When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 35.1

Deep in an old industrial park on the eastern outskirts of District 13 in Jing’an City, in a quiet old alley, a row of dilapidated air conditioner units hung on a wall with peeling paint covered in moss. Scattered droplets from last night’s rain lingered, slowly dripping along the edges of the units into small puddles in the corners.

Everything was quiet—except for a squad of police officers that suddenly appeared at the entrance of the alley.

It was a sensitive time during Jing’an City’s major election, and any small disturbance could cause a big reaction. Upon receiving the report, the city police force immediately deployed officers around the area, with the main force rushing into the alley.

Black combat boots trampled over the uneven stone pavement as the main police force swiftly entered the alley, quickly taking down several men patrolling at the entrance and surrounding an unremarkable four-story old building.

This place seemed like a dark corner abandoned by technology, with living standards appearing to be stuck a hundred years in the past. However, venturing inside would reveal there was more than meets the eye.

The officers at the front worked with their teammates to drag away the security guards at the door. The rest of the team charged into the courtyard and kicked open the iron gate of the building.

The huge crash drowned out the blaring music, exposing the luxurious and decadent underground club hidden inside the building to the police officers. Screams from men and women erupted.

The officer at the front calmly tossed in a tear gas canister, then stepped back and closed the door again.

White smoke rose in the hall, followed immediately by agonized screams and wails.

The sounds were horrific, but the officer holding the door remained steady. After putting on gas masks, they stormed into the building once more.

The officers in charge of the initial breach had already destroyed dozens of cameras along the way, though they weren’t sure if any were missed. All personnel were prepared to deal with a major problem.

As they had predicted, Xu Zaixi’s true confidants quickly retreated into the building as soon as they detected the police, without alerting a single extra person. They directly used the reveling clients and “temporary workers” brought in for daily tasks as human shields to delay the police, while they themselves rushed to the basement first to deal with documents they hadn’t had time to clear out.

The business license for this place was not complete, and even the Industrial and Commercial Bureau couldn’t find records of its existence. So in times of crisis, many things that couldn’t see the light of day were stored here. Now with the police suddenly showing up, it was practically a death sentence!

The person truly in charge of the location was furious almost to the point of death. He grabbed a subordinate who had just returned from Xu Zaixi and demanded: “Was it you?! When did you betray the boss?!”

The man panicked and shook his head frantically, clutching his superior’s hand: “It really wasn’t me, Brother Lin! I don’t know what happened either. I just came back normally. The boss’s place was just inspected by the Supervisory Commission. How could I have known those cops would follow right after…”

The burly man suddenly paused as he said this, as if remembering something. An ominous feeling suddenly crept up his spine.

“Boss, we really can’t delay any longer!” A young man wearing glasses and holding a laptop computer rushed up to the person in charge, speaking urgently. “The backup data is being deleted, but there’s not enough time! A lot of information on ‘supply’ channels is still in the main server. There’s no way to transfer it all in such a short time, and we still have so many samples.”

Following the young man’s words, the person in charge and the burly man’s gazes swept over the dozen or so “samples” stored in different transparent containers around the basement. These were all real, tangible assets. Sacrificing them would result in who knows how much loss.

Gunshots rang out upstairs right on cue, the deafening sound snapping their attention back.

The situation was critical and there was no time for hesitation. The leader in charge gritted his teeth, his expression fierce as he said: “Blow it up! Blow it up now. Everyone evacuate the basement. Blow up the warehouse and the main server together! Watch out for those cops. Retreat now, don’t confront them head-on. Number Two and Number Three come with me, the rest cover our retreat. Don’t leave any traces behind!”

“Yes sir!”

The subordinates quickly responded. The pre-planted explosives were armed, and the weapons arranged on the second and third floors began to take effect. The sounds of battle traveled down to the basement through the water pipes and ventilation ducts.

“Retreat! Retreat!”

Amidst the chaos, a man in a club uniform rushed to the person in charge. Covering his ears against the deafening noise, he shouted to their leader: “Boss, it’s bad! The brothers weren’t paying attention for a moment and let Su and that kid escape! He didn’t die even after all those injections!”

The leader who was leading people out through a side route paused for a moment, his expression twisting to the extreme: “Forget it. We don’t have time to deal with him now. If he escaped, so be it. He may not survive anyway. Clean up the others thoroughly. Retreat now!”

