But the woman outside the door showed no emotional fluctuation and continued to say:
"Mr. Wang, I sincerely apologize for offending you just now. I hope you can accept my apology, and we at Penglai are willing to provide adequate compensation for the mistake. You can make any compensation request, as long as you let our employees go and cooperate with us fairly and sincerely..."
"Woman, you’re talking too much nonsense!"
Wang Zhifan inside the room quickly grew impatient after listening for a few sentences. He immediately unleashed an icy force, repressing all the armed squad members outside the door, and half-froze Diana, who was speaking nonsense, before opening the door in front of him.
"This is... that kind of power... It’s truly amazing..."
As he still intended to ask Diana some questions, the woman who wasn’t completely frozen quickly expressed amazement, as she finally personally experienced the rumored magical power possessed by Wang Zhifan.
"Tell me, who suggested capturing me as a test subject."
Having swiftly taken control of the situation, Wang Zhifan walked out the door, looking at Diana, whose body was frozen except for her head, and asked in a deep voice.
"It was a man who doesn’t belong to our company. I can give you all his information, including meeting footage."
Only able to move her head, Diana immediately responded, appearing more yielding than Mr. Qian earlier.
"Hmm? Why do I feel like you’re trying to trick me again?"
Wang Zhifan’s brows furrowed instantly. He realized the woman’s attitude now seemed different, unlike how she acted previously.
"No, Mr. Wang, you’re overthinking. We sincerely want to cooperate with you now. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have come to you directly. We truly don’t want to be enemies with you. We can meet all your demands as long as you agree to work with us..."
The woman again started speaking a bunch of empty words, but it seemed to show a sign of sincerity.
"Haha... Using coercive measures when they think they can control me, and directly sliding down on their knees when they realize they can’t... You sure know how to play the game..."
Upon slight reflection, Wang Zhifan understood what was roughly happening. He remembered the woman mentioning him as extremely dangerous when they locked him up, leading them to choose this course of action. Now, having displayed some power, which made her view him as increasingly formidable, she shifted tactics, trying to gain his trust with a gentle approach. However, Wang Zhifan only felt a deep-seated disgust for this duplicitous behavior.
"Give me that person’s information, and also your entire plan."
Wang Zhifan proceeded to demand, indifferent to whether the woman agreed or not, as he’d take it himself if she didn’t.
"I can lead you to the computer to check."
Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Diana promptly responded.
"Okay, you can move now."
Gazing intently at her, Wang Zhifan reduced the icy source on her. Due to her strength surpassing other NPCs, she managed to move freely after a portion of the suppression on her was lifted.
"Thank you, I will demonstrate our sincerity through actions."
After realizing she could move freely, Diana stepped into the office before them, started the computer, input the password, and opened several special interfaces, showing the information Wang Zhifan needed.
Wang Zhifan soon quickly saw on the computer screen, during the afternoon the previous day, a lean man who seemed familiar to him arrived at the Penglai Company. Upon his strong request, he finally met a supervisor here and reported his situation to the supervisor, suggesting Penglai capture him for research.
"It’s him? That gang’s second-in-command?"
At first, Wang Zhifan only felt familiarity, unable to immediately identify the lean man, particularly since the opponent had put on a slight disguise after coming here. But his observation abilities far exceeded ordinary people, and within mere seconds, he discerned from some details that the opponent was the former second-in-command of the Iron Wolf Gang, that spineless sycophant!
"Where is this man now?"
Upon confirming his number one enemy, Wang Zhifan turned to ask Diana, who had shown him all of this.
"I’ll check for you."
Diana did not immediately provide an answer but instead opened several other interfaces to input and search, seemingly calling up the monitoring and traffic information for the entire Paradise City. After several seconds, she replied:
"He left the city yesterday evening, heading to another town to the north. We at Penglai have a branch set up over there as well. If you need, I can apply for the branch there to capture him."
"No need, I’ll do it myself."
Wang Zhifan instantly rejected her without a second thought; he wasn’t one to rely on others for revenge.
"Hand over your entire plan."
He promptly urged the woman to divulge the information closely tied to him.
The woman didn’t hesitate much upon hearing this and promptly called up several interfaces, inputting passwords repeatedly, revealing the plan they had set up for Wang Zhifan.
Wang Zhifan quickly saw that their plan seemed somewhat crude, mainly determined to engage him, probe him, then capture or cooperate with him, gradually researching his special abilities without a specifically detailed project. As they hadn’t gathered adequate key information, such efforts would unfold later.
"Mr. Wang, you see, Penglai holds no genuine malice toward you. We do all this for scientific research and human development, free from any personal bias. We sincerely hope you can understand our noble ideals and initiate further collaboration with us..."
The beautiful blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman continued speaking after Wang Zhifan roughly browsed through the relevant plan information, almost portraying themselves as pure and lofty, without realizing her behavior rapidly depleted Wang Zhifan’s last bit of patience deep down.
"What nonsense... Using so-called noble reasons to plot against me at will? Still delusional about me cooperating with you? All of you go to hell!"
After gaining the intelligence he needed, he instantly exploded with terrifying icy source power, not only thoroughly freezing the blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman beside him into an ice sculpture, but also entirely encasing the building he was in and the two adjacent buildings in ice, turning them into a glacier covered by extreme cold in the blink of an eye! Even the armed helicopters circling in the sky outside were frozen into ice blocks and crashed to the ground!
It can be responsibly said that after Wang Zhifan unleashed ice power to this extent, Penglai Company’s branch in Paradise City was directly destroyed! All key figures scheming against him, all the armed squads aiming to confront him, and all culpable employees instantly turned into stiff corpses!
"And wipe out that informer too."
After expending considerable power to annihilate everyone in the three buildings, Wang Zhifan hadn’t forgotten that the guy who fled Paradise City also needed dealing with. He proceeded to take out a goblet-like item from his pocket space, planning to use this extraordinary tool named Filthy Holy Grail to extinguish him.
Yet at this moment, something unexpectedly occurred. Right before him, a light-screen message popped up:
[You’ve completed the hidden task: "Eliminate the Hidden Mastermind."]
[Eliminate the Hidden Mastermind: You’ve crushed the true ruling power in Paradise City, although it’s merely the iceberg’s tip, it also demonstrates your strength, courage, and insight.]
[Mission Reward: You are elevated from an ordinary player to a VIP player.]
[VIP Player: Unlike the blank-slate start of ordinary players, you will gain an initial identity in certain instances, granting you additional advantages.]