One second ago, the private room was bustling with activity.
Everyone was discussing plans to team up tomorrow for some bank promotion hunting.
But in the next moment, an unusual silence fell over the room, and no one mentioned the bank promotion anymore.
Because this wasn't just about hunting for promotions - if they had gone through with it, they would have been the ones getting fleeced. That bank on Huaihai Road... it was fake!
Sure, depositing 100,000 yuan would get you a phone, but that money would go straight into someone else's pocket. It was like paying 100,000 yuan for a phone worth only 4,000-5,000, and people were still excited about it.
Checking the time, Li Yunfei spoke up.
"We've got just over half an hour until shift change. Let's handle this case ourselves instead of troubling the day shift."
"Agreed!" The officer who had been scammed alongside Li Yunfei was the first to nod.
Looking at the handcuffed man, he had only one thought: "Damn you! Give me my money back!"
He was more than happy to personally bring justice to the guy who had scammed him out of his hard-earned money.
Li Yunfei glanced at Xu Mo and Chen Ke: "Want to join? This case is straightforward - we've already caught the mastermind, and the follow-up shouldn't be complicated."
Li Yunfei asked this mainly because Chen Ke had been hinting several times today that he could help with cases. Chen Ke was just too bored! He'd rather investigate cases with local police than lie in a hospital bed all day smelling disinfectant.
So predictably, Chen Ke immediately nodded when Li Yunfei extended the invitation: "Sure!"
Xu Mo nodded as well: "I'm in."
He was genuinely curious about what this fake bank on Huaihai Road looked like, considering it had fooled even police officers.
And not just one officer, but two!
Could that bank really be that convincing?
"Let's go then. I'll settle the bill, you guys wait for me in the parking lot. Keep an eye on him, don't let him escape," Li Yunfei said, handing the handcuffed Brother Hai to his colleague.
After paying the bill, everyone regrouped in the parking lot.
Just like before, Xu Mo and Chen Ke got into Li Yunfei's car.
The other officers took two different cars, taking the two arrested men with them.
Halfway there, they stopped at the police station to drop off the thinner suspect. They briefly explained the situation to the officer on duty, asking them to give the man a verbal warning, before continuing to Huaihai Road with the mastermind, Brother Hai.
On Huaihai Road.
Inside a half-closed ICBC branch, employees were still busy counting and bundling money.
Three cars pulled up in succession outside the fake bank, and the group escorted their suspect out.
After getting out, Xu Mo examined the fake bank's facade. He had to admit, the forgery was incredibly convincing! At least from the outside, it looked identical to a real ICBC branch - no wonder people fell for the scam.
Chen Ke also looked up at the bank: "This really looks legitimate, exactly like the real thing. No wonder you two got fooled."
Li Yunfei: ...
Well said, please don't mention it again.
It was just past closing time, and the bank's security grille was only halfway down. Though they weren't handling any more business, they could still enter.
Li Yunfei led the way, ducking under the half-lowered grille to enter the bank.
"If you want to make a deposit, please come back tomorrow. We're closed for today," an employee immediately called out when they saw people entering.
However, the group at the door ignored his words and kept coming in one after another, their eyes scanning the premises as they curiously examined everything inside the bank.
Seeing so many people, the bank employee became nervous, wondering if this was going to be a robbery.
"What are you doing? Get out! I'll call the police if you try anything!"
The next moment, everyone pulled out their police badges.
"We are the police."
"Oh? Officers, why are you here at our bank?" As the employee spoke, he noticed their manager - Brother Hai.
The manager was currently in handcuffs.
"Manager Wang? What's..."
"Impressive," Xu Mo looked around, remarking in surprise: "It's an exact one-to-one replica. No wonder they could scam people - they really put in the effort."
"Now I understand why you two got scammed. The interior design is identical to a real bank - it's impossible to tell the difference!" Chen Ke also wore an expression of amazement.
It was clear why this fake bank had succeeded in scamming people - it was just too convincing!
So much so that among all the police officers present, not one could spot any differences in the decoration or details between this fake bank and a real one.
If they hadn't known beforehand, who could have guessed this was a fake bank!?
The bank employee's mind was spinning trying to process all this, completely confused.
What scam? What forgery? He couldn't understand a word of what these officers were saying.
Li Yunfei turned to Brother Hai: "Is all the scammed money still here in the bank?"
Brother Hai shook his head.
"No, we only keep the money here overnight. Early the next morning, I have an armored vehicle come to collect it."
"An armored vehicle too? I suppose that's fake as well?"
Brother Hai looked guilty: "Yes... I rented a vehicle and modified it to look like an armored car."
"So you only have today's collections here? Where's the money from the previous days - at your home?" Li Yunfei continued questioning.
"No," Brother Hai shook his head. "I deposited all that money in a real bank, but it's not in my account anymore. I was worried about the money being traceable, so I found people to launder it. They haven't finished yet - the cleaned money will be transferred to my card from overseas accounts tomorrow morning."
Well, well - money laundering?
The officers immediately perked up - this was turning out to be quite the catch!
They hadn't just caught someone running a fake bank fraud, they might also uncover a money laundering operation!
This was an unexpected bonus - killing two birds with one stone!
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
