When system cheat becomes rampant!

Xiang Beifei released the One-Armed Crab's heart, which beat rapidly, pulling away from the claws of the breath soil. He put the lid back on the incubator and took a closer look, noticing a data collector on it, with data continuously connecting to the computer on the desk.

The computer was unlocked, displaying the monitoring changes for the incubator data. The heart of the One-Armed Crab showed some special fluctuations, including changes in heart rate, temperature differences, concentration of Spiritual Power in the culture fluid, and so on, all forming a curve.

Xiang Beifei examined these data, which were complex, but since he had learned the specific measurements in his desolate beast dissection class, he could understand them.

It recorded every single change in the One-Armed Crab, starting from a week ago. According to the data, the heart of the One-Armed Crab wasn't as active at first; all its indicators were low.

Of course, "low" was relative to the current level; in reality, it had exceeded the vitality of a normal One-Armed Crab's heart right from the beginning.

There was one curve labeled "carrying capacity," it constantly hovered above the passing line, climbing upwards without stopping.

Xiang Beifei frowned, noted down these data, then minimized the monitoring interface to start looking at other files on the computer.

There were a lot of spreadsheet documents on the computer desktop, mostly summaries of various desolate beasts' information, including how many new goods were received, from which batch of beast hunters they were obtained, and clear reports on alliance quarantine.

The goods list seemed very normal and had nothing special; Xiang Beifei wasn't surprised by this, as the wholesale market was the place to sell desolate beasts, so the data naturally included these details.

After closing these documents, he quickly noticed a chat software beneath them, probably belonging to Feng Kang, with messages currently popping up on the software.

Xiang Beifei opened Feng Kang's chat software. The messages to Feng Kang were from a group, marked "Desolate Beast Distribution Channel," a group regarding goods distribution, with recent contacts also having records related to the transportation of desolate beasts.

He continued scrolling down and saw a contact saved as "Wufu Lin Long Manager."

Upon seeing the name "Lin Long," Xiang Beifei froze for a moment.

He had heard this name before! When investigating Xiao Sheng's system logs, he had inadvertently seen the name [Lin Long], and now here it was again.

Does this mean Xiao Sheng also came from Wufu Desolate Beast Research Company?

Xiang Beifei scrolled up through the chat interface, looking at the historical records.

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January 26th 10:36

Lin Long: Any progress?

Feng Kang: Yesterday, we found a One-Armed Crab with a relatively strong life force, and we have intercepted its heart, which is currently being cultured

Lin Long: Good, let me know once it's certain

Feng Kang: Okay

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February 1st 11:03

Feng Kang: The heart of that One-Armed Crab meets the requirements and has been successfully activated by CP231!

Lin Long: Can it move?

Feng Kang: Yes, it can move freely now

Lin Long: Observe it for a while longer. If it has independent breathing capability, then send it over

Feng Kang: Roger that

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February 3rd 8:38

Feng Kang: Confirmed, the heart of the One-Armed Crab now fully possesses the ability to breathe!

Lin Long: Upload the testing data to me

Feng Kang: (You have sent a file in real-time to the other party)

Lin Long: I'll report this up, wait for my message

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The information up to today showed that from a week to today, the chat records between the two were very simple, almost every day Lin Long would inquire about the progress of the One-Armed Crab's heart, and Feng Kang would also give simple updates.

However, they made no mention of why they were using the One-Armed Crab's heart; Lin Long didn't say, and Feng Kang didn't ask—they seemed to have an unspoken understanding.

Xiang Beifei scrolled further up the historical records and found that the conversations had been almost the same monotonous discussions for a month. After Feng Kang grew a heart from the One-Armed Crab that met the requirements, he directly handed it over, then found another heart and continued to report, cultivate, and hand over.

Just as he was pondering this odd pattern, the chat interface suddenly moved. Lin Long had sent a message!

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Lin Long: Just received instructions from above to cancel the research on the One-Armed Crab's heart. Destroy the heart of the One-Armed Crab as soon as possible, all the research must be destroyed, leaving no trace!

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Xiang Beifei stared at the line of text, quite astonished.

The message had just been sent in real time.

That meant the Wufu Desolate Beast Research Company had just made this decision.

But why?

Xiang Beifei really wanted to take the keyboard and ask why they had to destroy it.

But he held back.

Looking up at the door's window, which was one-way visibility, one could see outside from the inside but not the other way around. Through the window, he could see Feng Kang explaining the desolate beast inventory to Xiang Qingde.

The chat software synchronizes information between the computer and the mobile phone, but if the computer is in use, the mobile phone will not alert the user. In other words, Feng Kang doesn't yet know there's a message here.

About two minutes later, Lin Long sent another message: Did you hear that?

After a while, Feng Kang's mobile phone started to vibrate. Lin Long hadn't received a prompt reply from Feng Kang, which probably meant that a phone call was about to be made.

"Xiaohei, go eavesdrop!" Xiang Beifei ordered.

