Actually, if Aureolus truly wanted to manipulate the course of Project Ability User Evolution, there would have been no need for Fang Li to take action at all.
In Academy City, there was certainly no shortage of people capable of resolving this incident.
As Academy City's chairman and the mastermind behind every event, Aureolus could have made use of those people and had them complete the entire matter for him without ever realizing they were being used.
That way, Aureolus would not have needed to pay any so-called reward at all.
Yet even under such circumstances, Aureolus had still sent Fang Li into action.
"Put simply, you're trying to gather information on me, aren't you?"
To make use of someone, one needed to understand them to a certain extent.
That was intelligence.
As long as there was enough intelligence, manipulating someone was incredibly easy.
If they were kindhearted, then use hostages to control them.
If they were unscrupulous, then crush them with power.
But what kind of hostage could control a kindhearted person, and how much power was needed to crush an unscrupulous one, all required prior understanding.
Right now, Aureolus was using all sorts of methods to gather information on Fang Li.
"This is also the inevitable result of leaving all your thinking to machines, isn't it?"
If feeding information into a machine for calculation could eventually produce a result, then naturally, the more information there was, the more accurate that final result would be.
Once the fish had been hooked, whether it was released or cooked depended entirely on the fisherman, didn't it?
And to catch a fish, the necessary bait had to be cast.
The so-called reward Aureolus had agreed to give Fang Li was nothing more than bait he had thrown out.
It had to be