Chapter 830: Chapter 244: Public Opinion (Part 4) - Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

"We don’t have to deal with it." Looking like the matter was already over, Bai Quan said, "The trouble of assassinating a Vice Admiral and a Psychic is on the other side’s head. They’re the ones who have to think about how to handle it, but who would dare try to deal with this kind of thing in private?" "Don’t forget the previous incident still hasn’t been fully settled yet. With these two piled together, this is already way beyond something they can solve by ’self-inspection’." "Someone from Headquarters will be coming over before long to handle it. We don’t need to worry about it." "Such a massive blame-pot—plenty of people are going to be dragged out for investigation. We just have to watch." "Oh." Chen Ming nodded, then asked, "So how will they respond?" "You’d have to ask them how they’ll respond. But if it were me, I wouldn’t do a thing. I’d just fully cooperate with the inspectors, hand over whoever needs to be handed over." "Twice in a row it’s gotten tangled up with Zuo Jing business, and one of those times was directly tied to my life. Anyone who gets the itch to meddle is guaranteed to end up with their head cracked open." Having gone through what happened before, Chen Ming more or less understood the logic. This was how the system worked. But there was still one thing he didn’t get: "Honestly, I still don’t understand. Why did they want to assassinate us in the first place?" Bai Quan shot back, "Who said they wanted to assassinate us? They’ve been in the game for so many years—how could they not know the rules?" "Someone definitely just wanted to stir up some trouble for us, disgust us a bit, frame us for bad confidentiality work or whatever, same as some people leaking our intel." "If what they attracted over was just ordinary Zuo Jing, that’d actually be fine for them, because that kind of Zuo Jing poses zero real threat to us, but can still make us miserable." "Any Zuo Jing would’ve been dealt with on the spot. Even if we didn’t move, the Zuo Jing would’ve charged in and gotten themselves dealt with. There’s no way those ones would be left alive." "And then they could argue with us endlessly over who leaked the intel. Think about it, that’d be a pain." "But as it turned out, they probably never expected the one they drew over would be a Psychic from Zuo Jing. That’s when things blew up." "Figuring out who actually leaked the intel isn’t even that hard. Only a handful of people could’ve known, and every single one of them is connected to their top man." "So my guess is we’ll have a result within three days. We just watch." "The outcome shouldn’t disappoint." Bai Quan tossed the terminal in his hand aside. He was just about to stand up and prepare that day’s lesson plan when he suddenly sat back down again and said to Chen Ming, "Right, even though we were delayed a bit on the road, we should be arriving more or less by tomorrow night." "That’s the place responsible for testing your research data. Before we hand the data over, we have to meet with Lou Wei’s side first. I’ll talk to them when the time comes." "Got it." "Also, Lou Wei’s punishment result came out yesterday. It wasn’t in that report, so I’ll just tell you directly now." "Lou Wei took three internal disciplinary hits from our Fourteenth Legion." "One was for illegally obtaining admin privileges on the simulation equipment. Another was for illegally using those admin privileges to terminate an official, recorded, public match. And the last one was for destroying your research data." "Those three violations, plus the Zuo Jing incident that blew up afterward, got him hammered with a heavy sentence—his rank got cut by two levels straight." "He’s been assigned six months of mandatory labor, and his monthly salary’s been cut." Chen Ming barely took in the rest. Salary and mandatory labor weren’t exactly painful punishments. The main thing was the two-rank demotion. He remembered Lou Wei had been a Major General before. Dropping two levels, that would make him a Colonel now. Although Lou Wei didn’t end up in prison, getting knocked from General Level down to field-officer level—he might honestly have been better off doing time. This even meant Lou Wei was now at the same level as him. Chen Ming still technically didn’t count as part of the Fourteenth Legion. He was an externally hired temporary tactical instructor, with benefits equivalent to a Colonel. Lou Wei falling to the same level as him—however you looked at it, it was pretty funny.