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

……

After the life signal dropped to zero, the seventh zone on the east side remained quiet for more than ten seconds.

The public version of the screen has not been restored.

The third sequence of red light still pressed down on the transition chamber.

According to the usual epidemic prevention and control procedures, the next step will be to format the warehouse, erase all array base interfaces, and then generate a death list by the public system.

Several shops along the street have begun to restore communication.

They dared not associate with the Su family, but they had to prepare in advance to take over the vacant warehouse space.

"The location of the seventh district on the east side is good."

"No matter how good the location is, we have to wait until the epidemic prevention and cleanup are over."

"Can the Su family's batch of high-level array core blanks be preserved?"

"After going through the third sequence once, nothing can be retained."

The manager of the pharmaceutical alliance bent down to pick up the contract and sighed.

Yesterday, we were planning to discuss the supply of high-end purification bases with Su's.

It now seems that the contract won't even have a chance to be sent out.

Xiao Henian opened his eyes, preparing to have the Xiao family guards withdraw.

The Commerce Authority's quarantine authority has not been lifted.

"How much longer do we have to wait?"

The team leader looked towards the public terminal:

"The third sequence has not yet completed its final settlement."

"The person is gone, what's the point of settling accounts?"

"The system did not produce any results."

The red light suddenly stopped as soon as the words were spoken.

It's not a reduction.

The entire destructive energy was stuck on the transition chamber base, neither continuing to format nor exiting.

……

The staff in the control room immediately noticed the anomaly:

"Executor, the underlying self-check has been triggered."

Song Wuji looked up at the main screen:

Who applied?

"Su's Purification Contract"

"turn down."

"Rejection failed."

The staff performed the operation several times in succession.

"The contract underwent public witnessing before the third sequence access. During the approval of execution permissions, a causal self-check was automatically performed."

Song Wuji walked to the main control unit.

On the screen, comparison results began to appear one by one.

[Target of this purification: Xiao Kuang.]

[Existing contamination: The Old Treasury's deadly decree has backfired.]

[Contamination formation time: Before entering the Su's transition chamber.]

[Pollution source: Under investigation.]

[Pollution carrier: Xiao Kuang.]

[Contamination delivered to: Xiao family.]

[The party mandated to undertake the procedure: Inner Ring Road Commerce and Management Bureau.]

[Purification contractor: Su's.]

The first round of comparison is complete.

The system continues to read the energy records since the purification process began.

[New destructive energy detected.]

[Energy Type: Third-Sequence Epidemic Prevention Level Formatted Strangulation.]

[Release Time: After the purification and takeover agreement takes effect.]

[Release party: Third-order execution privileges.]

[Target for release: All personnel, cargo, and base units in the Su Clan's transition warehouse.]

[Has the source of permissions been verified? No.]

Song Wuji pressed the stop button.

The main control array panel is not responding.

"Stop the third sequence."

The current program is performing a low-level causal self-check.

The implementing party has no right to delete records during the self-inspection period.

Song Wuji's expression changed for the first time.

He was not afraid of the Su family's contract.

In his understanding, basic contracts can only handle transactions and liability compensation.

The third sequence belongs to the highest level of epidemic prevention authority within the inner ring, and its execution level is far higher than that of ordinary undertaking agreements.

But he missed one thing.

Sue did not use the contract to counter the third order.

They simply wrote the third sequence into the purification chain, requiring it to verify the source according to its own underlying rules.

……

Inside the transition chamber, red light suppressed all life readings.

Qin Feng could not hear any sounds from the outside world; he could only see that the mirror core still had two layers of array patterns remaining.

A zero vital signs does not mean the person is dead.

Before the red light faded, Shen Banxia switched the life readings of everyone in the cabin to a safe and evacuation state.

If the external terminal loses read permission, it will display the lowest value as zero.

This step can only buy time.

Even if the third sequence is fully formatted, they will still die.

"Self-inspection begins," Zhou Ye said.

His isolated screen was black, with only the lowest level of data scrolling.

Qian Shao asked:

"Is the signature chain still there?"

"They're all here."

"What about the timestamp?"

"The third sequence of attacks was added 47 seconds after the contract was accepted."

Qian Shao then released his hand from the recording device.

His wrist was numb.

These forty-seven seconds represent the clearest boundary between the Su family and Song Wuji.

The fatal contamination is the original result, and the third sequence is the new behavior.

Song Wuji wanted to use pollution to kill people, but he was unwilling to first confirm whether he was part of the pollution source.

The underlying system will confirm it for him!

The mirror array emitted a soft sound.

The last two layers of array patterns began to converge inwards.

It did not reflect red light, nor did it attack the main control array.

The original pointers to the contract, the killing curse, and the execution authority are all placed on the same reading surface.

The system continues the comparison.

Did Su create the Killing Curse? No.

[Did Su intentionally bring contamination into the warehouse? No.]

[Did the Su family refuse purification? No.]

[Did the Su family release Grandmaster-level resistance forces? No.]

Did Sue actively attack the third sequence? No.

