Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

After an all-nighter, Cloud successfully traced an IP address starting from the internet café. He closed the system backstage, ensuring there were no traces left, and stretched his tired muscles.

“Hey, Calvin, I’m here. Sorry I’m late, there was a traffic jam,” the substitute network administrator hurriedly greeted Cloud.

Cloud smiled and reassured him, “No worries, I was just finishing up a game. Take your time.”

The substitute network administrator marveled at how friendly Calvin was and began the handover process.

“Wait, something seems off with the 25 dollars,” the substitute network administrator remarked.

Cloud nodded, “Oh, there was this guy who went crazy and paid with underworld currency to access the internet.”

He pointed to two underworld banknotes in the corner and whispered, “Have you noticed anything unusual happening in our county recently? Something that just looks abnormal at first sight?”

The substitute network administrator was scared as he saw the underworld currency!

Oh my…

“Well, nothing out of the ordinary…” The substitute network administrator replied nervously, “There was an elderly lady in the southern part of the city who committed suicide by jumping off a building. But that’s unfortunately not uncommon… Could she be the one who was accessing the internet last night?”

Cloud shook his head, “No, it was just a regular young man.”

The substitute network administrator pondered for a moment and added, “I did hear about a man getting hit by a bicycle the day before yesterday and being rushed to the hospital. The doctors said he couldn’t be saved… But the next day, he disappeared.”

Cloud speculated, “Could he have come to our internet café?”

cautioned, “Come on, Calvin,

the county. He patted his colleague on

administrator nodded while sending a voice message to his friend, briefly mentioning the incident of receiving underworld currency at the internet café. However, he quickly added a warning at the end, urging his friend not to talk about it, as it could

went inside to retrieve something, and when he returned, he noticed that the

scared! Hey, why don’t I just take up that part-time job you mentioned yesterday? I can earn 2,000 dollars a month just by taking photos, which is only 500 dollars

him, intrigued by the mention of a part-time job

of part-time job is it? Count

substitute network administrator replied, “I’m not sure if it’s legit though. There’s a rumor that an environmental research organization needs people to

of pictures? Is it that hard to take a

substitute network administrator shook his head, “Doesn’t sound too difficult. It seems they want photos of the vegetation, the overall forest environment, and such. They said

mountain was Grookey. The area was densely forested, but there was a road that led up

nodded, “Okay, take me with you if you decide to

as he did not want to appear

as he stepped outside, he came face to face with a man

positioning himself slightly sideways as if giving way

Cloud was alone, he would have approached the man and stopped him to ask what he was going to do. After all, the man appeared rather suspicious. But he reminded himself of

with a perplexed expression and asked, “What are

scratched his neck as

he turned his back to the man,

definitely wrong

suggested a malevolent intent. Drawing upon his professional training, Cloud’s analysis led him to consider the possibility of an impending threat

true