Chapter 68: A Small Punishment as a Great Warning, No Next Time
After glancing at the phone number sent to his digital wristwatch, Xiao Wen turned and walked out of the room, heading toward the quiet study.
Sitting in the chair, he took several deep breaths. Only then did the expression between Xiao Wen's brows return to calm. Afterward, he dialed the number, and before long, someone picked up.
Immediately after, a deep voice came from the wristwatch.
"Who is this?"
"The person you're looking for," Xiao Wen raised an eyebrow and replied.
"Xiao Wen?"
"Yes!" Xiao Wen answered aloud.
After that single word was transmitted, the voice on the other end immediately became much warmer and said:
"We saw the video of you at the shopping mall, and we've already had everyone sign confidentiality agreements. Your matter won't be spread outside. You can rest assured on that point."
"We contacted you this time without the slightest ill intent. It's just that since you did such a major good deed, the organization wants to give you a reward."
A reward?
So this contact was about handing out a certificate of merit?
Xiao Wen curled his lips. Leaving aside the fact that he had lived another life and had long since become shrewd, even in his previous life, he would never have been fooled by such a crude trick.
There might be a reward, but it was absolutely not the main point.
Expecting this young master to sell himself for a few petty favors?
Keep dreaming!
"What reward? This young master has money when I want money and women when I want women. What else can you give me?"
Xiao Wen rolled his eyes and asked without the slightest mercy.
The other side of the call fell silent for a moment. After roughly thirty seconds, the person finally replied:
"The powerful strength that suddenly appeared within your body."
When those words were spoken, no one could see that the mocking smile on Xiao Wen's face had grown even thicker.
The secret behind the powerful strength that had suddenly appeared?
Did the authorities really know that secret?
If they truly knew, then how could the authorities in his previous life have nearly lost control over Jiuzhou for a period of time, to the point that they had no choice but to rely on the strength of major aristocratic families and guilds to restrict game participants?
Therefore, the authorities did not know the secret behind the sudden emergence of power in the body.
Not only did the authorities not know, even he himself had not figured it out in his previous life.
He only had some vague guesses in his heart.
However, those guesses were merely guesses and had never been proven through practice.
"Do you really know the secret behind the source of this power? If all you can do is throw out a bit of bait and expect to catch a big fish, then I'm afraid all of you will return empty-handed."
"Wait until you have more bargaining chips in your hands."
"Of course, if you truly are paying attention to people like me, I can provide you with a direction."
"The three great online game guilds."
"Virtuality will merge with reality, and the history of the entire Blue Star will be rewritten."
After leaving behind those words, Xiao Wen directly hung up the call.
In the same city, in a hidden corner, there was a newly established working group.
A telephone sat in the center of the room. Eight people surrounded it, and what played from the phone was precisely the content of Xiao Wen's conversation just now.
After the call recording finished playing, the broad-shouldered, bear-waisted man seated at the head on the left frowned slightly and said in a low voice:
"This is the content of this call. This person, the current helmsman of the Xiao Group, sold off his shares at a low price a few days ago and used nearly a quarter of his assets to recharge into this game called Heroes Contend."
"Judging from the currently known situation, the various incidents involving extraordinary individuals causing trouble across Jiuzhou all have more or less some connection to this game."
"These people are all players. Because of playing the game, they gained powerful strength in real life."
"The higher-ups conducted experiments on this and discovered that this game indeed has the effect of increasing human strength. However, how it increases that strength is still unknown."
"However, this information is still under confidentiality for now. It hasn't been exposed because they're worried it will cause panic."
Hearing this, the other members of the group fell into silence. One by one, they could not help but take deep breaths and rub their swollen temples, suddenly feeling a headache coming on.
If things were truly as their team leader said, then Jiuzhou would probably face a massive upheaval.
Suddenly, one of the female staff members, named Jiang Liu, could not help but speak.
"Team Leader, there's one point I don't know if you noticed. It's what that guy said at the very end of the call."
"'Virtuality will merge with reality, and the history of the entire Blue Star will be rewritten.' The feeling this guy gives me is that he seems to know something."
"I believe it's necessary to have a deeper conversation with him."
The team leader did not answer. He simply stared at the phone, his fingers lightly tapping against the tabletop.
Only after a long time did he finally raise his head. His gaze landed on Jiang Liu as he said:
"You go. Find an opportunity to probe his tone, but pay attention to your safety at all times."
"Although your Jiang family is an ancient martial arts family, these people are not easy to deal with either. Be careful in everything."
"Yes."
Jiang Liu nodded and turned to leave.
After Jiang Liu left, the team leader looked toward the other members and said:
"For the upcoming period, I ask everyone to remain on standby twenty-four hours a day. I've already notified the higher-ups to send additional personnel as support. These people who have suddenly obtained powerful strength must be carefully controlled!"
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On the other side, after Xiao Wen finished the phone call, he stretched lazily and went out for a casual stroll.
However, the moment he stepped out with his front foot, he could clearly sense that some tails had appeared behind him with their back foot.
These people followed behind him. Although they concealed themselves extremely well, in Xiao Wen's eyes, they were still full of flaws.
He turned and walked into a corner, and the five plainclothes officers behind him followed.
However, the moment they turned around that corner, they discovered that there was no one in front of them.
Immediately after, they felt a sharp pain in the back of their necks. Their vision went black, and they collapsed directly to the ground.
Xiao Wen's figure appeared behind the five people like a ghost.
Just now, it had been him who attacked, landing five consecutive hand chops and knocking all of them unconscious.
Sigh...
More people from the authorities.
Although this young master does not want to offend you, don't keep running straight into the muzzle of this young master's gun either!
When you do this, you make things very difficult for this young master!
Xiao Wen shrugged helplessly. To avoid affecting the image of the neighborhood, he directly dragged the five people into the bushes. Then he took out a small slip of paper he had prepared in advance and tossed it onto them.
Eight words were written on the paper:
A small punishment as a great warning. No next time.
With this, it could be considered a warning to these people.
Xiao Wen thought this in his heart. The gaze between his brows became increasingly sharp. Only after a long while did he withdraw that gaze, yawn, stretch, and return to his residence.
After eating, Uncle Fu came over to inform him that the gaming pod had already been cleaned and the nutrient solution had been completely refilled.
Hearing this, Xiao Wen nodded and directly lay down in the gaming pod, entering the game.
There were still some days left before the battlefield faction selection for the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Before that, this young master still needed to go brush up his presence in front of Shen Que.
The Commandant of Sili should have quite a bit of intelligence in his hands, right?
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