Coincidentally, Wang Ye also wanted to see what the local police looked like.
So he followed Li Weimin to the hotel lobby.
At this ti, the officer invited by Li Weimin was already sitting on the sofa.
This officer looked sowhat overweight, seeming to be in his thirties or forties.
The stubble on his face seed to have gone two or three days without shaving, forming a thick, coarse beard that made him look quite unkempt.
Li Weimin pointed to the officer and said:
"Wang Ye, co and say hello. This is Daniel."
"Hello."
Wang Ye stepped forward and shook hands with the officer nad Daniel.
Daniel appeared relaxed. After a brief handshake, he sat back on the sofa, lit a cigarette with a traditional kerosene lighter, took a deep drag, and exhaled a dense cloud of acrid smoke to his left.
Although he did not exhale smoke directly towards Wang Ye, to Wang Ye’s hypersensitive sense of sll, the burning tobacco sll lingering in the air was no different from a cesspool.
Wang Ye frowned and also sat on the chair directly opposite Daniel.
He rembered there was a world champion arm wrestler from Kazakhstan also nad Daniel. But the guy in front of him was clearly different from that world champion arm wrestler.
"You must be the renowned sports star everyone’s talking about recently?" Daniel first scrutinized Wang Ye with his eyes. "Nice muscles, no wonder you’ve won so many championships and set world records."
"Thanks for the complint, but can we talk about the gang issues?" Wang Ye said.
Daniel pursed his lips, his expression sowhat displeased, and after a mont said, "Of course, I ca here to handle this matter. But I must warn you, the gangs have been in more chaos than usual lately."
"What do you an?" Wang Ye feigned confusion.
Daniel chuckled, "Exactly what I said, it’s been very chaotic here recently. You’ve picked quite the ti to arrive."
"Can you tell more about it?" Wang Ye continued to inquire.
"This was ant to be internal information; our police departnt is investigating secretly, and in principle, it shouldn’t be disclosed to the public. But since you’re a friend of Old Li, I can give you a small hint." He took another puff of his cigarette, exhaled the smoke slowly, and said gravely:
"According to our investigation, a powerful figure has recently erged in northern Utah, leading an obscure little gang that has quickly swallowed other gangs, causing nurous deaths and injuries. No one knows what thods he’s using, but he’s very dangerous. Our police departnt is currently mobilizing all personnel to track this guy down, trying to capture him before he fully establishes himself."
"Sounds really dangerous. Are you confident you can catch this guy?" Wang Ye inquired, feigning curiosity.
Of course, he knew the "guy" Daniel was talking about was himself, after all, the only active gang in Utah recently was the Sloos Gang, which he led.
By now, almost the entire underworld in northern Utah had been turned upside down by him.
So the dangerous person Daniel was referring to could only be himself.
Daniel put out his cigarette butt, pondered for a while, and said, "In my over ten years as a police officer, my instinct tells that guy will definitely be a very tricky criminal; otherwise, we wouldn’t have found not a single trace of him after several days of investigation."
"Seems really tricky." Wang Ye nodded in agreent.
Daniel added, "Oh, by the way, that guy seems to be nad Rein. This na we got from a small-ti thug we recently arrested. But we suspect it might just be an alias, because practically no one uses Rein as a na nowadays."
"Rein..." Wang Ye lowered his head, his eyes narrowing slightly.
He had been focusing on his own matters these days and hadn’t expected his na to spread so quickly. It had only been three days, yet the local police departnt had already learned of it.
Although he had annexed a lot of gangs, he had actually only interacted with those gang leaders. Only a re few dozen people had actually seen him or heard his alias.
So the probability that one of his subordinates leaked his alias was quite high.
And it was very likely a mber from one of the gangs he had subdued over the past three days.
Since he subdued their gang, they harbored resentnt and acted as spies.
"Looks like I need to conduct a thorough investigation when I get back..." Wang Ye shook his head internally.
Indeed, those not subjected to mind control are not very reliable.
The Terry he had mind-controlled would never betray him like this.
But given Wang Ye’s current level of evolution, he could not control hundreds of people at once.
Controlling just a dozen people would completely drain his stamina and energy.
Leaving him feeling lethargic for several days.
Having only mind-controlled a dozen gang leaders, Wang Ye already sensed a slight decline in his physical functions. To not hinder his evolution, he had to minimize his use of mind control and apply it strategically where it mattered the most.
But by doing so, he couldn’t completely control all his faction mbers. If he failed to promptly implent a strict and sophisticated system to manage his faction, chaos would inevitably ensue once the faction grew beyond a certain scale, leading to internal conflicts and even fragntation.
At this point, Daniel seed to sense Wang Ye’s low mood and suddenly patted him on the shoulder, "Hey, don’t worry. Since the police departnt sent here, we’ll definitely protect you."
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