Dual Worlds: I Have a Doomsday World

"Your part of the operation is crucial. Liu Xuan’s voting rights, the shares in United Pharmaceutical, and that Lin Qi—they all must be brought under control. Ideally, you can also find out Liu Li’s whereabouts."

"Only when the new Successor Bill from the Big Business Alliance takes effect can the old man gain control of the board of directors."

Liu Weiyi heard this and didn’t object.

His part of the operation was indeed important.

An unexpected complication had arisen, but fortunately, they had a backup plan.

Heavy demolition equipment was on its way. Liu Xingyuan and Liu Xinglu were also in Safe House No. 1, and hardware hijacking could keep that under wraps for a while.

’Force a breach and seize them directly!’

The Cyber World respected rules, but it also respected force!

Ending the call, Liu Weiyi ordered the riot response team, "Spread out and monitor the area. Don’t let anyone escape through a hidden passage!"

’Deception failed, so it’s time to get rough!’

...

Inside the villa’s safe room, Liu Xuan saw the riot response team’s movements.

They had dropped the pretense; it was clearly a standard surveillance formation.

Unfortunately, the enemy didn’t want Liu Xuan to keep watching. The next moment, the safe room’s terminal went offline.

With the hardware hijacked, no amount of technical skill would work.

A safe house might be secure, but if you were backstabbed by ’one of your own’—who could lock onto the network hardware’s location for a physical hijack—it could easily become an isolated island.

Cyber Network Company offered better equipment solutions, but they were prohibitively expensive; clients at the level of a typical large corporation clearly couldn’t afford them.

And so, the villa’s safe room was completely cut off from the network, becoming a true island.

Liu Xuan looked at the word "Offline" on the terminal display and sighed. "What a pity."

Hearing this, Lin Qi stopped meditating and opened his eyes, looking at Liu Xuan curiously.

Liu Xuan said, "I overlooked the possibility that Liu Siqi would make a move. I should have done what you did and used a cloud server to set up a trigger-based algorithm. That way, Father and Fourth Uncle could have countered this earlier."

The light in Liu Xuan’s left eye grew brighter. She felt a little embarrassed.

Lin Qi had clearly shown her the solution before, but she hadn’t been as farsighted as him.

Lin Qi sensed her mood and offered some comfort. "That was just a coincidence for me. It was all thanks to Fourth Uncle scaring me in the Floating Vehicle."

’What did he have to be proud of?’

’Foresight?’

’He didn’t have any foresight.’

’It was all just cheating with Guang Ling.’

In fact, even in this situation, Lin Qi could still send messages to the outside world through Guang Ling.

After all, with Guang Ling’s technology, things like "signals" were practically irrelevant.

No matter how secure the environment, nothing could stop a message delivery from a Highest-Level Mercenary Corps.

Liu Xuan nodded slightly, but the blue light flickering from her left prosthetic eye shone much brighter. The Suppressor’s efficiency was about to exceed fifty percent.

She hadn’t become emotional over Liu Siqi’s attack, yet this one strange thought was causing a huge emotional fluctuation.

Seeing this, Lin Qi continued to reassure her. "Don’t worry. Even if your father and Fourth Uncle can’t act in time, other reinforcements will naturally arrive by tonight."

Lin Qi hadn’t forgotten about Lin Xin.

When Lin Xin returned to Red Fruit City, she would most likely check on his and the old man’s location immediately.

As long as she discovered the situation at 8 Fortress Road, Lin Qi could break the stalemate without revealing any of his own power.

Upon hearing this, the blue light radiating from Liu Xuan’s left eye finally dimmed.

Though her emotions had stabilized, she was now a little curious.

’Reinforcements?’

’What kind of reinforcements?’

’Could it be...’

Liu Xuan’s thoughts immediately jumped to the Eastern Alliance.

If the Eastern Alliance was willing to intervene, Liu Siqi wouldn’t stand a chance.

Liu Xuan wanted to ask for more details, but seeing that Lin Qi had closed his eyes to rest again, she held her tongue. She simply sat before the terminal, staring at the word "Offline" as her mind went blank.

...

Outside 8 Fortress Road, a massive demolition platform had arrived.

