“You’ve seen this kind of ‘individual’ before, haven’t you?” Li Xiao asked, looking at Wei Feng.

Though phrased as a question, his tone was entirely certain.

“These aren’t people; they’re feed.”

In the blink of an eye, the emotion in Wei Feng’s eyes vanished without a trace. “Is this thing your objective? Who sent you?”

Li Xiao countered subtly, “Who do you think?”

Wei Feng tapped his fingertips lightly against the honeycomb shield, looking at Li Xiao with a half-smile. “I’m at least a few years older than you. If I were that easily read by a kid like you, I would have survived all these years in vain, wouldn’t I?”

While the two were locked in their subtle mental tug-of-war, Song Jin followed the dense network of conduits overhead and spotted a bizarre apparatus a hundred meters away. He quickened his pace and walked over.

Deep crimson fluid converged from pipes in all directions, passing through this apparatus before flowing out into slightly narrower pipes on the other side.

Song Jin had 07 run a scan, and the internal schematic of the device quickly projected into his field of vision. It looked like some sort of purification or extraction unit. Unfamiliar with this specific machinery, he forwarded the file to his shadow guard group chat, instructing his subordinates to consult an expert.

“07, test the composition of this fluid,” Song Jin commanded.

07 transformed into countless fine metallic threads and shot outward. Two threads pierced the conduits on either side, while the remaining threads re-entangled to form a testing apparatus.

【Blood reaction detected!】

07: 【Warning! PRM690 detected. This severely exceeds the baseline for a Super Omega!】

Two preliminary lab reports popped up in his field of vision. Scanning through them, Song Jin noted that the blood’s PRM value prior to entering the device was less than 1, but after passing through, the value soared exponentially to 690—exactly matching the blood sample PRM value discovered back on N2533.

Perhaps the ‘N1926’ labeled on that vial hadn’t been referring to the Fierce Tigers, but to this exact location.

Song Jin continued forward along the conduits, his gaze sweeping over the surrounding honeycombs. These “individuals” looked as though they were asleep, lying motionless inside, yet the fluid within the tubes was actively circulating. This instantly reminded him of the human organs cultivated in research academies.

To grow a heart specifically for a transplant patient, one generally only needed to ensure the organ’s normal development; what resulted was often a lump of flesh containing a beating heart. But no matter what, it shouldn’t look like the specimens before his eyes—entities whose physical morphology had already converged heavily toward a normal human, inducing an acute sense of discomfort.

Hearing footsteps behind him, Song Jin turned to see Li Xiao. Sweeping a sidelong glance toward Wei Feng, he lowered his voice and asked, “Couldn’t pry anything out?”

Li Xiao: “His mouth is tougher than his life. We’ll investigate first and cross-examine him later.”

As they moved along the edge of the honeycombs, the bizarre purification apparatus appeared once more, the tested data virtually identical to the previous unit.

Song Jin had 07 scan the entire space, testing the fluid on both sides of every device.

07 morphed into a small sphere and spun cheerfully in the air twice: 【Then I’m off on a business trip!】

The moment 07 flew out, 09 silently drifted right in front of Li Xiao’s eyes, a line of text popping up above the sphere in a cool, detached font.

【Then what am I supposed to do?】

Li Xiao: “Aren’t you almost out of juice?”

09: 【I still have this much battery left. Are you looking down on me?】

Li Xiao: “…”

Li Xiao stopped before a honeycomb unit, his gaze sweeping across the perimeter of the protective shield. He executed two quick gestures before the sensor interface, and the setup page for the honeycomb unit automatically projected above it.

Song Jin walked to his side. “If you shut this one down, will it shut down the entire grid?”

“Let me try.” Li Xiao tapped to open the shield parameters, and a warning dialog popped up.

【Confirm shutdown of the life-support grid?】

Li Xiao switched to the raw code interface, rapidly rewriting the parameters. He successfully bypassed the warning, unlocking the shield without triggering a grid shutdown. With a faint click, the protective cover slid open.

Staring at the monstrosity inside, Song Jin knitted his brows, taking half a step back in sheer aversion.

Li Xiao gestured to 09: “Collect a tissue sample from it.”

09: 【…】

09: 【I’ve been waiting for you for ages, and you actually want me to do this? Pass this kind of dirty work to 07.】

Seeing the text, Song Jin said impatiently, “Just do what you’re told. Why so many words?”

