The target Tai Yu contacted was one of the Xin family's creditors seeking to transfer the debt within that Gray Circle.
Selling debts in this circle was considered fairly ruthless business. Those who took them over were usually the socially active sort from Star Ring City, and things could easily turn toward more underhanded and violent methods.
The person Tai Yu reached was usually not the creditor himself, but one of the creditor's staff. They were neither particularly enthusiastic nor resistant toward business that came knocking. Besides, if they had subordinates handle dealings with this kind of circle, the creditor's own work environment was probably rather unusual as well.
They were indeed quite straightforward over there. Without another word, they demanded proof of funds first.
Tai Yu did not follow their lead. The funds he could currently access basically all came from Old Bai Jiao. The latter was a famous tycoon in Tuoyuan City, but most of his assets had been closely tied to the Secret Mine Order and had long vanished into smoke under the Pantheon's crackdown. There was some emergency money for rebuilding his life, but he could not possibly throw it all in here, and it would not be enough anyway.
The main reason he had contacted them was to broaden his intelligence channels. He could not just take everything the Route Manager said at face value.
"I need to understand the basics first. What you wrote was far too vague..."
Anyone selling debt claims in this circle certainly would not place much importance on the debtor's privacy. They quickly sent over a file containing the work and family circumstances of Xin Che and his wife Ming Fan, the circumstances behind the debt, and the possibility that Xin Che had "faked his death to evade repayment," among