Starting Cultivation in Wasteland

The assistant straightforwardly stated: You still want to seek justice from Acting President? You'll be in worse shape if you approach her!

Tanaka Yoshi completely ignored her and started raging after contacting Dai Xingyan.

"Can't you control your people? If you can't, I'll have to discipline them for you. How dare you take in such lunatics?"

Dai Xingyan also ignored his words, "Are you talking about... the matter of Tanaka Ichiro having to die?"

Tanaka Yoshi was immediately silent. Her words couldn't possibly be baseless—she didn't even mention anything about plagiarism.

After a while, he stated: What on earth happened? There must be a serious misunderstanding here.

Dai Xingyan didn't want to argue with him, there was really no need.

She expressed very directly: My assistant should have already explained to you; this was a request made by the original owner of the manuscript.

Upon hearing this, Tanaka Yoshi got angry: I don't understand what you mean by the original owner of the manuscript. What exactly do you want?

"He must die," Dai Xingyan cut off the connection with him.

Tanaka Yoshi thought for a long time, still having no clue what had happened, but he sensed that Dai Xingyan wasn't speaking without reason.

He thought about contacting the maintenance circle in Houjing, but unfortunately, he didn't have many close ties there.

He was the leader of the maintenance masters in the Celestial District, holding a quite unshakeable position, and the relationship between Taikoo and Houjing was truly awful.

After much deliberation, he reached out to Selta, an A-level maintenance master of Celestial Craftsmanship: Is anyone submitting articles to Dai Xingyan's journal now?

Selta was the vice president of the Houjing Maintenance Association; ostensibly, he should know some news.

But he directly and bluntly refused, "I don't know about this, go ask Dai Xingyan!"

After replying, he even cut off the connection—in any case, his qualifications were senior enough not to feel obliged to cater to the other party.

Tanaka Yoshi was now in a bind and again contacted Dai Xingyan after pondering.

This time, he didn't mention not knowing about the manuscript and directly asked: Who is the owner of the manuscript you mentioned?

Dai Xingyan didn't miss the chance to mock him: Are you finally willing to admit it?

This isn't a matter of admitting or not! Tanaka Yoshi's skin was thicker than outsiders could imagine.

He shamelessly declared: I just want to know who is about to drive my son to his death?

Dai Xingyan retorted with a question: Are you sure you want to know?

Tanaka Yoshi was very cunning; without confirming, he clung to one point: If someone wants to kill my son, shouldn't I at least inquire about it?

Dai Xingyan unhesitatingly stated: You two, father and son, are truly both disgusting.

I can clearly tell you that if you find out who it is, you must step down, and that's their demand!

Hearing this demand, Tanaka Yoshi basically understood: his son's plagiarized manuscript's original owner was quite formidable.

However, the manuscript had already been published, and it was even expedited through a fast channel he arranged—saying anything now was too late.

But he was still somewhat unwilling to accept it and asked another question: Is it a big shot from Central City?

Dai Xingyan wouldn't entertain his probing, merely responding faintly: Are you sure you're planning to step down?

Tanaka Yoshi almost got his nose out of joint: What if I don't step down; then what?

Then you'll surely die! Dai Xingyan replied without hesitation and added after a thought: There's also a high chance your whole family will die!

To hell with it... who are you trying to scare? Tanaka Yoshi laughed angrily: Even the Thirty-Six Noble Families of Central City wouldn't dare to speak like that.

Dai Xingyan didn't refute his point of view; she was too annoyed with this cunning old man's tests.

She just asked: So are you now sure you want to inquire about the victim?

"My son is the victim!" Tanaka Yoshi unhesitatingly cut off the communication.

Then he just sat there trembling all over; the assistant thought he was angry and didn't dare to speak.

But Tanaka Yoshi was well aware in his heart that he was not just angry, mainly he was scared!

He said that even the Thirty-Six Noble Families wouldn't dare speak like that, but the truth was, he knew in his mind that it was just him elevating his own status.

Would the Thirty-Six Noble Families find it difficult to execute a family? It's really not difficult at all.

Not to mention in the Gathering Area below; even in Central City, aren't there already many families they've annihilated?

Tanaka Yoshi indeed had some clout, even had permanent residency in Central City, but people dealing with him wouldn't blink an eye.

Still, he thought today's situation wasn't instigated by the Thirty-Six Noble Families for a simple reason: it's not worth it!

Frankly, his son merely plagiarized an article, and one person's death would be enough to explain it.

It's reasonable to expect the other party to demand a large sum of money, no problem there, as the families are more interested in profit!

Thus, Tanaka Yoshi could preliminarily determine that the opposing party might have strength, but it probably wasn't the power of the Thirty-Six Noble Families.

Nevertheless, clinging to his shameless spirit, he extracted a lot of information from Dai Xingyan.

The trouble this time was certainly big, but he wasn't going to sit and wait helplessly; after all, Tanaka Ichiro was his son.

Then he arranged for people to gather information about Houjing.

Tanaka Yoshi had poor relations with the maintenance masters of Houjing, but there were indeed people with good connections with Houjing—some were even born there.

So by the next noon, he learned that Dai Xingyan had recently shown interest in an outsider named Jian Lei.

This person had submitted a lot of manuscripts to Central City, and not only did they pass easily, but the output was also high.

The manuscript that Tanaka Ichiro stole was very likely from this person.

This information didn't reveal Jian Lei's identity, and Tanaka Yoshi even suspected a bit: Was this Dai Xingyan taking advantage of the situation?