The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 341 - 210: Great, I’ve Become a Murderer_2
Chapter 341: Chapter 210: Great, I’ve Become a Murderer_2And the four Tablet Spirits were holding their heads with one hand, exchanging messages through the ”bullet screen” comments.

A: There’s nothing there, so what were they just doing?

B: What can you do in fifteen minutes? It was all @#￥... before.

C: It disappeared so quickly, maybe they were just pouring out their hearts to each other.

D: Pouring out their hearts?

A: Pouring out their... No, that’s not it.

Jiang Shu: ”...”

So, another spirit was whacked.

A, B, C, D: HoldingHead.JPG.

”What was said at the new product launch just now? Give me a quick summary,” Jiang Shu asked. He had been preoccupied with business, but A, B, C, and D had been loitering around the laboratory, looking here and there, and touching things like Liu Lao Lao entering the Grand View Garden.

A: Today’s product launch was about two things.

B: Fairness, fairness, and damned fairness!

Jiang Shu didn’t bother being polite with B, snatched it right away, turned off airplane mode, and tossed it aside, then continued to look at A, gesturing with his eyes to go on.

A: Two things, the first was the introduction of the artificial intelligence ’Shubao,’ unveiling its complete profile, including the Character Card section; I’ve made a record.

Shubao·Supervisor

Name: Shu

Gradient: ?

Sequence: Social Sequence

Mysterious Coefficient: 0

Entries (partial):

-Passive·Super Brain (?): Computing power +15.

-Passive·Precision (?): Naturally occurring faults are rare.

-Passive·Detective Rule (?): Ability to crack cases +10.

...

”Supervisor?” Jiang Shu saw this job title and immediately imagined figures like Factory Director Deer Head Jack. He shook his head to discard these impractical thoughts.

Supervisor.

Just hearing it made it clear that the job title was laden with high expectations, yet, this somewhat icy name could easily lead one to think of something unpleasant.

Like Skynet or the Queen of Hearts, for instance.

A: Additionally, Tang just announced on stage, starting next week, the C3 area of the Fifth District will officially be designated an Experiment Zone, and the AI ’Shubao’ will cooperate with the Fifth District police to carry out a month-long crime sweep.

”Tang was just there? Why didn’t you come tell me?” Jiang Shu poked A’s forehead.

A: Ruo Ma told us not to disturb you.

Jiang Shu: ”... Alright, then.”

But starting next week?

Are they in such a hurry?

Is Tang prioritizing something other than dealing with the side branches of the family, or is he using this as a cover?

Or maybe...

Suddenly, D tugged at Jiang Shu’s clothes.

”Hmm?” Jiang Shu turned his head in confusion to look at D.

C: I heard you’ve committed murder.

”Hmm?” Now Jiang Shu was not only puzzled but also shocked. He put his hand in his pocket and fell into deep thought.

Me, commit murder? No way.

B: Boss Jiang is really a master of playing the fool!

After sending this bullet screen comment, B played a video on the screen, which was an emergency broadcast news clip, only fifteen seconds long.

”Wenhua Society news flash: renowned T1 scientist Diller Dick was found dead around noon today, presumed poisoned based on the scene. According to surveillance video from the scene, the prime suspect is T4 Magician from the Entertainment Series, Jiang Shu. The conflict between the two is suspected to be a crime of passion. For full text...”

The end of the video showed a link leading to another website.

A crime of passion?

Jiang Shu did not hesitate to click on ”Obtain full text,” and then the article explained that the crime of passion was not referring to a romantic relationship between him and Diller Dick, but that they were fighting over another woman out of jealousy.

A crime of passion...

Well, why don’t you clarify? It makes me want to see what really happened.

Jiang Shu just had a face full of dark lines.

Clickbait had once again succeeded in garnering traffic.

However, the article did not disclose the identity of the woman, only covertly mentioning that she was a fellow female researcher in the Research Sequence.

And in the video attached to the news, footage from surveillance cameras showed his front and side profiles.

Sure enough, Tang had already started to take action; no wonder there was a plan for official crime clearance next week.

But was he so sure that he could eliminate all obstacles within just two or three days?

