King of Assassins-Chapter 189 - 178: You!

Being a young Tenth-level Swordsman, Xiao Wan’s intelligence actually far surpasses the vast majority of people.

The reason she dares to stay in Mingjing City is also her judgment: Blood Shadow will not commit senseless killings.

Killing her won’t solve the problem, but instead will provoke more issues.

Xiao Wan is very confident about this, which is why she dares to make a show of staying at Yuanlong Mansion.

Her purpose here is naturally to find Blood Shadow, but she is different from Yan Qingge.

Although Yan Qingge is exceptionally curious about Blood Shadow, he is also exceptionally in awe. Yan Qingge stays at Yuanlong Mansion, behaving obediently without daring to make any moves.

It’s like a lovesick palace maid, lying naked on the bed every day, waiting for the Emperor’s favor.

Apart from that, there can’t be any transgression.

Xiao Wan is also in awe of Blood Shadow, but the more this is the case, the more her initiative increases.

For this purpose, she deployed eleven military satellites and a Star River-level Light Computer to monitor the entire Mingjing City 24/7.

The registered population of Mingjing City is three billion one hundred seventy-six million five hundred thousand, with an underground population hidden around three million four hundred thousand.

The Star River-level Light Computer, through the circulation of various materials, the scale of underground buildings, and comprehensive calculations of various data, has an error margin of no more than a hundred thousand.

Xiao Wan first excluded the underground population, as they couldn’t be monitored and held no monitoring value.

Judging from Blood Shadow’s actions, this person has a meticulous mind, doing things unscrupulously and without concern.

Such an oppressive environment underground cannot nurture such a strong person.

This is not only due to character but also requires sufficient resources. Combining all the resources in the Underworld, such a strong person couldn’t be developed.

The reason is very simple, just like a pond can’t raise a whale.

Xiao Wan also ruled out the possibility of Blood Shadow hiding in the Underworld.

The Underworld is naturally concealed, and the Celestial Net cannot cover it, making it a place outside the law.

If a master hides inside, conventional means can hardly find them.

However, communication is inconvenient in the Underworld. There are numerous monitoring nodes for external contact.

Xiao Wan self-declared that if she were Blood Shadow, she would never hide in the Underworld.

It seems hidden, but it’s like staying in a hole. There are only a few exits, making operations easy to expose.

Blood Shadow’s actions were all swift. From this, it can be determined that Blood Shadow must be within the range of Mingjing City.

With this judgment, Xiao Wan began monitoring all the Light Computer data in Mingjing City.

With the Celestial Net’s existence, all normal people must interact with it every moment, exchanging data. Even if people don’t actively exchange data, the Celestial Net will actively collect personal data.

This is unavoidable and irresistible.

The powerful Light Computer can easily calculate an ordinary person’s time of death through the detailed data collected by the Celestial Net.

Almost everyone’s life trajectory, including what they say and think, is within the prediction range of the Light Computer.

Given enough collected data and ample samples, human behavior and personality patterns appear much simpler in comparison.

This time, Xiao Wan activated a Star River-level Main Brain to collect and analyze all life data within the range of Mingjing City.

For the Star River-level Main Brain, such analysis and calculation are exceptionally simple.

Including an extremely detailed analysis of Blood Shadow’s actions, the Light Computer can also produce a predictive profile of Blood Shadow.

Sixty years old or older, male, skilled in swordsmanship, cultivation between Level 10 and Level 15. Meticulous personality with bold actions.

Such a person must be free and uninhibited, yet finely dressed. This is the profile the Main Brain provides for Blood Shadow.

Narrowed down to such a scope, with corresponding data, the Main Brain can locate the target at a microsecond level.

However, Blood Shadow has never been found.

Xiao Wan feels that this predictive profile must have a problem. She now overthrows all her previous established views.

She believes the only truly useful clue is Blood Shadow’s connection with Wei Yue.

Because the day she provoked Wei Yue, Blood Shadow arrived that very night. This is certainly no coincidence.

Regardless of whether Blood Shadow intentionally reacted this way to mislead others, Blood Shadow has a fairly close relationship with Wei Yue.

While monitoring all data of everyone in Mingjing, Xiao Wan also compiled an analysis of all abnormal situation data in Mingjing City over the past decade.

What appears to be massive data, in this data era, finding the right answer takes only a second or two.

Over several days, such searches still found no clues.

Xiao Wan then focused the search on Wei Yue, targeting everyone Wei Yue has come into contact with since birth.

This network of relationships was traced to the fifth layer. In other words, everyone related to Wei Yue must be tracked to the fifth-layer network.

The problem is Wei Yue was born with extremely high privileges. Most data is confidential, or simply has no recorded data.

This is the most difficult aspect.

The method Xiao Wan used has already been used by other smart individuals without any discoveries.

Xiao Wan turned her attention to the current Wei Yue, tracking everyone and everything related to Wei Yue.

She simply does not believe that Blood Shadow can completely sever ties with Wei Yue, leaving no data link.

For this reason, she also enabled special permissions to monitor Wei Yue’s Celestial Net communications.

Yet, she found no anomalies in the Celestial Net data.

It’s clear that Blood Shadow contacts Wei Yue through the Dark Web.

Even with high permissions, Xiao Wan is powerless against the Dark Web. She never understood why the Alliance allows the Dark Web to exist.

However, the Dark Web remains, always existing, and is not subject to any monitoring.

In the past few days, Xiao Wan has achieved nothing, with Gao Xuan being the only information marked as an anomaly.

This young man entered Xiao Wan’s sight for the first time.

