Chapter 214: Clients Who Only Appear at Night

With a casual gesture, when Lan made Mo Shen take a few steps forward and lift his jacket, his chest, which should have had muscles, was now weirdly sunken, with a huge black hole where his heart was. Black blood rushed out, trembling.

Mo Shen’s hat was removed, his eyes were gone, and his face was sunken as he stared at everyone.

This, this... he, he’s dead.

The leader of the Jufeta squad was dead, just like that.

Shock, astonishment, disbelief.

It seemed no one expected that this once mighty squad leader would die just like this.

"Oh, is this your ability? Can you control corpses?"

Shen Yu was not surprised by Mo Shen’s death. He stared intently at Wenlan, his expression strange as he focused on her affection level displayed above her head.

Hesitating for a moment, Shen Yu thought about it.

Work together?

Actually, based on the request from the target, he should agree to it.

But now, with the team here, he couldn’t help but be cautious about Wenlan’s ulterior motives. He had to be on guard.

What if Wenlan, while pretending to cooperate, secretly wanted to make his side suffer and collect more bodies?

"Shen Yu, don’t agree to her. She’s definitely up to no good."

Yining watched Wenlan warily, and Wenlan just smiled calmly, looking steadily at Shen Yu.

"Tch, I can’t judge you."

"Can your memory lie?"

"System. Play one of Wenlan’s 25-affection CGs."

Ding.

Now playing.

Shen Yu closed his eyes, not responding to anyone’s words, but instead feeling a new memory appear in his mind.

In the pitch-black sealed basement, a little girl was crawling out of a deep pit full of wooden stakes.

Thud, thud.

With each attempt to crawl up, her small body lost balance and fell back into the pit again, bruised and battered, tears welling in her eyes.

"Crying? If crying worked, your parents wouldn’t have sacrificed themselves. Didn’t you say you wanted to avenge your parents?"

"The first step of being a national secret agent is to stuff your grievances down inside. Bullets won’t stop because of tears. Do you understand?"

Thud!

A stern voice shouted from outside the pit, and the little girl fell again.

Then she wiped her tears and continued crawling towards the pit’s edge.

She cried as she crawled.

She didn’t know how many times she crawled.

Her whole body was purple and blue from muscle soreness, but when she saw a tall man standing at the edge of the pit, noticing the national emblem on his chest, she held back her tears and still gave him a standard salute.

"Report number 0929, mission complete."

The memory in his mind began to slowly fade, and Shen Yu’s expression grew even stranger.

When Wenlan’s memory was this iron-blooded, it seemed she had been trained as some kind of agent since childhood.

But no matter what she was training for, Shen Yu noticed the focus of his memory.

The man responsible for the training had a bright five-pointed star on his chest, the symbol of Jingbei City.

Undoubtedly, Wenlan was a secret agent trained by Jingbei of the Dragon Kingdom.

Just this was enough.

No matter what purpose Wenlan had for hiding in the Dufeya Squad, as long as she was from Jingbei of the Dragon Kingdom, there could be no malice.

That’s the highest command.

Maybe she’s here to investigate the undercover agent in the Energy Gathering Association.

Shen Yu thought to himself, not paying attention to Yaning’s persuasion, and stretched out his hand to Wenlan.

"You know, I’m not good at saying nice things to men, but when it’s a beautiful woman’s request, I usually don’t refuse. I can’t make a woman sad."

"I won’t cooperate with Mo Shen, but with you, I can."

A slightly teasing voice came, and Wenlan gave Shen Yu a strange look before shaking his hand.

Ding.

"Goddess Wenlan, affection level three. Current accumulated affection: 30 points."

The system prompt sounded in his mind.

Shen Yu gave Wenlan’s somewhat rough hand a squeeze before silently retracting it.

"Shen Yu, you... after what happened to the Yefeha Squad, why are you still cooperating with her? Tell me honestly, you don’t want to flirt with her, do you? Are you crazy? If you’re going to flirt with her, you might as well flirt with me. You can’t trust the Yufeiha Squad."

