Chapter 732: The Director's Conspiracy

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Li Ang stand motionless after touching the snake-skin scroll for a long time without making a sound, the Red-haired Director couldn't help but ask curiously:

"What ability does this snake-skin scroll actually have? Why did you freeze after just one look?"

"This snake-skin scroll..."

Coming to his senses, Li Ang smacked his lips and said with a somewhat complex expression:

"Its name is 【Unfair Snake Contract】. If you sign both my name and another person's name on it, it can forcibly bind a contract with that person, exchanging anything currently held by both parties, including Anomalies. If the value of the traded items isn't perfectly equal, I must use my power to make up the difference."

Forcible exchange, huh?

After hearing Li Ang's words, the Red-haired Director pondered for a moment, then asked with a puzzled expression:

"I can understand why this item is called 'Snake Contract', after all, its power comes from the 【Trade】 authority of that snake and the 【Contract】 authority of the Goddess of Wealth, so that name is fine.

But why is the prefix 'Unfair'? From your description, this trading process should be considered fair, shouldn't it?"

"..."

Looking solely at the trading process, it is indeed fair, but considering the 'goods' in my hand used for the trade, that doesn't seem very fair...

"Does that mean the things you forged can also be used to exchange for other people's Anomalies?"

Drawing the answer to this question directly from Li Ang's expression, the Red-haired Director asked with a somewhat surprised look:

"Li Ang, how is the value of those few things you forged calculated? How many Li Ang-value Anomalies can they be exchanged for?"

"The value of the Anomalies I forged should be calculated based on the materials and the power contained within.

The 【Muscular Feet】 crafted from Bai Yan's Holy Spirit is 49, the 【Demon Ledger】 containing the Great Demon is 42, the remaining 【Wolf Witch Potion Bottle】 is 32, the 【Mirror of Noon】 is 41, and the 【Memory-Eating Secret Booklet】 is 51."

"..."

So, other people's Anomalies worth thirty or fifty Li Ang, as long as you know their names, can be written onto the 【Unfair Snake Contract】 and swapped for those useless... those Anomalies with very subtle effects?

"Then that name is indeed not misnamed at all."

Nodding in strong agreement, the Red-haired Director asked with eyes full of expectation:

"What about the quantity? How many people can you sign a contract with at most? How many times can you sign with each person?"

"This... although it can be wiped and rewritten, there is only one contract, so it should only be usable once."

"I see..."

Hearing this, the Red-haired Director said somewhat disappointedly:

"With only one chance, it can't be used as a regular method, only as a crucial winning move.

Pity, if you could sign contracts at will, maybe just the two of us could directly capture the Aquarius Director. Your forced exchange is really too... hmm... Oh right!"

At this point, the Red-haired Director seemed to remember something and proposed with an excited expression:

"The Goddess of Wealth wants to cooperate with you, doesn't she? After she recovers from her injuries, you can invite her down, and we'll chop off another one of her tails!"

"Huh?"

"What 'huh'? She not only ambushed you, she almost took Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's life!"

Remembering her best friend who lay in a coma, and those arms that had almost completely turned to jade, the Red-haired Director's beautiful fox eyes narrowed slightly, and her voice carried a hint of coldness as she said:

"Chengjin Sect... Heh, if it weren't for the Aquarius and Watchtower Palace incidents causing the Taurus Underlord to seal herself off at headquarters, I would have gone to report to the Taurus Underlord right now, asking for her approval for a joint operation between our Bureau and the Leo Bureau to take down the Goddess of Wealth directly!"

My Director is so domineering~

Seeing the usually cunning and sly Director, whose expression was always a smile, finally show genuine anger and reveal a domineering aura fitting of a Zodiac Director, Li Ang couldn't help but give her a thumbs-up. "You're right! This grudge must be avenged! Also, we can invite Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma to join us then, so she can vent her anger too!"

"Of course!"

After looking approvingly at Li Ang, who shared her indignation, the Red-haired Director suppressed the coldness in her eyes, then said with a smile:

"After we've taken our revenge, if we can create a second 【Unfair Snake Contract】, it will still be yours to use. This item has high requirements for information, which matches your abilities perfectly."

Give the second one back to me?

Hearing the Red-haired Director's promise, Li Ang couldn't help but blink slightly and said, somewhat moved:

"Director, I..."

"Don't say thanks! Mainly because this item suits you best, and probably only you can obtain so many 'special' Anomalies."

Raising her hand to make a 'stop' gesture, the Red-haired Director pulled out a small bottle from somewhere and said with a smile:

"If you really want to thank me, then just help fulfill my birthday wish as previously agreed, how about that?"

"Okay!"

Hearing the Red-haired Director's request, Li Ang, with eyes full of emotion, nodded without hesitation, then asked curiously:

"Director, your second wish is to help me get a suitable Anomaly, so what is your first wish? Is it hard to fulfill?"

"Not hard, not hard, very simple."

Handing over the small bottle in her hand, the Red-haired Director said with an expectant look:

"You just take a big swig of this, then close your eyes!"

"???"

What kind of strange wish is this?

Looking at the somewhat familiar small bottle in his hand, then at the Director who was smiling like a little fox, Li Ang frowned slightly. After unscrewing the cap, he didn't comply immediately but cautiously sniffed it slightly.

Blackberry, cedar, spices, blood orange... A complex, rich yet clear and refreshing fragrance, mixed with a slight spiciness, rushed into his nostrils, flowing densely and irresistibly into his lungs.

It then combined with his blood during his breath, causing the strange fragrance to flow through his veins and throughout his body, making Li Ang's mind feel slightly numb, as if lying on a soft velvet pillow, producing a strange feeling similar to slight intoxication.

"..."

Wine?

And this scent... is it the only bottle of 'Drunken Brew' level wine among those sent by the Taurus Director? Didn't I put it in the warehouse on the first floor of the Virgo Bureau? Why is it in your hands?

Shaking his head vigorously to shake off that strange feeling of slight intoxication, Li Ang asked somewhat confusedly:

"Director? Isn't this that bottle..."

"Ah heck, who cares what it is—just take a big swig and be done with it! I'm not going to hurt you!"

"……"

You may not want to hurt me, but this request of yours is definitely off!

Looking at the red-haired bureau chief, who was wearing an eager expression and egging him on to drink, Hearing Li Ang's eyes instinctively narrowed.

For a bureau chief who loved alcohol like her very life, having him drink up the only bottle of fine liquor right in front of her was practically no different from cucking her on the spot—she definitely wouldn't be able to stand for that.

But this batch of liquor had all been laced with a Word Spirit secret art by Director Taurus; it only tasted like liquor in his own mouth, and in anyone else's mouth it was just… wait, in his own mouth?

Suddenly thinking of a possibility, Hearing Li Ang stared at the red-haired bureau chief before him, whose gaze was slightly evasive, and could not help blurting out in utter shock:

"Bureau chief, you wouldn't… be planning to steal the liquor straight from my mouth, would you?"

(End of chapter)