Boss, senior, investor, rival—and he even took Luo's spine.
The face that appeared above the tea table showed a trace of thoughtfulness. Several seconds passed before Yu Sheng's voice broke the silence. "That sounds pretty complicated."
"...It is complicated. This is a complicated place."
Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow. "But judging from the atmosphere at the scene and your attitude, I think those identities can be compressed into one label: your enemy. No problem with that, right?"
Luo raised an eyebrow as well. After a brief hesitation, she nodded. "Put that way, it does seem quite accurate."
"Then do we need to kill him?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.
"It won't be easy." Luo thought seriously for a moment, then gently shook her head. "The one who came running over today definitely isn't his real body. Although he built himself a ferocious appearance, Old Qiao is actually more afraid of death than anyone. As far as I know, he's been in desperate situations more than once. Once, someone even set a trap for him and blew up his shuttle, but he always managed to appear before outsiders the next day, perfectly intact, and retaliate with the most brutal methods... He's never admitted it outright, but I suspect he made a whole pile of robotic avatars for himself. The one showing his face outside is always just a shell."
Yu Sheng fell into serious thought.
"That might take a little time, then," he said pensively, his gaze falling back on Luo. "And from what I saw, the first thing you did after coming over was contact this Old Qiao... Your goal shouldn't simply be to kill him, right? Do you suspect that he's connected to those abnormal records from Black Stone Space Station?"
Luo's eyes shifted slightly, and her tone grew solemn.