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Digital City’s current situation is as turbulent as the Parallel World’s.

After the chaos caused by Chen Qing and the King of Qin, the former situation of the Federation was completely disrupted.

The Western Federation lost its past dominance and, after several high-level warriors were killed, adopted an indirect strategy, exchanging a great deal of conditions for more slots in the Parallel World.

Following that, the upper echelons of the Central Federation took the initiative, and the domain of diplomacy became increasingly smooth. It can be said that this period has been the most comfortable time for the diplomats of the Central Federation.

However, that is only true abroad. Within the Digital City of the Central Federation, various powerful groups still squabble over slots, with the newly appointed allied forces and the old powers arguing daily, as many people are eager to secure a slot in the Parallel World immediately.

Wang Ye’s current position in Digital City is quite unique.

He acts as Chen Qing’s spokesperson, holding many slot permissions.

Major powers both want to ingratiate themselves with him and remain wary of him all the time.

While higher-ups actively seek his favor, his movements are also monitored by major powers, putting Wang Ye in a difficult situation regarding investigations.

He has been here for nearly half a year now, but has yet to find a clue about the task Chen Qing assigned him.

As usual, Wang Ye got up early today and left the hotel. There were no surveillance cameras inside the hotel, but from the moment he left his room, he was followed.

This made it difficult for him to act alone.

Although he mastered Spatial Art, he couldn’t use it at will, as he couldn’t discern where surveillance was and wasn’t.

Ninety percent of Digital City was under surveillance, and the appearance of high-energy data in any location would immediately trigger alertness there.

Even after half a year, Wang Ye hadn’t found a relatively safe route, and surveillance restrictions naturally impeded any progress.

"Sir, are you playing mahjong again?"

Arriving at the lobby, Wang Ye saw a familiar figure and felt helpless. In the past two months, Mister Tianji seemed to have grown fond of this pastime.

"Ah... It’s been a long time since I felt this way," Tianji laughed. "In my previous life, I actually liked this kind of thing. People in the Parallel World live too miserably to develop such pastimes. I haven’t touched it in so long, I thought I had quit, but here I am back on the old path..."

Wang Ye was speechless. This guy didn’t seem worried at all, and yet they had been here for half a year...

Tianji, seeing Wang Ye’s expression, chuckled and then pushed away the mahjong tiles, laughed about meeting up again in the afternoon, and then very reluctantly stood up and followed Wang Ye to the Barrier.

The two of them had brazenly set up a Barrier in the hotel to prevent external monitoring. The Federation’s people didn’t dare to monitor too closely and allowed them to do so, as long as they didn’t leave the hotel casually, they mostly let the two of them be.

"Sir..." Wang Ye sighed, "This half-year seems to have been wasted."

"Why would you say that?" Tianji asked, picking up a cup of coffee.

The tea here was nothing compared to Jiangnan’s; it was downright terrible, really hard to swallow, while the less sophisticated Western drinks, by virtue of their unique flavor, were still somewhat drinkable, like soda or this heavy cream, heavy sugar coffee...

"I originally thought that, with the rights to the slots, I could make some Noble Families compromise in secret and also facilitate intelligence gathering. Turns out, I was thinking too much."

"If only things were that easy..." Tianji said amusedly, setting down his coffee cup.

"The newly risen forces have too shallow a foundation; they don’t know much about the Federation’s past secret files, while the Noble Families are very cautious.

As soon as I mention those old files, they get nervous themselves and start investigating those things before me.

.." Wang Ye said helplessly, "I suspect they are more eager to know some of the behind-the-scenes details. "

"You finally noticed," Tianji laughed.

"You must have realized this long ago?"

"Nonsense..." Tianji rolled his eyes at him, "I’m number one. Our team of designers was led by me, when I was directly transferred from the special forces by the higher-ups to participate in the training, the sheer weirdness of that incident let me know just how powerful those guys are..."

Wang Ye listened patiently to these words. How many times had he heard them already?

Mister Tianji was once a special forces soldier.

One day, he suddenly received orders from his superiors to infiltrate the New World.

The team he was to lead this time was of extraordinary significance.

They weren’t ordinary military personnel or civilians, but a group of people resurrected through data technology!

As a soldier wholly devoted to his duty, he also felt uneasy about the mission because he had never heard before that Digital City possessed such technology.

They could resurrect people who had died thousands of years ago using former genetic algorithms.

But that’s not the main issue. The main issue is, how were those genes from thousands of years ago preserved until now?

At the time, he didn’t think too much about it, but now thinking about it, it’s truly terrifying...

"According to what you said at the time, I tried to look it up, but there were no traces," Wang Ye said coldly.

"The military identification number from your time is long gone, and there are no records.

You said you were a special forces soldier for over twenty years, but there is absolutely no file on you in the Federation database. "

"Compared to preserving the genes of those people for thousands of years, erasing a special forces soldier’s file is extremely easy." Mister Tianji shook his head and bitterly smiled, "The weird incidents aren’t limited to this, including the King of Qin..."

Wang Ye nodded, "He’s an anomaly? Chen Qing just sent a message. The King of Qin isn’t from this world. By a twist of fate, he obtained some memories, which led to who he is today."

"Is that so?" Mister Tianji was startled, "When did this happen?"

After Wang Ye roughly explained the situation, Mister Tianji became even more astonished, "The Ancient Demon Clan? So that’s it.

Ziyue has always been avoiding those things, the Sorcerer Dynasty.

.. Interesting, truly interesting. We humans have always been plotting about the Parallel World, never truly considering those from that world seriously.

I suppose many didn’t expect that the players could also be retaliated against, huh? "

"But there’s also a problem," Mister Tianji said softly, "Even if it’s by chance, the person the King of Qin devoured was also not part of the plan..."

"You mean... other forces have intervened?"

"It’s hard to say..." Mister Tianji shook his head, "It might also be a hidden line against me or truly another force. It’s definitely not simple. Chen Qing has caused such a big commotion here, the King of Qin almost took control of the entire Digital City, but those so-called masterminds behind the scenes never showed their heads. Tell me... Is it that they can’t stop it or. .. they simply disdain to stop it?"

Wang Ye: "....."

"Sir, with your predictive abilities, haven’t you been able to deduce any cause and effect until now?" Wang Ye frowned.

"I have deduced it..."

"Then why won’t you say it?"

"Do you know why I’ve been playing mahjong for two months?"

"Hmm?" Wang Ye was startled, "Is there a necessary connection?"

"When I participated in that mission back then, I was told it would be a life-or-death situation, and when asked if I had any requests, my request was to allow me to properly play mahjong for a month..."

Wang Ye was shocked, but then he became serious.

"You mean... continuing the investigation is also life-threatening?"

"I’m afraid it’s even worse..." Mister Tianji bitterly smiled, "Do you know? By relying on my ability of fate calculation, I’ve avoided numerous dangers, even found the entrance to the Buddha Kingdom of the Shenwu Guild.

Even there, my talent only told me that it was very dangerous inside.

But this time is different... this time my talent tells me that this secret is extremely dangerous.

.. so dangerous that our lives... are simply inconsequential! "