Chapter 292: Chapter 215: King Arthur Advances to Tier Four, the Meeting Ends Abruptly, Guang Ling Gets Screwed Over
At King Arthur’s words, Master Ma stroked his chin again.
His body language was impossible to hide—or rather, Master Ma made no effort to hide it.
Lin Qi could roughly guess Master Ma’s thoughts. If Lin Qi himself were a Tier Four powerhouse, he wouldn’t be too worried about his identity being exposed either.
A Tier Four in an Extraordinary Profession could be considered a powerhouse anywhere in the Cyber World, an existence worthy of respect from any major corporation.
The exchange between them was just some light banter before the official meeting. Though there was plenty of scheming going on beneath the surface, the whole process took less than a minute.
Throughout this process, the newcomer, Jingang, remained silent.
Having not yet officially participated in a joint mission, he clearly hadn’t integrated into the Mercenary Corps’ atmosphere.
Compared to the others in the Mercenary Corps, his attention was more focused on Capitalist’s attitude.
Everyone’s gaze shifted from Master Ma to Guang Ling.
It was time to get down to business. Guang Ling wouldn’t have called an emergency meeting unless it was something urgent.
"This meeting will only last fifteen minutes. I need to keep it brief. The cyber network surveillance has detected my presence, and I need to expend considerable effort to deal with them."
Hearing this, Lin Qi was actually skeptical.
Given Guang Ling’s abilities, accessing the cyber network was practically like coming home.
But after Guang Ling finished speaking, Capitalist chimed in, "Guang Ling is right. A good number of the server clusters I recently provided to Guang Ling have been fried. The pressure on Guang Ling has indeed increased."
Capitalist’s confirmation came as a slight surprise to Lin Qi.
’Guang Ling can actually feel pressure in the cyber network?’
Guang Ling’s god-like image shattered a little. They weren’t as invincible as he had imagined.
Lin Qi didn’t speak, listening quietly to Guang Ling’s report.
"The purpose of this meeting is mainly because Wizard’s actions today have greatly advanced the Mercenary Corps’ mission."
"Wizard has, in a sense, gained relative control over Aishwarya—the permanent director of the Asian Big Business Alliance who has business dealings with the European Big Business Alliance. She has already chosen to side with us. Her future actions will be extremely beneficial for us in achieving our mission objective. I will contact you all by email with the subsequent operational plans."
Guang Ling briefly explained the reason for this emergency meeting.
Before this, the members of the Highest-Level Mercenary Corps had only contacted each other individually.
Lin Qi and King Arthur, Lin Qi and Capitalist, Capitalist and Master Ma, Capitalist and Jingang, and then everyone would also contact Guang Ling separately.
The information they shared wasn’t completely transparent among them all.
Under these circumstances, Guang Ling, as the Mercenary Corps’ leader and organizer, had chosen to use a meeting format to let everyone communicate "face-to-face."
A Mercenary Corps with so few members yet such a complicated communication method—the Highest-Level was truly a bizarre outlier.
"Hiss..."
The others hadn’t reacted much yet, but King Arthur was the first to suck in a cold breath.
’She had underestimated Wizard!’
She originally thought Wizard’s methods were merely from the Underworld and his combat prowess was formidable, but she never expected him to be capable of pulling off something this big.
’Is this something a Tier Three combatant can do?’
She asked herself honestly, even if she became a Tier Four Knight, she might not be able to handle things to this extent.
Besides King Arthur, Master Ma and Capitalist were also shocked by this news.
Especially Capitalist. She knew better than anyone when Wizard had received the intel and when he had formulated his plan of action.
’Within twenty-four hours!’
Capitalist herself had received the intelligence at almost the same time as Lin Qi.
During that time, Capitalist was still following Guang Ling’s lead, searching for clues about Aishwarya’s true Extraordinary Profession.
She had just eliminated a batch of investigation targets during the day and was in the process of locking onto the next batch.
And now Guang Ling was saying that Wizard had already taken care of Aishwarya directly!
That was a person whose status was comparable to Capitalist’s own!
’How on earth did Wizard do it?’
At that moment, Lin Qi’s real-world identity became a huge mystery in Capitalist’s mind.
A whole slew of names were crossed off in her mind.
The people she had previously suspected—Liu Xuan, Lin Qi, Wu Gui (Brother Green Hair), and others—were all definitively ruled out by Capitalist.
’An existence with such an Ability couldn’t possibly be weak. They are most likely Tier Four.’
Suddenly, Capitalist thought of a new name.
Baili Xueyuan!
’If Wizard’s true identity is this woman from the Assassin Alliance, many things would make sense.’
But correspondingly, it would also raise new questions.
Capitalist subconsciously glanced in Master Ma’s direction.
’Could things be as I suspect?’
Capitalist’s movement was very subtle, with no outward physical signs.
The change in her facial expression was completely hidden by the meeting room’s inherent shadows, so Lin Qi didn’t notice her reaction.
But Lin Qi chose this moment to speak up, continuing from where Guang Ling had left off.
"This Permanent Director Aishwarya’s Extraordinary Profession might be difficult for you all to investigate, but for me, it actually wasn’t that hard."
"She is a Wizard. As for the means of her business exchange with the European Big Business Alliance, the reason you can’t find any trace of it on the cyber network is because it’s not a monetary transaction, but an offline shipment of Extraordinary Items."
