Where exactly is the transaction place?
Judging from Li Nanke's surveillance footage, Chu Yunxin came to the Taoist temple in Phoenix Mountain with a box containing Hongyu.
But Fengyunhui's undercover agent gave the location in Hecun.
Two very different locations.
Should you trust your own eyes or trust an informant you have never met?
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The oil lamp flickered and illuminated the bottomless corridor.
Under the leadership of the men in black from the underworld, Shi Yan and Zhang Beilong came to an empty underground secret room.
The secret room is very spacious, even more like a small sacrificial palace.
Indoor stone pillars stand tall, supporting huge vaults, and the deep walls are engraved with strange runes and patterns.
Several candlesticks were fixed on the damp stone walls, emitting a faint light.
The air was filled with that ancient rotten smell.
Shi Yan looked at this secret room full of strange atmosphere, his heart full of surprise.
Unexpectedly, there is such a place hidden in the abandoned Hecun.
Is this one of the secret hideouts in the underworld?
When he was confused, he saw a man standing in front of the wall covered with runes.
The man is wearing a purple robe and standing with his hands behind his back.
The mask hidden in the darkness concealed his true face.
His looming figure made him look like a shadow under the night, giving people a heart-warming feeling.
Next to the man were four members of the underworld, who were his subordinates.
"Mr. Shi."
The man in purple robe and mask said hello.
The man's voice was hoarse, as if coming from the bottom of an abandoned well, and like mist.
Shi Yan frowned and said: "Substitute someone to trade with me? Where is the one from last time?"
"She is unfit to be in charge of this transaction."
The purple-robed masked man said calmly, "She has been suspected by Li Nanke from the Night Patrol Department, so she is more suitable to be a bait to lead Li Nanke elsewhere."
"You are really cautious. Little Li Nanke is afraid of being like this."
Shi Yan sarcastically said.
Zhang Beilong, who was following Shi Yan, always lowered his head and said nothing.
The man in the purple robe mask said: "Li Nanke is not a terrible person. You know better than us. The Ji family's father and daughter ended up like that. To put it bluntly, they underestimated him."
"No further nonsense, where is the goods?"
Shi Yan said impatiently.
The purple-robed masked man glanced at the subordinate next to him, who nodded respectfully, took out a map from his arms and handed it to Shi Yan.
The map was very similar to what Li Nanke had secretly seen from Chu Yunxin before, with only markings on it.
The only difference is that this map has more points marked on it.
"There are seventeen hiding places in total, with a total of 15,400 bottles of Red Rain. Mr. Shi only needs to take people to pick them up according to the places marked on the map."
The purple-robed masked man said calmly, "As for whether you will be caught by the Night Patrol Department during the process, it depends on you, Mr. Shi. Of course, I believe in Mr. Shi's ability."
This is the ultimate transaction method in the underworld.
Hide the red rain in various places in advance, and just give them the map when you wait for the transaction.
In this way, neither party needs to bring the goods back and forth.
If the hiding place is accidentally discovered by the Night Patrol Department or others during the transaction, a new location will be given for compensation after a clear investigation.
But if it is discovered when the seller is transporting it himself, he will be in trouble.
"This map... seems to be a map of Dongqi County?"
Shi Yan's thick black eyebrows couldn't help but frown.
"That's right."
The man in purple robe nodded.
Shi Yan looked at it carefully again and asked: "Is the red rain this time real? Don't fool me like last time. You know, I have already staked all my family wealth to buy so much red rain." "
"Don't worry, Mr. Shi, there will be no mistakes this time."
"How to guarantee it?"
Shi Yan's eyes showed a bit of gloom, "I heard that this is the last big deal in your underworld. If you take the money and run away at this time, I will only suffer the loss of being dumb."
"Mr. Shi can ask your men to inspect the goods first."
"I tested it last time, but you still fooled me." Shi Yan sneered.
"What does Mr. Shi want to do?"
"It's very simple. I won't give you the money for now. I'll give it to you after I finish counting all the goods and confirm that they are correct."
