CHAPTER 264: CHAPTER 264: IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME, RIGHT?

A salary of several hundred thousand is one thing, but Jiang Yuanxin said that if he could truly endure me for more than three months, it definitely needed to be added to his resume.

Otherwise, with all that red ink, even ghost-catching jobs might be affected.

Then he just waited to hear about Liu Qiang’s situation while waiting for Chuci to arrange work for him.

The latter had already caused a big stir online, and the police were handling the matter as quickly as possible. After professional assessment by the psychiatric evaluation department, it was found that Liu Qiang had severe mania and intermittent schizophrenia.

This meant that even if the evidence was solid and it was definitely him, whether he could be sentenced was another matter.

What’s more headache-inducing was that during the interrogation, Liu Qiang kept changing his testimony, sometimes saying something and then denying it completely the next second.

And the case details he could provide were all based on officially released information found online and lacked additional detailed descriptions. Without evidence, after two days of interrogation, nothing new was discovered.

When Liu Qiang met with his lawyer afterwards, his behavior was even more baffling.

The lawyer couldn’t figure out what the client was planning. He didn’t want to provide clues or plead guilty yet wanted to be locked up, and he even had a timeframe requirement — no more than five years and no less than three years in prison, more or less wouldn’t satisfy him.

People were outraged, so the police had to conduct a thorough investigation for new clues while trying various ways to break through in Liu Qiang’s testimony to see if they could inquire about unknown details and confirm that he was indeed the killer in many pending cases.

Currently, there was no evidence, and even though Liu Qiang was a suspect in major cases, criminal detention had its time limits. If nothing was found before then, they had to release him.

Liu Qiang was anxious upon hearing this, thinking, can you even release me after a month?

The Yin Fiends must be waiting outside, and once he loses the protection of the detention center, he’d be torn apart!

The key was when he consulted his lawyer discreetly, due to the significant impact of the pending cases, there was no middle ground.

If he confessed and the evidence was solid, it would undoubtedly be a death penalty;

If he confessed without evidence, according to the principle of presumption of innocence, he could only be released. There was no possibility of a few years’ sentence knowing guilt without evidence;

If he didn’t confess and there was no evidence, with the mental assessment results, the police could do nothing but admit they had been fooled by a mental patient.

"If push comes to shove, I can only assault a police officer," Liu Qiang thought hard, feeling that this was the safest way.

For some reason, even though the backlash had ended, he suddenly experienced excruciating pain in the middle of the night, making his throat hoarse with pain and bashing his head against the wall. Finally, with an application, the medical staff gave him a painkiller shot to tide him over.

Liu Qiang never thought about his Origin being devoured; he figured no one knew his secrets and no one could handle the Divine Soul Splitting Technique. He thought he was too old to withstand strong backlash, pondering that once released, he would refine up to two Yin Fiends, no longer so many.

Of course, to achieve a satisfactory sentencing time, he decided to deny everything during the next interrogation. Without seeing or finding a corpse and with no evidence, to hide in prison for a few years, he’d have to find another way.

When he met the lawyer in the morning, he stealthily inquired.

If malicious assault on a police officer caused serious consequences, he would face a prison term of over three to under seven years, which suited his timeframe well and was relatively easy to execute. He didn’t even have to leave the detention center, just find an opportunity to beat up a particular officer seriously, ideally causing a disability; paying some compensation could result in a suitable three to five years sentence.

While Liu Qiang was racking his brain about assaulting a police officer, Chuci was busy figuring out how to get Jiang Yuan into Languzi Daily Chemical Headquarters.

But the other party seemed to start out utilizing flow and feared backlash, conducting abnormally detailed checks on new hire profiles, even hiring specialized investigation companies to ensure those entering the headquarters to access internal files were without any issues.

This effectively blocked Jiang Yuan. Even trying to push someone in was difficult.

The most relaxed was naturally Jiang Yuan, who couldn’t get news from either side and could only idle away his days. He simply returned to his hometown county to stay for a few days, mainly to accompany his parents more after knowing his "days were numbered."

