As tensions between the Upper and Lower City Districts escalated, the Thirty-Third Cave lost its former prosperity.
A tax investigation and an explosion in the Life and Death Arena sent a full 3,500 people to the Heaven Computation Center, scaring the major gangs and merchants in the Thirty-Third Cave out of their wits.
In addition, Law Enforcement Officer Scott, the instigator, led his enforcement team to station in the Thirty-Third Cave, further inciting public panic.
In just a month and a half, the population of the Thirty-Third Cave was less than a third of its peak, and even law and order had improved significantly.
Inside the building where the enforcement team was stationed, Scott in the office hung up another communication, and the smile that had just appeared quickly faded.
Leaning back on the silver-white floating office chair, Scott softly whispered:
"That’s the fourth call already!"
Since the last time 3,500 people were sent to the Heaven Computation Center to make up for a shortage of soul computation power, Scott had become a rising star at the City Tax Bureau.
Whether in the newspapers of the Mid-to-Upper City District or internal documents of the City Tax Bureau, Scott was lavishly praised.
Of course, these were accolades Scott deserved, and his regional manager father only played a minuscule part in it.
However, after basking in the initial praise, the ensuing troubles were extremely thorny even for Scott.
During that battle with the strange souls, Scott’s Personal Intelligent Brain stopped functioning and had never been able to turn on since that day.
Scott tried many methods, whether it was replacing the spiritual energy battery or soul charging, but he could never restart the Personal Intelligent Brain.
In desperation, Scott secretly found a senior repairer who had wandered into the Cave to check the Personal Intelligent Brain, yet there was still no change.
According to that senior repairer, the Personal Intelligent Brain seemed to have lost its soul, leaving only an empty shell.
The Personal Intelligent Brain was so valuable that Scott could temporarily control it only for the sake of his regional manager father.
Once the Personal Intelligent Brain experienced problems, he would definitely be severely punished, even his father would be affected.
Scott couldn’t bear the thought of himself, who had just been praised, facing punishment from the company for the failure of his Personal Intelligent Brain, possibly even being sent to the Heaven Computation Center.
To seal off this information, Scott silenced the senior repairer after the inspection was completed and then began to change his original thinking.
Since the damage to the Personal Intelligent Brain was a foregone conclusion, he must find a way to minimize the impact of this damage.
If he truthfully reported to the higher-ups that the Intelligent Brain was damaged during a minor task, Scott would undoubtedly be severely punished.
But if the enforcement team went through a brutal fight, with Scott as the law enforcement officer leading the charge, and the Intelligent Brain was damaged by the enemy in that brutal battle, that scenario seemed more acceptable.
So, during this period, Scott had been actively provoking various forces within the Thirty-Third Cave.
Today, he found a shop to impose a temporary tax hike, sending a few people to the Heaven Computation Center.
Tomorrow, under the guise of insufficient gender diversity, he sealed a club, arresting a few spiritual ability users on the charge of tax evasion.
All the forces were suddenly filled with resentment, yet none dared to actually strike against the enforcement team.
They would rather abandon their properties and flee the Thirty-Third Cave than fight to the death, which completely dashed Scott’s hopes of starting a war.
As time passed, Scott had gone over a month without using the Intelligent Brain, handling daily communications within the office using the terminal, while some of Scott’s nemeses vaguely sensed something was wrong.
In recent days, many people had proactively invited Scott to parties to test the waters, but Scott, feeling guilty, did not dare to accept, which only intensified their probing.
Just today, Scott had already received four invitation communications.
If this continued, the fact that he concealed the malfunction of the Intelligent Brain would inevitably be exposed, leading to even more severe punishment.
The malfunction of the Personal Intelligent Brain had already cornered him into a dead end.
"I should never have gotten involved in any Cave task!"
Scott finally couldn’t maintain his composure, cursed aloud in frustration.
Just as the words left his mouth, a familiar sense of crisis suddenly emanated from outside the window, and Scott instantly looked out the floor-to-ceiling window, but only saw an open space.
"No, it’s those soul monsters!"
Scott was shocked; after that life and death struggle, his fear of ghosts had reached his core, and instinctively he tried to crash through the office walls to escape the room.
At that moment, a voice suddenly spoke.
"Officer Scott, you wouldn’t want others to discover the loss of your Intelligent Brain, would you?"
Scott’s actions immediately froze.
Several hundred meters away from the enforcement team’s building, Lu Yan sat in an abandoned shop, his deep eyes already synchronized with the ghost’s vision.
Undoubtedly, it was Lu Yan who controlled the ghost to enter the enforcement team building.
Since that day when the ghost took away the Intelligent Brain Spirit Body, Lu Yan had instructed Shaq to start monitoring this officer named Scott.
The Personal Intelligent Brain was highly valuable, and Lu Yan was curious about what kind of punishment Scott would face after losing the Intelligent Brain Spirit Body.
But the information Shaq reported afterward was beyond Lu Yan’s expectations; Scott not only didn’t get punished, but he was even commended for bombing the Gladiatorial Arena, sending 3,500 people to the Heaven Computation Center.
One must understand that the materials of the Personal Intelligent Brain were the souls of spiritual ability users at the Soul Transformation Level, whose rarity and value were far greater than 3,500 units of soul computation power.
Scott might manage to make up for his mistakes, at most not being sent to the Heaven Computation Center, but it’s inconceivable that he would be commended.
This made Lu Yan realize right away that Scott must have hidden the loss of the Personal Intelligent Brain Spirit Body.
Subsequently, Scott stationed himself in the Thirty-Third Cave and repeatedly provoked the surrounding gangs and merchants, further confirming Lu Yan’s suspicions.
Following Lu Yan’s indication, Shaq used his influence to prevent the Lower City District from going to war with Scott, even offering shares of the Nine Dragon Power Potion to relocate those gangs and merchants out of the Thirty-Third Cave.
The Nine Dragon Power Potion had become the most popular product in the Lower City District, and those small gangs and merchants naturally agreed, voluntarily withdrawing, leaving Scott’s provocations unsuccessful.
Originally, Lu Yan planned to use Scott as a covert pawn, to be deployed once the purge officially began.
But the current demand for Compiler advancement knowledge made Lu Yan have to use the leverage he held earlier than intended.
Looking at the visibly tense Scott, Lu Yan chuckled and said:
"Officer Scott, I can help you solve the trouble with your Personal Intelligent Brain."