Shaking her head.

Constantly shaking her head.

Right now, Lia seemed to only be capable of this one action, and at this moment, what remained deep in her pupils was only panic and unease.

What could she have done wrong?

It was just a case of professional ailment acting up, with itchy hands, wasn't it?

If you steal something and return it, won't that be fine?

Why did she just crash straight into such a massive iron plate! Now it's all gone pear-shaped, totally screwed.

All Lia felt was endless regret.

"Respected world-first strongman Zhang Beixing... I wonder if you could forgive my ignorance?"

"I beg for your forgiveness for my mistakes, after all, I still count as young and ignorant, I..."

"..."

Apologetic words spilling from Lia's mouth seemed endless.

Various phrases, some English words Zhang Beixing had never heard before, mixed with some Lanxi Kingdom French, were spoken in a jumble, leaving Zhang Beixing in a cloud of confusion.

"All right, stop, hold it."

"That's enough, I didn't plan to kill you with a slap, why are you telling me all of this?"

Zhang Beixing finally lost patience.

Indeed, women are all the same.

No matter how beautiful the woman is, if she keeps chattering in front of you, eventually, you'll find it unbearable.

The room fell silent.

A pair of pitiful big eyes, blinking and staring at Zhang Beixing.

Pathetic.

Not to mention, the base color of those eyes was blue.

Like amber, quite beautiful.

Zhang Beixing waved his hand dismissively, "All right, stop acting pitiful there, give back the item to the rightful owner, return what's taken, then apologize to those you need to apologize to. We'll discuss later what's next."

After Zhang Beixing finished speaking, he took out his phone and snapped a photo of Lia.

Hearing the electronic shutter sound from the phone's camera, Lia froze for a moment.

Countless thoughts flashed through her mind, but she couldn't figure out why Zhang Beixing wanted to take her picture.

Makely didn't care about Zhang Beixing taking a photo, it had nothing to do with her.

She just eagerly grabbed back the USB drive from Lia's hand.

The many pieces of information inside were extremely important to her.

In fact, if anyone else took it, it would be of no use to them.

Makely had specifically hired someone to perform special encryption on the USB drive; unless those few world-class hackers cracked it, no one could open it.

Even if someone got hold of it, it would still be something they could touch but not see.

In this world, there are likely fewer than ten people capable of hacking this USB drive's security restrictions!

Of course, Zhang Beixing didn't take Lia's photo to admire later on; he just wanted to check her background.

Though he never felt any hostility from Lia, not even a trace of apprehension or disdain.

Yet Zhang Beixing still found her appearance unusually suspicious.

He started querying Lia's information from the Ninth Bureau database.

The Ninth Bureau's database is set up by integrating archive information from several departments within Great Xia.

Basically, the Ninth Bureau's database can find anything that can be found in this world.

Except for specific nuclear weapon counts from the United Nations and certain backdoor histories of big personalities, everything else is retrievable.

Due to the sheer volume of information in the database, after uploading the photo, Zhang Beixing spent a full ten minutes filtering the data before Lia's personal details were pulled up.

Upon seeing Lia's personal data appearing on his phone.

Zhang Beixing started to smirk internally.

Good heavens.

If she truly is an honest, ordinary citizen, the database might only show one photo and a story that could be summed up in one line.

Unless she's a resident of Great Xia.

For foreign citizens, even if they're exceptional in their own right, like some middle class.

The information in the Great Xia database might only show two more lines in their personal profile compared to other ordinary people.

But this lovely Lia.

Young, barely in her twenties, yet the records about her experiences and major events.

Are already terrifyingly 8,000 words long! A full sixty pages of a PDF document!

Even with accompanying images, it's appallingly over two hundred pictures!

Incredible.

Zhang Beixing flipped through briefly, he couldn't help but feel a slight twitch of his face.

He's an extraordinary martial artist now!

No longer just stepped into the transcendent, he's now in the second phase!

But then?

Looking at this lovely Lia's information, he still didn't manage to maintain a proper expression.

He set the phone down, casting a deep glance at Lia.

"Are you really only twenty-four years old?"

"Absolutely!"

Lia nodded earnestly, even proudly puffing out her chest, as if saying if you don't believe it, you're welcome to verify.

"Please refrain from making odd gestures while answering, you're making it seem like I'm asking something secretive."

Zhang Beixing's forehead was lined with frustration.

He's already seen Makely's puzzled look from the side.

Sighing deeply, this young lady... is not easy to deal with.

"Did you steal and resell the monkey head from the Twelve Bronze Heads?"

"Yes."

"Did you steal the blue sapphire from the world's richest man too?"