Chapter 84
[Shouldn't this be my job? You did it yourself, what am I supposed to do?] 777 wasn't used to it and felt a sense of bewilderment that her job had been taken away.
"Thank you," Qin Su declined, "But I'd like to try it myself first."
Although it was called a test, Qin Su had already made a plan in those few seconds.
The Optical Brain here are analogous to electronic devices in the Real World, and are quite similar. Non-classified electronic devices used by ordinary people are easy to hack.
Moreover, in just over three months, his initial unfamiliarity with controlling and using the 'Optical Brain' had transformed into complete mastery.
Mental manipulation is far more convenient than manual manipulation, and the speed of intrusion is far faster than using a computer in the Real World.
What belongs to others will always belong to others. Assuming he hasn't lost his memory, only what truly belongs to him can put Qin Su at ease.
No one can predict the future. He was unsure whether he would do something that violated the system's rules and caused the system to be unbound.
Ruan Chengye's experience of losing the system serves as a cautionary tale; if he were to lose the system in the future, he must absolutely not repeat the same mistake.
Not only do he need to learn the technology, but if the opportunity arises, just in case, he also needs to prepare a real Optical Brain belonging to this world.
[... Okay then.] 777 responded awkwardly.
Qin Su had already found what he wanted from He Wenyuan. Hearing the system's clearly disappointed electronic tone, he readily offered a platitude. "I just thought you were too tired, that's all."
[So that's how it is?!] 777 is fully healed in a second.
Qin Su: "Of course."
He's gotten so used to lying through his teeth that he has absolutely no moral baggage now.
777 obviously has no control over who it binds to or what the host tells it to do. As long as it can be persuaded and does not violate the system rules, it will do anything. If in the future 777 binds to another person with an antisocial personality like Ruan Chengye and wants to oppose him, doing nothing now is equivalent to sending its future self to its death.
With the 'layoff' crisis over, 777 felt ready to go again.
To Qin Su's regret, he was unable to find the screen recording of He Wenyuan's major mistakes during this actual combat.
The few words revealed in the comments clearly indicate that He Wenyuan did certain things during the actual combat, but there was no screen recording. This can only mean that He Wenyuan had turned off the screen recording before he took action, and that his actions against Qiu Yongyan did not leave any trace on the internet.
However, the information found regarding He Wenyuan's contact and communication with Ruan Chengye, and the instructions he gave, along with the video that was found along with the data on He Wenyuan's Glands that 777 had previously searched for...
The exposure of these things on the StarNet was enough to lead to He Wenyuan's He Wenyuan from the Fourth Military Academy due to public opinion.
He Wenyuan's method of obtaining different Glands involved harming 90% of those who were defenseless and without connections. No matter how resentful their families were, they couldn't cause him much harm.
However, in the early years after He Wenyuan was found by the Xuan Family, he was ostracized by many of his peers in the same social circle because of his status as an illegitimate child.
Most of the time, when faced with this situation, a normal person would tell their parents so that the parents could handle the situation, or they would fight it out or cause trouble.
He Wenyuan was not like that. He seized the opportunity to set fires, drown, crash, and cause Spaceship accidents... to disguise everything as accidents, and used any means necessary to carry out bloody revenge on the children his age who mocked him for being an illegitimate child and who had quarreled with him.
His upbringing and the indulgence he received after being taken back to the Xuan Family led the seemingly well-behaved He Wenyuan to secretly seek thrills and commit numerous sins.
By examining the traces, He Wenyuan often spent the quiet of the night alone, carefully examining the tragic scenes of the people in the preserved videos.
Alongside those videos were countless other videos about He Muzhi.
Since it concerned the main character, Qin Su curiously opened and watched a few videos, but stopped before finishing them.
Other videos of torture or Gland swapping were edited, retaining only the parts that He Wenyuan considered interesting.
He Muzhi's videos are all very long, with the longest being ninety-three hours.
These are the daily life scenes He Muzhi He Wenyuan was able to capture.
