"Fire Disaster Case..."
Cui Zhongcheng said, "Even if you hadn't brought it up, I would have told you."
"Once you pass the review, you're one of the Adjudication Court. And your teacher, Zhou Jiren, is famously protective of his own." Mr. Cui spoke slowly. "I've heard that he's been tracking down leads on the 'Fire Disaster Case' these past few days. Perhaps he was worried that if you failed the review, you'd be implicated by this case."
A flicker of emotion passed through Gu Shen's eyes.
That Old Fellow... he should have been busy dealing with the Council's and his opponents' impeachments lately, shouldn't he?
And yet he had still found the time to look after his case.
"The two people who tried to assassinate me... didn't you extract their genes?" Gu Shen asked. "Shouldn't tracking them down be easy?"
"Although the Deep Sea database stores the genetic data of citizens across the Five Continents, not every search yields a result."
Cui Zhongcheng said, "Transcendent Abilities are an inexplicable kind of 'mutation,' something that defies the order and logic established by science... The genetic data collected from the scene has yet to receive a match in the database. We may need some time before we can give you an answer."
He glanced at Gu Shen.
"But I can provide you with some clues."
"Or rather... a guess."
Mr. Cui said softly, "This assassination took place before the Adjudication Court was preparing to recruit you... In fact, even now, almost no one knows that you passed the review and received an 'S-rank' evaluation."
"So this assassination wasn't aimed at you. You were merely a chess piece. The people behind it were targeting Zhou Jiren. My guess is that they learned of A-009's escape and hoped to use it to create enough