Not only did he intend to sweep away the side branches of the Dick family, but it also looked like he wanted to take care of himself as well...

Wasn’t that a little too confident?

Jiang Shu stroked his chin, then, leaning back against the soft inner shell of the egg capsule, casually grabbed Xiao Jia and asked, ”What’s the other thing?”

Jia: White Eagle Technology Co., Ltd. has launched a new social-type APP with numerous features, the highlight being that it fully considers the privacy needs of all users. All information is randomly encrypted by the underlying logic, truly protecting privacy.

In a place like Lonely City, where personal privacy is highly valued for all sorts of strange reasons, such an APP still has a market, and there are definitely not a few people who dislike big data-driven advertisement recommendations.

Jia: Apart from the core selling point of ”privacy,” this APP also does some interesting things through artificial intelligence, such as virtual reality meetups online and smart friend recommendations.

”I’m not interested in these for the moment,” Jiang Shu interrupted Xiao Jia’s eager discourse, ”What I really want to know now is, what I need to do next, now that Tang has started targeting me.”

Jia: You definitely have an alibi, at least with Ruo Ma, if he wants to slander you with this, it’s bound to backfire.

Ding: However, since Tang has started his plan, proving your innocence definitely won’t be that simple.

Bing: Maybe he already has a complete chain of evidence.

Yi: I want to fly.

Jiang Shu nodded silently, and then suddenly countered, ”I left the Seventh District secretly, came to see Ruo Jie secretly, with no reasonable alibi, and now I’ve conveniently appeared in the Fifth District, which is to say, if someone insisted it was my doing, it indeed might be possible. So, how did Tang know I left the Seventh District?”

”If he didn’t have information on my departure from the Seventh District, he definitely wouldn’t be able to frame me so accurately.” Jiang Shu continued to inquire, his gaze sweeping over the four Tablet Spirits in the room, his voice steady, ”Which means, there’s a traitor among you.”

Jia, Bing, and Ding immediately raised their hands, shaking their heads rapidly.

Yi: In the fifth minute after flight mode is off, I miss it, I miss it.

”It must’ve been someone from the theater who noticed I’d left, and left stealthily, the kind that surveillance can’t capture,” Jiang Shu was just teasing the four Tablet Spirits, and the three of them played along very well.

In other words, it was highly likely that there was a spy in the theater planted by Tang in advance to monitor him.

Or perhaps it was a more advanced method, where they could discover him sneaking out of the Seventh District through indirect means, since planting a spy, after all, was easily detectable by him, and he wasn’t familiar with the other people in the theater.

Even more so, Tang might be framing him just for the sake of it, without any intention of capturing him; this was just to delay him for a while.

And all this awaited the results brought by Liu Tingruo.

No, that’s not right.

Jiang Shu furrowed his brows slightly.

Now in the egg capsule was him, in a fully assembled state, and there shouldn’t be any more egg capsules in this lab. Liu Tingruo had just mentioned that it takes a lot of time to disassemble a complete egg capsule into parts.

So...

Liu Tingruo could very well be in an unprotected state right now.

If Tang knew about the egg capsule and intended to attack her...

Ruo Jie was in danger.

”Xiao Ding, take the Derivative Entry and go protect Ruo Jie,” Jiang Shu ordered without hesitation. Using the recent Secret Key, he opened the capsule door a crack, and Xiao Ding, invisible, quickly slipped through the opening, flying straight towards Ruo Ma and Tang, who were talking at the door.

”You mean... Jiang Shu killed Diller Dick?” Liu Tingruo looked at Tang with doubt, repeating his recent words.

”Yes,” Tang nodded, ”According to the evidence left at the scene, it seems to be the case.”

”What evidence? Let’s hear it,” Liu Tingruo scoffed.

If Jiang Shu hadn’t been sticking to her side just moments ago, she might have been a bit convinced.

Tang frowned slightly, not sensing anything from Liu Tingruo’s reaction that would be of advantage to him.

Liu Tingruo’s reaction was only calmness, neither a bit of belief nor an innate disbelief.

This was strange, and for a moment, he was somewhat uncertain about how to proceed.