A Peerless Big Dumb*ss

Ye Shengge looked at his childhood friend and the big dummy Heavenly Master, opening his mouth as if to speak, wanting to tell them about the friend request he had received before lunch.

However, his childhood friend and the big dummy Heavenly Master were completely focused on the workers who were continuously moving furniture into the villa. Having just greeted him, they ran over to the truck one after the other to ask the driver what on earth was going on with this furniture.

Although the distance was a bit far and he couldn’t hear precisely what they were saying, judging by the increasingly solemn expressions on their faces, it certainly wasn’t anything good.

Perhaps the truck driver had already told them that this furniture was ordered and sent over by the lover of this villa’s owner.

Thinking of this, Ye Shengge felt both awkward and ashamed, wishing he could dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it.

No matter how reluctant he was to face reality, his childhood friend and the big dummy Heavenly Master had finished their questioning and were walking back toward him. He had no choice but to face it.

“Is there anyone else living in your house?” Thinking about what he had just heard from the driver, Wen Jinshi took a deep breath and softened his voice as much as possible, terrified of frightening his delicate and crybaby neighbor.

Ye Shengge blinked and instinctively shook his head. “There is no one else.”

“Then this is troublesome.” Wen Jinshi pressed his temples firmly, his brow furrowing deep. “I just asked the driver and the other furniture movers. They all said that the person living in this villa paid a premium, demanding they rush the repairs on the furniture and simultaneously add many new pieces of the exact same style.”

As for any further details, the driver and the workers didn’t know either.

“Could it be the evil puppet?” Just then, Peng Biao, who had been standing to the side in silence after hearing the workers speak, opened his mouth.

Ye Shengge was just about to nod along behind the big dummy Heavenly Master when he heard his childhood friend say in an incredibly certain tone, “Impossible.”

“Why is it impossible? There’s no one else in Shengge’s house. Who else could move and speak besides an evil puppet?” Peng Biao argued back, refusing to show weakness.

Wen Jinshi didn’t get angry, merely counter-questioning in a calm tone, “Then you tell me, where did an evil spirit get the money, and through what channels did it find these workers?”

Peng Biao stuttered and hesitated for a long time, his face flushing red, only managing to squeeze out one sentence: “Maybe it made the money doing part-time jobs online.”

Wen Jinshi let out a soft laugh.

Although he didn’t say a single word, his laughter carried an inexplicable mockery that dealt more damage than any spoken words.

Hearing this mocking laugh, Peng Biao clenched his fists, looking as though he wanted to say something to refute Wen Jinshi. But in the end, for the sake of his pride, he didn’t voice his suspicions.

By this time, the movers had already arranged all the items in the large courtyard of the villa. They then happily climbed back into their truck and drove away.

Aside from the three of them, there wasn’t another soul around the villa—not even the shadow of an animal. It was quiet beyond belief.

The atmosphere instantly fell into a stalemate, carrying a distinct scent of gunpowder.

It was at this moment that Ye Shengge spoke up.

“Stop arguing. Didn’t we say before coming here that we were going to investigate the situation with the evil puppet at my house? Can’t we talk about other things after the puppet matter is resolved?”

His voice wasn’t loud, it could even be considered small, but to Wen Jinshi and Peng Biao, it was highly effective.

They cast looks of mutual disgust at each other and didn’t continue the argument.

Wen Jinshi was the first to adjust his state, saying to Ye Shengge with a smile, “Of course we can. Just now, seeing that Peng Biao was very interested in this matter, I said a few extra words. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been delayed for so long. I’m sorry.”

At first listen, it sounded like an apology, but in reality, it dumped all the responsibility onto Peng Biao’s head.

Peng Biao felt incredibly aggrieved, but he couldn’t easily refute it.

After all, as a Heavenly Master, being scammed out of money online by an evil puppet sounded absolutely ridiculous. Not to mention, the purpose of the puppet’s scam was to coax the beautiful Dollmaker back. And that beautiful Dollmaker happened to be the sweetheart he had set his heart on.

Rushing to send money to his love rival, wishing him an early success in coaxing the beautiful youth back home…

If anyone else found out about him creating opportunities for his rival like this, they would definitely laugh their teeth off.

No way. This absolutely could not be discovered.

Peng Biao, who had more money than brains, not only couldn’t argue back but had to endure it with extreme grievance, putting on an unbothered front as he said to the beautiful youth, “Since that’s the case, let’s hurry inside your house to take a look.”

Except this “look” was to check not only the evil puppet’s strength, but also whether the puppet was indeed that “Authoritative Relationship Expert.”

“Okay.” Seeing his childhood friend and the big dummy Heavenly Master cooperating, Ye Shengge couldn’t help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

He was also very curious about the questions his childhood friend had raised, not understanding how the Puppet Boss had kept up with the times so well that it had even learned how to pull off online scams.

After repeatedly reviewing the dungeon plot several times, Ye Shengge finally found the anomaly.

The account used by the Puppet Boss seemed to be the one that he, with his poor memory, had used for a short time before forgetting the password.

He hadn’t expected the Puppet Boss to recycle his waste like this.

None of this had ever occurred in the original dungeon plot.

While he was musing, Peng Biao had already walked to the living room entrance and pushed the door open.

Once the door was pushed open—there was no one inside, let alone any sign of the resentful puppet.

Peng Biao scanned the surroundings and finally came to this conclusion.