The reason was simple: Wei Yue contacted Jiang Shangfeng, asking him to take care of Gao Xuan and handle Bai Yutang’s estate properly.

It was supposed to be an insignificant matter that wouldn’t attract Xiao Wan’s attention.

However, the disappearance of lawyers Tie Zhonghai and Feng Zheng led the Main Brain to classify it as an unusual event.

Unable to find any breakthrough, Xiao Wan focused her attention on this matter.

She quickly discovered that Gao Xuan was truly extraordinary!

He is extremely handsome, yet blind, and allegedly possesses mental superpowers. Born in the wilderness, he is an exceptional Sword Dao genius. Gao Xuan is also skilled at charming women—Wei Zhenzhen and Bai Yutang were both his women.

Gao Xuan even had dealings with Wei Yue. According to the data, Wei Yue seemed to value Gao Xuan highly as well.

There were also some rumors suggesting that Gao Xuan had saved Wei Yue.

By comparing the data, Xiao Wan noted that the appearance of Blood Shadow occurred after Gao Xuan arrived in Mingjing City.

This was another highly interesting coincidence.

Xiao Wan found many videos of Gao Xuan, admitting that this young man was indeed attractive; she admired his looks from the heart.

Moreover, Gao Xuan’s swordsmanship was truly impressive. Clearly practicing the most basic swordsmanship, he reached incredible mastery. He also possessed an almost godlike combat intuition.

She also discovered Gao Xuan’s identity as a streamer and conducted a technical analysis of thousands of combat videos.

The analysis from the Main Brain stated that his basic swordsmanship was nearly perfect, possessing precise foresight.

Xiao Wan watched for quite a while, suspecting that Gao Xuan might be using cheats.

Because with the same data, she couldn’t claim she could accurately predict every opponent’s move every time.

The Main Brain dismissed Xiao Wan’s suspicion, stating there was no abnormal data in Gao Xuan’s case.

After considering, Xiao Wan said, "Evaluate the likelihood of Gao Xuan being Blood Shadow."

The Main Brain immediately gave the answer: "The probability of Gao Xuan being Blood Shadow is one in thirty-nine quadrillion."

"How was this data calculated?" Xiao Wan was somewhat dissatisfied.

"The calculation was done by integrating various data."

The Main Brain provided a data list: "Blood Shadow has high Dark Web permissions, uses hacker programs, has powerful Marvels, possesses strong swordsmanship beyond Bronze Level..."

Gao Xuan’s bone age test confirmed he was indubitably eighteen years old.

The many abilities of Blood Shadow, style of actions, motives, age, and other relevant data couldn’t match Gao Xuan.

Even in the recorded activities of Blood Shadow, Gao Xuan’s data remained normal. There was no overlap whatsoever.

"Alright, it seems you’re right."

Upon thinking, Xiao Wan also found it unlikely; human intuition can be wrong, but the Main Brain wouldn’t make mistakes.

Moreover, she merely found Gao Xuan very interesting and good-looking, without any other feelings.

Xiao Wan mumbled, "His swordsmanship is better than mine, yet I don’t believe it."

Just as Gao Xuan was livestreaming, Xiao Wan, without a registered account on the Battle Net, didn’t mind; her access level was high, and she forcefully used an unoccupied account to log in.

Gao Xuan, wearing a mask, was livestreaming. He had already achieved an astonishing over six thousand consecutive wins, and his rank had risen to Silver Level.

The main limitation on rank advancement was time; one had to wait for a certain period before ranking up. Otherwise, he would have reached the Gold Rank long ago.

Six thousand consecutive wins were impressive on the Battle Net.

Of course, in such solo battles, as long as the swordsmanship is high enough, one can maintain consecutive wins.

Across all Alliance regional servers, there were quite a few records of tens of thousands of consecutive wins.

Gao Xuan’s consecutive win record wasn’t too exaggerated by comparison.

Even so, Gao Xuan had already dominated the Pegasus Star Servers and gained some fame on the Twelve Star Domain’s main servers.

Challengers to Gao Xuan actually formed a long line.

Xiao Wan also spent money to secure a spot and entered Gao Xuan’s combat room.

She adjusted various data for her game character and covered her face for the match. She was a bit afraid of losing to Gao Xuan, which would be too embarrassing.

Unbeknownst to Xiao Wan, Gao Xuan recognized her as soon as she entered the room.

The Six-winged Celestial Cicada was too powerful, capable of analyzing and sensing electronic data, instantly locking onto Xiao Wan’s location and identity.

Gao Xuan was a bit surprised, wondering why Xiao Wan found her way here. Had she discovered something, or was she merely curious?

From Xiao Wan’s mental state, she seemed a bit excited but not at all nervous, clearly not recognizing his identity.

Pretending not to know, Gao Xuan smiled and said, "Please state your name, challenger."

Xiao Wan didn’t like wasting words. She raised her sword and cupped her hands, saying, "Please."

"Please."

After formally returning the gesture, Gao Xuan said, "I’m always gentle with beauties; I’ll never end a fight with just one sword strike."

"One sword strike? You wish!"

Xiao Wan sneered and suddenly thrust her sword forward.

At the same time, Gao Xuan thrust his sword. Their blades passed each other, with Xiao Wan’s sword brushing past Gao Xuan’s throat while Gao Xuan’s sword pierced her forehead.

The battle ended in an instant!

Gao Xuan, feeling slightly apologetic, said to Xiao Wan, who had turned into a stream of data, "Sorry, your stance was too perfect; I couldn’t help but strike..."