“Yes sir!”

Amidst the deafening sounds of gunfire, screams of agony from either clients or prostitutes, and the belated wail of police sirens, a bloodied and disheveled figure painfully crawled out of the alley. Leaning against a dark corner, she used her bloodstained hand to pull out a backup terminal hidden in a crack between bricks.

The last message from her contact was still from a week ago when she was unexpectedly exposed and captured. The contact’s urgent messages filled the entire screen. The woman known as Su He smiled faintly and typed with shaking hands: [Operation successful. I’ve escaped.]

On the other side of District 13, far from the club and almost halfway across the district, in front of the Supervisory Commission building, a deputy prosecutor from the court who had finally gathered enough information and come to the Supervisory Commission, willing to risk exposure to file a real-name report, felt the second terminal hidden in her pocket vibrate quietly.

The deputy prosecutor was startled for a moment. After realizing what was alerting her, she immediately changed direction and ran to the roadside to open the terminal.

Seeing that one line from her long-lost partner, the deputy prosecutor let out a long sigh of relief. It took her quite a while to realize something was off. She cast a suspicious glance towards the Supervisory Commission building:

She hadn’t even started reporting yet, had she?

Who had acted first, taking advantage of the chaos to fish out her partner.

Inside the Supervisory Commission building, in the Inspector General’s office, Yi Jing was holding a cup of coffee and standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, waiting for feedback on the police action from that mysterious friend whose background even she couldn’t quite figure out.

It was quite interesting, when she first arrived in this world she had almost no power base. She didn’t even know if her blood relatives were real or fake. She could only trust some of the content saved in the original owner’s terminal and the information left on the original body.

At that time, there was a strange contact pinned at the top of the original owner’s contact list, with the note: Qi Xiao (Absolutely reliable, can find her if in trouble).

At first Yi Jing was quite puzzled. Was the original owner someone with a terrible memory, unable to remember if her own friend was reliable and needing to make a note?

Then Yi Jing put this matter out of her mind and didn’t pay much attention to this contact. After all, it was just a note, not necessarily reliable.

But this time, for her plan to succeed, Yi Jing had no choice but to rely on the capabilities of the security system. So even though it was risky, she had to take a gamble.

Fortunately, the original owner’s note was not wrong. Even though the information she provided was vague and still had some questionable points, the Chief Inspector of Jing’an City Police quickly dispatched officers.

After another two or three minutes, feedback from the Chief Inspector finally came through:

[Operation successful]

[Unfortunately we didn’t bring enough people. Didn’t expect the other side to have hidden firepower. If this had erupted during the election period, I really can’t imagine the consequences. Tell me, how dare they do such things right under my nose!]

[Are they tired of living?]

Several messages pinged into Yi Jing’s terminal one after another. Yi Jing glanced at them and quietly let out a sigh of relief, then asked: [How many were caught?]

Chief Inspector: [We caught most of them. We uncovered things at several locations. These people’s organization is quite tight-knit. Feels like we can interrogate quite a bit out of them. Also, an underground casino club exploded. Not sure how many people escaped. The tech team is working on recovering the data.]

[Good.] Yi Jing replied, but this wasn’t actually what interested her most. What she cared about most was something else.

[Did you get the file I wanted?]

Chief Inspector: [Got it, got it. But isn’t that just some reporting material? The evidence in it is quite comprehensive, but is it really worth all this trouble? Hey, I saw the author you know. Is it because of who wrote the report that you care so much? Hehe, do you like them? I’ve heard this Yu Miao is super beautiful.]

Yi Jing: “…”

Yi Jing bit her thumb knuckle, how could this person be so gossipy: [You just raided so many criminal hideouts and still have time to type?]

Chief Inspector: [I’m just concerned about you!]

Yi Jing: [You should be more concerned about those reports. The evidence chain is right in front of you, aren’t you going to make arrests?]

Chief Inspector: [Hey! That’s for the district-level police to handle. I’m the Chief Inspector, not a district police chief! What does this have to do with me?!]

Yi Jing couldn’t be bothered: [Remember to give me the files]

Chief Inspector: […]

Chief Inspector: [Fine, fine, geez. I’ve already handed them over to your Supervisory Commission people!]

