When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 54

Yi Jing, having made up her mind, remained quiet for a few days. Besides handling daily work, she used Xu Jiu’s information channels to keep an eye on the movements in the Fifth District.

However, so far Yi Jing still hadn’t been able to fully grasp the locations of those troublemakers at the mayor’s mansion.

Even though the restrictions on the Thirteenth District had long been lifted, those suspects from the black market had the opportunity to leave before Yi Jing could detect their whereabouts, but they surprisingly didn’t leave.

If they weren’t willing to leave under these circumstances, unless those people suddenly had a collective drop in intelligence, the most likely possibility was that something was holding them back.

Yi Jing didn’t know exactly what was keeping them from leaving, but she knew that if she still wanted to find those people and send them away safely, she had to figure out what unfinished business they had.

She needed to hurry and resolve everything in order to smoothly get rid of that group of people.

Looking at the current situation, launching a large-scale investigation was impossible.

With the upcoming election and frequent unexpected incidents, even if no one said it explicitly, everyone in the Thirteenth District was on edge. Any slight movement could alert her colleagues.

So the only option left was to conduct a covert investigation using informants.

But Yi Jing absolutely couldn’t do this on her own.

She was just a newly appointed security officer, with almost all her knowledge about the black market coming from Xu Jiu. She really had no other informants to rely on.

Qi Xiao’s side had some people, but not much better than her. Even if he had some informants, they weren’t meant to be used like this.

Yi Jing had no choice but to consider the only remaining option – Hubert, the warden of the Maximum Security Prison, who was the woman closest to all the major criminals in Jing’an City.

To secretly investigate the possible hiding places of those who caused trouble at the mayor’s mansion, Hubert’s authority was an indispensable aid – she had all the important criminals of the Thirteenth District in her custody. Any one of them could be significant, not to mention some familiar with the situation inside and outside the Thirteenth District that Yi Jing could use.

Hubert could directly retrieve the information of those people from the subordinate prisons and detention centers, making it very easy to obtain information.

When it came to the number of informants, Yi Jing and Qi Xiao combined probably couldn’t match a single Hubert.

Anyway, Yi Jing had already been exposed by Hubert once during the shooting incident, so asking for help was becoming familiar.

Hubert, who had just heard about this, wasn’t very interested and didn’t care much about what Yi Jing wanted to do. As for Yi Jing’s proposal, Hubert found it extremely troublesome and didn’t want to get involved at all.

But Yi Jing mysteriously said that if this matter succeeded, there would be significant progress on something many people wanted to accomplish.

Hubert: “?”

The two people with unequal information began to make assumptions.

One relied entirely on wild guesses, hoping to match the information, while the other extrapolated a bunch of non-existent things based on the other’s words.

A strange negotiation began.

Yi Jing recalled her various experiences of dealing with Hubert and felt that Hubert’s attitude was a bit strange when they first met in the phantom city.

It was as if they were very familiar, with some unspoken understanding that couldn’t be brought to the surface. She said some inexplicable things and firmly believed Yi Jing would understand. In subsequent meetings, she also acted as if she didn’t see Yi Jing as a competitor, subtly hinting at a lot of information, not at all like ordinary colleagues.

The last time they met, she even directly helped cover up the sniper incident.

Based on all known indications, Hubert must be on the same side as her at least in the same camp. The original Yi Jing and Hubert must have had some common goals.

But Hubert didn’t seem to be as open with her as Qi Xiao. Perhaps because their ideologies weren’t quite the same, or they weren’t working on the same thing, responsible for different areas.

In any case, the original Yi Jing and Hubert should have had some tacit understanding to work together when necessary.

Although Yi Jing did feel that now was the time to join forces – those ordinary citizens who actively collected evidence and wanted to bring down the Yi family using their own methods shouldn’t be caught at all – she didn’t know how to tell Hubert!

The risk of full disclosure was too high, so she had no choice but to play this guessing game.

On the other end of the communication, Hubert, who had really been led into context by Yi Jing’s train of thought, was stunned for a moment. She carefully recalled the plans and agreements that only she knew about, half-believing and half-doubting, considered for a while, and actually agreed to Yi Jing’s request.

