The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 469 - 473: Rebirth in the Apocalypse (10)

Chapter 469: Chapter 473: Rebirth in the Apocalypse (10)

Su Fugui paced restlessly in his office, glancing occasionally at the person sitting comfortably on the sofa.

He walked back and forth several times before finally fixing his gaze on his obedient daughter.

"Little girl, it’s been several days now, and there’s still no news from your uncle; my heart has been thumping nonstop..."

Su Li: "Hahaha...."

"Daddy, if your heart weren’t going thump, thump, thump, thump, then you’d be dead."

Su Fugui was startled and then burst out laughing, "Hahaha...."

The somber atmosphere in the room lifted instantly because of Su Fugui.

Su Li, with her long, fair legs propped up, flipped through a magazine with seeming disinterest, not bothering to look up.

"Don’t worry, the whole situation is too bizarre, they need time to verify and confirm."

"Besides, we’ve laid out some suspicions right in front of them; in no more than three days, people from your uncle’s side will contact you."

Su Fugui thought it made sense—when he first heard from his daughter about the stroke of luck that Qi ersheng stumbled upon, he also did not believe it.

If it had been anyone else instead of his precious daughter, he would have thrown them out.

Did they take him for a three-year-old, to be played with like that?

But since it was his daughter who spoke, as the ultimate ’daughter-con’, even though he didn’t believe it in his heart, he still had to offer his support in practice.

His daughter’s words were the absolute truth.

If his daughter’s words were wrong, please refer to the first rule.

He wouldn’t have found anything amiss had he not investigated, but his inquiry indeed uncovered many suspicions about Qi ersheng.

For instance, not long ago, Qi ersheng took a large amount of gold from a safe.

And then there’s the fact that he accessed sizable funds from his personal account.

He also secretly collected high-quality jade, going so far as to secretly get in touch with a manager from the Su Family Company purchasing department.

These pieces of information didn’t seem to be particularly shocking when viewed separately.

But when pieced together, they inevitably prompted further speculation.

The deeper the investigation went, the more suspicions surfaced.

It stands to reason that using so many resources must serve a purpose.

No matter how much Su Fugui’s men investigated, they couldn’t trace where the gold and funds had gone; it was as if they had vanished into thin air.

Qi ersheng would never have guessed that, having been reborn and obtained a peculiar Trading System, his shaken state of mind led to lax actions, which gave others a chance to sense something unusual about him.

Far outside of the Capital City, a special team was also investigating Qi ersheng.

Every little detail of Qi ersheng’s life, no matter how minor, appeared on an encrypted dossier.

Even things Qi ersheng himself might not clearly remember, like how many times he wet the bed as a child, were thoroughly investigated.

The power of an individual is trivial in the face of a nation’s Great Power.

What Su Fugui was unable to uncover was not only documented in the encrypted dossier but also accompanied by professional analysis.

The gold, the assets’ destination, appeared to be personally taken by Qi ersheng to a secret base on one particular day, then disappeared without a trace.

No one else was involved, and the items weren’t moved elsewhere; they simply vanished as if evaporated out of existence.

The environment of that secret base had been dug up, leaving absolutely no hiding places.

This special force, adept at dealing with dark, clandestine affairs and professionally trained, never showed any surprise, no matter how bizarre the situation.

They meticulously and flawlessly executed the tasks handed down from above.

In a short span of time, plenty of people had been surreptitiously placed around Qi ersheng without his knowledge.

At this very moment, Qi ersheng was probably unaware that someone had infiltrated his lair.

What was he currently up to?

He decided to give Miss Su of the Su Family a good cold shoulder.

Right, although Su Li had acted quite heartlessly a few days ago, as a man who had encountered fortune and had the Golden Finger to back himself, Qi ersheng deeply believed that Su Li was merely throwing a little tantrum at him.

He had been sulking these past few days, sticking close to An Ran.

The more time he spent with An Ran, the more he realized that she was not presentable in high society.

Enjoying love talk with her was one thing, but when it came to real assistance in career and family matters, only a woman of equal family standing like Su Li could truly match him.

Despite several project setbacks, Qi ersheng hadn’t been idle.

He had accessed funds and relationships that failed to influence the Su Family purchasing manager, but now he had replied to him.

He simply didn’t believe that in the face of interest, anyone could remain unshakably loyal.

Once he got to the bottom of the Su Family Jade procurement sources, he would see what the Old Fox of Su Family could still be smug about in front of him.

In his previous life, the Old Fox of Su Family had always been wary of him; even after he married Su Li, his father-in-law still had a backup plan until the apocalypse happened, and he still hadn’t figured out the source of the Su Family Jade.

He didn’t care about those things in his previous life, but this life was different.

Thinking of the Trading System and the item inside it that even a Saint would drool over, Qi ersheng’s heart rippled with excitement.

Qi ersheng had never considered handing over the existence of the system, and even the news of the approaching apocalypse was buried in the deepest recesses of his heart, something he wouldn’t reveal even in his dreams.

If he did disclose it, perhaps he could save many people, but then his dream of becoming an overlord would shatter.

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"The supplier of the Su Family’s goods once received a favor from the Su Family Master, and when trading, the person involved must have a specially made Jade Pendant from the Su Family to be given the priority to select jade at the lowest price, three times less than the usual."

"The fifteenth of every month is the designated trading day agreed upon by both parties, and it’ll soon be the fifteenth; you give me the money now, and tomorrow I will give you that Jade Pendant."

"Don’t worry, they only recognize the Jade Pendant, not the person."

Within a discreet private room, silhouettes of conversation could be faintly heard.

After a while, the voices inside quieted, and a man shrouded in a black trench coat quickly left with a suitcase in hand.

The oddly acting man exited the room and, after a series of turns, headed to a corner in the back alley where an inconspicuous van was waiting for him.

Meanwhile, the secretive private room was reopened after some time, and a tall figure emerged—it was Qi ersheng himself.

Despite his best efforts to hide his emotions, his face betrayed a hint of excitement.

Although it cost him a hefty sum of money, if it could prompt betrayal from someone in the Su Family purchasing department, it was worth the pain.

Of course, he chose to ignore the dull pain in his heart at that moment.

Someone who could trade on behalf of the Su Family with that Jade Pendant could be considered Su Fugui’s right hand, the most trusted confidant.

To be able to sway him with money, even if it hurt, was worth it.