Online Game: My Decay Drives the Entire Server Crazy

Chapter 107 The Elite School Board of Directors’ Revenge Turns into a Financial Fate Turn that Ends in ZeroGhost’s red marker had been blinking on the screen for three full days. On the morning of the fourth day, what was bound to happen finally arrived.

Lin Ye was eating breakfast on the first floor of the studio. The soup dumplings and soy milk Fatty Wang had bought from outside took up half the coffee table. Su Qinghan was beside him auditing this week’s orders on her computer when she suddenly received a call from Old Sun, the property manager. Old Sun’s voice was kept very low, as if he were hiding in a corner to make a secret call: ”Brother Ye, don’t open your windows upstairs for now. Two groups of people just arrived downstairs. One group is wearing market regulation uniforms, and the other is from tax. There are also a few men in black suits standing across the street without moving. They look like some big boss’s private bodyguards to me.”

Lin Ye bit into a soup dumpling, and the juice splashed onto his chin. He wiped it with a tissue, stood up, and walked to the window to take a look. Three enforcement vehicles were parked in front of the main entrance of the Unscrupulous Business Center. Five uniformed people were gathered at the front desk talking to the receptionist, their expressions as serious as if they were investigating a major international case. Inside the black Mercedes business van across the street sat several burly men in black suits. The windows were tinted dark, but Ghost’s surveillance probes had long since penetrated that film to capture the interior—four bodyguards, one driver, and a middle-aged man sitting in the back row looking down at his phone. It was precisely Board Member Li of the city’s Yinghua International School.

”Ghost, check who authorized today’s raid.” Lin Ye pulled the curtains halfway shut and walked back to the coffee table to continue eating his dumplings.

Ghost’s fingers tapped on the keyboard for a few seconds, and the internal task distribution records of the market regulation and tax departments were pulled up. The dispatchers for both inspection tasks were at the same level—a deputy official in charge at the district level. The reason for the task was a real-name report from the public, alleging that a certain internet consulting company within the Unscrupulous Business Center was suspected of operating beyond its scope and committing tax evasion. The whistleblower’s name was hidden in the system, but Ghost followed the task number up three levels of approval nodes and found the landline call records of that deputy official’s office. Within the last week, there had been six calls between this landline and the principal’s office of Yinghua International School, all during working hours and for significant durations.

”The source has been found. The connection at Yinghua goes directly to the secretary of the deputy official in charge, bypassing normal procedures to dispatch a raid. That Board Member Li has deeper connections in the city’s officialdom than in his real estate circles; his brother-in-law is the vice chairman of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce.”

Lin Ye stuffed the last dumpling into his mouth and stood up after wiping his hands. ”Let them check. Su Qinghan, take out all the industrial and commercial tax licenses and arrange them in order. Ghost, print out all the tax payment certificates, social security payment records, software copyright certificates, and anti-fraud app cooperation agreements from all of last year and the first half of this year and stack them on the table. If they want to check, let them check their fill all at once.”