Elf: Is the bear apprentice the weakest? I'll shatter the sky with my fists.

The background behind Dante was piled high with documents, and even his signature cloak was wrinkled and draped over the back of the chair.

"Dude, I really don't understand this supply chain agreement!"

Dan Di frantically ruffled his messy hair, "Why don't you just..."

Li Chen had already signed all the electronic documents efficiently and promptly, and also sent Olive a copy of the "Guide to the Civilization of Giant Particles".

The Dynamax advertising screen outside the window suddenly lit up, playing a loop of footage of Rose being interviewed in prison.

"Sigh... I should have called Sakurada Yukari over."

Li Chen rubbed his temples, the dense financial data on the holographic screen casting a light blue shadow on his eyes.

He couldn't help but recall Sakura Yukari's sharp eyes, which could instantly see through financial loopholes.

If that young lady saw these reports, she could probably figure out the core problem in three minutes.

"Tsk, what a miscalculation."

Li Chen tapped on the smart desktop left by Loz, with a hint of regret.

Now, there's a barrier between worlds, and even communication can't get through.

"never mind..."

He casually signed the last document, leaving a long trail of ink on the paper with his pen. "I need to speed up the collection process."

dong dong dong...

A dull knock on the door interrupted Li Chen's thoughts.

"Enter."

As soon as he finished speaking, the smart door to the office slid open silently.

Instead of the secretary she expected, she saw Cattleya in a dark purple dress.

She stood at the doorway, her skirt fluttering even without wind, her superpower field causing the surrounding air to subtly distort.

Li Chen raised an eyebrow: "The Queen of Superpowers from United States has come to visit in person?"

Cattleya approached slowly, her high heels making no sound on the carpet.

She lightly tapped her temple with her fingertip, and a holographic contract floated out of her small bag.

"A family business."

A faint smile played on Gadri's lips, but her eyes remained impassive. "I heard you're... short-staffed right now?"

"Ugh."

Li Chen rubbed his temples, his gaze sweeping over the mountain of documents piled up on his desk.

In the once-massive Marocmont Group, only he and the ever-cautious Olive are left to shoulder the responsibility.

"There is indeed a shortage of manpower."

He tapped his fingertips lightly on the table, the gilded pen casting a shadow on the financial report. "The mess left by Lorz is even more difficult to deal with than Mugentana."

Cattleya chuckled at his words, her skirt swaying slightly as she turned gracefully.

She reached out and tapped the contract floating in mid-air, her amethyst earrings shimmering with her movement: "I have business elites in my family; I can borrow a few of them anytime."

"Of course...it costs extra."

Outside the window, the Galar Arena lit up with neon lights in the twilight.

Li Chen glanced at Olive's office, where she was working overtime. The girl's silhouette was still buried in the pile of documents, looking like a natural sparrow driven crazy by her thesis.

"How much?"

The pen nib paused on the document, spreading ink.

Li Chen slowly raised his eyes, meeting Jia Deli's playful gaze.

Her pupils gleamed dangerously under the light, much like a nightmare ready to hunt.

"5% of the shares..."

Cattleya's fingertips lightly traced the edge of the contract, her superpower causing ripples to spread across the paper. "Or..."

The office suddenly fell into an eerie silence, so quiet that even the sound of the smart air conditioner running could be clearly heard.

Suddenly, Cattleya leaned forward, her perfume mingling with a faint spiritual energy field, weaving an invisible net between the two of them.

"Give me a proper status."

Her red lips parted slightly, and the words she uttered carried the languid tone unique to aristocrats.

"after all..."

Cattleya lightly touched his tie with her fingernails, her tone softening as she said, "We must give the family a respectable explanation."

"Okay, 5% it is. I'll just earn less."

With a deft stroke of the pen, Li Chen signed the final piece of the contract and gently pushed the document across to the other side.

"Ok?"

However, Cattleya did not immediately take it. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, and a rare look of confusion flashed in her eyes.

"you..."

As she spoke, Cattleya's superpower field slightly distorted the surrounding air. "You'd rather give up priceless shares than give me an empty title?"

The neon lights outside the window suddenly switched, casting her profile in flickering light and shadow.

Li Chen noticed that the gemstones in her earrings were flashing irregularly, a characteristic of emotional fluctuations in a superpowered person.

In the shadows beneath her desk, the tips of her high heels unconsciously tapped lightly on the carpet, creating tiny swirls on the expensive cashmere.

This usually elegant and self-possessed superpowered queen was now revealing a hint of... frustration that was hard to detect.

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Chapter 621 Regigigas

"Shhh."

Li Chen's gesture of raising his hand brought with it a very faint scent of cedar, and he put his index finger to his lips in a shushing gesture.

This simple action caused the restless superpower field around Cattleya to suddenly freeze, as if an invisible force had pressed the pause button.

His gilded cufflinks drew a cold arc under the light, perfectly reflecting the invisible chasm between the two of them.

