In the VIP cabin of the passenger airship.

Shi Xuan looked at the new face in the mirror, then looked at Hanyu next to him, gave a thumbs-up, and said, "Miss Chen, your craft is impressive."

Previously, Shi Xuan's face was angular, exuding a stern, soldier-like aura.

Now he looked more like an ordinary middle-aged man, gentle yet severe.

Hanyu's exquisite disguise skills had drastically changed his appearance while retaining his sternness as much as possible, yet she softened his facial lines a bit, giving him a friendlier appearance.

Hanyu humbly said, "It's just practice makes perfect, no need to be polite, Mr. Shi."

"Your level of skill is quite high."

Shi Xuan smiled and looked at Hanyu, and then at Ren Zhong, who was seriously studying the advanced tutorial for Level Six Mining Engineers.

Righteous Shi Xuan couldn't help but think of Ren Zhong's persona of an LSP.

He did not underestimate Hanyu in the slightest; he just felt sad for the eager girls in his tribe.

He thought, the girls have no hope of attracting Ren Zhong and will truly have to rely on their own skills.

Hanyu not only had a beautiful face and good figure but also had a disguise skill that could be wielded at will.

No matter what kind of beauty Ren Zhong wanted to experience, she could transform into it. How could others compete with her?

Shi Xuan mistakenly thought Hanyu was using face-changing tricks to seduce Ren Zhong. Little did he know, the face he was seeing was the result of Hanyu's effort to keep a low profile.

To seduce Ren Zhong, she doesn't need to change faces at all.

"By the way, Mr. Ren, earlier you saved us from the Mengdu Group, I haven't thanked you yet."

Shi Xuan continued.

Ren Zhong shook his head, "I was just keeping my promise; no thanks needed."

Shi Xuan asked again, "But just now... um, were you too intense? Maybe if we communicated well, they might have backed down?"

Ren Zhong smiled and rhetorically asked, "Do you know why they blatantly come to recruit people, just like harvesting leeks?"

"Why?"

"Because in the eyes of the Mengdu Group, the wilderness people aren't considered human, just livestock. If I had reasonably negotiated with them, they'd only think I was haggling, even offering prices to humiliate me. I'd have to negotiate endlessly, which is a waste of time. Life is short, time is precious, and talking nonsense with irrelevant people is a waste of time. Wasting time is akin to suicide. So from the start, I made it clear that I'm not easily bullied, telling them to give up quickly. It saves future trouble if any other foolhardy small fry tries the same. I wasn't just trying to scare off Jiang Yong but also those who might show up later but haven't had their chance yet."

Shi Xuan: "Uh..."

Ren Zhong continued, "What I want to do is big. I'm not interested in wasting energy on trivial matters. The more aggressive and difficult I appear, unless someone truly capable of killing me shows up, no one will bother me. This saves me a lot of worries."

Shi Xuan pondered for a moment, "Makes sense."

"In short, the more overtly bold I am, the more at ease others feel about me. If I'm always shadowy, it would only lead to suspicion and truly provoke them to probe crazily on what I'm actually doing."

...

At 1:30 PM, the passenger airship arrived at Starfire Town.

On Ma Dafu's instructions, the wilderness people of Starfire Town held a somewhat lively welcome ceremony in the town square.

Accompanied by Shi Xuan, Ren Zhong met the famous but as yet unseen Information Flow Shield Master and hacker in his office.

As per the agreement, these two arrived nine days before the end of the month, and Ren Zhong will pay each of them nineteen million in compensation.

A hacker, in the professional system, is the arch-enemy of an actuarial programmer.

The latter's job is to create programs on the crystal chip, similar to computer programming professionals in the 21st century.

The hacker's job, on the other hand, is to reverse engineer programs and create virus-like redundant programs to destroy the chip or suppress the original information.

As for the Information Flow Shield Master, it's a bit more mysterious; using a medium similar to a telekinesis master, they perceive the connection between the target and the ongoing flow of information on Source Star, then cut it off, effectively shielding it.

The shielded person is not easily identified and their identity locked by the "net" when using wrist watches and other tools.

Of course, this is the black market use; the legitimate use of the Information Flow Shield Master is in ruined beast hunting, to help humans shield some high-intelligence ruined beasts from detection.

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