A highly renowned public figure, a star player of the Behemoth Alliance; at the same time, a powerful figure in the Bureau of Mystic Security, rumored by some unknown people as the Director-General's "secret favorite" — with both identities, being assassinated in such a place as Yunjing Star was an earth-shattering event.
It can be imagined how shocking this was for the entire local law enforcement system.
Then the preliminary investigation result was that a disgraced star privately hired a killer for revenge!
That very afternoon, Li Lezhi was directly handcuffed and taken away by local police from the hotel. Once at the police station for interrogation, he finally understood what had happened and cursed immediately: How could he not have seen before that this follower was so capable!
Why don't you just go to heaven?
I only told you to find some people to give Chen Gu a beating to vent some anger, but you, dear old master, went ahead, risking your life in a night to contact the largest local gang, directly trying to have Chen Gu taken out.
You have screwed your master over.
As for Chen Gu, before the assassination took place, he was completely unaware of the danger and just carelessly walked out of the hotel through the main entrance, getting confronted head-on by the assassin… Local branch professionals later analyzed: This was because, although the killer possessed the over-limit weapon Energized Fiber Gun, such a weapon was not considered dangerous to a Seventh Energy Level strong individual, thus it did not prematurely trigger the forewarning of Mind Belief.
Such discussions, even these conclusions, all occurred under Chen Gu's subtle influence.
In the report sent by the local branch to the central bureau, this will be appropriately mentioned, covering up the last possible loophole in Chen Gu's plan.
The Flame Riser was pulled up by the roots, including that "son-in-law" new director.
And in the view of the officers of the local branch, this superpower individual, the Seventh Energy Level Radiation Missionary, seemed genuinely enraged, determined to eradicate Flame Riser for daring to offend him, even personally intervening in the entire case process, ordering surveillance footage from the past three years, and watched them meticulously.
Say what you will, his efficiency was really high.
He quickly sorted out strands of evidence from these surveillance videos, corresponding to Flame Riser's numerous crimes over the years.
Chen Gu utilized the capability of the Brain Domain Hacker, with extraordinary mental faculties to accomplish these tasks, surpassing ordinary agents by dozens of times.
Finally, in the ocean of surveillance videos, he saw the figure of "himself."
He landed on Yunjing Star on a civilian spaceship, and was immediately captured by the local monitoring system.
The small problem here is that at the time of the incident, "Chen Gu" was in a state of Soul Imprisonment.
The monitoring system was connected to a filtering and analysis system controlled by a super large quantum superbrain, and some fugitives were forced to smuggle and escape to other Star Nations precisely because of this system's existence, as once publicly exposed, they would be caught by the system with nowhere to hide.
But after the system identified and filtered, discovering "Chen Gu," it would immediately send a verification message to the prison holding "Chen Gu." If the prison responded "Chen Gu has escaped," the system would immediately sound an alarm, and the local police system would be dispatched to recapture the criminal. However, if the prison responded, "Prisoner still in custody," the system would categorize its captures related to Chen Gu as a "system error."
For a system covering an entire enormous Star Nation, such errors are allowed to exist and are bound to occur.
At regular intervals, all errors would be aggregated to Capital Star, to a specialized agency within the police department responsible for maintaining and managing this system.
They conduct a manual review.
However, the Confederation is too vast, and this manual review involves just making a call to the respective prison for confirmation.
Wuzhaoyin City's Second Prison would, of course, still report: No problem, the prisoner is still in custody.
Afterward, these errors would be deleted to avoid impacting the entire system's operation.
This is also why Guo Daoqian's "business" could thrive, as cases done by these assassins would ultimately become unsolvable headless cases without clues.
From Guo Daoqian's perspective, business was booming, but from the perspective of the entire Confederation, countless crimes occurred daily. Compared to the number of errors this system had—Guo Daoqian and the like were conducting business at their craziest only once every half a month, mixing in without any real notice.
The sole issue was those reviewing personnel might notice that Wuzhaoyin City's Second Prison appeared more frequently among the errors, but by the time they reached Wuzhaoyin City, the prisoners who had gone out to work had long since returned, leaving nothing to investigate.
"Chen Gu" appeared indifferent in the surveillance video, with a sinister look hidden in his eyes. He soon arrived near Yunjing University, then spent three days tracking and confirming the old curator's habits, acting on the fourth day to kill the old curator.
The entire process didn't seem suspicious, just a usual assassin action.
