When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 47

When Yi Jing arrived at the Supervisory Office, as soon as she entered the Supervisory Committee’s office area, she first received a cup of bitter energy drink that resembled Chinese medicine from her secretary. She then received a pile of backlogged work and sat down in her office to start dealing with the accumulated matters under the authority of the security officer.

The Zhao family’s matter still had to wait for news from the Third District before deciding on specific action measures. There was no rush for the time being, so she took advantage of this free time to first resolve the work at hand.

There weren’t any particularly urgent matters, just many documents that required her to review and make decisions on one by one.

In addition to the basic task of helping maintain security during the general election period, there were also many routine investigations that she needed to control the progress of.

When there were major cases, the Supervisory Office was like a ghost demanding lives. When there were no major cases, the Supervisory Office was like a stick shaking the mountain to scare the tiger – frightening this one today, warning that one tomorrow, but without any substantial actions. After all, the interest groups behind these people were all interconnected, and it wasn’t easy to take action. Moreover, if everyone was arrested, there would be no one left to do the work.

Under the to-do list, two full screens of items had already piled up. Yi Jing sighed at the dense work, resigning herself to start working.

Fortunately, Yi Jing wasn’t the only one working hard at this time.

After sitting in front of the light screen and approving seven or eight documents, and carefully delaying the progress of two investigation procedures, Yi Jing pinched the bridge of her nose and pushed up the plain glasses on her nose bridge. Just as she was about to reach for her coffee, she grasped at empty air.

The weight of the cup in her hand felt off, as if it was already empty.

Only then did Yi Jing snap out of her work and notice the flashing message notification on her terminal.

It was Qi Xiao, who hadn’t even had time to attend last night’s banquet but somehow had time to send her a message this morning.

Yi Jing opened it and took a look, finding that Qi Xiao had taken a photo of her finally getting off the police car and returning to the police station. She looked so haggard that Yi Jing couldn’t bear to look at it, like a black miner who had been digging gold for seventy-two hours straight, dim and lifeless.

[Finally back.]

Qi Xiao said.

Yi Jing: “…”

Yi Jing felt that she dared not complain much about her own continuous work and early rising now, and asked with a bit of awe:

[Is the trouble you’re facing that big? Is Jing’an City finally going to be blown up?]

Qi Xiao: [If Jing’an City was really going to be blown up, I wouldn’t be so worked up about it. It’s about the explosion at the mayor’s mansion last night!

Damn it, I just got back from a business trip to the Fifth District! Is there anyone who can manage that lawless wasteland? I finally sorted out some clues in the Fifth District, and as soon as I came back, I ran headfirst into the mayor’s mansion incident, which is actually related to the Fifth District again!

If this continues, things will really turn upside down. The purge action can’t be delayed any longer. Can you quickly issue an investigation order for the Fifth District???]

Fifth District?

Yi Jing was startled, catching the key word.

She knew a little about the Fifth District – the source of the black market, home of underground hackers, kingdom of virtual currency fraud, deeply entrenched problems forming their own system, not something that could be easily dealt with. Rather than issuing an investigation order, other matters were more urgent.

[You said the Fifth District?] Yi Jing replied to Qi Xiao: [Is the mayor’s mansion incident also related to the Fifth District?]

[Yes.]

Qi Xiao seemed to have calmed down by now and started analyzing the case.

[I just got back from the mayor’s mansion, and I’ve grasped the basic situation. We already have an investigation direction, but there are some discrepancies in the details. I wanted to ask you about it, since you were also present at the time.]

Yi Jing raised an eyebrow: [What do you mean?]

Qi Xiao: [Without a doubt, the explosion wasn’t an accident, it was an intrusion. When we went to investigate, the mayor said the intruders’ target was the confidential files stored in the study terminal. The destruction of the control center causing the explosion was to destroy the intrusion records, thereby avoiding being pursued.

But during our investigation, we found that there was a small-scale explosion before the control center exploded, and it didn’t look like an accident. My subordinate officers retrieved some conductive liquid residue at the scene, and judging from the residual traces at the explosion point, the initial damage started from outside the point, basically ruling out the possibility of self-detonation]

Yi Jing: “…”

If he wanted to ask about this, then Qi Xiao had really asked the right person.

Qi Xiao continued: [The mayor said he wasn’t clear about this explosion, and the control center didn’t send him an alarm at the time. The intruders were likely already in the control center by then, and he was deceived by the feedback from the control center.

But if the intruders’ goal was simply to take away the confidential files, there was no need to cause an explosion before leaving, right? That would only increase the pressure on these people to intrude. I suspect the mayor is still hiding something.]

Yi Jing again: “…”

Perhaps, is it possible that explosion was caused by her?

She really didn’t know there were intruders at the mayor’s mansion, and her decision to do that was for reasons that were difficult to explain. Obviously, she couldn’t tell them about things like transmigrating into a book, right?

Yi Jing pressed her brow in a bit of a headache, but after thinking carefully, she actually found that this matter might not be without suspicion?

The most direct evidence was the chip that appeared in her car.

If all they needed to send out was just this little thing, why did the intruders need to cause an explosion in the control center? Wouldn’t it be simpler to just quietly steal the thing and leave? That way, there wouldn’t even be an inspection after the banquet, and the intruders wouldn’t need to hide things in her car, unnecessarily increasing the risk.

Even if she had misjudged and caused an explosion in the mayor’s mansion, alerting the mayor, those intruders would only need to properly conceal their whereabouts. The mayor’s team’s attention would naturally focus on her, who “accidentally caused the explosion”. That would be more beneficial for the real intruders to escape, and she wouldn’t even realize she had inadvertently helped someone.

