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Chapter 314 The Devil's Meeting
After a lively dinner, Chen Xuan and Lin Qing went out together and took a walk along the community's pedestrian path to digest their food.

It's not that Xu Xuanling can't hear information related to the Weixian Agency, but considering that the guest has just entered an unfamiliar environment, receiving too much information may cause brain confusion.

Negotiations with Walter went quite smoothly. They no longer needed to worry about the N959 Requiem going out of control, while still being able to utilize it. Furthermore, with this groundbreaking prosthetic eye, Walter's interests would be tied to theirs for a considerable period.

Chen Xuan wasn't surprised by this outcome. Lin Qing was a genuine transmigrator and possessed extensive knowledge of the organization's business secrets, making it easy for her to manipulate an arms dealer. Most importantly, using a strange artifact to replace nanobots in production alleviated a major concern for both of them: whether a future nanobot plague would be linked to their actions.

Despite Lin Qing's repeated emphasis that nanobots only exhibit self-organization and awakening when forming macroscopic, large-volume matter, and that their compliant use is perfectly safe, Chen Xuan could tell that she was actually somewhat unsure.

In any case, the nanites and nanite swarms used by prosthetics are essentially the same thing.

This worry is no longer a concern.

This also indirectly confirms one thing: Lin Qing herself was by no means the key figure who enabled the organization to develop nanobots. Otherwise, when she changed her mind, the entire course of history should have been drastically altered.

The world remains quiet, and the door to room 202 remains tightly closed, indicating that the future has not changed.

Compared to the distant issue of nanobot infestation, Chen Xuan was more concerned about the next move of the organization.

Just fifteen minutes ago, Honglian received a notification from the captain.

The Crimson Lotus Group will once again enter the eroded area of ​​the Five Rings Machinery Factory and head to another world.

This also means that their original plan to have Honglian witness Xiao Kanong's evil deal with the devil is no longer applicable... After all, it's already the end of February there, and there are only five days left until next month, so there will definitely be a time conflict between the two sides.

"Hoo..." Chen Xuan exhaled a puff of white breath. Jiangcheng in early spring was still not warm, and the night wind carried a biting chill. "Shouldn't the intrusion point be in a rest period right now? Isn't what Xiao Kanong is doing against the rules?"

“That makes sense, but rules are always meant to be broken,” Lin Qing shrugged. “Besides, Xiao Canon has a fairly credible reason.”

"A credible reason?" Chen Xuan thought for a moment. "Could it be that he was also preparing for the Demon Conference?"

I guess that's most likely the case.

Negotiating with ability users from another world naturally requires adequate defense. As the negotiator and captain-general, it's perfectly reasonable for him to assemble an execution team to provide protection.

While it's true that ability users can expand the eroded area when they cross the intrusion point, the problem is that the Fifth Ring Machinery Factory has long been sealed off, and no outsiders are allowed to approach except for police and government personnel. As long as they don't cause a major disturbance like the Botanical Garden incident, the government can do whatever it wants with them.

Chen Xuan guessed that Honglian and the others would definitely not be allowed to participate in this meeting, and the execution team acting as "bodyguards" would also be under the devil's surveillance during the meeting, so it was obviously impossible to secretly bring Honglian out to see the live situation alone.

“Actually, I think… the quality of the recorded video isn’t bad either,” Lin Qing said optimistically. “At first, we were worried that Honglian would be prejudiced against illegal wanderers, distrust us, and be kept in the dark by the authorities. But now she gets along well with me and is willing to listen to my opinions. Plus, the fact that the Vision Agency is negotiating with the demons is undeniable, so she wouldn’t doubt the reliability of the video.”

Ultimately, it comes down to the level of trust between the two parties.

Chen Xuan nodded, "Then let's record it... but I'm still a little worried."

"Which point?"

