Lin Sanjiu had said that she knew of a person from the shark faction who was extremely cautious and sharp. This was also the reason why she did not want to track down the shark faction by letting Peng Ping go. She was worried that the person would follow Peng Ping and find her.
Cyrus had no doubt about this.
If he had to say that the process of climbing up the ranks in the Shadow Palace had taught him anything, it would be that there is always someone better than you out there. Even if he knew that he was not a fool, he would not be so arrogant as to think that he could do everything perfectly.
Thus, letting Peng Ping go wasn't a problem. The real problem was how to track him after letting him go. How could he ensure that he could find the shark faction's nest?
Cyrus was the first to eliminate the tracking device.
During his years in the Shadow Palace, he had spent some time in charge of the improvement and upgrade of various devices such as communication, tracking, and timing. He could be said to be an expert. Therefore, he knew their weaknesses best. In the eyes of an expert, the structure of the device, the wavelength of the signal, the materials used … Everything was clear and could be used to provide rich information.
He could definitely find an expert in this field from the shark faction.
After all, the Shadow Palace did not lack such experts.
Cyrus already had a rough idea of what had happened to the Shadow Palace. Every time he thought about it, his heart would sink and he would force himself to stop thinking about it. He did not want to think too deeply about it.
He had always been a meticulous and cautious person. Now, he kept telling himself something that he would never have said before: Stop thinking about it. What's the use of thinking about it?
As long as he acted quickly, there was still a glimmer of hope. He could save the Shadow Palace … He could save the only home he had ever known in his many years of living in the apocalyptic world.
It was funny. Before he realized that the Shadow Palace might be facing a crisis, he had never realized that he had unknowingly treated it as his home. Perhaps, he should not call it "home". What should he call the place that he belonged to?
Cyrus shook his head slightly. He knew that he had spaced out for a while.
If he wanted to know how to find the shark faction through Peng Ping, he had to first know how he communicated with the shark faction. Cyrus did not have to spend much effort to squeeze the answer out of him.
"It was through the postman," Peng Ping said with a gloomy face, "You should know that …"
Cyrus frowned slightly.
He did know what a "postman" was, but he was a little surprised to hear the answer.
"Postman? Are you trying to tell me that even though you've started working for the Sharks, you still don't know where they are? Not to mention the headquarters, you don't even know the location of a contact? "
The "Postman" was a device that only appeared in the Twelve Worlds in recent years. They were actually metal robots, about the size of a medium-sized woman. Their cylindrical bodies were stacked with cylindrical heads, and there was a long opening on their "faces" — just like the postboxes on the roadside.
They were indeed like mailboxes, sitting silently by the roadside. The difference was that only a few people knew which postman would appear in which place and when.
"Yes, yes, they've done a really good job keeping it a secret." Pendragon rubbed his hands together, as if he was afraid that Cyrus wouldn't believe him. "After successfully obtaining approval and receiving the investment, the shark faction will also purchase a certain period of service from the postman company … Basically, they'll purchase a few months' worth of service when there's still a few months left before the time of your teleportation …"
Cyrus leaned back in his chair and looked at him. He asked, "Then you must have a postman voucher?"
The expression on Pendragon's face made Cyrus instantly feel that he regretted telling the truth.
Purchasing a month's service from the postman company meant that you would receive a white board that was valid for a month — this was called a postman voucher.
There were two copies of the voucher, one in your hand, and the other in the hand of the person you wished to keep in touch with. When the person sent the letter to the postman, the green words would appear on the voucher in your hand, indicating the location and time of the next appearance of the postman who sent the letter.
Since there was no regular pattern to the appearance of the postman, without a voucher, it was basically impossible to know where, when, and whose postman had a key letter. Even tracking the postmen was useless — not only because the postmen were all self-propelled robots that could fly or swim, but also because the letter would immediately disappear once it entered the postman's stomach.
Perhaps it was because of the use of teleportation items, when a person sent a letter to Postman A, the recipient would usually have to go to Postman B to receive it, and the sender would not even know who the sender was. Because of this, the probability of finding the key letter among the countless postmen and intercepting it was almost impossible.
Many people had tried to crack the Postman Company's encrypted communication system. For example, sticking a locator on the Postman's body, sending out letters that were also locators, sending out letters that were "contagious", or kidnapping the Postman … So far, if anyone had ever succeeded, Cyrus had never heard of it before.
"They respond very quickly," Pendragon said unwillingly. "As soon as I send the letter out, I will see the green words on my voucher light up within six hours. Usually, if I need to meet them, they will tell me a time and a place … Just like during my 'roadshow', it is also not the location of their headquarters. "
Was it necessary to be so secretive? Si Lu faintly grew suspicious. For an organization, no matter what they did, they had to consider the ratio of input to output. No matter how he thought about it, he could not think of any reason why the Shark Department would invest so much in concealing their location.
He had thought that he could disguise himself as Pendragon, but that would not work. After all, even Pendragon himself did not have the chance to go to the Shark Department.
"In other words …" Cyrus mumbled, "You are not qualified to bring me to the Shark Department. To find them, I will need to change you to someone closer to the core of the Shark Department … For example, someone who has set a time and place for you to meet. "
Pendragon's expression turned sour. This might mean that he would have to shoulder the responsibility that he could not escape. "Do you want to capture the person who contacted me?"
It would be too risky to capture him personally.
Cyrus's combat ability was not bad, but if the other party sent an evolved person with high combat ability, or if there was more than one person, he would be in danger.
Fortunately, the Shadow Palace had an abundance of dimensional items. As a high-ranking officer, Cyrus had brought a few such items with him before he went to Fan Jia City. One of them was called a [One-Time Instance Dungeon].
Although it was the same as other Space Items in that it could not be moved after it was filled with people, Cyrus already knew the rules of the single-use dungeon. He also knew the traps, conditions that could be exploited, and how to win the dungeon.
As long as he followed the target into the Instance Dungeon, he could use the Instance Dungeon to control the target. When the [One-Time Instance Dungeon] ended, only Cyrus and the Shark Department member with the dog leash would appear.
Cyrus was cautious by nature. He repeatedly checked and modified his plan in his mind, coming up with different solutions. When Pendragon got the time and place for the meeting through the mailman, he even went to scout ahead.
There was nothing in life that was foolproof. However, after he made sufficient preparations, he felt that there was a high chance that he could capture someone through the [One-Time Instance Dungeon].
According to his plan, he set up the [One-Time Instance Dungeon] at the rendezvous point and immediately brought Pendragon down the mountain. He did not say a word about his plan to Pendragon. Even if Pendragon knew that he had a backup plan, he did not know what to guard against.
As the time for the rendezvous drew nearer, Cyrus felt a layer of sweat forming on his palms.
In order not to arouse the Shark Department's suspicion, when the time was right, he would ask Pendragon to walk to the top of the mountain, while he would wait at a safe distance. However, according to his calculations, the Shark Department member would fall into the Instance Dungeon before Pendragon … Was there any mistake in the plan?
Cyrus shut his eyes tightly. He did not know how many times he had gone over his plan in his mind.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw a person walking down the man-made mountain path in the distance.
After so many years, the person did not look any different from the last time he saw him. He looked so familiar that Cyrus could not help but fall into a trance. If it was not for his muscles trembling involuntarily, Cyrus would have thought that he was dreaming.
"… Irezumi?"
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