400: Chapter 400 These two female swindlers were indeed in cahoots.

Just as Heart Six was busy brainwashing the two of them over on this side, feeding them new scripts and lines.

On the other end of the street, Jiang You, having successfully seen through the "scam ring's" conspiracy, was currently sitting in front of a roadside stall wafting with the rich aroma of cumin.

He had a sizzling, oily lamb skewer in his mouth and a steaming bowl of tofu pudding in his hand, eating with such gusto and a glowing face that he was clearly enjoying himself.

"Whew, that hits the spot!"

Jiang You swallowed the last mouthful of tofu pudding and let out a satisfied burp.

With his stomach now fueled by carbohydrates and protein, his Brain, which had been feeling lightheaded from low blood sugar earlier, finally regained its clarity.

"These scammers in the Imperial Capital have really poor professional skills."

Jiang You wiped his mouth with a tissue, crossed his legs, and smugly replayed the encounter in his mind.

"Same shared bike, same flying tackle, they didn't even bother to change a single line of their dialogue."

"Do they really take me for some naive sucker who's never seen the world?"

Jiang You snorted coldly, giving himself a big thumbs-up for his high-level anti-scam intelligence.

"It's a good thing I, Jiang, didn't waste my time downloading that anti-scam app; I saw through this crude honey trap immediately."

"How could such a good thing as a pretty girl throwing herself at me happen to an invisible salted fish like me, one after another? Even with my toes, I know something's wrong!"

Picking his teeth, Jiang You silently set a rule for himself.

"It seems the waters in the Imperial Capital run deep. The identity of the 'Old Master' Faceless Man inside me is already something that shouldn't see the light of day, and now I have to watch out for these scam rings trying to stage accidents on the street."

"I must be even more cautious when I go out from now on! If I encounter beauties trying to strike up a conversation, I absolutely cannot look at them twice—I must stay as far away as possible!"

Jiang You paid the bill, patted his round belly, hummed an off-key tune, and strolled leisurely back toward the hotel with an arrogant swagger.

Meanwhile, Qin Zhuo was walking down another bustling street, her fair, pretty face filled with strange hesitation and impatience.

"Tick." Her fair fingertips pressed firmly against the phone screen again to light it up.

On the messaging app interface, the friend "Jiang You" she had just added, whose profile picture was an anime salted fish, remained in a deathly silent state.

Twenty minutes ago, she added Jiang You as a friend.

Ten minutes ago, she was fantasizing that Jiang You would send an opening line like, "Classmate Xiao Qin, I'm really sorry about earlier. To show my appreciation, let me treat you to dinner tonight."

But now... the chat box was dead silent.

Forget about being treated to dinner; there wasn't even a default "handshake" emoji from the system!

"This dead fish-eyed guy... is he disconnected from the internet?!"

Qin Zhuo gritted her teeth in anger, her chest heaving violently, her carefully maintained image as the school goddess nearly collapsing.

Think of her, Qin Zhuo—the acknowledged cold and beautiful goddess of Imperial Capital University, a top talent of the younger generation in Great Xia—lowering herself to act out such an idiotic "damsel in distress" script, and even swallowing her pride to add him as a friend!

"Could my charm really be worse than a bottle of anti-dandruff shampoo?"

The more Qin Zhuo thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt, and a nameless fire burned fiercely in her heart.

No, she couldn't swallow this insult!

If she went back empty-handed just like this, the strange look from President Xia Yun would be enough to shame her to death.

Qin Zhuo turned around abruptly, her gaze locking onto the direction Jiang You had left in.

"I'll find an excuse to rush back! I'll just say... I'll say that shared bike twisted my ankle earlier!"

Meanwhile, behind the green belt on the other side, Li Weiwei was sniffing while crumpling up a blood-soaked tissue and throwing it into a trash can.

"Weiwei, listen well, the expectations of the Cult Leader and this Old Master are all resting on your shoulders alone!"

Heart Six's voice echoed frantically in her earpiece, carrying an unquestionable, pyramid-scheme-like fanaticism:

"Remember, you are now a stubborn little white flower who has suffered endless humiliation and is misunderstood by the whole world, yet remains strong and unyielding!"

"Keep the dirt on your face, and don't wipe the nosebleed too clean—this is called 'poignant beauty'! This is called 'tragic and fierce'! Male college students eat this stuff up!"

Li Weiwei gritted her teeth and, with an air of tragic heroism "ready to face death," flanked him from the side path.

In the middle of the road, Jiang You was leisurely walking back to the hotel.

"Hmm?" Jiang You paused his steps, his dead fish eyes rolling slightly upward. A martial artist's intuition told him that something troublesome was approaching at high speed.

Jiang You instinctively tilted his head and saw the first girl he had encountered, "Xiao Qin," walking toward him with small, hurried steps, carrying an arrogant aura of someone untainted by worldly affairs, her pretty face tense.

"Huh? Why is this female con artist back again?" Jiang You frowned, and a red light went off in his heart.

Before he could decide whether to pretend he didn't see her and take a detour.

"Rustle, rustle." In the path behind the green belt on the right, a rapid and somewhat sorrowful rustling sound rang out abruptly once again.

Jiang You turned his head again. He saw the uniformed girl, Li Weiwei, whom he had heartlessly dodged earlier and who had face-planted into the ground, now covered in dirt, with two faint, reflective streaks of blood hanging under her nose. She was staring at him with resentful and angry eyes, like a little she-wolf whose tail had been stepped on, fiercely flanking him from the right!

One on the left, one on the right. Two women with stunningly beautiful faces but completely opposite vibes were, in that instant, like two giant iron pincers, one in front and one behind, forcefully blocking Jiang You right in the middle of this narrow sidewalk!

"..." Jiang You's foot froze in mid-air. His hands were still in his pockets, the laziness in his dead fish eyes was completely shattered at this moment, and his pupils suffered a violent earthquake within his eye sockets!

A chill shot up from the soles of his feet, instantly rocketing to the top of his head, causing every hair on his body to stand on end in an instant!

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!!!"

Jiang You cursed three times in his mind, his entire train of thought completely turning into mush at this moment.

A perfectly closed-loop, terrifying conspiracy theory uncontrollably swept through his entire being the moment Li Weiwei and Qin Zhuo approached!

"These two women are indeed in cahoots! This is a massive, professional, well-coordinated high-level honey trap criminal syndicate that even planned out their clothing styles in advance!"

Jiang You's face turned pale in an instant, and cold sweat poured down his forehead in large droplets.

"The first actress is responsible for disguising herself as a pure school goddess from a high-ranking family to lower my guard, approaching me with a cliché plot to trick me out of my private contact information so she can track my real-time location!"

"The second actress is responsible for forced contact-staging. If my vigilance is high and I don't fall for the first person's trick, she will use a 'bitter flesh' scheme to forcibly detain me at the next intersection!"

"And now, I didn't fall for either of them, and now they are suddenly meeting up on the street... The next step will definitely be fifty burly men hiding behind the roadside trees rushing out, cameras in hand, snapping photos of me frantically, and then accusing me of having ulterior motives toward these two 'innocent young girls'!"

Thinking of this, Jiang You went completely numb.

If it were just an ordinary honey trap, he could just call the police.

But the problem was...

Jiang You subconsciously glanced at the black storage ring on his finger.

"Wuwuwu... I'm not clean either!"