Chapter 481: Chapter 481

Although they’ve never done anything so thrilling, they’ve seen enough true or false information online to decide together to slink away first and then contact the anti-crime task force, Zhao Kai Xuan and his brother made their escape!

Otherwise, they’d be used as pawns by someone, clueless about it, and if they didn’t flee, they might be sold out by that old fox Guan Zhigang!

The bar owners being extorted indeed were looking for people, but despite having their own ways, they couldn’t openly manipulate everything. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩~𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖~𝙣𝙚𝙩

Furthermore, the brothers were fully masked, wearing caps and called a ride-hailing car using a friend’s phone number, managing to leave town safely before any tracking attempts through various means.

Using tried and tested methods to hide and evade, grabbing the blackmail cash from Chen Likai along the way, Guan Zhigang returned to the rental apartment only to find it was vacated, left dumbfounded!

"Damn it, that’s my money!" He raged, pounding the walls. If it weren’t for his lack of funds preventing him from buying a laptop, and worrying about the instability of recording storage, he wouldn’t have risked storing the video on Zhao Kai Xuan’s computer.

According to Guan Zhigang’s plan, the extorted funds were split into two batches: one batch for swindling and tipping on the network platform;

The other batch for cash extortion by old methods, to grab cash and fly away right after, heading to a city that Chen Likai couldn’t reach, to continue extorting and wait for cash withdrawal to split the money.

Once they were of no use, he could kick those two kids to the curb, taking the hefty sum to hide and live carefree elsewhere.

Everything was going smoothly, just a step away from getting cash to buy the computer and retrieve the Money Tree, and leave with them, only to find that both the people and the computer vanished along with nearly a million on the network platform!

"It’s likely they’ll be caught, no way! Perhaps I’ve already been exposed here!" After a few minutes of daze, Guan Zhigang washed his face and quickly decided——to run first, since he had 100,000 cash extorted, enough to live for a while.

The video on the spy device’s storage card needed urgent duplication, with those two inexperienced youngsters as scapegoats, it could diffuse attention, letting himself fish in troubled waters...

"I’ve become a trending influencer, not only has Blue Diamond Bar not collapsed, but business is booming, how do we wrap this up?" Jiang Yuan didn’t dare to arrange fishing with Air Force One and Two these days, the sudden rise to fame impacting his daily life.

Even his parents back home were besieged by onlookers, scaring him into asking Chuci to help move them over for safety. Luckily, the privacy in the metropolitan luxury district is good, keeping a low profile would cut out ninety-five percent of the trouble.

The remaining 5% came from acquaintances wanting autographed photos, borrowing money, inviting for remote-line live-stream hype—deleting one after another until peace was restored.

Chuci lounged on the sofa playing games, hearing his concern, laughed: "Just wait a bit, after all, there are too many entanglements and strong backings, your Causality Weapon charges a high fee but has a casting prelude. Brother, if you don’t want to sing, take a break, don’t push yourself, huh."

"Singing is no big deal, it’s just the attention that I’m not used to." Jiang Yuan lifted the white drape to look down, someone had leaked his residence, attracting legions of self-media anchors waiting outside the community, leading to him and his family bunkering in Chuci’s villa for two days to dodge them.

The wait achieved nothing, they eventually dispersed, but he dared not to go fishing.

"It’s not a big deal actually, let alone influencers, even those stars who suddenly go viral then quickly disappear are myriad, once this storm passes it’ll calm down, online there are plenty chasing fame, wanting to become influencers. They can quickly take away the heat."

"Indeed, I’ll make more medicinal incense for now, since the frenzy won’t die down overnight."

"This batch of Night Jasmine is exclusively for my cousin, funding another decent income; plus the performing fees from Blue Diamond Bar, all requiring official invoices for tax payments. You’re now too popular, easily targeted by ill-willed people..."

While they were chatting idly, Jiang Yuan skillfully made the incense, when suddenly his phone buzzed.

"Mr. Jiang, we’re truly sorry but tonight’s reserved performance may need to be canceled, our Mr. Chen has some urgent matters, the bar will cease operations for a few days..." The call was from Chen Likai’s assistant, who spoke hesitantly.

Chuci’s eyes suddenly sparked with a sense of unease, prompting, "What happened? Anything I can help with?"

"We’re unclear about what’s going on, today noon Mr. Chen along with several bar owners were called for a talk, none have returned yet, and the bar was notified to halt operations. Mr. Chu, you’re well-connected, would you mind looking into it?"

"So they were summoned for questioning?" Chuci’s voice rose by two notes, looking delightedly at Jiang Yuan, promising verbally, "Alright, I’ll give it a try."

After hanging up, he sprang from the sofa excitedly, "Brother, is the spell’s prelude done, has the Causality Weapon descended?"

Jiang Yuan shook his head dumbfounded, showing uncertainty.

The rate page showed no changes, unsure whether they simply failed to collapse causing only minor adverse effects, signifying a temporary lull before a rebound; or they did collapse but without contracts signed, meaning no increase in rate points.

Another two days later, Jiang Yuan and Blue Diamond Bar, originally dropping off the trending list, surged back into the spotlight again.

This time it was about several bars allegedly engaging in illegal trade, busted wholly. As the viral house singer, Jiang Yuan’s role in media reports suggested——after driving traffic, media rushed into Bar Street, leading to exposure of the criminal industry chain.

In other words, Blue Diamond Bar succeeded and failed because of the traffic, the high profile of it triggered chain reactions smacking its foot.

"Altogether five bars were raided and collapsed, why did the rate points jump so much?" Upon hearing the news, Jiang Yuan quickly checked the panel rate, it originally became 1:21 after Thunder Tiger Internet Café’s collapse, now the rate directly became 1:40!

His doubts were soon clarified——three days later, a brief news bulletin reported, the Blue Diamond Bar incident led to a thorough probe, snagging an umbrella group, thus many corrupt officials toppled, implicating several shadow companies with mafia ties...

"Brother, your power is immense!" Chuci gaped at him and raised a thumb, "Sweeping the house clean, even the small fry couldn’t get away! I heard Chen Likai and the others got arrested, yet still unwilling, claiming they’ve been extorted, trying to drag the accuser down.

But their crimes were enormous, several key figures within solved major cases, promoted and paid, wishing to reward anonymous whistleblowers, anyway they were caught off guard providing no evidence, the extortion matter fizzled out.

Problem is...based on past experiences, even if exposed, someone like Chen Likai would be scapegoated, but to uproot this smoothly, I think primarily it’s your contribution!"

"Problem is, I didn’t do anything at all!" Jiang Yuan opened his mouth unable to refute.

The Thunder Tiger Internet Café owner wasn’t misled or incited by me;

Nor did I arrange or prompt anyone to spy and report Chen Likai’s bars, just gaming and singing, they got entangled by someone, how could this credit be attributed to me?