Watching Yue Jincheng depart, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were filled with confusion. Just then, the office door opened, and Gong Zhe, along with another patrol team member, entered.

Gong Zhe’s face was devoid of any smile, replaced by a cold indifference. “Regarding the mutual assault case today, I’m here to take your statements.”

“Mutual assault?” Zhang Yu questioned. “How can it be mutual? I told you, he was trying to steal my phone!”

Gong Zhe retorted flatly, “Isn’t your phone in your hand? I saw you using it to make a payment!”

Zhang Yu argued, “That’s because I stopped him before he could steal it!”

Gong Zhe coldly stated, “Then how do you prove he was trying to steal your phone? According to another passerby’s testimony, you attacked him first, forcing him to defend himself!”

Zhang Yu was taken aback. “I attacked him?”

“Check the surveillance footage; he reached into my pocket from behind!”

Gong Zhe flipped through the documents in his hand, saying dismissively, “The surveillance cameras were broken; they didn’t capture that moment!”

Seeing Zhang Yu’s silence, Gong Zhe continued, “So, you have no proof that he was trying to steal anything from you?”

“Have you been short on funds lately?”

“Have your grades at school been slipping?”

“Do you feel like your mental state has been unstable recently?”

Listening to Gong Zhe’s leading questions, Bai Zhenzhen couldn’t help but interject, “What are you implying? Are you trying to suggest that Zhang Yu attacked first?”

Gong Zhe frowned, “These are standard routine inquiries! As for who struck first, neither your word nor his is final. Everything depends on the evidence and the investigation’s findings!”

Bai Zhenzhen was furious. “Then why was he released, while we have to stay here?”

Gong Zhe replied matter-of-factly, “He could afford bail and applied for a postponement of review. Everything was legal and justified, so he could leave first. After we finish questioning you, you can also leave after paying bail!”

Bai Zhenzhen became even angrier. “We’re the ones who reported the crime. Now, we have to pay bail to leave?”

Gong Zhe retorted coldly, “Reporting a crime doesn’t mean you haven’t committed one!”

Looking at Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, Gong Zhe knew that this wasn’t just about bail money. Soon after they interrogated Yue Jincheng, the power of the Myriad Stars Conglomerate was unleashed!

As a wealthy and influential company with an entire legal team, its power far exceeded ordinary people’s imaginations! When this power was used against these two poor students, Gong Zhe, though unaware of the company’s motives, could already foresee the outcome!

Especially after sensing that his superior implicitly favored the Myriad Stars Conglomerate, Gong Zhe completely changed his demeanor, forgetting his earlier warmth and kindness towards Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen!

After taking their statements, Gong Zhe left Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen in the office.

Bai Zhenzhen rubbed her stomach, feeling increasingly annoyed. She pounded on the door, “I need to use the restroom!”

But no one responded!

Just then, Zhang Yu’s phone vibrated. It was a message from Zhou Chechen!

Zhou Chechen: The school is very displeased with your involvement in a brawl off-campus. It has decided to issue you and Bai Zhenzhen a warning!

Zhou Chechen: Remember to apologize to the other party properly and not embarrass Songyang High School!

Zhang Yu narrowed his eyes at Zhou Chechen’s message, thinking, “What does this mean?”

“A provocation?”

Moments later, Yun Ni sent a message: What’s going on? They’re saying you were in a brawl and want to revoke your God-Chosen status!

Bai Zhenzhen, seeing the messages on Zhang Yu’s phone, felt a wave of pressure, like an invisible giant hand tightening around them!

Fuji, witnessing all this, burst into laughter. “It seems the Zhou family has made a move. This is good! By turning this into a mutual assault and applying pressure everywhere, they clearly want to take advantage of this opportunity, either to extort money or get you detained so you can’t attend school!”

“Hehe, but they don’t know that you’ve befriended Deng Bingding, and they certainly don’t know that Deng Bingding has already begun investigating the Zhou family! The more involved the Zhou family becomes in this, the greater the price they’ll have to pay to extricate themselves!”

While Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen patiently waited in the patrol bureau’s office, Yue Jincheng had returned to the security department of the Myriad Stars Conglomerate!

Walking into the department head’s office, Yue Jincheng saw that, besides the department head, Si Zhouyu and another lawyer were also present!

The security department head looked at him and said coldly, “Who told you to act without permission?”

Yue Jincheng: “I did!”

The security department head slapped Yue Jincheng across the face, coldly saying, “If the company didn’t still need you, you would have been fired long ago!”

