When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 52.2

I wonder what exactly the mayor is hiding, that it still hasn’t been moved out of District 13 even now.

“I understand.” Xu Jiu on the other end of the communication lightly sighed in relief, understanding Yi Jing’s intentions.

So the Inspector doesn’t want to rashly arrest these people either.

“Order received, returning to District 13 tonight.”

“Good.”

Yi Jing, who had ended the communication, lightly sighed and fell back into her chair.

Since it could already be confirmed that the fellows who had secretly hidden things in her car had not completely withdrawn from District 13, continuing the investigation now could probably still corral those people within District 13.

It’s just that she had no reason to do so.

Judging from past indirect contact experiences, these people seemed to have no malice towards ordinary people, only targeting businessmen with illegal operations.

In this case, this organization doesn’t seem to have any danger, and temporarily letting them be definitely wouldn’t be more dangerous than leaking information to those above, letting the mayor and the Yi family take down that organization.

It’s just that it would be a bit difficult for Qi Xiao’s side.

But it’s not a big problem, as long as they can pin down what the mayor is concealing, that old fellow will definitely not have time to target the police officers, he will certainly loosen up on the police department.

Thinking about it this way, there’s nothing to be conflicted about in this whole matter, the optimal solution is very clear, but it seems like something is still not right like something has been overlooked by her.

What exactly is it?

Yi Jing recalled her conversation with Xu Jiu just now, a detail flashed through her mind, and Yi Jing suddenly realized something, abruptly sitting up straight.

That’s right, that’s the problem!

Xu Jiu said that the organization’s focus was on illegal transactions of large enterprises, but judging from the investigation results Xu Jiu sent back and the organization’s performance in the District 3 car crash case and the mayor’s mansion explosion case, this organization actually doesn’t have the ability to obtain key evidence from large groups, most of the time they’re just collecting evidence on the periphery.

If it weren’t for her interfering behind the scenes and secretly protecting them those two times, whether it was the District 3 car crash case or the mayor’s mansion explosion case, it would have been enough to expose this organization and bring them under close scrutiny.

So, what exactly gave them the capability?

Who told them about Zhao Qin, and who guided them into the mayor’s mansion?

Zhao Qin was at least one of the future heirs of the Zhao family, closely connected to the Yi family, and not very visible in the group. Who could obtain such accurate information about Zhao Qin and give it to that organization?

And then there’s the mayor’s mansion explosion case.

Taking advantage of a lapse in family protection to kill a playboy involved in black industries is completely different in difficulty from forcibly breaking into the mayor’s mansion.

If I have to say, forcibly breaking into the mayor’s mansion and successfully taking away what the mayor deliberately concealed under the surveillance of the security system and escaping unscathed, the difficulty is probably comparable to an completely unaware passerby breaking into the Yi family estate while Yi Patriarch is dining, not only having nothing happen but successfully meeting Yi Patriarch and happily clinking glasses with him.

Even if the current Yi Jing were to hide her identity and try to infiltrate the mayor’s mansion, she might not be able to do it.

If they really had the ability to freely enter and exit the mayor’s house, this organization should no longer be limited to a group of small-timers.

At the very least, they should either have big figures covering for them above, or they would have long since been on the security system’s blacklist for their brazen actions, or they would have been reported to people like them to give them the green light.

But there was nothing, neither a blacklist nor a report, no information at all.

In other words, forcibly breaking into the mayor’s mansion was just a chance event for them, and they didn’t know the consequences of doing so.

Then where did they get the method to break into the mayor’s mansion.

The driver she suspected that day had also been cleared of suspicion.

When she was hospitalized, she had the Archives Department of the Inspectorate and a monitor from the Second Group thoroughly investigate that driver’s background.

Personal files, past experiences, interpersonal relationships were all turned inside out, from beginning to end it was very simple, without a single problem.

An absurd guess finally surfaced from the depths of Yi Jing’s mind.

She had denied this idea several times before, but now she really couldn’t find any other explanation.

Opening the door of her official car requires a key authenticated with the Inspector’s identity. Apart from the driver having one, she only had a spare key in her hand.

And she had given that key to Yu Miao.

Just like giving her service weapon and her collection to Yu Miao, she just wanted to protect Yu Miao as much as possible, without thinking there would be any other consequences.

Now although the full picture of the incident still can’t be confirmed, and it’s unknown who exactly leaked the situation of the mayor’s mansion, it can basically be confirmed that someone who knows the Yi family’s movements is cooperating with that organization.

Could it be Yu Miao?

Would Yu Miao both ingratiate herself with Yi Sheng’s family while secretly contacting an organization targeting all illegal and rule-breaking individuals? What exactly does she want to do?

Yi Jing gently clenched her hand.

Actually, the quickest way to determine if things were related to Yu Miao now would be to check the surveillance footage from that night.

She knew all the locations, positions, and times, so it would be very convenient to investigate.

So why did she avoid it from the beginning?

