Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 1041

The terrifying part was that Serena was actively dictating the Doyle family's scores!

She had flawlessly pinned The Dreamscape Initiative exactly on the elimination baseline.

Once or twice could be dismissed.

But this was ten consecutive rounds!

The tournament structure was insanely complex.

Every single round featured entirely different rules.

There were over a hundred teams competing simultaneously.

How on earth did she manage to micromanage their score so perfectly?

What kind of monstrous computational power and absolute dominance over the field did it take to achieve something like this?

Did anyone realize the implications?

It meant Serena possessed the sheer capability to control the entire tournament.

Whoever she wanted to win, won.

Whoever she wanted to fail, failed.

And yet...

She had deliberately given The Dreamscape Initiative the cruelest kind of false hope.

What was her end game?

"There's no way Serena is just some ordinary college student..."

A deep sense of dread settled in Arthur's chest. "Her intellect, her methods... she's unfathomable."

This was the very first time...

He had felt this kind of profound terror toward anyone outside of the organization's higher-ups.

Arthur's gaze drifted toward Sebastian, who lay broken in the hospital bed.

The sheer brutality of his injuries...

It was a horrific sight.

Was that really the work of a twenty-year-old girl?

Suddenly, Arthur remembered the day Sebastian lured Serena to the abandoned factory...

At the time, he had brushed her off as some capable but ultimately irrelevant brat who needed to be put in her place.

His son had always been exceptional, far more ruthless than him.

"This can't continue." Arthur stood up, his eyes turning dangerously dark. "If we keep letting her drag us by the throat, she's going to systematically dismantle this family."

He could no longer afford to treat Serena as some rural nobody.

If they stayed on the defensive...

They wouldn't just lose the competition.

They would lose all their utility.

And when that happened, the Doyle family would become discarded pawns for the organization.

He didn't even want to imagine the fate of a discarded pawn.

Arthur's expression turned murderous. He immediately picked up his phone and initiated a secure video call. "Get Bianca on the line."

Back in the lounge.

Bianca was in the middle of a screaming fit when an official planted by the Doyles shoved a phone showing a video call into her face.

Hearing her father's name, Bianca went completely pale.

Beside her, Isabella looked equally terrified.

Trembling, Bianca took the phone. Seeing her father's grim, darkened expression on the screen, her voice shook. "D-Dad..."