When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 48

Yi Jing first called to contact Xu Jiu.

Xu Jiu, who had been sent out early by her, was still investigating Xu Zaixi.

Recently, the Yi family and Zhao family had intentionally lowered their profile. Xu Zaixi, who followed their orders, also temporarily suspended many tasks, making it more difficult for Xu Jiu to investigate.

Because there were so few clues, Xu Jiu had recently officially turned to other methods, trying to find leads in the black market. That was originally a last resort, but it unexpectedly aligned with Yi Jing’s current goals.

Yi Jing first explained the general situation of the recent explosion at the mayor’s mansion to Xu Jiu, notifying her to temporarily change her work focus. Afterwards, she also contacted Jing Helin and the police chief of the Third District.

Since they had already started taking action, the matters in the Third District couldn’t be neglected either. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be good if the Zhao family got a free hand to catch those minor characters first.

However, this matter couldn’t be entirely entrusted to Jing Helin and the Third District police chief.

Those people only had a temporary cooperative relationship with her and weren’t very reliable. At most, they could provide some information and do some trivial small tasks for her. The real plans still had to be decided by her.

Yi Jing carefully inquired about the investigation progress in the Third District, roughly understood the Zhao family’s recent reactions, and also looked through the Third District’s case files from the past three years. She decided to give the Zhao family some detours to walk.

With her current abilities, she indeed couldn’t track how far the Zhao family’s investigation had progressed. Those people hadn’t been in Jing’an City for so many years for nothing – the gray forces they could mobilize were far beyond what Yi Jing could compare to.

Unable to keep up with the Zhao family’s investigation progress or interrupt their actions, she could only try to control the rhythm, deliberately giving the Zhao family false leads, making them constantly waste efforts on incorrect clues to slow down their investigation speed.

If it was just doing this, Yi Jing wouldn’t be completely without people to use.

The technicians from the Agency, Jing Helin’s undercover agents and informants in the black market, the manpower of the Third District police chief, putting them together could barely achieve the purpose.

However, this task was not easy to carry out.

The gray lawless areas had always been the comfort zone for people like Old Master Zhao. If Yi Jing wanted to take the initiative, she must first lure the other party’s actions into her home field.

The first step was to signal the judicial and security systems of the Third District to selectively release information, concealing some parts and disclosing others. Taking advantage of the fact that the Zhao family hadn’t had time to clarify the facts, she would construct several false directions early on, causing the Zhao family to make wrong decisions and disperse part of their investigation forces.

Next was to delay the investigation progress of the Third District’s judicial and security systems, forcibly prolonging the investigation process. When the Zhao family couldn’t hold back and wanted to investigate privately, she would notify the security system of the corresponding area to lie in wait—

There was no need to notify everything. For example, it wasn’t necessary to specify exactly who would conduct irregular operations, to prevent some people from not daring to take action due to fear of the complex interest groups behind the Zhao family.

As for the rest, it was enough to clearly state which areas should have increased vigilance.

At the Phantom City banquet back then, Yi Jing had met people from various districts of Jing’an City. Yi Jing was a superior, and those people couldn’t possibly not recognize her.

Although Yi Jing hadn’t become familiar with them at the time, and couldn’t even remember their faces, the situation was urgent and there was no time to worry about such things. Yi Jing assigned a batch of tasks based on her rank, and managed to achieve some results.

Yi Jing had been busy with this matter for nearly half a month, and finally achieved some success, successfully causing the Zhao family to suffer some setbacks in the Third District.

This was already a good result for Yi Jing. After such a long delay, as long as those who acted at the mayor’s mansion weren’t useless, they should have taken action to hide themselves deeper.

Before she could catch her breath, Yi Jing, who had just rested for a while in her office, received an interview invitation from the Special Supervisory Committee for the Change of Term Election.

Yi Jing, who had just wanted to sleep for a while: “?”

The Special Supervisory Committee was just a temporary institution, with its power structure outside the regular system, only responsible for election affairs, completely composed of high-level officials other than the new mayoral candidates, and would be dissolved after the election.

The Special Supervisory Committee looking for her,  Could there be a problem with the election?

But wasn’t her responsibility for the election work only a part of the security issues?

Yi Jing frowned slightly, gently closed her eyes to suppress the fatigue brought by high-intensity work, sat up and asked the secretary who came to report with alertness: “Did they say what it was about?”

