HDRDTH -Chapter 102 The Only Thing We Can Do Is Not Drag Him Down

Yu Xian stared dead at his phone screen, his left thumb hovering over the hang-up button, his eye twitching violently.

Three billion?

Twenty thousand tickets?

A cross-border corporate account?

“Lin Jianguo, are you out of your mind?” Yu Xian pulled his right hand—with a cigarette between his fingers—away from the edge of the pond and cursed into the phone. “Which scalper is stupid enough to launder money through concert tickets? Go report it to the police immediately. Don’t drag me into this. I’m a law-abiding citizen!”

On the other end, Lin Jianguo’s voice was so excited it cracked. “It’s not scalpers! It’s Sonic Entertainment’s overseas corporate account! They purchased it under their real identity! And their international legal team just sent an official binding notice—they’re demanding all 20,000 VIP seats in the inner field remain completely empty. No one is allowed inside. Not even a fly!”

Yu Xian froze.

He looked at the stagnant pond covered with floating dead leaves and felt the absurdity of the world had exceeded his comprehension.

“Spent three billion just to buy twenty thousand empty seats?”

He bit his cigarette, disgusted. “Are these Japanese people mentally ill or just too rich? What’s the point? Does the air inside smell better or something?”

“Mr. Yu! That means they’re afraid of you!” Lin Jianguo screamed so loudly Yu Xian had to pull the phone away from his ear. “They’ve been psychologically crushed by your ‘Open the Door and See the Mountain’! Now even ‘As Desired’ scares them into spending three billion just to buy peace of mind! This is global-level deterrence!”

“Deterrence my ass. They’re just idiots with too much money,” Yu Xian cut him off impatiently. “As long as the payment went through, that’s fine. Don’t call me again about this kind of nonsense. I’m fishing in Wild Boar Gorge—your call just scared all the fish away.”

Click.

He hung up directly and turned the phone off, tossing it into his old canvas bag.

Then he looked back at the still water and sighed deeply.

“Dafu,” he said, “do you think there are more and more mentally ill people in this world?”

He reshaped a lump of bait and hooked it again. “Three billion just to buy air… what kind of brains are these people running on? Rotten tofu?”

Wang Dafu, crouching beside him with a landing net, nodded vigorously. “You’re right, Dad. With that three billion, they could’ve just rented the entire Yangtze River for fishing. They don’t understand life at all.”

Tokyo, 50 meters underground intelligence center.

Saka Takemaru Fuji stared at the bank receipt showing “Transfer Successful,” and collapsed heavily into his command chair, drained of all strength.

Three billion.

That was the entire Imperial intelligence budget in the Asia-Pacific region for two years.

And he had just burned it all—buying 20,000 concert seats that would remain empty forever.

“Commander…” the chief analyst pushed up his heavy glasses, his voice dry. “Was it really necessary to go this far… just to stop a concert?”

“You don’t understand!” Saka Takemaru Fuji slammed the desk and roared, eyes bloodshot, pointing at the As Desired score copy. “You fools cannot comprehend the terror of that higher-dimensional demon!”

He pounded the table again.

“Nightingale’s death report was clear! That is a ‘ultimate defensive array’ covering 100,000 people! A high-frequency infrasound cleansing weapon built from layered children’s choir and extreme string resonance!”

He panted, almost feverish.

“The lethality of a sound weapon depends on resonance medium! Those 20,000 inner-field seats are the core of the entire formation! If they are filled, the human biological fields will amplify the infrasound exponentially and spread it across all of Beijing!”

The room fell completely silent.

No one fully understood, but everyone was deeply shaken.

“So I used three billion to neutralize the core array point!” Saka Takemaru Fuji stood tall, arms spread wide like a savior. “With no one in the inner field, the sound wave will collapse due to lack of medium! Its power will drop by 80%! I saved all our remaining assets in the north!”

“Amazing… truly amazing!” the analyst bowed deeply, trembling with excitement. “Commander, you have used economic warfare to dismantle a physical annihilation array! A miracle in Imperial intelligence history!”

Saka Takemaru Fuji raised his head toward the flickering red light on the ceiling.

Yu Xian… you think you’ve accounted for everything?

Let me show you what it means to predict your prediction.

China Military Command Center

Chu Feng rushed in with an urgent intelligence report.

“Old Master Li! Just intercepted intel—Sonic Entertainment’s overseas account spent three billion buying all 20,000 inner-field seats of the As Desired concert, demanding full evacuation!”

Old Master Li glanced at the model of the Beijing stadium and let out a cold laugh.

“Desperate struggle.”

He struck his cane on the ground. “They think clearing the seats will weaken Mr. Yu’s ultimate defensive array? Too naive.”

Chu Feng snapped to attention. “They’re trying to break the human resonance medium! Their intelligence officers aren’t completely useless—they’ve realized the inner field is the formation core!”

“And so what if they realized it?” Old Master Li turned around, eyes sharp as blades. “If Mr. Yu dared to release the tickets, it means he doesn’t care who buys them. Now that the enemy has voluntarily cleared the inner field for us—what are we still hesitating for?”

Chu Feng’s eyes lit up.

“Chu Feng!” Old Master Li commanded. “Immediately notify the engineering battalion of the Southeast Theater Command! Deploy to Beijing stadium tonight!”

“Remove all 20,000 seats!”

“Replace them with our newly developed ‘Deep Sea Thor’ infrasound directional amplification modules!”

He pointed at the map. “If Mr. Yu wants full string coverage, we give him full coverage! Use military-grade equipment to drive every note of As Desired out of Beijing and into the open sea!”

“Yes, sir!”

Chu Feng saluted sharply and ran.

But after a few steps, he stopped and turned back, eyes red.

“Old Master Li… Mr. Yu is truly a godlike strategist. He even predicted that the enemy would buy out the inner field and leave space for our military deployment…”

Old Master Li said nothing for a moment, eyes fixed on the Beijing coordinates.

“A national treasure without equal. The only thing we can do is not drag him down.”

Jiangcheng, Wild Boar Gorge Quarry

The wind rustled through dry grass.

Yu Xian crouched by the muddy bank, cigarette hanging from his mouth, staring at the motionless float.

Two full hours.

Not even a crucian carp. Not even a water insect.

“This damn place,” he muttered, standing up. “Water is too poor. Not even algae. What are the fish supposed to eat? Rocks?”

Just as he was about to lift the rod—

His phone in the canvas bag suddenly rang wildly.

Annoyed, he scratched his head and walked over, picking up the phone.

On the other end, Chen Jie’s anxious voice exploded through the speaker.

“Mr. Yu! Something big has happened!”