The police officers were all quite excited.
Uncovering a money laundering ring was undoubtedly of great significance.
Due to the special nature of such operations, their clients were likely to be troublemakers, after all, only dirty money needed laundering, and only those involved in illegal activities would possess such tainted funds.
If they could locate this money laundering ring, the police might be able to follow the trail and discover many lawbreakers and even criminal organizations.
Xu Mo was thinking about how the reward for this case would surely be substantial, as it no longer involved just a fraudster who had forged financial institutions, but also a money laundering ring and many people who had business dealings with them - this was a major case!
Seeing the expressions on the officers' faces, Wang Hai's eyes darted around as he realized that the police seemed very interested in this money laundering ring. If he could help the police take down this organization, wouldn't that count as atoning for his crimes? This could be a great opportunity for a reduced sentence!
"How do you communicate with this money laundering ring? By phone?" Li Yunfei asked.
Wang Hai displayed a fawning smile: "Officer, if the information I provide helps you catch this money laundering ring, would that count as good behavior... could you consider reducing my sentence?"
"Are you trying to bargain with us?" Li Yunfei's expression turned cold. "Whether your sentence gets reduced depends on your actual performance, no one can guarantee that. But what I can tell you right now is that if you try to use this as leverage and deliberately withhold information to negotiate a reduced sentence, that would be concealing information and protecting a criminal organization - an additional offense."
After intimidating Wang Hai, Li Yunfei's expression quickly softened as he patted Wang Hai's shoulder: "You're a smart person. I trust you know what you should do."
Wang Hai nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I know!"
He then continued: "Phone calls aren't safe because they might be monitored. The people from the money laundering ring and I always arrange time and place over the phone but meet in person privately."
Wang Hai wasn't sure if cooperating fully would actually reduce his sentence, but he knew he definitely couldn't risk additional charges for concealing information. Fraudulently impersonating a financial institution to scam over 4 million yuan was already a serious crime - if they added the charge of protecting a money laundering ring, he might never get out of prison!
"Call them now to set up a meeting, tell them you have more money to launder," Li Yunfei first looked at Wang Hai.
Then he turned to the other officers: "Get ready soon - however many people they bring, that's how many we'll arrest. Then we'll find ways to get information about the other members from them. Best case scenario, we can take down this entire money laundering operation in one go!"
"I'll call headquarters to get more people to help, just in case we're short-handed," Li Yunfei said as he took out his phone and called the station.
Ten minutes later, six more private cars arrived outside the bank, and plainclothes officers stepped out of each one.
These were the reinforcements Li Yunfei had called for.
The money launderers were surely very cunning, so to prevent any mishaps during the arrest operation, they needed extra backup.
Including the newly arrived officers, there were now over thirty police officers in the bank. With so many people executing the arrest operation simultaneously, the targets would have virtually no chance of escape.
Seeing that all reinforcements had arrived, Li Yunfei looked at the handcuffed Wang Hai.
"Alright, make the call now. Contact that criminal organization."
"Um, officer, you confiscated my phone..." Wang Hai said cautiously.
Li Yunfei immediately pulled Wang Hai's confiscated phone from his pocket and handed it to him.
The latter took the phone, glanced at the officers around him, then opened his contacts, found a number and dialed it, thoughtfully putting it on speaker.
After about fifteen seconds, the call connected.
Wang Hai quickly said: "Brother Zhang, it's me, Wang Hai. Are you free right now?"
"Mm," the person on the other end nodded, then said: "One hour from now, Coastal Coffee."
Then the call ended.
Wang Hai looked at the officers: "It's set - in one hour, at Coastal Coffee."
Li Yunfei reached out and took back the phone from Wang Hai's hand, putting it in his own pocket to prevent Wang Hai from trying anything suspicious.
He then looked at the other officers: "We need to get there early to set up an ambush. There's no time to waste - everyone get in the cars and head out!"
...
At Coastal Coffee.
To catch the big fish, the police had removed Wang Hai's handcuffs.
They weren't worried about him trying to escape, as their people were everywhere around.
Similarly, the officers weren't too concerned about this arrest operation, as they saw virtually no possibility of failure.
Over thirty plainclothes officers had already surrounded the coffee shop in multiple layers, both inside and outside. As soon as they confirmed their targets, they could immediately make the arrests. Unless the suspects grew wings and flew away, there was absolutely no escape.
Only Xu Mo kept frowning, as he had a feeling this arrest operation wouldn't go as smoothly as planned.
This money laundering ring seemed too amateurish... They were afraid of phone taps so they insisted on meeting in person? How was meeting in person any safer?
In Xu Mo's view, meeting in person was far more dangerous than communicating by phone. Phone communications could at least use virtual numbers that police couldn't trace, but once the time and place of a face-to-face meeting were exposed, wouldn't that make for guaranteed arrests?
Just then, a man wearing a black suit walked toward Wang Hai, who was sitting near the coffee shop's back door.
When Wang Hai saw this man, he picked up his coffee cup and took a sip.
This was the signal he had arranged with the police - when the target appeared, he would alert the officers by drinking his coffee.
Xu Mo noticed Wang Hai's signal and observed the suited man walking directly toward Wang Hai. His keen perception immediately spotted the problem.
They indeed had a backup plan - no wonder they dared to arrange meetings about money laundering in public places.
The next second, Li Yunfei pressed his wireless earpiece and said:
"Target spotted. Move in!"
As soon as he finished speaking, but before the officers could act, Xu Mo also pressed his earpiece and said: "Stop, something's wrong."
The officers who were about to rush forward and tackle the target suddenly stopped, glancing toward Xu Mo's direction in confusion.
Something's wrong? What could be wrong?
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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!
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.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
