And more importantly...

"Someone's going to have trouble sleeping."

Xu Shi knew very well that this failure was a blow not only to Shenhe and "Spark", but also to their partners.

Night City and Sin City may seem like rivals, but they actually have quite a few secret collusions.

In order to expand their power, the gangs in Sin City often seek to attach themselves to corporations, and the corporations are happy to employ them to do dirty work that they are not comfortable doing themselves.

"Spark" did not remain unscathed; Shenhe's choice was "Shark Tooth," a military industrial enterprise similar to "Snake Ring" among the six major conglomerates.

Shark Tooth was unwilling to remain second best forever, so it attempted to break through the technological blockade in this way.

As it happened, "Spark" had a similar intention, and the two sides hit it off and reached a deal - "Shark Tooth" would provide the money, "Spark" would provide the effort, and the profits would be split 50/50 after the deal was done.

In the original story, Shark Tooth gradually caught up with Snake Ring through this cooperation, and finally took advantage of the situation to successfully take over.

So this was actually killing two birds with one stone—it shattered the "Spark" plan while also causing "Shark Tooth" to lose a large amount of weapons and equipment.

This is enough to silence them for a while.

Whether their fragile alliance can be maintained is also a question...maybe they'll fight tooth and nail to the bone.

Trying to get something from a tiger and failing is inherently a dangerous thing.

Not to mention the other gangs in Sin City—they don't want to see "Spark" grow so rapidly and will definitely take this opportunity to cause trouble.

"Pass the word: hang these people's corpses in the most conspicuous place in Sin City, so they can see clearly what happens when they oppose the 'Serpent Ring'."

Thinking of this, he didn't mind adding fuel to the fire, "and also give the TV station a heads-up, make sure to create a big news story."

Watching other dogs fight is such a delightful thing.

"Yes... um?"

Su Lin responded, but then frowned. "Only 138 enemies were killed? I remember the drone scanned 140..."

"Shhh."

Xu Shi smiled and made a shushing gesture, "Just pretend you didn't notice."

Letting one or two people go wouldn't be a big deal for him, but someone has to tell Shenhe what exactly happened here.

For example, why did they fail, and who killed Chen Fang...?

He couldn't be completely at ease until he completely cut off Xia Wuyou's escape route.

Sigh, being a villain is so tiring.