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The living room was deathly silent.

Su Wan and Liu Hu, one standing and the other sitting, were both frozen in place from the previous second.

Their gazes were fixed on the handful of black powder on the carpet. It was not the wreckage of a communicator; it was clearly a thunderbolt capable of overturning everything.

Complaint.

Negative Ratings.

Usurpation.

These words swirled in their minds, each one causing them to panic and their thoughts to become a jumbled mess.

"You...you just now..."

Su Wan finally managed to speak, her throat dry and sore.

"Are you negotiating with 'Purgatory'...?"

Li Haotian swallowed the last bite of ice cream, then casually tossed the empty bucket into the trash can with a soft "clatter".

"Not really."

He picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth.

"At most, it's business consulting."

"I provided them with a more efficient direction for business development."

Looking at his serious face, Su Wan couldn't tell whether he was joking or really thought so.

Liu Hu, standing to the side, silently lowered his head and continued wiping his vase.

He decided that from today onward, apart from orders from Mr. and Miss Su Wan, he would refuse to think about anything beyond "what to eat today".

Being alive is good.

Just then, the encrypted phone in Su Wan's pocket emitted a very slight vibration.

It wasn't a phone call, nor a text message.

Instead, it's a higher-priority, forced wake-up prompt.

Su Wan took out her phone, glanced at it, and her pupils suddenly contracted.

"Haotian".

Her voice trembled slightly.

"They...responded."

Li Haotian seemed to have expected this, without even lifting an eyelid.

"Oh? That's quite efficient."

"It seems their company is very strict about performance targets, and they handle customer complaints very quickly."

Su Wan ignored his teasing and turned her phone screen towards Li Haotian.

There was no text on the screen, only a constantly rotating, dark red scorpion pattern composed of countless streams of data.

The scorpion's stinger is pointed directly at the viewer in front of the screen, radiating a silent threat.

A few seconds later, the scorpion pattern disappeared and was replaced by an address.

A virtual, one-time, untraceable encrypted chat room address.

Inviter's code name: Scorpion.

"Scorpion, the number two figure in the Purgatory Organization."

Su Wan's voice was very low, as if the name itself carried a deadly poison.

"She is also the bishop's biggest rival. Rumor has it that she is ruthless and extremely ambitious."

"It seems your phone call worked."

Li Haotian finally became interested.

He sat up straight on the sofa and reached out his hand to Su Wan.

Give me your phone.

"Open the firewall with the highest privileges, and prevent them from sneaking in through the network cable."

"Don't worry." Su Wan nodded, her fingers flying across the screen. "This is the Su family's highest-level encrypted line. Even if it's attacked, it can last for ten minutes."

"Ten minutes?"

Li Haotian took the phone and chuckled.

"It won't take that long."

He clicked on the address, and his phone screen instantly went black.

The next second, he felt as if he had been pulled out of reality, his consciousness sinking into an endless virtual space.

There was nothing here, only pure darkness and deathly silence.

At the edge of darkness, a dark red scorpion emblem floats silently, like a predator lurking in the shadows.

Li Haotian didn't rush to speak.

He first looked around the "room" with great interest, and then slowly began to set up his image.

He didn't choose any flashy or cool style.

He chose a widely circulated, cheeky, and funny smiley face emoji as his profile picture.

Then, in the ID field, he typed six characters, one after another:

[Mr. Li, a kind-hearted citizen]

Setup complete.

That smug, comical grin instantly appeared opposite the dark red scorpion.

The virtual space, which was originally filled with a somber atmosphere, suddenly became a strange and incongruous mess.

The scorpion emblem on the opposite side flashed noticeably.

It seems that this sudden operation has caused some confusion in the process.

"cough."

Li Haotian cleared his throat and broke the silence first.

A line of text slowly appeared in the chat box.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Dude, this chat room is really stylish, much better than the one that answered the phone earlier.

The scorpion emblem on the other side did not respond immediately.

After a full half minute, a cold female voice finally rang out in Li Haotian's mind through the data stream.

Unlike the mechanical voice of the previous customer service representative, this voice carried the breath of a living person.

A kind of...sticky and dangerous scent, like the flicking tongue of a venomous snake.

"You are that 'Alien'?"

Li Haotian controlled his comical smile and spun around in place.

[Mr. Li, a kind-hearted citizen]: Just call me Mr. Li, it's more friendly.

"What do you want from me?"

The scorpion's voice was direct, without a single wasted word.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Don't be so serious. I'm not here to see you; I'm here to discuss business. I'll help your company with some internal optimization and, while I'm at it, cut some... vacant, unproductive assets.

Li Haotian didn't type fast; each word seemed to dance on the other person's heart.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: For example, I think that person called "Bishop" is not competent.

Scorpion remained silent.

But Li Haotian could "sense" that behind that darkness, a gaze had sharpened.

"On what grounds?"

After a long while, the scorpion's voice rang out again.

Why should I believe you?

"Instead of locating your real-world coordinates right now and then crushing you like an insect?"

Li Haotian smiled.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Just because I know some of your bishop's little secrets that he doesn't want others to know.

He stopped keeping everyone in suspense.

He typed a line of text directly into the chat box.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Your Bishop, did you get your hands on something good recently? Something called a 'Divinity Stripper'? I heard it can extract the talents of top-tier players and be used interchangeably like swapping USB drives.

The scorpion emblem on the opposite side suddenly contracted!

Li Haotian noticed this subtle change.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Why didn't he share such a good thing with others in the organization? For example, why did he secretly lock the efficiency limit of the core energy converter's 'three-phase harmonic oscillation frequency' at 70%?

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Is he afraid that if you learn it, you will take away his job?

These words, like several poisoned daggers, precisely pierced the heart of a scorpion.

The "God Stripper" is the organization's top secret.

And the core frequency is the very core of the core, which the bishop never reveals to outsiders!

How did this "Mr. Li" know about this?!

"you……"

For the first time, there was a fluctuation in the scorpion's voice.

Li Haotian didn't give her time to think and pressed his advantage.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Don't trust me? No problem.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: After all, this is our first time working together, and we haven't even followed each other on social media.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: How about this?

Li Haotian's finger paused on the screen for a moment, and then he typed out the devilish phrase he had prepared long ago, a phrase that no ambitious person could refuse.

[Mr. Li, a kind-hearted citizen]: To show my sincerity, I can give you a free... top-tier tipping service.

The scorpion on the other side clearly didn't immediately understand this internet-savvy term.

"What do you mean?"

Li Haotian's comical smile was replaced by an even brighter (lewd) grin.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: It means, in your organization, if you don't like someone, tell me.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: I'll help you completely delete his account from the server in this world.

[Mr. Li, a concerned citizen]: Clean and spotless, leaving no trace.

[Mr. Li, a kind-hearted citizen]: Consider it a gift for you, a no-minimum-spend trial voucher for new customers.

[Mr. Li, a kind-hearted citizen]: Dear, please remember to give a five-star review!