Chapter 119

"What is this?" Xiao Huasheng asked, looking at the small cube in his hand.

"A communicator, so we can contact each other anytime, and Klaus can also use it," Iris said with a smile.

"Why is it this shape...?"

"The key is to make it so that no one can tell it's a communicator. Klaus will teach you how to use it later."

Abel remained silent, simply staring at the large crater that had been created.

He was already suspecting that Xiao Huasheng had gone easy on him back then.

Klaus also walked over and said, "Take it, it'll be easier for us to contact you that way."

"Since there's nothing else, I'll head back now." Iris waved to Xiao Huasheng like a girl next door, her blonde hair shining even brighter in the sunlight. "I need to take some more photos; there's a big lake that's really interested in me lately."

"Bye-bye." Xiao Huasheng waved to her, watching her leave in a helicopter.

Meanwhile, Abel, standing to the side, nodded slightly to Xiao Huasheng, which could be considered a farewell.

Abel still held the strong in high regard.

He especially admired a powerful fighter like Xiao Huasheng.

When Xiao Huasheng is present, even if Abel is the captain, he will voluntarily give the initiative to Xiao Huasheng, the vice-captain.

Today, the Angel influences all sorts of people, changing the destinies of countless individuals.

I don't know if it's good or bad.

Afterwards, Xiao Huasheng fiddled with the communicator in his hand for a while and asked some questions.

"Speaking of which, isn't she one of our temporary workers?"

Do you want to bring her back to the company?

"I was just wondering if I could get her some EGO Gear," Xiao Huasheng said, watching the helicopter drive away.

Klaus walked over from the side and said something to her.

"Angel, the Foundation's O5 Council wants to contact you... Enter your containment space; this communicator will only work within it."

Xiao Huasheng was slightly surprised upon hearing this.

Why would the O5 Council find her in this way?

This was the first time Xiao Huasheng had formally spoken with this group of people; usually, they seemed to vanish into thin air, impossible to find.

"Can I refuse?" Xiao Huasheng asked.

Just like dealing with Yellow Skin, Xiao Huasheng had absolutely no desire to deal with the O5 Council.

She knew she was stupid and not very bright.

If you try to play along with these shrewd people, you'll definitely get completely fooled.

At least, she still has the right not to be deceived, doesn't she?

"Of course, that's naturally your wish," Klaus said unexpectedly. "They asked me to pass on a message to you."

"What did you say?" Xiao Huasheng asked, puzzled.

"If you feel in danger, perhaps beneath that danger lies a glimmer of hope for survival."

After saying this, Klaus handed Xiao Huasheng a piece of paper covered in scribbles and then hurriedly left.

"What does this mean?" Xiao Huasheng looked at the paper in his hand, feeling completely bewildered.

After a brief moment of hesitation, Angela contacted Xiao Huasheng.

[Manager, I think it's necessary to hear what they have to say.]

"Why?"

Angela provided an explanation.

[I've reverse-engineered this coded message. Come to Lobotomy Corporation.]

"Huh?" Xiao Huasheng looked completely bewildered, holding the paper at a loss.

This is just a piece of paper with scribbles on it, where would a password come from?

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If you can't understand it, that's Xiao Huasheng's problem.

She followed Angela's request and joined Lobotomy Corporation.

As always, the monitoring room is decorated in a festive style.

Thinking it over, he looked around but didn't find Angela.

But as soon as she turned her head, she found Angela making faces at her from behind.

"Whoa!" Xiao Huasheng was startled by her. "Angela, what are you doing?"

After recovering, the red-haired Angel spoke with lingering fear.

"Looks like there's no problem."

"What's wrong?"

Angela withdrew her tongue-out face, rubbed her cheeks, and said, "Manager, I was just testing whether you're a real person."

Xiao Huasheng was slightly puzzled after hearing this.

"Real person? What does that mean?"

"Human-machine testing," Angela murmured.

This left Xiao Huasheng with even more questions, completely baffled as to what Angela was saying.

Angela simply wanted to tease Xiao Huasheng, so she made up a reason.

He made a funny face at her to scare Xiao Huasheng.

Angela is also very mischievous.

Fortunately, she is very reliable when it comes to serious matters.

"Alright, the decryption is complete, the video will be available soon."

As soon as he finished speaking...

Xiao Huasheng then noticed that Angela had casually twisted the small black cube that Klaus had given her for a while before handing it to Xiao Huasheng.

What is this?

"The Foundation has set a password on this small square; communication is only possible by twisting it in a specific order."

"Oh..."

Xiao Huasheng didn't quite understand Angela's meaning, but she knew that Angela had finished the task for her.

Then, with a thought, Angela caused the monitoring room behind her to disappear.