Among them, the first part of the video, which is the one with the most clicks for He Wenyuan, shows the scene of He Muzhi bringing He Wenyuan home and living together.
In other words, from the day He Muzhi met He Wenyuan, he began to spy on and record He Muzhi from every angle.
Qin Su didn't know how He Muzhi would feel if he learned the truth; as an outsider, he only felt a chill.
After organizing the necessary videos, Qin Su packaged them into a single document.
To avoid affecting the practical training of other classes, Qin Su scheduled the document to be sent from his personal Optical Brain to every teacher and student of the Fourth Military Academy the Second Practical Exercise of the Class of 26 freshmen.
The message sent on the StarNet by Qin Su cost him 777 Life Points and generated an untraceable source and an undeletable link.
The difficulty increases dramatically for individuals and the Federation. With his current strength in this world, he cannot ensure that things sent by his own Optical Brain are not erased by others.
But the document he sent to everyone at the Fourth Military Academy was exactly the same as the one that would later circulate throughout the StarNet, so everyone would still know that everything 'originated from him.'
It will not affect the Life Points he gains.
Qin Su soon entrusted him with another important task, and 777 was completely at ease.
It said, there isn't a single host that doesn't need it, no one!
After doing all this, Qin Su shut down his Optical Brain and ultimately did not tell He Muzhi about the massive amount of videos that He Wenyuan had filmed detailing countless aspects of He Muzhi's life.
If he posts it, people will naturally associate it with him.
As the protagonist, He Muzhi's appearance is considered a 'Comic Capture Camera', and He Muzhi every move will be known to the Viewers.
If he were to tell the Viewers, it would make it seem like he cares deeply for He Muzhi.
How could a selfless and ambitious tycoon like him, standing alone at the pinnacle, possibly pay special attention to such private matters between He Muzhi and He Wenyuan?
However, He Muzhi wasn't without opportunities to find out about these things.
According to Federation law, after He Wenyuan's affair came to light, it was a foregone conclusion that he would be taken away by the Federation for investigation. No matter how powerful the Xuan Family was, they would not openly prevent it.
Xuan Jingxi and He Wenyuan are in a state of hostility and competition in every aspect. Even if the Xuan Family wants to do something, she will interfere and try every means to send He Wenyuan to court and nail him to the ground.
Such egregious incidents that have generated significant public attention will be subject to open court hearings.
During this period, everything in He Wenyuan's mind will be shown to the entire Federation.
The political landscape is constantly changing, and many of the parents of the children whom He Wenyuan targeted in the past are now very different from what they were then.
The truth is out in the open. Regardless of whether they have any feelings for the children who were involved in the incident, their dignity in the outside world absolutely cannot allow them to stand idly by and do nothing.
He Wenyuan will die.
So what?
In the Optical Brain Green √ light of the computer screen, Qin Su's eyes were filled with a cold indifference.
He was just retaliating in kind, since he had instigated Ruan Chengye to take his life.
With his current tasks temporarily completed, Qin Su took a shower and, under the cover of night, piloted his fully powered Warship away from Lierse Niya.
The Warship was equipped with enough convenient energy replenishment supplies for flying around for the next few days.
Having already given the students the order to have a holiday, he didn't plan to appear at the Jump Point for the next few days. Instead, he intended to take advantage of the Military Academy's energy resources and travel around the entire Lierse Niya as much as possible, thus fulfilling his students' guess that he had a foothold in Lierse Niya.
He Muzhi couldn't sleep, tossing and turning, thinking about what Qin Su had said, so he decided to tell his friends everything.
[Samuel:???]
[Lin Yin: It's time to spit into his nutrient solution (smiles)]
[Lailisi: No, he's insane!]
[Lailisi: I can't take this anymore, I'm ready to fight! He doesn't think he can just use my name like that!]
[Lin Yin: (40-meter-long broadsword. jpg)]
[Samuel: (Image) I was just killing time anyway, so I just put 'premium rice. jpg' into his Optical Brain. (smiles)]
[Lin Yin:... I'd rather go back and ambush him.]
[Lailisi: Support!]