Shi Yan gave his own plan.
Seeing the other party's silence, Shi Yan smiled and said, "Don't worry, our Fengyun Club is rooted in Yuncheng and can't escape."
"But I heard that Mr. Shi is planning to hand over his property to his subordinates. Are you planning to retire?" the purple-robed masked man asked in a cold tone.
The subtext of the man in purple robe is clear.
You are afraid of me running away, and I am equally afraid of you running away.
You ran away and left several bankrupt businesses to your men. How much money can we ask for by then?
"In short, this is my request. I will pay you after I personally inspect all the goods and there are no problems."
Shi Yan did not give in at all.
That is Fengyunhui's entire family fortune, so we must not be careless.
The man in purple robe and mask did not respond.
The secret room fell into a long and confrontational silence.
After a while, the man in purple robe said: "If Mr. Shi is afraid, then we can cancel this transaction."
"Oh, besides me, who else can you do business with in this Cloud City?"
Shi Yan asked with a smile.
The purple-robed man's eyes hidden under the mask were full of contempt, "Mr. Shi thinks too highly of himself. When we do business in the underworld, there is no shortage of buyers, and some people come to us on their own initiative."
"Papa..."
As soon as the man in purple robe finished speaking, a sound of clapping came from the deep corridor.
It was like a bolt of lightning coming from the clear sky, and it came unexpectedly.
"That's right. Is there a shortage of buyers in the underworld?"
From the dark shadows, an elegant and aristocratic smile appeared on the man's overly handsome face.
At this moment, the air in the secret room seemed to freeze.
The purple-robed man and his men looked at Li Nanke who suddenly appeared in amazement, full of shock.
For a moment, they all forgot their words and stood in a daze.
"Of course there is no shortage of buyers in the underworld."
Li Nanke patted the dust on his shoulders and said while looking around the secret room, "But the question is, do those people have money? Or... do they have the money to eat your goods?"
Li Nanke asked in a slow and teasing tone.
"you you……"
The man in purple robe said "you" twice in a row, but he couldn't utter the words that followed.
The members of the underworld around him reacted and took up weapons and stepped forward to deal with Li Nanke.
But as soon as his body moved, a dazzling sword light suddenly bloomed, like a ray of light breaking through the darkness, shrouding the four members of the underworld.
The four of them flew backwards and hit the stone wall heavily.
The man in purple robe was horrified and stared at the woman who appeared like a ghost behind Li Nanke.
The woman is dressed in white and has silver hair and a long sword.
His eyes were covered with a red gauze, aloof and independent.
If it’s not Ye Yaoyao, then who is it?
This was also a helper that Li Nanke had arranged in advance, and even Leng Xinnan and the others didn't know about it.
Li Nanke blinked at the woman, turned around and looked at the purple-robed masked man leisurely, and said slowly and logically:
“The reason why the underworld can carry out large-scale transactions across the country without being monolithic is that it relies on the decentralized method of storing goods and trading.
You first select partners with whom you can trade in each region.
Then, dozens or even hundreds of secret chambers were dug in hidden locations in each area to store the red rain.
In this way, we can continuously supply goods and avoid being overwhelmed.
In other words, it's 'chaininess'. And the advantage of this is that if an agent in a certain area is caught, the damage will not be great.
Especially the map where Hongyu is stored is always in the hands of the top people.
The map will only be given during transactions.
Even the regional agent does not know how much red rain is stored locally and where it is located.
So...am I right? "
Faced with Li Nanke's provocative questioning, the man in purple robe finally calmed down a bit and asked in a cold voice: "Why are you here? You should go catch Chu Yunxin!"
"Look, Chu Yunxin has turned into a discardable chess piece, and you even said her name."
Li Nanke shook his head and tutted.
Before the man in purple robe could speak, Li Nanke continued: "Let's go back to the topic just now and analyze why you must make a deal with Shi Yan.
Because this is your last big deal, you have to clear out all the inventory hidden in Yuncheng.
