Cave Refuge

Moreover, looking at the scope of their Mountain Manor’s operations, the person controlling things behind the scenes is definitely not an ordinary individual.

However, this matter isn’t very significant to them; knowing this, at most, they will just be more restrained when they go there in the future.

As for avoiding any contact, aside from Dong Tianyu, it’s almost impossible for the others to do so, as they often need to visit the place to discuss business.

They only briefly discussed Peach Blossom Paradise matters, and just as Dong Tianyu and the others were leaving the teahouse, Dong Tianyu encountered a group of four entering at the doorway.

Although Dong Tianyu did not use his gaze to focus on Butterfly, his Divine Sense was always attentive to them. When Butterfly saw Dong Tianyu, the smiling expression on his face abruptly stiffened, but it returned to normal in a very short time.

Even though the other three noticed the unusual expression that Butterfly revealed, they did not ask outright. Instead, they thought of a joke as a way to cover it up. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Even though Dong Tianyu paid extra attention to the group of four through his Divine Sense, he didn’t go looking for trouble, as, aside from Butterfly’s previous knock on the door for communication purposes, they hadn’t had much interaction.

Dong Tianyu was not someone who liked to stir up trouble, so after their shoulders brushed past each other, he shrugged off the encounter.

However, even though Dong Tianyu did not care about this unexpected meeting, the group was extremely concerned about it. They hadn’t anticipated that a target they had picked casually would now have the capacity to board a transport machine and participate in this transaction meeting.

Even though all four of them had secured seats on the airplane, it should not be assumed that the significance of this particular transportation was low. You should know that before the disaster, they were adept at pulling scams in first- and second-tier cities. Appearing in Pengcheng was merely because their previous plan had been hugely successful, and they needed to find a smaller city to lay low.

Given their skills, let alone securing a plane seat now, at the earliest, they even dared to target high officials from the three departments and six ministries, and eventually, they successfully performed their scam and escaped punishment.

So it wasn’t that their targets were easy; rather, their skills were simply too superior, making it completely logical for them to pull the wool over the eyes of most people in Pengcheng.

Although the four entered a more private booth for the sake of security, their communication still consisted of secret messages.

"Little Sister Hu, what happened just now? Are you not feeling well?" (What happened just now; why was your reaction so strange?)

"I didn’t expect to see that handbag I had my eye on in the store here, you know. That bag was actually something my closest girlfriends specifically recommended to me, but unfortunately, by the time I went to buy it, that bag was already sold out from the store."

(I saw that guy we failed to get last time; this time he has also come from Pengcheng to Kyoto.)

"You saw that bag in Kyoto? Seems like it’s really fated to be yours. Why don’t you ask where he bought it from, do you want to go buy one as well?" (We’ve encountered that guy we missed out on last time; should we give it another shot?)

"Forget it, it was my friends who persuaded me to ask about the bag in the store, but since I didn’t get it then, it means it wasn’t meant to be, let’s just drop it." (That plan you guys made before, since it failed, you didn’t look for trouble anymore.)

"That’s fine, considering there are so many different styles and types of bags here in Kyoto. Since you’re not interested in the original one anymore, I’ll accompany you to look around Kyoto some more to see if there are any bags even prettier than that one and we can pick a better-looking one to buy."

(If we’ve given up on that target, then so be it. There are so many people in Kyoto, we’ll find someone richer than him to target next time.)