I lent my brother 500 yuan, and he offered his wife as collateral.

……

The temporary meeting room in the transitional cabin was small.

After the door closed, the Xiao family members and the Commerce Bureau personnel were left in the open-access area. Zhou Ye cut off external audio reception, retaining only the legally mandated monitoring terminal.

There are 26 minutes left in the countdown.

Su Lie was the first to speak.

"I don't want the warehouse anymore."

Qian Shao was taken aback.

"Retreat now?"

"Qingxue and Banxia, ​​go through the public safety exit first. Qin Feng, take Zhou Ye away. I'll stay and handle this."

"How will you handle this?"

"I've come to pick them up."

Shen Banxia shook her head directly.

"It's no use if you try to catch it. The Death Curse drains your life force, regardless of whether you're a grandmaster or not. If you use your inner energy, the third sequence will activate prematurely."

"Then don't let it expand."

"How do we stop them?"

Su Lie remained silent.

He was thinking of the dumbest method.

He sealed Xiao Kuang and himself inside the warehouse, hoping to stall for half an hour, however long he could.

He owed Lin Wanrong a life, and was also given a second chance by Qin Feng.

When it really comes down to someone having to stay, he won't let anyone else stay in his place.

Qin Feng saw through his plan.

"Elder, don't rush to make arrangements for your own funeral."

"I didn't say 'go to your death'."

"It's written all over your face."

Su Lie raised his hand and touched his face.

"Is it that obvious?"

Wu Jie said in a low voice:

"It's quite obvious; they almost made us burn more paper money during festivals."

"Shut up."

Su Lie cursed, and the oppressive atmosphere in the room eased somewhat.

Qian Shao placed the document in charge on the table.

"If you really want to keep someone, I'll stay."

"What can you do if you stay?" Su Lie asked.

"I can safeguard the settlement accounts."

"Is a debt more important than life?"

"no."

Qian Shao took a deep breath.

"I'm in charge of the transitional warehouse. Today is my first day taking over, and I've led everyone in the warehouse into a dead end. I ran away first. Even if I survive, I won't dare to take this position again."

After he finished speaking, his finger remained pressed against the edge of the document.

Of course I'm scared, my legs are even a little weak right now.

But he was even more afraid that he would actually run away.

When he saw Qin Feng or his father again, he couldn't even bring himself to say, "I did my best."

Qin Feng pulled the document from the person in charge's hand.

"A position is for you to do things, not for you to die."

"Brother Feng, I didn't do it on impulse."

"I know."

Qin Feng looked at him.

"That's why I didn't scold you. The fact that you thought of staying means you didn't make a mistake in giving me this position. But staying now is pointless."

Zhou Ye amplified the three chains of responsibility.

"Leaving is not an option either. The third sequence doesn't just lock down the people in the warehouse, it locks down the entire chain of connections within the Su family's transition warehouse."

"The person in charge, the actual controller, the source of goods, the technology licensor, and the security personnel are all included."

Wu Jie glanced at his identification plate.

"Me too?"

"You just moved the isolation boxes; the temporary labor record has already been uploaded."

"I only moved two empty boxes."

"The system doesn't care how many you moved."

Wu Jie pulled out a chair and sat down.

"Fine, I won't run away then. You have to pay me the moving fee, even if it kills me."

Shen Banxia ignored his banter.

"We can't answer it."

She pulled up the simulation results of the purification array.

"Once the Death Curse enters the purification base, it will first extract the contacting person, and then the array base. The Shen family's remnant array can recognize a portion of the mother rune, but its strength is insufficient."

"If we take it head-on, the array base will be contaminated."

"At that time, the high-risk rating in the background will be verified, and the third-tier ranking will still be implemented."

Su Qingxue had been reading books that required forced acceptance.

"In other words, what the enemy wants is not for us to refuse."

"They would prefer us to take over."

Qin Feng nodded.

"Refusal is just a backup plan."

The other party cleared the warehouse records in advance and changed the safety rating to high-risk infectious level.

After Xiao Kuang was brought in, no matter what the Su family chose, the third sequence would always be able to obtain the activation conditions.

This time, the enemy did not come to steal anything, nor did they force Su Qingxue to hand over her candidacy.

This shows that the other party has learned from Zhuo Heng's lesson.

Do not discuss interests, do not accept bribes privately, and do not give the Su family any loopholes to exploit for greed.

Only execute.

Qin Feng leaned against the table, his gaze falling on Xiao Kuang's life reading screen.

For every inch the Death Mark spreads, it releases a wave pattern outwards.

Shen Banxia said it could trace back to its source, so it wasn't an ordinary curse.

"Banxia, ​​project the deepest structure of the Death-Slaying Pattern separately."

Shen Banxia did as instructed.

The black patterns were peeled away layer by layer, but the lingering image of the original pattern was still obscured.

Qin Feng activated his Divine Eye for Observing Treasures.

Within his field of vision, Xiao Kuang's physical condition changed rapidly.

[Character: Xiao Kuang]

[Status: Backlash from the Death-Taking Decree, Qi Sea Polluted, Life Force Continuously Drained.]

[Estimated survival time: Four hours.]

Qin Feng continued to focus on the Death-Reaping Mark.

New identification information has emerged.

[Item: High-Grade Killing Curse.]