Yi Jing: “!!”

Although she felt quite confident before asking, Yi Jing was still shocked that she actually tricked Hubert with this kind of rhetoric.

So it really worked.

Although a bit surprised, Yi Jing didn’t have time to waste attention on such details.

After getting help, Yi Jing quickly entered a state of high-pressure overtime. Every day, besides busy daily work, she had to divide her energy to control the progress of the investigation into those fugitive suspects from the mayor’s mansion explosion case, forced to spend a lot of time on work that couldn’t be counted towards performance.

In addition, Yi Jing also had to be careful in dealing with uninformed subordinates from both the judicial and security systems.

Most of these police officers and inspectors were unaware of the internal collusion and struggles at the upper levels, and were just focused on arresting suspects. It also took some effort to properly handle the impact of these people’s actions.

During this period, Yi Jing also received feedback on several suspicious messages, but she quietly suppressed them all without making any noise, and instead used them for cross-comparison with key clues provided by informants.

As the investigations on both overt and covert lines gradually progressed, eliminating the areas already searched by unaware police officers, and secretly comparing with information provided by informants, Yi Jing finally locked down the possible locations where those suspects from the Fifth District black market might be hiding.

However, Yi Jing still didn’t take direct action.

She wasn’t sure why those people hadn’t left yet.

Rushing over without figuring out what the other side wanted to do would only make the situation worse.

“Is it really meaningful for you to try so hard?” Hubert, who had been quietly observing Yi Jing’s investigation progress, called Yi Jing’s communication device after interrogating a certain prisoner.

For some reason, she always felt a bit uneasy about Yi Jing’s current approach.

It was as if her intuition was warning her that something had deviated from the predetermined course.

However, Hubert’s tone in the communication was still as casual as ever, overflowing from the terminal and reaching Yi Jing’s ears, seemingly smiling and very relaxed: “Are those people really worth you putting in so much effort?”

“How could it be meaningless,” Yi Jing replied lightly, “Everything I do has meaning. If things go smoothly, they will definitely be able to help with our plans.”

She wasn’t just doing this for Yu Miao either. Yes, that’s right.

Yi Jing had other considerations as well.

She couldn’t let that organization fend for itself. Besides the possibility of Yu Miao being involved, another reason was the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Yi Jing’s power was still far from enough, and this incident was a lesson.

She had too few people she could use, and her overly public identity made it inconvenient for her to openly interfere in many grey areas. Once she showed such intentions, it would be discovered by subordinates controlled by other superiors, and then discovered by the Yi family, which was closely linked to the interests of the upper echelons of the Thirteenth District.

That would ruin everything.

—So she must cultivate her own people.

But cultivating her own informants from scratch was incredibly difficult, not to mention time also wears people down, and she might not have that much time to waste.

Yu Miao had even started to contact the Yi Sheng family now. Yi Jing didn’t believe she had been assimilated by the wealthy family; there must be other reasons behind this. She was afraid Yu Miao wouldn’t give her time to take things slowly either.

So she had to hurry.

This organization before her was her best partner.

By cooperating with this organization, they would be the best overt and covert partners. Yi Jing stood at a height those people could never reach, able to provide help they couldn’t imagine, while they could use their own strength to extend their reach into Yi Jing’s blind spots, investigating things on her behalf that she couldn’t conveniently check herself.

But she still wouldn’t confront Yu Miao before Yu Miao opened up.

Absolutely not.

Even knowing that Yu Miao might have some relationship with that organization and hold a high position, she couldn’t.

She could take other shortcuts, but not this time.

Now there were only two possibilities: either Yu Miao had no connection to that organization and everything was her wild guess, in which case finding Yu Miao would have no effect and would only make her worry needlessly; or Yu Miao was indeed deeply connected to the organization, and after these suspects forced to stay in the Thirteenth District left, Yu Miao would also receive the news.

Then she definitely couldn’t go.

She was still waiting for Yu Miao to open up.

She wanted to cooperate with Yu Miao, to openly talk things through, to trust each other beyond their identity as a couple. She didn’t want to passively wait when Yu Miao insisted on taking risks.

