When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 42.2

Flickering points of light flowed along the metal-colored lines, converging into the wall like water, flashing occasionally as if alive.

This is it!

Seeing the familiar facility appear before her eyes again, even Yu Miao, who had already infiltrated the mayor’s mansion once, couldn’t help but feel her heart rate quicken.

This way she could soon go to the control center of the security system in the mayor’s mansion, and the data she had obtained in her previous life could now be collected one by one!

Being able to do this so much earlier opened up countless possibilities. She could completely gain the upper hand. It was just a bit troublesome to have to share this information with the organization. It wasn’t wise to let impulsive and simple-minded folks with immature power know too much partial information. She needed to find a way to keep the data in her own hands.

Yu Miao was briefly excited for two seconds, but quickly calmed down, suppressing her emotions and forcing herself to be calm. She took a light breath, letting the originally feverish look in her eyes become peaceful.

The next step was to destroy the risk alert module of this safe.

Of course, the protection level for something like the master key would not be lower than the control center. Once the safe was opened, whether operated by the homeowner or not, the security system would send an alert message to the account bound when the system was delivered. If they overlooked this point, they would be exposed as well.

Yu Miao took out something that looked like a laser pointer from the bag she had been carrying. It was a strong band jammer that only a small number of special occupations would use. When turned on, it would release strong band pulses at a certain point, not enough to have any effect on the human body, but would interfere with the internal structure of precision machinery.

Yu Miao pressed the strong band jammer to the upper left of the safe, aiming at a point that kept flashing and pressed the switch.

After using the jammer twice in succession, the indicator light representing the internal network connection port finally went dark.

With this port destroyed, the connection module between this safe and the main security system would not be able to work, and naturally the warning message could not be sent out.

However, error messages would still be loaded in the AI of the main security system. To avoid exposure, they had to quickly get the master key to go to the control center and delete the vulnerability information.

Yu Miao put away the strong band jammer and turned to take out an oval-shaped box made of strange material from her bag.

Inside was the palm print information model of the mayor that she had previously asked Q to print out, which had just been handed to her when she met with Q in the afternoon.

The model had its own temperature and completely simulated human skin texture. As long as the palm print information was correct, it wouldn’t trigger an error. But if there was a problem with the palm print information.

Yu Miao, holding the palm model, sighed lightly, steadied her heartbeat, and pressed the model into the chip-shaped groove.

Although the connection with the main system was disconnected, other parts of the safe were still working normally. A dark red light ring lit up, repeatedly verifying the palm print information and the values received by the pressure sensor three times. Finally, the light ring turned green, the security layer separated, revealing the password input interface inside.

Finally, Yu Miao looked at the interface and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the intelligence she had obtained by chance in her previous life didn’t have any problems this time either.

The mayor thought using his palm print would be foolproof, but forgot that before becoming mayor, he had also signed quite a few responsibility documents, and inevitably one or two backlogged documents retained his palm print information.

The next part was not something Yu Miao could solve. Yu Miao turned to look at the demolition expert, beckoning to her to exchange positions.

The demolition expert, who had been coasting along the whole way, finally had her moment to shine. She walked towards the password box very confidently.

The two brushed past each other, exchanging positions.

Yu Miao stood outside the room where the mayor’s young daughter was staying, unable to resist taking a peek at the girl quietly playing with a rabbit doll with her back turned to them.

Fortunately, the child showed no signs of alerting anyone outside.

If the old mayor hadn’t thought this place was safer and deliberately put the master key in this child’s room, why would she need to break in here?

After just two seconds, the sound of the safe successfully opening came from behind. Yu Miao immediately turned to look.

“Done.” The safecracker turned back and gave an “OK” sign, stepping aside to reveal the contents of the safe.

A semi-transparent blue cube-like object floating in the safe appeared before their eyes.

That’s it!

Yu Miao’s eyes lit up, and she immediately signaled the safecracker to take out the master key, then let the little girl hiding in the room out.

The little girl silently fiddled with her doll, not lifting her head, as if she hadn’t heard Yu Miao’s words.

Yu Miao sighed softly, with no time to deal with it further. She turned and gave a hand signal to the safecracker, and together they retreated from the mayor’s young daughter’s room, striding towards the third floor:

“Now we just need to take control of the control center. As long as we can get the operating permissions for the control center, we’ll have a chance to rescue the people!”