09: 【No room for you to talk here. Shut up.】

Song Jin snatched the sphere out of the air, roughly tapping it a few times. “Are you going to listen or what?”

Two matchstick-sized mechanical arms extended from 09’s metallic sphere, shoving Song Jin away: 【Keep your nose out of my business, you blond freak!】

To be insulted by a piece of combat armor—Song Jin had never endured such disrespect in his life. Gritting his molars, he spat out syllable by syllable: “What did you just say?”

Seeing that the two were on the verge of a physical altercation, Li Xiao retrieved 09 from Song Jin’s grip. “Focus on the objective first.”

Watching 09 spin around to give them its literal backside, Li Xiao caught a glimpse of Song Jin’s sour expression. One couldn’t say they looked similar; they were functionally identical.

Li Xiao said to 09, “I believe you’re significantly stronger than 07. I’ll only feel secure leaving this task to you.”

After a two-second pause, a line of text materialised above the metallic sphere.

【At least you have an eye for quality. As expected of the person I chose.】

Li Xiao: “…”

Song Jin said coldly, “Just format it directly. Let’s see if it stops talking back then.”

Li Xiao stated with a serious countenance, “Blonde hair looks better than black hair.”

Song Jin cast a flat glance toward him. “Is that so?”

Li Xiao nodded. “I like your hair color.”

Song Jin’s mood visibly improved at a rate perceptible to the naked eye. “Decent taste.”

Li Xiao: “…”

Dealing with kids really just required a bit of validation.

09 obediently flew into the enclosure, harvesting all the tissue samples it could extract. While puncturing the gland tissue, a preliminary pheromone analysis report projected into Li Xiao’s field of vision.

09: 【The pheromone curve fundamentally aligns with the biological patterns of the Bique Clan.】

Song Jin and Li Xiao both thought: As expected.

These masses of flesh were almost certainly cultivated blood banks. To ensure data accuracy, the two randomly sampled several more units.

09: 【Anomoly Warning! The pheromone curves are a perfect match.】

Every individual’s pheromone curve possessed subtle variations; they could never be completely identical.

A bizarre thought flashed through Li Xiao’s mind. Could these masses of flesh all originate from a single “individual”?

Over there, Wei Feng watched Li Xiao and Song Jin’s movements from a distance. After observing them for a moment, he silently turned and headed in another direction.

Noticing Wei Feng’s movements, Song Jin pulled Li Xiao along to track him closely.

Cutting through the dense array of honeycombs, a metallic wall soaring several dozen meters high loomed in the distance. Wei Feng was tapping rapidly across its surface. Hearing their footsteps, he paused his movements and canted his head. “If you two insist on withholding your identities, I won’t be able to share the path ahead with you.”

After a brief silence, Song Jin said, “We’re with Qilin.”

“Qilin?” Wei Feng looked as though he had just heard a highly amusing joke. “Qilin disbanded ages ago. Is your intelligence truly lagging that severely?”

Li Xiao picked up the thread: “We were indeed wiped out by the Ravens. We just happened to spot blood labeled N1926 in the warehouse and wanted to come check it out to make a living.”

As the words fell, Li Xiao noticed Wei Feng’s brow knit slightly before relaxing. The man clearly didn’t believe a word they said, yet for some reason, he refrained from pressing further.

Wei Feng executed a series of taps on the wall, and a concealed metallic door on the right side slid open. Song Jin fished a small metallic sphere from his pocket and tossed it inside, simultaneously raising a hand to shield Li Xiao’s eyes.

The next second, a brilliant flash of light erupted within the chamber, followed by dead silence.

Li Xiao couldn’t resist casting a glance at Song Jin. The other party’s focus was entirely fixed on the room. Once the glare faded, he gestured for Li Xiao to follow.

Beyond the metallic door lay not a room, but a deep, descending metallic ramp. Passing through several forks, Li Xiao noted that Wei Feng selected one of the paths rapidly every single time. He asked in a low voice, “Have you been here before?”

“Never.” Wei Feng knew what he was getting at, keeping his stride forward. “But finding the exit isn’t difficult—after all, I’m an experienced old hand in the underworld.”

Li Xiao: “…”

The guy couldn’t go three sentences without praising himself.

Hearing the alert indicating that 09’s altitude relative to the ground was rising, Li Xiao deduced that they had likely reached a mezzanine level.

