Ironclad Group Chat: Red and Black Lists Engraved with Heroic Epics

And sure enough, this technique is more lively and active than its counterparts, and it will attack without hesitation once it gets close.

After a hesitant and timid battle, Xing and Su Chang finally managed to subdue the items without damaging the rest of the cargo.

[March 7th: Now they've caught them red-handed, haven't they?]

Su Chang's momentum surged: "What did you do to this machine? It damaged the other cargo on the ship."

"Huh—?" Scott crossed his arms and raised his chin high. "Speak louder, I can't hear you."

Xing was utterly awestruck by his shamelessness: "Now the evidence is irrefutable, are you still going to deny it?"

[Star: Wow, this is the first time I've ever met someone with a thicker skin than me. How did this guy train?]

[March 7th: Don't say that, it's embarrassing too...]

[Qingque: This guy probably wouldn't resort to such a low-level tactic as denying it to the death, would he?]

"Conclusive evidence? Deny it (trembling tone)?" Scott seemed not to understand what she was saying.

He said sternly, "Look carefully, this so-called antique monster is not mine at all."

"What?!" Su Chang was dumbfounded.

Scott said firmly, "If you don't believe me, you can ask the dockworkers."

A worker behind him, head bowed, stammered, "Yes, yes, this 'Dense Cloud Golden Toad' doesn't belong to Mr. Scott."

Su Chang was stunned: "Then why is this toad here?"

"Uh..." The worker's eyes darted around, and he stammered, unable to speak.

Scott changed his tune: "That's your own problem, it's not my business, right?"

"I'd like to ask, my vase was perfectly well-packaged, and it almost got smashed, what happened?!"

Su Chang was at a loss. As a Cloud Rider, she usually dealt with genuine criminals, whom she could deal with directly using her Taixu Sword Qi. She had never encountered such a stubborn and unyielding person before.

Xing hurriedly stepped forward: "Inspection complete, ready to ship."

Scott pressed his advantage: "Huh? Did I hear that right?"

He gritted his teeth and said, "After all this fuss, you can't just leave without an apology."

Su Chang: "This...do I really have to apologize for this?"

Scott pressed on, his tone growing increasingly aggressive: "Huh—? If you don't apologize, it won't sound good if word gets out."

Su Chang gritted her teeth, then closed her eyes and squeezed out a voice through clenched teeth: "...I'm...I'm sorry."

Scott immediately grinned: "Whatever, just think of it as practice. One apology isn't enough, hahaha."

With that, he strode away, completely satisfied.

"Ughhhhhhh...!" Su Chang was furious, almost ready to eat someone alive.

Xing mimicked her, making "Mmm-hmm-hmm-hmm..."

"Ugh...!!!" Su Chang became even more anxious. If someone were to hand her a handkerchief at this moment, she would definitely bite it like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

[Su Chang: I'm so angry! How can there be such a despicable person in the Milky Way?!]

[March 7th: I can't take it anymore, just watching it makes my fists hard. But... how can he really be innocent?]

[Hanabi: Huh? You actually believed that? Still don't understand? This was a setup Scott prepared in advance.]

[March 7: In advance... you mean, that worker gave false testimony?]

[Hanabi: Not too bad, not too stupid. Look at that worker's eyes, he practically wrote my guilty conscience on his face. Did he think he could fool Hanabi, who's so perceptive about human nature? But I have to say, Scott really cleaned things up cleanly; he's not the kind of weak and manipulative clown villain I imagined.]

[Su Chang: Damn it, he tricked me! Hmm... My mother told me that once I mastered a skill, others would be able to reason with me... Looks like my skills aren't good enough yet.]

[Qingque: May I ask, do you teach Mandarin Chinese?]

For the next period of time, Xing and Su Chang endured humiliation and hardship. On the one hand, they miraculously earned enough rent through Xing's ingenious ideas, and on the other hand, they practiced their debating skills. In their spare time, they also investigated evidence of Scott's damage to the goods. They were almost always on the go and rarely had any rest.

Persistence pays off; in addition to several pieces of physical evidence, they also obtained witness testimony.

Ah Feng, the dockworker who testified for Scott, became Xing's training subject before he stepped onto the negotiating table, and this training brought an unexpected surprise.

"Stop nagging. The company is worried that the dock will pay off its debts, so they asked me to do some underhanded things... But so what?" Under Xing's relentless questioning and counter-questions, Ah Feng broke down and revealed the truth on the spot.

"What's wrong with handing over Jinren Alley to a company for management? You old-fashioned fools, don't stop us from making money!"

Xing immediately retorted, "The docks are thriving right now!"

The Chamber of Commerce president's secretary handed Xing a piece of paper: "It seems the truth has come to light. Please accept Master Feng's testimony; you might find it useful."

[Su Chang: Hmph, let's see how he denies it now!]

Scott: Tsk, that simple-minded guy has such a weak mentality.

[March 7th: Finally! After suppressing this for so long, I'm going to teach that guy a lesson! I've been wanting to hear that "ha—" Scott uttered before he spoke for ages!]

At the Golden Man Lane pier, representatives from the Chamber of Commerce and companies sat on either side of a long table.

In the middle, a fox-woman named Xi Kui, dressed in uniform and with a cold demeanor, said: "On behalf of Tianbo Company, I am mediating the rent dispute between Interstellar Peace Company and Jinren Lane Chamber of Commerce."

Scott, utterly impatient, said, "Does this even need coordination? Let me be blunt—the Chamber of Commerce should have been kicked out of Golden Man Alley a long time ago."

When Su Chang saw his face, she was furious: "Couldn't the company send a normal person to negotiate?"

"Huh—?" Scott thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of being disliked, tilting his head back high. "Speak louder, I can't hear you very well."

"I said..." Su Chang's cheeks twitched, veins bulging, and she finally roared out in uncontrollable anger, the subtitles even increasing in size by three: "I said, is there... no... anyone... else... in... this company?!"

The extremely high-frequency shouts reverberated in all directions, comparable to a sonic weapon. Many people, including Xing, trembled, their eyes bulging like iron beads in a bell.

"Ugh...!" Scott's face contorted, his hands clutching his ears. "This girl's voice is incredible, it's going to rupture my eardrums..."

"Phew~" But he didn't get angry. Instead, he was overjoyed at Su Chang's loss of composure: "When you apologize to me in public later, you have to do it just as loudly as you did just now!"

He declared righteously, "As the company's business representative, my attendance at this negotiation is legal, reasonable, and justified! Who does your Jinren Lane Chamber of Commerce intend to send? A passing Yunqi Army soldier? A cowardly chairman who's nowhere to be seen?"

His remarks became increasingly frivolous. Scott's gaze shifted to Xing, and he couldn't help but add insult to injury: "Is this the little girl you guys dragged in at the last minute, the one who looks like someone owes her fifty credits?"