The man said, "Indeed. The Alliance Leader noticed your activities long ago, but never got around to dealing with them. Who would have thought you would build such a vast enterprise!"
He was referring to the rapid expansion of the Chestnut Mountain Branch Headquarters over the past three years, along with its swift overhaul of the Merchant Association's former business model. It had aggressively developed auctions, procurement, and various other profit-making operations, turning them into a large-scale channel through which the Two Sects of the Great Heavenly Realms could extract resources from the native land!
In truth, the Heavenly Dao Alliance had always been wary of the Two Sects' plans to return to the native land. Yet by employing Substitute the Plum for the Peach, Lin Yu had accomplished so much for the Two Sects under the Merchant Association's name that he had far exceeded their expectations.
They had cast a long line to catch big fish, only to let those fish eat and drink their fill.
Hearing this, Lin Yu gave a bleak smile, though it carried a measure of pride as well. "How could I not know that your Heavenly Dao Alliance suspected me? But in the end, you thought I was merely dabbling in petty schemes. You never imagined that mingling the real with the false would make things easier to accomplish."
"Over these years, I deliberately exposed many flaws. I even went so far as to injure myself and damage my health, pretending to be lustful and greedy, all to divert your attention and buy as much time as possible..."
At these words, the man looked at Lin Yu's pig-fat figure and could not help nodding silently.
Lin Yu was indeed a man capable of great undertakings. In just three short years, he had taken one