"Cough... alright, girl. Thanks to you this time."
Her aunt spoke in a complicated tone.
"The appearance of the mystic realm was completely beyond our expectations and nearly caused a major disaster. Fortunately, I knew you were attending the Anime Convention, so after receiving the report, I didn't dispatch additional reinforcements. After all, with your usual style, the fewer people there are making trouble for you, the smoother things tend to go"
"Stop, stop, stop! Auntie, please stop talking already!"
Those familiar words crashed over Liu Xiyue like a tidal wave, causing her to wave her hands frantically as shame welled up inside her heart.
She knew perfectly well that the main contributor this time definitely wasn't her.
If anything, she had nearly become a "troublesome burden."
Especially when she recalled that embarrassing moment where her overconfidence caused her to lose balance and fall awkwardly onto her waist, leaving her lower back aching even now.
Just thinking about it made her feel as though a burning brand had been stamped onto her face, causing her cheeks to flush bright red while she lowered her head in embarrassment.
"Ah? This... alright then."
Liu Yunshuang looked at her niece with slight confusion.
This reaction was far too different from normal.
Usually, even if this girl tried to keep a straight face, her invisible tail would already be wagging wildly in excitement while she stubbornly pretended to stay calm.
Still, Liu Yunshuang merely coughed twice and let the matter pass.
"Fine then. Tell me in detail what happened inside the mystic realm."
"Oh, okay."
As Liu Xiyue narrated the events one by one, the icy seriousness on Liu Yunshuang's face gradually gave way to increasingly visible shock.
Especially when she heard that the terrifying "sun" hanging high in the sky earlier was actually a person clad in white armor.
At that instant, her cold and elegant CEO image nearly shattered on the spot.
Her beautiful eyes widened like copper bells, her jaw almost dropped open, and even her fingertips trembled slightly from the sheer absurdity of it all.
Liu Yunshuang had long known that the number of Ability Users would surge dramatically in the coming years.
Under such circumstances, extraordinarily talented Ability Users were bound to appear eventually.
But the current situation was simply too outrageous.
It wasn't until Liu Xiyue mentioned the name "Stellaron Hunters" that Liu Yunshuang finally felt a tiny trace of relief.
Then she immediately realized that wasn't comforting at all.
Liu Yunshuang (▔□▔): Stellaron Hunters... Sam? And that Silver Wolf girl is actually this terrifying?!
So Stellaron Hunters isn't referring to a single person, but an entire organization?!
A Hacker capable of directly interfering with a mystic realm, and combat strength nearly rivaling Flame Heart?!
Are Otherworlders and Extraterritorial Creatures all this overpowered?!
At that thought, several cold beads of sweat slid silently down Liu Yunshuang's forehead as a chill crept up her spine.
Fortunately, during their previous conversation, she and the old man had remained polite and restrained without offending the other side.
Otherwise
"Auntie? Why's your face suddenly so pale? Are you okay? The matter's already been resolved perfectly, so don't worry too much."
Halfway through her explanation, Liu Xiyue finally noticed the unnaturally pale expression on her aunt's face.
Hearing that, Liu Yunshuang instantly regained her composure with astonishing speed, calmly restoring her elegant demeanor as though nothing had happened moments earlier.
"Cough... it's nothing. I just didn't expect the Extraterritorial Creature this time to be so terrifying beyond imagination."
She skillfully redirected the topic.
And to be fair, those were indeed her genuine thoughts.
Liu Xiyue didn't refute her.
Even now, lingering fear still remained in her heart.
A mystic realm with nearly no path to survival.
Infinite regeneration.
Unknown mental pollution.
The true horror of this Extraterritorial Creature wasn't raw destructive power, but rather its nearly flawless and grotesque "mechanism."
Like maggots burrowing into bone, leaving no room to escape.
If this "Swarm Disaster" comparable to a viral plague had not been successfully dealt with
Then within only a few days, half of Dragon Country might have completely fallen.