And the only one who has the ability to eat this batch of goods is Ji Tianhao!
It's a pity that the Ji family's father and daughter have been knocked down by me, and only Shi Yan is left.
Time waits for no one, and you can't find more buyers to deal with it slowly, so Shi Yan is the only choice.
This is why, even though Shi Yan is clearly being targeted by the Night Patrol Division, you are still taking risks to make a deal with him. Because you have no choice. "
"I ask you, why are you here!"
The man in the purple robe and mask asked again, his black eyes seeming to be burning with fire.
Li Nanke smiled and said: "Is this difficult? I have already doubted Chu Yunxin in public. How could your underworld still let her trade? No fool would do this.
Now Chu Yunxin's only value is to be a chess piece to deceive me. "
The man in the purple robe mask said coldly: "You can guess this, but how do you know this transaction location! I don't believe that there is your insider here!"
"Congratulations, you got it."
Li Nanke gave a thumbs up, "There really is an internal agent of our Night Patrol Department here. I found it through the marks he left."
What! ?
Men's orifices are shrunken.
Subconsciously, his sharp gaze shot towards Zhang Beilong behind Shi Yan.
Zhang Beilong had a blank expression.
"not him."
Li Nanke sighed, "Zhang Beilong is from your underworld, specially monitoring Shi Yan. You still doubt him? Sure enough, you members of the underworld are nervous all day long."
As he spoke, Li Nanke added: "This informant of the Night Patrol Division is also quite legendary. He slowly climbed from a lowly to the second in command of the gang. Then, he became the boss."
As soon as Li Nanke said these words, everyone's eyes were instantly locked on Shi Yan.
Everyone's eyes were filled with wonder.
Everything is so funny.
But Shi Yan's expression looked very calm.
He looked around, walked to a dilapidated stone bench and sat down, rubbed his thighs and sighed: "I'm old, I'm really old, I really can't do anything anymore."
These remarks undoubtedly confirmed Li Nanke’s words in disguise.
Shi Yan is the insider of the Night Patrol Department!
The man in purple robe and mask was dumbfounded.
Co-author Am I making a deal with the Night Watch Division?
Also dumbfounded was Zhang Beilong, whose eyes were wider than a bull's eye.
As a mole who was bribed by the underworld to monitor Shi Yan, he didn't know that his boss was actually from the Night Patrol Department!
Damn, have you been playing tricks on me?
"Eleven years ago, the Night Patrol Department investigated and found out that Ji Tianhao of the Xuanyuan Society had become one of the long-term trading partners of the 'Underworld'. So Niu Daru, without telling everyone, sent a chess piece and placed it inside."
Li Nanke took out a stone and said slowly,
"This pebble was given to me by Director Niu before he died. That day he avoided everyone and ran to the restaurant to meet his informant secretly.
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Before he died, he hinted to me the identity of his informant - Shi.
In addition, I once found someone to monitor Mr. Niu and learned that Mr. Niu had visited a ruined house.
And that ruined house was Shi Yan's yard back then.
In addition, I carefully combed through some stories involving Shi Yan in the newspaper library, and found that he could more or less get away every time he was involved.
Especially after Jifu fell, he was able to make a comeback.
Therefore, it is not difficult to deduce from these that the informant planted by Director Niu is Shi Yan! "
Shi Yan, who was resting on a stone bench, said with a smile: "You brat, I should have been born a few years earlier so that you could be a mole. Maybe I could have completed the mission a few years earlier."
"Don't, I'm so handsome, others will know I'm a mole at a glance."
Li Nanke waved modestly.
Shi Yan snorted coldly: "Just like Xiao Wu?"
"He is so handsome." Li Nanke mocked Wen Wu behind his back very rudely, "The boss doesn't even know about it, and he thinks he is hiding it very well all day long."
Shi Yan sighed softly, "But luckily I have that guy to cover for me."
"That's right."
