From a practical standpoint, the police's forward Command Headquarters in the North Core New Area was currently one of the most densely trafficked nodes for critical information in Star Ring City.
In this day and age, controlling information meant controlling power. By that measure, Bai Tiancong, Star Ring City's Police Commissioner, could be said to be one of the hottest figures in the city at present.
Yet at this moment, seated in the temporarily established Command Hall, Bai Tiancong felt none of the positive emotions associated with "controlling power." Instead, his mind was full of chaotic Negative Emotions.
Not long ago, he had been engaged in an intense back-and-forth with Xi Chang and the others, armed with the progress of the interrogation conducted at the United Laboratory.
Bai Tiancong did not intend to take Tai Yu's side, but he needed to reinforce Tai Yu's "uncontrollable" nature, making everyone at the meeting—including the real big shots hidden behind the scenes—understand that dealing with someone like him would not be easy. At this stage, taking especially hard-line measures was even less feasible. They had to proceed slowly.
He wanted Xi Chang's bureaucrats to see that having a Police Commissioner who was more or less in their camp standing here would, to some extent, have a positive effect on how matters developed afterward.
He had instilled a concept in them: though Tai Yu was uncontrollable, the damage he caused could still be reduced and mitigated.
Finding room for himself between these two seemingly contradictory—and genuinely contradictory—concepts was a severe test of Bai Tiancong's abilities.
He felt that he had performed quite well at the time and had nearly succeeded. By the latter half of the video conference, they had basically been bargaining over the subject of "how to limit Tai Yu's actions against