When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 18

Yi Jing originally thought it was outrageous enough for officials to openly participate in corporate banquets, but she never expected that even the exchange of gifts would be done so blatantly now.

She was still in Phantom City, ahhh!

This is the political center of Jing’an City!

Having barely accepted the existence of that complex gift list, Yi Jing took a breath and still decided to get in the car and leave Phantom City first, considering other matters after she truly established herself. Unexpectedly, just as she got in the car, she was stopped by her direct superior De Linke—

And in a very unique way.

De Linke casually found a secretary from some office in the judicial system of Phantom City to block her car, having that secretary stand by the car window and softly relay De Linke’s message.

As the direct superior of the newly appointed high-ranking official, the powerful and impartial Director of the Supervisory Bureau, De Linke, felt that she was not familiar enough with the affairs of the Thirteenth District. He hoped that before she officially took office, she could go to the confidential archives room in Phantom City to organize the files of major cases left by the previous security officer.

Yi Jing: “…”

Yi Jing had guessed that De Linke wouldn’t have much goodwill towards her, after all, that dry old man looked difficult to get along with. But Yi Jing didn’t expect his show of authority to come so carelessly.

She had never heard of a security officer doing the work of an assistant inspector, and to casually send an office secretary to dismiss her. This was clearly not taking her seriously.

After all, she was an elite parachuted in with an excellent resume, and shouldn’t be treated so disrespectfully no matter how you look at it.

Moreover, what major cases could the previous security officer have handled? It would be good enough not to meddle everywhere and take a cut from helping people settle disputes in that position. What proper files could there be?

If it were the original Yi Jing, she might have really felt that this direct superior was deliberately making things difficult, and might even have directly confronted him.

But while the original Yi Jing would think it was making things difficult, she wouldn’t!

She was already at an information disadvantage compared to those around her, and she had no way of knowing what changes had occurred in Jing’an City over the past few years. Yet that information was also very important to her.

Now having such an opportunity to enter the archives room openly was simply too good to pass up! If anyone asked, she could even push the responsibility onto De Linke’s head.

After all, it was De Linke who told her to come.

Yi Jing was still holding the gift list that the driver had just handed to her. At this moment, without even hesitating, she lightly brushed off the targeting in the other party’s decision, nodded slightly to the office secretary, and politely got out of the car.

It’s just organizing files, she didn’t mind.

However, with partisan struggles ahead, De Linke shouldn’t expect to be able to command her to do this and that peacefully.

Otherwise, every Tom, Dick, and Harry would think of coming to her for favors in the future. Wouldn’t that drive her crazy?

Yi Jing said to the office secretary, “I understand. Please trouble you to inform Director De Linke that I will go to the archives room.”

After saying this, Yi Jing turned to the Yi family driver, casually took off her white gloves and threw them into the car, saying, “I won’t be going back for now. Tell Auntie to take good care of someone. Um, Auntie will understand if you say it like that.”

Driver: “?”

The driver was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Yi Jing suddenly became so agreeable. But seeing the forced smile on the face of the secretary not far from Yi Jing, the driver still obediently nodded, and then drove the car away.

“Shall we go together?” Yi Jing extended her hand to the secretary in a good-natured manner, indicating for the other party to return to the judicial system office building with her.

The secretary could barely smile, reluctantly agreeing to walk back with Yi Jing.

She wasn’t even from De Linke’s faction… Why push her to do this offending task?!

Life was too harsh on her!

However, Yi Jing acted as if she hadn’t noticed anything unusual, calmly facing the puzzled looks from others all the way back. No matter who asked her why she suddenly returned, Yi Jing would exchange pleasantries with them, and then casually say, “Oh, Director De Linke wanted me to come.”

Finally, she would calmly leave under their uncertain gazes.

Miss Secretary: “…”

This new security officer seemed taciturn and bad-tempered, originally thought to be easy to deal with, but unexpectedly turned out to be a soft nail hard to press down.

With such publicity, wouldn’t the whole Phantom City know about Director De Linke’s deliberate targeting? How is this any different from having one’s future prospects stabbed in the official circles of Jing’an City, where reputation and relationships are particularly valued?

Now Director De Linke is in for a tough time.

Yi Jing didn’t care much about what the secretary beside her thought of her. She calmly entered the office building with Miss Secretary, then immediately headed to the mayor’s office—

Just in time, the mayor was still meeting with those tycoons, and now there was only a not-so-important secretary waiting to handle urgent matters near the mayor’s office.

Didn’t De Linke like to make things difficult, wanting to test her?

Then let De Linke see what kind of person she is.

She only needed to tell this secretary that she would go to the archives room soon, pretending she had already notified her superiors. As for how that secretary would manage to inform the mayor and deputy mayors through so many wealthy businessmen, or whether the mayor would figure out a way to balance the pros and cons and call her out, that was someone else’s business.

Or if the people from the political and legal system didn’t want to get involved in the judicial system’s affairs, that was fine too. By that time, she would probably have already seen quite a few files. Afterwards, whether pretending to be diligent and continuing to stay to look at files or going with the flow and leaving on her own would be better than directly confronting and leaving. After all, she had already seen the files, and De Linke’s hostility towards her would also spread.

