Chapter 524: A Pair of Wily Foxes
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Hmm? Quan Shaoteng raised his eyebrows in interest. “How do we do that?”
Xiang Wan smiled although doubt was written on Quan Shaoteng’s face. “We’ll need Salimu’s help on this!”
Salimu? Quan Shaoteng’s face was as though covered in question marks. “You mean we need that young fellow who always spouts nonsense and misuses idioms and phrases?”
Xiang Wan gave a look of disapproval at Quan Shaoteng then she looked at Bai Muchuan’s calm face and started to explain seriously like a teacher answering her student’s doubt.
“No matter how successfully she played the role of Wen Mengyue, it is impossible for her to completely forget her real self. As long as the fake Xuan Yue is not a professional secret agent, there are bound to be some traces about her real ident.i.ty that we could pick up.”
As she had put it in a serious manner, Quan Shaoteng was beginning to get curious.
“How do we find such traces?”
Xiang Wan smiled confidently. “The fake Xuan Yue will get on the internet. When she does, she would leave traces.”
She turned to look at Bai Muchuan. Her dark-colored eyes were smiling at him. “Am I right to say that, Sir Little Bai?”
Bai Muchuan chuckled. “Smart girl.”
Pffft! Xiang Wan felt amused. “… Do you have a problem finding other words to compliment me?”
Bai Muchuan: “You’re right! No word is enough to describe how good you are.”
“D*mmit!”
Out of nowhere, Quan Shaoteng was made to eat a mouth of dog food and he felt his head throbbing in pain.
He rubbed his temples and wanted to leave the office.
“I’ll go look for Cheng Zheng!”
…
Coincidentally, the door opened and Salimu, who was holding a laptop, entered Bai Muchuan’s office.
“Boss, I want to report my findings!”
Bai Muchuan: “Come in.”
Salimu seemed to be very glad. “Captain Bai, I’ve found it!”
Quan Shaoteng saw Salimu walking briskly into the office and turned to take a glance at Xiang Wan. Seeing that she did not seem surprised at all and that Salimu said that he had found the fake Xuan Yue’s real ident.i.ty, he suddenly realized something.
It turned out that both of them had thought the same thing.
One had gone ahead to execute it when the other said it.
They didn’t need to communicate and had thought about the same thing?
“Tch!” Quan Shaoteng pointed at Bai Muchuan and Xiang Wan. “Why is it that the more I look at you two, the more I feel that you both are totally… a pair of wily foxes made for each other?”
“…” Geez, he actually said ‘a pair of wily foxes’.
“Captain Quan, are you serious?” Salimu stared hard at him, he couldn’t believe what he had just heard. “Did you use the wrong words or something?”
“Do you think I’m the same as you?” Quan Shaoteng swept an unhappy glance at him then continued to explain his choice of words. “Both are really crafty and hard to deal with. Their brains think fast and they have a lot of bad tricks up their sleeves…” With that, he turned to Bai Muchuan and Xiang Wan. “You two are fated to be together forever as you two can deal with each other. Take it that you’re doing good to people. Otherwise, the moment anyone of you got ‘released’, any good and kind child like me is going to get poisoned!”
The moment he finished saying his piece, he scurried out of the door.
Xiang Wan was speechless.
Bai Muchuan let out a snort and lifted his chin at Salimu.
“Tell me about your findings!”
…
Xiang Wan’s earlier inference was right.
The internet was not a safe place.
It was very easy that personal information would be revealed on the internet.
The fake Xuan Yue was not a professional secret agent. Although she was able to steal Wen Mengyue’s ident.i.ty, she still had her real ident.i.ty. She had countless connections using her real self on the Internet.
When Salimu received Bai Muchuan’s orders, he immediately got to work.
In no time, he found an ident.i.ty.
The fake Xuan Yue used that ident.i.ty to log in to the social accounts and left a lot of traces on the internet…
With that, Salimu was able to follow the trail and quickly got the personal information of that ident.i.ty.
Name: Cui Jiaying
Gender: Female
Age: 28 years old
Place of birth: Ji City
Cui Jiaying had not had a proper job most of the time. She was a divorcee and had a son. Her kid was taken care of and lived with her ex-husband. She had never visited her son as well.