Wei Feng drew his military dagger, using raw force to breach a metallic door. Inside lay a data control center of considerable scale. He walked straight to the central terminal, connecting the decryption drive he had brought along. The illuminated screen flashed with countless characters, and layers of virtual screens popped up continuously, overriding the warning dialogs.

Li Xiao scanned the interface, confirming that this kid was stealing data. His movements were exceptionally practiced, indicating this wasn’t his first or second time. It appeared Wei Feng possessed far more extensive knowledge regarding the modified humans than Li Xiao currently did.

In his past life, he had never heard Wei Feng mention this once. Could it truly be a client retention assignment?

Song Jin powered up another terminal only to find the system locked down. Just as he was about to command 07 to assist, Li Xiao stepped up to his side, striking a few keys across the virtual keyboard to successfully infiltrate the network.

“That simple?” Song Jin found it difficult to believe. Given the defensive grade of this facility, it shouldn’t possess a lockdown protocol that was this easy to breach.

“He decrypted it; I just followed him in.”

As Li Xiao spoke, he rapidly located the cargo transit logs. The most recent entry was a shipment to N2533, quantity 10. He scrolled down rapidly, his expression growing progressively solemn. Aside from the borders of the Southern Cross constellation, several planetary codes within Danse territory surfaced, all with quantities under ten.

“This one!” Song Jin pressed his hand over Li Xiao’s, his gaze locking onto a specific line. “Southern Cross N9369, quantity 2,000. What kind of planet is that?”

Coldness flooded Li Xiao’s eyes. “A second-class residential planet.”

The sectors where they had previously discovered blood were all non-residential planets devoid of national government jurisdiction, making illegal operations unsurprising. But N9369 was a normal residential planet. Why would that much blood be shipped there? Whether it was a slaughter tournament or a mining operation, it couldn’t possibly be held on a functioning planet. What was this blood being used for?

“Let’s save this data first—”

Halfway through Li Xiao’s sentence, the entire space began flashing crimson, and a piercing alarm blared out.

【Warning! Intruder detected!】

【Warning! Intruder detected!】

Watching the data transmission terminate abruptly at 98%, Wei Feng let out a low curse, scrambling to preserve the copied files. Yet he was a step too late; the system purged the directory completely.

Li Xiao commanded 09 using his thoughts: 【Duplicate all data within the system.】

09: 【Infiltration in progress—system lockdown sequence detected—bypassing lockdown—holy crap! It’s clearing the data core! Call 07!】

Soon, 07’s voice echoed in Li Xiao’s ear.

07: 【Assisting now—I’ll pin it down, little bro, hurry up and swipe the data!】

Hearing the two AI chatter away in his ear as if playing a highly entertaining game, Li Xiao let them tinker as they pleased, preparing to evacuate Song Jin first. They had already been compromised; remaining here wouldn’t end well.

The moment they turned around, mechanical clicks echoed from all sides of the control center. The metallic walls opened up, and numerous armed AI guards flew out.

Li Xiao and Song Jin dove behind a console as a laser beam sliced through their previous position, detonating a neighboring terminal. Gauging the audio cues, Li Xiao calculated roughly fifty AI units. Signaling for 09 to switch to the pneumatic projectile configuration, he squeezed the trigger against the closest three AI guards.

Highly compressed air slugs slammed into the primary joint circuitry. Along with the crackle of electrical currents, the AI units short-circuited and crashed to the floor.

Li Xiao called out to Wei Feng: “I’ll get you out of here, and you tell me everything you know.”

“Don’t look down on an old hand.” Wei Feng kicked an AI’s gun barrel askew; the discharging laser struck other AI units along its path, instantly causing a chain reaction of explosions.

Song Jin had 07 increase the compression ratio of the air pressure, leveling his weapon at a wave of AI units flying in from the distance before pulling the trigger.

Bang!

The air slug pierced through five AI units along its path, triggering a localized air explosion that short-circuited over a dozen AI guards.

The three retreated toward the exit while trading fire. Just as the metallic door cracked open a slit, Li Xiao caught the auditory signature outside, pulling Song Jin into a corner. “Get down!”

Several laser beams lanced through the gap, leaving scorched lines along the opposite wall. As Wei Feng dove out of the way, he slammed the close-door mechanism.

Li Xiao knocked an AI’s muzzle offline while Song Jin fished a micro-grenade from his pocket, tossing it through the closing slit. A muffled boom echoed, followed by the impact against the metallic door as the sharp scent of ozone and smoke filled the air.

