# Chapter 460: Unnecessary Transaction
"After the explosion, you took the opportunity to kill Kong Cheng. After coming ashore, you were probably planning to take Dr. Deng to the laboratory first, then deal with Chu Yuan and Gan Qing."
"With Tong Jian and Qiu Xiangdong providing support from outside, Chu Yuan and the others had no defenses against you either—killing or sparing them would have been very convenient."
"If I'm not mistaken, you originally planned to make your move last night."
With the matter laid out so clearly, Chu Yuan and Dr. Deng had already mentally classified Miao Yu as an enemy. However, Miao Yu clearly didn't intend to admit it. Instead, she laughed and said, "Are you saying all this to cover up the fact that you got your hands on the potion?"
"After I killed Kong Cheng, I came ashore. The only one left underwater was you. Kong Hui was also killed by you. There's no one else it could be."
"But saying this now is meaningless. You're not in the instance, so you can leave Deep Blue Island anytime. I don't want to waste words arguing with you either."
"However, I am very interested in the potion that the Bolen Clan has been searching for. Why don't you take it out and let me have a look?"
"This bitch thinks we're idiots," Chu Yuan said viciously. "She even killed her own allies. Do you think she'd just let it go with a look?"
"Then what else?" Miao Yu simply put her Tang sword back into her item slot and spread her hands. "Can I forcibly detain a player with a ticket?"
The truth was, even if they tore off all pretense, neither side could do anything to the other—except for the unlucky Tong Jian.
"Why bother with her?" Chu Yuan went to get his ticket and said, "Let's go."
But Xu Huo, who was under everyone's watchful gaze, didn't intend to leave just yet. Instead, he said, "Alright."
"What did you say!" Dr. Deng looked at him in shock and couldn't help asking, "Did you really find the potion?"
Xu Huo didn't answer his question. He said to Miao Yu, "I can let you see it, but you'll have to exchange something valuable for it."
Hearing this, Miao Yu's face darkened instead. "Are you serious?"
"Not willing?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.
Miao Yu hesitated for a few seconds before asking, "What do you want?"
"Professor Wu's files," Xu Huo said. "I want the content that Dr. Deng doesn't know about."
"Professor Wu worked at the Deep Blue Laboratory for so long, and the Bolen Clan has full control over this place. There must be plenty of files about Professor Wu."
"If you bring them out, I'll let you take one look at the potion."
"I don't have them." Miao Yu said directly, "The Bolen Clan hasn't shared any files about Professor Wu with me. What I know might be even less than what Dr. Deng knows."
"You're being modest." Xu Huo smiled. "I think you're a member of the Bolen Clan."
Unlike the Kong siblings, who were just hired muscle.
"The Kong siblings even killed Zhu Rumin. Killing one more of you wouldn't be a problem for them."
At this point, Tong Jian couldn't help but glance at Miao Yu.
Miao Yu's expression turned serious. "You are indeed a smart person, but I'm not a core member of the clan. What I know is limited."
"Doesn't matter," Xu Huo said. "The files you give me might not be real, and the potion I show you might not be real either."
Chu Yuan's eyelids twitched as he listened nearby. "Is this a negotiation?"
Neither side seemed to have any real bargaining chips. They couldn't even determine truth from falsehood, yet they were sitting at the negotiating table like this. Was this how negotiations were supposed to work?
Even Dr. Deng, a brilliant man, couldn't understand this operation.
It was obvious that even if Xu Huo had obtained the real potion, he would never take it out. Only things stored in the game panel were absolutely safe. Taking them out meant risking theft.
This way, Miao Yu would definitely lose out. Of course, the files she provided might not be real either. But was such a transaction really necessary?
However, the parties involved thought differently.
For Xu Huo, no matter what files Miao Yu provided, he wouldn't lose anything. He wouldn't take out the real potion anyway. Instead, he would use this to cover up the fact that the real potion was in his hands.
Similarly, Miao Yu didn't expect to get the real potion from Xu Huo. But if he had indeed found the potion, and she didn't know whether he had seen the real one before, he might take out a potion similar to the real one in exchange for her files.
And the Bolen Clan had been searching the laboratory for years without even knowing what Professor Wu's potion looked like. At the very least, this was a way to obtain the potion's color and appearance.
Of course, this was all based on the assumption that Xu Huo had actually obtained the real potion.
Miao Yu wasn't completely unprepared either.
She took a stack of paper documents from her luggage compartment. "All the files I can find about Professor Wu are here. Photocopies. I just need to ask you a few questions, and then I'll give you the files."
Xu Huo also took out a tube of P0 Evolution Agent and swirled the pale blue liquid. "I can't be sure if your files are real. At least let me flip through them."
"Fine." Miao Yu picked up the documents, loosened her grip, and flipped through them from beginning to end in front of him, then began asking questions: "Is this the real potion?"
"No."
"Is the real potion this color?"
"Not sure."
"Did you really find the potion inside the false wall?"
"This question is not within the scope of the transaction I agreed to."
Miao Yu paused, then took out another thinner stack of documents. "Encrypted files. All content that Dr. Deng doesn't know about."
"Letting you flip through it all would put me at a disadvantage. I can only show you one page first."
"Two pages." Xu Huo bargained.
Miao Yu showed him two pages. Xu Huo nodded and answered the question: "No. I went to check the false wall. There was nothing there."
He paused and looked at Tong Jian. "Are you sure the traces you found weren't left by some deep-sea creature?"
This made Tong Jian freeze for a moment.
"With such a big explosion, no deep-sea creature would have gone back there." Miao Yu's face darkened. "You're lying."
"You don't believe the truth." Xu Huo's expression didn't change. "Why don't you use a lie-detecting item or device on yourself to confirm?"
That was exactly why Miao Yu was furious. Her intuition told her Xu Huo was lying, but the lie-detecting item gave the opposite result.
"Does she have a lie-detecting item?" Chu Yuan looked her over and asked.
"Otherwise, why would she agree to the transaction?" Xu Huo said. The real problem was that it was a trap. Any answer with a definite direction could expose whether he had actually obtained the potion. Even if he hadn't gotten the potion, she could still obtain information about it from his answers.
"This is the first time I've met someone whose truthfulness can't be determined even by a lie-detecting item." Miao Yu took a deep breath. "Body language, breathing rhythm, heart rate—all of these can reveal a person's current psychological state. This method has never failed me. I didn't expect it to be completely useless against you."
"If it weren't for the fact that you're holding a D-level ticket, I would have thought you were at least a B-level or above advanced player."
"Thanks for the compliment." Xu Huo tossed the tube of P0 potion in his hand to her. "It's a gift for you."
As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared from where he stood. The kite string swept out, also reaping Tong Jian's life.
And almost at the same time as his action, Miao Yu transformed into a shadow and lunged straight at him. For some reason, she caught the potion instead of opening it directly. But this momentary delay caused Dr. Deng and Chu Yuan, who were opposite her, to disappear as well.
(Chapter End)