Mi Nan quickly reported the matter to the bureau chief.
After watching the entire screen recording, the bureau chief slowly said after a long pause, "He's right. Morality is the bottom line. Without moral rules, there is no justice."
"Chief, what do we do?"
"Try to extract some information about City Light from him, and set aside a team to be on standby. Once we know Ren Chuan's location, we'll try our best to rescue him as soon as possible."
"Perhaps we could invite Ling to join our team."
The bureau chief shook his head and said, "You can try, but I don't think he'll agree. This kind of person is difficult to be bound by rules, and he doesn't want to be bound by rules either."
As Mi Nan emerged from the director's office, her expression was somewhat complicated.
I checked City Light's live stream and saw that the number of votes had reached 80,000, and there was only an hour and a half left until 8 p. m.
"This guy, don't mess it up, otherwise..."
"What else?" Ling Yi's voice suddenly rang in Mi Nan's Bluetooth earpiece, startling her.
However, this time Ling Yi used his own voice.
"Hey, could you give me a hint before you show up next time? Also, is that your voice?"
"You guess?"
"Naive!" Mi Nan thought to herself, noting that this person must be quite young.
"If that really is your voice, then you must be under thirty, right?"
"My age... well, I've forgotten exactly how old I am, but it should be around three thousand years."
Mi Nan was speechless, but still went along with it, saying, "Then wouldn't you be an old monster?"
"Yeah, the kind that specifically targets beautiful women."
"Tch, you're spouting nonsense. I'm curious, are there many hackers as skilled as you?"
"I'm the only one as good as me."
"I don't believe it. There are definitely people more capable than you."
"Believe me, nobody's better than me. Oh, that's about it."
"What do you mean, 'almost'?"
"Number of votes!"
Mi Nan quickly looked at the live stream screen, and sure enough, the number of votes had reached 99,999, just one vote short.
"I've sent the coordinates to your phone. You can proceed now."
Mi Nan didn't dare to delay and quickly turned on her phone. Sure enough, an unknown number sent her a location coordinate. Mi Nan immediately sent this location coordinate to the bureau chief.
"Just one vote short? You controlled the vote count?"
"Otherwise what?"
At this moment, Ren Chuan in the live broadcast room had been suffering for several hours, and coupled with not having eaten or drunk anything, he was already physically and mentally exhausted.
Soaked in sweat, the tape over his mouth finally came off thanks to his efforts.
But, to everyone's surprise, Ren Chuan's first words were, "I'm sorry!"
Ren Chuan's voice was very weak, but he seemed to feel that his life was coming to an end, and instead showed a relaxed smile.
"I'm sorry, this isn't just for the victim Qi Yuan, but also for my parents and family, and for the teachers who taught me."
"Dad, Mom, your son has done something bad and embarrassed you."
" Teacher Wang, Teacher Zhao, I've let you down."
"I don't know who will cast this last vote for me. Please rest assured, I don't blame you, and I have no right to blame you."
"I was once a champion of justice. I remember when I first entered school, the first thing Teacher Wang made us do was clench our fists and swear an oath, so that we would always uphold a heart that upholds justice."
"I broke my oath. I am a bad person. I don't deserve to be a lawyer."
" Qi Yuan, I'm sorry. You're a good girl. Please believe in the justice in your heart. Bad people like me are ultimately in the minority."
"Please, vote. I'm ready." With that, Ren Chuan closed his eyes, but tears streamed down his face.
The chat in the live stream stopped.
Mi Nan suddenly realized that Ling Yi's actions were right. If it weren't for that final scene, perhaps Ren Chuan would never have said "I'm sorry."
He will never repent for his actions. Perhaps next time, or the time after that, he will defend bad people again, and another Qi Yuan will appear.
"Can we withdraw our vote?" someone asked in the live chat.
"Please don't vote. What's the difference between us and executioners?"
"Yes, please don't vote."
Please do not vote!
"..."
The screen was flooded with comments: Would anyone cast this final vote? Of course, there would be, and many at that. There's never a shortage of people in this world who love a good show.
The only reason there was no Changes was because Ling Yi locked the vote count.
Furthermore, Ling Yi had already had the intelligent program lock down the identities of anyone voting at this moment, blocking all their online communication channels, including commonly used chat software. Ling Yi had implemented a complete internet ban on these people.
This is also Ling Yi's punishment for these people.
