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Wooden villa.

Mu Ke took a deep breath and looked at his father who had just hung up the phone: "Dad, did the professional hacker you hired find the location of these people? Who are they?"

"No." Mu's father also frowned, as if thinking deeply, "The other party is very protective, and there is no way to locate the specific address."

Mu Ke's eyes moved left and right, which was his movement when he was thinking quickly. Soon he raised his head again: "If it's not the address of the other party's base, but the information of a specific person, can we find it?"

Mu's father asked a few questions in English on the phone, then turned to look at Mu Ke: "Of course you can, but you need specific information, such as phone number, name or photo, but we don't know these. When we first arrived, they also turned on the jammer, so we couldn't take pictures at all. The surveillance was also out of order, and we were wearing very strict masks..."

"I can draw them." Mu Ke interrupted his father and looked at him with surprisingly bright eyes. "The 3D facial bone structure should be able to scan out their specific identities. I can restore this."

Mu's father was silent for a moment: "In the past few minutes, have you memorized the facial features and bone structures of all the people?"

Mu Ke said: "Yes, Dad."

Mu's father whispered a few words into the phone and looked at Mu Ke: "Okay, do you have any information that needs special attention?"

"Among these people, are there any who are in urgent need of money, or have bad habits, such as drinking or gambling, or are about to get married, or have just had a baby, or have elderly people in their family who are not in good health?"

Mu Ke spoke quickly, "Anyone who can predict that he will have a large expenditure soon will do. I need someone who can be easily moved by money or external things and can give me information."

Mu's father made another understanding gesture to Mu Ke, then explained something into the phone and hung up.

He turned around and looked at Mu Ke, who was breathing heavily and whose chest was rising and falling, with a complicated look: "This Bai Liu, in addition to saving you, has done a lot of other things, Xiao Ke, do you really have to have anything to do with him?"

"It's not that I have to have anything to do with him." Mu Ke slowly opened his eyelids, his voice carrying the sound of rapid breathing, which made him look weak. "Dad, he makes me feel that I am still alive. If he dies, my soul will die with him. He is very, very important to me."

Father Mu was silent for a while, then patted Mu Ke on the shoulder and said, "I will help you. You need cash, right? I'll let you get it now. How much do you want?"

"It depends on how much money these people who come to arrest me want to be moved." Mu Ke said calmly.

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Inside the King's Guild.

Wang Shun looked at his system in a daze as he received a red notification.

[System prompt: A player with high authority in the King's Guild has sent you an anonymous invitation notification, sincerely inviting you to meet him at the game login entrance]

[Meeting code: Long time no see, old friend]

The invitation letter from a high-level player was something that a middle-level guild member like Wang Shun could not refuse.

Wang Shun came to the game login entrance with a lot of doubts, but he didn't see any familiar high-level guild players nearby. The only one who looked familiar to him was Mu Sicheng.

Mu Sicheng also saw him, waved to him, and said hello with a fake smile: "Long time no see, old friend."

Wang Shun subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to say hello back, but then he suddenly realized something.

Wang Shun felt something pressing against his lower back, and he raised his hands before his brain realized that this was a game hall where players could not hurt each other.

A little girl's sweet, smiling voice came from behind him: "Don't worry, I can't hurt you here, but this is the game login entrance. I can force you into the game, and then it will be easy for me to do anything to you, Wang Shun."

Wang Shun's back was instantly wet with cold sweat. He recognized the voice, bowed his head respectfully, and put down his hands. "Little witch, the Queen of Hearts is looking for you. We can discuss anything you want to talk to me about. I will serve you unconditionally. After all, you are an important player in our team. But do you want to talk to the Queen of Hearts first?"

"The Queen doesn't seem to be in a good mood because of you."

It was obvious that Wang Shun's words were a subtle threat to Liu Jiayi with the red heart, but Liu Jiayi was not moved at all. He just sneered and pressed Wang Shun's lower back, pushing him towards Mu Sicheng.

Mu Sicheng took the opportunity to put his arms around Wang Shun's neck, and it seemed that he and Wang Shun were very familiar with each other, but in fact he was secretly dragging him towards a corner.

Mu Sicheng dragged Wang Shun to a corner, pressed him against the wall, and slowly tightened his grip on Wang Shun's neck, saying in a cold tone, "We want to ask you a question. What is the specific information about [Withered Rose Hunter]? What is his name, where does he live, and what is his core desire for entering the game? You should be able to find out with your skills, right?"

"Cough cough." Although he knew he would not be killed, the feeling of his throat being strangled still made Wang Shun feel very uncomfortable.

The sense of oppression brought by Mu Sicheng was so strong that Wang Shun felt a sense of suffocation in his chest even though he would not be hurt. He grabbed Mu Sicheng's wrist and tried to pull it open, but he couldn't.

Wang Shun began to cough, and his voice became hoarse: "I can't tell you, this is an act of treason!"

"Treason or enter the game now and I'll kill you. Choose one." Mu Sicheng lifted Wang Shun up by the throat, his eyes cold and cruel. "I don't want to waste too much time on you. Do you want to tell me?"

