Heaven Knows, Earth Knows, You Know, I Know, and Su Yuan Knows Too

As one of the people in charge of the Underground Black Market, Sun Lao Liu was well-known even among the circle of super-rich elites.

It was the young man's first time seeing Sun Lao Liu act so respectfully, bending at the waist even while answering a call.

"Which incredible big shot was it?"

The young man swallowed hard. There was no doubt that whoever had called possessed an overwhelmingly powerful background.

Everyone who could enter the Underground Black Market belonged to the wealthy class, and anyone who could make Sun Lao Liu behave like this was probably at the level of the Big Boss.

The Big Boss the young man had in mind was the true owner of the Underground Black Market.

Sun Lao Liu was merely one of the Underground Black Market's managers. Simply put, he was the "manager" who handled the black market openly.

As for the true owner... the young man had never seen him. He had only heard that such a person existed.

It was precisely because of his existence that the Underground Black Market had survived to this day.

Otherwise, given the Underground Black Market's dealings in countless contraband goods and the like, it would have been wiped out by the authorities long ago.

One minute later.

Under the young man's watch.

Sun Lao Liu slowly straightened up and hung up the landline receiver in his hand.

"Uncle Sun."

Only then did the young man dare to speak.

He was distantly related to Sun Lao Liu, which was why he addressed him as "Uncle Sun."

"Immediately send someone to locker 56 in Zone C of the mall next door and retrieve the item inside." Sun Lao Liu did not explain further, issuing the order at once.

"Yes."

The young man nodded and promptly passed the order along.

Ten minutes later.

A suitcase was placed before Sun Lao Liu.

Sun Lao Liu carefully opened it.

Inside lay pieces of jade, antiques, and other valuables.

Sun Lao Liu immediately took out various devices and began appraising them.

To rise to the position of Underground Black Market manager, Sun Lao Liu's ability to appraise treasures was unmatched.

No matter the dynasty an antique came from, he could tell whether it was real with just a few glances.

Very quickly.

The jade, antiques, and jewelry in the suitcase had all been appraised.

Sun Lao Liu took a deep breath and gave another order. "Prepare thirty million in Xia Kingdom Bank investment gold bars. Put them into this suitcase, then send it back to locker 56 in Zone C."

"Oh, and send a few more people to deliver it."

Sun Lao Liu reminded him.

Gold bars worth thirty million would likely weigh two or three hundred jin.

One person might not be able to carry them.

"Alright."

The young man nodded.

After everything had been taken care of.

Sun Lao Liu finally dropped heavily into a chair.

"Uncle Sun."

The young man looked over expectantly.

"Do you want to ask about the identity of the person on the phone just now?" Sun Lao Liu glanced at him.

"Yes."

The young man looked at Sun Lao Liu.

"Some things are not good for you to know too much about."

Sun Lao Liu spoke with a faint warning in his tone.

"Uncle Sun, I was wrong."

The young man's face turned pale.

"Go on, leave."

Sun Lao Liu waved his hand and said no more.

He closed his eyes, barely suppressing his turbulent thoughts.

"That person... hadn't visited the black market in a long time, had he...?"

Sun Lao Liu's thoughts churned. The real identities of black market members were secrets to everyone else.

But as one of the black market's managers, Sun Lao Liu knew most of them.

Only the dozen or so highest-ranking members were people whose true backgrounds even Sun Lao Liu did not know.

He could only identify them by their membership serial numbers.

The Big Boss had specifically instructed that the demands of the black market's highest-ranking members were to be met as fully as possible.

And the person who had called just now was one of the Underground Black Market's highest-ranking members.

Outside the milk tea shop.

Su Yuan hung up the phone and casually deleted the call record.

Thirty seconds later.

The girl who had bumped into Su Yuan earlier walked out of the milk tea shop holding a cup of milk tea.

As Su Yuan brushed past her, he discreetly returned the pink phone.

From beginning to end, the girl never knew that her phone had left her possession for a minute.

Su Yuan had borrowed the girl's phone to call Sun Lao Liu, the Underground Black Market manager, in order to conceal his own information.

After all, Su Yuan's phone was tied to his real-name identity.

If he had made that call with his own phone, it would definitely have left traces.

Of course, using the girl's phone to make the call.

Would not have any effect on the girl herself.

This was also the answer Su Yuan had obtained in advance from the Grey Mirror.

"Not bad. The identity of a highest-ranking member really is useful."

Su Yuan thought to himself.

Normally, even with the help of the Underground Black Market, Su Yuan would have had to sell this batch of jewelry and antiques through transactions.

In other words, Su Yuan would have had to wait for buyers. In that case, it would have been difficult to predict how long it would take. The jewelry and antiques were worth twenty to thirty million, and their origins could not be clearly explained...

Waiting half a year or even a year would have been perfectly normal.

However, the privileges of a highest-ranking black market member allowed him to trade directly with the Underground Black Market itself.

He could first let the Underground Black Market take this batch of jewelry and antiques, get the money in hand, and let the Underground Black Market sell them off slowly afterward.

This was also the fastest method of converting jewelry and antiques into cash provided by the Grey Mirror.

As for how he had obtained the identity of a highest-ranking member?

The Underground Black Market had always recognized only membership serial numbers.

As long as someone could state a membership serial number, they were the corresponding member.

Of course, every member's serial number was kept absolutely confidential. Other than the Underground Black Market managers, only the member themselves knew it.

It could be said that heaven knew, earth knew, you knew, and I knew.

But from now on, after heaven knew, earth knew, you knew, and I knew, Su Yuan knew had to be added as well.

With the Grey Mirror that could answer any question, as long as Su Yuan wanted to know, nothing in the world held any secrets from him.

"About time."

Su Yuan checked the time and headed once more toward the underground locker area of the nearby mall.

When he reached the entrance, Su Yuan glanced at the surveillance camera above it.

There were more than a dozen Underground Black Market contact points. The reason Su Yuan had chosen this particular one.

Was because he had learned beforehand that this afternoon, a stray cat would bite through the surveillance wires at the mall beside the black market contact point.

As a result, all surveillance equipment would be disabled for three hours.

Before Su Yuan put the suitcase into the locker, the mall's surveillance had already failed.

Other than Su Yuan himself, no one knew he had ever come to this mall.

Arriving before locker 56 in Zone C, Su Yuan retrieved the locker code from beneath the locker, smoothly opened it, and pulled out the suitcase.

Compared to when he had put it in, the suitcase, once packed full of jewelry and antiques, had now been replaced with standard Xia Kingdom Bank investment gold bars.

This was what Su Yuan had instructed Sun Lao Liu to do.

As long as these bank investment gold bars remained unopened, they were no different from cash. He could exchange them for money at any gold shop without even needing to verify their authenticity. The bank itself was the greatest guarantee.

"Let's go."

Dragging the suitcase behind him, Su Yuan did not leave through the mall's main entrance. Instead, he silently departed through the staff passage.