Deposed? I couldn't be happier! I wouldn't even be a dog to the crown prince.

That string of primitive gibberish, filled with the errors of a wooden abacus and carrying a strong earthy, street-smart smell.

Following the mottled underground cable network of Chang'an City.

Speeding all the way.

It plunged headlong into the main trunk of the submarine superconducting optical cable that spans the Pacific Ocean.

The surrounding area is the dark and deep Mariana Trench.

This string of gibberish travels through the fiberglass at the speed of light.

With Lao Wai's trembling right hand, he accidentally dialed the wrong binary instruction.

Heading straight to Hawaii, the world's highest computing power hub.

Hawaii. Safe house in the basement.

The air conditioner was blowing cool air gently, keeping the temperature at a comfortable 22 degrees Celsius.

There were no flashing alarms in the safe house, nor was there any request for Wu Zetian to connect.

The large screen was switched to a retro pixel game interface.

Li Chengqian was slumped in a large, genuine leather ergonomic chair.

He was wearing noise-canceling headphones.

Holding a retro controller in both hands, thumbs rapidly pressing the AB buttons.

Vacation mode is fully activated.

He had just used a cheat engine to get a full set of top-tier equipment and was preparing to go and fight the final boss.

On the right-hand cup holder is a glass of freshly poured iced cola.

The ice hadn't melted yet, and a layer of fine water droplets clung to the glass.

"Critical hit...takes him down."

Li Chengqian muttered to himself, a slight smile playing on his lips.

Everything seemed so harmonious, so peaceful.

He could even imagine that those old men in Chang'an were probably holding a boring morning court session in the Taiji Hall right now.

And I am the only person on this planet who has absolute freedom to take vacations.

but.

The black market of the Tang Dynasty never followed logic.

The string of overclocking gibberish from Lao Wai's abacus finally traveled along the undersea fiber optic cable and arrived in Hawaii.

The periphery of the Tian Shu system.

Those advanced AI firewalls capable of withstanding the simultaneous bombardment of thirteen supercomputers from the Persian tycoon.

That complex, underlying defense system required even Li Shimin to verify the national treasury ledgers eight hundred times just to peek at them.

Faced with this string of gibberish, everyone became blind.

Because this code is too basic.

It's so low-level that it's like a piece of junk information pieced together with a few rough wooden sticks.

The advanced filtering logic of the TianShu system directly treats it as natural static noise generated by a submarine cable getting damp.

Even the interception mechanism wasn't triggered.

This string of "static noise" swaggered through the defenses.

Lay the cables along the underground of the safe house.

He dived into the low-level military router next to Li Chengqian's seat, which was responsible for physical relay.

then.

This string of garbled characters, demanding the engine to be overclocked to an extreme degree, exploded in the router's small cache area.

It's sizzling!

A short, sharp sound of an electrical short circuit.

Li Chengqian didn't even have time to take off his headphones.

That black military-grade router that had been working quietly all along.

The indicator light flashed frantically a few times.

Immediately afterwards, there was a muffled "bang".

The router's casing exploded.

A pungent smell of burning rubber instantly filled the air.

A plume of black smoke, mixed with sparks, spewed out of the machine like a fountain.

The shockwave from the explosion was not large.

But it's deadly enough.

The blast of air knocked over the iced cola on the cup holder next to it.

*smack*

A large glass of cold, thick, sweet carbonated beverage.

Absolutely accurate.

It was all spilled right in the center of Li Chengqian's big floral shorts.

Several pieces of ice that hadn't melted even rolled down the leg of the pants.

It feels icy cold when applied to the skin.

The game screen went black instantly.

The backup power in the safe house started up, and the dim emergency red light came on.

The air seemed to freeze in that instant.

Li Chengqian was still holding the retro handle in both hands.

Maintaining a posture ready to unleash a powerful attack.

He slowly lowered his head.

He glanced at his flowery shorts, which were soaked through and still dripping with brown cola syrup.

I glanced again at the wreckage of the router next to me, which was billowing black smoke.

"Clatter."

The handle fell to the ground.

Li Chengqian took off his noise-canceling headphones and threw them on the table.

He didn't roar in anger, nor did he smash the keyboard like before.

He just sat there quietly.

But the temperature in the entire basement seemed to drop below freezing instantly.

His eyes, which originally held a casual smile, now...

There was no warmth left.

The kind of perfect vacation that is interrupted, and in such a humiliating and ridiculous way.

The accumulated, extreme killing intent.

It instantly froze into black ice in the depths of the eye.

He is in Hawaii.

It is 108,000 miles away from Chang'an.

Across the vast Pacific Ocean.

Someone followed the undersea fiber optic cable and physically burned his router.

They even spilled Coke all over his crotch.

"it is good."

Li Chengqian squeezed out a single word through gritted teeth.

The voice was so calm it sent chills down your spine.

He didn't wipe the cola juice off his pants.

I endured the damp, icy feeling.

He stretched out that pale hand.

On a spare control panel that was still powered on, I opened the top-secret encrypted channel that led directly to the commander of the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry.

Two buzzing sounds followed by electrical current.

Xu Xiao, who was far away in Chang'an, had his holographic avatar pop up.

Xu Xiao was eating breakfast in the military camp when he saw the Crown Prince's expression on the screen, and he was so frightened that he dropped his chopsticks.

"Your Highness..."

Li Chengqian remained expressionless.

He didn't even bother to find out who did it.

He didn't care whether they were Roman remnants or a few commoner geeks playing with abacuses.

All he wants now is destruction.

Within a quarter of an hour.

Li Chengqian's voice was like a rusty iron saw scraping against ice.

"I want the underground black market in Chang'an."

"Uprooted"