07: 【Scanning AI guard units… 1599… 1874… 2633…】

A radar layout projected into Song Jin and Li Xiao’s fields of vision. Dense clusters of crimson dots were converging on their position from every quadrant. If thousands of AI units truly boxed them in, they would be dragged to death here.

Li Xiao asked Song Jin, “Any more toys left?”

Song Jin dug into his pockets, producing two more metallic spheres. “This is it.”

Li Xiao accepted them, dropping low to slide them forcefully along the floor through the door slit toward both sides of the corridor. The metallic spheres rolled precisely into the zones with the highest density of AI guards, detonating in sequence.

Seeing the red dots on the radar vanish rapidly, Li Xiao told Wei Feng, “Open the door, move!”

Wei Feng cast a glance at him, slammed the release override, and they charged out in tandem.

The corridor was choked with dense smoke, and metallic shrapnel lay scattered everywhere. The three sprinted at maximum speed back toward the direction they came.

Hearing movement from behind, Li Xiao was about to pull Song Jin along when he saw the other party pivot his weapon, pulling the trigger toward their rear. The approaching red dots blinked out.

Song Jin doesn’t possess the heightened senses of the Bique Clan, yet his raw combat proficiency is formidable. He doesn’t require my protection. Li Xiao suddenly realized this point deeply. During their very first encounter, they had fought to a draw; the little lion had always been powerful in his eyes. Yet recently, for some inexplicable reason, he had subconsciously felt that Song Jin required protection, leaving him somewhat baffled.

Countless AI units emerged from behind the debris, converging on their sector. The three tore through the metallic corridor, returning to that original metallic wall.

Song Jin searched the perimeter but couldn’t locate the door release, tilting his chin at Wei Feng: “Hurry up!”

Hearing the approaching footsteps, Wei Feng lacked the luxury of bickering with Song Jin over his attitude, attempting a series of patterns across various points on the wall.

Li Xiao asked 09 using his thoughts: 【How is the data backup progressing?】

09: 【At 91%. Don’t leave this floor yet; the metallic shielding here will jam our transmission signal!】

Hearing this, Li Xiao took a step back, holding the mouth of the corridor. Leveling his weapon at the end of the passage, he systematically pulled the trigger against the emerging AI units. The fallen AI guards piled up at the end of the corridor, forming a miniature mountain.

Li Xiao: 【Increase the compression ratio of the air slugs.】

09: 【Compressed to 1200%.】

As another wave of AI units prepared to surge out, Li Xiao leveled his weapon at that mound of chassis and pulled the trigger. A thunderous roar erupted.

Li Xiao hadn’t anticipated the destructive yield to be this severe. He rapidly raised his arm to shield his face, buffering Song Jin and Wei Feng behind him.

09: 【Data backup 100% complete!】

Simultaneously with the prompt, Wei Feng managed to open the door. Li Xiao plucked a piece of metallic shrapnel embedded in his forearm, tossing it aside casually before leveling his weapon to pull the trigger once more. The air slug vaporized the metallic fragments, and the blood traces upon them were instantly gasified under the high thermal energy.

Unlike the mezzanine control center, the honeycomb sector lacked AI guards. Li Xiao surmised they feared rogue AI units might compromise the units.

The door sealed shut behind them, the muffled thuds of AI attacks echoing through the structure as the frame was warped open by a fraction.

“Move!” Wei Feng led them back along their original ingress route.

Halfway through their escape, the AI units managed to intercept them. Just as Wei Feng was scanning for a defensive position to dig in, he heard the kid who had threatened to sever his tendons say, “Infiltrate the AI control network.”

07: 【Infiltrating…】

09: 【Infiltration complete. I’ll allocate one unit to you.】

07: 【Let’s split it half-and-half.】

09: 【Five units maximum.】

07: 【But your battery is almost dead.】

09: 【…I can handle it!】

Li Xiao: “…” This stubborn little mule.

Li Xiao’s gaze swept across those honeycombs, issuing a low command: “Blow those things up.”

It would have been fine if they hadn’t been discovered, but now that they had already compromised one layer, it didn’t matter if they took out another. Leaving this blood intact would only court disaster.

09: 【Understood!】

The pursuing AI units suddenly reversed their vectors. A portion flew into the honeycombs to initiate indiscriminate bombardment, while the remainder turned their muzzles backward, opening fire on the pursuing AI reinforcements.

Wei Feng looked on, somewhat dumbfounded. What was the situation now? Those AI guards were taking directives from these two kids?

