79. A mine is not a dumping ground.
After being subjected to torture including chili water, lemon juice, and tickling with foxtail grass, the two finally could not endure the inhuman torture and decided to confess in exchange for leniency.
“Actually… we don’t know who the employer is either,” the bespectacled man’s lips were already swollen from the spiciness, burning painfully to the touch, and tears of regret streamed down his face. “We took the order on an anonymous platform.”
Yu Chun was skeptical: "Oh? You really don't know? How can you prove it?"
The bald man laughed so hard his face twisted into a grotesque grin because a foxtail grass tickled his armpits that he almost developed facial paralysis.
Fearing Yu Chun might do something again, he immediately swore a solemn oath: "I swear I really didn't know! If I'm lying, may I be hit by a car and die the moment I step outside!"
Yu Chun looked at the man with glasses.
The bespectacled man choked back tears: "I swear I really don't know! If I'm lying, I'll eat shit while standing on my head!"
Yu Chun shook her head regretfully.
The fact that they could swear such a solemn oath suggests that the two of them were truly unaware of the truth.
He called Chu Xiao in front of the two of them to inform him of the interrogation results and to ask Chu Xiao for instructions on the next steps.
The two men pricked up their ears, their faces full of hope, hoping for leniency.
After receiving the call, Chu Xiao pondered for a moment and made a decision: "I also have a small mining company in Black Continent, and we are currently short-handed."
So the bespectacled man and the bald man, looking ashen-faced, were packed up and taken to Africa to mine.
...
Because of this little incident, Yu Chun arrived at the Jianbing Group at 1 p.m. with her lunchbox.
At this time, the employees of the pancake group had already finished their lunch and started their lunch break, so no one noticed Yu Chun's arrival.
Normally, if he doesn't achieve his goal after careful preparation, he will feel frustrated.
But now his mind is filled with more important things...
"Ding!" The chairman's private elevator arrived at the first floor. As soon as the door opened, Chu Xiao saw Yu Chun carrying a heavy sandalwood lunchbox, looking worried.
Yu Chun's eyes widened in surprise: "Why did you come down?"
Chu Xiao smiled and said, "I've come to pick you up."
She pulled Yu Chun into the elevator, and the two went up to the chairman's lounge.
Yu Chun took the food out of the thermos.
The quality of the insulated container is clearly worth its high price; the food is still steaming hot, and it tastes exactly the same as when it came out of the pot.
Chu Xiao spent the entire morning in meetings, handling work, and making arrangements for the Jian family's situation. His mental energy was greatly depleted, and he was starving.
She scooped out a large bowl of rice, picked up a piece of still sizzling braised pork, and ate it with relish.
Yu Chun, however, could not eat.
He picked up a piece of green vegetable, chewed it for half a minute, but didn't swallow it.
Chu Xiao immediately noticed Yu Chun's unusual behavior.
She frowned: "What's wrong? Toothache?"
Yu Chun shook her head.
"The vegetables don't taste good? Don't they suit your taste?"
Yu Chun shook her head.
Chu Xiao recalled the preoccupied look on Yu Chun's face when she picked him up, and suddenly realized: "Still thinking about the mastermind? Don't worry, I have some leads, and I've already sent people to investigate."
After a morning of rigorous analysis using logic, critical thinking, and various structural methods, Chu Xiao made the scientific deduction that Huo Chengrong was most likely the mastermind behind it all, and then made targeted arrangements.
Yu Chun felt reassured and her mood improved considerably; her appetite also returned.
He finally swallowed the piece of green vegetable...
...
Indeed, just as Chu Xiao had guessed, the mastermind behind it all was Huo Chengrong.
"Ouch... damn it!" He sneezed.
"Who's talking about me..." Huo Chengrong opened the refrigerator in annoyance.
The refrigerator was filled with Coca-Cola.
This was Huo Chengrong's particular hobby.
He only drinks cola.
Huo Chengrong opened the can, inserted the straw, and elegantly sipped his favorite Baishi Cola.
The taste in my mouth was familiar, sweet and slightly bitter, but I didn't feel the usual joy in my heart.
Strange, why is my heart suddenly racing and I feel even more depressed?
Could it be... that something went wrong with the operation?
Huo Chengrong had a bad feeling.
He logged into the anonymous platform with practiced ease and was surprised to find that the profile picture of the person accepting the order had turned gray.
Huo Chengrong switched back to the platform's user manual interface and found the descriptions of the various colored avatars.
"White indicates no orders accepted, black indicates mission in progress, red indicates mission completed, green indicates mission failed, and gray indicates capture or death, mission terminated..."
Huo Chengrong gasped, unable to believe it.
He was arrested less than 48 hours after placing the order?!
He promised to debut at sixteen!
He was supposed to be known in the martial arts world as "Shadowless Ghost Eye"!
They claimed to have never made a mistake in over ten years of experience, with a 100% positive feedback rate!
Could this positive review rate be faked?!
fraud!
To protect the rights of both parties in the transaction, the person issuing the task must pay the reward first. The reward is held by the platform, and the platform will directly transfer the money to the task recipient's account after the task is completed.
Upon seeing that the task had been terminated, Huo Chengrong immediately applied for a refund from the platform.
