Full-Time Public Enemy-Chapter 606 - 478: King of Divine Logic_2
"Not bad," Chen Gu finally said. "Otherwise, the handling of Chen Yuexiao wouldn't have been so lenient; she merely lost some face."
After Chen Gu left, Rainbow giggled and said to Aviloya, "He holds quite a grudge against you."
Aviloya's eyebrows shot up like swords. "He dares to bear a grudge against me! That little lecher has ruined me..."
Rainbow waved her hand. "But really, you can't keep looking at people with your old perspective."
Aviloya huffed, "I'll try."
「...」
When Chen Gu walked out of the Directorate-General building, he had combined the powers of the Quantum Wizard and Brain Domain Hacker twice in a row. Faced with "problems" that his abilities originally couldn't have possibly solved, he had a vague realization. This might be the direction for my advancement to the Fifth Energy Level, he thought.
He was painstakingly pondering this realization when his phone suddenly rang. He reluctantly answered; it was Qing Ruyan.
Qing Ruyan sounded frantic. "I really want to curse someone—how can there be such shameless people in this world?"
Her voice was quite high-pitched, so Chen Gu adjusted the volume. "What happened? What's got you so upset? Don't rush, tell me slowly."
"The owner of the Big Red Stone Power Plant has sued us!"
Chen Gu was baffled. "What? Water sued us?"
"The owner of the Big Red Stone Power Plant is an old man, nearly two hundred years old. He has quite a few connections within the Confederation and knows a lot of secrets, including the existence of our Bureau of Mystic Security."
"He could tell that our people carried out last night's operation. Instead of being grateful to us for solving the potential threat to his power plant, he went through special channels to file a complaint with the Elders' Council and the Supreme Tribunal. He's demanding we compensate him to the tune of six hundred ninety million Starshields!"
Chen Gu was completely dumbfounded. "On what grounds?!"
Qing Ruyan was equally speechless. "His theory is that our Bureau of Mystic Security let the moss virus escape and let the Mutant loose, causing his power plant to suffer this disaster with heavy losses. Even if we eventually 'locked the stable door after the horse was stolen' and dealt with that electric leech Mutant, it was supposedly our duty. So, for the resultant losses, we still have to compensate him..."
Chen Gu felt his head throb. "What kind of fantastical logic is that? And would the Elders' Council and the Supreme Tribunal even support him?"
"That's the problem," Qing Ruyan said anxiously. "They've thrown the issue back at us without indicating support or opposition, telling us to first 'negotiate a solution' ourselves."
This was indeed a delicate situation, Chen Gu thought. He recalled some bizarre cases from his past life, like an old man riding an electric scooter who crashed into a properly parked vehicle and died, and the family sued the car owner for compensation... Eerily similar! At first, I thought the owner of the Big Red Stone Power Plant was just aiming to extort whatever he could, but the higher-ups' response is rather thought-provoking. Such fantastical logic in a legal demand, and it's actually pushed onto the Bureau of Mystic Security, leaving it up to us to resolve? Really? In fact, the very fact that this old man could file a complaint against the Bureau of Mystic Security already demonstrated his extraordinary nature.
The Bureau of Mystic Security was not a dictatorship; of course, one could file complaints against the Bureau's actions. Just as any law enforcement agency would have an internal affairs inspection system, the Bureau of Mystic Security had one too. It was just that most people couldn't even find the door to this "inspection." Not only had this old man found it, but he could also "reach the highest echelons with his plea."
Qing Ruyan warned him further, "I'm giving you a heads-up since this issue concerns you. That old geezer might come looking for you. I'll go dig into the specifics."
「...」
When Chen Gu returned to school, he already knew the ins and outs, not from Qing Ruyan, but from the principal.
"He's just an old rascal." His Excellency the Principal, who outwardly projected the image of a sage, was, in private, vengeful and outspoken.
"His only real skill is living long enough. When they were young, he had some superficial relationships with several members of the Elders' Council and the Supreme Tribunal. But as those people reached the top, their old friends died off one by one for various reasons. Naturally, they feel a bit more nostalgic sentiment for the few who remain."
"What's more shameless is that he makes unreasonable demands, relying on his old age to cause trouble. Those people value their reputations. They fear that if they don't satisfy his requests, he'll go around spreading nonsense about them 'forgetting old friendships,' so they often just let him have his way."
The Principal shrugged. "As a result, this guy has gotten more and more audacious. Now he even has the nerve to try and shake down the Bureau of Mystic Security!"
The Principal harrumphed, expressing his dissatisfaction. "Aviloya is nothing like one of my students. If it were me, I would have sliced that old geezer's bedroom in half with a sword while he was asleep."
Chen Gu scratched his head. Although I've been somewhat dissatisfied with Aviloya lately, I can't speak ill of her in front of her teacher, he thought. He said helplessly, "The Director-General probably also wants to keep the peace. As long as his demands aren't too excessive, perhaps they'll just give him some money to settle it."
"You just stay at the school and keep a low profile for the time being," the Principal advised. "That old man preys on the weak but fears the strong. He knows neither Shentu Lu nor I are to be trifled with, so he wouldn't dare cause a scene at the school."
