How long have you been maintaining this posture in the surveillance footage?

Is it one minute, two minutes, or five minutes?

There hasn't been any concrete changes for a long time.

[Furthermore, someone was monitoring the video details; the surveillance footage appeared to be playing on a loop, showing a one-minute recording that naturally transitioned back to the movements seen at the beginning of the video at the end.]

[This is... a hack?]

[Their conglomerate's network was hacked, and the original surveillance footage was replaced with this looping video?]

[Some people hurriedly began contacting individuals in garbage area number 162, including a few notorious garbage collectors who were surrounding the area.]

"Sorry, the number you dialed is currently busy."

[Are you kidding me?! With their privileges, they could forcibly shut down everyone's communications!]

For a moment, the board members stopped talking and fell into a somewhat deathly silence.

In fact, the "garbage kings" had started notifying them ten minutes earlier, but they still received no response.

Everything that happened at this meeting stemmed from your use of your superimposed, advanced understanding to hack into the network; everything is now under your control.

They still appear to be sitting in the world's highest and most omnipotent conference room (some are projected onto the screen), able to monitor everything happening in the world right under their noses.

[But in reality, you've locked them all in a small, dark room, cutting them off from all communication with the outside world. The images they receive are just illusions to mislead them.]

[Knock knock knock!]

The doorbell rang at the conference room door (though it sounded more like knocking, it was indeed a doorbell). A board member glanced towards the door, which was then opened.

Someone rushed in, panting heavily: "Council members, Chairman, something terrible has happened!"

One of the directors was a bit slow on the uptake, and coupled with the intimidating aura you projected after slaying all the divine fiends, he became somewhat enraged and took his anger out on someone else, angrily rebuking them: "Do you think the communication network is just for show?! Interfering with the foundation's general meeting without authorization, unless it's an unavoidable emergency, otherwise—"

"Your Excellency... the communications network is truly useless." The visitor said with a wry smile, "We've been trying to make calls to the meeting from the outside, but they've been repeatedly rejected. This is clearly abnormal."

The slow-witted director shook his head repeatedly: "What nonsense are you talking about? The network is perfectly fine, because we haven't received any call requests at all!"

"What Tesla?"

In an instant, countless eyes turned to that council member.

How come I never realized this guy was so stupid before?

[An old man's voice rang out. He was already in a bad mood because of you, and now seeing such an idiot on the current board of directors of the conglomerate, he was so angry that he laughed: "How did this kid get to this position?"]

Another old man scoffed and replied, "Xiao Yuan is still young; there are some things he hasn't figured out yet. He's my grandson; he'll grow up."

[A senior member offered a reasonable explanation, and thus the slow-witted director successfully retained his position.]

[The reasons have already been given: he's young, he hasn't figured it out yet, and he'll grow and mature in the future.]

Yun Shou: "You have absolutely no relation to so-and-so's grandson, right?"

Let's return to the topic of "being hacked online."

[It wasn't just the network within the conference area that was hacked, but also the network connections over thousands of kilometers surrounding Zone 162.]

Why was the internet hacked? What was the hacker trying to do?

Panic gripped everyone at the meeting.

They found themselves losing their second layer of control over you.

[The first level of control refers to your strength. Originally, they thought that a bounty of 50 million would be enough for the bounty hunters to capture and kill the three of you. Later, they gradually discovered that you had reached the Emperor level, surpassing the Emperor level...]

[Therefore, they lost control over your strength, which they believed could be manipulated by us.]

The second layer of control refers to your location and movements. Knowing your whereabouts allows them to easily arrange for a target to make contact, or to plant a "light trap" in your path, detonating it the instant you pass by, instantly destroying you.

But they don't know where you are now.

This undoubtedly instilled in them a deeper fear: you are completely out of their control!

Cold sweat trickled down their foreheads.

"Activate all currently functional networks and launch the second covert dark web!"

"We must know! We absolutely must know where he is! We must know where he's going!!!"

[First came surprise, then anger, then panic, and now, fear.]

The most terrifying thing about a tiger escaping from a zoo isn't that it's the power outage and internet disruption that happens at the same time, accompanied by a thick fog. Nobody knows where the tiger is now; it could appear anywhere...

A formidable enemy, at least at the Emperor level, resides on this abandoned mining planet, like the Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, its fall uncertain.

They didn't even know where to project the sunlight!

[If Yun Shou appeared next to them, would they be blown up along with him?]

Other cities might get bombed and that's it, but they're different. They're the masters of this planet; their lives are precious!

The previously slow-witted director was the first to panic, but a brilliant idea flashed into his mind, and he exclaimed with delight, "I have a way! I have a way to deal with him!"

Everyone's attention was drawn to his dramatic outburst: Could there possibly be a solution to this situation?

Well, it seems they underestimated this director after all.

[Thinking about it, how could someone in such a position be a complete idiot? His earlier slowness was probably just a temporary lapse in judgment.]

"Wait a minute! Let's turn off the network first!" someone reminded.

[Because the internet was hacked, not all physical equipment was smashed!]

They can't use the internet, but hackers can.

They've already exposed an unknown amount of information; it could be known even in broad daylight. We can no longer allow hackers to eavesdrop.