Full-Time Public Enemy

Chapter 839 - 366: Yun Capital University (1)

The All-Star game is a showcase match that takes place at the end of an intense season. It is held for a few days to let the star players gather strength and make a final push for their performance in the league.The results of this game do not count towards the league standings, and most of the star players only participate in what are called "skill competitions," such as controlling their own beasts in strength contests to see who can lift the heaviest iron lock.

There are only two matches in the All-Star game. The first is the "opening battle," a chaotic match between two teams for fun and entertainment where no one fights seriously.

The second match is the closing battle, in which the team that won the opening match defends a so-called "beast fortress," while the losing team attacks the fortress.

Due to its low competitiveness and relaxed nature, and more importantly, the substantial appearance fees, star players are always eager to participate in this match.

As a light-hearted intermission in a long league, the All-Star game's viewership has always been high, and various sponsors constantly emerge.

For Chen Gu, since Yunjing University is located on Yunjing Star, he replied without hesitation: willing to participate.

Chen Gu secretly investigated Yunjing University and discovered that this private university indeed had quite a background.

Long ago—around the time when the Confederation was first formed—Yunjing University was once one of the most famous "Top Ten Universities" within the Confederation.

At that time, the Confederation was announced as a merger by over a dozen political entities just recently emerging from the home planet. While one major country certainly led the way, the others could not be ignored, at least outwardly, they had to claim "equal treatment for all."

In fact, during humanity's interstellar expansion, these dozen or so political entities were already tied together, but it was only then that they formally announced their merger.

Initially, Yunjing Star was chosen by the major country as the "capital" for the future interstellar era. Yet, other smaller entities couldn't be entirely overlooked, and Yunjing Star eventually lost out, with the new capital of the Confederation established as the present Capital Star.

Moreover, the government secretly promoted an election of the so-called "Top Ten Universities." Apart from Yunjing University, each of the other political entities had a university selected.

However, over the years, these so-called "Top Ten Universities" have gradually declined in status, falling behind renowned schools.

But Yunjing University is undoubtedly the best standing among the former "Top Ten Universities," still considered a top university in the Confederation with numerous accomplished alumni and significant annual donations.

Particularly in the field of spaceship power systems, Yunjing University has strong research capabilities, sustaining the institution well through patent income.

Such a deeply historic institution has its library as an important department, but how could a librarian offend someone to the point of hiring someone like Guo Daoqian for a murder?

With a few days left before the All-Star game, it happens that Guo Daoqian will be escorted over from Empire River Star within these days.

Guo Daoqian wasn't worried at all about being escorted to Capital Star. To him, it was the first step in the "transaction" between him and Chen Gu.

Chen Gu's influence is now on Capital Star, so it was natural to bring him to the Capital Star to handle business.

However, upon reaching Capital Star, he didn't see Chen Gu for two or three consecutive days—not even anyone interrogating him.

Chen Gu was also waiting, as during these days, most of the cases relating to the Spirit Ring Group were nearing closure, leaving only the pursuit of remaining fugitives.

That meant issuing a wanted order, entering the data into all law enforcement databases, and any law enforcement agency that found them could arrest them immediately and transfer them to the Bureau of Mystic Security.

Without occupying Bureau of Mystic Security's resources specifically for pursuit.

During the case closure process, Fanmier's situation would be exposed, and Chen Gu knew someone would report it up, next was to see Aviloya's response.

The day before the All-Star game, most of the files on the Spirit Ring Group were already sealed, and Fanmier was sentenced to forty years in prison, being relegated to a shabby prison—this was tantamount to sending Fanmier to await death.

That kind of prison wouldn't maintain Fanmier's life-support systems; after at most two years, he would be reported as "natural death."

Chen Gu understood, treating Guo Daoqian with full leverage.

Aviloya had no interest in dealing with Chen Gu's small maneuvers in this case—perhaps because the entire case was already substantially classified, the Director-General was too busy to bother with these details; or perhaps because the original owner being sentenced to Soul Imprisonment was related to Aviloya herself, she was unwilling to involve too much.

After waiting for several days, Guo Daoqian was finally taken out of his cell and saw Chen Gu in an interrogation room.

Guo Daoqian smiled faintly, "After waiting for so long, Captain Chen must have made arrangements. Next, will I serve my sentence in that prison? Preferably Wuzhaoyin City's second prison, hahaha!"

Chen Gu looked at him and gently shook his head. Guo Daoqian finally noticed something off about Chen Gu's demeanor, his face changing as he said, "Aren't you afraid of exposure? The people I arranged are very reliable..."

Chen Gu sat down, raised a finger toward Guo Daoqian, who suddenly found himself unable to speak!

He looked at Chen Gu in terror and anger, threatened him with a fierce gaze.

