Not Our Incompetence, but the Enemy Was Too Cunning

Enforcement Captain Ye Yu's eyes flickered slightly.

Wang Jingyao, the fat man next to him, spoke on behalf of the team leader, "Whether this is a frame-up or not needs to be investigated thoroughly. Only with sufficient evidence can we determine that."

"We came here with Boss Cheng this time to try and figure out what's going on."

Bald Yu Bai Bai's face immediately turned ferocious. "Fatty, what do you mean?"

"What do you mean by 'we need to find out if it's a frame-up'? You mean you don't trust us?"

Fatty Wang chuckled and said, "We're Enforcement Team; everything requires evidence."

"Whether you were framed or wronged, you need evidence."

"As the saying goes, words are not enough. If everyone just makes a accusation based on hearsay, how can our Enforcement Team handle cases impartially?"

Ye Yu nodded emphatically in affirmation.

Yu Bai wanted to step forward to argue, but Liu Xiao raised his hand to stop him.

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Then he smiled.

"That's settled then, Teacher Cheng."

"Put your losses on Liu's head. Give me a list of the value of your goods, and I'll give you a reimbursement."

What do you think?

Cheng Fengchun muttered, "That's more like it."

Liu Xiao looked at Ye Yu of the Enforcement Team: "Captain Ye Yu, Boss Cheng has agreed."

"So, what do you think about this..."

Ye Yu glanced at the fat man, Wang Jingyao, and gave him a meaningful look.

Fatty Wang immediately understood and said with a grin, "Then we won't bother you any longer."

"Farewell, farewell."

Before he could finish speaking, a commotion broke out outside, and then several more people squeezed in.

Cheng Fengchun saw one of them and exclaimed, "Hey, Boss Zhou, what brings you here?"

Boss Zhou shook his head, then grabbed Ye Yu's arm. "Captain Ye Yu, it's so good to see you here. I just went to the Enforcement Team to look for you."

"You have to give us justice! I, Old Zhou, worked so hard to bring these goods from Qingyang, and they were about to enter the base when this guy surnamed Liu snatched them away."

"You said you'd take a cut of the profits if we ran a shop on his turf, and we accepted that."

"But now he's pushing his luck. He just said, 'I, Liu Xiao, have my eye on this guy,' and snatched it away."

Liu Xiao's expression immediately changed.

Ye Yu looked at him again.

Liu Xiao snorted, "I, Liu, have not done such a thing."

"This is clearly a setup against me. I could have ignored it, but since it's Boss Zhou, I, Liu, am willing to fully compensate you for your losses this time."

It wasn't until 1 p. m. that the Enforcement Team and the two bosses were finally sent away. Liu Xiao paid out over ten million work points in total.

After the door closed, Yu Bai said, "Sir, this is clearly a setup; we don't need to get involved at all."

Liu Xiao shook his head. "That Ye Yu is always looking for an opportunity to drive us away."

"If I don't pay for the goods, he will definitely 'ask' me to assist in the investigation. In that case, the base will have to investigate everything we do and how much income we have."

Yu Bai suddenly realized why Liu Xiao had become so easy to talk to.

Liu Xiao snorted and said, "This must have been done by Chi Gui. That bastard, he actually pulled this trick."

Yu Bai grinned menacingly and said, "Master, let me take the brothers out for a spin and take care of that brat, Red Ghost."

"Kill him?"

"You?"

"How much of a chance do you think you have if you face Zhang Ze?" Liu Xiao asked bluntly.

Yu Bai scratched his head. "Then what do we do?"

Liu Xiao snorted, "The Red Demon is trying to lure me out. Don't fall for it, just let him go."

"If sending you there would only be sending you to your deaths, I'm not going to do something so foolish."

"Two such incidents have occurred. Take a few men and inform the men surnamed Zhou and Cheng, and tell them to go to the base to file a complaint and request that the base eliminate the robbers."

"The base has an obligation to protect the personal safety and property of the residents. Unless the base decides to stop operating, they will have to deal with the Red Demon for me."

"My ten million won't be wasted!"

After all, they had taken Liu Xiao's money and were wary of Liu Xiao's influence at the Silver Bay Base.

After being reprimanded by Yu Bai, Cheng Fengchun and Boss Zhou went together to the base office to request that the base send troops to suppress the bandits.

Silver Bay Base had no reason to refuse, so it naturally agreed and sent a team out of the base that afternoon to search for the so-called robbers.

And just like that, a week passed in the blink of an eye.

During this week, seven or eight more caravans were robbed.

The robbers all used Liu Xiao's name, and their operations were always swift and efficient.

Moreover, they only injure people and steal goods, but do not kill.

Later on, whenever the caravan heard the name 'Liu Xiao,' they would simply abandon their goods and leave with their people.

Anyway, as long as we get back to the base, we can ask Liu Xiao for money.

In addition, because these robbers only stole things and did not kill people.

And it seems that this was being targeted at Liu Xiao, so the Silver Bay Base turned a blind eye.

Over the years, Liu Xiao has built up considerable influence in the base, showing a strong tendency to take over the base.

Therefore, the Silver Bay Base was extremely wary of the man surnamed Liu, and naturally recognized that someone was causing him trouble. As long as the other party didn't kill anyone, the Silver Bay Base would just make a show of it, sending out several anti-bandit teams one after another. Once they left the base, they would find a safe place to pass the time, and when they returned to the base in the evening, they would deal with it like that.

When Liu Xiao sent someone to inquire, they tried every means to evade the question.

In short, the principle is that "it's not that we are incompetent, but that the enemy is too cunning."

Liu Xiao was also helpless against the base. In just one week, he had already lost nearly 50 million yuan in payments.

If he keeps losing money, he'll go bankrupt.

Finally, that evening, Liu Xiao gathered his subordinates together and assigned tasks.

Some were tasked with scouting out the city to find out the whereabouts of the Red Demon, while others were tasked with testing the mechs and preparing for an attack.

In his eyes, this was a last resort, but he couldn't afford to waste time, and the base had made it clear that it wouldn't get involved.

He had no choice but to do it himself.

Two more days passed.

Early that morning, the sound of mechs moving could be heard coming from the direction of the mech parking warehouse.

In the base's Enforcement Team office, Ye Yu brushed his teeth, stood at the window, and watched as four mechs emerged from the docking warehouse in the distance.

Glug glug...

Wang Jingyao touched his stomach and said, "Captain, don't bother looking anymore. That guy surnamed Liu really can't sit still; he wants to go out and take care of things himself."

"Yeah, if I had to lose 50 million in a week, I'd probably hang myself."

The fat man continued, "But who is that Red Demon? How dare he provoke Liu Xiao like this?"

Ye Yu spat out the foam in his mouth, wiped his mouth with a towel, and raised his left eyebrow.

"Captain, should we also go out?"

"I get it, you want to find a bargain, right? I'm good at that."

The fat man spoke excitedly, but then his face fell. "But we don't have mechs! If we get caught in this, we're doomed!"

Ye Yu then spoke up, "I said, mind your own business and eat!"

Wang Jingyao was taken aback for a moment, then whispered, "Did I misunderstand?"

"You clearly jumped on the left eyebrow just now. Jumping on this side of the eyebrow usually means 'getting a bargain', doesn't it?"

"When did it become 'mind your own business'?"

Outside the city.

Inside the cockpit of the Advanced Mecha 'Butcher', a map floated on the command console, marking an abandoned factory.

First, use radar to scan the vicinity for high-energy reactions to confirm that there are no mechs present.

Liu Xiao chuckled coldly from inside his helmet, then said, "All guns on! Saturation fire! Blast the Red Demon to smithereens!"