He Kao: "Soone has taken over the noodle shop. The new boss might also have so issues."
Qian Guran couldn’t help but laugh: "That Boss i is actually i Wenhua. He also lives in Sesa Apartnt, and he’s a person from the Ancestral Hall. In fact, he’s also a Tier Five Heart Stealer of the Xingshen Sect. Let tell you a joke..."
Boss i Wenhua often sits at the counter with a large tea mug. Many custors greet him warmly and politely as soon as they enter, and almost have all three als there, probably just to make a good impression.
The noodle shop isn’t big, with a total of just thirteen tables, each could fit up to four people at most, often without an empty seat in sight.
This kind of noodle shop isn’t like a restaurant in a mall, with concepts like queuing for a number. Boss i often apologizes to the guests without a seat, suggesting they eat at other nearby places.
Soone, in order to get close to the boss and leave a good impression, secretly hired so thug to stir up trouble, planning to step in as a hero saving the day.
However, the employer didn’t even get a chance to act. The thug, seeing no space inside the shop, shouted once trying to find trouble with the boss, but was imdiately pinned down by five custors.
Why five? Because the space around the thug was limited, more people couldn’t get involved.
This story made He Kao laugh out loud, but after that, he frowned: "If soone hired thugs to cause trouble at the noodle shop, then many of the recent tenants moving into Sesa Apartnt might have been deliberately planted by soone."
Qian Guran nodded in agreent: "The best way for those truly with problems to hide themselves is to muddy the waters and confuse the Ancestral Hall, making it impossible for them to know where to start investigating."
He Kao: "The manpower of the Ancestral Hall is limited. Elder Li only sent dozens to Qi Yuan, and recently they took so away to investigate other matters."
Qian Guran: "The Ancestral Hall probably has a plan. The more clues there are, the more things they can dig out, but it will just take more ti."
He Kao: "Causing such a big commotion must not be just to annoy people. They might be planning sothing big and want to act before the Ancestral Hall can find out the truth. Their target is Elder i!"
Qian Guran: "If you can think of this, the Ancestral Hall surely can too. We just need to do our own work.
By the way, not only the noodle shop, the little supermarket by the entrance, the barbecue stall, the printing and copying shop also changed owners after the Spring Festival. The new owners are all people from the Ancestral Hall, keeping watch over any situation.
Elder Li let know I can tell you these things."
He Kao: "What else did Elder Li instruct?"
Qian Guran: "These are all confidential, outsiders don’t know. Elder Li instructed that if you’re just hiding out in Pugang Town and don’t want to get involved with Sesa Apartnt affairs, then I shouldn’t tell you.
But if you are back and you asked about the situation, then I can tell you... that’s the situation. Are you going back to your apartnt in Building No. 3 later?"
He Kao: "Since I’m here, of course, I’ll go. At the very least, I need to clean up a bit."
Qian Guran fished out a canister of tea leaves from under the coffee table: "You asked to borrow this from when you ca in, take it with you, you don’t have to return it!"
He Kao took the tea leaves and went back up to his rented unit, No. 2016, Building No. 3. A thin layer of dust had already settled on the table inside the room. He extended his Divine Sense over every corner, suddenly discovering sothing extra in the cupboard.
Soone had been here recently, and although they didn’t take anything, they left behind a box. It was a cardboard archive box, full of paper docunts.
He Kao took the box out, opened the lid, and on top was a sheet of white paper with a sentence written on it: "If you don’t want to bother, don’t look!"
Although there was no signature, He Kao felt it was Elder Li who wrote it, because the handwriting was left by using a paintbrush dipped in oil paint. He saw Elder Li doing sketches on the street before the New Year.
Judging by the note, Elder Li seed a bit unhappy, but they just t a couple of nights ago, and the old man didn’t say anything... Maybe it was just He Kao himself feeling a bit guilty.
He tidied up the room a bit and moved all the files to the table.
A pack of 500 sheets of A4 printing paper is about five centiters thick. Completed files would be even thicker. The materials stacked up on the desk were nearly two feet high, likely more than five thousand sheets.
He Kao sat down and started to flip through them, discovering they contained information about the new tenants who moved into Sesa Apartnt after December 25th last year, including color-printed life photos, nas, ID photocopies, move-in dates, brief introduction of their situation, etc.
The files were arranged in chronological order, starting from December 25th last year, which was the date when Qian Guran helped i Guyu rent the place.
Why were there ID photocopies? Because they are required when renting, as an attachnt to the contract, and these contracts are kept in the rental and sales office of Sesa Apartnt.
The rental office also has electronic spreadsheets which are convenient for queries.
The level of detail in the information varied, like Xiaoliang’s family of three, only had the father’s ID photocopy, Li Gongcheng, because only his ID was needed for the lease contract.
Turns out Old Li’s na is Li Gongcheng, Xiaoliang’s mother is Zhao Qingfang, and the file specifically noted that her father, Zhao Huai’en, is a Tier Two Sorcerer of the Alchemy Sect.
But most other people’s data wasn’t as detailed as this family’s since the information available in a short ti is limited, and the manpower and effort from the Ancestral Hall are also limited.
Such a thick stack of materials would take so effort just to print out, right? Fortunately, the Ancestral Hall took over the print and copy shop at the entrance of the complex.
While flipping through, He Kao also found footprints from Magic Sect disciples, those he "knows" or can recognize, are all low-tier sorcerers whose cultivation registered in the Magic Sect doesn’t exceed Tier Three.
But the disciples Sect Leader He can recognize are in the minority, most others are unfamiliar.
There’s another situation in the data where sotis the tenant wasn’t the one renting the place, for example, the person bringing docunts to sign the contract was Zhang San, but the person actually moving in with the key was Li Si.
He Kao flipped through the files at an impressive speed like a human scanner, morizing every page of information with his strong Primordial Spirit cultivation, in a sober state of Fixed Realm.
But no matter how fast, he still had to look carefully. After nearly an hour, he’d only flipped through a few hundred pages, averaging five or six pages per minute, then stopped to take a break.
It was also high-intensity ntal work, consuming Divine Qi and Mana, and He Kao couldn’t help but frown.
The reason for his frown wasn’t that there was too much data; even for over five thousand pages, he could probably read and morize them all in one or two days. Rather, he felt that these materials weren’t enough!
To be precise, the information gleaned from the printed materials wasn’t sufficient to let him use his Primordial Spirit Travel technique to track and lock onto the corresponding target.
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