Ren Zhong Era, Day 140, New Origin Calendar, November 19, 682.
The night just after the start of winter felt a little chilly.
The hotel suite's living room was silent, except for the rustling sound of pages being turned.
Wang Zhaofu sat upright on the sofa, feet together, fingers interlocked, looking intensely forward as if waiting for a teacher to grade his exam paper.
Over there, Ren Zhong was rapidly flipping through a notebook with yellowed pages.
Beside Ren Zhong was a pile of ledgers he had already reviewed.
After a long while, Ren Zhong put down the last notebook in his hand, slowly tilted his head back, rested it against the sofa, and closed his eyes.
Wang Zhaofu asked nervously, "Brother Ren, how is it? Any help..."
Ju Qingng raised her hand, pressing downward, making a gesture for silence.
Lately, she understood Ren Zhong more and more.
Once Ren Zhong took this posture, she knew it ant he was about to enter a deep thinking state.
Previously, Xiao Xingyue had asked Ren Zhong whether he already knew the whereabouts of the Wang family's hidden Alien Ore stash, essentially the location of the top-secret laboratory.
Ren Zhong gave a vague yet affirmative reply.
In so sense, Ren Zhong was lying.
Since Xiao Xingyue would ask, it indicated that the Wang family's cunning was exceptional, even escaping the detection of the "network."
How could Ren Zhong possibly know?
The reason he lied was because that 21 tons of Alien Ore was crucial evidence against Seventh Level Citizen Wang Dingyuan.
He needed to tie the Promotion Association to his chariot and had to concoct a lie to boost their confidence.
Perhaps just this one lie might not achieve his goal, but Ren Zhong could continue to observe Ying Hao and the Promotion Association through subsequent developnts, indirectly understanding the operational status of the Source Star Society's top structure and uncovering more information.
This was another deep probe of his.
Fortunately, thanks to the super high intelligence persona he consistently built, Ying Hao believed his lie and offered him unreserved support.
Xiao Xingyue had already inford him of the outcos of the high-level eting.
But as for how to make this lie beco reality, Ren Zhong actually had no clear plan in mind.
How could he, Ren Zhong, with what ability, bring out the mouse even the "network" couldn't catch?
His plan was very straightforward and crude: find an opportunity to et Wang Dingyuan in person, then suddenly take action, gambling on being able to control Wang Dingyuan, then subject him to harsh interrogation to forcibly extract the information and then restart anew if needed.
If this tactic didn't work, he'd relentlessly track other executives of Tianyuan Military Industry, or beforehand track Wang Dingyuan after restarting.
No matter how many tis he had to die, how many restarts were needed, just like when he was trapped in the dense forest, dying over a hundred and forty tis but still managing to claw his way out, compressing infinite ti into a mont, no secret was too big to unravel.
The situation had changed now; even though he had just finished reviewing the ledgers, Ren Zhong already vaguely sensed a pattern.
At the sa ti, his heart was wildly jubilant.
He had found the flaw in the "network."
The "network" lacked the ability for logical association.
The "network's" judgnt of information must be based on accurate data.
Here's an example.
A person who often watches horror movies starts the latest installnt of series, beginning with a warmly lit cozy living room featuring an old CRT television flickering with static. The first thought that cos to this person's mind is fear that a ghastly ghost might suddenly crawl out of the TV.
But if the "network" analyzes this previously unseen video, no matter how many movies exist in its database, the TV in the scene remains just a TV, without any other information.
Only when a ghost actually erges from the TV would the "network" imdiately tag this movie as part of the supernatural horror genre.
No matter how fast the "network" can process, finishing a movie in perhaps a billionth of a second, the objective sequence of events still exists.
It has to wait until the ghost appears to make a judgnt.
The reason is simple: it cannot associate.
The "network" is unbeatable because a large group of people works behind it, using the information captured by the "network" to perform human-like associative reasoning.
It's only when both are combined that it truly becos invincible.
This ti, the "network" appeared impotent; it couldn't dig up even such a large laboratory. The reason was siplm " Wang Dingyuan acted with a terrifying level of caution.
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