But those intruders still took the long way around, doing unnecessary things at high risk.

So, Qi Xiao’s deduction actually made some sense.

The intruders’ goal might not just be some data, maybe the data wasn’t even the main goal. There should be some things that were difficult to take away that they absolutely had to have.

It was precisely because it wasn’t easy to take away, and taking it away rashly would easily be discovered, that it was placed in her car. Last night, there was likely more than just one chip in her car, and she didn’t notice.

It turned out to be like this. If it was a large target, it should also be difficult to transfer, at least it couldn’t be at the receiving station of the Yi family manor. There are people on duty there 24 hours a day, they wouldn’t turn a blind eye.

Yi Jing was stunned for two seconds, and couldn’t help but think of buying desserts last night.

But Yi Jing quickly suppressed that thought again –

How could it be? Yu Miao had no grudge against the mayor, and Yu Miao had no opportunity to do such a thing.

Moreover, if Yu Miao wanted to do this kind of thing, what reason would she have not to tell her? If it was just targeting the mayor, she wouldn’t object.

She must be crazy to suspect Yu Miao.

Yi Jing came back to her senses, calmed her emotions and thought carefully, then began to answer Qi Xiao:

[Indeed, it’s possible. I remember that the time between the first explosion and the second explosion was very long, not like drawing attention away for the same thing. Perhaps that was the intruders’ action to cover up their real target.

Moreover, the mayor is in the same party as Old Master Yi and Maxila, and those businesses under the names of relatives are unclear. It’s not surprising if there are some non-compliant things at home.]

Qi Xiao: [That’s right, but this isn’t the main reason I’m looking for you.]

Yi Jing paused, remembering the Fifth District that Qi Xiao mentioned at the beginning, and had a strange premonition: [What do you mean?]

At this point, Qi Xiao stopped sending messages and directly made a communication call.

Her voice still carried some hoarseness and fatigue from staying up late. The sound of a lighter being pressed came from the other end of the communication, seemingly Qi Xiao lighting a cigarette:

“This case is very similar to Zhao Qin’s case. This morning, the technicians urgently sent by M-R Company to assist in the investigation have deduced the approximate time when the intruders broke into the control center based on the memory storage module on the security system’s transfer hub.

At least before the first explosion occurred, the intruders had already entered the control center. During the time period when the explosion suddenly occurred, the intruders frequently used AI privileges to manipulate underlying commands to deceive the security team’s access, thus leaving records. After that, the technicians couldn’t find anything else, the control center was blown to pieces, and it’s no longer possible to recover.

But the technicians said that it’s very difficult to correctly manipulate commands and respond to all accesses in such a short time, unless one is very familiar with the operation of similar systems. There must be top-notch technicians among the intruders.

And we just locked onto the vehicle the intruders used to escape this morning. When we chased after it, we found it was a cloned and modified car, already abandoned in the suburbs. The modification technology came from the Fifth District, I just saw it. And that car was also frighteningly clean, leaving no biological information, let alone any clues. We couldn’t find anything. Don’t you think this situation is very familiar?”

“Zhao Qin’s car that fell off the cliff and those ten-plus minutes when the sky eye probes were collectively silent,” Yi Jing answered in a low voice.

“Exactly.” Qi Xiao exhaled a puff of smoke like a sigh, “This is what I find troublesome now.”

Yi Jing also felt it was a bit thorny.

She didn’t expect that a minor character she let go would cause so much trouble, and it turned around to trouble her again so quickly. Now that the situation has become like this, should she investigate or not?

From a standpoint perspective, these people might be more in line with her and Qi Xiao’s ideals than the mayor, but their identities are more dangerous, and their actions are too outrageous, with unknown safety. If this group of people turns out to be just a bunch of terrorists targeting politicians and the powerful, disregarding human life, it wouldn’t be good.

However, while Yi Jing had a headache, she also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Since it’s related to the group that caused Zhao Qin’s death, it shouldn’t involve Yu Miao, right?

She really thought too much.

Even if she wanted to help Yu Miao completely get rid of the threat, she was a bit too anxious.

Yi Jing considered for a moment, then said to Qi Xiao, who had also fallen silent:

“How about this, I’ll investigate the background of those people. The case in the Third District isn’t over yet, and we can’t avoid investigating and using the black market and other gray areas when dealing with the Zhao family. I’ve already sent people from the Supervisory Committee to investigate the situation in advance. It should be easier for me to catch them than for you.”

“Then I’ll leave it to you,” Qi Xiao said a bit irritably, and after a moment, he gently added, “I’m just afraid that this time the suspects shouldn’t be arrested.”

“That’s fine too.” Yi Jing knew that Qi Xiao was probably too tired to keep up mentally, and said half-jokingly:

“If they really shouldn’t be arrested, I’ll just go find some dirt on the mayor, or ask those suspects for some information, and take the opportunity to issue an investigation order against the former mayor. By then, the situation will be more chaotic, the mayor will be in trouble himself, and probably no one will care whether your case has been solved or not.”

Qi Xiao laughed out loud, and as the leader of a subordinate unit, he jokingly complained “I’m most annoyed by you silver-collared folks from the Supervisory Office” before hanging up the phone.

Yi Jing also smiled, but the smile quickly faded.

She really didn’t expect that all the familiar faces would appear before her eyes as she investigated.

It seems that the matter in the Third District can’t be delayed any longer. It’s time to ask about the progress from the Third District Police Station and Jing Helin’s side.

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