East River Mouth, Yuan Guang County, on the edge of the shantytown.
More than a dozen large warehouses stood in neat rows along the small hillside.
Towering stone walls surrounded the warehouse district, sealing it in tightly.
Three days earlier, Zou Feng had taken office, assuming the role of warehouse manager as an incense master.
The position seemed utterly unimpressive, offering almost no chance to earn any worthwhile merit within the gang, yet Zou Feng was quite satisfied.
The environment here was simply perfect for lying low and madly cultivating new evil arts.
The only thing that displeased Zou Feng was that there was another warehouse manager here, and the man was thoroughly at odds with him.
The other warehouse manager was named Ma Pingchuan, an incense master just like Zou Feng.
He was also a big brother listed on the Transference Investiture List.
Had Zou Feng not suddenly inserted himself into the matter, Ma Pingchuan would have held sole control over the warehouses.
This was no trivial matter. Though warehouse management offered no merit to speak of, it did provide plenty of opportunities to skim profits.
After all, many items stored in the warehouses suffered losses due to climate, time, and other factors.
How to make something out of those losses, turning them into profits that appeared perfectly justified and left the gang unable to find fault—that was an art in itself.
But now there were two warehouse managers, and they respectively served under two hall masters within the gang who were at odds with one another...
In such a situation, it was no longer merely a matter of the profits being split in two.
With the two men opposed, each watched the other's every move. Neither could "justifiably" skim any profits anymore.
No one got a drop of