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

……

All the isolation doors in the main control room were closed.

Song Wuji personally walked to the third sequence console and pulled out the master access command.

The console was not powered off.

The master authority command is no longer just a simple startup tool, but is now tied to the forced purification contract and the Death Curse's synchronous chain.

[Warning: Execution privileges are being subject to causal review.]

Forcibly removing the evidence will be considered as destroying self-examination evidence.

Song Wuji released his grip.

"The responsibility for transferring the Xiao family."

The staff submitted it immediately.

The Xiao family was both the carrier and the delivery party of the contamination.

The Xiao family has been held liable for concealing risks.

This responsibility does not include the strangulation added in the third sequence.

"The Commerce and Industry Authority is responsible."

The Commerce and Industry Bureau is the party that is compelled to undertake the procedures.

[The responsibility for the lack of procedural review has been established.]

This responsibility does not include the strangulation added in the third sequence.

Song Wuji stared at the last item.

The system was disassembled very clearly.

The Xiao family delivered the contaminated goods into the warehouse, and the Commerce Bureau forced the Su family to take them over; both parties bear responsibility.

He is the one who can press the third button.

This destructive energy was not within Xiao Kuang's body, nor was it a disposal measure inherent in the Commerce Management Bureau's enforcement order.

He added it himself after the cleanup contract took effect.

"Request higher-level authority to take over."

The immediate adjudication process has been initiated.

[Superior authorities may not replace the executing entity during causal tracing.]

"I am following the main command's instructions."

Please submit the name of the person who issued the instruction.

Song Wuji retrieved the third sequence startup command.

The topmost issuing position is obscured by the main control array.

He has the authority to execute orders, but he can't see the person who actually gives them.

Previously, he never thought this was a problem.

The inner circle of authority is hierarchical; orders are given from above, and the executive is responsible for execution. The executive doesn't need to know the reasons behind each task.

But now, the system is asking him to submit the source.

He can't produce it!

After several attempts, the main display only showed the same message.

[Issuance authority is protected at a higher level.]

[Currently confirmed executor: Song Wuji.]

"Open the emergency escape route."

"Executive, it won't open."

The staff member's voice began to tremble.

"The third sequence has included the main control room in its repatriation targets."

"What about the defensive array?"

"It's breaking down."

Song Wuji turned to look out the window.

The red light flowing back from behind has already passed through the inner ring sky and is heading towards the Special Affairs Department's main control array pavilion.

Only at this moment did he truly understand the usefulness of the Su supplementary agreement.

That contract didn't stop the energy, nor could it kill anyone.

It simply lists what each party has done.

The Xiao family sent someone away, and the Xiao family took responsibility.

The Commerce Management Bureau was forced to take over, and the Commerce Management Bureau is now responsible.

If Song Wuji initiates a new strangulation, then Song Wuji will be responsible for the backflow of this strangulation.

He always felt that higher-level permissions could override lower-level contracts.

However, the third sequence itself also relies on the underlying contract to confirm the target, scope, and execution identity.

The higher the level of authority, the clearer the accountability markers left behind.

"Executive, the outer layer of the array has been breached!"

The red light fell.

The protective array in the main control room only lasted a few seconds before collapsing from the core of the access control system.

Song Wuji released his aura, attempting to forcibly protect his body.

The system immediately added a judgment.

[The source of the violation was detected as resisting immediate adjudication.]

[Increase reflux intensity.]

A staff member shouted:

"Stop resisting! The more you resist, the stronger the resistance will become!"

Song Wuji did not stop.

He executed the third sequence far too many times.

Those who were locked out also pleaded, explained, and tried to file objections.

He never stopped.

Because once a program starts, it must be completed.

Now that the same rules apply to him, he realizes that he can't even get a simple "wait a minute" into the system!

Red light flooded the control panel.

The third-order master authority order was immediately destroyed.

Song Wuji's protective energy was forced back into his body, and his Qi Sea was subjected to a formatting shock.

I want to exit the execution role, but the identity is frozen first.

The executing entity may not be deregistered during the adjudication period.

The ground of the formation pavilion cracked open.

Several staff members who were not involved in the approval process were sent out of the control room by public evacuation authority.

The two arrays involved in the third sequence execution debugging were also listed as sources of violations.

Song Wuji stood in front of the main control panel, his body covered in red light.

He didn't die from Qin Feng's violence, and he didn't even say a word to Qin Feng.

He died because of the execution permissions he himself had pressed.

The red light quickly faded over the seventh district on the east side.

Public read access to the Su's transition warehouse has been restored.

Life signals resumed.

One.

Two.

More than a dozen.

Everyone in the warehouse was present.

The public announcement across the entire region was immediately launched.

[Song Wuji, Executive Officer of the Inner Ring Special Affairs Bureau, bypassed the source authorization verification and illegally activated the third sequence.]

[Level 1 violation established.]

The newly added strangulation causality in the third sequence has been redirected.

Song Wuji's identity was cancelled.

[The associated execution array has completed instant formatting.]

[The Su family's transitional storage facility is in a legal and safe state.]

