Sir! Don't close the net!

Chapter Six: How could someone become a boss while being an undercover agent?

"Hello, I am Al-Jonor, the executive officer of Sheep Village. I have something I would like to ask you."

Upon arriving at the Gowerton Tax Office, Al-Jonor led Abu Jean straight to an empty counter, placed his hands on the table, lowered his body, and looked directly into the eyes of the Gowerton Tax Office staff behind the counter.

The staff, who had been somewhat drowsy, immediately sat up straight upon hearing the name "Sheep Village."

Her eyes lit up. "Is there anything I can help you with?"

Abu Jean, standing behind El Giono, breathed a sigh of relief and then straightened his back with a confident expression.

Located at the border of Nibelungen and Eden, Goweden is an extremely delicate town. It is economically backward and has only one temple whose owner is unknown. For Nibelungen and Eden, Goweden's only value is to incite political conflict.

This led to a continuous decline in Goweton's economy, leaving it almost completely isolated from the world. Without a proper economy, there was naturally no accounting system. One of the many ways the Black Goat's son gained the trust of Goweton's residents was by helping Goweton establish a tax office and popularizing the concept of accounting. With accounting, Goweton was no longer economically isolated, and Goweton's future businesses had a basis for cooperation with businesses in other regions.

For these Yunzhong (a group of people), the establishment of a comprehensive accounting system by Guo Weidun was not a good thing, because their main responsibility was to quietly transport pollutants and offerings in and out of their assigned areas.

The lack of a proper accounting system meant they could easily move contaminants and offerings in and out without worrying about being discovered during the process.

Helping Guoweidun establish an accounting system was a thankless task. Guoweidun was a remote area that was not valued by the higher-ups and had little demand for pollutants and offerings. However, this did not mean that they could easily transport pollutants and offerings in and out.

The backward economy has made Guoweiton almost isolated from the world. The only way to transfer resources in and out of Guoweiton is through the young black goats disguised as logistics companies in the Goat Village. Other branches can mix their own ledgers into the vast sea of ​​ledgers, but in Guoweiton, 60% of the ledgers in the tax bureau belong to the young black goats, and the remaining 40% are almost all related to the young black goats. Whether it is Nibelungen or Eden, as long as there is suspicion, it is clear who to investigate.

However, it was precisely because of this thankless task that the black goat's offspring gained the trust of the residents of Guoweidun, and now they also have the opportunity to find some clues through the account books here.

“I want to check the accounts from March 7th of this year to now,” Al Chonno said in a low voice.

March 7th marks the date when Li Yili will assume the position of deputy branch chief, Dela Par.

“Yes, you can, but may I ask why?” The Guoweiton tax office employee paused, opened a drawer on the side, took out a set of keys, but did not immediately hand them to Al-Jiong.

"Actually, it's like this..."

Al-Jonor glanced around the tax office lobby out of the corner of his eye and lowered his voice when he realized no one was looking at him.

“There have been some problems with the work I’m in charge of, and I want to check the books to prevent some people from being deported back to Guweiton.”

The staff member blinked and suddenly realized what was happening. He immediately stood up with a nervous expression and handed over the keys with both hands.

"The ledgers are all kept in the tax bureau's underground vault. This year's ledgers are on the first shelf on the left-hand side of the entrance. The vault closes at 7 p.m.."

"Thank you, I'll leave before then."

Al-Jonor smiled and led Abu Jean around the counter, heading towards the stairwell directly in front.

After a moment's hesitation, the staff member left the counter, quickly walked behind Al-Qiong, reached out and grabbed Al-Qiong's sleeve, lowering his voice, "Um, Executive Officer Al-Qiong, my sister is planning to have a child..."

Al-Chonno blinked, a gentle smile spreading across his face. He patted the staff member on the shoulder. "This is a good thing. Why make plans? I'll help you as much as I can."

After saying that, Al-Jonor waved and walked toward the stairwell.