Instead, a pure white space appeared, containing only Xiao Huasheng, Angela, and a green ring floating in the space.

"Where is this?" Xiao Huasheng sensed the Reality Warping and asked curiously.

"This was originally the space used to store that ring. High-energy items would consume a lot of energy if placed in Lobotomy Corporation, so I put the ring here."

Angela placed her hands on her hips, closed her eyes slightly, and once again adopted the demeanor of an icy beauty to enter business mode.

"If it's just to store a ring, this space doesn't need to be this big, does it?"

Xiao Huasheng, who once relied on the Reality-Warping Ability, looked around at the space and began to speak.

"It's just to change the seating arrangement for our guests," Angela replied slowly.

The Foundation has always wanted to find out what the Lobotomy Corporation inside their bodies really is. If it is a monitoring room, it is possible that the Foundation has the means to know the structure of those things.

You should know that very important data is displayed on the walls of the monitoring room.

Therefore, the central monitoring room is only used to receive employees and allow them to take a quick look around. Most of the time, only Xiao Huasheng and Angela are in the monitoring room.

The monitoring room is also absolutely secure, not connected to any other locations within Lobotomy Corporation, and is worlds apart from the Foundation's central monitoring room.

"To prevent leaks..." Xiao Huasheng understood Angela's meaning and sighed at her caution, "As expected of Angela."

"Uh-huh."

Hearing Xiao Huasheng praise her, even the corners of her usually icy lips couldn't help but curl up.

"Manager, we're all part of the same team. If you're praising me, it doesn't really mean anything."

"Praising yourself can boost your confidence, right?"

Xiao Huasheng said cheerfully, completely forgetting the scene where Angela made a face to scare her earlier.

Suddenly, Angela returned to normal. She took a few steps to Xiao Huasheng's side and whispered.

"The guests have arrived."

"Um."

Xiao Huasheng also looked ahead, and a beam of light emanated from the small black cube in her hand, followed by a projection that appeared in front of the two of them.

Light intertwined in the pure white space, gradually outlining two blurry human figures.

The figure on the left is slightly hunched over, and his right hand seems to be supporting some kind of long-handled object.

The figure on the right is as straight as a javelin, with sharply defined shoulder contours.

Tiny particles of light drifted around them, like dust particles attracted by static electricity.

As the projection gradually stabilized, one could vaguely see a figure on the left raising their arm and making a gesture similar to adjusting a bow tie, but this detail was fleeting, and the faces of the two remained shrouded in a hazy halo.

Xiao Huasheng unconsciously leaned forward, his red hair slipping from his shoulders as he gazed at their faces.

But you can't see anything.

Soon, two illusory figures materialized and looked at Angela and Xiao Huasheng.

"Hello, Entity-173 -1," the first illusory figure said stiffly.

"Ahem, she should have a name, right? Put down this number." Another, more amiable voice spoke up.

Hearing this, the slightly younger-looking figure reluctantly greeted him again, "Tsk... Xiao Huasheng, hello."

Xiao Huasheng keenly noticed some subtle techniques hidden in their greetings.

These two started acting out a charade as soon as they arrived, one playing the good cop and the other the bad cop?

That would make it easier to reach an agreement, but it's a bit of an underestimation of people.

However, she didn't say anything, only nodded slightly and said, "Hello, O5 Council, right? Are you speaking to me in person?"

"Before we go on, we'd like to ask who this person next to you is?"

They made their demands, looking at Angela as they spoke.

Xiao Huasheng rarely lets Angela out of the Foundation World; in fact, Xiao Huasheng deliberately protects Angela and only lets her out when absolutely necessary.

This is also why the Foundation World knows so little about Angela.

Xiao Huasheng simply replied, "She is my friend and has the right to listen in here. If you cannot accept this, you are free to not start these conversations."

The red-haired Angel didn't smile; she responded directly with a firm attitude.

This can be seen as a response to the O5 Council's impolite behavior of coming to her home turf to perform a double act right from the start.

Angela kept her eyes closed and did not respond.

Upon hearing this, both O5s visibly paused for a moment.

"It seems she's even more formidable than we predicted, isn't she?"

"Well..."

If an intelligent entity can make a preliminary judgment about their conversational tactics, it proves that the other party is not easily fooled.

Characters like the Queen of Hatred are prone to falling into this kind of double-dealing trap, easily lured by the Foundation to eliminate things that aren't inherently evil, and then convinced that those things are evil.

Even if Grandpa 682 is able to communicate sometimes, he will never fall into this kind of conversational trap; he will end the conversation directly with violence.

Therefore, after a brief period of probing...

The O5 Council went straight to the point with Xiao Huasheng.