Chen Gu did not bother to explain anything to him because Guo Daoqian, wearing safety shackles, was effectively an ordinary person, powerless against the capabilities of a Seventh Energy Level Brain Domain Hacker.

After this promotion, another page of "The Past of Four Hundred" opened in Chen Gu's mind, allowing him to use the Seventh Energy Level Brain Domain Hacker's abilities, while Isabella Wu was only Sixth Energy Level.

Name: Ding Yan

Occupation: Brain Domain Hacker

Origin: Tianshu Research Institute

Ability: Mind Storm

Mind Remote Control

Mental Tendrils

Mental Exhaustion

Daydreams Come True

...

He was a bully from a young age.

His father always believed he would never achieve anything in life, destined to drift between gangs and prisons.

For the first seventeen years of his life, he steadfastly confirmed his father's view. Until a more ruthless officer pulled him into the army.

Three years later, he earned his first military medal, and five years later he became a professional.

Twenty-four years later, he retired from the military, with countless merits but only a pitiful rank of lieutenant colonel.

He was irritable, reckless, and disregarded military discipline; despite numerous merits, he also had many infractions.

Then he joined the military-backed research institute [Tianshu Research Institute], under the pretense of research, doing cleanup work, not only purging internal traitors but also eliminating anyone hostile to the Confederation.

His profession allowed him to thrive in the [Tianshu Research Institute]. As long as he confirmed it with his [Brain Domain Hacker] skills, no other evidence was needed to directly execute a "cleanup operation."

When he reached the Eighth Energy Level, his power in the [Tianshu Research Institute] peaked.

[Tianshu Research Institute] also flourished because of him.

But everyone who ever worked with him, without reservation, called him "Ding Yan is an asshole"!

Later, a research group composed of historians specifically studied Ding Yan VII, estimating that at least thirty percent of the cleanup operation targets he executed in his lifetime were actually innocent, only because Ding Yan disliked them!

Whether these targets were hostile to the Confederation was merely a matter of Ding Yan's word.

Ding Yan's powerful abilities complemented [Tianshu Research Institute], granting this "institute" unparalleled influence in that special era.

But with Ding Yan's death and changes of the times, [Tianshu Research Institute] slowly faded from the historical stage, ultimately being completely dismantled.

Even today, the military is unwilling to officially acknowledge that [Tianshu Research Institute] was an organization under its control, nor are they willing to mention the sixty-one military medals Ding Yan received.

Chen Gu was not truly a multi-occupational professional; he relied on "The Past of Four Hundred People" to use various professional skills.

Isabella Wu is a Sixth Energy Level [Brain Domain Hacker], so even if Chen Gu advanced to the Seventh Energy Level, he was limited to [Radiation Missionary]. Without the "Ding Yan" page, Chen Gu could still only use the Sixth Energy Level [Brain Domain Hacker] abilities.

And once Chen Gu switched to these memories, he inevitably would be influenced by the personalities of these figures.

For example, Isabella Wu made Chen Gu develop a pica...

And when Chen Gu embodied Ding Yan's memories, he would also become somewhat "cold-blooded" under the influence.

Previously, Chen Gu also borrowed Ding Yan's abilities to break into the [Water Plant Area] and without hesitation used [Mental Exhaustion] on the entire [Water Plant Area].

Or, from another perspective, "cold-blooded" was actually a kind of decisiveness.

Facing Guo Daoqian now, Chen Gu used Ding Yan's memories again, and in fact, he could exhibit Ding Yan's full strength, Eighth Energy Level [Brain Domain Hacker], though for a target like Guo Daoqian, the Seventh Energy Level was already sufficient.

Chen Gu meticulously searched through Guo Daoqian's memories, not sparing even the deep-seated memories, parts that even Guo Daoqian himself wouldn't consciously recall.

Then Chen Gu first confirmed one thing: Guo Daoqian was deceiving him.

Guo Daoqian hadn't arranged for anyone to hold the so-called "evidence" that would expose Chen Gu if anything happened to him.

He said it only to extort Chen Gu.

Analyzing carefully, that was reasonable. Because Guo Daoqian previously didn't know that Chen Gu would be released in the future, would "make a meteoric rise," and would ultimately be responsible for investigating the [Spirit Ring Group] case.

Guo Daoqian left those photos because he would leave some evidence of any research project of the [Spirit Ring Group] to prevent future troubles.

However, his precautions only extended that far.

He couldn't foresee the future and certainly couldn't have specifically planned anything against Chen Gu.

That also meant Guo Daoqian didn't actually know the current Chen Gu wasn't "Chen Gu."

Guo Daoqian's only remaining value to Chen Gu was now just the lead on the librarian murder case.