The Liu Clan Demolisher 4-02: a product of the Liu Clan itself.

It was a product designed for large corporations to dismantle abandoned fortresses and safe houses. Used on an A-S Class safe house, it could carve an access channel in just over an hour.

Theoretically, an external enemy would never get the chance to deploy such a machine.

It was a niche product; without a custom order placed in advance, there would be no stock.

The appearance of this machine was proof enough: Liu Siqi’s operation had been planned long in advance!

"The villa blueprints have been uploaded. Confirm the safe room’s location and prepare to breach."

"Be careful during the operation. We’re not sure if Liu Xuan made any extra modifications. Intel says a pile of high-end gear was moved into this villa a couple of days ago—enough to blow this platform to smithereens ten times over."

Liu Weiyi issued the command.

All members of the riot response team were on standby for any unexpected developments.

Surrounding the demolition platform, they began to dismantle the structure piece by piece, starting with the villa’s outermost wall.

"Damn it! Even the outermost wall of this villa is reinforced with A-Class Alloy? Are they insane?"

"No shit. This is Liu Xuan’s villa. She’s Liu Xingyuan’s daughter!"

"Pick up the pace! Don’t delay the plan!"

The demolition platform pulverized the villa’s outer walls as it slowly pushed inward.

During this process, Lin Qi and Liu Xuan felt a faint tremor from within the safe room.

Lin Qi opened his eyes and looked at Liu Xuan, only to find her already looking at him.

"That sound... it couldn’t be heavy demolition machinery, could it?"

Lin Qi had, in fact, already "seen" it with his Spiritual Vision.

Even Lin Qi never would have expected such a machine to appear so brazenly within Red Fruit City.

Liu Xuan nodded, her expression grim. "The villa’s entire structure is being destroyed. If nothing changes, we have only one hour. The equipment they’re using can break through the safe room walls in just an hour."

As she spoke, the blue light from her left prosthetic eye intensified again, and the Suppressor’s power output looked ready to surge to ninety percent.

Liu Xuan felt humiliated.

’How many times has this happened?’

’Every one of the Liu Clan’s plans was supposed to be ’perfect,’ but something always went wrong.’

Liu Xuan felt this might be a problem with her own abilities. She was starting to doubt herself.

Lin Qi checked the time on his Intelligent Brain.

6:43 PM, March 28, 2089.

It could barely be considered evening.

’But he had no idea where Lin Xin was.’

With no network connection, Lin Qi couldn’t receive any messages, so he didn’t know if he could still count on Lin Xin to save them.

Just as Lin Qi was lost in thought, Liu Xuan seemed to make a decision.

She spoke up. "Lin Qi, they must be after me. If I leave the safe room, they’ll most likely stop the demolition."

Liu Xuan had to admit she had botched things today.

True, she’d had insufficient time to prepare, the situation had been too sudden, and it was an internal problem within the Liu Clan.

But none of those were excuses.

’She had to find a way to salvage this.’

Liu Xuan continued, "I have a general idea of Liu Siqi’s plan. He wants to use force to seize a portion of the company shares, then leverage the new Successor Bill—which the Liu Clan is spearheading talks for—to complete his power grab."

"Until his plan succeeds, there won’t be any bloodshed among core Liu Clan members..."

Lin Qi knew what Liu Xuan was about to say and what she was planning to do.

’But things were far from that desperate.’

"Liu Xuan, don’t rush," Lin Qi interrupted, looking her in the eyes. "As the one at the helm of a corporation, you should never rush. Besides, don’t we still have an hour?"

In one hour, if they were lucky, Lin Xin might make it back to Red Fruit City.

And Lin Xin wasn’t the only potential reinforcement they could count on. As the veteran head of a major corporation, Liu Xingyuan might also be able to quickly detect Liu Siqi’s scheme and launch a counterattack.

A lot could change in an hour.

And most importantly, Lin Qi wasn’t as weak as everyone thought.

’Relying on the power of a full-body A-Class Prosthetic Body, combined with some secret Wizard techniques...’

’Even if he had to act, Lin Qi wouldn’t necessarily be completely exposed.’