Meanwhile, Yi Jing, momentarily overcome with emotion, was frowning as she moved away from the few rest rooms on the second floor.

She had just been blinded by anger, only thinking about dragging out all those bastards who had attended the banquet and dealing with them one by one, but forgot that as the plot changed, the people who would attend the banquet had also changed.

There were still some spoiled rich kids, but they didn’t seem to be the ones originally mentioned in the book. Anyway, Yi Jing didn’t recognize many of the NPCs. In her fury, she barged into two rooms, but didn’t see any familiar faces, and inadvertently witnessed some indescribable scenes.

Really, she didn’t want to see that kind of thing at all!

Even now, thinking back on it, Yi Jing’s expression was still not very pleasant.

In any case, it was impossible to find Yu Miao like this.

She didn’t even know the time, trigger, or location of Yu Miao’s appearance, so there was almost no chance of finding Yu Miao at the right time. And she couldn’t leave the banquet for too long – if she was noticed, she might be suspected by those old foxes in the political circles of District 13, who knows what they might speculate. By then, she would have even less chance to find Yu Miao. But she was really afraid that Yu Miao would appear here.

She had to find another opportunity.

What should she do?

Yi Jing pinched the bridge of her nose, moving away from those rest rooms while feeling troubled. Walking past the rest rooms and other rooms, at the end of the second floor was a medium-sized semi-open terrace.

Probably to cater to the banquet, this terrace had been decorated to look like a temporary rest area, with standing vases for decoration, and a small round table that looked very heavy next to a red sofa.

On the table surface, there was a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket, two champagne glasses, and a bouquet of lilies. The champagne was still new, looking like no one had been here yet.

The arrangement was thoughtful, but Yi Jing had no desire to relax now. Seeing these things only made her feel more troubled, wishing she could just bypass them.

Yi Jing walked around the sofa placed on the terrace and approached the railing.

The view before her was very expansive, including not only the carefully designed and maintained back garden of the mayor’s house, but also a lake beyond the neighborhood, almost creating a sense of quiet mountain forest beauty in the busiest city center.

Unfortunately, Yi Jing was not in the mood to appreciate it now. The fresh and elegant scenery slid past her retina without being noticed at all.

Yi Jing stood anxiously on the terrace for a moment, unable to resist raising her hand to rub her brow – she was still trying to figure out what to do.

Because she lowered her head, Yi Jing’s angle of view dropped, and a black, blurry object flashed in her vision.

At first, Yi Jing didn’t pay attention, but as she closed her eyes to clear her thoughts, that patch of land that looked out of place with its surroundings suddenly invaded Yi Jing’s mind.

Wait… was that just…?

Yi Jing suddenly opened her eyes, carefully recalling what she had inadvertently seen just now. She seemed, maybe… to have found a branch weapon launch point of the mayor’s house security system?

Because when she was in District 3 before, Yi Jing had personally seen Old Master Yi activate the security system of the Yi family’s house in District 3, and afterwards Yi Jing had specifically gone to learn about that thing.

To ensure that the security system could strike intruders entering the protected building from any direction at the first moment, the firepower storage distribution of the security system was designed and dispersed separately according to the layout of the security system carrier – that is, the buyer’s home – to maximize the effective strike area.

So, the black, blurry metal depression that stood out from the surrounding lawn, which she had inadvertently noticed just now, was indeed a branch weapon launch point of the mayor’s house security system, right?

Under normal circumstances, things like branch weapon launch points should all have been hidden and accepted when the tech company set up the security system, and shouldn’t be so blatantly exposed to view. It not only affects aesthetics but is also not very safe.

Could it be…

That’s right, the mayor is about to hold a retirement banquet recently, and those attending are all celebrities and incumbent personnel of Jing’an City. If one or two troublemakers really sneak in, it would probably greatly affect the mayor’s retirement life, right?

Yi Jing guessed that the weapon launch point accidentally exposed to view now was one that the mayor’s family’s amateur inspectors had forgotten to hide after checking before the banquet.

This is an opportunity.