Why, even though she knew that just checking the surveillance would clear the driver of suspicion, did she still go to all the trouble of bothering the archives staff and inspectors?

Yi Jing repeatedly clenched her hand several times, leaving several crescent-shaped marks on her palm, as various thoughts rose and fell in her mind.

If it really was Yu Miao, how should she talk to her about it?

Could she casually say “It’s okay, I’ll always be on your side”?

She didn’t even know what Yu Miao wanted to do. She was afraid that Yu Miao might become extreme and do something irreversible without regard for consequences.

She didn’t care if others could resolve things.

She was just afraid that Yu Miao wouldn’t care about herself and wouldn’t prepare an escape route for herself.

Yi Jing closed her eyes anxiously.

She didn’t really want to know this part of the truth, but no matter how she thought about it, the choice of whether to face it should still be in her own hands.

Yi Jing pursed her lips, opened the light screen, switched to the internal communication channel, and connected to Inspection Team Two: “Acting Team Leader?”

Recently, Xu Jiu wasn’t around, so most of Team Two’s affairs were handled by the acting team leader.

“Yes.” The Team Two leader quickly replied.

Yi Jing reached out and pulled a finely crafted promotional card from a small storage box beside her, looking at the store name and address on it as she said: “Send two people to check all the basement surveillance videos of the Light Commercial Building from the 9th to the 16th of last month.”

The acting leader of Team Two was stunned for a moment, but didn’t think much of it and agreed.

There had been a lot of miscellaneous things lately, and the Supervisory Office was also cooperating with the police station, taking on some security work, so it was normal to occasionally have some inexplicable odd jobs.

With the surveillance matter settled, Yi Jing hung up the internal communication and lowered her head deeply, propping both hands on her forehead.

The next step was to wait for the results from Inspection Team Two.

She deliberately didn’t specify the exact time period, in order to prevent others from getting the results first.

She still wanted to keep the choice of revealing the answer or sealing everything in her own hands. Even if that segment of surveillance had been cut out, it would still be an answer, after all, that dessert shop was Yu Miao’s last-minute decision that she had told her about.

Yi Jing sat in the swivel chair sorting out her thoughts. A moment later, she came back to her senses, barely suppressing her complex emotions, and called Qi Xiao.

The case at the mayor’s mansion had been dragging on with Qi Xiao, so she should update her on the progress here.

“Hello?” Qi Xiao’s voice was as tired as ever, sounding almost half-dead.

Yi Jing: “…”

She had been feeling a bit sad and anxious, but Qi Xiao’s miserable state made her feel a bit embarrassed to continue brooding.

“Oh, just that there are results from District Five, thought I’d let you know,” Yi Jing said.

“What?”

Qi Xiao was stunned for two seconds, then suddenly became energetic, slapping the table as if ready to fight someone, and spoke through gritted teeth:

“Finally got results? Damn it, the mayor’s office has been constantly pushing, my head is aching from their nagging! I don’t know what they’re in such a hurry for, don’t they know frontline work is exhausting! That old bastard mayor, he’d better hope I don’t catch any of his mistakes!”

“There has been progress,” Yi Jing wasn’t as optimistic as her, and responded restrainedly, “One good news and one bad news, which do you want to hear first?”

“?” Qi Xiao thought for a moment, then replied a bit irritably, “There have been too many worries lately, give me some good news to hear first.”

“The people the mayor is looking for are very likely still in District Thirteen, if we act now, the difficulty of capturing them shouldn’t be high,” Yi Jing said.

“?” Qi Xiao’s reaction was similar to Yi Jing’s, also somewhat puzzled, “They haven’t left? That’s certainly an opportunity. What’s the bad news?”

Yi Jing sighed: “The bad news is that our guess has been verified. These people already have a relatively mature organization, and have been looking for the information we want to find out. The mayor probably really did hide something incredible and it was taken by them.”

Qi Xiao: “…”

Qi Xiao was silent for two seconds: “So, how can the first news be considered good news?”

“Hmm…” Yi Jing spoke against her conscience, “In case you still wanted to catch them?”

Qi Xiao: “You know, I’m actually a bit tempted to try and catch them now. Just go arrest those people, then snatch away what the mayor is desperately trying to hide and make it public.”

Yi Jing: “Don’t even think about exposing the mayor’s weaknesses, I’m afraid by the time you act, the mayor’s side will have already received the news and taken those people away first.”

Qi Xiao clicked his tongue, but didn’t argue.

A moment later, Qi Xiao sighed and asked in a compromising tone: “So what should we do now? There’s been too much work lately, I don’t have time to think it through clearly, my head is about to explode.”

Yi Jing: “…”

Yi Jing, who had arranged two attacks on herself to avoid half a month of paperwork, silently sympathized, but then thinking of all the messes around her, she couldn’t quite bring herself to be too sympathetic.

“I think the best approach right now is to continue focusing the investigation outside of District Thirteen.”

Yi Jing sighed quietly, and after composing herself, replied.

“What do you mean?” Qi Xiao perked up and started thinking along Yi Jing’s line of thought.