[He Muzhi: Fighting on campus is prohibited in Military Academies; those who engage in it will be expelled]
The next morning at six o'clock, the Class 6) who had been cooped up in the Rest Pod all night appeared with huge dark circles under their eyes and gathered in the cabin, talking all at once.
After everyone had satisfied their desire to confide in each other face-to-face, it was already noon.
In the past, when Qin Su did not appear in the morning, he would appear after 10 a. m., and everyone's eyes involuntarily fell on the direction of Qin Su's Rest Pod.
Ten minutes passed, and there was still no movement inside.
"Isn't the Class Monitor coming out today?"
"I don't know, why don't you go knock on it?"
"No, you go ahead."
"You go."
"You! You!"
"I'll go."
He Muzhi stood up. Although he knew that Qin Su couldn't possibly be in trouble, the fact that he hadn't appeared at the place where he was supposed to make a move made him worry about Qin Su.
"It still has to be our He Muzhi."
"Of course, the Class Monitor has high expectations for He Muzhi."
The students' enthusiastic chatter contained no sarcastic remarks, only factual statements of praise and envy.
Standing in front of the Qin Su cabin door, He Muzhi raised his hand and pressed the protruding Green √ button next to the door, holding it down as he spoke, "Class Monitor, are you awake?"
Qin Su, whose Warship was already tens of thousands of miles away, saw the situation Rest Pod and could roughly guess that his classmates were worried that something might have happened to him inside, so he sent a message in the class group.
[Qin Su: Not on the Spaceship, have fun.]
Qin Su deliberately did not answer where exactly it was, leaving the students and Viewers to use their imaginations.
He Muzhi didn't hear Qin Su's voice from the Rest Pod; instead, he saw a message on his Optical Brain terminal.
The rest of the students from Class 6 also looked down to check at this moment.
A few seconds later, Raymond's voice betrayed his disappointment. "Damn it, when did the Class Monitor leave? How come none of us noticed!"
"It must have been last night. After carefully checking our physical condition, he still had the energy to leave overnight. Our Class Monitor is truly amazing."
Where will the Class Monitor go?
"We don't know, and we dare not ask."
"I guess it's at Lierse Niya's home? I've heard that people like the Class Monitor always have their own family strongholds, no matter which planet they're on."
That should be correct.
"The Class Monitor isn't here, so where do we go?"
"No matter where we go," Sophia suggested, "We'd better go together. If we wander around alone and encounter danger, it would be terrible if there was no one to defend us."
The others nodded in agreement.
For the next three days, the resting (Class 6 members traveled in large groups on the Warship, and no one mentioned that they had gone their separate ways.
During this time, Qin Su wandered around everywhere, diligently increasing his exercise to create the illusion that he was 'returning to his base,' while secretly monitoring his classmates' movements through the Warships and Spaceships.
Qin Su easily noticed that during the group activities, no one fell behind even once. Even when they wandered into the local market, they were a large group, never daring to separate or relax for a moment. When they were craving local food, they would discuss with each other whether or not the school rules allowed them to buy food during the actual combat.
Even Huang dared not stray too far from the Jump Point.
"..."
Qin Su looked at it several times, seemingly wanting to speak but then stopping himself.
That's true, honest kids are definitely like that.
He gave them a holiday, but they were lonely. Compared to his classmates, he was far too cunning in every way.
"Never mind, I'll do it."
Qin Su turned off the Spaceship's Electronic Eyes, disguised himself so thoroughly that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him, and headed towards the specialty product sales point marked in his pre-prepared travel guide.
Since he was already there, he wanted to try all the local specialties and so on, so as not to leave empty-handed.
Lierse Niya is a planet under the jurisdiction of the Federation. When Qin Su swiped his card to buy local specialties, in order to prevent the Federation from discovering that he actually needed to buy local specialties in person, he used an untraceable disguise when making the purchase.
He created the illusion that all his local specialties were 'prepared for him and taken away directly,' leaving no trace of his own purchases.
As long as it's a specialty product mentioned on the StarNet, whether it's high-quality and inexpensive or extremely expensive, Qin Su will buy it all.