Tearing through the massive metallic doors, AI guards surfaced at the front of the corridor once more. However, with 07 and 09 clearing the path, the three successfully cut an exit route, returning to the escape escalator. With the AI forces held at bay, the three ascended via the escalator, the ceiling hatches above splitting open automatically.

Song Jin’s vision blurred. Bracing against the handrail, he leaped upward as a projectile tore through his previous position. Noting the muzzle flashing above once more, he navigated along the handrail to close the distance. Grabbing the weapon barrel, he delivered a palm strike to the black-clad operative’s jaw.

“Ugh!” The operative let out a sharp cry, his vision swimming as he lost his balance completely.

Song Jin casually pitched the man down the escalator shaft. Spotting two more black-clad operatives charging in his peripheral vision, he executed a tactical roll along the floor to dodge two rounds. A sliding tackle leveled one operative, and he pinned the man’s gun hand, aiming it toward the second adversary.

The development unfolded too quickly for the operative to react; both instinctively pulled their triggers, neutralizing their comrade simultaneously.

Li Xiao cleared the exit right behind him, canting his body slightly to evade a muzzle from behind. He delivered a swift kick that launched the operative’s sidearm away, and as the man closed the distance, Li Xiao gripped his jaw and executed a sharp twist. A crisp snap echoed through the darkness. The operative convulsed briefly before going limp on the floor.

The sidearm launched into mid-air fell back down, and Li Xiao caught it smoothly. Using the vines as cover, he opened fire on the operatives lying in ambush across various points.

Wei Feng was the last to emerge. Seeing the two young people had already cleared a sector, he wouldn’t believe it even if they beat him to death if someone claimed these two belonged to some third-rate star pirate outfit like Qilin.

The forces lying in ambush inside the warehouse weren’t substantial. Hearing movement outside, Wei Feng gestured for them to follow him. Li Xiao tracked Wei Feng’s route, noting that he bypassed local skirmishes with absolute precision.

Possesses elite auditory proficiency, investigates Bique Clan blood, and harbors specific emotional ties toward those ‘individuals.’ If his deductions were correct, Wei Feng was highly likely a member of the Bique Clan as well.

The three took a detour back to the parking pad, where a train was indeed docked. This wasn’t the vehicle they had arrived on that had been modified into a couples’ resort; its exterior was pristine, likely the one Wei Feng had mentioned as missing.

“Targets spotted over there!”

An operative near the train spotted them, summoning reinforcements to charge over. Wei Feng clicked his tongue, signaling for Li Xiao and Song Jin to drop behind the vines, whispering: “At least two hundred men. This is going to be a slugfest.”

Li Xiao observed their flanks. “Do you know who they are?”

Wei Feng: “No clue.”

Song Jin listened to the approaching footsteps with a frigid expression. He violently snatched an operative, snapping his neck from behind before tossing the body toward Li Xiao: “Take a look.”

Li Xiao caught the body, tearing open the collar to reveal a tattoo beneath the collarbone under the dim lighting.

“Fierce Tigers.”

As anticipated.

Confirming their identity, Song Jin issued a cold command to 07: “Execute all hostiles.”

07: 【Understood!】

AI guards poured from the warehouse, resembling worker bees swarming from a hive in the pitch-black night. Locking onto targets, they deployed rapidly. The Fierce Tigers operatives barely processed the incoming AI units before being neutralized systematically. The remaining forces retreated into the vines in sheer panic.

“What’s the situation?! Did the AI go rogue?!”

“Report to headquarters immediately!”

“We’re being overrun by AI, what do we do?!”

“Where did the targets go?!”

“Who cares about them right now?!”

Wei Feng’s eyelid twitched, his confusion deepening as he looked at Song Jin and Li Xiao. Taking advantage of the Fierce Tigers being pinned down by the AI forces, Li Xiao signaled for them to move toward the train cockpit.

07: 【Infiltrating train operating system—hijack complete—】

The hatch slid open smoothly, and Li Xiao strode into the cockpit. The pilot assumed it was a comrade, turning around only to be pinned down. With a sharp crunch of fracturing bone, his vision went black as he lost consciousness entirely.

A virtual interface projected across the console.

【Destination?】

Song Jin: “Clear the floating sector first.”

07: 【Understood!】

The next moment, the train engaged its thrusters, rising steadily. The Fierce Tiger grunts pinned down in the corners by the AI forces watched in absolute despair as the train departed, screaming frantically for extraction over the public comm channels.