"Could it be there was an issue in the process of leaving?" Chen Gu speculated internally, and carefully reviewed the departure process of "him," still finding it completely normal.
As an experienced butcher, "he" had a sharp instinct for any danger. Certain people who unintentionally approached him midway were immediately sensed and avoided ahead of time.
"Can't see anything at all..." Chen Gu rubbed his brow, wondering if he really came out of thin air, or could it be that The Past of Four Hundred People swept his soul through time and space, inexplicably entering this body?
This possibility wasn't nonexistent, yet Chen Gu found it hard to convince himself.
Chen Gu rewatched the entire mission's activity trajectory. Previously it was at normal speed, but this time it was slowed down by three times.
After "he" killed the old curator and turned away coldly, Milgray, who was sitting idly behind Chen Gu, suddenly exclaimed, "Hmm?"
Chen Gu turned back. Milgray was looking at a person on the screen, "How did he appear here?"
The person she pointed to, passed by the "Chen Gu" who had just completed a mission and hurried toward the direction of the library.
He seemed anxious, walking hastily.
"Who is he?" Chen Gu asked.
Milgray's silver pupils contracted slightly, like a snake seeing its prey, with a dangerous allure: "His name is Nie He. To ordinary people, he's not famous, but among major families, big enterprises, and even military forces of various countries, he has a huge reputation."
At this point, Milgray paused slightly, her gaze becoming more playful, then continued, "Because this person is known as the top super hunter."
"Hmm?" Chen Gu reacted: "Super life hunter?"
Milgray nodded, "He's an Eighth Energy Level professional himself, considered quite powerful, and has his team, all strong professionals. He has good cooperative relationships with high-ranking military officials from various Star Nations, able to borrow powerful starships and other secret methods, making it possible to form a sufficiently strong hunting party."
"According to public records, this guy has had six super life hunts before, without a single failure!"
Chen Gu took a high view of this person. Not to mention no failures, just having hunted six super lives is impressive enough.
Milgray suddenly laughed dismissively, "But that's only the public record. At least I know of one failure he encountered."
Chen Gu understood immediately, "You?"
Milgray smiled proudly, "Indeed, it was me."
Milgray bit her silver teeth, "That bastard lured me in under the guise of cooperation, thinking he had set a perfect trap, but he ended up having four main starships of his destroyed by me, and six of his helpers killed."
"Hmph, he suffered heavy losses that time. His years of accumulated wealth were probably completely wiped out by me!"
Chen Gu raised his thumb, timely flattering, "Your Excellency is impressive!"
Then, Chen Gu, somewhat puzzled, looked at the surveillance footage, "Why would he appear on Yunjing Star and in such a hurry..."
Chen Gu's fingers flew quickly, pulling out surveillance videos from other angles, starting to track Nie He.
Next, they discovered Nie He entered the library.
"Hmm?"
There were also surveillance cameras in the library. On the screen, Nie He walked with composure inside the library, entered the office area, then suddenly became ghost-like, easily avoiding staff, and entered the basement warehouse.
These warehouses were all locked, but Nie He was not deterred. He used portable devices to open the locks, searching one by one.
Yet eventually left disappointed.
"These warehouses were rented to Flair Blaze by the old curator, storing Flair Blaze's goods. What is Nie He looking for here?"
Chen Gu suddenly remembered something, quickly opened a document, and retrieved statements from several senior members of Flair Blaze.
He quickly found what he was looking for. Within the statements, Flair Blaze had encountered a bizarre "calamity."
Within days of the old curator's death, three senior members of Flair Blaze were mysteriously murdered.
Flair Blaze was furious, investigated thoroughly, and even had two secret gang fights with other factions, but ultimately couldn't find out who killed those three senior members.
"Did Flair Blaze take something belonging to Nie He?" Chen Gu speculated.
Then, Chen Gu adjusted the surveillance video's angle again, locating the old curator.
Before the old curator's death, he went to those warehouses, and after checking all the goods, became very excited, then angrily stormed out...
Chen Gu suddenly paused the footage, rewound, and played. Pause, rewind, and play again.
After several repetitions, Chen Gu finally made some discoveries.
When the old curator checked these goods, he pried open a box and searched it. Among these goods, there was a cube-like object which mysteriously disappeared after the old curator examined it.
The old curator's actions were clear, he did not pocket this item, yet it mysteriously vanished from the screen.
