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Winter day, the sun was bright and not blinding.

On a relatively secluded road on the outskirts of Anling City, the gentle light and shadows lingered where not many vehicles passed by.

Lin Chuan pulled over to the roadside and stopped.

In the passenger seat,

The Little Landlady looked at Lin Chuan with slight confusion and asked, "Chairman, why have you brought me here?"

Lin Chuan unfastened his seatbelt and made a shushing gesture.

Then, he took out a tablet, lightly tapped the screen, and remotely connected to the computer at Falcon Technology Company's office.

Soon after, Lin Chuan put on an over-ear headset.

A moment passed.

The headset emitted faint sounds, resembling the wind, interspersed with noises of someone rummaging through things.

Lin Chuan was not in a hurry; he quietly listened.

Finally, he heard a cellphone ringtone from the Asia-Pacific office of the Morgan Group.

Lin Chuan glanced outside the car, saw no suspicious activities, pursed his lips slightly, and listened more intently to the sounds coming through the headset.

"Run?"

It was 'Yu's' voice.

Although the sound wasn't loud, Lin Chuan could still hear clearly.

Shortly, Yu spoke again, "Alright, I'll investigate immediately!"

Lin Chuan furrowed his brows.

At that moment, he heard Lucas's voice clearly in the headset, "Yu, is there an emergency?"

Yu replied, "The news from over there suggests that Lin Chuan might run!"

Lucas paused, "Where would he go?"

"Abroad."

"Going abroad now? Isn't that suicidal?"

"It's hard to say, this man is very cunning and full of tricks. They have a saying over there, 'a crafty rabbit has three burrows.' Once he leaves the country and vanishes from our sight, it truly won't be easy to find him!" Yu spoke with a certain gravity.

On the other side,

Lucas, surprised by this news, asked, "He doesn't care about his little girlfriends anymore?"

Listening to this, Lin Chuan's mouth twitched.

What did he mean by 'his little girlfriends'? There's only Xinxin, right!

"Zhang Xinxin, who co-founded the company with him, should be in his car, probably planning to run together!" Yu Qin looked at Lucas and said.

"What about the other two?" Lucas asked.

"Shen Qianqian and Xia Qingqing haven't moved, but we can't touch those two. He probably figured this out as well, which is why he's taking Zhang Xinxin first," Yu Qin speculated.

"Didn't think he'd be such a coward!" Lucas scoffed, "Then our lawsuit is as good as won!"

Yu Qin nodded slightly.

Following that, Yu Qin and Lucas immediately began to investigate Lin Chuan and Zhang Xinxin's travel itinerary.

Lin Chuan had no trips planned in the coming days.

He had been sued and had lawsuits pending, which temporarily restricted his travels.

Yu Qin incidentally found the overseas flight ticket of Li Qing from Company 720, and after verifying with Lucas, they quickly concluded: Lin Chuan planned to disguise himself as Li Qing to flee the country.

Huff—

Having listened to this lengthy conversation, Lin Chuan took off his headset and breathed out lightly.

Basically, a conclusion could be drawn.

—The Karl in the company equaled Karl from the AW hacker organization.

Lin Chuan, unsure whether to praise Karl or to mock him, simply commented, "Very bold!"

"Chairman, may I ask who you're referring to as bold?"

Beside him, the Little Landlady sat obediently for a long time, neither playing with her phone nor leaving the car, just sitting quietly, waiting for Lin Chuan to finish his business.

Lin Chuan turned his head and habitually pinched the Little Landlady's cheek, then smiled, "A rat has sneaked into our company!"

"Huh?"

A look of surprise flashed across the Little Landlady's pretty oval face, "What rat?"

"A big rat!"

Lin Chuan said with a smile tinged with interest.

The Little Landlady furrowed her brow and pondered for a while, "You mean Karl?"

"Very smart!"

Lin Chuan nodded lightly in praise, "You would never guess his true identity!"

