The male supporting character was actually myself.

Five minutes later, after filtering all the workers' information at the repair shop, only one name remained—Si Suduan.

Why not discuss Chapter Seven?

These days, personal information is no longer a secret, and of course, nobody cares.

Since entering a virtual game requires real-name authentication to ensure that one is over eighteen years old, Jiang Chen naturally had the authority to retrieve Si Suduan's personal information from the backend database.

A photo of a pale, thin, and dull-eyed middle-aged woman was quickly retrieved, with her ID card information clearly indicating the location.

“Now we’ve found the exact address…” Jiang Chen glanced at it and immediately confirmed that it was the aunt and niece. As the male protagonist with a halo, Si Anrui had handsome features, and his blood-related aunt was naturally not too bad either.

Even though she was wearing the cheapest work clothes and her hair was dull and slightly messy, you could still see the potential of a beauty in her eyes.

If it weren't for the protagonist who adopted him when he was young and who worried about him so much, Si Suduan, with his vision and perseverance, would never have ended up in this miserable state.

Raising a child is no easy task, which is why she hasn't had a boyfriend even in her thirties. She devoted herself to supporting her nephew, only to be betrayed by him.

Not only was Si Anrui ungrateful, but he didn't even shed a tear after his aunt passed away. Instead, he turned around and started dating the female lead. He really raised a thankless wretch!

"Meow? Host, you've figured out the protagonist's background, meow?" The fluffy little ball of fur shook its big ears and glanced at the time. "We haven't been in the mission world for long, and we've already exposed the male lead's secrets. Why isn't the script team updating?"

"They probably think these are all minor details and don't affect the male lead's ability to show off."

"Trivial details?" The little white cat licked its paws, not understanding. Its host had directly found the undercover agent and was trying to steal the male lead's biggest helper. Didn't the script team notice the crisis?

Or is this year's scriptwriting team so bad that they didn't even realize what kind of opponents they were facing?

Who cares? As long as the kitten is cute, that's all that matters!

It lay down comfortably with its four paws outstretched, squinting its eyes, ready to bask in the sun and take a nap.

"Lisa, go and acquire this pomelo repair shop for me." As the young master of M Technology Company, Jiang Chen entered the game with a mission and was accompanied by a group of bodyguards waiting to give orders.

He sent the detailed information of the selected repair shop directly to his secretary, saying, "The sooner it's settled, the better. I want the repair shop to remain as it is, including all the employees, and I'll even give them a 20% raise."

In the game, the female secretary named Lisa is the female leader of the most powerful gang in Kyoto. On the surface, city managers are fixed NPCs who provide convenience for players, but in reality, the distribution of benefits is controlled by various gangs. She belongs to another level of city managers.

"Okay, please wait a moment, I'll take care of it right away." Upon receiving the new task from her boss, Lisa immediately put down what she was doing and went to acquire the repair shop.

M Technology Company's executive department recruited gaming experts to secretly balance the laws of the virtual world. Their mission was to play the game well, become key figures, and be ready to secretly adjust the survival rules according to the company's orders.

Otherwise, such a highly free virtual world would be uncontrollable, and if rival companies were to secretly cause trouble, there would be no way to resist.

G Technology Company is eyeing the company covetously, while M Technology Company is facing fierce internal competition. No one wants to lose their high-paying job due to a mistake in their work.

Yuzu Repair Shop is located in an inconspicuous corner of the western part of Cloud Island. The three-story steampunk-style building is filled with all kinds of old parts.

"Boss, what made you choose this repair shop?" The henchman scratched his hair, which was styled with a headband, and grinned helplessly. "Our gang has the best repair shop in Kyoto. Look at this shabby little place."

"It's obviously the kind of thing where they collect junk, disassemble parts, and reassemble them into secondhand vehicles or weapons to sell to penniless thugs. They don't make much money and there's not much skill involved..."

He wanted to keep babbling on, but Lisa glanced at him and the little follower immediately shut up.

My boss, who is ruthless and has a beautiful voice, is not someone who rose to power by virtue of her looks, but someone who is a woman of her word. I was indeed a bit too talkative.

How much are they asking for?

“They were initially unwilling to sell, but we offered too much, so we settled on a price of two million.” The assistant quickly uploaded a video of the professional negotiation team to her. “Look at this, a professional appraiser and negotiator, they really made a profit at this price! It’s just that you were in a hurry, boss. If you could have waited a few days and negotiated, we definitely could have gotten the price down.”

Lisa glanced at it and thought it was alright.

As an employee of M Technology Company, everything I have in the game is thanks to the company's support. As a high-paid manager, I naturally cannot overuse company assets.

Two million is a bit expensive for a repair shop, but it's within the normal range. There's no need to worry about being investigated by the supervisory team for problems with the flow of funds.

