God Eater Sequence: The Devourer

After locking up the thin young man, Qin Siyang lit a piece of damp wood at the warehouse entrance, letting the smoke linger for a long time to ensure no scent remained. Then, he rushed back at full speed.

It was already getting late; he had to return as soon as possible.

Once again, he arrived at the internet café.

When Wang Defa saw Qin Siyang, he internally groaned.

After telling the customers inside that he had something to take care of, he came outside again.

"Boss, what is it this time?"

"I need to use your warehouse computer."

Wang Defa sighed, "The key is in your hands. Use it whenever you want."

"No, the network is yours, and the warehouse is also yours. When I need to use it, I have to inform you first, just to avoid causing you any inconvenience."

Wang Defa forced a smile, "You're surprisingly polite."

Qin Siyang took two silver coins out of his pocket and placed them in Wang Defa's hand, "Returning your money, plus interest."

One coin was Qin Siyang's own, and the other was looted from the thin young man's backpack.

By handing over these two silver coins, he considered his previous promise fulfilled.

Wang Defa stared at the coins in disbelief, momentarily unsure of how to respond.

Qin Siyang patted him on the shoulder before heading toward the warehouse.

Only after watching Qin Siyang's figure disappear through the warehouse door did Wang Defa snap out of his daze.

He bit the silver coins with his teeth and confirmed they were real—Qin Siyang hadn't deceived him.

His entire worldview was turned upside down.

Never before had a sequence ability user—never—been so trustworthy with someone like him, an ordinary person.

He had been running the internet café and acting as a white glove for officials for years, yet he had only earned a few silver coins in total. Some of those even had to be used as bribes for various inspectors visiting the café.

Calculating what he had left in hand, he realized it might not even be as much as what Qin Siyang had just given him.

He had truly misjudged Qin Siyang before.

But who could have expected that Qin Siyang wasn't joking with him?

Wang Defa clenched the silver coins tightly, as if waking from a long dream, his face full of confusion.

"This is… like meeting a living god."

Qin Siyang reopened the [Aisiko Virtual Chatroom], typed "I'm a newcomer," and then repeatedly entered and exited a few times, waiting for someone to contact him.

That day's chatroom advertisement was for virtual gambling. The slogan read, [Take a gamble—who knows? Tomorrow might bring you luck!]

'This slogan… is oddly fitting'

Qin Siyang chuckled. He had no intention of engaging in online gambling, but he did feel that he had been quite lucky that day.

The random alias assigned to him in the chatroom was [Counterattack], which made him feel as if everything was predestined.

After a while, a chat window on the right side of the chatroom flashed.

Qin Siyang clicked on it—it was someone with the alias [Corner].

[Corner]: ["Did you already place the money?"]

[Counterattack]: ["Yeah."]

[Corner]: ["Good. You can send me your personal information now."]

[Counterattack]: ["But I think you might not be able to retrieve that silver coin."]

[Corner] replied with a smiling emoji.

[Corner]: ["You think there are too many people coming and going, so I won't be able to lift the floor tile and take it? Don't worry about that—I'll find a way."]

["No. What I mean is, the person who goes to withdraw the money for you might not make it back."]

The chat window remained still for a long while.

After a long time, [Corner] finally sent another message.

["What do you mean?"]

Qin Siyang thought for a moment, then smiled as he typed a line.

["He said his uncle is around, so I wouldn't dare to kill him. So, let's meet somewhere and talk about whether he lives or dies."]

["I'm very curious—about such a 'clever' nephew. Will you actually protect him?"]

This time, [Corner] went completely silent, as if his system had crashed. He didn't reply for half an hour.

Qin Siyang saw that [Corner]'s name was still blue, not gray, which meant he was still online. He was probably just taking time to digest what [Counterattack] had just told him.

Qin Siyang rested his arms behind his head, watching the screen leisurely.

'I wonder what Section Chief Qian is doing now?'

'Is he staring coldly at the screen, or smashing things in his room?'

After more than ten minutes, [Corner] finally sent another message:

["Tomorrow at 9 AM, meet at the abandoned building next to Safe Zone No. 38324's exit."]

["You seem to have misunderstood something. The time and place of the meeting should be decided by me."]

[Corner] immediately responded, ["What are you thinking? You're the one asking for my help, and you still want to be picky? If you hadn't come looking for me, I wouldn't have even spoken a word to you. I say where we meet, so that's where we meet. And remember to bring my nephew. Also, the silver coin you asked me to help with must be there too."]

Qin Siyang chuckled.

["What a good uncle. But typing more words doesn't mean you're in the right."]

["At the very least—do you even know who I am?"]

Perhaps because his bluff had been ruthlessly exposed by Qin Siyang, [Corner] quickly sent another reply, ["You decide the time and place. But you must bring my nephew and the silver coin."]

["Tomorrow at noon, meet on the second floor of the collapsed department store near Safe Zone No. 54320's exit."]

["Fine. Just make sure to bring my nephew and the silver coin."]

Seeing [Corner] emphasize this twice, Qin Siyang kindly responded, ["Sorry, I won't be bringing either of them."]

["What the hell do you want? If I don't see my nephew and the silver coin, I won't help you."]

["Uncle, you should know—who holds the real power here."]

["You're completely unreasonable!"]

["Unreasonable? To prevent your information from leaking, and to avoid the Aisiko chatroom's backend staff from monitoring our conversation, I didn't even say your name. And you still think I'm being unreasonable?"]

In the chatroom, Qin Siyang had deliberately avoided using the title "Section Chief Qian," fearing that their conversation might be monitored.

Based on what Qian Wenzhao had said during their last conversation, even the virtual network could be monitored.

Even though Aisiko Virtual Chatroom claimed everything was confidential, it couldn't be fully trusted.

An offline transaction—just the two of them, each holding leverage over the other—was the only surefire way to guarantee security.

That's why Qian Wenzhao had only told Qin Siyang to place the silver coin at a specific location without specifying what the transaction was. He even suggested that it was best to conduct the exchange offline.

This time, Qian Wenzhao had once again only provided the time and place, without mentioning the details of the deal. This way, even if someone was monitoring them, they wouldn't know what they were discussing.

Aisiko Chatroom had tens of thousands of visitors every day. In comparison, transactions involving a large number of people and significant sums of money were far more likely to attract the attention of monitors.

Deals like the one between Qin Siyang and Qian Wenzhao—vague and ambiguous—were too numerous to count. No one would pay attention to them.

Cautious as ever, Qin Siyang had learned his lesson from his encounter with Liu Dazhi. From now on, he would leave no room for error.

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