The staff member who received the reply bowed deeply, his face filled with gratitude, as he watched Al-Jonor's figure gradually disappear into the dark stairwell.

At the same time, a man with a scar near his eye, who was in the queue, suddenly left the queue, pulled up his collar, strode out of the tax office, and stopped the nearest carriage.

"Go to Sheep Village."

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"Ta-da!"

Three loud chimes roused Li Yili, who was almost ready to agree to buy the latest jewelry from Hagen while she was sinking into a sweet reverie in Valkyrie.

Li Yili raised her hand and placed it on Valhou Lei's back, lifting Valhou Lei, who was slowly coiling around her body like a snake strangling its prey, up. As she stood up, she straightened her clothes and said...

"Ahem—I should go to work now."

Valkyrie clicked her tongue, then gracefully reclined on her side on the sofa, her fair legs gently rubbing against each other.

"You look like a perfect gentleman. Isn't that Dela Pal treating you like a confidant? Ordinary employees don't have the privilege of going home for lunch."

"I only have the privilege of going home for lunch, but I don't have the privilege of being late or absent from work."

Li Yili tugged at his collar, walked around Valhou Lei who was calling him, went to the door, and reached out to take his coat from the hanger.

“Using privileges that don’t belong to you without authorization is a very dangerous thing.”

Li Yili shrugged helplessly. Although he had never done undercover work before, the TV series still...

I've seen quite a few, and one of the signs of a trusted confidant being abandoned is that the confidant thinks they can represent their "master" and naturally feel that they have been given more privileges.

So as a confidant, he always did whatever Dela Pal allowed him to do, and he never did anything that was tacitly permitted, such as being absent from work or being late.

“Then you can get more privileges, like climbing to the position of branch manager,” Valkyrie Lei got up, leaned on the back of the sofa, and smiled at Li Yili. “That way you can have absolute power in Guoweiton, and you can do it, right?”

"what……"

Li Yili rolled her eyes and reached out to open the door.

He came here as an undercover agent. How can an undercover agent rise to the top? The higher you climb, the more exposure you get. If he really becomes the branch chief, he, the little undercover agent, will be completely in the sights of the old high command. If he defectes, being killed and left on the street would be a happy ending.

Unless he can take over the position of the former leader.

But is it possible?

impossible.

"If someone really controls everything, then when the sky falls, there will be no one to hold it up."

Chapter Seven: On the Transference of Hatred

“Ahem—Mr. Richard.”

The coachman rubbed his hands together, looking somewhat embarrassed at Li Yili in front of him, while the black horse energetically bobbed its head and greeted Li Yili.

"It's Mr. Li Yili. By the way, is my ranch really that big?"

Li Yili emphasized the form of address as always, then looked the groom up and down, glanced at her seemingly endless ranch, put her hands on her hips, and nodded.

"Yes, it is quite big."

The coachman's eyes darted around for a moment before he touched the pocket containing the gold coins. "You gave me too much. I feel a little guilty going back like this."

Li Yili raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

Economic development inevitably leads to a redefinition of conscience.

Guoweiton is almost completely isolated from the world, but not in the idyllic way of the Peach Blossom Spring. On the contrary, both material and spiritual life can only be described as difficult. The black goat calves boosted Guoweiton's economy, but they also turned Guoweiton into a breeding ground for all sorts of things to grow in the bodies of its residents.

For example, a new conscience.

"Is that so? Then I'll have to make good use of your conscience and send me back to Sheep Village."

Li Yili patted the coachman on the shoulder, opened the carriage door quite naturally, and sat down inside.

The groom clenched his fists, then hunched over with a look of dejection, and pulled on the reins. The black horse, though reluctant, still strode toward the restless Goweton.

Inside the carriage, just as Li Yili was about to think about what to do next, a knocking sound came from the side, and the coachman's voice rang out through the poorly soundproofed carriage walls.

“Mr. Richard, there’s something I’d like to ask you.”