"Why did Xiao Kanong specifically choose the Crimson Lotus group?" He emphasized the word "Crimson Lotus." Through Jiang Siqi's intelligence, they had a fairly good understanding of the Jiangcheng branch's structure. For example, the execution group, composed entirely of ability users, consisted of four teams: three official teams and one reserve team. "As you know, since the Hongda Chemical Factory incident, Crimson Lotus has become the most popular celebrity operator online. Plus, Jiang Siqi is already an internet celebrity, so their group is receiving a lot of attention, completely on a different level than the Akatsuki or the Blazing Ink teams."

In a sense, the Crimson Lotus Group could even be considered the face of the Jiangcheng branch of the organization. And Xiao Kanong was deliberately using their popularity to promote the Weixian Organization.

Honglian had previously complained to Lin Qing that she now not only has to take photos and check in frequently, but also has a lot of interviews or program appointments, leaving her with almost no private rest time.

In this situation, it would be more reasonable to let the Red Lotus Group continue its propaganda work while sending other executive groups to protect Xiao Kanong's negotiation trip.

"Hmm..." Lin Qing pondered for a moment, feeling that Chen Xuan's words made sense. The intrusion point was like a natural barrier; once the Red Lotus was isolated from this world, Xiao Kanong wouldn't have to worry about public opinion no matter what he did. "You have an idea?"

"One should always be wary of others, especially the enemy," Chen Xuan said. "Why don't you arrange a meeting with Honglian?"

……

Two days later, Chen Xuan took Lin Qing and Liu Li to Paris, another world, and then took a plane to Jiangcheng.

The meeting was to be held at the Cui Ting Building, a skyscraper hotel in the city center. Judging from the registration information, its owner was most likely a devil, just like the Night Moon Group building.

Chen Xuan used the same old method: he first rented a nearby house and set it up as a branch store, so that it could be directly connected to the main store and make it convenient to enter and exit the two worlds at any time.

Lin Qing then pretended to be a guest and checked into the hotel to begin her hacking work.

Theoretically, Xiao Lü's computing efficiency alone is not enough to break through the hotel's firewall—after all, this place belongs to the future, and even if its electronic information technology cannot compare to the mechanisms of a hundred years from now, it has the advantage of being on a massive scale.

However, Lin Qing had no intention of confronting him head-on.

Her hacking tool was quite simple: a USB flash drive. No matter how the interface evolves, personal portable storage will always have a market. In the morning, she had the program on the USB flash drive attack and defend against the firewall, and in the afternoon, she sent the data to the N959 so that it could repair the program. The target of the repair was a "key" that could unlock all the network barriers in the building.

Although the demonic organization in Paris suffered a devastating blow, serving as a warning to demons lurking in other cities, they could at most change the encryption keys and close potentially compromised network interfaces. It was unlikely that they would completely replace their decades-old security systems in the short term. N959 only needed to use the previous experience as a template to restore a mini version of "itself" on the USB drive.

This replica of the Requiem is not a strange object; it has no self-awareness. Its sole purpose is to infiltrate the hotel building's electronic system so that Lin Qing can move freely inside.

After two evolutions, the "key" successfully passed the test. It still looks like an ordinary USB flash drive on the outside, but the internal chip has been completely modified by the strange object.

In Little Green's words, it had absolutely no idea why this thing could work.

On the last day of February, a group from the Weixian organization also appeared at the hotel.

The team leader was indeed Xiao Kanong, but besides the members of the Red Lotus Group, Chen Xuan also saw two other unfamiliar faces: Wang Qianduan and Zhang Yingzi.

Jiang Siqi said that the two were more like the captain's secretaries, only holding the title of executive team member, and did not belong to any specific group.

"Should we say hello to Honglian?" Lin Qing asked.

After breaching the hotel's firewall, she could naturally access some of the building's resources, such as sending greeting text messages to guest rooms.

"No," Chen Xuan shook his head and said, "There are too many people and too many eyes around here, it's better to be cautious."

(End of this chapter)