“Well…” The secretary hesitated for a moment, “It seems to be because part of the work content under the responsibility of the Inspectorate had problems. Due to insufficient inspection, a terrorist attack occurred at an art gallery in the South District, nearly causing a large-scale explosion.”

“What?” Yi Jing immediately tightened her brows.

Another explosion, why were there always explosions these days? Yi Jing felt she was about to become allergic to this word, never wanting to hear the word “explosion” again in this life.

“It seems indeed to be our oversight,” the secretary said with some difficulty,

“The document was approved by Group Three of the Supervisory Committee, and the trucks carrying high explosives and other dangerous goods were let in by the inspectors.

Moreover, this case also involved a batch of underground youth organizations with dangerous ideologies. Those people originally just painted graffiti and shouted slogans on the streets, but this time they somehow got into the Thirteenth District and planned this action.

Three hours ago, the City Police Department had already started investigating this matter, and now they likely have preliminary results.”

“Three hours?” Yi Jing’s expression turned ugly, “I didn’t receive any news at all within three hours. It was clearly the Supervisory Committee’s mistake, yet I have to wait until after the police investigation to know the situation?”

The secretary pursed his lips and lowered his head with a guilty expression.

This matter was indeed very absurd, giving off a sense of loss of control from beginning to end, which shouldn’t have happened with the Supervisory Committee under Yi Jing’s command.

Yi Jing sensed something was wrong and didn’t bother to dwell on unimportant details anymore. She got up and took the Inspectorate’s uniform jacket from a nearby coat rack, directly arranging a car to go to the Special Supervisory Committee’s office location.

As she expected, this meeting was not very friendly to her.

After all, such a big mistake had occurred within her area of responsibility. It was normal to be criticized, and she might even have to write a self-criticism.

Yi Jing sat in the conference room at the Special Supervisory Committee’s station with a bit of a headache, listening to the old men in front of her questioning her various decisions.

The high-level officials of the Special Supervisory Committee were not just politicians, but also included committee members with social identities like special envoys from the fire department. Yi Jing reported her duties under their gaze, patiently explaining all the mistakes, although she herself wasn’t quite clear about what had happened.

After finally finishing the talk and coming out, Yi Jing had an additional self-criticism to write.

This wasn’t a big deal in itself. It was just a self-criticism, which could be written casually. It was far less important than figuring out the reason for the Supervisory Committee’s loss of control.

However, that afternoon, the news that Yi Jing had made mistakes at work and was invited for a talk by the Special Supervisory Committee spread quickly, at an astonishing speed. Even her aunt knew about it and came specifically to ask Yi Jing how her work was going.

Now Yi Jing, who didn’t understand before, understood.

She had wondered how the Supervisory Committee could suddenly have work errors. It turned out that when she turned her attention to the Zhao family and wanted to trip them up, someone else had also targeted her.

Thinking carefully about the current operations, it became clear. First, they let the Supervisory Committee’s work have undeniable mistakes, then let her take the blame, and then spread the news that she had made mistakes at work and was criticized by the Special Supervisory Committee.

Even if it couldn’t cause any substantial damage, it could shake her elite image that she had maintained all along — at least Yi Heng would think she was elite.

Although she had long known that the Supervisory Committee operating under her wasn’t completely reliable, she hadn’t expected that there would actually be people obeying the Zhao family. Well, maybe not the Zhao family, but others who wanted her to step down.

However, under the current circumstances, the Zhao family was still the most likely possibility.

That Madam Zhao from the Zhao family had hated her to the bone back then, convinced that she had killed Zhao Qin, and didn’t seem like she would easily let her go.

More coincidentally,  thinking carefully, the strategy used by the group targeting her seemed to be very similar to Zhao Qin’s experience.

Both started with mistakes affecting reputation, followed by a series of negative events, shaking public opinion and then affecting the value assessment of the person in the family.

Yi Jing guessed that today’s incident was just the beginning. If not stopped, there would be more events specifically targeting her, aiming to turn a momentary mistake. No, a fabricated mistake into her lack of ability.

When the Yi family doubted her value and forced the Yi family to abandon her like the Zhao family temporarily abandoned Zhao Qin, would the people who really wanted to target her make their move?

But Yi Jing wouldn’t let them have their way.

Since those people wanted her to take the blame, she just wouldn’t do it!