A holographic billboard outside the window played an advertisement, and pink light and shadow spread across the office, yet formed a clear boundary between light and shadow among them.

"Fine, I don't want the shares anymore. I'll bring you the person too, as compensation for what happened before."

Cattleya suddenly chuckled softly. As she turned around, her skirt billowed in dark purple waves, and the ends of her hair brushed against the back of Li Chen's hand, which was resting on the table.

The moment the smart door closed, the faint mark left by the ring on Li Chen's ring finger was particularly noticeable under the neon lights.

Perhaps in a timeline that has not yet occurred, there will be a different ending.

But what lies quietly on the desk at this moment is ultimately just a cold, hard equity transfer agreement.

"They won't even take the shares? Sigh..."

With a flick of his finger, Li Chen sent the equity transfer agreement fluttering back into the drawer. The gilded pen rolled half a circle on the table before being intercepted by a slender, pale wrist reaching out from below.

"Actually, Cattleya is quite a good catch..."

Eileen emerged from under the desk, her blonde hair still streaked with file scraps, and the diamond earrings hanging from her elven ears swayed with her movements.

Li Chen pressed down on the top of her head and shoved her back: "You talk too much."

Eileen struggled to grab the edge of the table, her fingers, painted with starry blue nail polish, pointing out the window.

Cattleya's private airship was flying over the buildings, the Sinnoh noble family crest on its hull standing out starkly against the night sky.

Ring ring...

Their thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a communication ring.

Next to the caller ID on the screen, Regigigas's holographic image was flashing wildly.

Li Chen pressed the call button.

In the holographic image projected by the communicator, the pyramid control room behind the Shindai was flashing red alarm light.

His usually composed brows were now furrowed, and his fingers were rapidly tracing a set of abnormal data.

"Regichikas's sealing frequency has become disordered."

He pulled up the real-time monitoring image of the Snow Peak Temple, where the projections of the three ancient stone pillars were distorted and deformed. "It wasn't caused by external force..."

The scene suddenly shifts to an overhead view of the temple's interior. Regigigas's massive body remains imprisoned, but the rune-covered chains tremble spontaneously at an eerie rhythm, as if responding to some unknown call.

"The most difficult thing is..."

Kamishiro's voice was unusually tense, "The intruder did not trigger any intrusion alarms."

The security log he showed was completely blank, as if an invisible hand had erased all traces.

"Really? That's tricky."

Li Chen frowned and decided to go to the Sinnoh region to see what was going on.

.......

.......

Two days later, in Chefton City.

The cold wind was biting, and the snow crunched on the soles of my shoes.

As Li Chen stepped off the helicopter, he saw the shadow of the Battle Pyramid looming over him.

The colossal aircraft, as tall as a fifty-story building, hovered above the snowfield, its engines emitting heat that melted the surrounding snow into a misty haze.

The god stood at the entrance of the pyramid, the hem of his dark green adventure suit fluttering in the strong wind.

His crossed arms made his muscle lines faintly visible under the fabric, and his sharply defined jawline was extremely taut.

What's most unsettling are those eyes; the gray-blue pupils are like an ice lake frozen for a thousand years on a snowfield, and just making eye contact sends chills down your spine.

"You've come at the perfect time."

Upon seeing Li Chen, Shen Dai threw out a data chip as he turned around.

The moment Li Chen raised his hand to catch it, the chip automatically projected a 3D scan of the temple's interior.

The image shows Regigicas trembling erratically, with metal rings inscribed with ancient script colliding with each other.

The sound it emitted was not a metallic sound, but a muffled thud, similar to the heartbeat of a living being.

"Mr. Li Chen, please come with me."

Shindai led Li Chen through the metal corridor of the pyramid, the soles of his boots striking the steel plates with a dull thud.

He brought up the holographic monitoring screen, where Regigigas was bound by heavy ancient chains in the center of the temple, with golden energy runes flashing frequently on its body.

"The seals on the three sacred pillars are very stable."

The data stream that Shindai pointed to the side screen showed three energy curves representing Regice, Registeel, and Regirock, all as smooth as straight lines. "But this 'Regi-King'..."

The scene suddenly switches to a close-up of Regigigas.

Its pair of mechanical red eyes flashed rapidly, and the core in its chest was spinning at an abnormal rate.

The most bizarre thing is that the ancient weeds carved on its surface are now wriggling and reorganizing like living things, gradually piecing together an angry totem.

"Since last night, the energy readings have surged by 300%."

Kamishiro tapped the console to bring up the vibration log of the Snow Peak Temple, "but there are no external trigger records, it's like it suddenly went crazy on its own."

The airtight door at the end of the corridor slowly opened, and a biting chill rushed out.

Through the observation window, one could see inside the temple. Regigigas suddenly stopped struggling, and all eyes turned in their direction at the same time—even though theoretically it was impossible for it to see the people inside the observation room.

Li Chen stood in front of the observation window, stroking the Masterball at his waist.

"How ironic..."