The first step that absolutely applies when integrating into a strange environment with clear class distinctions—make your stance clear.

Even if it’s just a superficial stance.

By then, people with opposing stances to De Linke would naturally consider approaching her, and those allied with De Linke well, Yi Jing seriously doubted there were actually such people.

But it didn’t matter anyway. After making her stance clear, the information she wanted would naturally come to her.

As long as she could guarantee her own value, the initiative would always be in her own hands.

Yi Jing leisurely went downstairs and entered the confidential archives in the basement of the judicial system office building.

Just as Auntie had said, the security officer’s ID card was unusually useful. She swiped it at the heavily guarded security checkpoint in front of the archives and passed through smoothly.

The archives had very high restrictions on the identity of entrants. The guards could not follow Yi Jing in, so only Yi Jing entered the archives alone.

The archives were very large, occupying almost half of the underground space of Phantom City. It stored major cases from Jing’an City over the years. The information database was directly connected to the central system of Phantom City. Walking in was like entering the vault of a large bank. The temperature and humidity of the air were adjusted to the most suitable state for preserving hardware equipment and some paper documents.

A dry, cold, unfamiliar smell accompanied by the operation of electronic equipment hit her face.

Yi Jing stood in the spacious and empty passage, hesitated for only a second before quickly walking towards one of the long row of pyramid-shaped doorplates floating in mid-air that displayed ‘Grade A Cases’.

That doorplate corresponded to the Grade A case file room.

—Since she was here, of course she should look at the most important ones in sight.

Without thinking, Yi Jing swiped her ID card to open the door.

The archives room above Phantom City was quite different from the general concept of archives rooms in Yi Jing’s era, and even seemed to have some simulated elements.

The moment the silver-gray metal doors retreated to both sides, what was inside somewhat surprised Yi Jing.

A blue information flow sparkling with crystalline light points fell like a waterfall from the ceiling, flowing along the cylindrical, hollow protective cover connecting the ceiling and floor, enveloping a semi-transparent tree-shaped device inside the protective cover.

In front of the cylindrical protective device extended a verification access port about half a person’s height. The blue information flow fell from the ceiling, gathered outside the protective cover, and finally flowed around the verification access device, one in front and one behind, towards the entrance and the depths of the archives room.

At both ends of the space separated by the information flow were the storage areas for paper documents, with circular bookshelves extending layer by layer, gradually disappearing into darkness.

Yi Jing frowned as she surveyed the surrounding environment, then took out a pair of plain glasses from the inner pocket of her uniform and put them on.

She felt that this lighting wasn’t very friendly to the eyes.

Yi Jing had just put on her glasses and hadn’t had time to make any moves when an unfamiliar voice sounded from within the archives room:

[Welcome to the Grade A Major Case Archives Room]

Yi Jing: “?”

Who’s that?

A gentle and refreshing girl’s voice suddenly came from all directions in the archives room. A semi-transparent image of a girl wearing a light blue long dress slowly appeared in the tree in the center of the protective cover.

What is this thing?

AI? Holographic projection?

[I am Andy, the holographic personified manager of the major case archives room, serial number: S-01338725, looking forward to assisting you]

Manager?

Yi Jing looked at the girl’s image that seemed to really have consciousness, then looked at the light screen projected above the access port, and lightly tapped her ID card on the operation panel of the verification access port.

The quiet projection immediately reacted: [Jing’an City Thirteenth District Security Officer – Yi Jing, identity code: #……#, successfully accessed, welcome to your visit]

Yi Jing looked at the AI projection smiling at her, and inexplicably had an intuition that this existence might be the last line of security in this vast archives room.

…Deducing from the phenomenon, she should have known that since the information flow in the archives is connected to systems in other places, there must be a risk of direct hacking. If there are risks but it’s still open, it can only mean that the security level here must be very high, and activating the alarm system might just be a matter of moments.

With such a high-level security accompanying, Yi Jing always felt like she was being watched while working.

Without thinking, Yi Jing waved her ID card: “What’s the highest level of authority I can open?”

The holographic projection opposite immediately responded in an ethereal voice: “You have A+ level authority. Except for activating the emergency self-destruct procedure, the Grade A Major Case Archives Room allows all your operations.”

Yi Jing thought for a moment: “Open the highest authority.”

Andy’s originally gentle human-like gaze paused slightly, finally revealing a bit of artificial intelligence trace, and answered mechanically: [Alright, the highest authority has been opened for you]

As her words fell, the lights in the archives room dimmed layer by layer, until finally even Andy’s figure dimmed. The light-colored screen changed silently. Yi Jing inadvertently glanced at the content on the screen and was surprised to find that with the change in authority, the information she could see was actually different!

Originally, Yi Jing had just randomly selected a major case marked as ‘unsolved’ from the long list of readable sequences. When the file opened, there were only lines of dry responsibility statements, making it difficult to see anything substantial. But with Andy’s disappearance, a large amount of hidden information marked in red appeared, completing the entire file. There were even hidden attached files that automatically popped up from the original content to be read, listing one by one under those pressed clues.

Yi Jing’s pupils contracted: “?”

Is this… a lucky hit?

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