(Class 6 students had never had this experience before, and they shared their vacation experiences on the Forum every day, and their spirits were high.
The students from other classes were envious, but they knew they couldn't do what they wanted, so it didn't affect their own Purge operations.
Thanks to Qin Su's voluntary extra training over the course of more than a month, their physical abilities underwent a qualitative leap in a short period of time. Everyone clearly felt that compared to their first real battle, they were much more confident and composed when facing the insects.
The number of student deaths in each class, compared to the first actual combat, although not reaching the zero deaths in Class 6), showed a straight downward trend, and the intuitive data was encouraging.
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On the seventh day, the Second Practical Exercise for the Class of 26 freshmen concluded.
Qin Su returned to the Spaceship. The students of Class 6 missed Qin Su terribly, their eyes practically glued to him.
Facing the eager gazes of his classmates, Qin God Su remained indifferent, as if he hadn't noticed, and calmly told them, "There are gifts on the Warship for you, all local specialties. Help yourselves."
"Don't leave any for me, I don't need any. The Spaceship will begin its Hyperspace Jump in half an hour."
He reminded the students to sort the local specialties and return them to the Spaceship within half an hour.
Unnecessary?
It's fake. Aside from the food he gave to his parents, sister, Assistant Jiang, and the other staff who frequently helped him, he only ate one serving himself, no matter how delicious it was.
The purchase quantity was too large, relying entirely on the Star Coins obtained from previously selling data to the Federation. Even though the Star Coins spent this time were insignificant compared to his huge balance, his balance was also insignificant compared to the amount of Star Coins needed to purchase the Military Factory.
He had to scrimp and save on himself.
"!"
"Thank you, Class Monitor!"
"Class Monitor, you're such a nice person!"
"Thanks!"
The students in Class 6 were surprised that Qin Su not only remembered them but also prepared gifts for them. After a moment of surprise, they expressed their gratitude one after another.
"Need not."
After giving a brief speech, Qin Su strode back to the cockpit, blocking the students' view.
Although he had been running around a lot these past few days, he didn't forget to protect himself from the sun. The skin above his neck showed no signs of sunburn. Judging from his skin condition, his classmates would never guess that he had personally purchased such a large quantity of local specialties.
Before the Warship returned, he had completely erased all suspicious traces; the students would only find local specialties on board.
Despite being curious about what local specialties the Class Monitor had brought them, the students of Class 6) stood still for a while until they watched Qin Su's figure disappear from sight, before they rushed to the Warship that was replenishing its energy.
Climbing onto the Warship, most of the students in Class 6 looked surprised as they saw a wide variety of local specialties that they had never seen before and had only seen when others recommended them on the StarNet.
"I've seen this before, 30,000 Star Coins for 500g!"
"What is this thing that's so expensive? It's highway robbery!"
"That's true. I saw it on one of the influencers I follow. Thanks to the Class Monitor, otherwise I would never have been able to afford something so expensive in my life."
"These... did the Class Monitor really give them all to us?"
"Of course! It's the Class Monitor's word, how could it be false?"
"I'm so touched! How could life be the same no matter which Class Monitor you have!"
"Really, I don't have to pay? It's too expensive, I don't dare touch it..."
"Go ahead and touch it. It's expensive for us, but for our Class Monitor, it's just a token of his appreciation. Do you want to waste his Class Monitor intentions?"
He's right.
"This is a hidden gem, only locals know about it. How did our Class Monitor know this?! We were right, our Class Monitor definitely lived on this planet for a long time."
"It wasn't the Class Monitor who knew; it was the class leader who told the people preparing the local specialties."
"So you can buy things during actual combat!"
"What are you thinking about? What do you need our Class Monitor to buy personally?"
"It's obvious the Class Monitor went home and had it prepared for us."
How can I stay with the Class Monitor forever?
"To become stronger."
"I understand!"
Qin Su hadn't appeared in the comics for a long time, but when he did, he gave a big gift to Class 6, making the comments section jealous.