Although the Little Landlady was quick-witted, she had never been exposed to the sort of shadowy battles between Karl and Lin Chuan and couldn't guess Karl's identity right away.

Seeing the Little Landlady's puzzled look, Lin Chuan didn't play coy anymore.

He glanced around once more and smiled, "Karl is a core member of AW, and he's come to our company to go undercover!"

"Ah?"

The Little Landlady was momentarily stunned, even more confused.

A core member of AW?

What kind of high-profile identity was that?

Lin Chuan then recounted the details and played the intercepted recording for the Little Landlady, leaving her even more bewildered.

"So what do we do now? Shall we arrest Karl?" the Little Landlady asked hesitantly.

"Arrest him? Why?" Lin Chuan countered.

"To get rid of the cancer in our company and incidentally add some achievements for Sister Qianqian and Sister Qingqing!" the Little Landlady said, nodding as she spoke.

Lin Chuan laughed heartily and waved his hand, "With Karl in our company, I see a chance to take down both the Morgan Group and AW!"

"I understand now!"

Xinxin's little mind finally caught on, "You want to use Karl?"

"Such a good loudspeaker, it'd be a shame not to use it." Lin Chuan raised his eyebrows, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

"So what are we doing next? Heading to the airport?"

"Of course, we need to play out the whole act!"

Lin Chuan started the car, stepped on the accelerator, and after driving around the outskirts of Anling a few times, he headed for the airport.

Anling Airport was not far from Lin Chuan's location.

However, getting on a plane for Lin Chuan and the Little Landlady proved to be problematic.

Just as Lin Chuan expected, he was stopped by the airport staff as soon as he showed his ID and then was escorted back to Anling City.

That night.

The hot search "Lin Chuan seeks to exit the country to avoid litigation" parachuted onto major platforms.

For a time, Lin Chuan seemed to have solidified his "name of infringement".

Through the bug, Lin Chuan even heard Lucas halfheartedly popping open champagne and swirling his wine glass in celebration.

Lin Chuan dared not imagine, if they really won the lawsuit, how joyful they would be?

However, the "Morgan Group" was not a planet of joy, and Lin Chuan was no ambassador of happiness, he thought to himself, "Let the bullets fly for a while."

At present, everything was going according to plan.

Of course, there was also good news!

That night, shortly after the hot search appeared, Leo called Lin Chuan. The conversation was filled with concern for Lin Chuan, who, needing to maintain secrecy, simply reassured Leo without going into details.

Moreover, Leo mentioned—

The 'PHL-191 Remote Box-type Rocket Launcher' purchased by the Hass Armed Forces from Lin Chuan had its first launch today, and it was very successful!

"370 km range Remote Box-type Rocket Launcher, a spectacular debut," such news had already spread back home and was continuing to proliferate.

[Host, you have chosen to create a new weapon—the PHL-191 Remote Box-type Rocket Launcher, which has been launched, and this new weapon is gaining market acceptance!]

[Congratulations, you have earned Leo's recognition.]

[Congratulations, you have earned Steven's recognition.]

[...]

Lin Chuan sat at home, and the system panel in his mind continuously popped up notifications of the "PHL-191 Remote Box-type Rocket Launcher" gaining recognition.

Finally, this assessment task arrived.

Lin Chuan opened the system panel—

[Work: "Arms Tycoon".]

[Current status: Released.]

[Current Popularity Value (Average Subscription): 98775/80000 (including data from home and abroad).]

[Assessment task: Create an unprecedented new weapon, and gain the recognition of no less than 100,000 people (2106/100000).]

The number 2106 kept rising.

"It seems, people from different regions have mixed in."

Muttering to himself, Lin Chuan saw many familiar names in the system panel, such as Zhang Xinxin, Shen Qianqian, Xia Qingqing, Bai Yang, Qin Sisi, Lian Youyou, Sun Cheng, and Angelina were all in there.

As night fell, it was time to rest.

Lin Chuan glanced at the Little Landlady beside the sofa, who was engrossed in scrolling through her phone.