“The mayor’s side has been pushing you, right? He’s definitely going to be watching your movements. As long as you shift your focus outside of District Thirteen, the mayor and those with vested interests will surely shift their attention away too,” Yi Jing turned her office chair, looking out at the intersecting high-rises and skyways as she calmly analyzed,

“It’s darkest under the lamp. Those people have been delaying leaving District Thirteen probably waiting for just such an opportunity.

Besides, this time that organization acted recklessly, doing things somewhat recklessly. After all, they blew up the mayor’s mansion and stole something, there’s absolutely no way to shake off the pack of wolves behind the mayor without losing anything.”

Qi Xiao’s mind, numbed by fatigue, was prompted by Yi Jing’s ideas, and his thoughts gradually became clearer as he understood Yi Jing’s meaning: “You mean District Five?”

“Yes,” Yi Jing replied, “Haven’t you always hated that lawless area in District Five? This time we might be able to organize a cleanup operation, killing two birds with one stone.

According to the intelligence I’ve received, there’s a high probability that the people who caused the disturbance at the mayor’s mansion will contact District Five after leaving District Thirteen, because that’s one of their bases.”

“Don’t joke around,” Qi Xiao chuckled lightly, though there wasn’t much happiness in his voice, more resignation,

“Are we really just going to throw those people out there? It’s a pipe dream to think they can evade capture by the mayor and those behind him with just their strength.

And the problems in District Five aren’t so easily solved either. With the general election right around the corner, any large-scale operation will have to be delayed until after the election no matter what, it can’t be resolved in the short term. The mayor won’t have the patience to wait until after he leaves office.”

“As long as we notify the people in that organization in advance, telling them that District Five is no longer safe, it should be fine,” Yi Jing shifted her gaze again, looking up at the ceiling:

“I can find a way to let that organization receive the information that District Five is no longer safe, so they can escape in time. I also have some clues about what was stolen from the mayor, there should be a chance to get this thing to make him too preoccupied with self-preservation to have time to give you trouble.”

After saying this, Yi Jing herself was stunned for a moment.

How did she assume again that Yu Miao would have contact with that organization?

She really had lost control a bit.

Never mind, it doesn’t matter.

There will always be a way.

Yi Jing stumbled subtly for a second, but quickly continued her previous words: “District Five is just one base, abandoning it won’t cause any substantial losses, at least it’s better than being caught and interrogated by others. As for time, as long as the information obtained is powerful enough, the mayor’s office won’t have time to bother you anymore.”

“???” With Yi Jing saying this, Qi Xiao was even more shocked.

“Wait, wait, Yi Jing! You actually have a channel to contact that organization? You’ve already investigated to this extent and didn’t say anything earlier?”

“Not quite yet, it’s just a possibility,” Yi Jing still didn’t want to admit that guess, “Let’s hope everything goes smoothly. Even if it doesn’t at most it’ll just be a bit troublesome.”

She was still confident she could find traces of that organization.

Who told them to put something in her car?

After a moment, Qi Xiao finally replied: “I see, then I’ll leave it to you.”

Yi Jing always had her own channels of information. After all, coming from a different background, she could access and see different things. It was reasonable to occasionally have methods that weren’t convenient to talk about, and Qi Xiao never asked too many questions.

Anyway, Yi Jing was her partner, and that wouldn’t change.

“Since you say you have a way to resolve this, I’ll go all out to lead those people watching me on a wild goose chase,” Qi Xiao chuckled lightly, finally confirming with Yi Jing.

Yi Jing only replied: “Don’t worry.”

After ending the communication, Yi Jing put the terminal aside and shifted her gaze slightly, picking up the promotional card the shop owner had handed her at the dessert shop and examining it carefully.

Looking at this card, she realized that according to her usual habits, she would definitely not have accepted such a promotional card.

But why did she make an exception and keep the information for that shop at the time?

Was it because it was a shop recommended by Yu Miao?

Yi Jing sighed again, pushing the card back into the storage box, unwilling to face the fact that she may have been deceiving herself all along.

The people from Inspection Team Two worked quickly. Before the end of the workday, the backup of seven days of surveillance video from the basement of the commercial building where the dessert shop Yi Jing specified was located was delivered to her desk.

As expected, when the “silver collars” were mobilized, things went smoothly.

Yi Jing smiled bitterly, taking the storage device and examining it repeatedly in her hand.

There was actually nothing special about the device, it was just standard work equipment uniformly purchased by the logistics department of the Supervisory Office, a very common model with a simple exterior design, only with the addition of a Supervisory Office emblem on the front. But Yi Jing’s mood was still very complex.

Just by watching the footage on this storage device, she could know everything.

Whether Yu Miao was involved in this matter or not, as well as which direction to take next and how to contact the people of that organization.

So, should she watch it?

Yi Jing held the storage device for a long time, but ultimately put the inconspicuous device into the storage compartment under her desk – she wanted to see Yu Miao first.

She still wanted to see Yu Miao.

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