“I will be responsible for their subsequent actions,” Yi Jing came back to her senses and continued Hubert’s previous words, “Or rather, I originally hoped they could cooperate with us.”

“Is that so? Well, since it’s you, I’ll reluctantly believe it for now.” Hubert replied.

The two were supposed to discuss Yi Jing’s recent investigation progress and align their information, but a message from an informant interrupted the communication between Yi Jing and Hubert first.

“Wait a moment, something seems to have happened on my end.” Yi Jing glanced at the message notification on the secret terminal connected to her private network, pausing her conversation with Hubert.

A new message came into the terminal, the source being the intern inspector Yi Jing had arranged to keep an eye on the suspects’ movements.

This girl had recently graduated from a judicial system-affiliated higher education institution and entered the Supervisory Commission. She started interning in the Second Supervisory Group two months ago, a rookie who didn’t understand anything and hadn’t been pulled into any factions by workplace seniors yet.

Veterans had their expertise, but newcomers also had advantages others didn’t.

At least such a foolish newcomer occasionally straying from the team, messing up task priorities, and absentmindedly going the wrong way wouldn’t arouse suspicion.

[Security Officer! Those people you asked me to watch have made a move!

Four of them got into two completely different-looking low-altitude aircraft and one ordinary vehicle, with license plates ZHF31002, ZLQ90288, and JCD54778 respectively. They are currently splitting into three routes heading in different directions, and are expected to soon exceed their usual range of activity.

Judging from how these people just acted, it doesn’t seem like they’re meeting with those who occasionally come to deliver supplies. Their actions are somewhat similar to previous relocations of hiding places, but they left carrying almost no personal belongings. It’s reasonable to suspect they’ve cleaned up their traces and are trying to escape from the Thirteenth District.]

Yi Jing was stunned, quite surprised for a moment.

They’re leaving now?

This doesn’t fit basic behavioral logic. Have they finished what they needed to do in the Thirteenth District? But she hadn’t found any clues at all yet. Could these people’s goals be hidden so deeply?

What could it be that she couldn’t find even a hint of after putting in so much effort?

Yi Jing was a bit concerned, but now wasn’t the time to dawdle.

“The situation has changed, I’m going out for a bit.” Yi Jing hurriedly informed Hubert on the other end of the terminal, then turned to contact Qi Xiao and a traffic department officer recently recommended by Qi Xiao.

[Did you receive the information about the targets starting to move? Is the intelligence accurate?]

It took a while for Qi Xiao to reply: [My informant contacted me, people are indeed moving, but not through the usual channels. The people who usually deliver supplies to the targets haven’t moved, my side was a bit slow to react]

The traffic department officer replied quite quickly: [There’s no movement on my end, but based on the vehicle information provided by the Security Officer, we’ve already located the positions of those two aircraft and one car.

Judging from their travel routes, they do indeed seem to be planning to leave the city. The destinations are the G1 Express Exit in the South City District, the S-003 Cross-River Bridge in the Xijiang District, and the direction of the Xiangshan District north of the city center.]

Three different directions?

Yi Jing frowned, unable to help thinking: Is this preparation to escape or to do something else?

Something seems off.

“They’ve split up and chosen different routes? If they want to leave the Thirteenth District, shouldn’t the easiest way be through the small roads in Xiangshan District?” Yi Jing connected a multi-person communication and pulled the traffic department officer and Qi Xiao into an encrypted communication channel.

The Xiangshan District was where the wealthy and powerful of Jing’an City gathered, full of mansions and gardens at a glance, with even the Yi family estate occupying the most central area of Xiangshan District.

“That’s right, the car heading north should be the easiest to leave the Thirteenth District,” the traffic department officer answered first, “The situation for the other two directions isn’t so optimistic. The G1 in the South City District chosen by ZHF31002 and the S-003 Cross-River Bridge in the Xijiang District chosen by ZLQ90288 both have stricter inspections.

Especially the G1 Express Exit, which is a key passage for both passengers and cargo in the Thirteenth District. Both ordinary aircraft and cargo aircraft can pass through, with extremely high daily passenger flow, and it’s easy to hide contraband items. It has always been a key patrol target for the traffic squad and should be one of the most difficult routes to sneak through in the Thirteenth District.”

