I was just telling a story, why is the whole internet urging me to turn myself in?

The following afternoon, in Jiangzhou CBD, on the 68th floor of the Global Financial Center.

Sunlight generously pours into the 2,000-square-meter Grade A office area in front of the three-meter-high floor-to-ceiling windows.

However, in this prime location, apart from the "Hidden Culture Media Studio" sign carved from black walnut wood at the front desk, the entire floor was eerily quiet.

"bite--"

The private elevator doors slowly opened, and a middle-aged, overweight man in a suit and large sunglasses stepped out, accompanied by two assistants.

His name is Zhao Haibo, one of the top three real estate tycoons in Jiangzhou, with a net worth of tens of billions.

But the moment he stepped out of the elevator, this tycoon, who could shake the land of Jiangzhou with a stomp of his foot, couldn't help but swallow hard and subconsciously straighten his back.

Because outside the elevator doors, two retired Russian-American PMC bodyguards, codenamed "Grizzly" and "Jackal," were staring intently at him.

That look didn't seem like it was directed at a billionaire businessman; rather, it was like it was professionally assessing how many seconds it would take for his throat to break.

"I...I have an appointment with Mr. Shen." A layer of sweat beaded on Zhao Haibo's forehead as he forced himself to remain calm and handed over a business card. "My name is Zhao Haibo. I have a legitimate business deal that I would like Mr. Shen to help with."

Five minutes later, Zhao Haibo sat down in the boss's office with the best view in all of Jiangzhou, just as he had hoped.

His renowned status in Jiangzhou only earned him a casual glance from the young man behind the desk.

Shen Feng sank into the Herman Miller boss's chair, worth 100,000 yuan, casually toying with a pure silver lighter with his slender fingers.

With the passive divine skill [Aura of the Superior], his young and handsome face seemed to be shrouded in a dark mist that made people afraid to look directly at him.

"Mr. Zhao, I've heard about it." Shen Feng's tone was flat, without even looking up. "You're negotiating a joint acquisition of a plot of land in the south of the city with a multinational corporation. It's a large deal, at least six billion. You didn't come to my newly opened cultural studio today just to ask me to write your company's autobiography, did you?"

Zhao Haibo's heart skipped a beat.

The "Mr." in front of me, who was rumored to be a legend, really knew everything about his most core business secrets!

Little did he know that while Shen Feng appeared calm on the surface, he was inwardly raging: "Of course! Last night, the front page of Jiangzhou's local news was all about your acquisition deal. Anyone with eyes can see you're short of money!"

The fates of Li Donghai and Wang Defa, the richest man, are still fresh in everyone's mind. Faced with this "monster" who can manipulate the Defense Agency at will, Zhao Haibo dares not play any tricks.

"Mr. Shen, let's not beat around the bush." ​​Zhao Haibo took off his sunglasses, his hands trembling slightly as he rested them on his knees. "There's a corporate spy within my core management team. Our bottom-line bid has already been leaked to our competitors. If we can't identify this person before the contract is signed tomorrow, I'll not only lose over a billion yuan, but I might even face a reverse strangulation from the financial world!"

"I know the National Defense Agency can't do anything to you; you're a true master of 'those methods'! I'll offer five million in consultation fees! If you help me remove this thorn, I, Zhao Haibo, will owe you a tremendous favor!"

Five million?!

Shen Feng's fingers, which were holding the lighter, trembled almost imperceptibly.

Holy crap! Are all the country bumpkin bosses in Jiangzhou this extravagant?! They're asking for five million just to catch a mole?! How much personal income tax would that be?!

Although his heart was already bursting with joy, Shen Feng didn't even flinch on the surface; instead, his eyes suddenly turned cold.

"Mr. Zhao, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. What do you mean the Defense Agency can't do anything to me?"

Shen Feng leaned forward, his aura of authority suddenly overwhelming Zhao Haibo, making it almost impossible for him to breathe: "Our Hidden Culture Media is a legally registered and tax-paying consulting company. I'm a law-abiding and conscientious entrepreneur, understand?"

