Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Inside a 200-square-meter black, classical study.

Carl sat quietly in front of the huge black bookshelf, flipping through a large, five-centimeter-thick book with an old, worn cover.

Beneath the book beside me was a large pile of scattered documents and photos, all about Night Song.

He started paying attention to Night Song eight years ago.

Carl closed the thick book, picked up a document from the table, and scrutinized every line and word.

“Lord Karl.” An employee dressed in a Gene Company uniform walked in.

"How is it?" Karl said calmly, "Has the company's system completely self-destructed? Has all system data been completely deleted?"

"Yes," the employee said, "it has self-destructed, but we've also lost many important documents as a result..."

“It’s alright. In that situation just now, if it hadn’t self-destructed, it wouldn’t have been as simple as just losing files.” Karl paused for a moment. “This Night Song is much more cunning than I imagined. He can actually counter our latest system virus. Logically speaking, our virus is customized based on the Supreme Edition Deep Blue system released by Dark City. Even the firewall of the Supreme Edition Deep Blue system shouldn’t be able to detect this kind of virus.”

The employee said, "Does this mean that Ye Ge himself must have a separate system with higher access and functionality that he hasn't released to the public?"

Carl said, "Yes, that must be it."

The employee said with some regret, "Our attempt to infiltrate the system using a virus failed this time. Now Night Song will definitely be more prepared for this, and they will continue to upgrade their firewall. This will make it even harder for us to get our hands on them in the future."

Carl narrowed his eyes: "That's not what I'm concerned about right now..."

He looked at the information and photos of Ye Ge in his hand: "What I care about more now is Ye Ge as a person."

The employee was taken aback: "Oh?"

Karl said calmly, "According to the prophecy of the God of the Future, the Eighth War of All Races, which should have started half a year ago in the original timeline, was inexplicably stopped by him."

"More importantly, according to the prophecy, the character Yege should have died in battle at the age of eighteen."

"The Ye family should also be destroyed this year."

"But now, history seems to have been changed by some mysterious force."

It's like a straight line; because it's straight, you can predict where it will go in the future.

But suddenly a strange external interference appeared, causing the straight line to become irregularly winding and meandering, making everything that followed unpredictable.

The employee exclaimed in surprise, "You mean, there are forces outside the rules that changed history?"

“I have my doubts about this force.” Karl stared sharply at the documents on the table: “It’s Nightsong herself.”

"Night Song himself?" the employee wondered. "This Night Song is ultimately just an ordinary human, isn't he? Although he is a mutant with demonic genes, he is still a life among all races, a being still within the rules set by the gods. How could he possibly change the course of history?"

Carl said, "Because the first change in history began with this Night Song."

He pointed to what was written in the document.

"Eight years ago, when Ye Ge was ten years old, his actions caused something that should never have happened to occur."

"Later, all the major events that happened among the human race, as long as they involved Night Song, were all wrong."

"Including the Deep Blue System, Dark City, potions, and the Eye of the Sky, these are also things that shouldn't appear on the historical timeline."

"And all these things that shouldn't have happened are related to Night Song."

The employees fell silent.

"So, it seems there really is something wrong with this Night Song..."

"Lord Karl!"

Just then, another employee rushed in from outside. This time, the employee looked very flustered, as if something terrible had happened.

"What's wrong?" Karl looked up.

"The human contract employees in Hundred Souls Town have had their identities exposed. It seems they've arrested too many people recently, and Night Song and the Night Watchmen discovered them." The employee said in a panic, "The underground laboratory was also revealed under their torture."

"What?" Karl frowned. "Aren't those contracted employees supposed to have the company's illusion magic sealed in their brains? Why were they still interrogated about it?"

"This...I don't know..." the employee said. "The other side may have an even more powerful illusion master."

Karl's eyes darkened, and he scoffed, saying, "Sure enough, anything related to this Night Song cannot be judged by common sense!"

"Never mind, it doesn't matter anyway. Those artificial embryos in the lab are just experimental subjects, nothing important."

"Wait, sir, there's something else," the employee said anxiously. "The Mechanical Heart, stored in the confidential local area network, has been stolen by an unknown visitor!"

Karl was taken aback, then his eyes widened suddenly: "...Huh???"

At this point, he could no longer sit still and suddenly stood up: "What happened?! Who did this?!"

The employee stammered, "We don't know either... The key was cracked so easily, without even triggering the automatic alarm system three times. It's like it was done by an insider. They didn't even leave any visitor records... The reason we discovered the theft of the Mechanical Heart was because they later cleared all redundant and cached data from our local area network. The entire network settings were practically formatted..."

"??!" Carl almost fainted when he heard that the local area network had been completely formatted.

He slammed his hands on the table and ordered, "Send a message to the company's main control room to find out the last port used to enter the local area network!"

Employee: "Ah, yes..."

Soon, the company sent back a message.

Carl had calmed down by now, and he picked up the data address that the company had sent him.

"This data comes from... the Deep Blue system..."

"So, the other party is using the Deep Blue system to connect to the local area network?"

Carlton paused, pondering for a moment.

He vaguely remembered the string of data codes.

By the way... when the system was infected by a virus before, it infected two people's systems.

One is Ye Ge, and the other is Ye Ge's confidante, a girl named Gao Shenxue.

The virus that invaded Night Song was completely countered, which is why Karl completely overlooked the situation on Gao Shenxue's side.

However, it seems that Gao Shenxue's side also failed to successfully invade at that time.

Gao Shenxue is the chief mechanic of the Ye family and also a top scientist. The Deep Blue System seems to be a product of her collaboration with Dark City.

"Did Gao Shenxue crack the company's LAN?"

Being able to crack the company's code so easily is definitely not something that can be done by "talent" alone...

Karl narrowed his eyes slightly.

Something's not right with this Takashima Snow either!

"Go, find me all the information about this Gao Shenxue!"

Carl gave the order to the two employees in front of him.