[High-risk epidemic prevention lockdown lifted.]

……

Inside the transition chamber, Qian Shao stared at the restored vital signs, not daring to move for a long time.

He only stood up, leaning on the table, after the system notified him that his warehouse permissions had been restored.

My legs felt incredibly weak.

After catching my breath, the first thing I did wasn't to ask if anyone was injured, but to open the storage list.

"Ten boxes of array core blanks."

"Six boxes of purification base materials."

"Three isolation boxes."

"One original copy of the contract."

"Local copy, public copy, and repository copy are all available."

Wu Jie sat on the ground, leaning against the wall.

"That's enough. You just got back from the brink of death, and you want to count the boxes first?"

"What if we don't count?"

Qian Shao wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"I'm in charge. Even if the goods are lost while the person is still alive, I still have to compensate for it."

Wu Jie wanted to laugh, but his chest was still tight, so he could only wave his hand.

"Fine, you're the boss, keep counting."

Su Lie walked up to the weapon box but did not unlock it immediately.

He stood there for a long time, looking at the results of the system's announcement regarding Song Wuji's case.

"Is he really gone?"

Zhou Ye retrieved the cancellation records from the main control room.

"Execute the identity, life end, and Qi Sea readings, and reset them all to zero."

Su Lie looked down at the knife in the box.

"I didn't draw my sword."

He still died.

Previously, his understanding of strength was that it meant a fast sword and high cultivation level. Anyone who dared to touch the Su family, he would be the first to be killed.

Now I understand that some people will never even stand in front of you.

Song Wuji hid in the control room and pressed the execution button across the entire inner ring.

The knife is out of reach, but the rules can be found by following the permissions he left behind.

Su Lie patted the weapon case.

"From now on, we should lock the responsibility side first."

The guard beside him nodded.

"Elder, should we still issue that knife?"

"hair."

"When to use it?"

"When the rules have been followed and they still want to renege on their promises."

……

Inside the purification chamber, the black markings on Xiao Kuang's body were peeling off.

After the Life-Taking Curse shifted its target to Song Wuji, the life extraction was forcibly stopped.

Shen Banxia used the purification base to peel off the remaining waste patterns and sealed each segment of the Great Order code into the evidence box.

Xiao Kuang survived, but his Qi Sea was destroyed.

The old wounds in his meridians were completely torn open by the backlash, and from now on, he won't be able to do anything, let alone cultivate.

He lay on the ground, barely regaining consciousness, when he grabbed Shen Banxia's clothes.

"Help...help me..."

Shen Banxia glanced down.

"His life has been saved."

"My cultivation level..."

"That's all."

Xiao Kuang's body stiffened.

"Aren't you a cultivator of the Shen family's array formations?"

"I am a formation cultivator, not your ancestor."

Shen Banxia pulled her clothes back.

"When you used the Death-Taking Decree to harm people, did you never think about the backlash? Now that your Qi Sea is gone, that's perfect. It saves you from using other people's lives to pave your own way in the future."

Despite his blunt words, he still completed the final life stabilization procedure.

She saved lives that needed saving.

She wouldn't protect his cultivation level, which she shouldn't have done.

The core of the mirror array has been mostly destroyed.

Shen Banxia squatted down and collected the remaining array patterns one by one into the evidence bag.

This remnant of the Shen family's formation was no longer used to harm people.

It saved the entire warehouse.

She finished installing the last array pattern and said softly:

"This time it was used in the right place."

……

The warehouse door reopened.

Qin Feng first confirmed that the external epidemic prevention restrictions had been completely lifted before taking Su Qingxue outside.

No one on the street gathered around.

All the merchants stood still and watched them.

The manager of the pharmaceutical alliance took out the contract again, but he hesitated to step forward.

Previously, they thought that Su's entry into the inner ring was due to Zhuo Heng's own greed, which gave Qin Feng the opportunity to turn the tables.

Today, Song Wuji didn't ask for money, didn't try to seize power, and didn't even show his face.

He still died.

Qin Feng didn't make a scene, nor did he say anything harsh.

After stepping out of the warehouse, he first turned to ask Qian Shao:

"Are all items in stock?"

"together."

Where are they?

"They're all here."

"Then open the warehouse for ventilation. Seal off any remaining contamination from Xiao Kuang to prevent it from affecting the subsequent shipments."

Hearing these arrangements, the surrounding businesses felt even more uncertain.

Having just suffered a backlash from the third sequence, Qin Feng's first thought was to continue operating.

This shows that he didn't consider this place as a temporary stop before entering the inner ring road.

Standing in the quarantine zone, Xiao Henian saw Qin Feng walking towards him and for the first time felt the urge to retreat.

His original plan was to send a dying Xiao Kuang to his death in exchange for the lives of the entire Su family.

Now Xiao Kuang is crippled, Song Wuji is dead, but the contract is still intact.

It's time to start settling the compensation agreement in Su Qingxue's hands.

Just as he was about to speak, Zhou Ye suddenly rushed out of the warehouse:

"Don't celebrate!"

"The aftershocks of the backlash opened a high-level channel, revealing the mother rune's tail code!"