At that moment, various possible operations flashed through Yi Jing’s mind. Yi Jing remembered the thing she had accidentally brought back when returning from District 3, and her hand involuntarily reached into the inner pocket of her chest, her fingertips touching that small object she hadn’t expected to be of use.

If she could disrupt this banquet – create an opportunity to cause a commotion and divert attention – then Yu Miao, who hadn’t yet appeared at the banquet and hadn’t fallen into danger, should be safe, right?

Moreover, if the banquet was interrupted, she would be able to spare some thought to go find Yu Miao with Yi Heng.

However, doing this still carried risks. After all, with the security system in place, even if there was a way to reduce suspicion on herself, it would be difficult not to be noticed. At that time, she would be in an even more passive situation, practically surrounded by wolves. If Yu Miao hadn’t come here at all, then doing this would be a huge loss, a blood loss.

But…

Thinking of the danger Yu Miao might experience, even if there was only a slight possibility, Yi Jing couldn’t ignore it.

Indeed, since they’ve already encountered this, the current mayor’s retirement banquet was destined to not be able to proceed smoothly.

Yi Jing let out a soft breath.

Having made up her mind, there was no need to hesitate further. Now she needed to think about how to use the available information to create a commotion.

Anything too direct wouldn’t work. The security system was still operating, and once she was locked onto as a suspect, she wouldn’t be able to explain. At that point, things would really get out of hand.

So what should she do? Yi Jing’s gaze swept around the vicinity, noticing a distinctively styled vase nearby.

Was that… EIF?

The favorite brand of those high-ranking officials in urgent need of maintaining their public image, supported by everyone whether they were environmentalists or not?

The old mayor was about to retire, yet he still didn’t spare any effort in creating another wave of image-building in such details.

Yi Jing’s gaze swept over the logo on the vase again, suddenly remembering the most well-known promotional gimmick of this brand – environmental protection.

Everything was environmentally friendly, all works used new technology, whether it was those artworks or other decorations, from inside to outside, from vase to flower soil, all were combustible and biodegradable materials.

Doesn’t that mean? These things can be used as carriers?

Yi Jing’s gaze focused, and she suddenly thought of a complete, feasible method.

With limited materials on hand, in order to achieve both creating a commotion and avoiding suspicion, the method she came up with had to allow her to escape first.

Yi Jing thought for a moment, then turned back to the round table on the terrace and felt around under the table, pulling open a drawer neatly filled with wet wipes and lighters.

Casually taking a lighter, Yi Jing turned and walked towards the bathroom.

She wanted to cause a commotion through that accidentally exposed launch point, but that wasn’t an easy thing to do.

Yi Jing entered the bathroom, locked the door behind her, and spent a while feeling and tapping around the edges and corners in the depths of the bathroom, finding the fixed bathroom facility maintenance box.

Thanks to the rapid technological development in this world, the tech tree had evolved too finely, and even different locations in the same house often used different renovation technologies. Tools couldn’t be universally used for maintenance, so a set of corresponding tools would be prepared directly in locations that were more difficult to maintain.

When Yi Jing was learning about the security system, she also glanced at the basic logic of independent residential construction in this world. Often, the transfer hub of the security system would be placed in the bathroom, coincidentally able to be placed together with the more complex intelligent control module in the bathroom, and such places would usually retain a backup power supply for emergencies.

What Yi Jing wanted to pry away was a small part of the complex backup power structure – the conductive liquid.

The conductive liquid, named similar to a liquid, was actually a kind of liquid metal with strong conductivity and permeability. If not properly stored, it could easily damage the hardware of some precision systems, causing problems in instruction transmission.

This thing was a component of the backup power structure, and only when there was an emergency power outage would the backup power operate to maintain the transfer hub of the security system. Usually, even if there was some damage – especially taking away a part of non-core components like conductive liquid – it wouldn’t trigger an alarm.

Yi Jing emptied the aromatherapy bottle placed in the bathroom, filled it with a full bottle of spare conductive liquid, casually pulled out two fake flowers placed in the bathroom and stuffed them in to confuse the view, then proceeded to restore the bathroom’s arrangement to its original state.

One last step remained.

The cigarettes she had taken from Yu Miao when leaving District 13 to deal with Zhao Qin’s matter were still there. Although Yi Jing didn’t smoke, she knew how to pretend.

