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Chapter 111: Chapter 109 The Fish Has Taken the Bait (Please Subscribe)
In the factory area.
The light in the top-floor office was not bright, somewhat dim, casting a slightly gruesome shadow on Old Bao’s face.
He stared at the video on the tablet, took a harsh drag of his cigarette, and finally exhaled the smoke onto Mi’s face, “Can you find his information?”
“Yes!”
Mi nodded immediately, opened a file on the tablet, and said, “I’ve already ordered several technicians to look into his information. Here’s what they found.”
Old Bao looked at the information on the file.
[Pen name: Mr. Lin.]
[Works: “Thief,” “Swindler,” “This Assassin Is Too Professional,” “Hacker Kingdom,” “All-In.”]
In a short time, only the information related to Lin Chuan the writer was found.
Mi pointed to “All-In” and said, “This book is his participation in the anti-fraud essay event held over there. It’s said to be plagiarized from another book ‘The Years I Was Tricked into the Factory Area.’ You know the author, boss, Ming.”
Upon hearing the name ‘Ming,’ Old Bao immediately furrowed his brows, “Ming, is it the one who escaped?”
“Yes, that’s him.”
Mi nodded, “He’s now doing live streams online, and he wrote this book, which even has characters based on us. It’s quite popular among readers.”
Old Bao turned around, crushing the cigarette butt viciously in the ashtray, and said in a fierce tone, “He escaped, and then exposed all my secrets?”
“Yes, as of now, only his and Mr. Lin’s novels have thoroughly exposed some of our factory area’s secrets.” Mi responded.
The whole office was silent, and the night seemed even more sinister.
The wind blew, only to circle around and escape with panicked whimpers.
After a while.
Old Bao sat in his leather chair, one hand propping up his forehead, “The anti-fraud propaganda is increasing over there and it’s getting harder to deceive the foolish pigs.”
“Yes,” Mi responded with a single word.
“Ming and the other web novel writer…”
“Mr. Lin.”
Old Bao narrowed his eyes, “Yes, those two men, how do you think we should deal with them?”
Mi, feeling nervous looking at Old Bao’s demeanor, suggested, “Take them out?”
“Hmm.”
Old Bao’s face darkened as he replied with a hum.
Swallowing hard, Mi said, “I’ll immediately find someone to prepare for action.”
Snap!
Old Bao slapped Mi’s gaunt cheek, cursing, “Fool! If we take him out now, wouldn’t it be a clear sign to them that we did it?”
“Please instruct me, boss,” Mi said, wincing in pain but immediately speaking with respect.
“Wait until Mr. Lin’s heat has died down, then we can take him out!” Old Bao’s face looked very grim.
“Yes, boss.” Mi responded.
Old Bao continued, “Before that, deal with the books they have written first. Our secrets are nearly fully exposed; it will be difficult to deceive those fools in the future!”
The factory area’s business mainly involved carrying out fraud through the internet.
The form of anti-fraud essay promotion would cause more people to deepen their understanding of internet fraud.
“How should we deal with it?” Mi asked.
“You collate some evidence of Ming’s crimes and forge some criminal evidence for Mr. Lin, then report it to the Cyberspace Administration over there. Buy some troll accounts too; they will naturally run into trouble,” Old Bao said with a cold laugh.
Realizing what Old Bao meant, Mi immediately praised, “Boss, that’s brilliant, truly brilliant!”
“Also, continue to investigate that Mr. Lin. Before we take him out, let’s collect some interest, see if there’s any suitable fish around him,” Old Bao instructed further.
“Yes, boss.”
Mi immediately left the office to carry out the orders.
It wasn’t long before.
Mi hurried back hectically, his face beaming with joy, “Boss, one of our guys has hooked a fish, and it’s just related to that web novel writer. The fish has taken the bait.”
…
The night quietly faded away.
At dawn, the golden sunrays pierced through the clouds, showering the land of Yundian Lincang with a tranquil and natural light.
Lincang was indeed a city worth visiting.
In the early morning, Lin Chuan walked on the slightly moistened bluestone pavement, gazing at the distant Dali mountains enveloped in mist, where a temple stood among the mountains, its bells echoing through the empty valleys.
By his side were the two beautiful sisters, walking under the warm sun, looking particularly bright and vivid.
The breeze was gentle, the atmosphere peaceful and lovely.
Perhaps, this is the meaning of travel.
But beautiful moments always pass unknowingly and quickly; in the blink of an eye, it’s time to return.
On the afternoon of May 5.
The trio from Lincang arrived at Dali Airport. The passenger plane soared across the clear blue sky, flying from Yundian Dali back to Han River Anling.
Their seats were the same as on the way there.
Shen Qianqian and Xia Qingqing sat on either side, with Lin Chuan in the middle.
The flight back was quite long.
After two days of tourism, Shen Qianqian and Xia Qingqing seemed a bit tired. Considering they had work the next day, they unintentionally leaned on Lin Chuan’s shoulders and fell asleep.
Lin Chuan, unable to move, and without other forms of entertainment, summoned the system panel he hadn’t called up for a long time.
[Work: “All-In.”]
[Current Status: Ongoing.]
[Popularity Value (Average Subscription): 0/10000.]
[Notice: No paid chapters have been released yet, therefore Popularity Value (Average Subscription) is 0. “All-In” has a total word count of 800k, with an estimated 600k words for paid chapters, which means around 280 chapters required for a total subscription of 280w to meet the Popularity Value (Average Subscription) requirement, and to start the next professional life experience.]
[Current Collection Count: 155278.]
“Ten thousand average subscriptions; there is a long way to go,” Lin Chuan muttered to himself.
Indeed, the system did not calculate average subscriptions based on the already released paid chapters but based on the total number of paid chapters in the entire book. For instance, in the current situation of “All-In,” it required a total subscription of 280w to meet the standard.
Luckily,
After a few days of fermenting, the ‘arresting the fraud ring’ incident brought a deluge of traffic to Lin Chuan’s “All-In,” skyrocketing the collection by 15w+.