"Ms. Lisa? It's a pleasure to meet you!" The repair shop owner's character was very similar to the steampunk style of the repair shop. Even the decoration on his bow tie was an exquisite gear. He had black lips and a cigar in his mouth. However, the smile on his face that he couldn't suppress when he came up to shake hands slightly detracted from his overall demeanor.

Lisa shook hands politely and got straight to the point, "Let's list the repair shop's land title deed along with the employees' contracts on the stock exchange. You list it, and I'll bid."

"Great!" The repair shop owner rubbed his face to make sure he wasn't dreaming. This huge windfall had really fallen into his lap. Without saying a word, he opened the interface and started editing the sales information.

You should know that he spent 50,000 yuan to build this repair shop. It was indeed difficult to run it at the beginning, but 90% of the players are not rich, and you could say that the majority are poor. Where would they get so much real money to buy good equipment?

He bought scrap metal at low prices and dismantled it to make parts. Gradually, he learned more advanced repair skills and bought some basic blueprints. After starting to assemble machinery with scrap parts, he quickly made a lot of money.

After operating the business for two years, he not only solved the problem of food and shelter for his family in the real world, but also expanded the small building into a small factory that integrates repair and sales.

It can't compare to other large factories, but it's already quite good for him.

Given its remote location, the house, employees, dismantled second-hand parts, and inventory together were worth at most a few hundred thousand yuan. Who would have thought that a big shot would suddenly offer two million yuan to buy it?!

He had it all planned out. After selling the virtual goods and realizing the cash, he would deposit 1.5 million into a real-world bank to earn interest. The virtual world was popular now, but that didn't mean it would stay popular forever. The priority in making money was to ensure that his family in the real world had enough to eat, wear, and use, so he would have a way out.

With the remaining 500,000, I can easily go to a big city to find a suitable place to rent a venue and continue doing my old business. Anyway, I have friends among my old customers in the game, so I don't have to worry about losing customers.

Earning over a million yuan is enough for an ordinary person to achieve a small upward social mobility in a world as desolate as the end of the world.

"Alright! You can take the picture now!" The repair shop owner quickly set up the corresponding contracts and uploaded them to the exchange, waiting for the funds to arrive.

Lisa completed the acquisition in just a few seconds, but instead of immediately becoming the owner of the grapefruit repair shop, she sent all the documents to the real owner via email.

"You need it urgently, but the other party is reluctant to sell, so the transaction price is much higher than the market price." She dared not leave any loopholes; even if the boss didn't care about the money, as a secretary, she should proactively inform him of all the details.

Along with the contract, two video materials were also delivered, including the appraiser's valuation of the entire repair shop, the acquisition negotiation process, and the transaction purchase records.

"As expected, the high-end talent at big companies makes you feel comfortable doing things," Jiang Chen replied after receiving the email, then carefully reviewed the contract signed by both parties.

This is the official employee contract provided by Perfect World, which simply stipulates the scope of work that workers are responsible for and their salary and benefits.

Previous pay slips show that Si Suduan's highest salary was 5,000 yuan, and the lowest was only a little over 2,000 yuan. If she were single, she could live a decent life in the real world, but raising a child and paying for his education would be a struggle.

I really don't know how she managed to save 160,000 yuan through frugality. I imagine she must have been devastated when she found out beforehand that her nephew had squandered it all without hesitation.

Jiang Chen wanted to save this pitiful woman who was being used as a stepping stone by the protagonist. He first wanted her to see her nephew's selfish and self-serving true colors so that the subsequent plan could proceed smoothly.

To avoid discrepancies in time perception, except in a few areas, time in "Perfect World" is completely synchronized with real time; even the sun and moon rise and set just like in reality.

As the sun began to set, Lin Ruochu made her way back to the cliff where her safe house was located.

She had no clue how to find the player who picked up "Awakening of Insects," and unwilling to give up, she went to the small valley to take a look, but sure enough, she didn't find any clues.

There weren't even any traces of a helicopter landing around, and there were so many players who owned helicopters that they might have lent them to friends, making screening impossible.

"Cousin, I'm out!" The parrot Jixiang was summoned, circled above its owner's head, randomly chose an opening line, and then landed on Lin Ruochu's shoulder with a sigh, "No fries, what good is it!"

She was both amused and exasperated as she took a bag of fries out of her backpack and handed it to him. "You can't even speak properly, what kind of nonsense have you learned? You should spend less time on pet social media!"

Jixiang tilted his head, picked up two fries, and quickly ate them, instantly filling up his hunger bar.

As Lin Ruochu walked along the floating plank on the cliff toward the safe house, she casually brushed its fur, and the mood bar on the pet interface quickly filled up.

"Who wants some fries?" Parrot Jixiang suddenly tilted its head and stared at the safe house, issuing a warning, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

She also noticed something was wrong—the window she had closed when she left was now open, and someone had discovered her and broken into her safe house!

"What a bad day." Lin Ruochu frowned slightly, cocked her pistol, and quietly approached.