The surging undercurrents had already turned into blatant swords and threats, and the situation in the Thirteenth District was chaotic. The only favorable news was probably that what she wanted to do could be done even without sitting in the Inspectorate.

Didn’t those people want to pin the blame on her and prepare to harm her?

She just wouldn’t let them have their way.

If they liked chaos, she would make the situation even more chaotic, striking until those secretly tripping her up wouldn’t dare to reach out again!

The day after the Supervisory Committee’s work had a major error, the security officer as a high-level official of the Inspectorate personally rushed about to resolve the incident and finally calmed its impact — the car exclusively belonging to the security officer in the Inspectorate exploded.

The security officer was still in the car.

At that time, Yi Jing, the security officer of the Thirteenth District, had just visited ordinary citizens living near the art gallery. The official car hadn’t even driven far before it was blown over and rolled.

Many citizens accidentally recorded this scene, and related videos spread. Rumors and gossip grew rapidly, spreading throughout the Thirteenth District in the blink of an eye.

The police station quickly took action after receiving the news.

Combined with the previous explosion at the mayor’s mansion, the personal safety of two senior officials in Jing’an City had been threatened consecutively, causing high concern within Jing’an City.

The judicial and security systems classified this case as a malicious attack case, believing that illegal organizations were targeting senior officials in the Thirteenth District during the change of term election.

With this conclusion, the level of martial law in the core area was upgraded again, and the alert level was raised infinitely.

As the risk level increased, the security checks for entering and exiting the Thirteenth District also became strict to an almost perverse degree. Within a few short days, various levels within the system felt the pressure.

However, the real “culprit” who caused the explosion hadn’t had time to have any feelings yet. Instead, some people who were active as “victims” hiding in the shadows broke down first.

Old Master Zhao, who was still in the Third District, threw a cup out of the study. The sharp shattering sound echoed, and the fragments even splattered onto the stairs:

“Who the hell blew up that little bastard Yi Jing’s car! Didn’t I say to take it slow and find ways to make all her work fail? Now that her car has been blown up in advance, how could the Yi family not investigate what happened? How am I supposed to explain this to Old Man Yi?!”

“Father, it doesn’t seem to be our people who did this,” Zhao Qingru stood in the study, slightly frowning as she thought about her answer.

She had been busy with internal self-cleaning matters for a while, having to deal with her own people as well as business affairs, occasionally having to spare energy to comfort her mentally collapsed sister-in-law, and follow up on the investigation of the truth behind her stupid niece’s death. She didn’t have much time to pay attention to Yi Jing’s movements.

But based on Zhao Qingru’s understanding of her confidants, the people under her wouldn’t do such a stupid self-destructive act.

Several subordinates stood in a row behind Zhao Qingru, looking at each other, not daring to speak.

Although none of them had given orders to plant bombs in Yi Jing’s car, it seemed that only they, the Zhao family, would target Yi Jing.

What if some idiot really acted on their own?

“It’s not that easy to plant bombs in the Inspectorate’s car, and it’s impossible not to report to me,” Zhao Qingru frowned in thought. “Could it be that Yi Jing child sensed something and deliberately did this to avoid risks?”

Hearing this, Old Master Zhao also calmed down a bit and frowned, saying, “She’s just a little kid, how could she be so sensitive?”

Old Master Zhao didn’t believe at all that the explosion in Yi Jing’s car was planned by herself. He instinctively thought it was some idiot under his command who didn’t know how to follow orders, which was why he flew into a rage. But Yi Jing didn’t seem to have suffered any harm in that explosion. If that farce was really self-directed by Yi Jing.

Old Master Zhao’s expression turned cold, his demeanor even more serious than before: “If Yi Jing is really that sensitive, we can’t keep her even more.”

Zhao Qingru lowered her head to think, starting to guess what her father would do next.

Before the two could speak again, a subordinate suddenly burst in from outside the door.

“What’s going on, so reckless,” Zhao Qingru frowned as she looked at the person who burst in.

“Family head?” The subordinate’s expression was a bit colorful, seeming unable to speak for a while before finally opening his mouth, “Latest news, Yi Jing that Yi Jing from the Inspectorate has been shot. Again outdoors, many people saw it with their own eyes. The news columns have added urgent reports, it’s spread all over the civilian networks. She’s in the hospital now, already under protection.”

Zhao Qingru and Old Master Zhao were stunned, then their expressions changed dramatically:

“What??!”

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