[Did the third sequence add strangulation without confirming the source of authorization? Yes.]

[Did the implementing party undergo a causal self-examination beforehand? Yes.]

[The determination of responsibility begins.]

……

Outside the warehouse, the public terminal lights up again.

Merchants who had previously shut down their communications were now being forced to issue public notices.

They thought the system was going to publish a list of the dead, but what appeared on the screen was a comparison of responsibilities.

"What does this mean?"

"Didn't the Su family resist?"

"They didn't even release their grandmaster-level aura."

"Was the third sequence added by the execution side?"

"Of course it's newly added. When Xiao Kuang went in, he only had the Death-Reaping Curse on him, where would he get the formatting energy?"

The manager of the pharmaceutical alliance stared at Article 3 of the supplementary agreement, his breathing slowing down.

He finally understood.

The Su family never intended to stop the third sequence.

They are waiting for the system to acknowledge who the destructive energy came from.

Xiao Henian also saw the comparison of responsibilities.

He looked down at the empty stretcher in the isolation area and felt a chill run down his spine.

He personally sent Xiao Kuang in.

He thought this was the fuse that would blow up the Su family.

This lead is now connected to the third sequence execution end.

The most troublesome ability of the Killing Curse is not that it extracts life, but that it automatically traces back to the source.

Once the purification process establishes a shared frequency, whoever adds a new causal node at this time will be recorded as a new causal node.

"Revoke the delivery stamp issued by the Xiao family."

Xiao Henian immediately ordered his guards to protect him.

The guard tried twice.

"Master, the seal is under the bottom-level self-check system and cannot be removed."

"Apply for separation of responsibilities."

"The system will not process your request."

Xiao Henian looked at the captain of the Commerce Bureau's enforcement team:

"You forced the Xiao family to send people away, and the Commerce Bureau must bear full responsibility."

The captain of the command team was also anxious:

"The Xiao family has confirmed that they are aware of the risks. We are only responsible for mandating the completion of the process."

"Without your forceful order, I wouldn't have sent Xiao Kuang here!"

"This is an order from above."

After a few words of argument, the system has completed its initial splitting.

[The Su family is not the polluter.]

[The Su family is a party subject to mandatory acceptance.]

The energy destructive from the third sequence is not a consequence of the original contamination.

[The newly added strangulation action is initiated by the execution privilege.]

The executor skipped the source authorization verification.

According to the supplementary agreement, the implementing party automatically assumes responsibility for the newly added causal factors.

……

Inside the transition chamber, the Killing Curse suddenly stopped spreading outwards.

Xiao Kuang lay prone on the ground.

The black lines on its chest rose one by one, all turning towards the top of the warehouse.

Upon seeing this, Shen Banxia immediately said:

"The direction of tracing has changed."

Zhou Ye stared at the access control diagram:

"We didn't change it."

"The system is redirecting and adding causality."

Qin Feng did not relax.

A change in causal orientation only signifies the success of the first step.

The third sequence has too high an execution privilege level.

If Song Wuji could cut off the connection before the responsibility loop is closed, the red light might still remain in the warehouse.

"Qian Shao, continue with the public announcement."

"What's the point of making it public?"

"Every suspension request from the execution side."

Qian Shao immediately synchronized the cancellation record from the main control end.

[The third-order executor requests interruption.]

[Application period: After the initial self-check begins.]

Reason for interruption: Not submitted.

Application failed.

When the shopkeepers on the street saw these records, they finally understood.

The execution side started to panic.

The third order has been hanging high in the inner ring for many years, and it is only those who are being dealt with who apply for a stop.

Today, the person who pressed the strangulation permission wanted to stop, but the system wouldn't let them.

The red light deflected above the transition chamber.

At first, only the top contracted inward.

Next, the entire beam of light moved in the reverse direction along the main control connection.

It didn't disappear; instead, it returned to the source of the permissions.

……

Merchants behind the protective gate opened their communication terminals one by one.

Someone wants to find out who the person responsible for the enforcement is.

Someone immediately saved the public notice record.

Many more people stared at the Su family's transitional warehouse, all having the same thought in their minds.

How exactly did Qin Feng calculate to this point?

When they entered the warehouse, they didn't know who was in charge of the third sequence, nor could they access the inner ring main control room.

But he had Su Qingxue write the execution authority into the contract, had Shen Banxia use the broken array to show the responsibility, and had Qian Shao keep the time stamp.

He didn't touch the main control system.

The main control system, however, started investigating its own people.

Song Wuji issued three consecutive orders to suspend the order, all of which were rejected.

The alarms in the main control room went off.

The automatic tracking feature for the Killing Curse is now activated.

[New destructive energy is flowing back.]

[Source of permission execution being verified.]

Song Wuji raised his voice for the first time:

"Sever the physical connection between the main control room and the third sequence!"

Just as the staff were about to take action, the system locked the exit first.

On the main screen, the masking permission was forcibly removed.

[Authorization source identified: Song Wuji, Executive Officer of the Inner Ring Special Affairs Bureau.]

The implementing party cannot unilaterally revoke the agreement!