“They still want to leave through the G1 Express Exit despite this? And split into three routes, it feels a bit off.” Qi Xiao spoke up thoughtfully.

Yi Jing suddenly stood up: “I’m going to the South City District now.”

“Hm?” Qi Xiao was taken aback, “Are you planning to help?”

“Yes, there’s no other way now. They acted too suddenly, and there’s no time to make other preparations. Let’s go see the situation first.” Yi Jing said.

“Then Shang Chang and I will support you from the rear.” Qi Xiao replied.

“Alright.” Yi Jing hurriedly agreed and left her office directly.

Qi Xiao was right, it was too strange to knowingly choose such a dangerous route through the G1 Express checkpoint.

Those people had been staying in the Thirteenth District for so long, there’s no way they didn’t understand the situation. To still choose this must mean they had other considerations—

The most likely possibility was that they were doing it on purpose.

Deliberately doing this, leaving some people to sacrifice themselves as bait, making as much commotion as possible when leaving the Thirteenth District to attract the attention of the police station, trying to ensure others could leave quickly during the time difference.

Yi Jing was somewhat impressed. Did the people in this organization just love these kinds of suicide attacks or sacrificial rescues so much? Did they just love sacrifice?

Yi Jing, who had some guesses about the nature of the organization, was starting to get annoyed with these people.

Such an organization full of self-sacrificing fanatics was too troublesome. Don’t let them corrupt her Yu Miao.

What if one day Yu Miao suddenly decided to sacrifice her life for those things that had to be done in a difficult moment? What would she do?

How could Yu Miao leave her alone?

Yi Jing really couldn’t stand it.

She definitely needed to talk things through with Yu Miao as soon as possible.

This was a special situation, and using the Supervisory Bureau’s official vehicle would be too conspicuous, easily exposing her whereabouts.

Yi Jing didn’t call a driver, leaving the Supervisory Bureau alone and walking to a store across the street. After waiting for a moment by the roadside, she got into a car belonging to Yi Heng’s newly opened company and sped towards the G1 Express passage in the South City District.

“I’m on my way now,” Yi Jing reconnected with the traffic department officer and Qi Xiao after getting in the car, “How’s the situation on your end, any progress?”

“Tracking in progress,” the traffic department officer quickly answered Yi Jing’s question, “I’ve already sent away the other people in the monitoring hall. Currently all three directions are proceeding along the expected routes to their estimated destinations. Based on current road conditions and distances, you should arrive at the G1 Express passage at about the same time as the low-altitude aircraft with license plate ZHF31002, Security Officer.”

“Good,” Yi Jing responded, “What about you, Qi Xiao?”

“Still investigating.” Qi Xiao quickly replied, “I’m still trying to get informants to track the movements of all those who have had contact with the suspects during this period.

I’ll try to get them to act faster, but don’t have too high hopes. After all, we haven’t relaxed our surveillance on those people since finding them, so it’s unlikely there are any omissions.”

“As expected.” Yi Jing frowned in the private vehicle, lowering her eyes and muttering, “I felt something was off.”

“What?” Qi Xiao asked from the other end of the communication.

“Nothing, just remembered something. From the current look of things, the reason those people stayed in the Thirteenth District and refused to leave may not just be because they had unfinished business or something they couldn’t take away.

At least judging from how they’re leaving in three separate routes, they didn’t leave perhaps because they couldn’t leave.” Yi Jing came back to her senses and answered energetically.

The traffic department officer didn’t speak, focusing intently on searching for something in the central monitoring hall on the underground first floor of the Transportation Bureau.

Qi Xiao, however, asked a question: “It’s a bit troublesome. Even in this situation, you still insist on sending them away?”

“Yes, I’ll do my best,” Yi Jing responded, “It would be best if they could all leave, but if that’s really not possible. I’ll try to create some disturbance. Like arranging some surprise inspections or something.”

“If that’s the case, I’ll look into it some more on my end. Hope everything goes smoothly.” Qi Xiao replied.

“Alright.”

The group reached an understanding and simultaneously ended the communication, each going about their own business.

