front-facing ID photo, as well as a variety of blurry snapshots uploaded by many netizens. Ye Lin concluded that the person who created this forum must be someone with a large account on the "auter" dark web forum, who had created a derivative version of "auter" and put it on the Quanguo app.
Ye Lin breached the forum's firewall, deleting all content related to her, meticulously cleaning up any traces left within. This forum's anti-explosion system was powerful, making it nearly impossible for anyone to leave no trace. Ye Lin had done a thorough job of cleaning up the mess this time. The person who created this forum was incredibly capable, perhaps even as capable as CC.
Ye Lin sent a jamming signal to the World Network through her bracelet. At that moment, all devices seemed to be covered by an invisible net and locked. Ye Lin turned off the bracelet and walked out as if nothing had happened. It only took a few minutes.
Several comments popped up where Ye Lin couldn't see.
"My treasured photo of the goddess has become distorted. It's the only blurry side profile photo I secretly took years ago. Has it been kept for too long?"
"The one above is talking about Ye Xiaohua, right? I can't load mine either. I can't even watch the backup. What's going on?"
"Is the phone too laggy?"
"Same as upstairs, I can't see it anymore."
…
"You're just hyping it up, right? You guys are talking about it so amazingly. What era is this? Big data can't recover what we paid for. How can we not see the beautiful photos?"
"If you're not from the same school as Goddess Ye, you naturally wouldn't understand. But once you see her in person, you know she's still in love with you. It's a pity I can't post photos, or I'd slap you in the face."
"Yes, yes, only we can understand."
"You must be kidding! I checked online and there's no information."
…
Several groups of people held different views, but this post naturally did not cause much waves. After all, Ye Lin's program settings suppressed the popularity and it came to nothing.
Somewhere far away from the Kingdom of Quan, a maintenance system flickered faintly. A man sat nearby, with sharp features, a high, straight nose, and eyes tinged with green that made them seem apathetic. He seemed to sense something, turned his perfect head, saw nothing, and glanced back.
The moment Ye Lin entered the private room, a lively conversation was already underway. Su Chengen looked at his teammates with disdain: "Uh-huh, you'd better put away your specialty. The smell is really too strong."
"This tastes delicious. The flavor might be because it's made with the rotten oil from floating corpses. It's really delicious. If you don't believe me, try it."
"Take it away quickly, the smell makes me want to vomit. This smell reminds me of the strange smell in our neighborhood recently."
"Cheng'en, which community do you live in? Why is the environment so bad?" someone interrupted.
"The center of the imperial capital."
"Oh, Imperial Capital Center. That residential complex is under Jianye, right? It's not cheap."
"Yeah, there's been a strange smell lately for some reason, and many owners have complained about it."
Ye Lin had already walked over to sit next to Su Chengen, "Master Ye, you're back."
"Well, take me to see your community after this." Ye Lin whispered close to Su Chengen.
"Okay." Su Chengen agreed although he didn't know what Ye Lin was going to do.
…
Ye Lin and Su Chengen came to the center of the imperial capital. The closer they got to Su Chengen's residence, the stronger the smell of decay became.
"I don't know if it's because of the hot weather, but the smell is getting stronger day by day. The property management has sent someone to deal with it, and it will probably be gone in a few days."
Su Chengen took Ye Lin for a walk in the community, and Ye Lin stopped by the green space nearby.
"What's wrong, Master Ye?" Su Chengen was puzzled.
Ye Lin's eyes focused, "Has this garden been renovated recently?"
"Now that you mention it, it seems like the community rebuilt the green belt overnight some time ago. They were quite efficient, completing it overnight and avoiding disturbing residents during the day. I happened to see it when I came home late that day."
"About what time?"
"It seems like more than ten days ago."
Ye Lin understood, "It seems you will be staying in the dormitory for a while."
"ah?"
Ye Lin didn't answer and called Bai Zeyan.
Within moments, several cars bearing the Kyoto Criminal Police Bureau logo pulled up in the center of the imperial capital. A fierce-looking man emerged from the lead car and approached Ye Lin. "Brother, this is it," Ye Lin said, glancing at the flowerbed in front of her.
Bai Zeyan and Ye Lin exchanged glances, then ordered, "Seal off the area and dig."
Beneath the green belt lay the shattered remains of a corpse. The forensic examiner, after conducting an on-site inspection, brought the remains back. The results matched the bloodstains found in multiple locations on the Chengxi land, and Jianye's property was immediately seized. The identity of the buyer of the Chengxi land, just as Ye Lin had discovered, remained unknown. The identities of most of the bodies had been confirmed: they were mostly elderly widows, orphans, middle-aged men without family or friends, and individuals without legal identification in the country. It's no wonder that so many people had been missing for so long, yet no one reported their disappearance.
"Someone in Quan State was secretly breeding Lina. They specifically targeted lonely people without friends or family, taking advantage of their limited cultural awareness and knowledge to trick them into cultivating Lina. However, people like these generally have a weak sense of management. Those Lina must have burned to ashes overnight. Perhaps a quarrel or argument among them sparked the fire, and they all perished along with the Lina."
Ye Lin and Bai Zeyan were talking together.
Bai Zeyan basically agreed with Ye Lin's point of view, "Who do you think it is?"
"This organization is definitely not domestic, and is most likely from abroad. Growing Li Na in Kyoto is very risky. Even in the dark market, Li Na's acceptance is low. Such large-scale cultivation does not have so many sales channels in Quan Country. The only possibility is that they are taking advantage of Kyoto's geographical advantages to distribute Li Na abroad. I suggest you check with the Gao Country line. No matter where it is distributed abroad, if it is profitable, it will definitely go to Gao Country."
