Longdu, Bureau 7 Headquarters.
"Hou Liangbing, you fucking traitor!"
Zhang Beihai was furious, raging uncontrollably, but he had no time to hold Hou Liangbing accountable.
Xu Sanjiang had given him only three hours!
Nearly half an hour had already passed!
"Someone get in here!"
Zhang Beihai's voice had become completely distorted, a desperate roar.
"Bureau Chief!"
Several trusted subordinates rushed in again. Seeing Zhang Beihai's bloodshot eyes and crazed expression, none of them dared make a sound.
"[Reverse Scale]! Get me the [Reverse Scale] squad right now!"
Zhang Beihai roared, "Use my highest clearance. Tell them-this isn't an order. It's a request!"
"I, Zhang Beihai, am begging them to act!"
"Especially [Man-Rat]! I'm asking her... to use every means at her disposal to find Elder Xu!"
"Tell her that if she finds him, I'll give her anything she wants!"
Meanwhile, inside an unremarkable apartment building somewhere in Longdu.
The room was pitch-black, illuminated only by the faint blue glow of dozens of screens, with endless streams of code cascading down like waterfalls.
A girl in bunny pajamas, her hair a tangled mess, tapped listlessly at a keyboard with a lollipop between her lips.
She was a core member of the [Reverse Scale] squad, code name [Man-Rat].
One of the world's top three hackers.
"Bzz, bzz..."
An oddly shaped phone on the desk suddenly vibrated.
[Man-Rat] glanced at it and saw [Brother Octopus] on the caller ID-the name she had saved for Zhang Beihai.
"Hello, Brother Octopus. Harassing a pretty girl this late at night? Careful, I might report you~"
She answered the phone with a lazy drawl.
On the other end, Zhang Beihai had no patience for her teasing.
"Comrade Man-Rat, I'm asking you to help me as a personal favor!"
"Help me find someone-the Founding Marshal, Xu Anbang!"