Lighting a cigarette with the lighter and biting it between her lips, Yi Jing hid the inconspicuous metal sheet that had been in her coat pocket for a long time – originally not intended for use but just to play with – like chewing gum in her sleeve, fastening it with her cuff link. Finally, she gripped the lighter in her palm and walked out of the bathroom carrying the vase filled with conductive liquid.

As if she had just gone to the bathroom and was planning to continue enjoying the view on the terrace, Yi Jing returned to the terrace with a very relaxed expression, placing the aromatherapy bottle on the railing surface beside her, poking at it from time to time.

Only after half a cigarette had burned away did Yi Jing pretend to casually look left and right, as if she had just noticed that peculiar vase produced by ELF and picked it up.

The security system was still running, and the mayor would definitely use those cameras to find the source afterwards. Yi Jing couldn’t be too obvious.

Under the pretense of admiring the vase, Yi Jing poked the metal sheet hidden in her sleeve into the combustible soil in the vase, then turned the vase half a circle while holding it, opened the lighter in her palm, and pressed the high-heat end of the lighter into the flower pot as well.

A simple time bomb was made.

The core component was the metal sheet that Yi Jing had hidden in her sleeve – it was a miniature compressed explosive called ‘chewing gum’ that she had discovered among Jing Helin’s private collection back in District 3.

Talents abound in the black market, and all kinds of broken inventions might appear, especially in remote places like District 3, where it’s easier for some eccentric talents to emerge.

According to Jing Helin, this thing was a sample confiscated by the district police during one of their cases. She found it interesting, so she got some from the black market and kept it at home for fun.

Coincidentally, Yi Jing also found this thing very interesting, not knowing when it might come in handy in this dangerous world.

However, since this was indeed a dangerous item, it wasn’t convenient to entrust it to others for safekeeping. Yi Jing had originally planned to carry it with her first, then put it away after returning to the manor, storing it together with those anesthetics and other things collected by her original self. She didn’t expect it to come in handy before she had the chance to do anything.

In the brief moment while Yi Jing was lost in thought, the soil in the ‘combustible’ vase began to subtly sink, as if a piece had been hollowed out from the inside.

The lighter had started to burn the flower soil inside.

Yi Jing glanced at the slightly concave part, then at the aromatherapy bottle she had filled with conductive liquid beside her. She raised her hand to open her terminal, casually clicked open a document, then put on a surprised expression as if she had just discovered something important. With a serious face and quite uncouthly, she stuffed the cigarette she had been biting on her lips without taking a single puff into the aromatherapy bottle to extinguish it.

Since she had already noticed the aromatherapy bottle, it was probably normal to do something extra casually.

Yi Jing picked up the aromatherapy bottle with an impatient face, looked at it as if she had lost patience, and put the aromatherapy bottle into the ‘combustible’ vase, then turned to leave.

Under the surveillance of the cameras, Yi Jing’s performance was flawless, completely appearing as if she had received urgent information and had no time to care about a vase or two.

Then, as she was leaving, Yi Jing’s fingertips lightly touched the ELF vase that was filled with a bunch of extra things and quietly burning, pushing it to the edge of the terrace railing –

Just a little bit more.

Just a little bit more and that vase would fall down.

Yi Jing put her hand in her pocket and strode towards the first floor, mentally counting down the time for the vase to fall.

That branch weapon launch point was right below the terrace, in that position she had already aimed at. When the flower soil burns away and the temperature burns through the outer shell of the compressed explosive, it will trigger the first stage of the explosion. That power is completely sufficient to ignite the remaining parts of the vase and destroy the fragile lighter and the aromatherapy bottle containing the conductive liquid.

When the conductive liquid flows into the exposed port of the launch point and the instruction function of the inner layer chip is interfered with, the real compressed explosive without its outer shell will also explode.

At that time, the branch weapon launch point will be impacted, and the internal system will likely be unable to respond normally to safety measures due to the influence of the conductive liquid, thereby detonating the firepower hidden under the launch point position and causing a small-scale explosion. By then, there should be an undeniable commotion, right?

A faint sound of glass shattering came from behind, seemingly the vase that Yi Jing had pushed to the edge of the railing had finally fallen onto the launch platform –

So, the explosion should be soon, right?

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