Yi Jing looked at the Chief Inspector’s reply and finally let out a sigh of relief.

With this, she could go see Yu Miao again!

Hehe, she had fulfilled her promise. Big sister should be very happy, right?

Chief Inspector: [Oh right]

Just as Yi Jing was about to close the chat window, another message suddenly came from the Chief Inspector: [Image]

[We lost track of someone during this operation. Her subsequent trail disappeared. But I pulled some traffic camera footage from the transportation team and saw this.]

[I don’t know if it’s just my imagination but doesn’t she look a bit like that genius who won a global award and went missing in that dismemberment case two years ago?]

“?” Yi Jing was a bit puzzled. She glanced at the woman sitting in the driver’s seat of a car: [You still remember a case from two years ago?]

Chief Inspector: [Come on, she was a genius who won the global TOP1 award in chemistry at age 20. She was beautiful too. She disappeared in a dismemberment case less than a year after returning to the country. Do you know how many sleepless nights I had because of this case???]

Yi Jing: [I don’t really have any impression]

Chief Inspector: [Forget it, forget it. This isn’t within your jurisdiction. You probably don’t remember.]

Yi Jing didn’t continue chatting idly with Qi Xiao. She carefully examined the photo showing only a blurry half-face, but still felt unfamiliar.

Meanwhile, on a quiet side road behind an office building in District 13, a low-key but somewhat beat-up SUV was parked by the roadside. A middle-aged woman wearing sunglasses sat in the driver’s seat, looking tired and lighting a cigarette out of boredom. After less than two minutes, a young person in a white shirt appeared in view, taking two steps at a time to rush to the woman’s car.

“From the Supervisory Commission?” the middle-aged woman smoking asked, glancing at the newcomer’s white shirt.

“Yes,” the young woman lightly lifted the ill-fitting baseball cap on her head, showing her face to the middle-aged woman.

“Here, the stuff your Inspector General wanted.” A small external storage device was tossed out the car window by the middle-aged police officer. “We still need to keep the originals as evidence. We don’t have the authority to move them around privately. This is a copy made specifically for your Inspector General.”

“Understood.” The young woman responded lightly.

Seeing her about to leave, the female officer couldn’t help saying: “Your Inspector General is quite willing to stick her neck out. She even bothered the Supervisory Commission people just to raid these few locations. Wasn’t there any objection on your side?”

The young woman paused her steps and lifted her cap to look back at the female officer.

Only now that she revealed most of her face could others see that she was actually the deputy to the leader of the Supervisory Commission’s Fourth Group.

“It’s still better than doing nothing,” the young woman smiled. “No one would be dissatisfied. Even our group leader with that explosive temper is just a bit annoyed. Being willing to change is always a good thing.”

The female officer didn’t say anything more, just waved in the young woman’s direction.

Willing to change, huh?

In the Supervisory Commission office, Yi Jing, the central figure being discussed by her subordinates, was sitting in her office searching for information on the chemistry genius Qi Xiao had mentioned.

Based on the exposed parts of her resume, that genius who was accidentally involved in the dismemberment case did indeed have extraordinary talent and achievements in the field of chemistry.

From the known information, the Yi family had already been involved with illegal substances multiple times and was likely inextricably linked. Now with a suspected chemistry genius appearing in Xu Zaixi’s camp. Was there really no connection behind this?

Could it be… that “getting involved in the dismemberment case” was fake from the beginning, just to escape?

Yi Jing lightly bit her thumb knuckle, feeling uncertain. But after searching for a long time, she couldn’t find many clear photos and was unable to confirm if the person in the traffic camera footage was really that chemistry genius.

Although it seemed suspicious, the matter had reached an impasse.

However, while this issue couldn’t be immediately verified, the other matter Yi Jing had been thinking about did have a result.

Before getting off work, Yi Jing, who had been staying in her office, finally received the files she had been wanting.

The small external storage device was handed to Yi Jing. Just a moment ago she had been worrying about the Yi family’s troubles, but now Yi Jing immediately cheered up.

With this, she could go see Yu Miao again!

Other matters could be postponed a bit. She definitely had to leave work on time!