Yaning was still trying to persuade Shen Yu, but Shen Yu calmly shook his head.

"Yaning, have you ever seen me make a decision that harms the squad?"

"This..."

"Don’t worry. Every decision I make is definitely for the benefit of our squad first."

"As for cooperating with Miss Wen here, it’s not as simple as just being attracted."

"Comrade Wenlan, show me your sincerity. Tell me, what have you two been through these past few days?"

Shen Yu smiled faintly, his scrutinizing gaze returning to Wenlan.

Wenlan narrowed her eyes, pointing to her own horse ear.

"This, I don’t need to explain, right? I see you all already know. Once in the company, everything will mutate."

"As for what happened these two days, last night wasn’t anything special. The situation was the same as tonight, but on the female dormitory’s railing, there were words like extreme, clear. You can study them."

"Then there’s tonight’s discovery. We just went to the first floor and second floor."

"The first floor had a rat-headed giant. If it’s someone from Linhuan, it would have a better attitude. But Mo Shen, Long Lingxue still died there."

"The second floor had a twelve-nosed ball. Its suction power was nearly invincible. No one could escape."

"Shen Yu, what we’ve done? I’ve told you truthfully. I hope you can tell me why you weren’t attacked by the black-spiked wild boar?"

Her fixed gaze locked onto Shen Yu.

Wenlan could actually guess that Shen Yu must have learned something from Lin Wan to find a way to eliminate the black-spiked wild boar’s hostility.

But what exactly should be done?

She was really curious.

"The words on the railing."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yu didn’t answer immediately. Instead, his gaze followed along the railing, and finally, on the railing corresponding to the female dormitory, he found a line of carved words:

Mutation, extreme, temporary evolution, clear return.

A few words that were confusing at first glance, but when Shen Yu saw them, he suddenly seemed to have an idea.

"If I’m not mistaken, this should have been left by the previous female salesperson. She must have known something and wanted to give a hint to the next salesperson."

"Mutation."

"The mutation of cattle and horses has limits."

"What does temporary evolution mean?"

"And clear return."

"Could it be touching the scapegoat metal in his pocket?"

Shen Yu seemed to have guessed something.

He blinked and then looked at Wenlan again, his gaze teasing.

"So you even went to the first floor at night?"

"The first floor has a rat-headed giant at night."

"Yes, I suspect it used to be Lin Wan’s client. So whenever it hears about Lin Wan, its attitude gets better."

"Lin Wan’s client? Could it be...?"

Suddenly, he remembered the previous Lin Wan 25-affection CG, Mister Tree, and Shen Yu’s left eyelid twitched. Now he had somewhat come back to his senses.

Maybe some sales clients don’t show up during the day, so no matter how much you search during the day, you won’t find their contact information.

The way to eliminate the hostility of the black-spiked wild boar was actually on the second floor.

"You need to trick that twelve-nosed ball into erasing your scent, so the boar can’t smell you and can’t lock onto you for an attack."

Without changing his expression, Shen Yu spoke about the second-floor information, not holding anything back.

In the current situation, Wenlan was on their side.

Of course, even after saying all the details, Wenlan could never convince the twelve-nosed ball.

"Oh, it’s actually on the second floor. That nose ball. How did you convince it?"

Upon hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed in Wenlan’s eyes as she stared at Shen Yu.

Shen Yu shrugged.

"That’s a secret."

"All right. Did Lin Wan tell you this information?"

"Aha."

"You... you got this information by selling yourself. You, you..."

Staring at Shen Yu, Wenlan’s cheeks inexplicably turned red, the corners of her mouth twitching slightly.

After holding back for a while, she awkwardly said something.

"You... you worked hard."

"Actually, if you could, would you want to try also conquer Lin Yao? After all, Lin Wan and Lin Yao were once salespeople. Maybe they have different information."