Ren Chuan is certainly not a good person and should be punished, but in Ling Yi's view, these ignorant keyboard warriors are even more terrifying.
It is precisely because of them that cyberbullying is instigated time and time again, and they are exploited by those with ulterior motives time and time again.
Just then, the live stream feed Changes again.
The door to the room was violently broken, and then more than a dozen police officers rushed in.
Upon witnessing this scene, Ren Chuan was initially overjoyed, but then immediately shouted, "You all need to leave quickly! The bomb could explode at any moment. Don't make a pointless sacrifice for me alone!"
"Mr. Ren Chuan, please rest assured, you are safe now." The lead policeman couldn't help but laugh after seeing this.
"Safety what? There's only one last bomb about to explode. You guys get out of here right now."
The police officer solemnly addressed the camera, saying, "Please trust us, and please trust the viewers in the live stream. Trust that you will make the right judgment."
"The lives of more than a dozen of us are tied to this last ticket. I believe in you!"
The policeman was clever; although he knew the reason, he didn't say it directly, but instead used a different approach.
As it turned out, the effect was obvious; at this point, no one in the live stream was voting anymore.
Of course, only Ling Yi knew this.
"Do you see that? This is the real City Light," Ling Yi's voice rang out.
"Perhaps you are right." Mi Nan's previous gloom vanished, replaced by a beautiful smile.
"I was right from the start."
At that moment, the screen on Mi Nan's phone suddenly changed, switching to the real City Light.
Mi Nan opened the screen recording software again and started recording; it was his instinct as a police officer.
At this moment Jiang Ya, the Protagonist and the City Light, Roar hysterically, "Impossible! This is impossible! Why is Ren Chuan alright? This doesn't make sense from the original plot!"
"Not even a passing grade, damn it, where did things go wrong?"
"No, there's something wrong with this vote. With millions of viewers, it's impossible for it to be just one last vote that makes a difference."
As he spoke, Jiang Ya sat down in front of the Computer and began typing code rapidly, but his skills were simply not on the same level as Ling Yi's.
Unless Ling Yi wanted to, he couldn't possibly discover anything.
"Will he find out what you did?" Mi Nan asked.
"No, he's just a newbie," Ling Yi said with a smile.
Are you saying we're even worse?
"Hehe, it's enough to know you're bad, why say it out loud?"
"You're asking for it! Don't let me find you, or I'll give you a good beating."
As expected, Jiang Ya spent a lot of time searching but found nothing.
However, he breathed a sigh of relief precisely because he found nothing.
"Thankfully, it wasn't other hackers who got involved, otherwise it would have been troublesome."
Little did he know that two pairs of eyes were watching his every move.
"Doesn't he seem like a Joker?"
"He really is a Joker."
Just then, someone called Mi Nan to a meeting. Mi Nan responded and said to Ling Yi, "I have to go to a meeting."
"Okay, I'll treat you to dinner after the meeting," Ling Yi said.
"Do you want to meet me?" Mi Nan asked in surprise.
"Can't I invite you to dinner if we don't meet in person?"
"Tch, that's boring. What kind of treat is it if we don't even meet in person?"
Ling Yi's voice was no longer in her headphones. For some reason, the sudden absence of Ling Yi's voice left Mi Nan with a strange emptiness in her heart.
Shaking her head, Mi Nan went into the conference room.
Upon seeing Mi Nan appear, Director Liu smiled.
"Although this incident had a huge impact, because we handled it promptly, we minimized the negative effects and demonstrated a positive and righteous side in the process."
"The leader just called and commended our operation, but also requested that we seize the opportunity to 'bring City Light ' as quickly as possible'..."
The meeting was very long, and various professional groups needed to be established, along with issues such as resource allocation and personnel arrangements.
By the time the meeting ended, it was already 10:30 p. m.
After the meeting, the bureau chief specifically kept Mi Nan behind.
Do you know why I didn't mention Ling's matter at the meeting?
"Know!"
" City Light is highly intelligent and possesses hacking skills. To capture him, we must use magic to defeat magic, but this cannot be known to the public, otherwise, it will have a negative impact on our system."
"Tell me your opinion of Ling."
Mi Nan thought for a moment and said, "A young man, probably around twenty years old, confident but very low-key and extremely rational."
After a pause, Mi Nan added, "I feel he's using City Light, which is why he's unwilling to reveal the true information about City Light."
"Use what?" the bureau chief asked.
"Perhaps, it's about showing everyone what a true City Light is."