I was just telling a story, why is the whole internet urging me to turn myself in?

Looking at these options, Shen Feng stroked his chin, and a highly constructive "blueprint for ordinary people to get rich overnight" took shape in his mind.

"I now have tens of millions of viewers, making me a top-tier streamer. But just telling stories in a rented e-sports room every day is really beneath my dignity!"

"And what if the platform investigates my taxes in the future, or some rich person insists on investing in me? I can't be without a proper company, can I? Otherwise, I'll be criticized by netizens as a makeshift operation."

Shen Feng slapped his thigh: "No way, I have to pull off something big! I need to open my own legitimate film and television copyright studio or media company! That way, I can not only spend money openly, but also keep out those weird trolls with daggers like the other night—after all, legitimate buildings have top-notch security!"

After making up his mind, Shen Feng decisively made a large-scale purchase in the mall.

"Spend two million emotion points to exchange for twenty million in cash! Then spend another five hundred thousand emotion points to exchange for that aura of authority!"

He was very satisfied with this aura skill. With this, when he went to rent a high-end office building in the city center, the real estate agents and landlords would definitely not dare to treat him as a naive fool who had never seen the world!

[Ding! Exchange successful! 20 million in real-world, legal funds have been deposited into your account.]

The aura of a superior has been integrated into the host's skeletal and muscular systems and micro-expression database.

"All done!" Shen Feng snapped his fingers in satisfaction. "Here we go, to the CBD to check out the place!"

Half an hour later.

After washing up, Shen Feng carefully selected a black Armani haute couture suit that he had just bought a few days ago, and even put on a pair of gold-rimmed half-rimmed glasses.

Looking at the well-dressed, tall, and handsome man in the mirror, Shen Feng nodded in satisfaction.

"Excellent, excellent! This is definitely a law-abiding young entrepreneur! He looks reliable!"

He straightened his cuffs, opened the security door, and strode into the elevator.

However, Shen Feng had no idea that the moment he pressed the button for the basement floor of the elevator...

The Defense Agency's Special Case Team channel, which had been lurking in Room 2802 and the underground parking garage, suddenly erupted in chaos!

"Calling Captain Su! Target codename 'Mr.' has left the nest! He's not wearing his usual casual clothes today, but a full black suit, and... and his condition is not right!" The special operations agent in charge of surveillance swallowed hard, his voice filled with undisguised fear and rapid breathing.

"What's wrong? Explain yourself!" Su Qing's serious voice came through the walkie-talkie.

"Captain Su, you'd better check the internal surveillance feed yourself." The special operations agent's hands trembled as he switched to the high-definition video feed from the garage. "This doesn't look like he's going out on business at all... Even through the screen, I can feel him looking down on me. His aura is like that of a suit-wearing thug about to take over the entire Jiangzhou underworld!"

"Suit-clad thugs? Taking over Jiangzhou's underworld?!"

Inside the temporary command vehicle of the Defense Agency's Special Task Force, Su Qing snatched the walkie-talkie and stared at the high-definition images transmitted from the underground parking garage of Genting Highlands on the screen.

In the video, Shen Feng is wearing a perfectly tailored black suit without any wrinkles. He has one hand in his pocket and walks slowly toward a ride-hailing car.

Whether it was due to the lighting and shadows of the surveillance camera or not, Su Qing felt a suffocating sense of oppression even through the screen.

"Second team, attention! The target got into a ride-hailing car with the license plate ending in 778! Activate Skynet tracking immediately, but don't get too close. Under no circumstances should he spot you!" Su Qing took a deep breath, her palms already sweating.

Meanwhile, Shen Feng, sitting in the back seat of the ride-hailing car, couldn't help but tug at his tie, mentally complaining, "This Armani haute couture is so unbreathable, and these leather shoes have such hard soles, they're rubbing my toes raw. I should have just worn flip-flops."

He glanced out the car window, somewhat puzzled.

The atmosphere was a bit off when I left the residential area.

The middle-aged woman who usually liked to approach people downstairs to sell financial products actually buried her head in the flower bed and pulled weeds when she saw him coming.

And then there was the young security guard who was playing on his phone when he passed by the guard booth. The moment he saw him, he stood up straight, cold sweat pouring down his face, and he stammered, "Take care, sir."

"The property management services at Cloud Top One are just too extravagant! Young people these days are so polite." Shen Feng stroked his chin with satisfaction.

Little did he know that the young security guard he had just seen was a fighting and grappling champion sent undercover by the special task force.

However, under the passive crushing effect of Shen Feng's [superior aura], this capture champion seemed to be targeted by an ancient ferocious beast, and the biological instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm caused his brain to completely shut down.

Half an hour later, in the core area of ​​Jiangzhou CBD, at the Global Financial Center.

This is the most high-end and secure top-tier Grade A office building in the entire Jiangzhou.

Those who can work here are all regional branches of multinational corporations or financial giants.

As soon as Shen Feng stepped into the lobby, the receptionists who had been chatting away suddenly stopped talking, straightened their backs without thinking, and didn't even dare to breathe.

"Hello sir, how can I help you?" A well-dressed real estate leasing manager greeted him with a broad smile.

As the top real estate agent in the area, he had developed a keen eye for detail. He had planned to use a bunch of technical jargon to fool the young client in front of him and rip him off a hefty commission.

But the moment his gaze met Shen Feng's.

"Buzz—"

The manager's mind went completely blank.