“It’s Mr. Li Yili, please speak first,” Li Yili raised his hand and tapped his forehead.

"Actually, my wife and I want to have a child recently, but I'm just a stable boy, and my wife can only do some handicrafts..."

The coachman spoke hesitantly, as if he were struggling with something.

Li Yili realized what was happening and sighed helplessly. Economic development inevitably means that some people will become the breadwinners of others. Being a groom is not a suitable profession for having children in such turbulent times.

But wanting a child is not wrong in itself; what is wrong is the environment that makes this behavior wrong.

“Speaking of which, Yangcun might get busy lately, but I’m not the kind of ‘good person’ who sacrifices my life for the company,” Li Yili said, tapping the side of the carriage. “You just need to pick me up and drop me off during this time.”

"Thanks--"

The coachman gripped the reins tightly and remained silent.

Seeing that the groom had stopped talking, Li Yili did not disturb him. Instead, she began to think about how to remove the last batch of contaminants from the black goat calves and to make Nibelungen and Eden aware that Guoweiton had been contaminated.

Although they didn't care much, they still had to save face. After noticing that Guoweidun had been polluted by the past, they would send people over to purify it.

A short while later, a rotten smell filled Li Yili's nostrils.

Guo Weidun has arrived.

Li Yili pinched the bridge of his nose and couldn't help but let out a long sigh. The carriage no longer swayed as before, but he felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.

After a while, the carriage gradually slowed down and finally came to a steady stop.

"Mr. Richard, we've arrived at Sheep Village."

"Okay, I understand."

Li Yili slapped her forehead hard, reached out and opened the carriage door, got out, waved to the coachman, and then walked towards the gate of Sheep Village.

Before Li Yili even entered the door, a man pulling on her collar came towards her.

Looks like a customer.

As an employee of Sheep Village, Li Yili readily stepped aside to let the man leave first.

The man didn't even glance at Li Yili, and quickened his pace while pulling on his collar.

As they passed each other, Li Yili noticed a scar under the man's eye, but she didn't pay much attention to it. This was because all the young black goats in the Sheep Village hall stopped in their tracks and stared at him with undisguised glares.

A glare of admiration.

The tacit isolation caused the remaining clients to instinctively look at Li Yili. The atmosphere of isolation and helplessness was like the intersecting blades of a meat grinder, sweeping towards Li Yili.

In response, Li Yili simply smiled arrogantly and waved his middle finger at the crowd of people who were isolating him.

He's an undercover agent, after all. He can tolerate Dela Pal, since he's going to betray Dela Pal and win Dela Pal's favor so he can stab them a few more times. But he won't tolerate these Yunzhong. He'll disgust as many as he can.

If circumstances allowed, he would have loved to leap up in front of them and say with a smirk, "I just want to see those kinds of expressions on your faces," since the hatred would ultimately fall on Dela Pal's head anyway.

Workplace bullying?

Excuse me, but you know the saying "a higher rank can crush you"? Anyway, I'm an undercover agent. If you guys are having a great time, wouldn't that make me look like I'm being lazy at work?

Although they didn't know what giving the middle finger meant, the Yun Clan members, who were often responded to by Li Yili giving them the middle finger, felt a surge of hot blood, but they couldn't retaliate. They could only watch Li Yili walk away with bulging veins on their foreheads.

On her way to Dela Pal's office, Li Yili noticed something: Al-Chonno's seat was empty, and there were many documents piled on the desk.

Li Yili raised an eyebrow slightly and tentatively took a step toward El Qiaonuo's desk. This casual step was like a declaration of war. The other Yunzhong immediately stood up, as if they would swarm forward if Li Yili took another step closer.

The reactions of the Cloud Crowd confirmed Li Yili's suspicions. He immediately laughed heartily and strode towards El-Qiong's desk. When any Cloud Crowd members tried to block his way, he simply shoved them aside and arrogantly cursed them.

"If you can't even walk properly, you shouldn't be working here."