As Cui Jiaying was also from Ji City, which was the same as Wen Mengyue, that could be the first reason for her being chosen by the Dark Clan. This was because the accent of a Ji City resident was very unique. If she couldn’t speak the dialect of Ji City or did not carry the accent of a Ji City resident, it would be easy for others to suspect her ident.i.ty.
It could be said that they really put in effort so as not to arouse suspicions.
“Salimu, you’ve worked hard!” Bai Muchuan nodded at Salimu.
“I enjoyed myself actually!” Salimu then showed them many other personal information about Cui Jiaying. If they looked at the timeline, they could tell that her traces on the internet reduced drastically basically about two to three years ago. There were no longer any more selfies, and she stopped making remarks in all social platforms that she had an account…
“Something could have happened two years ago.”
After Bai Muchuan said that, he turned for a look at Xiang Wan. “I feel that it’s not advisable to use the official channel to release her real ident.i.ty to the public. Not only it might bring about a bad influence, but it would also be easy for them to catch on at what we are up to. So…”
“Let me do it!” Xiang Wan was squinting her eyes. She was also thinking about the problem and understood what Bai Muchuan was thinking about. Not only that, his thoughts were in line with hers as well. “My novel, ‘Murder The Dream Guy’ is already an unofficial channel that they use to get information. They wanted to understand the police’s actions in my book. We can also do the same too!”
Bai Muchuan fished out another compliment. “Smart girl!”
Xiang Wan rolled her eyes. She couldn’t take it anymore.
“Darling, please remember to change the words of your compliment next time!”
…
Everyone started to get busy because of the upcoming mission.
Quan Shaoteng managed to convince Cheng Zheng and borrowed two female officers in his team. He also conveniently “borrowed” him away. These group of people transformed into the hospital’s doctors and nurses without a trace.
At the same time, Bai Muchuan also sent men to Ji City to find out more about Cui Jiaying.
While everyone was busy, Xiang Wan also had a mission to fulfil.
For one whole day, she was busy writing her chapter.
Writing her chapter was currently her most urgent task.
That day, she spent 10 hours to write about the latest zombie case in her novel all the way to the plot ‘the author who got her ident.i.ty stolen’. She also changed Cui Jiaying’s name to Cui Yingying in her novel and wrote:
“After a day and night’s emergency rescue, Cui Yingying finally survived and regained consciousness. Death was not an escape from all of her sins. She needed to open her eyes and witness the end of the evil that she had been directing…
“Cui Yingying was very weak. Out of humanitarian concern, Fang Yelan did not interrogate her right away after she opened her eyes. Nevertheless, Cui Yingying, who had a narrow escape from death, knew very well that she had no other way out other than cooperating with the police. She admitted that she had illegally a.s.sumed another person’s ident.i.ty and committed many crimes…”
…
And then, Xiang Wan left a cliffhanger.
That led to countless speculations by her readers.
The readers were gritting their teeth in annoyance due to the cliffhanger. After that, they started to discuss the case enthusiastically. They felt that the “stolen ident.i.ty” case she wrote in her book was as though it was a real case.
Xiang Wan even went to her reviews and comments page to reply to several comments in a half-joking, half-serious manner. “Of course it’s real, when did I, Xiang Gongzi, ever wrote something fake? To tell the truth, every case was an adaptation of a real case…”
“Wow, Xiang Gongzi is awesome.”
“But Xiang Gongzi, aren’t you worried that you might get targeted when you write real cases that took place in real life? These bad people have no qualms about breaking the law at all…”
“Xiang Gongzi has Second Young Master Mu to protect her. She need not worry so much!”
“Yeah! Xiang Gongzi has Second Young Master Mu to protect her. It’s currently going at a thousand miles a day…”
“Going at a thousand miles a day… To the one above, are you sure you’re not trying to be lewd here?”
“A thousand miles a day is surely better than snail speed, agree?”
“…”
As Xiang Wan scrolled through her reader’s comments and remarks, she felt like laughing.
But what she was feeling, was more of antic.i.p.ation.
To the extent that she was hoping anxiously for something to happen.
She hoped that she could know the other party’s reaction and their plans…
The police were now similar to the angler who had prepared a special bait, waiting for the fish to take the bite…