Azura Loomis has always known that the system wants the Jennings Family’s fortune.
Every time fortune is extracted from the Jiang family members, the system takes half of it.
The system also mentioned that although the Jennings Family members will experience bad luck for a while after their fortune is extracted, as time passes, the missing fortune will gradually be replenished by the Jennings Family’s own fortune.
This is why, over the years, she has repeatedly extracted fortune from Jennings Family members without causing them perpetual bad luck.
This also shows the vastness of the Jennings Family’s fortune.
Although Azura likes this sustainable exploitation, Donovan Jennings’s action of driving her out of the Jennings Family, as well as the attitude changes of Adam Jennings, Chase Jennings, and even the Old Madam Jennings, made her feel that things were gradually slipping out of her control.
"Instead of painstakingly trying to please them and only borrowing a bit of fortune, it’s better to take away the Jennings Family’s fortune all at once."
Once the Jennings Family loses their fortune, neither Donovan Jennings nor Scarlett Jennings would be able to remain as superior as they are now.
"System, I know you have a way."
Just like before, the system always told her that it could only rely on increasing Goodwill Value to extract fortune.
But starting a few months ago, using twin dolls to swap living souls, or using substitute dolls to directly take over bodies, has made it possible to extract fortune from afar without meeting the Goodwill Value requirement.
Her system is getting stronger.
In her mind, the system, feeling Azura’s surging greed, remained silent for a long time before speaking again,
[The system indeed has a method to extract the Jennings Family’s fortune all at once, but the host cannot achieve it.]
Azura, unconvinced, "How do you know I can’t do it if you haven’t told me?"
The system then said, [Achieving full Goodwill Value with the three Jennings Family members with the strongest fortune at once, would allow you to take all their fortune in one go, and through these three individuals, pillage the family fortune of the Jennings Family.]
Without waiting for Azura to inquire further, the system directly named the three targets.
[The three Jennings Family members are James Jennings (Old Sir Jiang), Luca Jennings, and Donovan Jennings.]
Azura: ...
An eerie silence spread throughout the room.
Initially eager, Azura, as if splashed with a bucket of cold water, finally sobered up.
These three people...
She indeed cannot do it.
Let alone three, she can’t conquer even one of them.
In the past, she had indeed tried to conquer them, but each attempt made her felt like a clown performing.
The three smartest people of the Jennings Family, she usually doesn’t dare to show her face around them, let alone now.
Yet, she is still unwilling in her heart.
"Isn’t there any other way? Like using the substitute doll to take over a body?"
[System: Using a substitute doll to take over a body requires placing the doll near the target person for at least seven days to absorb their scent.]
Azura: ...
Let alone seven days, these things being close to those three people for a day would get dealt with.
Not to mention the previous incident with the doll made from human hair, using dolls as intermediaries is too sensitive.
Just as Azura thought there was absolutely no hope, she heard the emotionless voice of the system coming again,
"That middle piece, go up and check it out."
Upon receiving the order, Sophie immediately floated up as instructed, but after looking left and right, she found nothing amiss.
"Scarlett, it’s just normal gypsum, there’s nothing on top."
"Nothing?" Scarlett sensed again meticulously, then decisively said, "The aura from that piece of gypsum is off, there must be something."
While they were talking, Lucas Jennings came over and seeing her holding the exquisite Peach Wood Sword, he asked curiously what it was for.
Scarlett ignored him, and directly called over the butler, pointing at that piece of gypsum, "Uncle Ming, find someone to, break down that middle piece for me to check."
Uncle Ming was stunned for a moment at her request to smash the gypsum, "Miss, what’s wrong with this gypsum? Why do you want it smashed?"
Before Scarlett could reply, Lucas interjected promptly, "If my sister says to smash it, there must be a reason. Uncle Ming just get someone to do it."
Thinking it through carefully, Uncle Ming felt it made sense and promptly went to find someone.
Donovan Jennings couldn’t wait any longer for Scarlett, so he went out to find her, coincidentally meeting Uncle Ming, hearing that she wanted to smash a piece of the pavilion’s gypsum decoration, his expression didn’t even show curiosity as he casually said,
"Then bring a few more craftsmen over here, in case she has other ideas to implement simultaneously."
What if Scarlett wanted to push down the whole pavilion and build a new one? Having more people would make it easier for her.
Knowing Donovan’s attitude, Uncle Ming smiled and agreed, soon bringing back several craftsmen, one of whom was carrying a large sledgehammer for demolishing walls.
Scarlett had no objections to this, pointed out the spot, and soon, one craftsman set up a ladder while another took tools, quickly dismantling the piece of gypsum she pointed out.
Scarlett then looked at the craftsman with the sledgehammer, "Break open the gypsum."
The craftsman, without a word, swung the heavy hammer forward, and with a couple of strikes, the gypsum crumbled apart, subsequently revealing the item inside.
An old, red-clothed doll embedded within the gypsum.
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