553: Chapter 197 Trust 553: Chapter 197 Trust Iron Heart Dharma King Feheart visualized “deep breaths” in his mind, trying to calm his emotions.

He had already made considerable efforts, but he didn’t know if it was enough, or if his King would raise new questions.

He didn’t even know if he was about to face new situations—or even, whether this was a “trap”.

But this set of justifications was indeed the most beneficial for him and for the Six Dragons Sect.

The Iron Heart Dharma King had actually deduced the truth behind the explosions that rocked Secluded Crane City from the beginning.

Once the Igni Seal was triggered, King Aqini would surely focus his attention on that area.

Moreover, there were many secrets within the Secluded Crane Knight Order that, if exposed, would lead to the Six Dragons Sect’s utter doom.

Members of the Six Dragons Sect within the Secluded Crane Knight Order made a decisive move by blowing up the satellite station before King Aqini could react, which was good.

After the satellite station was destroyed, King Aqini would have to wait for other backup satellite stations to be activated, taking over the main satellite station’s duties.

Once he realized the backup stations couldn’t be activated, he would have to rely on other ground-based wired connections, tapping into those.

Wired connections are much more stable than satellite signals in severe weather.

Although the satellite network is sufficiently developed, each city still has its own wired connections as backups.

But this process takes a little time.

If the Six Dragons Sect seized the opportunity, they could cut off these lines.

By then, they would effectively be without a shred of evidence against them.

King Aqini might still find some other secret lines to connect through, but the number of transitions would be too many, leading to very high delays.

King Aqini’s great Inner Strength would be of no value.

The real strength of the intruders into Secluded Crane City, the Heroes, would not be substantial.

All in all, it should be enough for the Secluded Crane Knight Order to destroy all evidence.

If the several Hermit-level managers of the Secluded Crane Knight Order couldn’t even do this…

Then Iron Heart Dharma King would have to accept his fate.

A moment later, King Aqini finally made a decision.

A prompt appeared before the Iron Heart Dharma King.

He was asked to download a patch that he had never seen before.

“This is a show of trust to you, Feheart,” King Aqini said, “The instructions for its use are in the installation note.”

Without hesitation, Feheart agreed to the installation and then read the note.

Of course, he knew what it meant.

King Aqini temporarily believed that Feheart had not materially betrayed him, but had some doubts about his stance.

These patches would help King Aqini better monitor the Iron Heart Dharma King—especially when he communicated with the Six Dragons Sect.

However, this was also acceptable.

For now, completely hacking into another person’s brain remained a “myth”.

At best, people could only read memory data recorded on the hard drive.

Within the underlying protocols of the brain-machine interface, there were several definitions specifically designed for the computer to recognize and translate brain electrical signals, and there were specialized security protocols to ensure this process was controllable.

If one’s Inner Strength was sufficient, one could completely control the information input to the computer and even disguise one’s mental activity in front of the computer.

Moreover, the Martial Ancestor and Turing permanently embedded this into the underlying protocols of the brain-machine interface.

Within the Six Dragons Sect, there were indeed legends about brain hacking, but King Aqini could not do that yet.

And thanks to cryptography, Feheart still had a few methods to pass small bits of intelligence in front of King Aqini.

Even hiding data of just a few bits was enough for him to inform the Six Dragons Sect that he was in danger.

Trust can always be rebuilt.

Whether it takes three years or ten years, at most twenty years, he would be able to regain King Aqini’s full trust.

And he had another two to three hundred years to live.

Future technological advances could even further extend his lifespan.

For him, this was completely acceptable.

And King Aqini always had a soft spot for those who worked diligently.

Hard work always paid off with him.

Even under such circumstances.

After all this was done, Feheart bowed slightly, requesting King Aqini’s permission to temporarily suspend his monitoring task on the Six Dragons Sect, as to “avoid suspicion”.

King Aqini scolded him neither too lightly nor too heavily.

Because in official data, Mr.

Feheart is currently the highest-ranking Protector spy within the Six Dragons Sect’s system.

——That was to be expected.

Most of the real Protector spies had been personally rooted out by the mysterious and unfathomable Sect-protecting Dharma King, Mr.

Iron Heart.

And the Six Dragons Sect’s methods with the brain were not as gentle as King Aqini’s.

Only a few people were placed within the relatively harmless group of Sect Defenders, and that’s how they remained.

The Iron Heart Dharma King continued to ask, “Then, my King, how should I continue with this task?

In which direction should intelligence work within the Six Dragons Sect proceed?”

“That is a question,” King Aqini said, “Go to the workstation.

We need to quickly eliminate the problems left by that madman of the Turing Lineage and regain perfect control of the satellite network system and space-based weapon system.”

He planned to designate the area around Secluded Crane City as a “high-pressure zone” to undergo the strictest scrutiny.

Iron Heart Dharma King nodded, saluted, and then turned to leave.

A few Internal Strength Masters also left with him, heading to the workstation in the “Lotus Platform” area.

A few colleagues patted him on the back, signaling him not to worry too much about the issue.

Iron Heart Dharma King replied with a friendly emoticon on his display.

As he passed through a corridor, Iron Heart Dharma King lifted his head to gaze into the profound starry sky, away from the direction of the sun.

——I am already very tired…

——The great task of “Ascension”…

——I hope there are no new situations with the Holy Maiden.

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At this time, inside a castle on the edge of Secluded Crane City, five slender Cybernetically Enhanced People were getting their equipment ready.

One of them held a small box in their arms.

The quantum storage device itself was not too large, but maintaining its operational environment required extra equipment—if not, environmental heat noise could lead to its degradation.

Usually, a large Prosthetic Body would suffice to address the issue.

However, to enter Earth under King Aqini’s rigorous surveillance, the group had to temporarily abandon their three to five-meter large Prosthetic Bodies.

Naturally, the quantum device had to be carried out separately.

The group was preparing to head westward to the east coast of the Pacific Ocean.

But at that moment, a person came in hurriedly with the message, “Holy Maiden, there’s been an incident, I’m afraid you can’t leave just yet.”

The leader of the Six Dragons Sect members looked surprised and asked, “What’s happened?”

“The Igni Seal has been triggered,” the person bowed slightly, “King Aqini will surely take notice of this place.”