Liu Jiayi put her hands behind her back and tilted her head, saying sweetly, "I haven't led you in a level 2 game yet, Wang Shun, do you want me to lead you this time?"

Where are you taking him? Hell?

Wang Shun looked into Mu Sicheng's eyes. The strong surge of emotions in them formed a black vortex. Wang Shun felt himself being sucked in and even felt a realistic dizziness - Mu Sicheng would really find an opportunity to kill him in the game.

"Hehe! Put me down first! Only after you put me down can I talk to you!" Under Wang Shun's strong pulling, Mu Sicheng finally withdrew his hands.

He put his hands loosely in the pockets of his sports jacket and glanced disdainfully at Wang Shun, who was squatting on the ground and coughing. "I can't touch you at all."

But I'm scared by you - Wang Shun could never say such embarrassing words.

Because of his "Know-It-All" detection skill, Wang Shun is more sensitive to other people's emotions than ordinary people. The strong malice of Liu Jiayi and Mu Sicheng just now made him shudder, and he chose to confess wisely.

"I don't know all the specific information about the person whose skill identity is [Withered Rose Hunter]." Wang Shun said as he calmed down.

Mu Sicheng glanced at him fiercely again. He took his hands out of his sports jacket and looked like he was going to attack again. Wang Shun swiftly stepped back two steps and continued to speak quickly: "But I also know some information that may be useful to you."

Mu Sicheng quickly asked: "What news?"

Wang Shun cautiously put his hands in front of his chest to prevent Mu Sicheng from grabbing him: "My personal skill is called [Know-It-All], which allows me to find out the basic information of the opponent, but this skill is not omnipotent, and I cannot find out all the information of the opponent at any time. This requires certain conditions."

Mu Sicheng began to get a little impatient: "What conditions? Get to the point!"

Wang Shun's eyes wandered: "To me, everyone is like a computer, and I am like a hacker. If I want to steal the information in this computer, I have to go through the other person's inner [firewall]."

"But everyone's [Firewall] security level is different, and when the other party's emotions and attention are at different stages, the strength of the [Firewall] is also different. For example, take you, the Shepherd, as an example. Before, I couldn't easily steal your inner information because your emotions and attention are very focused and stable. Your [Firewall] is stable and firm, and it is difficult for me to steal your information."

At this point, Liu Jiayi, who had been listening the whole time, narrowed her eyes, and suddenly turned around and yelled at Mu Sicheng: "Idiot! Calm yourself down! He's going to steal the information in your head!"

"Ha" Before Mu Sicheng could react, he was taken away by Wang Shun.

"But now your attention is flawed—" Wang Shun's eyes changed, and he quickly pulled out a notepad from the system panel, "I'm sorry, Mu Shen."

Notepad is like a computer terminal displaying code, and suddenly a lot of characters are output from it.

Wang Shun quickly scanned the pages and saw the information on the notebook before Mu Sicheng picked him up again. Mu Sicheng gritted his teeth and pushed Wang Shun against the wall: "Fuck you——"

Wang Shun exhaled, and quickly raised his hands in a gesture of surrender. He looked at Mu Sicheng intently:

"You want to save Bai Liu? He's been captured. If you want to do this, maybe we can negotiate the terms."

"Put him down." Liu Jiayi ordered expressionlessly, "We have lost the initiative."

Mu Sicheng gritted his teeth fiercely and finally let go of his hand.

Wang Shun fell to the ground. He brushed off the nonexistent dust on his body and stood up: "I can tell you what I know, but I need you to give me a promise after you rescue Bai Liu."

Liu Jiayi asked: "What guarantee?"

"If I am judged as a traitor by the King's Guild for leaking information to you, and I know too much, the Queen will definitely find ways to hunt me down." Wang Shun smiled bitterly, "At that time, if Bai Liu can accept and protect me, it would be great."

"...Is this the only guarantee you need?" Liu Jiayi frowned. "Are you willing to take the risk of betraying the organization to help us save Bai Liu? You know what betrayal means, right?"

“No one knows better than me.”

Wang Shun took a deep breath. "I helped the King's Guild screen many new players with potential. I used my skills to help the King's Guild grasp the desires of these new players and then trick them into joining the guild. I have seen too many new players who found out they were deceived and then defected."

"Most of these traitorous players have disappeared from this game." Wang Shun fell silent.

Liu Jiayi looked up at Wang Shun: "So, why did you help us?"

Wang Shun said: "Because Bai Liu is my favorite player among all the players I screened, and he is also the player whose [firewall] I have never been able to break through so far."

He said in a very complex but sincere tone: "I look forward to the day when he becomes a god."

"...So you are a fan of Bai Liu?" Mu Sicheng looked at Wang Shun with a strange expression.

Wang Shun shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and smiled: "You can understand it this way. I am his first loyal audience. I hope to see his TV stay on until the end, and even defeat the King's Guild."

"To achieve this goal, you must take good care to get him out of the hands of the Rose Hunter."