Full-Time Public Enemy

Chapter 846 - 368: Doorstep Reason_3

Milgray followed behind him like an invisible person.Chen Gu utilized his professional skills to influence the school's security, easily entered the school, and then found the outside of the library.

This building is as old as [Yunjing High School], quite ancient. Chen Gu unleashed his [Brain Domain Hacker] ability, "capturing" over a dozen elderly library employees, then hacked into their brains without them noticing.

The focus was on finding out who held grudges or conflicts with the old librarian.

Everyone's memory capacity is actually vast, so going through them one by one, Chen Gu only finished by nightfall.

"The old librarian was quite a charmer." Chen Gu couldn't help but laugh.

In the memories of these old employees, the most striking memories about the old librarian were all scandalous affairs.

Flirting with female staff, being ambiguous with female students interested in research grants, and so on.

But these incidents were consensual and wouldn't generate any "grudges". The old librarian had a good "reputation" in this regard, always giving enough benefits in return for advantages gained.

There was no instance of a jilted lover holding a grudge.

Chen Gu rubbed his brows, feeling stuck: who on earth would want the old librarian dead?

The library closed, the staff leaving in small groups.

Chen Gu noticed a middle-aged man, the successor librarian. Chen Gu didn't read his memory, as the new librarian hadn't been there long, he was at the end of the sequence of old and new employees.

Moreover, Chen Gu already learned from other employees' memories that the new librarian was highly valued by the old librarian, so much that he was smoothly able to succeed him after the old librarian's death due to the old librarian's mentorship.

The reason the old librarian valued him was that a student accidentally witnessed the old librarian on a date with a female student in a hotel and used this to blackmail the old librarian.

The old librarian was deeply rooted in the school and held weight in academic circles. But his life principle was: I accept what I've enjoyed, but do you think a young kid can blackmail me with this? Hehe, dream on.

Yet this student was a pest, clinging to the old librarian without relent. The now-new librarian, then just an ordinary staff, stepped in to resolve it.

The specifics of the resolution were unknown to other staff.

An idea suddenly struck Chen Gu: could it be related to this matter?

Chen Gu quietly followed along, with Milgray silent behind: why Chen Gu was so suddenly interested in a library at [Yunjing High School], and his various abnormal behaviors in the [Spirit Ring Group] case, Milgray of course had her own thoughts and judgments, but she didn't plan to interfere.

The new librarian drove home, unaware that a powerful professional had already infiltrated his mind.

Chen Gu discovered the events of the past, noting the new librarian was a "live-in son-in-law". The reason he could help resolve that troublesome matter for the old librarian was that his wife weighed twice as much as him and was the sister of the boss of the largest local gang, [Flaming Blaze].

Back then, it was the actions of [Flaming Blaze] that scared the student away from further bother.

Furthermore, in the new librarian's memory, there were many subsequent demands by [Flaming Blaze] for favors from the old librarian. The old librarian couldn't be as firm against them as he was with the student and was forced to engage in actions detrimental to the school's interests.

Like allocating special admission slots to people designated by [Flaming Blaze].

Like awarding school renovation projects to companies controlled by [Flaming Blaze], allowing them to launder money.

Or… renting out certain library storerooms to [Flaming Blaze] for storing less-than-legal goods…

What surprised Chen Gu was that indeed, [Flaming Blaze] had hired someone to kill the old librarian. Although it wasn't the new librarian who personally handled it, he was aware of it.

The reason was some "goods" stored in the library's storeroom had led to the deaths of three students on campus. The old librarian, heavily burdened with guilt, decided to expose them.

[Flaming Blaze] didn't want to do it themselves, considering the high-status academic librarian's death would attract local law enforcement's attention, bringing trouble upon themselves.

So, [Flaming Blaze] decided to hire "professionals" from outside to do the job.

Understanding this, Chen Gu realized that his silent investigation wouldn't suffice anymore.

The reason he found himself in this era was likely due to something that went wrong during this final mission of assassinating the old librarian.

Yet the quiet investigation reached this point: all involved memories revolved around the old librarian — the new librarian had never even seen the face of the assassin back then.

To uncover what exactly transpired back then, Chen Gu needed the surveillance footage of all of [Yunjing Star].

These surveillance videos could capture the actions of the "Chen Gu" of that era upon his arrival at [Yunjing Star].

It's standard practice across all planets of the Confederation to keep backups of public surveillance data for three years. [Yunjing Star] should be the same. Since being released from [Soul Imprisonment] up until now, it's been over two years, and according to memories from Fanmier and Guo Daoqian, the original form's last mission was a month before release.