If extending his life failed, at least there wouldn’t be too many regrets.

If Chuci hadn’t suddenly phoned saying everything was settled, he was about to find a reliable travel agency to take his parents on a high-end travel to experience joy.

"Brother, I apologize for any inconvenience," Chuci said apologetically with a smile, rubbing his hands when they met. "There’s really no way to arrange for an office job at headquarters. I don’t know why, just couldn’t get it past no matter what.

So I took a step back and arranged a workshop safety officer job for you. The surface identity is the workshop director’s nephew, no training needed, you can start directly, just occasionally turn around in the workshop to make sure no one smokes, nothing else to worry about."

Jiang Yuan was stunned, "The workshop director’s nephew?"

"I had no choice; every hole already had a peg. I couldn’t possibly have you on the production line as a regular worker; that would be too unfair.

So, after searching, I could only find you a relational cloak to be an airborne kin. You carry the safety officer title, but the real work is done by other safety officers. You just relax in the office playing on your phone, occasionally come out to show face when tired."

The most hated during work were these people with connections, doing the easiest jobs yet taking the most bonuses and rising faster. Unexpectedly, he would become one of them one day, truly a novel experience.

Thus, Jiang Yuan went to work happily the next day.

Languzi Daily Chemicals’ factory was in the industrial park of the development zone. At 8:40 in the morning, he finally met the "uncle" he’d never seen before in the workshop. The uncle took him around, explained the basic situations, then connected his phone to the office wifi, and went back to work.

Jiang Yuan was just sipping tea and playing on his phone, got tired playing then went out to wander.

All sorts of huge machines were a novelty to him and the numb-eyed workers on the production line looking disdainfully at the relaxed connected guy was uninspiring, so he dejectedly returned to the office to fold origami for experience points.

Ten peaceful days passed, nothing happened.

This day, while Jiang Yuan was idly in the factory workshop flicking through travel plans, pondering fun places to take his parents this season, he suddenly saw a trending topic about "Muzi Xiao Ba’s Stream Collapse" online.

"Heard about celebrities getting canceled, but a stream collapsing? What’s with that?" Curious, he clicked in, and his brain went numb; this shouldn’t relate to me, right?

The incident began during last night’s live stream when Muzi Xiao Ba brazenly made lewd remarks to a pretty female assistant while promoting Languzi Daily Chemicals’ cleaning products, upsetting the "family members."

It’s known that the viewers snapping up household item coupons in the stream were primarily women.

Especially comprehensive cleaning product sets, mostly the calculative housewives wanting quality ensured items while saving money, or who would camp for half a day just for a 40-off-300 deal?

Wouldn’t buying at full price and spending that lurking time to binge-watch dramas be more enjoyable?

Feeling pleased with tripled sales, Muzi Xiao Ba let loose, spilling personal comments in the stream, thinking he was breaking the ice; instead, it sparked questioning.

A streamer who hadn’t finished high school made a fortune in sales through calling for support, amassing ample wealth and shares in several partner companies in a mere two years, becoming overly conceited.

As a headliner streamer with over two hundred million fans, being questioned in such public pulled on his pride strings. He sarcastically rebuked his "family members" for not buying even a 66-yuan bag of detergent and reflecting on their moral barriers, hinting at the same time that their reluctance was impeding local brands and domestic products’ rise.

Though used to veiling verbal jabs, this time for some unknown reason became headline flaming, past jokes caught on replay, slander towards Qingmei Daily Chemicals, exaggerations about national product brilliance, everything got dredged up.

The digging revealed the insides of Languzi Daily Chemicals, including but not limited to old-new product comparison, Muzi Xiao Ba’s holdings, risk agreements, etc.

By the time Jiang Yuan finished another day of leisure and gossip, Muzi Xiao Ba’s personal apology and emergency public relations all proved ineffective; the fan base diminished from over two hundred million to just over eighty million, with cries all over the internet to banish and bring down the parasitic streamer.