Yalin Villa No. 6 was the address Alain had seen on Yang Wanhua's phone within the illusion of the Game World.
However, aside from a rough address, Alain discovered after searching with map software that the specific location of the house wasn't even clearly marked; there was only the general outline of the residential district.
This was what had led him to search the mountain forest like looking for a needle in a haystack.
As a result, he ended up getting "caught" and brought inside this property management building.
Fortunately, misfortune and fortune balance each other out: the property management office was also his opportunity to ask for directions. If he really had to search through this mountain forest on his own, there was no telling how long it would take.
As long as he obtained the specific location of the house from here, he could even go take a look at the mansion from the outside...
And the next time he came, he would just need to follow the route to attempt sneaking into the mansion to find the information he wanted.
Simply convenient.
Mila glanced at Alain with secret surprise and gave him a thumbs-up with her small hand beneath the table.
Seeing the Uncle fall into a silence as if time had stopped, Alain added a sentence,
"You just need to take me to survey the area around that house. You don't even need to conduct an on-site inspection, just tell me an address. Later, I will have my friend contact the tenant of that house separately to arrange a viewing. This way, it won't trouble you, right?"
Like this, the liability for breach of contract would be cast aside by the agency and shifted onto Alain and the tenant.
The Uncle agent still didn't reply, silently lighting a cigarette.
The ethereal smoke drifted through the light of the lighter, scattering across the office and curling between the two negotiating parties.
"Sorry, that won't do," the Uncle laughed. "Whether it's the location of the house, client information, or even phone numbers, I cannot reveal any of it."
"This is the [Selling Point] of Yalin Villa, and it is also the duty of our Yalin Property Management."
Alain frowned slightly; things indeed were not as convenient as he had expected.
Perhaps it was his "commoner thinking" at work.
Thinking about it carefully, Yalin Villa's monthly rent ranged from 25,000 to 70,000, so the crowd renting here must be either rich or noble.
According to Alain's contemplation of that social class... as long as the price offered is high enough, any problem can be readily solved.
But here, it was different.
He recalled his speculation about the tenant demographic of Yalin Villa: they were inevitably rich or noble individuals with shady dealings.
And what these people lacked least was money.
The virtuous are poor, while those without virtue are rich.
In addition, Yalin Villa's selling point itself was that the location was a place "where birds don't even shit." This was perhaps also their [Bottom Line].
The choice to locate Yalin Villa amidst this mountain forest was likely not without purpose.
This wasteland was vast and sparsely populated, so the land price must be much lower.
And since Yalin Villa's main feature was [Privacy], the distance between the built houses must be quite far apart.
Thinking about it carefully, this large spacing between houses, combined with the region being a place "where birds don't even shit," perfectly ensnared that group of potential clients and made them value this place.
"How about I introduce you to some other layouts instead?" The Uncle chuckled twice and took a puff of his cigarette. "There's nothing special about No. 6. The house size and location don't match the actual price at all; it's what we commonly call price overflow. I have options here with much higher cost-performance ratios."
"Okay." The Uncle handed over a few more files. The price and area of the houses this time were indeed much more favorable.
But Alain, as always, was in no mood to look.
He sighed in his heart; sure enough, there was no way to learn the whereabouts of that mansion from the property management.
If one wants to take a shortcut, one must also see if the shortcut is bumpy.
As expected, would Alain still need to find that mansion in this vast mountain forest one step at a time?
He had already started considering buying a drone to search from high altitude. Finding the positions of the houses one by one, then going personally to check the house numbers.
It would be time-consuming... that was inevitable.
Moreover...
Alain observed the Uncle through the periphery of his eyelashes.
The man was smoking carelessly, sizing up Alain from time to time.
He had grown suspicious.
The staff of Yalin Property Management must have seen plenty of guys like him who wanted to pry into client privacy.
Beside him, Mila noticed Alain's distraction. She also lowered her gaze.
She looked at her katana, then looked at the "110" dialing interface on the Uncle's phone screen across the table, which he hadn't yet had time to delete.
Thinking about it carefully... her coming here had only been a disservice to Alain.
She hadn't helped a bit, and Alain even had to take care of her...
Mila pursed her lips, then bit them gently... as if she had made ample psychological preparation.
Scrape—
She impatiently pushed her chair away, and under the astonished gazes of Alain and the Uncle, she grabbed her katana and slammed it onto the table.
With a heavy thud, the hearts of the two men suddenly tightened for some reason.
"I've had enough!" Mila's expression was grim, her indifferent gaze staring at...
Alain beside her.
"Just how long are you going to dawdle like this? You really are stalling for time, aren't you?!"
"..." Alain didn't answer rashly; the "Huh?" in his mouth was forcibly suppressed in his throat.
And his silence gave Mila exactly the opportunity to explode.
"I! Want! To see! That woman! Right now! Immediately! Otherwise... you know what will happen."
"???" Alain put on a shocked expression. He truly didn't know what would happen.
Rather, he hadn't kept up with her train of thought at all.
"Speak to me!" Mila shouted in a charming voice, causing the Uncle watching from the side to uncontrollably take out a pack of unopened cigarettes.
"...I have nothing to say." Alain used a catch-all phrase. "It's not my fault we can't find her."
"You're shirking responsibility? Could it be my fault then?!" Her small hand slapped the table heavily. "If you haven't asked that woman clearly within these two days, I will die right here under this sword along with the child in my belly!"
After speaking, she drew the katana and aimed the sharp blade at her own neck.
"???"
Now the property management Uncle couldn't sit still either; he couldn't even hold his cigarette steady and hurriedly tried to dissuade her,
"Wait a minute, Little Sister! You need to calm down..."
"Calm down? How do you expect me to calm down?!" Mila glared furiously at the Uncle. "This guy kept that woman privately! And he wanted to hide it from me while I'm at home for my confinement? Hmph! To think he could do such a thing!"
Hearing this, Alain finally understood the script.
"Listen to me explain. That woman, she, she... tsk, we are friends. At most, she's just my junior at work. Who knew she would take the research funds I gave her to rent a villa?"
Mila let out a cold snort. "Work~ Research~~ What work? Researching making babies?!"
Mila shifted the katana to rest on Alain's neck, making the Uncle's neck feel cold just watching from the side.
"Good for you, still trying to hide it from me? It's a miracle I was able to find this place!"
"..." Alain lowered his head, his face submerged in the shadow of his bangs.
The next moment, he cast a marginal glance at the agent and said without stopping,
"...The tenant of Villa No. 6 isn't written as my name."
"Hmph. If it's not written as your name, then whose is it? Does that even need saying?" Mila also secretly sized up the Uncle, her words filled with grief and indignation—
"Yang Wanhua—do you think I don't know her?!"
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