"I understand! I understand, I understand!" Zhao Haibo nodded repeatedly, wiping away his cold sweat.

"However, since this job has come to us... I'll take it. Did you bring the suspect?"

"Yes, I brought them! All five core executives. I've brought them all to your outer meeting room under the guise of a meeting! Here are their resumes and background check materials; please take a look..."

"We don't need this kind of waste paper." Shen Feng interrupted him, looking intently at Chief Technology Officer Xiao Yu standing to the side. "Xiao Yu, go and make five cups of tea and bring them in. Three at room temperature, and two with freshly boiled water. Remember, don't tell them it's hot."

"Understood, Grandmaster." Xiao Yu pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and a sickly excited smile appeared on his lips.

In his eyes, the patriarch was about to demonstrate high-IQ psychological warfare in person!

Zhao Haibo was stunned: "Mr. Shen, you...you didn't even look at the documents?"

"Faced with absolute physiological instinct, forged documents are too coarse to even wipe your butt with." Shen Feng stood up, put his hands in his pockets, and strolled to the one-way mirror connecting the reception room in the corner. "Come on, Mr. Zhao, let me show you what the flaws of human nature are."

Inside the reception room, five business elites in suits sat anxiously on the sofa.

Xiao Yu pushed the food cart inside and placed five identical ceramic teacups in front of the five people.

Behind the one-way glass, a barely perceptible stream of dark blue data flickered deep within Shen Feng's eyes—

The Eye of Truth is now activated!

In that instant, the core fears and subconscious thoughts of the five executives were laid bare in Shen Feng's eyes.

"That's him, the second one from the left." Shen Feng pointed to the glass.

"Huh?!" Zhao Haibo's jaw nearly dropped. He'd only been looking for less than ten seconds! "Mr. Shen, how is this possible? Old Lin has been with me for eight years, he's my confidant! Shouldn't you reconsider…?"

"Look closely at his hands," Shen Feng interrupted bluntly.

Zhao Haibo immediately widened his eyes and looked in that direction. At that moment, at Xiao Yu's prompting, the five senior executives picked up their teacups to hide their embarrassment and nervousness.

The moment their fingers touched the cup, one of the executives who had received the "boiling water" was scalded and jerked violently, crying out "Ouch!" as the tea nearly spilled.

But only that old Lin!

He was clearly holding one of those two cups of scalding hot tea, but he calmly picked up the cup and took a sip!

At the same time, his gaze involuntarily drifted quickly to the lower left corner for half a second.

"This... doesn't he find it too hot?!" Zhao Haibo was horrified.

"When a person does something wrong and is in a state of extreme stress and defense, the sympathetic nervous system will be highly excited, which will temporarily dull the pain feedback of the peripheral nerves."

Shen Feng crossed his arms, effortlessly drawing upon his knowledge of [God-Level Criminal Psychology]: "It's not that he didn't feel the heat, but rather that his brain's CPU was already fully occupied with the computational power of 'how to cover up the lie.' He was forcing himself to appear as calm as usual, which backfired."

"As for the gaze shifting to the lower left corner, that's a classic psychological visual retrospection mechanism—he's frantically searching in his mind which backup lie to use to exonerate you should the truth come out."

"Mr. Zhao, the fox's tail wasn't discovered through investigation, it was forced out."

Shen Feng turned around and snapped his fingers at Xiao Yu, who had just stepped outside: "Xiao Yu, check out Lao Lin's backup phone, which even his wife doesn't know about. Scan the offshore accounts and find evidence of his leaks."

"Alright, please wait a moment, Master."

Xiaoyu picked up the laptop, his ten fingers moving across the keyboard like a blur.

Just twenty seconds later, the Enter key clicked sharply.

"Done. My lord, I used a zero-day vulnerability on the dark web to directly crack his underlying protocol! There was a self-destructing email sent to 'Star Flag Capital' three days ago in his private email account. I used fragment recovery to retrieve it, and it was the bid price list. In addition, his wife's brother just had two million US dollars of cryptocurrency deposited into his UBS account yesterday."