"Well, I just found out that the charred body was buried in the Imperial Capital Center by a relative of a Jianye branch CEO. He got promoted through connections, and the land purchase happened to be under the company's name. When the purchase deadline came and they couldn't contact the buyer, they went to the west of the city to check out the land and happened to come across this scene. That CEO's relative is also a complete fool, burying the body under a property owned by Jianye. Jianye's real estate is going to be in big trouble now, and there's no guarantee they'll find anything when it's seized."
Bai Zeyan pondered for a moment, "Do you think the person who bought the land is among those charred bodies?"
“Not likely.”
"What a coincidence that this happened just as the purchase deadline for the land in the west of the city was about to expire. The land has returned to Jianye. Could it be that someone deliberately did this?"
Ye Lin said seriously, "If this is possible, then there is only one reason—provoking the police!"
The man seemed to be saying that even if I did this under your noses, you wouldn't be able to find out as long as I don't let you find out.
"These are just speculations. I'll send someone to follow Gao Guo's lead and leave the rest to the police."
"elder brother."
"Um?"
"You and... never mind. You seem to care about this case very much. Did the police suspect that there was something wrong with that piece of land so early on?"
"Jianye's bid was too ambitious, too eye-catching, and too strange, so it naturally aroused some suspicion." Bai Zeyan glanced upward to the right as he spoke. He was lying, and Ye Lin wouldn't ask if Bai Zeyan didn't want to say it. Bai Zeyan smiled slightly, "Haven't you noticed it a long time ago?"
Ye Lin frankly did not deny it. That's right, the big fight with Yi Qianqian before was intentional by Ye Lin. Her purpose was just to test Jianye's strength and whether other companies knew what was behind this bidding.
Ye Lin and Bai Zeyan both have their own ideas and plans in their minds, but no matter what they do, there will definitely be no conflict or contradiction.
"Oh, by the way, in a while, Kyoto's crime rate has plummeted in the past two years. The higher-ups have sent documents to the prison that seem to need some changes. I'd like to ask for your help. I'll contact you with the details when the time comes."
"good."
"I'm going back to the police station first. I have some things to do and I need to explain to them."
Not long after Bai Zeyan left, Ye Lin met another person.
Ji Jinyan said: "Have you had lunch?"
Ye Lin said nothing, "I'll treat you to go back to the company with me this afternoon."
Ye Lin got into Ji Jinyan's car and the two of them arrived at a restaurant with a good brand and reputation. Ye Lin and Xia Zaoan would sometimes go to this brand of restaurant. Ji Jinyan didn't give Ye Lin the menu and ordered the dishes directly, then said something to the waiter.
Most of the dishes were served, and Ye Lin found that they were all her favorites. This Ji Jinyan had some understanding of her in some aspects.
"This meal is a thank you. The issue of the land in the west of the city was clarified so quickly. As a controller, you have a very accurate grasp of the project." Ji Jinyan found a reasonable reason for his behavior.
"The report has come out, and Jianye's stock market is plummeting. This land is now under DY's name. Will this affect DY Group?"
"There will be some impact, but it's not a big problem."
It seems that DY Group has a deep foundation and does not care about the increase in market price. Ye Lin remembered what she had found out before: it is abnormal that such a large enterprise is clean.
What is the relationship between DY Group and Bai Zeyan? Ji Jinyan doesn’t seem to know Bai Zeyan. Does Bai Zeyan represent an individual or the police force?
"This piece of land in the west of the city has excessive sodium levels. Any construction approval will fail to meet the standards. What are you going to do with this land?"
"It's not currently being used, so why not leave it vacant? Or what do you think?"
"Vacant? Are you going to hand it over to the police?"
"Give it to the police?" Ji Jinyan frowned.
"Hmm. It seems that Mr. Ji doesn't have much dealings with the police. This matter has become so serious. Even if the ownership of the land in the west of the city is under DY's name, do you think the police will leave it alone?"
"The police want to?"
"If you let it go, this land will either be blocked or confiscated. Of course, if DY has no use for it, it's fine to give it away."
Ye Lin probed Ji Jinyan, who seemed indifferent to the land. He had been so concerned about it before, obviously not for the benefit of the land in the west of the city, but because he knew something in advance that he had to acquire it.
"Then I'll leave it to you. What will you do?"
Other companies might choose to protect themselves and hand over this hot potato, but Ye Lin was able to turn passivity into initiative.
"The military will definitely have a hand in the land west of the city, and no matter what we do, the DY will definitely need to delegate authority. Why not use the land west of the city for research and development? Establish a team of researchers and get the military involved, so the DY can also get a piece of the action."
"Okay, then you'll be fully responsible. I'll set up an action team, and you can join Lina's research. I'll have someone clean up an office for you later."
While talking with Ji Jinyan, Ye Lin didn't touch her chopsticks. Someone knocked on the door and the waiter brought a cake.
"This is Srida's chocolate cake. It has a very good reputation. Try it."
Ji Jinyan had just asked the service staff to place the order. Ye Lin felt that Ji Jinyan was an exceptionally attentive person.
Ye Lin was extremely curious about Ji Jinyan from the first moment she saw him. This person was not someone who could be easily judged.
"Thank you, President Ji."
President Ji, this title was particularly harsh. "I'm not much older than you, and I don't act like a CEO. Just call me Jin Yan."
"Ji Jinyan." Ye Lin spoke slowly. Ji Jinyan put away the disappointment in his eyes when he lowered his eyes, but it was not enough. Ji Jinyan wanted a more intimate name.
Ji Jinyan glanced at Ye Lin who was having a meal, suppressing unspeakable emotions in his heart.
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