Li Nanke suppressed his smile and said seriously, "You actually knew early on that Xiao Wu was an internal agent of the Night Patrol Department, and you also knew that Zhang Beilong had been bribed by the underworld to spy on you.
So, you use Xiao Wu to disguise yourself. Put all the attention of Zhang Beilong and the underworld on Xiao Wu.
But you can't act too stupid. So after the last transaction, you realized that it was time for Xiao Wu to quit, so you kicked him out of Fengyunhui.
It can be said that without Xiao Wu, the transaction would not have been so smooth. "
Shi Yan looked at Li Nanke with complicated eyes and said softly: "Lao Niu is right, you are the night patrol department's hope. I was betting last time on whether you could save Xiao Wu in time, otherwise I would have to Please handle it."
Listening to the conversation between Li Nanke and Shi Yan, the purple-robed masked man couldn't help but ask: "But you killed Niu Daru!"
"Chief Niu must die!"
Li Nanke answered this question for Shi Yan.
He exhaled slightly, glanced at Shi Yan's face, and said solemnly: "In the last transaction, although your main goal was to eliminate the insiders around Shi Yan, it was also testing Shi Yan himself.
After all, this transaction is the largest inventory clearance transaction, and there is no room for error.
Otherwise, you wouldn't secretly bribe Zhang Beilong and let him monitor Shi Yan. After all, they are not the father and daughter of the Ji family. If they cannot trust each other, it will be difficult to make up their minds.
Director Niu knew this, and so did Shi Yan.
So in order to allow you to trade without any scruples and have 100% trust in Shi Yan, Director Niu chose to sacrifice himself.
Only after he dies will you absolutely trust Shi Yan. If he dies, the Night Watch Division will be in chaos.
Only when he dies... will your underworld be truly trapped! "
Li Nanke's voice was very soft, but every word was heavy, like a knife piercing everyone's heart.
Use your life to change your career.
How can it not be admirable, how can it not be shocking.
The man in the purple robe and mask had a vague look in his eyes, and he couldn't hide his admiration and admiration. "I thought the Night Patrol Division had died a long time ago, but I didn't expect that there are still people willing to guard it. It's a pity..."
"What's a pity?" Li Nanke asked.
The man in purple robe did not answer, but looked at Li Nanke and asked, "Do you think if you catch me, you can dig out the underworld?"
"able!"
Li Nanke answered firmly.
He said: "After Yu Shengtian died, I questioned Chu Yunxin in public. In the eyes of others, I might be a fool, and this would alert others, but that's what I have to do!
Because what I want to arrest is not a small agent in a region, but the core member of the underworld!
Chu Yunxin was suspected, so with the style of the underworld, it was impossible for her to continue to be in charge of this transaction, or to randomly send someone to replace her.
Therefore, the underworld will definitely send a core member.
And the level of this core member is definitely higher than Chu Yunxin. "
Li Nanke smiled and said, "So, if you fall into my hands this time, it will be enough to shake up the underworld."
The man in purple robe and mask was silent.
In any case, Li Nanke is right.
He is of a higher level than Chu Yunxin and knows more secrets.
It seems that he fell into Li Nanke's trap.
Sure enough, I still underestimated this guy.
It's too late to be upset now.
"Li Nanke, you are so smart, I want to ask you a question."
After looking at Ye Yaoyao, perhaps knowing that there was no hope of his escape, the purple-robed man suddenly asked Li Nanke with great interest, "Why do you think our underworld is suddenly in a hurry to trade."
"Good question, I've been thinking about it too."
Li Nanke shook his finger, "Things are rare and valuable, and there are fewer and fewer red rains on the market. Logically speaking, your underworld should slow down the supply of goods to gain greater profits.
However, this time, you are clearly clearing out inventory, and instead of increasing prices, you even offer discounts.
Why is this so?
After thinking about it, I came up with a possibility..."
Li Nanke stared at the man with burning eyes and said word by word: "The red rain will soon be worthless. Maybe... a new red rain is about to come! And it will be an even bigger red rain!"