"Woof!"

Xiaohei shot out like a smoke, running toward Feng Kang.

"I'm sorry, I have to take a call, Mr. Xiang you go ahead with your work!" Feng Kang politely excused himself to Xiang Qingde, walked aside, and picked up the phone.

What he didn't see was that as he took the call, a little white dog also pressed up against his phone, its ears perked up, listening intently to the conversation.

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Feng Kang: Destroy it? Why suddenly destroy it?

Lin Long: The Alliance has dispatched people to investigate this matter, so the higher-ups have just decided to proceed with destruction. You carry out the orders. Also, I've heard that Xiang Beifei is accompanying his grandfather to the wholesale market. This person is very odd, so just in case, you need to act quickly and not let him notice anything!

Feng Kang: Alright, understood. By the way, Xiang Qingde is here with me. Kong's Mansion is reopening for a banquet, and they want to purchase related ingredients, but I haven't seen Xiang Beifei.

Lin Long: Find out where Xiang Beifei is! Also, send me a copy of the shopping list Xiang Qingde has gathered. We'll discuss the rest later; you go and destroy the heart as quickly as possible.

Feng Kang: Understood.

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Xiaohei returned, dancing and pantomiming with its distinctive doggy language to reproduce the content of the phone call for Xiang Beifei.

Xiang Beifei pondered the current situation.

It seemed that the situation had become quite clear!

Based on the conversation between Feng Kang and Lin Long, the One-Armed Crab that had rampaged through the street that day was indeed connected to the Wufu Company!

The Alliance had started an investigation, probably because Mu Yiqing took the desolate beast Beast Pills she obtained from here to the Alliance's professional departments for appraisal.

But the Wufu Company had caught wind of it!

Xiang Beifei's thoughts raced.

Being famous was not an easy thing; nearly every move was being watched. He had just shown his face, and the news of where he appeared had spread to all the relevant people.

Lin Long wasn't even here, yet he had managed to transmit the information so swiftly.

The reason Mu Yiqing wanted Xiang Beifei to become famous was exactly this, to restrict his freedom of movement and to better monitor him. Presumably, there were also Alliance members secretly moving closer, looking for Xiang Beifei's whereabouts.

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Feng Kang quickly tucked away his phone, then asked with a smile, "Mr. Xiang, I just heard from people outside that your grandson, Xiang Beifei, has also arrived here? Why don't I see him?"

Xiang Qingde realized he hadn't seen Xiang Beifei either, but Xiang Beifei had mentioned just now that he possessed the ability to change his identity and was probably in disguise at the moment.

Without giving it much thought, he replied, "My grandson just said that there are too many people here and too many who recognize him. It's inconvenient for him to move around, so he went home."

"He went home?"

Feng Kang appeared to breathe a sigh of relief, it was better if he hadn't come here.

"Yes, you know, being famous is exhausting. Many people chase after him for autographs. He said he might not be able to go out anymore."

Although Xiang Qingde didn't know where his grandson had gone off to cause trouble, he always instinctively covered for him to avoid attracting a swarm of paparazzi later.

"That's too bad, I was hoping I could have the honor of meeting your grandson! Now with the whole nation supporting him, everyone is envious that you've raised such a fine grandson!" Feng Kang said with a laugh.

Xiang Qingde also responded with a chuckle, not saying much.

After a moment, Feng Kang added, "Mr. Xiang, I apologize, but I'll have to excuse myself for a bit, as there's some urgent business. I'll let Xiao Wang assist you. He's familiar with the procedures here. I'll be back later."

"Sure, no problem."

Xiang Qingde didn't know what he was off to do, nor did he dwell on it.

Feng Kang hurriedly walked away.

"Woof!"

Xiaohei barked a warning, waving its little fists, looking inquiringly at Xiang Beifei, asking if he wanted to go beat him up first.

"No need to beat him. Just make some noise to distract his attention," said Xiang Beifei.

With a "whoosh" sound, Xiaohei dashed over to a cage that held a blind mudfish and noticed a piece of wood used for the cage propped against the wall. Deciding to act, it pushed over the wood plank!

Bang!

As the wood plank fell, it crashed onto the metal cage, making a loud noise. All the still-living desolate beasts in the warehouse were startled awake and began to make various cries, startling many customers who turned to look at the source of the noise.

Feng Kang's attention was drawn to the commotion, his brow furrowed as he quickly turned around and headed over to deal with the situation.

"It should be able to hold him off for a few minutes. We need to move quickly now."

Xiang Beifei turned his head to look at the corner of the cultivation tank, where the One-Armed Crab's heart was curled up and breathing. The heart of the One-Armed Crab was almost alive as an independent entity, and the cultivation liquid, whatever it was, had managed to nurture such an oddly living state in a desolate beast heart.

"We must start our investigation from this thing," he thought.

Thinking of the previous desolate beast attack incident, Xiang Beifei knew he had to figure out why they were conducting such strange cultivation experiments.