As for what exactly was going on right now, both of them were completely confused.
"Could it be that Screwllum has already broken free, noticed what we were doing, and started counterattacking?"
"No."
Levi glanced at the jade terminal and shook his head. "He's still busy with his own affairs. He doesn't have the time to keep an eye on what's happening on Screwllum."
'Then what exactly was going on?'
Levi frowned deeply. "Wage slave, what's the situation on Screwllum?"
"..."
"Wage slave?"
After waiting for a moment, there was still no response from the wage slave.
Silver Wolf checked her tech gun, and there was likewise no data from the wage slave.
At the same time, the terminal in front of them also lost control. Black smoke drifted out from inside it, and the screen sank into darkness.
Seeing this, both of their hearts skipped a beat at the same time.
'This is bad! Something seriously wrong has happened!'
"So what do we do now?"
Silver Wolf panicked. She'd come to the Luofu once and ended up causing such a huge mess.
If she went back, Kafka would probably hang her up and whip her.
Levi's eyes flickered. "I can go back and take the punishment for you, free of charge."
"Get lost!" Silver Wolf kicked him, pinning him under her foot, a bad feeling rising in her heart.
Straddling him, she grabbed his collar tightly and asked with a serious face, "Stop joking around. I really feel like something big is about to happen. Do you have any way to erase my traces under these circumstances?"
Sensing Qingque's gaze beside him, Levi didn't know why, but he reached out and lifted Silver Wolf off himself.
He brushed the dust off his body and said helplessly, "You, the number-one hacker in the universe, can't do anything about it, and you're counting on me, a useless guy who just recovered from a serious illness?"
Silver Wolf didn't pursue that line of questioning. Instead, she asked Levi, "How many intelligent machines did you control?"
"26,789… Why are you asking?"
Hearing such a precise number, Silver Wolf was shocked. She'd thought it would be a tie, but she hadn't expected him to control that many intelligent machines in such a short time.
Then again, he'd proposed this competition himself, he must have been prepared.
"Hmph! Lying, cheating, and sneak-attacking! Bullying me, an old, elementary schooler!"
Silver Wolf snorted coldly, grabbed Levi's hand, and shoved a rectangular object into it.
"Best of three, you win! Now you've surpassed me, the world's number-one hacker, and become the new world number one!"
He opened his palm and looked at the item in his hand. Levi shot Silver Wolf a strange look.
"An Ether cartridge? Whose is it?"
"Obviously mine."
Silver Wolf pulled two candies out of her pocket. Levi reached out, and Silver Wolf tossed both into her own mouth.
Seeing his frozen expression, a malicious grin appeared on the girl's face.
"Want them? Come get them yourself!"
Levi didn't hold back. He directly reached into the girl's pocket, pulled out a big handful of candy, and stuffed it into his own mouth.
She hadn't expected Levi to be this bold in front of so many people. Silver Wolf took a couple of steps back.
Looking at the Ether cartridge in his hand, reluctance showed in her eyes.
"You won. This is the loot you deserve."
"Now you're the new world number-one hacker. Hurry up and think of a way to erase our traces."
After hearing Silver Wolf's words, Levi let out a sigh and put the Ether cartridge down.
"I really have no way to deal with this."
The terminal had already blown up, what was he supposed to use to handle it, his head?
"Since things have come to this, let's eat first."
Levi swayed over and sat down next to Qingque, picked up what Bailu had brought to the table, and started eating like crazy.
Since it had already reached this point, they might as well eat and drink well and calm down.
After all, he was now, like Qingque, a diviner of the Divination Commission.
In her words, if the sky falls, there's still the Grand Diviner to hold it up, what's there to panic about?
At worst, they could just learn from some country and go "red bean paste, private Marseille".
Wouldn't that perfectly solve the problem?
If that still didn't work… they could always run away.
He really admired this kind of mindset…
Silver Wolf was speechless. She sat down next to him again and joined in the feast.
Taking advantage of the moment, a parched Qingque took out the two cups of Happy Tea she'd put away earlier.
Seeing this, the corner of Levi's mouth lifted slightly, but he quickly suppressed it.
Calmly, he picked up one cup and placed it in front of himself, only for Qingque, smiling, to switch it with hers.
'Nice try! You still want to poison me!' Qingque raised her eyebrows at Levi.
She sucked hard on the straw, taking a big gulp. The joy on her face instantly collapsed.
Looking at the "Immortal Happy Tea" in front of her, Qingque's face turned green.
'How could it be wrong?!'
'How could it be wrong?!'
"All's fair in war."
Just as Levi was about to drink his own Immortal Happy Tea, Qingque beat him to it and took another huge gulp.
The taste she'd imagined didn't appear. Instead, an even more unbearable flavor assaulted her taste buds.
The girl's already green face turned even greener.
"You!"
Both cups were like this!
"I told you, all's fair in war."
This time, Levi finally showed a smile, the same kind of nasty smile Silver Wolf had earlier.
———
[After Some Time]
Sushang was also released from her restraints and sat around the table with Guinaifen to eat.
It was just that during the meal, Sushang kept glaring viciously at Silver Wolf.
Silver Wolf would occasionally provoke her in return.
Guinaifen, watching from the side, almost thought another fight was about to break out.
Levi chatted and laughed with Qingque and Bailu. Silver Wolf and Sushang competed in silence, while Guinaifen spectated from the sidelines.
The overall atmosphere was extremely harmonious.
Bang!
All of a sudden, Silver Wolf, who'd been locked in a silent contest with Sushang, blacked out and collapsed onto the table.
The duck leg in her hand fell to the ground.
Hearing the noise, Levi, who was talking with Qingque, once again curled the corner of his mouth upward.
When Silver Wolf woke up again, she found herself in a completely unfamiliar place.
More precisely, it was a prison cell.
And in the cell next to hers sat a familiar figure.
"Blade?" Silver Wolf climbed up from the ground, holding her dizzy head, and asked, "What is this place?"
'How did I end up here?'
Hearing Silver Wolf's question, the man called Blade opened his eyes and looked at her.
"This is the Shackling Prison, the place the Luofu uses to hold serious criminals. The real question is, why were you arrested?"
Blade was somewhat puzzled.
Given Silver Wolf's abilities, even if her combat power wasn't amazing, at the very least, hardly anyone in the universe could catch her if she wanted to run.
Yet she'd ended up captured and thrown into the Shackling Prison just like him.
Though he'd been arrested on purpose, while Silver Wolf was most likely passive.
Because she'd been carried in by a man.
As the two were talking, a staff member wearing the Ten-Lords Commission uniform walked in from outside.
Silver Wolf thought they'd come to interrogate her, but the person didn't even glance at her and continued deeper into the Shackling Prison.
Watching the figure disappear, Silver Wolf patted her head and recalled what had happened before she passed out.
As if understanding what was going on, her expression turned quite sour.
"I was careless. I got screwed over by that shameless bastard."
Kafka was right, when you're out and about, you shouldn't just eat other people's food.
"..."
'Damn you, Levi!'
"Achoo!"
Levi rubbed his nose and bowed politely to Jing Yuan. "That is the entire process by which I discovered and apprehended her."
Jing Yuan's fingers lightly tapped the tabletop. "Passing out from being unable to endure the smell of soda fermented bean juice, that kind of thing is indeed common on the Luofu."
Many outsiders, when first arriving on the Luofu, are tricked into tasting soda fermented bean juice.
Among them, there are even those with weak constitutions who pass out immediately after tasting it.
But it's rare for a Stellaron Hunter to fall for it.