The car sent by Yi Heng had top-notch performance, blocking most of the central network and artificial intelligence systems that had a chance of eavesdropping on conversations inside the car. It sped towards the G1 Express Highway exit relying on its built-in automatic driving module.

Compared to the economic development center of the Thirteenth District where the Supervisory Bureau was located and the Xiangshan District where the wealthy were concentrated, the South City District seemed a bit more quiet and ordinary. At least it didn’t give people the feeling that dense air routes and aircraft were about to squeeze together with urban construction modules and large shopping malls. Some industrial parks even looked quite peaceful at certain times.

However, this time Yi Jing was in a high-speed car and had no energy to observe what the South City District was really like. The side windows had already automatically adjusted to a dark color for the owner’s visual comfort. Finding a solution for what was about to come was enough to occupy her time.

Half an hour quickly passed, and the gates of the G1 Express passage finally appeared in view.

From ordinary lanes to low-altitude air routes to mid-level express air routes, the three different vehicle lanes were arranged in layers, with a total of three levels and twenty-four two-way lanes running in parallel. The highest-grade super large entry and exit checkpoint was right before her eyes.

Adhering to the principle of spending big when you have money, the G1 checkpoint building was also built very exquisitely and beautifully—beautiful to the point of being a bit gaudy.

Not far ahead was the G1 checkpoint inspection post, specially set up recently to handle the suddenly increased security tasks during the election preparation period. Yi Jing couldn’t conveniently show her face here, so with one hand holding the terminal and the other absentmindedly tapping a few times on the light screen that naturally popped out behind the front passenger seat, she operated the vehicle to leave the ordinary highway lane leading to the G1 checkpoint early while sitting in the back seat without raising her head.

Leaving from the ramp and following a downhill road back to the urban area, the several high-speed air routes connected to the G1 checkpoint were all elevated above the head of Yi Jing’s car.

Yi Jing’s gaze unconsciously swept over those empty lanes, but he quickly averted his eyes.

Sitting in the back seat of a low-riding vehicle, the view wasn’t great.

[I’ve already arrived at the G1 checkpoint. How are the others?] Yi Jing sent a message in the three-person communication group.

[ZHF31002 slowed down midway, but is also about to reach the G1 checkpoint. They’re expected to queue for inspection in lanes 2-4 in 7 minutes. Uncertain if they have other preparations. ZLQ90288 and JCD54778 are currently heading to S-003 Bridge in Xijiang District and Lin Chun Road in Xiangshan District respectively. They’re expected to arrive at the target locations later than ZHF31002.]

“It seems they indeed want to create a time difference. The ones coming to G1 are even controlling their timing.” Yi Jing muttered to himself, then sent a message to the clueless intern who was happily oblivious:

[Location.]

[Received! Understood, Inspector!!] With the peculiar enthusiasm that interns have for secret work, the young girl quickly replied to Yi Jing’s message and sent a location.

While waiting for the car opposite the Supervisory Office, Yi Jing had already notified the intern to immediately head to the G1 checkpoint and find a good observation spot in advance.

With other reliable people involved, Yi Jing wasn’t too worried about messing this up.

The location was some long-unused property belonging to the lover of an old informant who frequented the Thirteenth District—a convoluted but useful connection.

Yi Jing had no time to ponder how this all came about. At least the house not only had the unreliable intern but also Xu Jiu, who had rushed over after receiving the news.

With Xu Jiu there, he could be somewhat at ease.

Taking the elevator to the floor where the informant’s lover’s property was located, Yi Jing entered the room guided by the intern while on the phone with the traffic police officer.

“What’s the situation now? Where is ZHF31002?” Yi Jing asked the traffic officer while walking.

“They’ve reached the G1 checkpoint area and are currently queuing. It will take about 15 minutes before ZHF31002 reaches the inspection point. The other two groups have also arrived in their target areas, and…”

“And what?” Yi Jing frowned and asked.

Why the hesitation at a time like this?

“And while I was watching JCD54778 heading towards Xiangshan District, I lost track of them for two minutes. After reviewing the surveillance footage, I discovered that JCD54778 changed their license plate midway.

I checked that license plate number, and it happens to be registered to a vehicle under the Yi family’s Xiangshan District estate.”

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