Just then, Peng Biao turned his head to look at Wen Jinshi, his tone carrying a bit of sarcasm: “Shengge told me yesterday that the puppet evil spirit cannot leave this villa. If you’re scared, you’ll be safe as long as you step outside.”

Wen Jinshi gave him a faint glance, ignoring this childish behavior.

“Are they not in the living room?” Ye Shengge quickly followed them inside. Seeing the empty living room, he instinctively asked out loud.

Wen Jinshi shook his head. “They’re not. Should we check the other rooms?”

Ye Shengge was about to nod, but suddenly remembered that he seemed to have placed a Puppet Boss inside every single guest room.

If those Puppet Bosses saw his childhood friend or the big dummy Heavenly Master, became agitated, and successfully broke through the seal, it would be a massive disaster.

After all, dealing with two Puppet Bosses was already this difficult. Facing a dozen of them…

Just thinking slightly further ahead made Ye Shengge feel a wave of suffocation. He hurriedly said to the system, ‘If there is any news from the main system, remember to contact me immediately.’

The system, detecting its host’s emotional fluctuations, replied, […Mhm.]

“Let’s check the second floor. I heard some movement up there, and the foul stench is also emanating from that direction.” Peng Biao picked up where Wen Jinshi left off, turning to speak to the unsettled Ye Shengge, “Shall we go look together?”

Ye Shengge nodded firmly, following tightly behind his golden thigh as they walked upstairs.

Seeing his usually pampered neighbor following so obediently behind Peng Biao, Wen Jinshi’s eyes flickered slightly. He unobtrusively rubbed the blood-red bead bracelet hanging on his wrist twice, his thoughts unknown.

His movement was very slight, but it was sharply captured by Peng Biao.

Peng Biao stared fixedly at that strand of blood-red beads, his expression shifting strangely.

As they passed the stair landing, he purposefully stepped up beside Wen Jinshi, lowering his voice to say, “I didn’t expect this thing to actually be in your hands. You really were willing to pay a heavy price.”

“It can’t be called a heavy price. Buying it was merely to leave no regrets.” Wen Jinshi didn’t lower his voice like Peng Biao had. His tone was calm and gentle, with absolutely no intention of hiding it from Ye Shengge. “After all, I am different from you. I didn’t grasp the opportunity to become a Heavenly Master, so I can only use money to buy a life-saving amulet.”

Although Ye Shengge was curious about what his childhood friend meant by “the opportunity to become a Heavenly Master,” he had no intention of prying into other people’s secrets. Moreover, understanding that the most critical task at hand was solving the Puppet Boss issue, he reached out and poked the big dummy Heavenly Master’s waist, signaling him to keep moving forward.

Having his waist poked, Peng Biao’s entire body tensed up, and his face instantly flushed bright red. He immediately forgot the grievances between himself and Wen Jinshi, walking straight toward the place where he sensed the thickest resentment.

As the saying goes, to catch bandits, first catch their leader.

Others might not be able to sense it, but Peng Biao could feel that the evil entity in this villa was rather special. It had been severed into many pieces by someone at the same time, and the core entity with the greatest resentment was in that study not far from the stair landing.

Yet even so, the resentment of the core entity, despite its depleted energy, was not to be underestimated.

Being able to slice an entity with such heavy resentment into so many pieces was not something an ordinary person could accomplish. Even he would have to spend a vast amount of time and exhaust countless amounts of energy just to meet the conditions required to split an entity, let alone merging the entity into the puppet vessels afterward.

This matter was definitely not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

Someone was targeting the beautiful youth.

Peng Biao’s brain had never spun this fast before.

However, he didn’t know much about the beautiful youth’s social circle, nor did he know who the youth might have offended. For a moment, he couldn’t even come up with a suspect.

In order not to alert the enemy, and also to avoid scrambling the beautiful youth, Peng Biao could only bury this suspicion deep in his heart for the time being, intending to investigate it thoroughly after returning.

Amid his thoughts, he had already brought his sweetheart and the dead weight to the door of the study with the thickest resentment. He signaled them with his eyes to get ready, then slammed the study door open.

With a loud “bang,” the scene that met Peng Biao’s eyes was somewhat outside his expectations.

Ignoring the unbearable, foul stench of resentment around them, the two puppets inside the study looked no different from normal internet-addicted youths. Their gazes were glued to the computer screen, and their mouths were continuously murmuring something. They wore expressions of tense, excited anticipation. Even when the door was violently thrown open, they failed to react instantly.

No matter who looked at them, it was impossible to connect them to sinister things like resentful puppets.

Peng Biao’s gaze shifted away from the two puppets and landed on the computer screen they were staring at.

The computer monitor set up in the study was very large, and its position wasn’t far from the door.

Peng Biao had excellent vision, allowing him to clearly see the familiar social software open on the display screen, as well as the account’s garish profile picture and long string of characters for a nickname.

Whether it was the garish profile picture or the long string of characters for a nickname, none of it was unfamiliar to Peng Biao.

Because just after he had finished making lunch, when he intended to consult the Authoritative Relationship Expert on how to deal with the love rival who had turned up at his door, he had seen this “makeover” of the Authoritative Relationship Expert. At that time, the Authoritative Relationship Expert was using this exact profile picture and account…

At this moment, the last shred of hope in Peng Biao’s heart vanished completely, and his heart broke into tiny pieces.

He felt that his past self, who had handed over money to his evil spirit love rival, was truly a peerless big dumb*ss.