What kind of eyes were those? They were calm and still, yet they seemed to see through all his greed and hypocrisy in an instant.

Shen Feng simply stood there casually, yet the magnetic field around him was as heavy as a mountain, making people want to bow down and submit.

"I want to rent the top floor of your place. All utilities included." Shen Feng pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses.

"The...the top floor? Sir, the 68th floor is a single-level apartment, 2,000 square meters. The annual rent, plus property management and top-tier security fees, would be six hundred...no, the starting price is five million!"

The real estate agent's voice trembled uncontrollably. He had originally intended to quote eight million, but his survival instincts kicked in and he blurted out the lowest price.

"Okay. I'll sign a ten-year contract, with a down payment of ten million, and the rest will be paid in installments to your company account." Shen Feng was very satisfied with the price and readily pulled out a black bank card.

Meanwhile, in a disguised command vehicle outside the building, Su Qing, who was listening to everything the whole time, almost popped her eyes out.

"Five years? A ten million down payment transferred directly?!" Su Qing abruptly turned to the technician beside her, who was holding a laptop. "What exactly is he planning? Is he going to spend tens of millions to build a criminal empire's lair on the top floor of a landmark building in Jiangzhou?!"

"Beep beep beep beep—!"

Just then, the dedicated communication device in the command vehicle suddenly emitted an extremely piercing red alarm!

"Captain Su! The Anti-Money Laundering Center of the Central Bank of Jiangzhou has just issued a top-level warning!"

The technician, sweating profusely, typed furiously on the keyboard, pulling up a set of wildly fluctuating data: "An account under the name of the target, Shen Feng, has just experienced a massive transaction of ten million!"

Su Qing's eyes suddenly lit up.

The fox has finally shown its tail!

"Good! I couldn't find the source of his funds for those murders, and he finally couldn't resist using dirty money!"

Su Qing slammed her fist on the carriage wall in excitement. "Immediately access the bank's internal network! Notify the Economic Crimes Division that as long as they find even the slightest problem with the source of this money, without waiting for him to commit murder, immediately launch a cross-departmental arrest on charges of money laundering and possessing a huge amount of unexplained wealth!"

The thought of bringing down this devil who sits on the cloud and controls human lives made all the special task force members feel like they had been injected with chicken blood.

10%……50%……90%……100%!

"Found it! The source of the funds is..." The technician's voice suddenly caught in his throat.

"Where did it originate? Was it a Bitcoin account on the dark web, or a shell company in an overseas fraud park?" Su Qing asked eagerly.

The technician swallowed hard, his fingers trembling as he opened the transaction record stamped with a bright red electronic seal: "Team Leader Su... this money was transferred from the official account of Random House, the largest publishing group in Europe."

"What did you say?" Su Qing was stunned.

"The payment remarks are... Shen Feng's suspense novel series, a three-year first payment of royalties for the overseas bestseller's full copyright. And..." The technician clicked on another attachment, his voice tinged with despair, "This total income of over 20 million was automatically deducted by the system at the very moment it entered Kyushu, with a maximum personal income tax of 45%. The tax payment certificate and the notarized certificate of legal cross-border income are lying in the tax office's archives, flawless!"

Inside the command vehicle, Su Qing felt all her strength drain away in an instant, and she slumped into her seat.

Clean! So clean!

So clean that even the most demanding old hound of the Economic Crime Investigation Division could only salute this bill!

"He's included everyone... He knows we're watching him, so he brazenly used a novel as an excuse to launder overseas money right under our noses, making it as clean as snow! Paying taxes legally? He's openly mocking the incompetence of the Defense Agency!"

Meanwhile, on the 68th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center.

Shen Feng had just seen off the obsequious, sweating real estate agent.

He stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the bustling city of Jiangzhou below, feeling great.

"A top-tier office area of ​​2,000 square meters, with over a hundred top-level security personnel in this building alone. Now we don't have to worry about any psychopathic killer knocking on the door in the middle of the night."

Shen Feng turned around and looked at the huge, empty office area, where not a single person was in sight, and frowned slightly.

"The venue is set up, but a commander without an army won't do. If I start broadcasting in the future, how can I live up to my status as a major influencer with millions of followers if I don't even have an assistant to pour water, deal with online trolls, and handle business negotiations?"

Shen Feng took out his phone, skillfully opened the Jiangzhou local recruitment app, and entered the words "Hidden Culture Media Studio" that he had just registered in the company information field.

He hesitated for a moment, then typed a line into the job requirements:

[High-salary position available for personal assistant/technical director. Requirements: quick-witted, proficient in network technology, bold, and those with unique life experiences are preferred. Starting salary of 50,000 RMB per month, with no upper limit.]

Seeing the notification that the message had been successfully sent, Shen Feng was extremely satisfied: "These days, a generous reward will surely bring forth brave men. I refuse to believe I can't recruit a capable person."

After clicking send, Shen Feng hummed a little tune as he walked towards the elevator.

Meanwhile, in a dark rented room in a village within the city of Jiangzhou.

Xiao Yu, a delinquent youth who was recently exempted from prosecution due to his "meritorious service" and being under the age of eighteen, is sitting in front of a second-hand computer, frantically refreshing web pages.

Suddenly, a high-paying job posting with the words "secret culture" caught his eye.

Xiao Yu's pupils suddenly contracted, and a fervent light, like that of a pilgrim, burst forth from his eyes.