Agreement

Every human being has weaknesses.

Elder Song's gaze shifted slightly, passing through the crack of the wooden window that was about to close, and landed on the shadowy area inside the second-floor room.

There, a little girl dressed in coarse cloth was tightly clutching a broken porcelain bowl, her face pale, her body trembling slightly because of the confrontation outside the window.

That was his anchor.

Elder Song's lips curled into a confident smile as he calmly uttered a sentence:

"Chen Fan, you can smash Divine Child Number Four with one punch, but can you withstand Old Freak Chu's 'God's Chosen Phase Four'?"

The wooden window, which was about to close, suddenly stopped.

Elder Song stood with his hands behind his back, each word like a knife:

"The God's Chosen Phase Four involves grafting the neural centers of three Fourth Tier mutated giant beasts and implanting a high-frequency kinetic energy exoskeleton. Even a true Fourth Tier Esper would have to temporarily avoid its sharp edge."

"Doctor Chu is a complete fanatic. His body has been fitted with a military-grade matte black bio-engineered prosthetic body, and his brain has been cold-core modified. In his eyes, this dilapidated building in the Black Street is not even worth mentioning."

Elder Song's voice suddenly rose, piercing Chen Fan's mind:

"You're strong, strong like a monster. You might be able to fight your way out of heavy artillery barrages and biohazard hordes, but what about that little girl behind you who awakened the Purifying Origin Blood?"

"If a high-explosive incendiary bomb lands on the roof, or if a wisp of Fourth Tier neurotoxin seeps in through the vent, how can you guarantee she won't be harmed at all?"

Upon hearing these words, Chen Xi was inside the room, clenched her fists tightly, her knuckles turning white, and tears silently welled up in her eyes.

A long, deathly silence fell over the window on the second floor.

Chen Fan's hand, resting on the windowsill, tightened slightly by half an inch.

Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, the golden light of the previously dormant "Myriad Realms Red Dust Scripture" rippled. Within the pure Life Formation Core, the long thread of cause and effect sensed Chen Xi's helpless and panicked emotions and trembled violently.

Elder Song noticed this subtle change and felt much more at ease.

He pulled out a black and gold card with a cold, gleaming sheen from his pocket.

The front of the card is engraved with the Nine-Star scale Emblem of the Far East Chamber of Commerce, and the edge is filled with an anti-counterfeiting active magnetic fluid.

"Far East Black Gold Token, Inner City Privilege Ultimatum."

With a flick of his finger, Elder Song sent the black and gold card slicing through the air, carrying a gentle mist, and hovering steadily in front of the second-floor window, motionless.

"With this decree, you shall be the highest-ranking guest of the Far East Chamber of Commerce."

"As long as you nod, within fifteen minutes, the Chamber of Commerce's three groups of heavily armored assassins will be stationed in Black Street, deploying an energy deflection field within a 300-meter radius of the small building, and using railguns to lock onto the entire area 24/7."

"If you trust us, the Chamber of Commerce can even secretly send her to a top-secret safe house in the inner city's Core Zone. There are two Fourth Tier Esper stationed there. Even if Old Freak Chu were completely insane, he would never dare to cross that line."

Elder Song raised his head, and a shrewd smile reappeared in his eyes:

"Chen Fan, use that one favor you occasionally do to ensure your sister grows up safely in this chaotic world."

Are you going to do this deal or not?

At that moment, every breath on the entire street fell silent.

Huo Qing stared at the black gold token that even he himself was not qualified to possess, and was almost driven mad with jealousy.

Chixin's face turned ashen.

A full ten breaths passed.

At the second-floor window, Chen Fan finally slowly extended his right hand.

He didn't accept the card that represented supreme wealth and status; instead, he pointed his fingers like a knife and lightly slashed at the floating black gold token in mid-air.

Laugh!

A half-inch deep gray-white crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the seemingly indestructible High-Purity Alloy card.

The active magnetic fluid on the card was instantly evaporated by a destructive sense of death, and the tattered black gold token fell to the ground, hitting the windowsill with a thud.

Elder Song's pupils contracted sharply.

Tearing apart a high-density Alloy coating with bare hands? The penetrating power of that energy...

Chen Fan lowered his eyes, his gaze reflecting the tense atmosphere of the crowd below. His cold, hoarse voice poured down from above, devoid of any human emotion:

"I'll stay here and guard the area myself. You can go and clear out the scum around there."

"I'll take the card."

Chen Fan picked up the cracked black-gold token with his other hand, his thumb gently rubbing the rough metal edge. A chilling aura instantly enveloped Elder Song and Huo Qing below.

"Remember, if she loses even a single hair..."

"I didn't just dismantle Old Freak Chu's Mother Nest."

"And your Far East Chamber of Commerce's Heaven-Piercing Golden Tower."

Bang!

The solid wood window sash slammed shut, sealing it completely, shutting out all sights and probing attempts from the outside world.

The deathly silence outside the building lasted for the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea.

Huo Qing swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva. Only when the two wooden windows that Chen Fan had casually closed were completely still did he realize that his back was already soaked with cold sweat.

"Elder Song..."

Huo Qing lowered his voice, which became hoarse and trembling.

Elder Song stood there, his gaze fixed on the wooden window, his aged face twitching slightly.

He lowered his head, glanced at Chixin lying on the ground, his arm severed and screaming in agony, and his eyes instantly turned as cold as ice.

"Drag him away, cripple his hands, and throw him into the mine to fend for himself."

Elder Song's tone was flat and emotionless, as if he were dealing with a rotten rag, "That blind fool almost made me go blind along with him."

The two Viper Gang thugs shuddered, not daring to waste a second, and quickly dragged away Chixin, whose face was ashen.

"Elder Song, this kid is too arrogant. He even dared to destroy the Chamber of Commerce's Black Gold Token..." Huo Qing leaned forward and whispered with lingering fear.

What do you know?

Elder Song snorted coldly, tucking his hands into the sleeves of his woolen overcoat, a burning light surging in his cloudy eyes.

"His bare flesh tore through the stress coating of the Nine-Star Black Gold Token, meaning that his bone hardness and penetrating power of Hidden Force energy had reached the threshold of the Fourth Tier. Old Freak Chu spent twenty years tinkering underground, but he couldn't create a body that could reach this level of biological strength."

He raised his head, surveyed the surrounding chaotic ruins of the streets, and said in a deep voice, "Pass on my order: the first and second heavy guard squads of the outer city, seal off the street entrances within ten minutes. Bring over the Chamber of Commerce's trump card, the magnetic deflection shield vehicles. Designate a three-hundred-meter radius around the small building as a no-fly zone."

Huo Qing's heart pounded. "Move two entire squads of imperial guards? What about the inner city..."

"Do as I say!"

Elder Song Old Freak Chu left three invisible flea buoys on the eaves. Bring in the engineering corps, sweep every inch of the floor, even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, dig out all that electronic waste and crush it! Anyone who dares to disturb the person upstairs, I'll skin them alive!"

"Yes!"

In no time, the heavy rumble of the tracks tore through the deathly silence of the Black Street.

Two heavy armored vehicles painted with the Chamber of Commerce's Emblem roared to a halt at the alley entrance, and a dozen guards wearing heavy powered exoskeletons quickly took their positions.

High-frequency electromagnetic interference waves shot into the sky, and three miniature buoys lurking in the shadows on the rooftop burst into smoke one after another under the invisible electromagnetic pulse, turning into scrap metal.