[(Lemon)(Lemon)(Lemon)]
[I suggest deleting these scenes; they make me a little uncomfortable.]
[ (Class 6) What an amazing life they're living!]
[I have a feeling another wave of frenzied excitement is about to begin]
[It's all drawn, fake, fake, fake—it's not like you actually spent money, why be moved? Everything is given to Qin Su by the comic artist; if you really like him, you should also like the artist.]
[All the comics I like are real! I hate it when someone pours cold water on my enjoyment.]
"?"
Qin Su secretly protested, saying that what he spent was all 'real money'.
Before thirty minutes had passed, the students of Class 6) had already divided up their local specialties and returned to the Spaceship to find seats. There was no time for idle chatter, so they tacitly started taking pictures before the Spaceship began its Hyperspace Jump.
The students from the other 117 classes were waiting for the Jump Channel to open in the Spaceship. They were browsing the Forum out of boredom when they saw Class 6) showing off openly and secretly.
"..."
They really didn't have time to mess around with those guys from Class 6 anymore, because they were filled with murderous intent and wanted to assassinate them.
If you have friends in Class 6), and you don't want to join in the sarcastic remarks about Class 6), just send a private message to your friends asking to exchange your things for some local specialties.
Whether it's a local specialty or not is unimportant; what matters is the 'gift from Qin Su '.
(Class 6, countless posts appeared with comments about people bidding high prices.
Regardless of the post, no one in Class 6) agreed to sell at a high price.
Even disregarding the exorbitant price, this is Qin Su's gift! It is proof of Qin Su's unique favoritism towards Class 6, and it is a testament to Qin Su's affection for them.
The sentiment is priceless; even if they were short of money, they wouldn't sell it, but they could share it with their good friends.
Time's up, the Jump Channel is activated.
Upon hearing the announcement broadcast inside the Spaceship, the students of Class 6) spontaneously shut down their personal Optical Brain and obediently remained seated.
In the cockpit, having already gained experience in maintaining stability while standing during Hyperspace Jump, Qin Su did not place his hands on the armrests on the way back, thus freeing his body from being restrained, intending to gain experience in maintaining stability while sitting casually.
As time passed, the Spaceships carrying the Class of 26 graduating class gradually arrived at the landing point of the Fourth Military Academy.
The first thing a few students from other classes did after Spaceship from their Spaceships, which arrived earlier than Class (Class 6), was not to rest, but to ask the landing site staff whether Class 6)'s Spaceship had arrived.
Having received a negative answer, they each stayed where they were and waited for their friends to land.
What are you doing here instead of leaving?
The other students were confused.
"Wait for Class 6."
Everyone's answers were largely the same.
"Are you all out of your minds? You're not jealous enough being shown off online, you want them to show off to your face?" someone said speechlessly.
"Showy? What's so showy about it?"
"That's right, my baby has already agreed to share some with me, hehe."
"Hehe, my cousin is too."
"That's why my best friend is so reliable."
"... Hmph!" The person who spoke turned and left in anger.
He talked too much, now he's getting his comeuppance!
Half an hour later, the Class 6) Spaceship landed.
Qin Su was the first to get off the Spaceship. When the students from the other classes saw Qin Su, they thought about how they wanted to get the gifts for free and didn't want Qin Su to know how shameless he was. They looked up at the sky and the ground awkwardly, and none of them dared to look at Qin Su.
Qin Su was there, and the students of Class 6 suppressed their excitement, carrying gifts in one hand and waving excitedly to their friends behind Qin Su.
Apart from Qin Su and He Muzhi, every other student in Class 6 had friends waiting for them, and there were quite a few people in the waiting area.
Through the gleaming walls and floors, Qin Su could clearly see his classmates' every smile and frown.
Knowing that everyone was uncomfortable because of his presence, Qin Su quickened his pace to leave.
He had to get back to his dorm before the scheduled delivery time.
As Qin Su walked, he saw He Muzhi behind him, who was also walking briskly forward, speaking into his Optical Brain through the silver-white metal wall in front of him, "Almost there, almost there."