Char's test of Xiao Ran ended with him being suppressed instead. The calmness Char had displayed at the beginning was now completely gone. With Char's intellect and personality, even while under Xiao Ran's control, he could still remain sufficiently composed and unrestrained, treating Xiao Ran normally. Yet the shock and disbelief in his heart could not be erased.
At the same time, Char was curious why someone as powerful as Xiao Ran had sought him out for some transaction whose terms were still unknown. He wondered what Xiao Ran wanted to trade, why he had chosen Char as his trading partner, and whether this Mysterious Person had some other scheme in mind.
Char glanced at several switches on the instrument panel beneath the screen and said, "Other than the two of us, there's no one on my side who can hear anything we say."
"That's good." Xiao Ran smiled faintly. "Otherwise, things would have been troublesome. To protect the secret of my trading partner, I would have had to destroy that warship. I don't think that's something you wanted to see."
Char frowned after Xiao Ran finished speaking. Though this was an audio-only communication with no image, meaning he could not see what the other man looked like or what expression he wore, Xiao Ran was nothing more than a vague figure in Char's mind, one covered from head to toe in mystery.
Yet from Xiao Ran's tone, Char heard an attitude of complete indifference toward everything else, along with a hint of cynical nonchalance. Destroying a warship sounded as effortless to him as breathing. More importantly, however, was the word Xiao Ran had mentioned: secret.
But Char did not pursue that word. Instead, he brought up another topic. "You know my name and who I am, yet I know