You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

The night is getting darker.

Inside Lin Chen's study in his courtyard house.

The antique bookshelves were not filled with the Four Books and Five Classics, but rather with rows of top-tier servers radiating a deep blue light.

This place has been transformed by Lin Chen into his personal cyber warfare center.

Lin Chen sat in front of the computer, with a waterfall of data scrolling rapidly across the screen.

He activated his "God-level Network Tracking Technique," attempting to trace the source of the strange infrasound audio file intercepted inside the Mercedes.

This is like finding a needle in a haystack.

The other party's methods were extremely sophisticated. The signal source was redirected through hundreds of botnet servers around the world, and each redirection erased a trace. Ordinary network experts couldn't even find a clue to track it down.

But in the face of god-level network tracking techniques, these so-called "perfect hiding" are nothing but the emperor's new clothes.

Lin Chen's ten fingers tapped on the keyboard, each strike precise and accurate, as if playing a deathly symphony.

Those layers upon layers of virtual springboards were violently peeled away layer by layer as he tracked them down.

The study door was gently pushed open.

Su Qingge quietly entered, carrying a steaming bowl of lotus seed soup.

Knowing that Lin Chen was busy with important matters, she didn't disturb him. She simply placed the late-night snack on the table, then walked behind Lin Chen, stretched out her arms, and gently wrapped them around his neck from behind, pressing her soft body against his back, and watching the things on the screen with him that she couldn't understand at all.

The delicate fragrance of the beauty's hair lingered around my nose, and behind me was a comforting softness.

A gentle smile involuntarily curved the corners of Lin Chen's lips.

However, at this very moment!

A sudden change has occurred!

"Beep! Beep! Beep!—"

On the computer screen, all the tracking programs instantly turned a glaring blood red, and firewalls emitted heart-wrenching alarms!

An extremely powerful and bizarre data stream actually broke through the layers of barriers set up by Lin Chen, like a tentacle from the abyss, and directly invaded his computer!

The screen went black instantly.

The next second, a 3D virtual figure wearing a strange white puppet mask suddenly appeared in the center of the screen.

The puppet's mouth was stretched into an extremely exaggerated and morbid smile, and its empty eye sockets flickered with an ominous red light.

"Hehehe..."

A sharp, piercing electronic voice, processed by a voice changer and indistinguishable between male and female, came from the speaker.

"Lin Chen, the new king of the capital? Your reaction was a little faster than I expected."

Su Qingge's expression changed instantly, and she subconsciously reached for the pistol at her waist.

Lin Chen raised a hand and gently patted the back of her hand, signaling her to calm down.

His face showed no sign of panic; instead, his eyes grew colder and more excited.

The prey has finally shown itself.

"What should I call you? A rat hiding in the gutter?"

Lin Chen leaned back in his chair, his tone calm, yet carrying a condescending disdain.

The puppet mask on the screen seemed to be enraged, suddenly moving closer to the screen, its eerie smiling face almost taking up the entire display.

"You can call me... the Puppet Master."

"You destroyed the sky, shattered the fragile balance of the capital's underworld. You're like a barbarian who broke into a china shop and destroyed my beloved toy."

"Those two executives were just an appetizer for you."

"I have prepared an extremely grand psychological game for you and for this city."

"And you, Lin Chen, are my most important puppet."

"I'm curious, when all your women die one by one in front of you in the most perfect 'accident' way, what kind of interesting expression will appear on your always calm and collected face? Hahahaha!"

The puppeteer let out an extremely arrogant and perverse laugh.

"asshole!"

Su Qingge was so angry that she trembled all over, gritted her teeth, and wished she could go through the internet cable and shoot that bastard's head off!

Lin Chen's gaze had completely darkened.

The other party had touched a nerve.

However, amidst that ear-piercing laughter, Lin Chen remained absolutely calm.

He activated his [God-level Hearing]!

His ears twitched slightly, instantly filtering out the noisy electronic interference from the voice changer and picking up two extremely faint, almost imperceptible noises in the other person's background sound.

"Clang...clang...clang..."

It was the sound of church bells, melodious yet with a touch of antiquity.

"Boom... Boom..."

There was also a steady, rhythmic low vibration sound transmitted through the ground as the subway passed by.

Church bells ringing... subway tremors...

Lin Chen's brain was racing, with countless pieces of information converging and colliding in his mind.

A cold smile, even more sinister than the puppeteer's, slowly curled up at the corner of his mouth, like the arrival of death itself.

"game?"

Lin Chen's fingers returned to the keyboard.

"You probably don't know, but playing online games in front of me..."

His hands instantly turned into blurry afterimages!

A tracking Trojan, more domineering and more covert than the opponent's intrusion program, was implanted into the past at an incredible speed, following the opponent's signal source!

The whole process took less than 0.5 seconds!

The puppeteer on the screen abruptly stopped laughing.

He seemed to sense something, and the virtual avatar suddenly retreated, trying to sever the connection.

But it was too late.

"...You don't even deserve to be a puppet."

Lin Chen slowly finished speaking the second half of his sentence.