159: Chapter 158 Who would read novels?

"Little Liu! You're slacking off again writing that lousy novel of yours. Have you met your sales target for this month?"

A rolled-up stack of report papers slammed onto the computer screen.

Little Liu shuddered in fright, quickly switched back to his work interface, turned around, and put on a fawning smile: "Brother Song, I'm just taking a break, typing a few words while I'm at it."

Big-headed Song pressed his belly against the edge of the desk, clearly seeing the unhidden filename on the taskbar: "Rebirth: I Am the Jiangcheng Loan King? What kind of crap are you eating? What kind of ghost story is this?"

"I've already told you, you can't handle that 9527 order," Big-headed Song tapped on the desk. "The boss already sold it off at a low price. Stop dwelling on it."

Little Liu kept his head down, silent.

Big-headed Song sighed: "I know you're resentful. The bounty for this order keeps getting higher, but we're just employees; it has nothing to do with us. Focus on your work. We're in the era of holographic media now, who reads novels? Stop daydreaming."

Little Liu gave an awkward smile and nodded repeatedly.

As soon as Big-headed Song left, Little Liu's face fell.

He felt so aggrieved. That order had clearly been handled by him, yet the company just sold it off. Crucially, he didn't get a single cent of commission, not even any compensation.

Now, the bounty for the "Jiangcheng Loan King" on the forums kept rising, and the whole of Jiangcheng knew about such a person.

Little Liu now actually hoped that this order would completely die, and no one would be able to claim it.

Just like the protagonist in his novel, knocking down all these debt collectors.

Just as he was thinking this, a commotion came from the company's front desk.

The glass door was rudely pushed open, and seven or eight burly men in black suits strode in, pushing the security guards who tried to stop them to the ground.

In the middle of the crowd was a man wearing sunglasses.

"Who was responsible for the Jiangcheng Loan King order?" The man took off his sunglasses and surveyed the office area.

The previously noisy office fell silent instantly.

Everyone's gaze snapped directly to Little Liu in the corner.

Little Liu's heart trembled, and his legs went weak.

Before he could react, two men in suits rushed forward, grabbed him by the collar, and slammed him onto the desk.

With his cheek pressed against the desktop, Little Liu struggled desperately: "What are you doing! What are you doing! Is there no law here?"

The man walked up and reached out to gently pat Little Liu's face.

"Don't worry, I'm just asking one thing. You handled the Jiangcheng Loan King, right?" The man leaned down, his tone calm. "Tell me the person's detailed information, home address, social connections, and everything about his Divine Kingdom."

Little Liu struggled hard, but his hands were held down: "I don't know! I really don't know!"

"It was an outside line that called in at the time; I only received a Divine Kingdom coordinate. I used the company's intelligent system to test it, confirmed it was roughly C-rank, and that it possessed a Divine Kingdom Core, so I just issued the loan!"

The man raised an eyebrow, grabbed a mechanical keyboard from the desk, and smashed it hard against Little Liu's forehead.

"Bang!"

The keyboard shattered, and the keycaps flew off.

Little Liu screamed, his eyebrow split open instantly, and blood flowed down his cheek.

"You loan shark, did you not check his background?" The man pointed at Little Liu's nose and cursed.

Little Liu wailed, and through his blood-red, blurred vision, he saw Big-headed Song run out of the supervisor's office, and his tears and snot immediately started flowing: "Help me, Brother Song! I really don't know!"

"We got the Divine Kingdom coordinates, checked that there was a core, and issued the loan. That's the company's process. It's not my fault I didn't check his background!"

Big-headed Song looked at the scene, knowing these people were not to be trifled with, but he still braced himself to explain.

"Big brother, we…" Big-headed Song swallowed his saliva. "If we have the Divine Kingdom Core, we can trap the person, so we usually don't check backgrounds. Please go easy on us, we're just employees."

The man stared at Big-headed Song for a while, then spat.

He waved his hand, signaling his men to let go of Little Liu.

"What are you looking at!" The man roared at the terrified employees around him. "Your crappy company's procedures are non-compliant. From today on, don't bother working here!"

Then, he pointed at Little Liu, who was holding a tissue to the wound on his forehead: "Keep your mouth shut, you hear me?"

Little Liu sat on the ground, covering his wound, and nodded repeatedly.

The man put his sunglasses back on and led his people out of the building in a grand procession.

Not long after, the Police Security Bureau's hover cars, flashing red and blue lights, surrounded the building.

Fangxin Loan was sealed on the spot for suspected illegal operations, and all involved personnel were taken away.

Meanwhile, inside Gu Han's Divine Kingdom.

Gu Han looked at the glowing S-rank Divine architecture [We're Not Acquainted] in front of him.

This thing was loot scavenged from the Snake-person Demigod's Divine Kingdom; its function was to block external coordinate scans of the Divine Kingdom.

At this moment, the lights on the surface of the building were flashing frantically.

Indicating that someone was currently scanning his Divine Kingdom via coordinates.

Gu Han rubbed his chin, deep in thought. Before he had this shielding building, someone must have been secretly scanning it all along.

He turned his head and walked toward Tang Wuying, who was snickering on the side.

Gu Han walked over, and without a word, raised his leg and kicked Tang Wuying in the butt.

"Why did you kick me!" Tang Wuying scrambled up, his face full of grievance.

Gu Han pointed at him: "Tomorrow, have your family get a more Advanced anti-surveillance Divine architecture and send it over, you hear me?"

Tang Wuying just wanted to retort, but seeing Gu Han pointing at him, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

"Fine… I'll find a way to get my family to do it." Tang Wuying lowered his head.

Gu Han couldn't be bothered with him and was preparing to go check on the new situation with the Ant-men.

Suddenly, a shout came from mid-air.

"We got it! Divine Lord! We got it!"

Changsheng was stepping on a thin branch, flying over from a distance, wobbling in the air.

It was full of wild joy, waving its four arms, "A Little Mushroom Sac that doesn't take drugs has appeared!"

Gu Han's spirits lifted, and he immediately took it and hurried toward the mushroom garden spirit field.

The two arrived at the edge of the spirit field.

On a patch of green fungal mat, a Little Mushroom Sac, slightly larger than the ordinary dried mushrooms, was opening its little mouth, munching away at several shriveled little dried mushrooms nearby.

"Good, good, good." Gu Han exclaimed repeatedly, "Send it to the virtual coordinates to accelerate its growth."

After arranging the matters for the Little Mushroom Sac, Gu Han turned to look at Changsheng. He suddenly remembered something.

blood jade bodhi.

Changsheng's lifespan issue hadn't been completely resolved yet; he hadn't gotten his hands on that thing yet.

He exited the Divine Kingdom, logged into the black market software, and checked his previous private messages.

Gu Han had originally thought that with the conditions he offered, the other party would definitely be interested.

But when he opened the dialog box to check.

The other party only replied with four words: "Scammers, don't bother."

Gu Han was stunned.

He had offered a billion; he just wanted to borrow the blood jade bodhi to study it, and he even guaranteed to return it intact.

Good grief.

A billion, for goodness' sake.

That money, not even counting the premium, could directly buy more than ten ordinary blood jade bodhis, and they actually called him a scammer.