63: An old player from S1? Shen Yanbing, at least S-rank!

"You... let go of me! Be serious!"

Shen Yufu was both embarrassed and angry by Su Mo's sudden attack.

She struggled symbolically a couple of times, but her strength was negligible in front of Su Mo... it made no difference.

Especially when she felt that large hand roaming freely on her leg, bringing waves of tingling sensations, her body involuntarily softened.

This scoundrel!

Just one day apart, and he's like a wolf that hasn't eaten for eight hundred years!

Didn't he see there were so many bodyguards outside, and a "cook" next to them?!

"Serious?"

Su Mo lowered his head and playfully bit her crystal-clear earlobe, then smirked, "If I were serious, would you still be sitting here right now?"

"You... shameless!"

Shen Yufu's face instantly turned crimson.

She recalled those absurd nights in the game; this man was never "serious" even once.

"Stop messing around."

Shen Yufu took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the strange feeling in her heart, pushed Su Mo's chest, and said with a serious expression,

"I came to see you today because I have something important to tell you."

"I know, isn't it just that Dragon Shield Bureau nonsense?" Su Mo said indifferently, his hands showing no intention of stopping their movements.

"You know too?" Shen Yufu was startled, "Did they come to you as well?"

"Yeah, they just left this morning." Su Mo nodded, "A tall, beautiful woman in black stockings named Lin Wan, and an ice-faced guy named Li Xuan. The conditions they offered were pretty good, but I rejected them."

"You rejected them too?" Shen Yufu's face showed an 'I knew it' expression,

"I just knew it."

With Su Mo's lawless personality, how could he possibly be willing to be controlled by others?

"They came to me yesterday too," Shen Yufu said,

"The conditions were similar to what you mentioned: money, resources, special privileges, and they even said they wanted to train me as a national strategic weapon."

"I didn't agree on the spot; I said I needed a few days to consider."

"What are you thinking?" Su Mo asked.

"Me?" Shen Yufu rolled her eyes at him, "Of course I'll listen to you. If you say no, then I won't join."

Her tone contained a hint of a young woman's dependence that even she hadn't noticed.

Unbeknownst to her, she had already grown accustomed to seeing Su Mo as her pillar of strength.

No matter what she encountered, the first thing she thought of was to ask for his opinion.

"Smart girl."

Su Mo: "With my God-level talent, do we still need those meager resources? As for special privileges, once we become strong enough, the whole world will have to follow our rules. Why would we need others to grant them?"

"Under the same beneficial conditions, mutual assistance is fine, but one must always be wary of others!"

Shen Yufu listened, her beautiful eyes shining with admiration.

This was the man she knew, the one who dared to challenge the Abyssal Demon Dragon single-handedly!

"However..." Su Mo's tone shifted, "that Dragon Shield Bureau isn't entirely useless. At the very least, their intelligence system is indeed formidable."

"They not only dug up my entire past, from childhood, but they even deduced that my talent is above S-rank."

"What?!" Shen Yufu's pretty face changed color upon hearing this, "Then did they..."

"Don't worry, they only suspect; they have no proof." Su Mo reassured her,

"Besides, even if they knew, so what? They wouldn't dare to touch me, and they wouldn't dare to touch you."

"At this stage, players with top-tier talents like us are national treasures. They're too busy trying to appease us; why would they be foolish enough to fall out with us?"

Hearing Su Mo's analysis, Shen Yufu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, speaking of the Dragon Shield Bureau, I have one more thing to tell you." Shen Yufu's expression suddenly became a little strange.

"What is it?"

"It's about my niece, Shen Yanbing."

"Shen Yanbing? My online girlfriend?"

"What do you mean 'your online girlfriend'! That's all in the past!"

Shen Yufu glared at him angrily, "You listen to me, don't ever bring that up again!"

"Alright, alright, if you don't want to talk about it, we won't." Su Mo smiled,

"So, what happened to my 'former' online girlfriend?"

"She..." Shen Yufu took a deep breath and revealed news that even shocked Su Mo.

"She's also a player! And, she's an old player from the ninth round of the game!"

"Not only that, but she's also one of the core members of the Dragon Shield Bureau, secretly cultivated as a key target for a full six months!"

"Holy cow!"

Even Su Mo couldn't help but curse when he heard this news.

Shen Yufu's niece, that pure, beautiful, and harmless-looking student girl in the photos, was actually an old player who participated in the game earlier than he did?

And a core member of the official organization, the "Dragon Shield Bureau"?

The amount of information was simply too much, wasn't it?

"This... is it real or fake?" Su Mo found it a bit hard to believe.

"Of course it's real!" Shen Yufu said, "When I returned to reality, she came to me immediately. She wasn't surprised at all that I had suddenly disappeared for five days and then reappeared; instead, she was very worried about my safety. I just probed a little, and she confessed everything."

"She said that in the three years since Gaia Game descended, there have been a total of eleven rounds. Each round, a group of people is forcibly selected from around the world to participate. And she was a player from the ninth round."

"Because of her outstanding performance, as soon as she returned to reality, people from the Dragon Shield Bureau came looking for her."

"So that's how it is."

Su Mo suddenly understood.

No wonder that guy named Li Xuan knew so much about Gaia Game.

It turned out that the officials had already made contact and recruited a group of old players to form the so-called "Dragon Shield Bureau."

They had been secretly studying Gaia Game and preparing for future crises.

"So, does that mean there are many hidden big shots in this world?" Su Mo's expression became serious.

"That's right." Shen Yufu nodded, "Yan said that there are many old players like her in the Dragon Shield Bureau. Among them, there are even 'living fossil' level existences who participated in the first round of the game!"

"It's just that those true big shots are very deeply hidden and rarely show themselves."

"Interesting."

"So, did your niece tell you what her talent is?" Su Mo asked curiously.

To be cultivated as a core member by the Dragon Shield Bureau, her talent level must be high.

"She didn't say." Shen Yufu shook her head, "But I guess it's at least S-rank."

"S-rank, huh?" Su Mo nodded thoughtfully.

An S-rank genius girl, and a core member of the Dragon Shield Bureau.