The matter was handed over to the operations team, and Chen Gu left on his own. He didn’t go ho. Instead, he called Marcus en route. "I want to go to that building and take another look," he said.
Marcus replied, "Okay, I’ll have lincha et up with you there."
Then he added, "Take Joseph with you, too. The guy needs so rit points."
The team leader always looked after the newbies.
By the ti Chen Gu arrived at the base of the building, Joseph, the newest mber, had already gotten there. After a short wait, lincha arrived as well.
Chen Gu led the two of them through the security passage to the floor where they had last encountered Park Sanyi.
Chen Gu activated "Mind Belief"—a whole day had passed, and Chen Gu had barely recovered.
Under the influence of this skill, Chen Gu’s perception greatly increased, revealing every detail of his surroundings in his mind.
He walked floor by floor, checking each level where Park Sanyi had been last ti, but still found nothing. Joseph asked from his side, "What are you looking for?"
Chen Gu shook his head slightly. "I don’t know either."
But Chen Gu continued to the next level. Three floors down, he suddenly stopped, turned to face a direction, and observed for a while before walking over.
lincha and Joseph were puzzled. They couldn’t see anything suspicious. Chen Gu walked over and gently tapped a spot.
It was hollow inside. Chen Gu carefully removed the cover plate. lincha glanced inside, finding a series of pipes.
"This is the water supply system for the building."
Chen Gu stared at one of the valves. It was just an inspection port, one of many placed at intervals. If there was an issue with the pipes, these valves were used to isolate and check different segnts.
The valve was a bit loose, slightly leaking water.
After thinking for a mont, Chen Gu did nothing and refitted the cover plate.
He then ticulously checked every level of the security passage again but found nothing else suspicious.
"Let’s go," Chen Gu said. lincha and Joseph were completely baffled. Had they co all this way just to help the building with maintenance?
Back in the car, Chen Gu contacted the office staff. "I need the data on all the companies in the building."
Within thirty seconds, all the data was transmitted.
lincha pursed her lips, smiling at Chen Gu. "Before you, the office staff had never been so efficient."
Chen Gu shrugged and opened the docunts.
lincha leaned in to look too. "Do you suspect that the target of True Knowledge Sin is inside this building? But the bureau has preliminarily determined that their target is Zhaolin Middle School."
Chen Gu responded absently while reading, "I just have so doubts. It’s always good to investigate more, just in case."
Soon, Chen Gu had marked several companies that could potentially be targets.
On the 12th floor, there was a weapons company’s research departnt, which, according to the description, focused on "weapon-grade lethal agents."
The 77th floor housed a jewelry company with stringent security asures. It was rumored that their vault regularly contained high-value jewelry worth hundreds of millions of Starshields.
The 216th floor featured a private club frequented by many distinguished individuals.
In a corner on the 300th floor, there was a special workshop engaged in weapon customization. This inconspicuous shop was well-known in certain circles and was said to rank in the top twenty for cha customization within the Confederation.
Then there was the top-tier luxury restaurant, "Gentleman’s Kitchen," on the highest floor, a favorite dining spot for many celebrities.
The three of them started analyzing in the car. Joseph’s first reaction was, "It’s definitely the weapons research institute—they could get a bunch of bioweapons, and those lunatics love that kind of weapon!"
lincha shook her head. "The institute rely conducts research. In this era, no one would prepare large quantities of biological weapons within a research facility. The doses kept in the research institute are likely so small they could only kill a mouse. Attacking here isn’t a good choice."
Chen Gu stroked his chin. "What if their target is these researchers and equipnt? Kidnap them all, set up a weapons factory sowhere, and it won’t be long before they have terrifying weapons!"
Joseph and lincha both nodded thoughtfully.
Then, the three rookies analyzed one by one, and in the end... they didn’t co up with any results!
It seed like every place was highly likely to be targeted by True Knowledge Sin, but it was impossible to determine which one was most probable.
"Forget it. Let’s leave these brain-racking issues to the team leader and the rest," lincha said, passing the buck.
Chen Gu and Joseph nodded in total agreent.
The three of them compiled their seemingly comprehensive but actually unfocused analysis into a "report" and submitted it to Marcus.
After reading it, Marcus was completely flustered.
"This... well, it makes a lot of sense."
"The reasoning behind this one... is also very sufficient."
"Look, look, the likelihood of this target being attacked is indeed quite high."
"This section of the analysis has convinced . Indeed, this company is very dangerous!"
As a security-first veteran agent, Marcus was imdiately trapped in the predicant of wanting to ensure "absolutely no mistakes" yet finding it difficult to decide.
He was unaware of his three subordinates’ ulterior motives and reluctantly passed the report up to Director i.
Director i locked himself in his office, consulting the case AI for analysis for over three hours. He then erged with dark circles under his eyes, stood at his office door, and roared, "Which bastard submitted this report? It’s impossible to make a choice!"
As a result, for several consecutive days, both Marcus and Director i were in a foul mood, and the entire Fifth Division was enveloped in a dreadful low pressure.
The Internal Affairs, Operations, and Special Services teams all trod carefully, fearing they might accidentally provoke a roar from a boss.
This incident was later referred to as "the Fifth Division’s Indecision Incident," and the three instigators were each given a hard ti.
「 」
The next day at school, Darkray and the others were eager to ask Chen Gu about the situation. Chen Gu reassured them, "I have already made arrangents."
Darkray was still sowhat worried. "But Mao Yisheng is still locked up."
Chen Gu pacified him with comforting words and sent him on his way.
In the afternoon, Teacher Ouyang solemnly called Chen Gu to his office alone. "Don’t ddle rashly in Mao Yisheng’s matter!" he warned.
"You have a bright future ahead of you, and you weren’t present when Mao Yisheng got into trouble. I will try my best to help him, but you must not act impulsively and do sothing foolish!
"I know you have so background, but you shouldn’t ruin your entire life out of a mont of loyalty."
Chen Gu suddenly had an idea.
True Knowledge Sin’s case now involved a large number of personnel from the whole division. They needed to keep a close eye on Mona and her daughter, keep Park Sanyi under strict control, deploy around Zhaolin Middle School, and on top of that... Chen Gu’s endearing report had ntioned five potential targets.
Director i eventually made the mature adult decision: Choose one out of five? Impossible. I want them all!
This decision inevitably led to oversights in other areas of the division. If it went on like this, it was very likely that a hidden Mutant would find an opportunity to exploit.
But Teacher Ouyang’s reminder inspired Chen Gu.
After school, Chen Gu imdiately submitted another report. As soon as Marcus saw Chen Gu’s na on it, he forwarded it to Director i without even looking.
Director i stared at the report with clenched teeth for a full three minutes. During that ti, he mustered the courage to open it several tis, only to give up dejectedly each ti.
The title of this report was "Three Concepts for Advancing the True Knowledge Sin Case."
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