Yue Jincheng’s face stung from the slap, but he didn’t dare touch it, bowing and saying, “I’m sorry, department head. It’s all my fault!”

Security Department Head: “Give me your phone!”

Hearing this, Yue Jincheng’s face twitched, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes, but he ultimately handed over his phone.

The security department head skillfully opened the company’s employee finance platform and said, “The company fronted the bail money. Use your emergency funds now to reimburse the company!”

“Hurry up!”

Yue Jincheng gritted his teeth and obediently followed instructions under the security department head’s gaze!

The security department head continued, “From now on, you stick to the story that Zhang Yu attacked you first, and then it turned into a mutual assault!”

“The company’s lawyer will guide you on how to do it!”

“Remember, if you act without permission again, don’t even think about finding a job in Songyang City!”

The lawyer chimed in, “The approach is simple. When the time comes, you’ll say this at the patrol bureau…”

Listening to the lawyer, Yue Jincheng frowned, “Just keep mediating, keep pestering, and keep harassing him?”

He was puzzled. “This is clearly a great opportunity to take him down! With the company’s power, making sure he can’t attend school would be no problem!”

“We could completely threaten him and get the information the leaders want!!!”

Before Yue Jincheng could finish, the security department head kicked him to the ground, causing him to grunt and curl up like a cooked shrimp.

The security department head said coldly, “Didn’t I just tell you? Don’t act on your own. Do what the leaders tell you to do. Understand to execute, and execute even if you don’t understand! The company doesn’t need its executive-level employees to have their own ideas! Do you understand?”

Yue Jincheng struggled to his feet, nodding. “I understand!”

But Yue Jincheng’s heart was still full of questions. He didn’t understand why, when dealing with poor high school students like Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, the company could easily crush them but always chose to let them off the hook.

“Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen are just two ants!”

“Crushing them is certainly satisfying, but to slowly crush them while forcing them to seek help from their ant nest is a true test of skill and control!”

In a hospital room on the 333rd floor of the Central Building, Zhou Yang looked at the cityscape outside the window and sighed inwardly, “The new employees are getting more and more impulsive! But Zhou Yang wasn’t panicking. Having weathered many storms, he had encountered far too many cases of protecting subordinates who had made mistakes or blunders!

He wouldn’t dwell on this mistake, blaming fate or others. Instead, he would strive to adjust after the mistake, seeking new opportunities within the given circumstances. Upon learning that Yue Jincheng had attacked Zhang Yu and was apprehended by the patrol team, Zhou Yang immediately took action to leverage his influence and take control of the situation.

“We can’t act like nothing happened, or it will alert the evil god behind them!”

“But we also can’t kill Zhang Yu in one fell swoop, severing the clues to the evil god.”

Zhou Yang thought inwardly, “We still need to use Zhou Chechen as a front to carry out our plans! We need to disguise the whole thing as Zhou Chechen hiring someone to set up a trap for Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen in order to get revenge. At least, at the level of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, we need to make them believe that the entire event is just a case of Zhou Chechen bullying them!” As he thought, he made a phone call, and with the Zhou family’s foundation and the Myriad Stars Conglomerate’s influence, he quickly achieved his goals.

After completing these arrangements, Zhou Yang breathed a sigh of relief and thought inwardly, “Next is to increase the number of personnel and continue monitoring Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen through multiple channels! Whether they seek help from the evil god or realize something is wrong and try to escape, we should be able to gain something! But before that…!”

Zhou Yang mused, “Since they’ve already done it, why not simply have them detained for a few days and arrange for someone to teach them a lesson inside? Maybe that will make them reveal more vulnerabilities!” Even if they are students taking the Foundation Establishment Exam, as long as everything is reasonable and lawful, they can’t blame me, right?”

Just as Zhou Yang was deliberating the specifics, his phone suddenly began to vibrate!

Then came a series of frantic vibrations, with messages flooding the screen!

“Divine Division has arrived and is searching the conglomerate building!”

“Chairman Zhou, the security department has been sealed off by a righteous god. Everyone has lost contact. Zhou Yang, what’s going on? Why would a Sixth-Rank righteous god come to investigate you?”

“Uncle, a righteous god has descended upon the mansion!”

“Chairman Zhou, our funds have been frozen!”

Looking at these messages one after another, Zhou Yang was initially stunned.

“A Sixth-Rank righteous god is investigating me?”

But soon, as more and more messages appeared, he felt as if layers of net were enveloping him, tightening and suffocating him!