"I need to find a few opportunities to give them those advanced knowledge books, so they don't get stuck at their current level."
The next day, Lily found an opportunity.
Shino sent a message, Four Directions had important matters to discuss with her.
On the way to Four Directions, Lily handed Anya and the advanced knowledge books to Excavation Princess. She was uneasy leaving Anya alone at Shino's house; who knew when the assassin and that spy would cooperate again? It was more appropriate to have players watch Anya.
Given Anya's relationship with her, players would never stand by and watch Anya be killed by an assassin.
Lily arrived at Four Directions, and waiting for her in the conference room were all of Four Directions's high-ranking officials.
"Let my secretary, Inoue, explain the specific situation."
Inoue stood up and introduced the cooperation matters that had been discussed in the meeting not long ago.
"I know you want to see advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge, so I specifically applied to the higher-ups, and just now, I received the data from headquarters."
He held up a hard drive.
Lily immediately cast a Psionic Vision on the hard drive.
[Data Hard Drive (Special)]
[Quality]: White
[Additional Effect]: A seemingly Ordinary hard drive, but it contains advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge mastered by Gene Primordial
…
Lily's breathing hitched slightly.
Yes, yes, this is it!
She had been looking forward to this item for a long time, and she hadn't expected it to be placed in front of her like this now. She tried her best to control her expression to avoid being discovered.
Inoue continued: "Being a decoy is very dangerous, you could die at any time. But if you cooperate with us, not only will you have the opportunity to get the advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge you want, but once the spy is caught, the Truth Society's threat to you will also be greatly reduced. Please consider it carefully."
Lily hummed.
She was considering whether to cooperate with Four Directions.
With her true strength, Ordinary assassins were already very difficult to kill her, but this did not mean she could act recklessly.
What if the assassin took out a large-caliber sniper rifle or some powerful bombs?
Of course, special assassins like Yulia, who had mastered superpowers, could also pose a threat to her.
For safety reasons, she should ideally refuse Inoue's proposal, but if she missed this opportunity, she didn't know how long she would have to wait to get the Spiritual Energy knowledge chain mastered by Gene Primordial.
Lily's eyes darted around, and she thought of a good idea.
After feigning thought for a while, she looked up. At this moment, she once again displayed the skill she had shown on the night she parted ways with the players.
Let the show begin!
"A spy has been watching in the shadows, which is indeed quite annoying." Lily nodded, "I can agree to cooperate with you, but there's a precondition."
Inoue asked, "What precondition?"
Lily said, "Director Lu said that even if he applied to the higher-ups, it would be difficult to obtain advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge, yet you obtained it. Although the situation is different now, I still need to inspect the goods first, so I don't get cheated."
Inoue's face darkened: "Are you questioning my credibility?"
Before Lily could speak, the head of the action team stepped forward to dismantle the situation: "Your credibility, when it needs to be questioned, it really should be questioned."
Bang!
Inoue slammed the table heavily: "Say that again?"
Director Madeleine quickly stepped in to mediate: "Harmony brings wealth. It's just verification, inspect if you want to. Let Marin inspect it to put her mind at ease. Let's use this terminal in the conference room."
The others also couldn't continue watching the show and chimed in.
"Just take a look, what's the loss?"
"Are you afraid Lily can steal the data from the hard drive in front of so many of us?"
"Surely the data on the hard drive isn't actually problematic, haha."
Because Four Directions had many connections, its internal factions were extremely complex, but most people shared a common understanding: they disliked Inoue.
Inoue, in a spy movie, would be the kind of person who is eager to advance and perform, but has a strained relationship with almost all of his colleagues.
Seeing this situation, Lily knew she had won.
Sure enough, facing everyone's discussion, Inoue, with a livid face, handed the hard drive to her: "I shouldn't need to teach you how to use a terminal, right?"
Lily smiled: "No need."
Inoue said coldly: "There are over a dozen pairs of eyes watching, and all of Four Directions's terminals are specially encrypted."
Lily looked innocent.
What bad intentions could I, a little white rabbit, have? Do you think I have genius hacker skills and can secretly Copy the data from the hard drive without anyone knowing?
Then you really overestimate me. I'm just an Ordinary cheater.
Copy?
I'll just learn directly from the progress bar!
Lily connected the hard drive to the terminal in front of everyone, and after opening the file reader, a prompt appeared.
[You begin reading 'Advanced Spiritual Energy Knowledge Mastered by Gene Primordial'. Intermediate Spiritual Energy Specialization takes effect, your reading speed +20%, current progress 0.1%...]
Advanced knowledge truly lived up to its name. Previously, it would take her a maximum of twenty minutes to read other books, but this time the progress bar stretched out to several hours.
After all, it was just an inspection, and Four Directions would never let her sit in front of the terminal for several hours.
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