First, "Jingzhe" dropped, then they were broken into a safe house. If it were a robbery gang, they would probably have emptied the house by now, and might even have ambushed someone to kill them and loot their equipment.

The parrot, Jixiang, was trained to be very intelligent. It circled around and silently landed in front of the window.

However, before it could send back any useful information, Lin Ruochu watched helplessly as it was snatched into the house by something as fast as lightning, something she couldn't even see clearly!

"Caw caw!" The parrot was knocked down onto the table by the fluffy ball, trembling and forgetting to speak.

The little white cat excitedly shouted to its host, "Wow! This game is amazing! No wonder so many people are addicted to it!"

Host, look how realistic even the birds in the game are! You can even catch them! If you pluck their feathers and roast them, could you eat them?

It's a pity that games haven't developed to the point where you can replace eating and experience the taste of food.

Your company needs to hurry up and develop some R&D, like a gaming pod! If everyone could 'taste' all sorts of delicious flavors in a virtual world, then we could truly make the virtual world feel like reality…”

"Catching a bird?" Jiang Chen was checking the check-in activity he had secretly sent people to start, monitoring the location of the protagonist Si Anrui in real time. Hearing it chirping, he looked up and couldn't help but twitch his lips. "Xiaobai, that's someone else's pet, let it go."

"Meow meow meow?"

The fluffy little cat stared blankly at the parrot it had pinned beneath it, "Are you a pet cat?"

However, the parrot Jixiang only heard its soft, sweet kitten-like meows, and after a couple of seconds of confusion, it shouted, "Enemy attack! Meow~"

It has been working very hard to deliver the message to its owner.

Lin Ruochu frowned upon hearing this. Did Jixiang mean that there was only one person and one cat pet in the safe house?

That means they weren't a robbery gang. After all, they operate as a group, with speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness as their basic principles. They wouldn't leave just one person lying in ambush and release a cat-like pet that could expose their whereabouts at any moment.

If you want to win by surprise attack and force, you'll definitely choose a pet with strong fighting capabilities, rather than a cat that's just a playmate...

Who exactly is this person and what do they want to do?

"Is this yours, Miss Yaoyao?" Jiang Chen handed "Awakening of Insects" out the window and immediately took it back, saying loudly, "I don't want to spar with a weapon master. Why don't we sit down and calmly discuss cooperation?"

"The Awakening of Insects?!" The sudden turn of events made Lin Ruochu's eyes widen in surprise.

In the game "Perfect World", she named herself Yaoyao. The system would give a notification if a stranger broke into the safe house, so it's normal that the other party knew her name.

Lin Ruochu simply couldn't believe that someone could find the "Awakening of Insects" and not immediately leave with the Heavenly Ranking weapon, but instead track down the traces to the safe house that seemed to belong to the weapon's owner. What exactly did he want to talk about?

She casually opened her backpack and temporarily stored all the valuable items, such as blueprints, in the system store safe to prevent them from being lost again in an attack. Once she was ready, she went out lightly and pushed open the door.

"Rich guy!" What came into view was a tall, handsome stranger with a sculpted face.

He was wearing a limited-edition modified military uniform and had a retro-carved long spear slung at his waist. Lin Ruochu immediately knew that this person was no ordinary individual.

Because that retro-styled, carved long spear is also on the weapon ranking list. It is a commemorative weapon for the game's first anniversary event. There is only one of its kind in the entire "Perfect Kingdom". Not only does it have all the highest stats of guns, but it can also be bound to the player for life.

Not only does he possess perfect offensive power, but he's also a symbol of status; this handsome stranger must be someone important.

She even thought the other party was very likely an employee of M Technology Company, or at least the heir of a family on the real-world rich list. Otherwise, who could squander so much money to acquire a prize that millions of people would fight over?

Chapter Eight: The Culprit

After carefully considering that she had no chance of being exposed, Lin Ruochu glanced at the untouched equipment and asked warily, "How did you find this place? And Jingzhe..."

"I saw your logo on Jingzhe Island. I figured you were quite strong and should have a safe house on Skull Island to avoid having to keep running back and forth. So I flew a helicopter around the valley and found some traces, which led me to this safe house."

Jiang Chen nodded politely and placed the crossbow on the table, spreading his hands and smiling, "I knew I hadn't come to the wrong place when I saw the same logo on the equipment inside. The little house on the cliff is very creative and really quite hidden and hard to find."

Lin Ruochu, unaware of any hostility, relaxed slightly and tentatively asked, "You found Jingzhe. As is customary, I think it would cost me some money to get it back... How much do you think would be appropriate?"

She was a little nervous, but she couldn't avoid the topic. She just hoped that the other party was a wealthy tycoon who didn't care about such a small amount of money, otherwise she would really have to spend a lot of money!

Judging from his attire, even the pet he carries is a unique, hidden edition, suggesting he might have a collecting obsession.