When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 19

Yi Jing also didn’t expect that her simple desire to avoid being watched would trigger such an unexpected incident.

Taking advantage of the fact that Andy had been sent away by her authority and others hadn’t yet discovered she was in the data room, she could completely seize this opportunity to browse through these files!

Yi Jing’s gaze quickly swept over the documents, focusing on those unresolved clues and the signatories responsible for each investigation phase. Then Yi Jing discovered that several key persons related to this case were actually guests she had just met at the banquet!

Each of them was associated with at least two or three major cases, but whenever evidence pointed towards them, the investigation would immediately cease.

Was this a coincidence or…

Yi Jing’s gaze deepened. Could it be that the judicial, political-legal, and public security systems of Jing’an City had completely fallen?

And the deeper level of investigation targets were…

Yi Jing turned another page of the document, and the connector began to read another attachment. Just as the progress bar on the light screen was about to reach the end, Yi Jing suddenly caught a slight movement outside the data room.

It sounded like someone was opening the door.

Yi Jing was startled and instinctively closed the file quickly, opening another document instead. Coincidentally, this document didn’t have as many attachments and appeared to be just a homicide case arising from an engineering dispute.

Yi Jing didn’t look further into that file, instead directly logging out of the highest authority.

By the time Chen Feng and the Deputy Mayor rushed into the data room, the ethereal blue light belonging to the holographic personnel manager had already lit up.

“Oh my, haha, Security Officer Yi is still here. You didn’t know to stop the security officer, letting her come here alone!” The Deputy Mayor, who had hurriedly arrived, first glanced at the light screen behind Yi Jing upon entering the data room. Seeing that no information seemed to have leaked, he then turned to Yi Jing.

“Really, this is my fault too, for not notifying you in time. Actually, this was all due to a mistake by the secretarial staff below. How could Dean Delinke possibly instruct you personally to come down and check the files? This isn’t work you need to do. It was the secretary below who passed on the wrong message.”

Heh.

Yi Jing wasn’t sure how familiar the secretaries were with their work, but she was quite familiar with this set of blame-shifting tactics.

Once a decision from above goes wrong, it’s definitely the executor who suffers.

“Oh, I see,” not wanting to dwell on the reason for the sake of the innocent secretary, Yi Jing casually redirected the topic, “It’s not a big deal. This is the judicial system’s data room after all, so it’s quite reasonable for me to come and take a look.”

Yi Jing’s expression didn’t change, but she was quietly thinking to herself:

When she went to notify the mayor’s secretary, the other party still had a look of not having reacted, not even sure whether to inform the mayor or not. But now, as soon as the authority was opened, the Deputy Mayor, who should have been attending the banquet, immediately rushed down. She hadn’t even finished reading one file. Was this a coincidence?

Yi Jing turned her head, her gaze sweeping over the Deputy Mayor and Chen Feng.

The political system in this world was vastly different from the twenty-first century world Yi Jing came from. The powers of the judicial, political-legal, and public security systems were dispersed to a surprising degree. For example, although the administrative level of Jing’an City’s mayor was one level higher than Delinke’s, Yi Jing’s direct superior was still Delinke. She usually only reported to Delinke, and Delinke’s direct superior wasn’t the mayor either, but a higher-level judicial system official.

Her original intention was to not let anyone deliberately targeting her have an easy time, but from the moment the Deputy Mayor and Chen Feng rushed into the data room, Yi Jing vaguely felt something was amiss.

She might have been set up.

The conflict between the political-legal system and the judicial system was severe, and it seemed the political-legal system’s interference in judicial affairs wasn’t something new. Delinke himself was the dean of the judicial system, there was no reason he wouldn’t know what was really going on with the judicial system’s database.

People with high enough authority rarely come to the data room, and those who do come to the data room don’t have the authority to see the real information in the data. So this was an unsolvable dead loop.

Under these circumstances, it was absolutely impossible for Delinke to abruptly ask her to come and organize the data just to find fault.

Could it be that he wanted to use her as a sword pointing towards the political-legal system?

A newcomer to politics, with a strong personality and a high-level background.

Delinke himself had been in the supervisory committee for over a decade and no longer had the confidence to stir up any waves. If her position could stand firm, she would be an incredibly useful breaker and pawn.

After all, her setting was someone who would participate in major cases even without personal benefit.

The original body’s persona of forcefully participating in various cases really did attract quite a few people.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t an idiot.

Delinke had miscalculated her style.

The moment she received the news, her first reaction was to muddy the waters, which led to this misunderstanding by coincidence, avoiding being pulled onto Delinke’s boat right from the start.

So now this scene was…

Delinke had set her up without her knowing the truth, deliberately letting her see these hidden facts in the judicial system’s database at the first opportunity, wanting her to get on his boat, and incidentally in this scene, to directly confront the people from the political-legal system.

Yi Jing’s gaze swept across, her vision passing over Chen Feng and incidentally in this scene, to directly confront the people from the political-legal system and Chen Feng, whose stance was unclear.

Delinke’s move was indeed unexpected for her, and she was indeed dissatisfied with what she had just seen, but…

Yi Jing lowered her eyes slightly, concealing a hint of mockery in them.

She wouldn’t be anyone’s pawn.

Yi Jing smiled lightly, speaking casually as if she had never confronted the Deputy Mayor: “But now that I’ve taken a look, I should indeed be going.”

The Deputy Mayor, who had been somewhat anxious, immediately let out a long sigh of relief, and together with Chen Feng, led Yi Jing out of the database.

The two were still chattering about something, but Yi Jing couldn’t be bothered to respond to their pleasantries. She walked while nodding slightly, somewhat perfunctorily, just making sure they didn’t run out of things to say. After all, their back-and-forth was quite well-coordinated.

Yi Jing spared a bit of attention to listen to what the Deputy Mayor and Chen Feng were saying while walking out of the database and retrieving her terminal from the security checkpoint.

Due to the stringent environmental requirements in the database, people entering weren’t allowed to carry terminals. After retrieving her terminal, Yi Jing casually glanced at it, not intending to pay much attention, but suddenly noticed a new contact authorization request in the terminal’s private mode.

Yi Jing: “?”

Who could it be?

She was now a proper high-ranking official in the judicial system, ordinary people shouldn’t be able to find her contact information…

The identity information of the other party only had a few words, but the avatar showed a slender figure, though the identity couldn’t be made out due to the blurry lighting. However, the verification message seemed familiar to Yi Jing:

[It’s me, we met in the warehouse yesterday, remember?]

Warehouse…? Yi Jing instinctively felt confused for a moment, then suddenly realized after two seconds — Warehouse!!!

It wasn’t just that they had met, they had actually…

Yi Jing’s ears heated up, and she quickly put the terminal back in her pocket.

Of all places, Yi Jing turned back to look at the Deputy Mayor and Chen Feng, suddenly feeling these two were now nothing but a hindrance. She couldn’t be bothered to deal with their chatter anymore. After a moment’s thought, she spoke directly: “I’m sorry, Mayor Brown, Dean Chen, there’s an urgent matter at home. I need to go back and deal with it immediately.”

Chen Feng, who had been talking non-stop: “…Huh?”

The Deputy Mayor, who had been trying to make Yi Jing forget about the database’s existence: “Hmm?”

Something happened to the Yi family? Why didn’t they receive any news?

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