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"That woman wants to see us?"

In the exclusive meeting room situated at the top floor of the laboratory, the clandestine financiers focusing on the project progress were all suspicious upon hearing this request.

"What does she want?"

Nearly everyone furrowed their brows.

Everyone present was a top figure from their respective countries, possessing terrifying influence in areas like finance, politics, energy, media, and more.

Even individuals of their stature had to act with certain restraints, at least with experiments so openly subject to humanitarian scrutiny.

Involvement could impact their reputation and status.

Especially those from the Central Federation.

"Are you certain you’ve thoroughly investigated this woman’s identity?"

The inquiry came from an elder of the Central Federation, who was most sensitive about this matter regarding the Chinese female.

The Central Federation is not like foreign countries; even if one falls from grace, there are ways out—simply play deaf and mute for a few years, avoiding public appearances, and that’s that. Over there, scandals like yours could even affect your descendants’ careers!

"We’ve done multiple checks; there shouldn’t be any problem.

.." The middle-aged woman in charge hurriedly said: "Although Chen Xiaohui previously served as an official Data Master for the Central Federation, she was ostracized by the academic cliques. After less than two years, she was forced to resign. Otherwise, with her background, she wouldn’t go work as a game data analyst for a private company. "

"There shouldn’t be a problem?" The two elders from the Central Federation frowned deeply, hating this sort of unreliable language.

Yes is yes, no is no, what is this ’should’? Am I here to listen to what ’should’ be?

"Let me see the resume..."

The middle-aged woman, sensing their dissatisfaction, quickly had Chen Xiaohui’s resume sent over.

"Two years..." The elder glanced at the resume, then immediately made a call, obviously to have someone check the real circumstances surrounding her departure.

It turns out that when high-level figures want information, the efficiency is extraordinary. In less than fifteen minutes, someone got back with the information.

"Ah, Old Liu, I’ve checked for you, there’s no problem.

The record is very normal, no confidential information.

She was ostracized because she refused to go on a blind date arranged by her advisor.

Due to her arrogance after having published several papers and winning a minor award, eventually, no scientific research institutions would accept her resume, and she had to stoop to working for a private company. "

"Hmm... I got it..." Old Liu nodded, put down the phone and looked around: "What do you all say?"

Even though Old Liu had confirmed there wasn’t a problem, many still resisted the idea of meeting her. Aside from debating whether her status was worthy of consideration, the very tone of her threat was disagreeable.

Since their rise to power, when had they ever been threatened? Let alone by such a lesser figure.

"Can we do without her?" A blue-eyed, blond-haired elder asked.

"It’s a bit tricky..." The person in charge said persistently: "The game designed by Pu YunChuan is the most heavily invested on the market right now, with several TBs worth of data patches added before and after. To understand what makes it different from other games, why its ’Reincarnation’ could be acknowledged by the data life, we have to compare each piece of data one by one.

If we do this manually... it might take years to find the cause, whereas having her, who once was responsible for the game’s data, could boost efficiency by an order of magnitude. "

The mention of this gave everyone an unpleased look, mainly because the reason given wasn’t easy to refuse.

Time... For them now, time was the most precious commodity.

Most of the people here held high positions and influence, but that’s how the world works—when you reach the peak of power and wealth, life is often approaching its end, especially for the two elders from the Central Federation.

Risking so much to invest in this wasn’t it because they didn’t have much time left?

That same sentiment applied to the majority present—either their years had reached their limit or they were suffering from terminal illness, with not much time remaining.

"Did she say that she’s confident in finding the reason?" Old Liu asked in a subdued voice.

"That’s what she said..."

"Quite a bold claim..." Old Liu habitually tapped his fingers on the table.

"She only said she wants to meet the people behind the scenes? No specific person?"

"Uhh..." The middle-aged woman swallowed nervously, struggling to say: "There is someone specific; she knows there is Central Federation backing amongst the investors, what she really wants is to meet... the Chinese financiers!"

"Oh, I see..."

The whole group of Westerners at the meeting table spread their hands: "Liu... It seems like she’s coming directly for you."

"Since it’s your trouble, please handle it properly, don’t delay the experiment."

"Right... and please don’t disclose our identities."

Old Liu, faced with everyone’s schadenfreude, simply smiled nonchalantly: "Don’t worry, it’s just a little issue, I’ll handle it properly."

"That’s good..."

"Arrange a room and have that girl go directly there, I’ll be right over."

"Yes!" The middle-aged woman sighed with relief instantly. She was of Chinese descent, and her family was in the Central Federation. To her, the biggest person to avoid provoking here was Old Liu; the best outcome was if he wasn’t angered.

As she said her goodbyes and left, the other senior executives also took their leave, leaving only Old Liu and another elderly man.

"I’ll go alone," Old Liu whispered.

"That’s better, less exposure... although the threat shouldn’t be too great."

"Uh-huh..." Old Liu nodded.

This young girl surely couldn’t be just anyone, at the very least her mind was extraordinary. There might be two possibilities; the first... she could be a spy, deliberately planted by the rivals to bait him.

But if that were the case, the situation seemed quite profound. A young lady ostracized by the scientific research institute, who became a data master at a gaming company, and coincidentally, this game is the only successful simulation environment in the data life experiments.

Such a coincidence seems unrealistic, how could the other party be certain of the experimental results?

Unless the experiment was fake from the beginning.

But this experiment has been invested in by the top talents from over a dozen countries, does the other side possess the energy to invite so many people to act in this play?

Obviously not.

The second option seems simpler, the young lady, not content with being ostracized by the scientific research institute in her youth, being clever, instantly guessed that the Chinese investor of this laboratory was no ordinary person, and intended to use that to return to the scientific research institute, or maybe even. .. demand more!

"Has it been found out who exactly was targeting that girl at the beginning?"

"Professor Zhu, from the Imperial Capital University."

"Tsk..." The other elderly man’s gaze turned cold upon hearing this: "A bunch of incompetents, relying on such people is hopeless when it comes to scientific research, but they are all very adept at ostracizing outsiders!"

Regarding these academic tyrants, these elders are quite resentful, but their power is established, and often it’s not easy to pick a fight with them.

After all, they hold all the significant scientific research resources in their hands, and pushing them too hard could upset the whole situation.

"That’s fine, you go have a look first, if the young lady is just asking for a position, then it’s easy to talk..."

"What if she aims to target Professor Zhu?"

"That Zhu has been sitting in that position long enough," the other elder said indifferently.

"I was thinking the same..." Old Liu slowly got up, feeling a wave of dizziness in his head, maintaining his stance for a while before it passed.

"Take it easy... didn’t you take your medicine today?"

"I’ve almost been eating medicine as my meals," Old Liu said with a wry smile, slowly walking outside.

After Old Liu left, the remaining elder also glances at the dense array of needle marks on his own arm.

This time coming out, the national medical practitioner in charge had already made several calls to him, saying he shouldn’t stay out too long and to hurry back.

Truth be told, he might not even wake up after tonight’s sleep.

He sighed, took a sip from his teacup, time is running out... can he make it?

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Ziyue had been arranged early on to wait in a small conference room, feeling somewhat anxious in her heart. She had been in deep meditation for a long time, not knowing how much time had passed outside, and now she must quickly ascertain the intelligence; time waits for no one.

Moreover, she was also curious about who was behind the scenes orchestrating everything.

The moment the conference room door opened, seeing the person who came in, Ziyue was completely taken aback.

She had considered many people, but never had she thought it would be him!!