The deputy leader of the Fourth Group was a bit surprised to see the Inspector General, who would usually work a bit of overtime, happily put on her uniform jacket and pick up her handbag to leave work. Before leaving, she even very kindly brought her out and suggested she should also leave work early.

The Fourth Group deputy was silent for a moment, feeling a bit complicated: “…”

If her regular duties could be finished quickly too, she would definitely leave work early as well.

Actually, Yi Jing still had a pile of things to deal with, but she directly took them all with her.

Work and such could totally wait until after she met with Yu Miao!

The official car drove very fast. With Yi Jing having no other places to go, it took less than half an hour to send her back to the Yi family estate.

The banquets at the estate had ended in the past few days, and everywhere had quieted down. However, those young masters and misses from prominent families who came to attend the meetings had not all left the Yi family estate yet.

Whether it was because the problems that appeared in the Yi family this time were really serious or not, not only had Xu Zaixi, who had work to do, not left District 13, even those idle rich young ladies hadn’t left the Yi family estate.

Yi Jing remembered that the main plot in the original novel took place during this time period. During this period, almost all the rich second generation related to the Yi family gathered here. Every so often, a different person would become entangled with Yu Miao, chaotic and explosive.

…If Yi Jing hadn’t already gotten engaged to Yu Miao, the original plot might really have happened at this time.

Fortunately, fortunately she had come to Yu Miao’s side first.

After returning to the Yi family estate, Yi Jing didn’t go to her own residence, but directly ran all the way to where Yu Miao lived.

During this time, because of the banquets, Yi Jing always wanted to go find Yu Miao. Even Yu Miao said she was very clingy. After a while, she became as familiar with Yu Miao’s residence as her own room.

“Big sister!”

Yu Miao lived in a small building with a beautiful garden. Every flowering season it was as beautiful as a dream. Recently it happened to be when certain flowers in the garden were in full bloom. Yi Jing was in a good mood as she walked through the garden and entered the small building, pushing open the door to Yu Miao’s room without any hesitation.

When Yi Jing entered, Yu Miao seemed to be repairing something. Delicate rimless glasses sat on her face, and her slender white hands held tweezers as she cleaned something in a glass container at the end of a somewhat complex device.

“What is it?” Hearing Yi Jing’s voice, Yu Miao naturally lifted her head to look at Yi Jing.

The light from outside naturally fell on Yu Miao, giving her a soft halo that made her whole person look quiet, otherworldly and beautiful.

Yi Jing was caught off guard by Yu Miao’s beauty and was stunned for several seconds before coming back to her senses. She pursed her lips a bit embarrassedly and obediently went over to ask: “What are you doing?”

The equipment Yu Miao was operating looked a bit familiar to Yi Jing. She seemed to have seen it in the trace evidence lab at the Supervisory Commission. It appeared to be small-scale equipment for restoring evidence.

Was Yu Miao also restoring something?

Yi Jing looked carefully for a moment and found that what Yu Miao was holding in her hands was a very old piece of paper. It seemed to have some photos and text printed on it, but it was too worn and the content on it was a bit hard to see clearly.

“It’s nothing,” Yu Miao spoke softly, her tone gentle as she continued cleaning that piece of paper. The originally distorted and wrinkled paper gradually unfolded under Yu Miao’s operation, slowly revealing a bit of its original appearance. “There’s nothing much to do recently, so I’m organizing some excellent reports and obscure news I collected before. It’s professional accumulation I suppose, Hm? What are you doing?”

Before Yu Miao finished speaking, Yi Jing suddenly leaned over and hugged her from behind. After nuzzling her a couple times, she even buried her face in the crook of Yu Miao’s neck.

“What are you doing?” Yu Miao turned her head halfway to look at the suddenly clingy little alpha, somewhat amused as she put down the tweezers in her hand.

“I’m sorry.” Yi Jing said in a small voice after a long silence.

Yu Miao was taken aback for a moment: “What?”

Yi Jing’s arms around Yu Miao tightened a bit as she felt Yu Miao’s soft body and the faint fragrance emanating from her skin.

Yi Jing felt a bit sad, but it was hard to express.

The initial excitement of obtaining the files gradually faded away. Her neglect of Yu Miao’s feelings made her feel somewhat guilty.

She had almost forgotten that if it weren’t for being held up here by the Yi family, Yu Miao should have had a much brighter future.

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