Chapter 72 – Are the Scammers in District ② Really This Brazen?

Lin Xi didn’t laze around in bed the way she did at home.

In front of Shi Yu, she didn’t have to care about her image at all.

But in front of Angel-sama, Lin Xi always did her utmost to show her best side.

While eating breakfast, Lin Xi browsed her phone.

“Xinning, the aquarium we’re going to later actually has a great white shark!”

They had originally planned to visit the aquarium yesterday afternoon, but their plans had changed at the last minute, and they’d gone to the livehouse instead.

So they had rescheduled their booked aquarium tickets for this morning.

“Xi, I’m sorry, but something came up. I have to go back to District 3.” Zhao Xinning really did have something to take care of back in District 3.

She had already found several houses with basements on a rental app.

She needed to go back and inspect them in person.

Zhao Xinning had no heart for fun anymore. She was steadily pushing her plan forward.

After she eliminated Shi Yu and purified Lin Xi, then she could go wild and travel around with Lin Xi to her heart’s content.

By then, she and Lin Xi wouldn’t be going out as mere friends anymore…

“Is it really important? Do you need my help?” Lin Xi asked.

“Very important,” Zhao Xinning said. “I don’t need your help right now. In the future… in the future, I’ll definitely need you.”

“Hm? What important thing is it?”

“You’ll know when the time comes.”

“All right.” Lin Xi put down her phone. “If you’re going back, there’s no point in me staying here by myself. Let’s go back together.”

“No.” Zhao Xinning wanted to stagger her return time with Lin Xi’s. “Xi, did you forget? After rescheduling the aquarium tickets once, they can’t be refunded.”

“If I can’t go, then one ticket is already wasted. If you don’t go either, then the money will have been completely spent for nothing.”

It really wouldn’t be right to let the money go to waste. Lin Xi said, “All right. I’ll be sure to take lots of photos so you can see the great white shark too.”

“Haha, thanks, Xi.”

After breakfast, Zhao Xinning and Lin Xi split up, one heading straight for the station, the other hurrying to the aquarium.

“Xi, make sure you have fun.”

“Mm. Xinning, if you need my help with whatever you’re going back to do, just say the word.”

“I will. I’ll definitely ask you for help. See you later.”

“See you later.”

…

Lin Xi went to the aquarium alone.

“I have to take lots of photos and send them to Xinning.”

Holding her phone, Lin Xi toured the aquarium and snapped pictures along the way.

Little did she know, she had been targeted by a man in sunglasses.

“Brother Dao,” Sunglasses Man said to the man beside him, who wore a baseball cap and had a scar on the right side of his face. “The boss ordered me to find the bastard who burned down our shop last night and killed Yellow Hair and Old Deng. I worked on it all night, and I finally have a lead.”

“Her?” Brother Dao pointed at Lin Xi in the distance, who was holding up her phone and taking shot after shot of the great white shark. He asked Sunglasses Man, “She did it???”

“No,” Sunglasses Man said. “Her companion did.”

Sunglasses Man briefly explained the situation to Brother Dao.

“After the incident last night, I took the brothers and searched all over.”

“At long last, hard work paid off.”

“First, I found a ‘guide’ named Dazhuang. From that kid’s mouth, I learned he had a client last night, a girl. Before Dazhuang took that girl into the black market, he recommended our shop to her.”

“I checked the time that girl went to our shop against the time the shop was burned and the people were killed. Basically, it’s safe to say that the one who committed the murder and arson was that girl.”

After confirming their target, Sunglasses Man took the brothers of the Shock Shark Gang and searched for traces of her.

“Unfortunately, we were one step too late,” Sunglasses Man said. “By the time our people got to the hotel, Zhao Xinning had already left.”

“Zhao Xinning???”

“Yes. We checked the hotel. The one who killed our people and set the fire was Zhao Xinning,” Sunglasses Man said. “The one who came to the aquarium is Lin Xi. The two of them are partners.”

“Then why the hell did you bring me here to look for her?” Brother Dao cursed. “Just go after Zhao Xinning directly.”

Brother Dao was one of the Shock Shark Gang’s top fighters. After Sunglasses Man reported his findings to their boss, the boss had immediately assigned Brother Dao to help Sunglasses Man capture the target.

Sunglasses Man explained, “We can’t catch her. Zhao Xinning left District 2 by car. But it’s fine. If we capture Lin Xi, that’ll work just as well.”

“When the time comes, one phone call, and we’ll threaten Zhao Xinning into coming back obediently.”

“Fine,” Brother Dao said, then asked, “Boss suspects the two of them are from the White Fox Society?”

“Yes. Lately, the only organization we’ve had business conflicts with is the White Fox Society,” Sunglasses Man said. “I didn’t expect the White Fox Society to play this dirty and come straight for murder and arson.”

“Boss said that once we catch them and secure both witness testimony and physical evidence, then we can go to war with the White Fox Society. That way, it won’t count as violating the rules set by the Black Market Order Bureau.”

After understanding the full story, Brother Dao straightened his baseball cap. “All right. We’ll tie up this Lin Xi first and take her back.”

“Then we’ll chop off her hand, film it, and send it to Zhao Xinning.”

“I don’t believe Zhao Xinning would ignore whether her partner lives or dies.”

Sunglasses Man gave him a thumbs-up. “Brother Dao really does have ideas.”

“We can’t abduct someone directly inside the aquarium,” Brother Dao instructed. “Go outside and drive the car to the aquarium entrance. I’ll trick this person into getting in.”

“Understood.”

…

“Little miss, do you like sharks that much?”

Lin Xi was enthusiastically taking photos when a man in a baseball cap suddenly came over and struck up a conversation with her.

“Oh, let me introduce myself first,” Brother Dao said courteously. “I’m a member of the nonprofit organization Shark Conservation Association-“

“Sorry, I’m not interested in nonprofit organizations.” Lin Xi suspected this guy was a scammer, and she had no desire to waste time with a scammer.

“Heh, little miss, you don’t believe me?” Before joining the Shock Shark Gang, Brother Dao had worked in telecom fraud, and he was fairly confident in his ability to scam people.

A mere girl-wouldn’t he have her tricked into the car in minutes?

“A member of the Shark Conservation Association, right?” Lin Xi pointed at the great white shark and asked, “What kind of shark is that?”

Brother Dao immediately replied, “A great white, obviously.”

Lin Xi asked again, “Then tell me: what waters do great white sharks live in, what are their habits, what do they like eating the most, and do they get sick?”

Brother Dao: “…”

Lin Xi smiled faintly. “A member of the Shark Conservation Association wouldn’t be unclear about even that, would he?”

Brother Dao’s composure cracked. The dagger was revealed once the map was unrolled.

He stepped closer to Lin Xi and pressed a gun against her back.

“As expected of someone from the White Fox Society. Your counter-surveillance skills aren’t bad.”

“Since you’ve discovered me, you should also know who I am and why I came looking for you.”

“I advise you not to make a scene. Just obediently come outside with me.”

“Move!”

Lin Xi: “???”

“Wait, what? Bro, isn’t this a bit much? I only exposed your scam, and now you’re just going to grab me by force?”

“Are the scammers in District 2 really this brazen?”

“Cut the crap. Stop playing innocent with me,” Brother Dao said coldly. “Your accomplice Zhao Xinning killed our people and burned our shops. You can only blame your bad luck. If you want to blame someone, blame her.”

The moment he mentioned Zhao Xinning, Lin Xi grew serious.