The system crash of Xingwang Mall was quickly resolved.

Upon receiving the message, many netizens in the StarCraft community immediately rushed to Ling Luo's shop to see if she had restocked.

To everyone's disappointment, there was still no news from the store.

In fact, it's not just some pharmaceutical research institutes that want to know about Ling Luo.

Even ordinary netizens are very interested in Ling Luo's identity.

"Doesn't this shop owner have any relatives or friends? Why haven't any of his relatives or friends come forward to expose this?!"

"Yeah, with such a big shop and so many things going on, it's impossible for the owner to be handling everything alone, right? There should be staff members too, but so much time has passed and there's still no news. Are staff members really that reliable these days?"

"Yes, yes, yes, the more you talk about it, the stranger it gets. This is simply illogical!"

"That's right."

Just as everyone was finding it strange and starting to discuss it, someone came up and revealed some information.

"I'm not related to the shop owner, but a few days ago a very strange middle-aged man came to our shop to buy exotic beast meat. He spent over 100 million and bought all the exotic beast meat in our shop!"

"My manager and I were both stunned. Not to mention me, a newbie, even my manager, who has been in this business for over a hundred years, had never seen such a big spender."

"So I think, if I'm not mistaken, that customer who came to our shop was the shop owner! He probably started purifying the beast meat around that time!"

Upon seeing this message...

Other netizens were shocked.

"Really? If so, that person is very likely the owner of this shop!"

"He just spent over a hundred million in one go, he's so rich!"

Upon receiving this message, Elder Luo and his team immediately sent someone to check the surveillance footage from that night and privately messaged the person who sent the message, asking for more information about the person who bought the exotic beast meat from their store.

However, before they could figure it out, several other people made the same statement.

To convince everyone that they weren't making it up, they even shared their chat logs with friends that day.

Therefore, it is clear that what they said is true.

However, the people they were talking about were not the same person, because there were significant differences in their appearance and gender.

After the news spread.

Old Luo and his group then checked some of the store's surveillance video recordings from that day.

Netizens, however, felt that the whole thing was becoming increasingly surreal.

They couldn't understand why the shop owner could cover things up so well, without revealing a single word.

Just as Ling Luo was causing chaos throughout the entire interstellar community, Ye Xingxue had almost finished her work.

He got up, about to leave the room, when Ye Zeru suddenly contacted him, excitedly saying, "Brother, you know about the shop owner selling exotic beast meat online, right?!"

Night Snow: "Hmm, I know a little bit."

Ye Zeru: "..."

He knew that Ye Xingxue didn't pay much attention to things online.

But he didn't expect that he wouldn't have paid attention to something so important.

Ye Zeru immediately found him boring: "Brother, this guy seems too strange. The rumors circulating online are getting more and more outlandish. Aren't you curious about his identity at all? Aren't you worried that he might have ill intentions?!"

"I'm not worried." He asked casually, "Is there something wrong with her beast meat?"

"No, someone specifically took the beast meat to an appraisal agency for a comprehensive evaluation, and no problems were found."

"Then what is there to worry about?"

"but--"

Ye Xingxue interrupted him: "Perhaps she's just being discreet?"

"Uh... that's impossible, right? How could someone so capable keep a low profile? Even if he wanted to, his abilities wouldn't allow it!"

"Is this all you wanted to say?"

"Yeah," Ye Zeru sighed. "I was busy when this first broke out. By the time I found out, all the beast meat was already sold out. Brother, did you manage to buy any of that beast meat?"

"No."

If he wanted to, he should...

No need to buy.

Ye Zeru was somewhat disappointed: "Okay, I knew I shouldn't have had any expectations of someone like you who doesn't go online for half a month."

Ye Xingxue paused for a moment: "Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Zeru felt that things might be turning around and hurriedly asked, "Brother, do you have meat from a strange beast?!"

Ye Xingxue's identity is extraordinary; just because he doesn't buy it himself doesn't mean no one will give it to him!

Night Snow: "No."

Ye Zeru: "..."

So they were just playing him!

Ye Zeru gritted his teeth, shut down the personal terminal, and ended the call.

Night Snow didn't react either.

He left the study, glanced at Lingluo's door a few times, but did not go over to disturb her. Instead, he went back to his own room to rest.

——

Since the StarNet Mall system was fixed, netizens have been constantly refreshing Lingluo's shop page.

But the shop remained empty, and there was no news from them.

As they scrolled through web pages, watching people post test videos online, they were almost crying with envy.

As it gets late and so much time has passed, with still no word from the store, some netizens are starting to panic.

"Could this shop owner only have this batch of exotic beast meat left, and once it's sold out, there won't be any more?"

"That can't be right?!"

"That's unlikely. After all, since they've formulated the purifying agent, it's impossible that they only purified this little bit. I'm more inclined to think that the purification process is quite difficult, which is why they haven't replenished their stock in time."

"This doesn't make sense. Even if you can't restock in time, you could at least send a notification or something. It's not fair to leave us waiting endlessly without saying anything."

"They didn't seem to make us wait..."

"Okay, I'm willing to wait, alright?"

While netizens are patient enough to wait, Professor Luo and the rest of the research institute staff don't have the time.

While they were investigating Ling Luo's identity, they were also spending large sums of money to buy exotic beast meat from others to take back to their research institute for study.

Whether it was Elder Luo or the others, the more they studied the matter, the more complicated their expressions became.

There are no issues with the purification rate and loss rate.

But there's one very strange thing.

Even if there are no residues, the meat of a strange beast purified by the purifying agent will still leave traces.

But the meat of these strange beasts in their hands had no trace of anything.

It's as if the beasts themselves are so clean that they don't need to be purified.