Chapter 465: Chapter 161: The Mysterious Western Pole—Seeking Alliance with the Ice Race Through Marriage

The Chief Steward’s madness naturally attracted quite a few investigations.

Li Yuan silently noted those people, but found no anomalies because if they were Remnants, there would be an extra line "Equipment Bar" in their information.

Afterwards, Li Yuan quickly returned and told Xue Ning about the incident.

Upon hearing this, Xue Ning was both tense and fearful.

"Sister Xue, you hide first. I’ll disguise myself as you and go see the Chief Steward," Li Yuan suddenly said.

Xue Ning was stunned for a moment. She immediately understood the intention of her man — to create an opportunity for the enemy.

After all, the place where the Chief Steward went mad was already surrounded by many people. In such a chaotic place, there must still be enemies lurking. As long as she went alone and deliberately created an opportunity for the target, the enemy would surely appear.

However, Li Yuan didn’t trust her to go, so he wanted to apply Yin Makeup to disguise himself as her.

She nodded lightly and said, "Be careful."

Li Yuan immediately began applying makeup.

The [Rouge Box] has various effects, and it can even cross genders.

In the blink of an eye, there were two Xue Nings in the mirror.

Li Yuan felt his current state was somewhat strange. It wasn’t that it was weird to be disguised as a woman, but rather that this [Rouge Box] gave him a "won’t last long" feeling.

He recalled Zhu Nuyang earlier, the Fifth Grade Elder, who was completely unable to use Evil Ghost Tools...

Now that he was already in the Fifth Grade, theoretically, he shouldn’t be able to use them either, but because of the "Equipment Bar," he could use them briefly.

Li Yuan didn’t linger, heading straight to the scene, then deliberately going solo...

Soon, he indeed sensed someone quietly approaching him.

He shifted his gaze to see that person with an Eighth Grade value floating above his head, but the information included a line [Equipment].

In the [Equipment], there were three lines of information:

1. Antique Bronze Mirror with Deer Pattern

2. Grass Rope Bag

3. Soup

Among these, the mirror and the bag were common specialties on Mianzhou Ghost Street, but this "Soup" seemed truly bizarre.

Li Yuan pretended to have discovered an anomaly, hurriedly quickened his pace, walking faster and faster, appearing very panicked, and that person’s speed also increased, and at the corner, they collided head-on.

It was a man wearing Commerce Guard clothing, and seeing the lone Li Yuan, he sneered, "Madam, you look tired."

As he spoke, he reached out to grab Li Yuan.

Li Yuan clamped down on his hand, and with the confused and shocked look in the guard’s eyes, he cuffed him with Human Skin Handcuffs.

The next moment, the man trembled violently like a sieve, tears, snot, and saliva shaking loose and falling to the ground, muttering incoherently...

Evidently, he had gone mad.

He was a Remnant, but he had been controlled early on.

Li Yuan looked at him grimly, then searched him and found three Evil Ghost Tools, which he placed into his own Equipment Bar.

As for what these three things were used for, just by looking he couldn’t tell, but by taking them back for Yan Yu to examine, everything would become clear.

...

Moments later, Xue Ning learned the news, and with a pale face, she said, "Even the guards have been infiltrated? Does that mean we should give up here? After all, we don’t know how many Secret Investigators there are..."

"Give up on what?"

Li Yuan thought and said, "If they won’t let us play, then nobody plays."

His thinking has always been very clear.

Indeed, with the enemy’s Secret Investigators present, his Cloud Commerce Association was no longer functional. It was impossible to specifically investigate a piece of information without alerting the enemy.

However, he could investigate everything.

As long as there is no target, the opponent won’t detect anything.

Moreover, the enemy could place Secret Investigators on his side simply by relying on "Evil Ghost Tools."

Though he couldn’t eliminate these Evil Ghost Tools, or find all the Secret Investigators, he could... fill the enemy’s camp with Secret Investigators as well.

In doing so, it would become the enemy’s headache.

You want to see what I’m investigating or try to control me...

No problem, I won’t investigate anymore.

Now, I want to see what you’re investigating, to cause you trouble.

This was Li Yuan’s strategy of turning the tables.

...

Subsequently, Li Yuan spent nearly two months actively establishing connections with the Chuyun Commerce Association and the Fujia Commerce Association, along with other major associations, and during the process, he quietly detained people.

After quietly converting over fifty executives, guards, and the like from major commerce associations into his own people, Li Yuan felt assured.

These executives would be responsible for gathering information for him, though not deliberately so, and any information the enemy specifically gathered, he would also come to know.

After handling these affairs, Li Yuan took Xue Ning back to Cloud Mountain Path and Sword Mountain Path.

The Chuyun Commerce Association was no longer trustworthy, but it could still function as a source of income... and as a channel for information sharing.

The information Li Yuan knew would surely be known to the enemy who had planted Secret Investigators.

Similarly, the information the enemy knew would be relayed back through Li Yuan’s Secret Investigators.

It’s a tit for tat, no one gets the upper hand.

...

The carriage entered Cloud Mountain Path. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Inside the carriage, the beautiful lady still felt a bit bewildered.

She leaned against Li Yuan’s chest, lifting a finger to open a corner of the curtain and looking outside.

A yellowed leaf spun down.

"It’s autumn... I wonder how our foolish son will be doing."

Xue Ning sighed softly.

Li Yuan patted her shoulder and comforted her in a soft voice, "Ping’an was born extraordinary; he’ll be fine."

Xue Ning suddenly said, "This time when we return to Cloud Mountain Path, I want to become Remnants with the four maids Meilan, Zhujie, and Ju.

I know, as long as I trigger Sister Yan’s killing rule and buy our Soul Bags from her shop, we can become Remnants.