The screen shifted, and irrefutable evidence was slapped directly in Zhao Haibo's face.

Dead silence.

The entire office fell into a deathly silence.

Zhao Haibo stared at the evidence on the screen, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.

From the moment he walked in until now, it's been no more than ten minutes!

Without glancing at the documents or conducting any cross-examination, the other party precisely destroyed the psychological defenses of a high-ranking spy through the glass using only the temperature of a cup of tea!

In a single encounter, they stripped away what the other party thought was an impenetrable transnational financial fortress!

What terrifying insight is this? What kind of intelligence network is this, capable of such a devastating attack?!

However, Shen Feng, who was sitting upright in the boss's chair, was inwardly screaming, and his shirt was almost soaked with cold sweat.

"Holy crap!!! Xiaoyu, what are you doing, you little brat?! Who gave you permission to use a dark web vulnerability to hack into other people's private emails and offshore accounts?! This is illegal acquisition of computer information system data!! The Defense Agency's special task force is parked right downstairs on the street, do you want to send me straight to work on a sewing machine?!"

Shen Feng was panicking inside, but he forced himself to maintain that inscrutable, cold expression.

He glanced at Xiao Yu, whose face was filled with fanaticism, then at Zhao Haibo, who was about to kneel down. His mind raced, and he immediately spoke coldly:

"Xiaoyu, turn off the screen. Completely shred the data."

"Huh?" Xiaoyu was taken aback. "Grandmaster, aren't we going to copy it down for him as evidence?"

"We are a legitimate media consulting firm, not a hacker group." Shen Feng turned his gaze to Zhao Haibo. "Mr. Zhao, I was just showing you the 'direction of suspicion.' As for this email obtained through 'abnormal means,' it has no legal standing as evidence in court."

Shen Feng tapped the table: "I've already pointed out the direction to you, and you've seen the account details and the flow of funds. How you use your company's legal department to sue him and obtain legal evidence through legal means is your business. I, Shen Feng, will never get involved in any illegal or disorderly conduct. Understand?"

Upon hearing these words, Zhao Haibo gasped sharply.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

We've completely removed all the dirty work, tiring tasks, and legal risks, offering only a God-like, simplified intelligence perspective!

This is the real "behind-the-scenes deity" who transcends the rules! Spending five million, how could he possibly buy the truth?

This is clearly paying money to buy peace, paying protection money for a "get-out-of-jail-free card"!

"Mr. Shen's work is meticulous... I am utterly impressed!" Zhao Haibo bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle. "The five million consulting fee will be transferred to your company's bank account immediately! We will also handle all related taxes on your behalf at the highest rate!"

"Mr. Zhao is a respectable person. Remember to note 'corporate management compliance consulting fee' in the notes." Shen Feng nodded in satisfaction and waved for the bodyguard to see the guest out.

……

at the same time.

Inside a disguised surveillance vehicle belonging to the Jiangzhou Defense Bureau, downstairs at the Global Financial Center.

"Beep beep beep—"

A red alert suddenly popped up on the Economic Crime Investigation Division's terminal.

Su Qing stared at a bank statement that had just been updated on the screen, her pupils suddenly contracting.

[Transferor: Finance Department of Jiangzhou Haibo Real Estate Group]

[Payee: Hidden Culture Media Studio]

[Amount: RMB 5,000,000.00 (Full payment after tax)]

[Postscript: Corporate Management Compliance Consulting Fees]

"Team Leader Su..." The technician next to him swallowed hard. "Zhao Haibo was in there for less than twenty minutes, and when he came out his legs were weak. Then he immediately transferred five million to Shen Feng... What is Shen Feng doing? Is he extorting money?"

"No, he's building his own empire of interests." Su Qing's hands and feet were ice-cold as she stared at the lit floor-to-ceiling window on the 68th floor. "Not only did he not extort money, he even got Zhao Haibo to willingly pay the maximum personal income tax for him! He's using legal means to gradually bind Jiangzhou's top capital to his chariot!"

"This madman... what on earth is he trying to do?!"