I Am Your Natural Enemy-Chapter 702 - 269: Caught You By The Tail, Doll Master (5k)

By now, Wen Yan actually knows that he's probably already deviated from the direction he took last time.

He guesses that, last time, he probably didn't leave any water ghosts alive, but this time, he made a different choice and let some go.

Just one different decision, and the path could already veer off from last time's direction.

But Wen Yan still thinks, the way he's choosing now is the best—he can't do things with the mindset that if he chooses wrong, he can just start over again.

That's the difference between him and that guy who can rewind— the other guy doesn't have to worry about messing up, doesn't have to care if it goes badly one time.

If it doesn't work once, just try again, then ten times— as long as mistakes can be made and learned from, there'll eventually be a successful attempt.

Just like what Wen Yan's doing now— using the original foundation of the Scorching Sun Fist, and then starting to carve out something new, something that never existed before.

With Grandma's buff, gray cloth wrapping around, and then the explosive Great Sun of Scorching Sun, all of that combined lets him find a way to be immortal and break through into a new path.

Once a person knows he truly can't die, he'll naturally start letting loose and doing whatever he wants.

No matter which direction that 'letting loose' heads in, it's still letting loose all the same.

Honestly, meeting this Luo Liang, he wasn't even particularly in the mood to come.

It's just that, thinking for himself—if he hadn't realized there was a rewind involved, he definitely would've come here right now.

The water ghost at the Cape of the Sea who did the soul summoning said that his boss was Luo Liang.

And when he first discovered livestreams possibly aimed at different races, he followed the lead and found that the boss behind those streams was also Luo Liang.

At the very beginning, he'd actually planned to start with this Luo Liang.

Except then Boss Tao's nonsense happened, had to deal with a corpse, and ended up dumping it on Pei Tugou, which got both those Pei guys seriously pissed off.

Wen Yan went over to sort that out, persuading the whole way, and before he knew it, he killed the Gluttonous Quintessence Incarnations himself.

After offing them, he noticed someone was messing with the narrative, so he went off to Southern Sea County.

Did a soul summoning in Southern Sea County, asked a few things, and circled back to Luo Liang again.

By rights, he would definitely need to come here.

Scorching Sun Department not officially getting involved in this is just to avoid alarming the targets, nothing more.

The regular cops coming to arrest folks—still just economic crimes; these guys honestly aren't scared of that at all.

Busted a bunch of people, the cooperative ones, confirmed as just economic crimes—well, charge them as they should be charged, case closed.

Some of them expect to get locked up a year or two and then get out.

Once someone sets an example, as long as no one deliberately keeps things under wraps, and people are allowed to see lawyers and family, soon the rest of those detained will hear about it.

It's not about there being too little, just that things aren't fair—that's a truth as old as time.

Why should you get bail pending trial, but I'm still stuck in here? Fine, whatever, I'll just confess to economic crimes and be done with it.

This is exactly Luo Liang's plan right now—he's already started admitting to a few things that don't hurt, all of it mostly financial.

Even this is making things hard for Luo Liang, because his company was set up specifically to avoid trouble, so even firing employees involves real severance packages.

Luo Liang's actually having a hard time finding anything in his own list that might count as economic crime.

In the end, lucky for him, his company really did have some streamers and employees involved in online gambling.

So he went with the flow and admitted to some charges. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Today, hearing someone wanted to see him, Luo Liang thought since he'd just confessed, he was finally about to get some kind of benefit.

Didn't expect that when he actually met the person, it turned out to be a total stranger.

Then he noticed that the meeting room's cameras were all off, the door was shut, the guards who'd brought him in had all stepped out— Luo Liang instantly knew this was not what he'd thought it would be.

Wen Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, sizing up Luo Liang.

The first moment Wen Yan saw Luo Liang, he knew he'd come to the right place this time.

"Fate Igniter."

"Using some special methods, burn your own luck, trading it for a brief period of smooth sailing, escaping misfortunes."

All the explanations he'd rehearsed before, he gave up on right away; he decided to just get straight to the point.

"You're about to die."

Luo Liang was taken aback by these words, but a moment later asked,

"Who are you?"

"Who I am doesn't matter. I actually came here with some questions for you.

But the moment I saw you, I felt like I'd already found what I needed to know most."

"Like, why you were able to take over everything so quickly from another short-lived bastard."

"Then your business took off, growing fast."

"Your streamers not only do regular livestreams, but also streams for some creatures no one even knows if they're human."

"Turns out you were trading your own life for all of it."

Luo Liang didn't think much of it at first, figured it was some attempt to bluff him.

But when Wen Yan mentioned creatures nobody even knew were human, his heart sank.

"I don't understand what you're saying."

"You paid for troll armies to steer the heat toward me, but in the end you tell me you don't even know who I am?"

"I really don't know you. Why would I spend money to buy trolls to mess with you? I haven't even spent much on boosting my own streamers." Luo Liang hurriedly denied it—he truly didn't recognize Wen Yan.

"Oh, so turns out it wasn't you. Figures, you're already as good as dead—burned up all your luck for a fleeting moment of success. The fact you've been caught now is just the sign you've run out of fuel and your lamp's burned dry."