[Source: Old Kuk's Deadly Decree Shell.]

Feature 1: Automatic traceability.

Feature 2: Forced Same Frequency.

Feature 3: Life Extraction.

[Current Status: Awaiting external purification trigger.]

[Source node: Third sequence of the inner ring main control array disk.]

[Execution Logic: After the purification process begins, the Killing Curse will establish a synchronized chain among the contamination result, the purification target, and the execution authority.]

Qin Feng stared at the last line and read it again.

Execution permissions will also be added to the same frequency chain.

This is the other party's real oversight!

Song Wuji was not greedy, nor did he accept anything from the Su family. He simply carried out the third order.

However, once the third sequence enters the purification process, the execution authority is no longer outside the chain.

The other person thought that since they had a knife, they didn't need to touch anyone.

In fact, the moment the execution permission is granted, the person holding the knife enters the range of the Killing Curse!

The problem is that the Soviet Union cannot actively deflect the attack back.

Once an attack is launched on the main control array, the system will first assess the Su family as having a high risk of resistance.

They need a legitimate mirror of accountability.

Let the Killing Curse investigate itself.

Let the system recognize it itself.

Qin Feng closed his divine eye, already having a general idea of ​​what was going on in his mind.

This road is still dangerous.

He wasn't entirely sure if the image could gain recognition from the underlying self-inspection.

When the third sequence comes down, if any signature is missing or any timestamp does not match, the people in the warehouse may really be wiped out!

He didn't say these things.

Explaining it in too much detail now will only confuse everyone more.

"Brother Feng, what did you figure out?" Qian Shao asked.

"It's clear this knife has an owner."

"Who?"

"The name is still unknown, but the source of the permissions is on the third-order master control terminal."

Zhou Ye immediately understood part of it.

"You want to do source tracing?"

"We didn't actively pursue them."

Qin Feng pointed to the Death-Taking Mark.

"Let it go back on its own."

Shen Banxia thought for a few seconds, then her expression changed slightly.

"The Killing Curse has an automatic tracking feature, but it's currently tracking those it has purified. Do you want to change its tracking target?"

"It cannot be changed. Changing it would be an offensive move."

"Then how do we get it to find the source of the execution?"

"Incorporate the responsibilities of all three parties into the same chain."

Su Qingxue raised her head.

"Forced Purification Acceptance Certificate"

"right."

Qin Feng retrieved the original contract document provided by the system.

This document is written in a very obscure way.

The Su family assumes full responsibility for the disposal during the purification period, the Commerce Bureau is only responsible for delivery, and the Xiao family is only responsible for providing the recipient.

The document makes no mention of the subsequent addition of a third sequence attack.

Not writing it doesn't mean you have no responsibility.

If Su fills in the blank before signing, the system must review it.

Su Qingxue has already started reviewing the contract's permissions.

"The enforcement order does not allow the deletion of the original clauses, but it can add the boundaries of the contract and new risk descriptions."

"How much can I add?"

"As long as the legal obligation to clean up is not refused, there is no word limit for the supplementary content."

Wu Jie sat up straight.

"Then add as much as you can."

"More words are useless."

Su Qingxue took out a signing pen.

"Every word must be included in the chain of responsibility."

The reason I didn't ask Qin Feng if he was confident wasn't because I didn't want to ask.

She knew Qin Feng was also gambling this time. Asking him "Can you win?" would only put all the pressure on him alone.

They had already reached the inner ring road and could no longer simply wait for Qin Feng to give them an answer, as they had done before.

"Brother Feng, how do I sign the document?"

Qin Feng pushed the three-party access control diagram in front of her.

"First, distinguish between old responsibilities and new responsibilities."

"We will address the existing contamination in Xiao Kuang's body."

"Whoever launches a new attack during the cleanup period must first prove that they are not the source."

"What if we don't prove it?"

"Let the system assume that he voluntarily enters the causal self-check."

Su Qingxue clicked on the blank page of the supplementary agreement.

Qian Shao also moved closer.

"What's the order of signing?"

"The Xiao family first signed the pollution source delivery agreement, the Commerce Bureau signed the mandatory acceptance agreement, and finally the third-level execution department approved it."

"Execution-side countersigning?"

"meeting."

Qin Feng looked towards the warehouse door.

"They think we're going to die soon. Contracts written by dead people are just worthless pieces of paper to them."

Seventeen minutes remain in the countdown.

……

Outside, Xiao Henian was already getting impatient.

He glanced at the public access area several times. Xiao Kuang's life count was still decreasing.

Shopkeepers along the street were also discussing it.

"Still haven't decided?"

"It's just stalling for time. Accepting it means certain death, not accepting it also means certain death, so no one would dare to sign it."

"Wasn't Qin Feng very fast before?"

"No one negotiated with him this time. No matter how cunning he is, can he really bargain with the third tier?"

The meeting room door opened.

Qin Feng led Su Qingxue out.

Su Lie followed behind, his knife already taken from his waist and sealed in his weapon case.

Xiao Henian looked up and asked:

"Have you reached an agreement?"

Qin Feng stopped the guards who were preparing to carry the stretcher into the warehouse.

"I'll leave the people behind, and we'll sign the papers."

"But for the Su family to take on the job, they need to use their supplementary agreement!"