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Li Haotian fiddled with his phone, the encrypted message from "Poison Scorpion" on the screen looking rather pathetic.

"Boss, I think... I'm being watched."

Su Wan leaned closer to take a look, her brows furrowing even more.

"Is he one of the bishop's men?"

"Who else could it be but him?" Li Haotian casually deleted the message, his tone as relaxed as if he were discussing the weather.

"Didn't you say before that the deliveryman was 'The Doctor's' creation? Now Scorpion is being targeted again, and we're caught in a pincer movement." Su Wan's voice was filled with unconcealed worry.

Li Haotian picked up the heavy metal box from the sofa, placed it on his lap, and patted it.

"A pincer attack? No, no, no." He shook his finger.

"This is called diverting firepower and shifting the focus."

"Think about it, who does the bishop hate the most right now?"

Su Wan thought for a moment, then hesitated and asked, "You?"

"No, it's a scorpion." Li Haotian laughed. "I'm just a vague 'Mr. Li, a concerned citizen,' a concept, a symbol. The bishop doesn't even know if I'm male or female."

"But Scorpion is different; she truly betrayed him and even tried to seize power."

"Now that the bishop can't find me, he'll definitely unleash all his anger on Scorpion. His surveillance is just an appetizer."

Su Wan seemed to understand something. "So, the Scorpion is now our target to draw attention?"

"Smart." Li Haotian snapped his fingers. "Half of the money she spent was for my services, and the other half was to buy her own life."

"We don't have to do anything now, we can just watch the show."

As he spoke, he opened the chat window with Scorpion and slowly began typing.

"understood."

"Here's a business tip: Find a place with good feng shui and choose a burial plot for yourself in advance, so you won't be scrambling around when the time comes."

After sending the message, he immediately turned off his phone.

In the living room, Liu Hu still stood in the corner like a guardian deity, but his gaze was fixed on the metal box on Li Haotian's lap.

Su Wan also shifted her attention to this.

"This... is it from 'Mythical Indra'?"

"Hmm, the rocket that the top fan sent has arrived." Li Haotian carried the box to the coffee table with a dull thud.

He examined the box, then suddenly remembered something and, mimicking the tone of the deliveryman outside, spoke in a completely emotionless electronic voice.

"Mr. Li's package."

Su Wan and Liu Hu were taken aback by his sudden performance.

Li Haotian continued acting, pointing to his face and asking Liu Hu with a serious expression, "Look at my face, is there any flower on it?"

Liu Hu hesitated for a long time before shaking his head.

"That guy looked at me like I had a flower bloom on my face." Li Haotian curled his lip. "You know, he's a deliveryman, but he acts like he's checking the water meter."

"I asked him which organization he worked for, but he ignored me. Young people these days have no manners at all."

Su Wan was both amused and exasperated. "That guy was already acting strangely, and you still went and provoked him."

"I was just testing him," Li Haotian said, shaking a finger. "It turns out that guy is a high-level puppet; he didn't even have a joke program installed."

He said this without further ado, and lightly traced the intricate runes on the box with his finger.

Click.

With a soft click, the box opened.

A wave of scorching heat hit us, and the temperature in the living room suddenly rose.

In the center of the box lay a fist-sized crystal, its entire surface a deep crimson like blood.

Inside the crystal, it seemed as if magma was slowly flowing, emitting astonishing energy fluctuations.

【Ding! 】

[High-purity, top-grade fire-elemental extraordinary crystal core detected.]

[Is it used for unlocking the gene tree?]

A system notification sounded in Li Haotian's mind.

"At least they didn't renege on their promise." He reached out and took the warm crystal core out of the box.

The moment he grasped the crystal core, his expression shifted slightly.

His consciousness, through the "hive mind," quietly connected to another place.

……

The other side of the city.

In the darkness of night, a blue shadow is moving at high speed between buildings in a way that defies physics.

He would sometimes skim along the ground, and sometimes climb vertically up the exterior walls of buildings tens of meters high. His movements were so fluid that they were not human, but more like a spider hunting in the urban jungle.

It was the "deliveryman" who had just left the Genting Villa.

At this moment, on his shoulder, a black particle smaller than a speck of dust was firmly attached to the fiber seam of his uniform.

That was the [Alien • Worker Bee] mark left by Li Haotian when he patted him on the shoulder.

Through the microscopic perspective of worker bees, Li Haotian "saw" everything.

This guy, codenamed "Zero," moves faster than the speed of sound and is completely silent.

The route he chose perfectly avoided all street surveillance cameras and crowds.

Li Haotian could even sense that the other party's body was scanning and analyzing the surrounding environmental data at an extremely high frequency, planning the optimal route forward.

"He's got something." Li

Haotian commented in his heart.

This is no longer just physical enhancement; it's more like a biological weapon equipped with a supercomputer.

A few minutes later, Zero slowed down.

He ventured into a dark, damp back alley and stopped in front of a wall covered in graffiti.

There was a huge shark with its mouth open painted on the wall.

Zero reached out and tapped the drawn shark eyeball five times in a specific rhythm.

Rumble...

The ground trembled slightly, and the wall actually cracked in the middle and slowly slid to both sides.

A futuristic metal passageway, shimmering with a cold, eerie blue light, was revealed.

The passage was bottomless.

Zero walked in expressionlessly.

As he entered, the walls closed again, as if nothing had happened.

The back alley returned to deathly silence.

But the "worker bee" attached to him had meticulously recorded all the environmental data, energy fluctuation frequencies, and even the molecular composition of the air, and transmitted them back to Li Haotian's mind simultaneously.

……

The living room of a villa in the sky.

Li Haotian slowly opened his eyes and tossed the fire-elemental crystal core in his hand.

Seeing that he had kept his eyes closed and hadn't spoken for a while, Su Wan couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this crystal core?"

"No problem." Li Haotian revealed a playful smile.

"Not only was there no problem, but they also gave me a big gift."

He turned his head and looked at the dazzling city night view outside the window. His gaze seemed to penetrate the endless steel and concrete, landing on the coordinate point that had just been marked.

"Su Wan".

"Um?"

"Have you found a lead on that blue plastic stool you asked me to look into?"

Su Wan was taken aback, not understanding why he suddenly brought this up, but she still nodded.

"Qin Yue's side is making a big fuss. They have already sealed off the surveillance footage of that chain convenience store in the city and are using the Sky Eye system to investigate."

"Oh," Li Haotian replied, a mischievous smile spreading across his face.

"Then please pass on a message to Captain Qin for me."

"Just tell her to stop investigating. If we keep investigating, I'm afraid her heart won't be able to take it."

"By the way, tell her that I, a concerned citizen, have discovered another illegal operation. I'll send you the address later."

He shook the fire-elemental crystal core in his hand.

Tell her that the fertilizer for my plants came to me on its own.