A reclusive master naturally wouldn't reveal himself easily.
Perhaps this mysterious person was a celestial being, with flowing robes, white hair, and a white beard!
"Alas, Mr. Xu, I shouldn't say too much, but since fate has brought us together, I must speak, even if it means facing repercussions."
"A great calamity is about to befall you. Overcome it, and from then on, the sky is the limit, and wealth will pour in. Fail to overcome it, and your days may be numbered. However, this calamity is incredibly difficult to overcome," Ye Yun sighed.
As soon as these words were spoken, Xu Jiaguo trembled with fear.
Fail to overcome it, and your days are numbered?
Damn it!
If anyone else had said this, Xu Jiaguo would have cursed them to the ends of the earth.
But the speaker was that mysterious master.
That made all the difference!
Xu Jiaguo was instantly thrown into a panic.
"Master! Master! Save me, save me! Twenty million!"
"Very well, your sincerity moves me, and I shall help you overcome this life-or-death calamity!" Ye Yun declared. "Conventional methods of avoidance will be useless. You must find two people to stay with you for one night to resolve the crisis! These two must be one who is born wealthy and hot-tempered, and another who is utterly wicked."
Zhao Guanying was famously hot-tempered, and Da Xian specialized in selling water-damaged and salvaged accident cars, his heart as wicked as they come.
Both fit the criteria.
All that remained was to subtly guide Xu Jiaguo.
"Ah, Master, I understand! I happen to know two people who fit the description perfectly!" However, before Ye Yun could offer any guidance, Xu Jiaguo quickly interjected.
"Oh? Who are they?"
"One person I know is Lin Shiyou, a stubborn bumpkin whose family mines coal! And the other is Ye Yun. That guy used to be a good-for-nothing gambler and debaucher. I was planning to deal with that scoundrel tomorrow, but this is a perfect opportunity for this kid to help me avert my calamity. Consider it his good fortune! Master, what do you think?"
Pfft...
As soon as Xu Jiaguo spoke, Ye Yun almost choked to death with anger.
So, this guy hadn't even made a move against him yet, and he was already planning to deal with him tomorrow.
Cough, cough, cough.
The master cleared his throat and then said,
"Mr. Xu, these two are not suitable. I hadn't finished speaking. The 'born wealthy' is a homophone. They must satisfy the condition and be around your age. As for the wicked one, the Ye Yun you mentioned, his debauchery and gambling don't constitute the publicly perceived wickedness, so he doesn't meet the condition."
Xu Jiaguo frowned.
"Born wealthy, born wealthy, born... Ah, Tiansheng! Master, I know! I have someone right here who fits the bill. He's the young master of Tiansheng Group, Zhao Guanying!"
"Excellent. And I have found the other person for you. There's a used car streamer named Da Xian, whose reputation has recently collapsed. He fits the criteria. If you bring these two to the tenth floor of the Hengda Yanhe Heart B5 building at midnight two nights from now and stay for one night, your destined calamity will naturally be transferred to them."
"Remember, even if you have to tie them up, bring these two. And within a fifty-meter radius, absolutely no one must be present, or the transfer will fail! Once successful, from then on, the sky is the limit for you!" Ye Yun spoke in a mechanical, mystical tone.
"Thank you, Master!" Xu Jiaguo hung up the phone, ecstatic, believing every word Ye Yun said.
As for transferring the calamity to the other two, he felt no burden whatsoever.
It was a case of "let a fellow brother die, but not oneself."
As for how to get the two over...
Zhao Guanying's father, Zhao Dahai, now treated him like a god. Getting that kid over would be as simple as making a phone call.
As for the one named Da Xian...
Heh heh!
With one phone call, he could be bound and brought over!
Two days later, spend one night...
Tsk tsk, transferring the calamity to them, and then he would wait to get rich?
With that thought, Lin Shiyou immediately began making arrangements...
...
Meanwhile.
Ye Yun was as if nothing had happened, eating his meals with his wife and daughter.
In the evenings, the family of three would stroll along the riverbank.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
One morning, when Ye Yun woke up.
He had a series of missed calls.
They were all from Lin Shiyou and Song Yunfan.
Over two hundred calls, with each of them making about a hundred.
However, Ye Yun didn't call back immediately.
Because he knew, even without thinking, that something must have happened at the Hengda Yanhe Heart.
After having breakfast with his wife and daughter, and seeing them off to work and school respectively,
Ye Yun finally switched his phone back from silent mode.
But as soon as he did, his phone didn't ring. The doorbell did.
It was Lin Shiyou and Song Yunfan.
The two of them, with dark circles under their eyes, stared at Ye Yun motionlessly, their faces exhausted.
It turned out that when Ye Yun didn't answer their calls, they had waited outside his house all night.
Coincidentally, when his wife and daughter left, these two snuck in...
"What's wrong? Aren't you two sleeping? You've been calling since two in the morning. Even if you single guys aren't tired, consider me. I have to take care of the kids and cook normally."
Lin Shiyou and Song Yunfan sheepishly scratched their heads. Then, Lin Shiyou quickly hurried over and sat in front of Ye Yun, saying anxiously,
"Brother Ye, something's happened! Something terrible has happened!"
Happened?
Seeing those two hundred-plus missed calls, even a fool would know something major had occurred.
Ye Yun calmly took a sip of soy milk.
"Song Yunfan, Zhao Guanying, and that Da Xian, something happened at Hengda's Yanhe Heart?"
"Ye, Brother Ye... you, you knew? That's right, you could calculate it! Yes! Those, those three guys are dead. They all died in Yanhe Heart!"
Ye Yun could clearly feel the immense fear contained within Lin Shiyou's trembling voice.
"Hmm?"
Even though this entire matter was orchestrated by Ye Yun,
and his original intention was indeed to take the lives of these three scoundrels,
he was still taken aback when Lin Shiyou uttered those words.
"Last night at two o'clock, the B5 building of Hengda Yanhe Heart collapsed. For some reason, Xu Jiaguo and those three fellows stayed there all night! According to their subordinates, Xu Jiaguo arranged for people to bring the other two over last night."
"He also ordered them to tie the three of them to pillars on the tenth floor and not release them until the sun came up this morning. Furthermore, no one was allowed to approach within fifty meters during this period."
"Originally, this would have been simple, just stay for one night. But who would have known... the B5 building was poorly constructed, and during the previous construction, the load-bearing walls were not reinforced with steel and concrete. The floors collapsed!"
"These three fellows were all buried alive underground. They weren't dug out by the rescue team until this morning, and by then, all three of them had been reduced to pulp!"
"Since there were only the three of them within a fifty-meter radius, no one else was even injured."
"The police took all their subordinates for questioning and learned the entire sequence of events. Brother Ye, I haven't been able to sleep since I heard the news, I truly can't sleep."
At this point, Lin Shiyou looked at Ye Yun, his face filled with pity.
"Brother Ye, Mr. Xu's behavior was so strange. Do you think there's a ghost involved!"