Lingjiang City, Southern Suburb, here lies an abandoned and decaying villa complex.

The car driven by Lu Feng arrives first, stopping outside one of the abandoned villas.

Chu Yue and Xu Guofu are both extremely anxious.

Up to this point, they still believe they have been kidnapped by a gang of robbers.

They rack their brains thinking of ways to save themselves, but sadly realize that self-rescue seems impossible.

The other side has guns, pointed right at their foreheads.

Their phones were also searched and taken away by the others.

It's a situation where crying out to the heavens yields no response, and seeking help from the earth offers no aid.

Furthermore, the other side brought out two blindfolds for them to wear.

They have no idea where this vehicle is headed.

This is practically a hellish beginning.

Every second is a torment.

Suddenly, the car stops.

They hear the sound of doors opening.

"Get out of the car."

The two fumble for the car doors and get out of the vehicle.

A few minutes later, they are taken into a villa.

Once inside the villa, they sit on chairs as instructed, after which Lu Feng takes out handcuffs and shackles, chaining their hands and feet to the chairs.

Their hearts sink to the bottom.

They are professional conmen, but the other side is evidently professional kidnappers.

About twenty minutes later, the remaining two business vehicles also arrive here.

The five people left inside the vehicles notice nothing amiss.

After all, they are conmen.

Conmen should hide in such desolate places.

However.

Just as they get off the vehicles, the drivers and the man in the passenger seat get down as well.

They are shocked to find that these two men have somehow put on masks and pulled out handguns from behind their backs.

That's when they realize something is amiss.

"You, you..."

The speech of these conmen becomes disjointed.

Before they can even finish a sentence, the other side lifts their gun, pointing it at them.

They instinctively raise their hands.

"Go inside." The man grips the handgun, motioning towards the villa.

These conmen dare not resist and immediately head into the villa.

Upon entering the villa and seeing Chu Yue and Xu Guofu shackled to chairs, these conmen understand they've been entrapped.

As these conmen are being controlled, Song Guanchao also drives up.

He parks his car outside the neighboring villa.

"Secretary, Secretary Qu, get out of the car."

The three of them walk into this villa.

In the spacious unfinished living room, there's a sofa and a coffee table, which Song Guanchao prepared in advance.

Next to the sofa are also many snacks and drinks.

"Please have a seat, Secretaries."

The two women sit down, and Song Guanchao places the snacks on the coffee table: "The environment is simple, we can only make do for now."

Neither woman is hungry, and Wu Qiangwei asks, "What do you plan to do next?"

"Please wait a moment, Secretary."

He calls Lu Feng on the phone: "Madman, bring everything over, also bring the person in charge of finances."

"Understood."

"Remember to blindfold him."

After reminding him, he hangs up the phone.

The two villas are adjacent, very close.

A few minutes later, Lu Feng brings a man over.

In his hands are a suitcase and a backpack.

This person appears to be in his early thirties, with a scholarly look, his hands and feet cuffed, eyes blindfolded, his face pale with fear, his body trembling as he walks.

Lu Feng places the backpack and suitcase down: "Everything is here."

"Alright, you can go."

After Lu Feng leaves, Song Guanchao pulls up a chair and presses him to sit down.

He then picks up a can of beer: "Don't be nervous, just relax."

"Okay, okay." The conman's voice trembles, pretending not to be nervous is impossible.

But since things have reached this point, being nervous serves no purpose.

The two women sit silently on the sofa, making no noise.

As a result, this conman doesn't realize that, besides Song Guanchao, there are others present.

Song Guanchao opens the suitcase, pulls out a laptop, and as he starts it up, he asks, "Is the Huaxing Company's account managed by you?"

The conman pauses for a moment: "Yes."

"Very good."

After the computer boots up, Song Guanchao opens the banking client and asks: "Account number and password."

The conman already has some suspicions but doesn't dare to be certain.

He hesitantly gives out the account number and password.

When Song Guanchao opens this account, he suddenly freezes.

Huaxing Company is a shell company set up by the conmen, intended to defraud bank loans.

This company account should supposedly have a balance of 0.

However, at this moment, the company account's balance is over one billion!

Song Guanchao momentarily thinks he has seen it incorrectly.

The two women notice his change in expression, wanting to speak yet remembering there's a conman present.

Fearing speaking out might reveal their identities to him.

Song Guanchao closes the laptop and calls Lu Feng back.

"Take him away."

After Lu Feng takes the conman away, Wu Qiangwei asks, "What happened?"

Song Guanchao reopens the laptop, directly showing the balance to them.

Seeing the balance of over a billion, the two women are also stunned.

The bank loan is 5 billion.

The numbers don't add up.

So, this isn't money from a bank loan.

Then what is this money?

Qu Xiangru's face shows a slight movement: "Is this money they conned before?"

This prompt opens Song Guanchao's line of thought.

Indeed, these people are originally conmen, this surely isn't their first scam.

In the past, they must have conned others too.

So, it's not surprising to have money.

But what surprises Song Guanchao is that these people conned so much money!

That's over a billion.

If they didn't have such big ambitions, honestly sticking with this over a billion would be enough to live lavishly for a lifetime.

Wu Qiangwei says, "Check the transaction history."

"Alright." Song Guanchao opens the account's transaction records.

As he looks through them, he suddenly mutters in surprise.

Because he discovers that Qu Xiangru guessed wrong.

From the transaction records, this isn't money conned by the conmen in the past.

The transaction records show this money coming from some real estate companies in Lingjiang.

Moreover, it was transferred in just over a week's time.

"Wow~"

Suddenly, Song Guanchao's finger on the mouse pauses, then he utters in surprise again.

He sees several familiar companies in these transaction records.

Golden Heaven and Earth Real Estate Company!

Once one of the constructors of the high-speed rail, which stabbed Song Guanchao in the back when the city's finances were tight.

He examines closely and finds out that Golden Heaven and Earth transferred 80 million to this company!

He continues searching and suddenly stops again.

He sees another familiar name.

Da Yuan Real Estate!

The Jiang Family's company!

This company transferred a full 200 million!

Song Guanchao becomes increasingly curious.

Why are these companies transferring money to this group of conmen out of the blue?

He quickly scrolls down and after reading, says: "This money was transferred by some real estate companies in Lingjiang."

Upon hearing this, the two women also show puzzled expressions.

Qu Xiangru's eyebrows knit slightly, looking at Song Guanchao: "Are you sure these people are conmen?"

The opposing company's account has over a billion.

And all this money comes from Lingjiang's local real estate companies.

It really seems like they are genuinely trying to develop a project, having no relation whatsoever with being conmen.

The corner of Song Guanchao's mouth twitches, he is also a little anxious internally, unable to help but suspect if Tang Zhengqiang set him up?

If Chu Yue isn't a conman but a legitimate Hong Kong businessman... then what they did today would be quite serious!