"No! We absolutely can't give him too powerful of a bizarre item! Otherwise, we'll lose our ability to balance him! If possible, I'd even like to take back the parchment in his hands!"

"You know that's impossible. Pushing our own people to the brink won't do us any good."

"Then there's no need to provide him with too good of a weapon. If there's a real need, we can temporarily allocate a powerful bizarre item to him at that time."

"What if it's too late? What if he can't exert his due strength because of this trivial matter, and loses the ability to fight against the cheaters?"

"..."

The discussion about Fang Yue gradually became heated, while Fang Yue himself had already returned to the room where Yuan Jie was resting.

Yuan Jie had been worried these days. She was just an ordinary person, but she had come into contact with things far more dangerous than she imagined. This put a lot of pressure on her.

Fang Yue comforted her a few words, stabilized her emotions, and then began to think about the issue of Yuan Jie's placement.

The day of the [Heavenly Devourment] was approaching, and Fang Yue had a vague guess as to what would happen that day.

Undoubtedly, it would be an event that would be a huge challenge for both the Joint Council and the cheater groups.

And after that day, how many people would survive? Yuan Jie had always been unarmed. How could she protect herself?

Although the Joint Council had said that they would protect Yuan Jie on his behalf, Fang Yue didn't quite trust the Joint Council. Sure enough... he still had to let Yuan Jie enter the game...

But entering the game was too random, and now it was even the high bizarre level stage. If you die in the game, you die in reality. Fang Yue couldn't afford this risk.

The most suitable compromise was to have a protective bizarre item or someone to provide protection, so he could feel more at ease.

It's just that the Joint Council wasn't easy to talk to.

Knock knock.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?"

"It's us."

The visitors were Qiu Dugu and Minister Jiang.

The two saw that Yuan Jie was also present, and gave Fang Yue a look.

Fang Yue immediately understood, followed them out the door, and it was only in the hallway that the two told Fang Yue about the matter.

It turned out that the two of them had checked the surveillance, and found that the surveillance footage seemed to have been tampered with. For a period of time, it was in a strange still picture.

Undoubtedly, the matter happened during this time, but they couldn't get anyone to help repair it.

Finally, they asked the staff on duty at the time, but there was no progress.

"Do you feel any discomfort now?"

The two had already determined that something had indeed happened to Fang Yue, but they didn't know exactly what it was.

Fang Yue shook his head slightly. Apart from the needle hole, there seemed to be no other problems.

This was puzzling. Why would someone painstakingly lurk in the Joint Council headquarters just to prick Fang Yue with some needle?

Could it be... some prerequisite for a bizarre item?

Thinking of this possibility, no one dared to take it lightly.

The two told Fang Yue to be careful and prepared to report to the president.

"...Who do you think is targeting me?"

"It's hard to say for the time being, but since someone has laid their hands on you under our noses at the Joint Council headquarters, we can't let this matter go. We must investigate it thoroughly."

"Okay, I'll wait for your news."

That being said, Fang Yue prepared to leave the Joint Council headquarters with Yuan Jie first.

It wasn't reassuring to stay in a place where an unknown enemy was lurking.

After Qiu Dugu and Minister Jiang left, Fang Yue discussed the matter with Yuan Jie. After there were no problems, he prepared to return to the Clear Water branch first after receiving the Extinguishing Immortal Water and bizarre weapon.

As for whether to go to the neighboring Sea Fish City, it would depend on the final decision of the presidents.

...

After leaving Fang Yue's room, Qiu Dugu and Minister Jiang went to see the president.

But at that time, only the Second President was left in the conference room. Everyone else had finished the meeting and went to busy themselves with their own affairs.

"What is it?"

Looking at the two coming to report, the Second President raised his eyebrows.

The two reported Fang Yue's matter and the results of their investigation to the Second President...

"Understood."

And then, there was nothing else.

Qiu Dugu was a little stunned, and was finally led away by Minister Jiang.

He didn't understand. This should be a very serious internal infiltration incident. Why did the Second President seem so indifferent?

What Qiu Dugu didn't know was that after they left, the Second President opened his phone and made a call.

"How are the blood test results?"

"What? No different from ordinary people? Impossible! The power he showed that day was already on par with a cheater! How could it be the same as ordinary people's blood data! Continue the research for me!"

"Huh? Someone wants the blood report from you? No matter who it is... If it's those old guys, you can share a part of it, only the current one, and the subsequent research results cannot be provided."

Hanging up the phone, the Second President's eyes flashed with thoughtful light, turned off the lights in the conference room, and his whole body was between the light of the corridor lights and the darkness of the conference room.

"Those old guys don't dare to do it themselves, but want to pick up my leftovers."

"But why is Fang Yue's blood no different from ordinary people? That doesn't make sense..."

Cheaters are immortals, and the bodies of immortals have reached the point where existing technology cannot analyze them. Therefore, even though there is a treasure trove of cheaters, they can only stare blankly and have no way to study them.

Fang Yue's situation was obviously different.

That was the process of humans still evolving towards the body of an immortal, a stage that was still researchable.

If they could bypass the game medium through systematic research and artificially create more existences like Fang Yue, then the existence of cheaters would not be so important to them, and even the agreement with the cheaters could be torn up, without being restricted anymore.

After thinking for a moment, the Second President decided to stabilize Fang Yue first.

Before getting what they wanted, Fang Yue was still very important to them.

As for the weapon Fang Yue wanted, they could consider giving him a satisfactory one, at least a cage.

Thinking of these things, the Second President walked out.

...

The bizarre weapon and [Extinguishing Immortal Water] were delivered.

Needless to say, the Extinguishing Immortal Water, Fang Yue got a pouch and kept it close to his body.

As for the bizarre weapon, he took a good look at it.

It was a katana, with a blade as cold as frost, with a different kind of beauty.

However, Fang Yue had never used a katana before, and Blue Sea Game had an ancient background. He had never seen this kind of katana in the game at all.

This made Fang Yue a little puzzled. How could this thing be a bizarre item?

But soon, Fang Yue thought of one thing, that is... he has not been out of Qing Country so far.

In other words, he hasn't seen what the countries outside Qing Country are like. Maybe people in other countries use weapons like katanas, so it's reasonable to have a katana bizarre item.