She was wearing a purple, soft-spun yarn nightgown, leaning sideways on the sofa, her legs appearing long, straight, and slightly fleshy—not the skinny type.

Seeing her engrossed, Lin Chuan asked, "Xinxin, what are you scrolling through?"

"I'm scrolling through your 'cannon'!"

The Little Landlady pursed her lips, a smile playing at the corners of her mouth:

Lin Chuan's mouth twitched.

Quite a cannon to scroll through!

But indeed, it was my cannon.

So, Lin Chuan asked, "How powerful is it?"

"Very powerful!"

The Little Landlady's smile was teeming, her bright and clear eyes shimmering with playfulness, blinking like stars in the slowly moving Galaxy.

Lin Chuan moved closer to her: "Let me see."

The Little Landlady shifted, finding a comfortable position, nestling in Lin Chuan's embrace, and placed the phone screen in front of him: "Check it out, international news, Hass Armed Forces launched our rocket launcher, first exposure of the 370 km range."

Lin Chuan's gaze fell on the phone.

On the screen was a video of the rocket launcher being fired, adorned with large yellow letters 'BREAKING! 370 km Range Remote Box-type Rocket Launcher Makes a Spectacular Debut!', and below it several smaller lines read 'Haas Armed Forces debuted a new weapon today, claiming it to be a Remote Box-type Rocket Launcher with a massive power range of 370 km…'.

The publisher was a news outlet.

On the right side of the screen were icons for likes, comments, shares, and favorites.

Among them, likes: 23,000, comments: 6705.

Featured comment—

[This surpasses HIMARS by 70 km, this must be the longest-range rocket launcher on the market, right?]

[I'm more curious, where did Haas Armed Forces get this rocket launcher from?]

[Another advanced weapon found in the desert?]

[Haas Armed Forces: The desert grows weapons on its own, never running out!]

[Next door's hot search, 'web novel writer infringes on Sania Weapons Research Company', seems to have written, the technology patent infringed by that author includes a Remote Box-type Rocket Launcher, that version is 350 km, who knows if it's true!]

[To me, none can match HIMARS, though HIMARS has a little shorter range, but being the best-selling rocket launcher on the market, it's powerful, and technically stable, others boast their range as the best, but in the end, wealthy armed groups still buy HIMARS!]

[...]

Lin Chuan didn't respond to these comments, just smiled.

The Little Landlady in his arms, however, became indignantly: "That person who said it's not as good as HIMARS, such a spineless person, Chairman, when your 600 km range rocket launcher launches, slap his face hard!"

Lin Chuan's left hand rested on the Little Landlady's nape, casually bending to rub her cheek: "These are overseas organizations hiring paid commentators to confuse the public."

"Why are there so many paid commentators!"

The Little Landlady wrinkled her nose, grumbling.

She was a girl, unaware of military matters, but when it came to Lin Chuan's weapons, she was well versed and even specifically sought out some foreign weapon comparisons.

She certainly knew that HIMARS and Lin Chuan's rocket launchers were no match.

"There are paid commentators everywhere."

Lin Chuan smiled, then said, "In our company, there are even undercover agents."

"That's also true." The Little Landlady shifted position, lying on Lin Chuan, "The documents for the lawsuit should be sorted out in the next few days."

Lin Chuan nodded: "No problem, in a couple of days, I'll provide you with an important document, and with that, we'll have this lawsuit in the bag."

"That's great!"

The Little Landlady giggled, then suddenly shifted the topic, her eyes fixed on Lin Chuan, "What did you just say?"

"This lawsuit, we've got it in the bag!"

Lin Chuan glanced at the Little Landlady, sensing something amiss.
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"It's in the what?" The Little Landlady blinked, her eyes sultry with a touch of flirtation.

"In the… bag, hmm?"

Lin Chuan paused, laughed dryly, then with a slap, the Little Landlady beamed, wrapping her arms around Lin Chuan's neck.

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