Just as the train cleared the floating sector, 07’s prompt flashed across the console once more.

【Suspicious target approaching!】

Li Xiao scanned the radar. The contact wasn’t exceptionally close, a distance a standard hover vehicle couldn’t close against them.

“No.” Noting the acceleration vector of the red dot, Li Xiao’s face darkened. “It’s a starship.”

07: 【Warning! Tracking missile locked!】

07 executed a hard bank around the floating building to evade. The missile grazed the rear section of the train, impacting the office building instead. Though they avoided a catastrophic strike, the concussive shockwave from the detonation rocked the train violently, sending it into a nose-dive toward the ground.

Li Xiao took the pilot’s seat, overriding the manual parameters to alter their evasion vector, pulling out of the dive just before the train could impact the structures below.

09: 【Another missile incoming! The AI guards cannot clear the floating sector boundaries; they can’t provide intercept support!】

The performance threshold of this train was fixed. No matter how poor the combat capabilities of a modified starship were, crushing a train of this specification was trivial. Continuing like this meant being blown to debris sooner or later. Their only resort was to activate combat armor mode.

Just as Song Jin was about to turn and head toward the exit, Wei Feng stepped up to Li Xiao’s side, pointing to a sector on the map: “Head in this direction. Hold out for two minutes, and my people will arrive.”

Hearing this, Song Jin retracted his step.

“Alright.” Li Xiao navigated the ship in a tight pattern around the floating structures, using the buildings as physical counter-measures to mask them from the tracking tracking missiles.

07: 【Warning! Additional suspicious contact detected!】

Another red dot materialized on the radar interface. The Fierce Tiger starship discharged another tracking missile, which was intercepted mid-flight by a counter-missile fired from the horizon. A massive fireball erupted in mid-air, illuminating Sector 9 as bright as day.

Bracing against the pilot’s seat, Song Jin leaned down slightly to view the scanner. A modified starship emerged from the vector of the interception. The model wasn’t state-of-the-art, but it was exceptionally familiar.

“Head for the third-tier hangar on the starboard side!” Wei Feng directed.

Seeing the starship lower its altitude, Li Xiao closed the distance at maximum speed. The massive emblem emblazoned across the hull gradually came into focus—a pitch-black raven with outstretched wings, looking as though it were about to swoop down upon its prey.

The train cruised into the opening hangar doors. Song Jin canted his head toward Wei Feng, asking flatly, “So you’re with the Ravens?”

“You recognize this emblem?” Wei Feng reverted to his previous playful demeanor. “Are the Ravens that famous now?”

Song Jin: “You guys have been stirring up trouble everywhere recently. It’s difficult not to recognize it.”

Wei Feng chuckled: “We’re not that formidable. Don’t flatter us like that; it’s embarrassing.”

Song Jin remained expressionless: “…Wasn’t flattering you.”

The moment the emblem materialized, numerous threads connected in Li Xiao’s mind. He knew Wei Feng’s background couldn’t be brought into the light; in his past life, he had intended to help him forge a clean identity to retain his services. He hadn’t expected it to be linked to the Ravens.

The three disembarked from the vehicle. Halfway down the deck, a small transport vehicle sped over from the distance, touching down right before them.

“Boss, are you injured? I brought a doctor!” A middle-aged Alpha with a small mustache leaped from the vehicle, hurrying over to Wei Feng.

Wei Feng waved his hand dismissively, pointing to Li Xiao and Song Jin: “Treat these two little brothers first. Without them this time, I wouldn’t have made it out so easily.”

The middle-aged Alpha looked over. Though the two wore caps and night-vision goggles that obscured their features, they gave off an incredibly familiar impression.

It’s him. Seeing that familiar face once more, Li Xiao’s brow twitched. This mustachioed Alpha was precisely Hu Jiang, whom they had encountered at the Rubik’s Cube.

Hearing Li Xiao’s voice, Hu Jiang suddenly connected the dots, gasping in shock: “It’s you two—?!”

Wei Feng’s gaze traveled between them back and forth twice, his eyes probing. “You know each other?”

Hu Jiang hesitated to speak, finally introducing them to Wei Feng: “They are the two young men I mentioned before—the ones who saved our brothers.”

Noting the shift in Wei Feng’s expression as he looked over, Li Xiao’s eyes narrowed slightly, finding the development highly delicate. The current chess board was growing increasingly complex.