"Ha!"

Shen Yu’s brows instantly shot up.

For the first time, it was the first time he heard a girl recommend he try to conquer a female con artist.

Although she was suggesting it for the sake of obtaining more information.

"What’s wrong? You can’t handle it."

"Ah, give me a moment. I can’t handle it."

"Even if I’m the Duck King, I can’t accompany two rich women in one day. Sorry."

Inside the pen, Shen Yu and Wenlan looked at each other, and the atmosphere became awkward for no reason.

S S S S.

Night began to deepen.

Yaning played with her ponytail, her eyes subtly focusing on Wenlan.

Chu Changin and Ning Su both covered their bull horns with their hats, busy for quite a while.

Eventually, the group fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Shen Yu felt the damp, soft grass beneath him and slowly woke up.

The sunlight shone through the glass into the male dormitory, and his eyes landed on the familiar six-person layout of the dorm.

He was back from that damn animal world.

"Hiss."

"So the ways to enter the animal world are currently overtime and morning meeting dance. But why does the morning meeting dance require us to close our eyes?"

Shen Yu pondered while walking into the washroom for a quick shower.

As the water rinsed over his body, he noticed something.

There was still no sign of animal transformation on his body.

Instead, the scapegoat metal hanging on his chest flickered with a 15% value.

"Oh, so this thing absorbed the mutation value for me. But if the value reaches 100% and there’s nowhere to release the mutation from the metal, I’ll turn into a scapegoat."

Rubbing the scapegoat metal, Shen Yu got dressed and walked out of the bathroom.

Ning Su and Shu Changun were already awake.

They covered their protruding bull horns with hats, and their noses, after a whole night, seemed somewhat blackened, as if they were beginning to transform into bull noses.

"Damn, Vice Captain, how come after one night you didn’t change at all?"

"Yeah, Vice Captain, you aren’t going to turn into an animal."

Looking at Shen Yu as he came out, the two of them scanned his body up and down carefully.

Shen Yu didn’t explain and stared at their still decent bodies, shaking his head.

"When the time comes, I’ll help you get rid of the mutation. For now, let’s go to work."

"All right."

Seeing Shen Yu say this, Zhu Changyin and Ning Su didn’t ask further.

The three of them hurried out of the dorm.

When Shen Yu and Yaning also came out from the female dorm, after they met, they exchanged glances and headed to the cafeteria.

This morning was unusually quiet.

Zhu Weiman and Zhu Xian didn’t even show up today.

After breakfast, they took the elevator and arrived at the third floor.

Almost as soon as it was time to start work, the elevator doors opened again.

This time, five people walked out of the elevator:

Lin Wan, Lin Yao, Mr. Fu, Zhu Weiman, and Zhu Xian.

Their expressions varied, but upon seeing Shen Yu and the others, Mr. Fu led the way and forced a smile.

"Everyone, I heard none of you made a deal yesterday, but don’t be discouraged. This morning, let’s give it our all."

"Let’s do the sales dance."

"Come on, sign the deal."

"Sign the deal."

"Sign the deal."

"Signing deals is an honour."

"Dodging deals is a disgrace."

Still standing on one foot, still with hands spread wide under the familiar actions, Mr. Fu led the chant, and Shen Yu turned to look at the others behind him.

Everyone immediately closed their eyes in unison.

"Sign the deal."

"Sign the deal."

"Sign the deal."

"Signing deals is an honour."

"Dodging deals is a disgrace."

"Signing deals is an honour."

"Dodging deals is a disgrace."

Under the hypnotic dance and chants, the ceramic tile floor underfoot became dampened money again.

The air gradually filled with the wet scent of water plants, and a faint huff, huff, breathing sound began to echo in the ears.

But this time, everyone tacitly closed their eyes, and the surrounding water plants made no strange movements.

The water splashed underfoot as others danced without distraction.

As Shen Yu danced, his face suddenly changed.

A thin, long tail once again wrapped around his body.