Chapter 652: The Mysterious Man

With so many people together, there is indeed no need to be afraid.

After Sheng Zerong realized his worry was unnecessary, he went with everyone to look for the person.

Upon arriving at the agreed-upon location, they did not find Jian Yining.

Sheng Hanyu asked Aw: "Are you sure this is the place where you separated?"

Aw looked blank: "I am sure... I am not sure, it is this place, we specifically left a mark when we left, how could it be gone?" There were no reference points here; it was actually not easy to leave a mark.

Sheng Zerong asked: "What did you use to make the mark?"

Aw pointed in front of him: "There should have been a shed made of reeds here, used for shade."

The Sheng Hanyu brothers:...

Can a shed made of reeds even be used as a reference point?

Wouldn't it be gone after a gust of wind blew by?

They did not blame Aw; it was indeed too difficult to leave a mark in this place.

But they had come happily to find someone, only for it to be a hollow joy!

They had finally found a clue, but as a result, while Jin Wan'er had yet to be found, they had also lost Jian Yining.

There was no other way; Sheng Hanyu had everyone scatter and search separately.

But the distance between people could not be too far, to prevent another accident from occurring.

Underground Architecture, secret chamber.

A laptop was placed in front of Ji Yingjie, and she was on a video call with a man.

"Now, immediately, I demand you think of a good solution for me within five minutes, otherwise I will kill you!" Ji Yingjie said viciously to the man.

The man: "Are you being reasonable at all? I told you from the very beginning that that man Sheng Hanyu is extremely difficult to deal with, but you wouldn't listen..."

"Enough, shut your mouth!"

Ji Yingjie was incredibly furious; if the man were in front of her now, she would definitely tear him apart with her own hands!

She had already been very, very careful to avoid direct contact with Shi Youxuan and Sheng Hanyu, yet he still insisted on holding onto these two people.

No matter where a mistake occurred, the man would always immediately say: "It was Shi Youxuan's idea."

"Sheng Hanyu is manipulating things from behind."

Although Ji Yingjie had never had direct contact with her other niece, Shi Youxuan, she had heard too many things about her from the man's mouth.

The reason she chose Jin Wan'er to be the Ji Family Heir instead of Shi Youxuan was largely because the man had said too many bad things about Shi Youxuan in front of her, and she thought Shi Youxuan had grown up twisted.

However, listening to it usually was fine, but at such a critical moment, with the situation already dire, was the man still shirking responsibility?

Ji Yingjie was especially angry.

Men were truly all unreliable things.

She deeply regretted listening to this man's words back then, going through such a long detour to approach her niece, only for the result to be poor.

If she had followed her own ideas, she would have just acknowledged her kin directly; why make such a simple matter so complicated?

But regret was useless; she had been obsessed and followed what he said from the start.

She had thought this man had some brains back then, but now it seemed he had a pig's brain!

The man was still rambling: "I told you long ago that these people are not easy to deal with, but you wouldn't listen, stubborn and self-opinionated, and now you are pushing the responsibility onto me..."

Without a word, Ji Yingjie raised the laptop to smash it—the person on the other side immediately softened: "Don't smash it, don't smash it, I was wrong, it's all my fault."

"I will think of a way for you immediately; smashing the computer now is completely meaningless. In a moment, I might just think of a good solution."

This sentence worked.

Ji Yingjie put down the computer and glared fiercely at the man: "You only have five minutes; I won't give you even a second more." After she finished speaking, she really started timing.

Ji Yingjie felt that her brain must have been flooded for her to listen to his words.

She had despised men her whole life, believing them to be inferior creatures.

But this man was different from any man she had ever met; he had many ideas and helped her expand the Clan's territory and business in a very short time.

Simply put, before this incident—every idea the man had given her was correct.

That was why Ji Yingjie trusted him and was willing to let him be her Military Advisor!

She even had the thought of taking him in as a live-in son-in-law.

Although she already had quite a few men in her harem, it didn't matter; one more or one less was the same.

As long as this man was useful to her, she could let him sit in the position of the first in her harem!

But looking at it now, it would be better to put this matter aside for later.

Four minutes and thirty-nine seconds.

The man said: "I have a solution."

"Speak quickly," Ji Yingjie urged.

He said: "You increase the intensity of the magnetic field to make their machines malfunction and scare them away again."

Ji Yingjie:...

She laughed out of extreme anger.

Then, smiling, she turned the laptop screen toward the large surveillance screen to let the man see: "Open your dog eyes and look carefully, what kind of things are coming up there? Large tower cranes, crawler-type bulldozers, the most formidable Humvees from the United States."

"You tell me to increase the magnetic field intensity? Do you think I have the intensity of the Bermuda Triangle here?" By the end, she was almost roaring.

Immediately after, she smashed the computer.

Her heart was bleeding; who knew?

To find a suitable place in Jiangzhou, heaven knows how much effort she had spent, and how much financial, material, and human resources she had wasted to secretly build this place.

The Ji Family was wealthy enough to rival a nation, but a tall tree attracts the wind.

Although the successive Clan Leaders of the Ji Family have always been very low-key, they were still targeted by people coveting the Ji Family's wealth; those people were ones they could not afford to provoke, but they also could not

hand over all their wealth to others!

After many twists and turns, this place was finally chosen to hide the money.

In order not to be discovered, Ji Yingjie has been playing the ghost and acting mysterious for many years, and has also successfully kept the Ji Family's secret!

Everything was fine originally, until Wan'er was brought here, and accidents began to appear continuously.

The Ji Family's secret of several hundred years cannot fall short for lack of a final effort this one time.

She decided to release Wan'er and protect the secret here.

……

Jin Wan'er's room.

When Ji Yingjie went in, the expression on her face had already been composed, and one could not tell at all that she had just been very angry.

Seeing her enter, Jin Wan'er turned her head to the other side, ignoring her aunt.

She did not mind either; she pulled up a chair to sit in front of her niece and said kindly, "Wan'er, have you considered it? Do you want to go back with me?"

"I considered it long ago, I'm not going."

This answer was within expectations, yet outside of reason.

"Sigh!"

Ji Yingjie sighed and said, "Fine, since you don't want to stay, I won't force you. Since you cannot be separated from that man, then go back. A twisted melon is not sweet. Pack your things and I will send people to take you out!"

Jin Wan'er: ……

She suddenly widened her eyes.

Turning back around, she said in disbelief, "Aunt, is it true? You aren't lying to me, are you? You aren't trying to pull some other trick, are you?"

Over these two days, Jin Wan'er had exhausted every method she could think of, but none had made her aunt compromise and agree to let her leave.

Now she had suddenly changed her mind; the change in attitude was too fast, so fast that Jin Wan'er dared not believe it was real.

"If you don't believe it, then forget it." Ji Yingjie put on a straight face and stood up to leave.

Before she could walk out of the room, her sleeve was tightly tugged, and Jin Wan'er said ingratiatingly behind her, "Aunt, don't go. Everything just now was my fault; I was young and ignorant and said the wrong thing. You are a magnanimous person, please don't hold it against me. I believe you truly want to let me go home, I believe it."