[Exalting Sanctum]
Inside an inconspicuous room, the girl stood in the middle of the room, looking around at the furnishings.
"So this is Levi's room? Feels kind of ordinary."
"Silver Wolf, be careful not to get caught."
Kafka's voice came from the communicator at her waist. The girl waved at the air and said, "Relax, those guys are still a hundred years too early if they want to catch me!"
"Besides, even if I really screw up and get caught, I don't need you and Blade to come rescue me. You think that tiny cell can hold me?"
"If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up."
So Luofu wouldn't track her position through positioning.
Silver Wolf had a lollipop in her mouth and said, "You hurry up with your 'escape.' I'm gonna go play some games first."
Before Kafka could reply, Silver Wolf took off the communicator at her waist, skillfully removed the battery, and put it on the table.
Then she started sizing up the room from top to bottom. "This setup doesn't really match my image of a top-tier expert."
'Someone who can hack the Corporation, how can they live so… plainly?'
'Judging from the furnishings, "bare-bones" fits best.'
"No wonder he says he's a good person. With that kind of ability, if he weren't a good person, could he really live this simply?"
If he had even half her rebellious streak, he'd probably already be on the run across the universe.
Silver Wolf lightly bit down with her pearly teeth, grabbed the stick of the lollipop, pulled it out, and tossed it out the window.
She kept looking around the room, her cheeks puffing in and out.
"This isn't a place suitable for fighting… Wage slave, slave, you two… forget it, all four of you come out and help."
A virtual screen appeared in front of Silver Wolf as her fingers danced across it.
Four small figures appeared inside the room.
"You four, turn this place into something like my room."
Silver Wolf pointed at Levi's bed. "Especially there. Make it more discreet. I don't want to see any weird paper balls or unknown liquids."
"Finish it in a day… half a day."
She'd just leave the work to these little guys and lie on the couch playing games herself.
If she weren't short on time, Silver Wolf wouldn't even bother calling out Friends and the Demon King.
She might've dumped all the work on Slave alone.
"Exploitation! This is exploitation! How can it be done in one day!"
Friend immediately accused Silver Wolf of being a black-hearted capitalist.
No pay, yet demanding high efficiency and high quality, what kind of boss does that?
"That's a good point!" Silver Wolf nodded, not denying the accusation at all. "Your punishment is playing games with me."
"Coming right up!"
Friend immediately left the four-person team and sat down next to Silver Wolf.
She clapped her hands, and a miniature handheld console appeared in her hands.
The two of them happily started playing games.
The Demon King stayed cool and silent. Slave and Wage Slave had long adapted to this exploited lifestyle and didn't say anything either.
The three little ones followed Silver Wolf's instructions and started clearing out useless items in Levi's room.
Using Ether Editing technology, they tossed the trash into outer space beyond Luofu.
Old items were replaced with brand-new, high-tech furniture.
"Damn! What's going on? The two of us together can't even beat them!"
"They're hacking!"
"We're hacking too!"
"I checked, there was a small update today. My hack is behind theirs."
"Got it. I'll just ban both of their accounts…"
Looking at the words "Opponent Disconnected" on the screen, Silver Wolf sighed. "I'm really too strong!"
Anyway, the other side was really hacking too, so banning them wasn't wrong.
As for why she didn't ban herself for hacking… Haven't you seen double standards before?
The game continued. The slave continued working.
———
"Lady Fu Xuan, save me!"
Seeing the man in the distance being chased by the Disciples and sprinting toward them, Fu Xuan's mouth twitched slightly. She glanced at Qingque beside her, whose mouth was also twitching.
"Qingque, leave them to you."
"Huh? Me?"
Qingque pointed at herself, her face full of confusion.
Her expression looked exactly like the catfish demon who suddenly learned it had to fight Tang Sanzang and his disciples.
'You want me to fight that many Disciples? Are you serious?'
She could barely handle one. Now Fu Xuan was telling her to deal with the ones chasing Levi, wasn't that just telling her to throw her life away?
She had just barely escaped a life-or-death situation. There was no way she dared step back into danger.
Seeing Qingque's confusion, Fu Xuan glanced at the corpses scattered all over the Divination Array, then calmly looked back at her.
The meaning was obvious.
'You already dealt with so many Disciples of the Medicine King, can't you handle the dozen or so chasing Levi?'
Qingque pulled her gaze back from the bodies on the ground and gave Fu Xuan an awkward smile. "Lady Fu Xuan, you've misunderstood. I didn't deal with these people…"
"If it wasn't you, then was it this seat?!"
Hearing Qingque's words, Fu Xuan's expression instantly turned cold.
"This seat saw everything clearly. You still dare hide and lie right in front of me? Do you not take this seat seriously at all?!"
There had only been Qingque at the Divination Array earlier. 'Could it be she was possessed by a Heliobi?'
"Ah! Lady Fu Xuan truly deserves to be the Diviner, you even guessed… divined… something like that!"
Seeing Qingque scrambling for excuses like this, the coldness on Fu Xuan's face faded, replaced by frustration at wasted potential.
"Qingque, if you don't want to act, fine, but could you at least come up with a more reasonable excuse?!"
'There aren't any damn Heliobi outside Luofu right now!'
'Those things are all sealed in the mausoleum. How could they possibly get out?'
She hadn't received any report about a sealing failure and Heliobi escaping.
"But since you say you were possessed by a Heliobi, then tell this seat, where is the Heliobi that possessed you?"
Hearing this, Qingque couldn't help but look toward Levi, who was being chased all over the place.
She really wanted to say it was right there, but out of loyalty to her friend, she chose not to say it.
Besides, even if she did say it, Fu Xuan probably wouldn't believe her.
After all, Levi is a human, not some Heliobi.
"You two! Can you stop chatting already?! I can't run much longer!"
"Hurry up and save me!"
"Qingque..."
"I'm here!"
Hearing Fu Xuan's suddenly gentle voice, Qingque shuddered all over, her body tensing up immediately.
Fu Xuan withdrew her gaze from Levi and looked gently at Qingque.
"As long as you can deal with the Mara-struck behind him, this seat promises you that from now on you can slack off as much as you want, and I won't assign you any extra work."
"What do you say?"
Hearing Fu Xuan promise unlimited slacking, Qingque's heart instantly wavered.
But...
"I really can't handle those guys!"
Qingque wailed with a miserable face.
Fu Xuan's expression turned cold again. "You refuse the toast only to drink the punishment! Get up there!"
'If you won't eat the sweet talk, then you'll have to eat the hard one!:
'Either way you're going up. How does Qingque not understand trade-offs?'
Fu Xuan's figure flickered, and in an instant she appeared behind Qingque, pushing her forward with a burst of force onto Levi's escape path.
Swaying as she stood there, Qingque looked at the crowd charging toward her, the light fading from her eyes.
"I'm dead."
Levi, who had been distracted thinking about why Fu Xuan still hadn't acted, suddenly saw Qingque blocking the way ahead. His eyes widened slightly.
'Holy crap!'
'Isn't this just adding to my burden?!'
'Damn you, celestial beings!'