Chapter 19: Into Long Aotian’s World, Day 19

Chapter 19: The Nineteenth Day of Transmigrating into Long Aotian

Meanwhile, Shao Xiuya mobilized the powerful technical team and public opinion monitoring system of Yuanchen Group to trace the source precisely, locking onto several overseas botnet command nodes and fund flows. The evidence chain directly pointed to an offshore shell company controlled by Du Guyuan—"Rainbow Shell Investment Co., Ltd."

When the name of this shell company was disclosed, although no one knew it was his, it was enough to make Du Guyuan's heart race with fear.

Du Guyuan gritted his teeth: "So it's you, An Yi!"

"You really did team up with Shao Xiuya!"

"Just you wait, all of you!"

Seeing that the public opinion situation was well under control, Du Guyuan let out a venomous smile: "You asked for this!"

Two days later, at a large commercial complex construction site under the An Group, several "accidents" occurred in succession:

Core materials were swapped with fakes, almost poured into the support columns!

Fortunately, the An family's own quality inspection process was extremely strict and caught it at the last check.

The core power supply system at the site nearly caught fire from a "mysterious" short circuit in the middle of the night. They later caught a homeless guy trying to douse the power system.

The crew and site manager quickly secured the scene and reported it to the police.

They never saw this coming!

Normally, they didn't do patrols, but a few days prior, they had received orders from above to ramp up safety drills and night patrols.

The crew, already dead tired, were griping like crazy—until the pay raise news shut them up.

Good thing they beefed up patrols.

Otherwise, if a fire had really started, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

They'd have been screwed!

Just as they thought everything had settled, some "new hires" suddenly kicked up a fuss at the construction site. They pulled out banners at the entrance, crying about how "An Corp is heartless! Exploiting wages!" and "unsafe working conditions."

It was a big enough show to turn heads.

Crew guy: "WTF?"

Site manager: "WTF?"

Out of nowhere!

Why the hell are people stirring shit again!

Piss off!

What the hell are you yapping about?

Luckily, the higher-ups didn't hold it against them.

An Yi took personal command at the project site. On one hand, he worked with labor officials to dig into it, tracked down the low-level gang leader behind the stir. He followed the leads and got a confession fast, and the police soon discovered that this person was the guy who ordered the earlier arson—a street punk called "Scarface Qiang"!

An Yi remembered him from the novel; he often did dirty work for Du Guyuan, like Du's attack dog.

Now that he's locked up, it's like lopping off one of Du's arms.

When the news reached Du Guyuan, he was so furious he almost exploded! He smashed the last thing in the room that could break.

"Worthless! Moron!!" He roared at his confidant, "Is he gonna snitch on me?! Is he?!"

His right-hand man stammered: "Young... young master... probably not, sir. Scarface Qiang's mother and younger sister are still under our 'protection.' If he dares to open his mouth..."

A cruel glint flashed in Du's eyes. Scarface Qiang's family was under his control...

He wouldn't dare cross him.

As long as that lackey takes the fall like a good boy, he'd look after his family. After he dealt with An Yi and Shao Xiuya, he'd definitely spring him!

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Comments section:

"..."

"Can I just say it? Du Guyuan is such a loser!"

"Is Du Guyuan even the MC? Is the author punking us?"

"The author's a flatworm, can't lie."

"Has the MC actually pulled off anything since the story began?"

"Isn't he always getting owned?"

"When reading a Dragon King novel, you expect face-slapping!"

"There is face-slapping, yeah—it's just all the slaps are landing on Du's face!"

"I'm convinced. So this is the face-slapping? The author has a twisted understanding!"

"Why is the author letting a gay guy beat the male lead? Is the author trying to test us to see if we want to go gay too?"

"Test you for what? So you can go gay with him?"

"Yue~"

"..."

An Yi twitched the corner of his mouth. The comments were still so "precious." Without them, who'd crack him up?

Seeing that the first two waves of attacks had little effect and had instead exposed himself, Du Guyuan became even more frantic.

He went all in, attempting to use offshore capital to launch a precise, large-scale malicious short-selling attack on the An family's core business.

At the same time, he deployed a person—a mid-level employee within the An family who held core commercial secrets, attempting to steal the core "Smart City" plan for the cooperation between the An family and Yuanchen!

This person was someone he had bribed after being humiliated by An Yi earlier.

Now was the perfect time to use him!

An Yi, you didn't expect this!

Just wait to die!

Unfortunately, this intelligence was promptly relayed by an informant planted within Du Guyuan's camp by Chang Tongxin!

Chang Tongxin sent the information to An Yi without delay. The situation was extremely critical! A malicious short-selling attack combined with a leak of secrets would be enough to severely damage the An family!

Fortunately, An Yi was already prepared, devising countermeasures with his core team in the office, and the atmosphere wasn't too heavy.

Upon learning the news, Shao Xiuya immediately interrupted an important meeting in another province and rushed over on a private jet.

Travel-worn, he went straight into An Yi's office.

Although it wasn't very serious, there was too much to handle, and An Yi was a bit tired.

He had just hung up on Huang Chan, who had been shouting and yelling, threatening to take his brothers to "rough up" Du Guyuan.

An Yi didn't let him get involved.

At that moment, Shao Xiuya walked in; seeing An Yi's bloodshot eyes and the lingering fatigue on his brow, Shao Xiuya's heart clenched.

He walked around the desk and stood before An Yi.

"I know what's going on," Shao Xiuya's voice was low and steady, with a reassuring strength. "As for the overseas capital, Yuanchen Group's network in Europe can be used to contain them. As for the mole, Li Xuan is already cooperating with my people to close the net; we have the person secured. As for the core plan..."

An Yi sat in the chair watching him, as Shao Xiuya squatted in front of him, looking up at him.

An Yi couldn't help stroking his hair: "Don't worry, my parents are still abroad, and they know about this; they are suppressing Du Guyuan's power. He can't make any waves."

He paused, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes. "I suggest we immediately launch 'Plan B'."

"'Plan B'?" Shao Xiuya was taken aback; it was a more aggressive and riskier backup plan they had discussed in private.

"Exactly! Take what Du Guyuan wants most and proactively feed him a carefully modified 'core plan' that will lead to his complete ruin!"

An Yi's gaze was firm: "That idiot will totally fall for it."

Shao Xiuya stared at An Yi intently, his heart pounding in his chest: "Alright, I'll take the risk!"