Chapter 259: Chapter 199: Empathizing with the Past Lin Qi, Word of Lin Xin
Liu Xuan was stunned.
This time, she was completely and utterly stunned.
Without her knowing, Lin Qi had even managed to contact high-ranking officials in the Eastern Alliance.
’How did Lin Qi do it?’
Liu Xuan had always thought she understood Lin Qi well enough.
Lin Qi came from the lower class of Red Fruit City, and his family background was clean.
Although his father, Doctor Lin, knew people from all walks of life, none of them were high-level.
Relying on his family background, there was no way Lin Qi could have gotten to know a standing director of the Asian Political Zone Big Business Alliance, nor could he have met high-ranking officials from the Eastern Alliance.
In other words, all of Lin Qi’s connections actually came from the times he had secretly slipped away from Red Fruit City. They came from his own hard work.
Liu Xuan considered her own abilities to be top-tier among her peers in the Liu Clan.
But if she were to trade places with Lin Qi, Liu Xuan was certain she could never have done better than him.
Liu Xuan snapped back to her senses. Lin Qi was not as weak as she had imagined.
The purple light flashing from her left prosthetic eye dimmed noticeably. Liu Xuan said, "I will continue to look for opportunities to negotiate and make one last attempt. But the Liu Clan’s backing standing director has already tacitly approved all of this. The Liu Clan has lost its bargaining chips."
"So..."
Liu Xuan’s words were tactful, not direct.
But Lin Qi understood.
Most of the connections the Liu Clan had cultivated in the past had now become fair-weather friends, as a certain standing director who used to support them refused to speak up.
This was the influence that connections at the highest level had on big businesses.
The moment there was a hint of trouble, no matter how powerful a large corporation might have seemed in the past, once it lost its load-bearing pillar, its collapse was only a matter of moments.
So...
The last thing Liu Xuan wanted to say was that from now on, she could only rely on Lin Qi to find that sliver of hope for her.
"I’ll contact you tomorrow morning at the latest."
With that, the meeting came to an end.
Compared to before the meeting, Liu Xuan’s perspective had changed. She had originally wanted to use the last of her strength to protect Lin Qi, but she never expected that Lin Qi would instead become her new hope.
Composing herself, the purple light in Liu Xuan’s left eye returned to its lowest intensity, her rationality fully restored.
Liu Xuan was still the most capable person among her peers in the Liu Clan.
If not for the limitations of her Talent, perhaps Liu Xuan should have been the heir to Liu’s Heavy Industries.
But it was also fortunate that she wasn’t the heir; otherwise, she would never have had the chance to break away from Liu’s Heavy Industries and establish United Pharmaceutical.
Lin Qi walked out the main doors of the Liu’s Heavy Industries’ Alliance City branch and, along with Brother Green Hair, returned to the Alliance Mansion.
After returning to his room, Lin Qi thought carefully for a moment, then sent an email to Guang Ling asking for help.
"I need to confirm the security of email communication. If I contact my sister by email, is there a chance it could be intercepted by the Big Business Alliance?"
Communication security was a very important matter in the Cyber World.
For this very reason, many factions had their own unique methods of communication.
Like the wristband Lin Qi had intercepted earlier, which could only be used for two-way communication via quantum entanglement and couldn’t be intercepted by any other means.
Or like the Highest-Level Mercenary Corps, which was protected by some kind of monster in the cyber network. Their email security was absurdly high; they could send emails even without a signal.
Lin Qi even suspected that the emails he sent to Guang Ling had mutated in some way.
Guang Ling’s reply came quickly, but when Lin Qi saw the first line of the email, he took a deep breath.
[This is a very valuable piece of information. If you need it, I can give you a discount. Including your previous debt, you’ll owe me a total of five million Credit Points.]
He sucked in a sharp breath.
It felt as if the temperature in the room had dropped several degrees.
’This question is worth that much?’
Normally, Guang Ling wasn’t stingy with ordinary information and would just give it away for free.
But this time, the question about the email was worth millions.
’Oh well, a little more debt won’t kill me!’
’I’ll just owe it!’
’I’m asking!’
Lin Qi quickly composed an email with the words "I agree" and sent it to Guang Ling.
As if already prepared, Guang Ling replied instantly, giving Lin Qi no chance to back out.
[The cyber network Email System: Possesses the cyber network’s foundational security protocol code and an intercontinental independent database security encryption system. It is jointly managed by the Cyber Network Company and the Big Business Alliances of various continental administrative regions.]
[Theoretically, retrieving private emails only requires the approval of more than half of the Big Business Alliance’s standing directors.]
[However, the email address you’re asking about is special, which is the main reason for the high price of this information.]
[Lin Xin has now become a high-security member of the Assassin Alliance. Her email is under the direct protection of the Eastern Alliance. Accessing it requires the joint approval of the Big Business Alliance, the Eastern Alliance, and the Cyber Network Company. Theoretically, no entity, myself included, can directly access Lin Xin’s personal email.]
’So that’s how it is!’
The multi-million price tag wasn’t because of the email system itself, but because Lin Xin’s email was special.
’A high-security member of the Assassin Alliance?’
’How long has it been? She’s already achieved such a high status in the Assassin Alliance?’
But on second thought, Lin Xin was the student of a top-level figure in the Assassin Alliance. And it didn’t seem like a normal teacher-student relationship, but rather a master-disciple relationship characteristic of the Eastern Alliance.
In the words of the Eastern Alliance, she was a chosen successor.