Inside the office, the aunt and niece exchanged glances silently.
Neither spoke further.
"Speaking of which... why does that Hacker from the Stellaron Hunters sound so familiar?" Liu Xiyue frowned slightly, contemplation flickering in her eyes.
Hearing that, Liu Yunshuang's eyelid twitched violently while the corner of her mouth curved helplessly.
You two have practically been glued together every day lately. Of course she'd sound familiar.
Right at that moment, a private message suddenly appeared on her phone.
Suppressing the urge to expose everything on the spot, Liu Yunshuang casually gestured that she needed to reply first.
[Cat Phantom Thief—Cipher: This Cat almost suffered a huge loss at the Anime Convention. Aren't you going to compensate me?]
[Stellaron Hunters—Silver Wolf: Just a reminder, don't bury all those survivors. I already gave everyone a buff in advance. Think of it like a game "backup save." As long as they're still alive and rest properly for a few months, once the mental pollution debuff expires, it'll naturally disappear. As for anything beyond that... this is already the limit of what I can do.]
Liu Yunshuang (๑˙ー˙๑)?: That little thief cat was there too?
Wait... Yue mentioned earlier that another Extraterritorial Creature seemed to have been handled by Meng Meng?
That girl Meng Meng... together with Cipher?
"Um, who sent the message?"
"Ah? Oh, it's a private message from the Stellaron Hunters."
Hearing the question, Liu Yunshuang ultimately concealed Silver Wolf's identity and only informed her niece about the important details.
In her view, since Silver Wolf herself hadn't revealed it, she likely intended to keep her identity hidden.
The reality, however, was much simpler.
Silver Wolf simply couldn't be bothered to explain, and whether Liu Xiyue figured it out or not made no difference to her.
At this moment, the information Silver Wolf provided was essentially a lifesaving miracle for Director Liu.
According to the statistics, the Anime Convention had over six thousand attendees.
At present, the confirmed death toll had already exceeded one thousand.
More than half were severely injured, while the rest mostly suffered lighter injuries.
Professional examinations revealed horrifying causes of death.
Mental breakdowns.
Excessive blood loss.
And even people beaten to death during internal chaos and fights.
The entire scene had been utterly tragic.
As for those fortunate enough to survive, almost all of them had fallen into deep comas and were diagnosed as vegetative patients with extremely weak vital signs.
But Liu Yunshuang and the others understood perfectly well that these people were by no means ordinary vegetative patients.
Every single survivor was like a ticking time bomb.
No one could guarantee whether the mental pollution would quietly spread further through them.
If that happened, the contamination from thousands of people would spread like a plague and completely destroy everything.
Yet if they wanted to eliminate the hidden danger at its root
Then rationally speaking, even Liu Yunshuang found the cruel conclusion difficult to accept.
Even with isolation measures, their current capabilities were nowhere near enough to completely block an unknown pollution of this level.
But now, Silver Wolf's intervention had become a beam of hope.
It directly raised the survival rate of this mystic realm incident to seventy percent.
Although that number still carried heavy gloom behind it, it was already a miracle by comparison.
After all, this wasn't the first mystic realm incident to appear within Dragon Country.
In previous incidents, civilian survival rates had never exceeded twenty percent.
And this time, only a handful of people had created a seventy percent survival rate within such a horrifying mystic realm.
That was practically a miracle blooming from despair.
Because of this, Liu Yunshuang, who had been burdened with hesitation and pressure all this time, finally managed to breathe out a small sigh of relief.
The tightly furrowed lines between her brows unconsciously relaxed.
[Thank you for your help, but may I ask about the estimated recovery time?]
[You're asking me? Are all your doctors NPCs or something? I'm a Hacker, not a psychiatrist. It's already generous enough that I gave them a "heal." Besides, I'm a wanted criminal. I can't be bothered to care about that many people.]