However, the platform rejected him: "According to Article 250 of the platform's user manual, the reward will not be refunded if the task is terminated."
"This is an outrageous clause! My 20 million! Damn it!" Huo Chengrong angrily took a big gulp of his Coca-Cola.
However, he was at a loss.
Calling the police is out of the question; the officers can't do anything to the platform, but they can arrest him first.
Complaining to the platform won't work either; if you anger the platform, you'll be the one who suffers.
But Huo Chengrong is, after all, a villain who dares to oppose the Jian family. Would he simply swallow his pride and suffer this loss?
That's definitely not going to happen.
So, after his emotional appeal, reasoning, and tearful (not really) efforts, the platform was moved by his perseverance and generously compensated him with a half-price reward coupon.
The half-price reward coupon, as the name suggests, means that the person who posted the task with a reward of 20 million only needs to pay 10 million of the reward, and the platform pays 10 million of the reward.
Huo Chengrong received the coupon, but saw that it was non-transferable and valid for three days.
He figured he might as well take advantage of it, so he immediately placed another order on the platform.
...
As a rich young master who can go to work whenever he wants and not go when he doesn't want to, Yu Chun is usually quite idle.
But this week, Yu Chun was unusually busy.
Because he catches new surveillance personnel almost every day.
Yu Chun's outstanding record was so impressive that even Chu Xiao's professional bodyguard team was ashamed of themselves.
On Monday, the "Shadowless Ghost Eye" master and his partner from the building across the street died after 48 hours.
On Tuesday, Mr. "Groundhog," who was trying to infiltrate the property management team, was spotted at a glance by Yu Chun, who happened to be passing by, during the onboarding training session. After 8 hours, he was defeated.
On Wednesday, the stalker disguised as a deliveryman was apprehended on the spot by Yu Chun based on her intuition that "the way he looked at Chu Xiao was strange." It took 5 hours, and he was killed.
On Thursday and Friday, Huo Chengrong, holding two 35% off reward coupons, generously dispatched two experts, one for remote surveillance and the other for close reconnaissance.
As a result, the person who was remotely monitoring the area had just set up the equipment in the next block when Yu Chun and his men, who had accurately located the area based on the "lens reflection angle," blocked them on the rooftop.
The one who was closest to him fared even worse. He had just sneaked into the building as a cleaner when he was "politely" invited to have tea by Yu Chun because "his wiping posture was too stiff, unlike that of a professional cleaner." It took him 3 hours and 2 hours respectively to finish the job.
By Monday of the second week, Huo Chengrong's seventh man was a legendary figure in the industry for speed—from entering the residential area to being grabbed by the collar by Yu Chun, the entire process took less than half an hour, setting a record for the fastest arrest in history.
Just as Chu Xiao was preparing to send people to Black Continent to mine as usual, Wang Dazhuang, the person in charge of the Black Continent Blood Diamond project, received the notification but looked troubled.
He asked hesitantly, "Boss, will you continue sending people over? How many more will you be accepting?"
Chu Xiao wasn't sure either: "There should be quite a few more."
Wang Dazhuang's vision went black.
That's a mine, not a garbage dump. What's the point of collecting all this junk? These guys are useless and cause a lot of trouble. If we keep sending them to this mine, we'll lose money!
So Wang Dazhuang tactfully offered his opinion: "Boss, the mine really can't accommodate any more people."
“Managing this group of people is too energy-consuming and risky, and it's already affecting mining. Do you think we should move to another location?”
Chu Xiao nodded: "I'll consider it. Thank you for your hard work these past few days."
After ending the call, Chu Xiao sighed sadly.
Through interrogation by Yu Chun and her bodyguard, it was learned that all the surveillance personnel had received orders from anonymous platforms.
In other words, as long as Huo Chengrong keeps posting task rewards, there will be a steady stream of people accepting the orders.
Although these people couldn't escape Yu Chun's protagonist aura, they were always caught shortly after each mission and had no ability to pose any threat to her or Yu Chun.
Chu Xiao didn't care how many people Huo Chengrong sent at first, since Yu Chun seemed to be having a lot of fun.
But now that Wang Dazhuang is unwilling to take on more people, how to properly handle these people has become a problem, and Chu Xiao is starting to worry.
But catching Huo Chengrong is not easy.
Huo Chengrong hid himself very well.
She used all the resources available to her, and even had Wang Xue use some shady connections to investigate. Every time she was about to catch them in the act, they would slip away like eels, clearly indicating that they had a mastermind behind them.
Or rather, a powerful force is providing him with protection and erasing his traces.
This made Chu Xiao hesitant to act rashly.
Chu Xiao also understood that ordinary people and powerful forces had no way to capture Huo Chengrong.
Unfortunately, Jian's father is still asleep, and the biggest backer of the Jian family has not yet taken the initiative to contact her, the "new head of the family."
Therefore, she didn't even know which way the door to "surrender" faced.
For an ordinary person, there would really be no way to deal with Huo Chengrong in this situation.
But Chu Xiao is no ordinary person; she is a transmigrator.
She lowered her head, stroking the blood-red diamond ring, and murmured to herself.
"It seems it's time to send Wang Erzhuang to take charge."
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