362: Chapter 362 I've never seen anything so outrageous.

Everyone's eyes were glued to the large screen.

The line "Can you come over?" sat in a lonely text bubble on the right side of the chat box.

Ten seconds... half a minute... one minute.

The other party's status repeatedly flickered with "typing...", but no new message ever popped up.

Professor Pan Yu stood with her arms crossed, her gaze sharp.

"She's hesitating. This simple question might have hit a blind spot in her logic."

"Maybe she simply can't come over, or she isn't a physical entity at all."

Director Li Guoan nodded and gave a deep-voiced command: "Little Chen, keep the pressure on."

Chen You didn't hesitate for a second, typing expressionlessly.

[Chen You: Why did you stop talking? Weren't you just talking about putting me in a sack?]

[Chen You: If you don't even have the courage to meet, your status as a partner of an interstellar conglomerate seems a bit lacking.]

The message was sent.

This time, the other party replied instantly.

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Oh, brother, you're so mean! I'm currently in a state of high-dimensional quantum entanglement; a physical descent would cause your universe to collapse! [pout][pout]]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Let's communicate spiritually first! Don't you know distance creates beauty?]

Pan Yu let out a cold laugh.

"Silent for ages, then an instant excuse. She's lying, or rather, she's masking some kind of helplessness."

Pan Yu turned to the group. "She's trying to intimidate us with grand concepts like universal collapse, which precisely proves she currently cannot interfere with the real world."

"Continue stripping away her disguise."

Chen You sighed inwardly.

Experts were indeed experts; their analysis of social engineering was more professional than a romance scammer's.

[Chen You: How can we date without meeting? You won't even send a bare-faced photo without filters or beauty modes. Why should I believe you?]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: You actually doubt my beauty?! [angry]]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: What are photos worth! If you're willing, I can transmit my spiritual imprint to you! But before that, brother, you have to show some sincerity first.]

Chen You raised an eyebrow and looked at Director Li Guoan.

The fox's tail was finally showing.

[Chen You: What kind of sincerity? I have no money, only my life.]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Talking about money hurts our feelings! I'm just very interested in your skills.]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: The energy circuit of that sword strike of yours is so special; it doesn't belong to any other cultivation system at all.]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Send me that set of data... no, send me the circulation route of that cultivation method for me to see, okay? [starry eyes][starry eyes]]

As these lines jumped onto the large screen, the meeting room fell silent instantly.

Director Li Guoan stood up abruptly, leaning his hands on the table, his gaze becoming extremely dangerous.

Academician Qian Zhonghua sucked in a breath of cold air, slamming his thermos down on the table.

"The dagger is revealed at the end of the map," Pan Yu pushed up her glasses, her tone solemn.

"It seems her ultimate goal is our Huaxia cultivation system."

Sun Feng quickly pulled up the previous energy analysis model: "Director Li, this doesn't make sense either."

"The Source Realm can simulate cultivation systems, and this beautiful girl clearly should have extremely high authority within the Source Realm. Why is she asking this?"

Zhang Yunhai, who had been silent, spoke up: "No, the Source Realm used huaxia coins as a bridge to awaken Little Chen's own power. Perhaps the Source Realm only has a superficial understanding of cultivation."

"Or rather, it knows the form but not the principles."

Chen You leaned back in his chair, looking at the emoticons on the screen, feeling only a sense of absurdity.

A suspected high-dimensional being was actually using a cutesy voice and emoticons in an attempt to swindle him out of his cultivation secrets.

This world was simply surreal.

"Professor Pan, how should I respond?" Chen You turned to ask Pan Yu.

Pan Yu thought for a moment and said decisively, "Refuse her, but leave some room. Test the extent of her desire for this system."

Chen You did as told.

[Chen You: It's a family secret, passed only to insiders. You want to learn? Only if you marry into my family and take my name.]

After the message was sent, the "typing..." status on the other side flickered for a full three minutes.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for the high-dimensional being's thunderous rage.

*Ding.*

The notification for a new message sounded.

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Then I won't be your wife anymore, can I be your daughter? Daddy, teach me! [rolls around][rolls around]]

"Pfft—"

Sun Feng, who was drinking water, sprayed it directly onto the screen.

Academician Qian Zhonghua's eyes widened, his beard trembling.

Director Li Guoan's mouth twitched, unable to say a word for a long time.

Chen You looked at that crisp and straightforward "Daddy" on the screen, his scalp tingling.

In order to swindle the cultivation method, this high-dimensional being didn't even want the most basic sense of shame?

"Professor Pan, this... this also counts as a high-intelligence entity's negotiation strategy?" Chen You pointed at the screen, his voice strained.

Pan Yu's expression also faltered slightly; she coughed twice, forcing herself to maintain composure.

"From a sociological perspective, the other party's moral concepts are completely different from humans."

"To obtain information, she can simulate any social ethical relationship without any psychological burden."

"This precisely proves that the temptation of the cultivation system is fatal to her."

Chen You curled his lip.

Making it sound so profound—she was just a bottomless internet beggar.

[Chen You: Send another harassing message like that and I'll block you directly.]

The other party was clearly enraged by Chen You's stubborn attitude.

The light on the glass panel began to flash, and the font color changed from pink to a piercing scarlet.

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: You really don't know what's good for you! I rule over billions of stars; it's your honor that I've taken an interest in your cultivation method!]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: That energy system clearly has extremely high compatibility. Why can't I find any simulatable objects in the Source Realm database?]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Hand over the underlying code quickly! Otherwise, I'll ban your account!]

"Director Li, she mentioned the Source Realm database and account bans." Chen You turned to look at Director Li Guoan.

"Does that mean she is the system's will behind the Source Realm, or some management AI with maximum authority?"

Director Li Guoan's face was grim. "A system without human emotions that is desperately mimicking human behavioral patterns."

"Little Chen, keep stringing her along. You must not reveal even a shred of substance regarding spiritual energy or cultivation methods."

Chen You nodded, his fingers tapping lightly on the glass panel.

[Chen You: Guess.]

Only two words, but they were filled with ultimate mockery.

The other side fell into a dead silence again.

This silence lasted longer than any before.

The red light on the glass panel flickered, showing that the other party was performing extremely massive data calculations and logical deductions.

The experts in the meeting room stood ready.

Five minutes later.

The red light on the glass panel suddenly retracted, returning to the initial, harmless pink.

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Brother, actually, I really do want to date you.]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: I discovered that within your special energy circulation system, there exists a very high-level data interaction protocol.]

Chen You had an ominous premonition, feeling that what the other party was about to say would be extremely outrageous.

[Chen You: What protocol?]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Dual Cultivation.]