Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

At three o'clock in the morning, the meeting room of the special investigation team of the provincial department was brightly lit.

The atmosphere was so oppressive it felt like it could drip water.

On the huge electronic screen, a panoramic map of Jinghai City was emitting a chilling crimson glow.

One hundred thousand densely packed red dots, like some kind of malignant virus that is multiplying wildly.

They are rampant and ubiquitous in every corner of the city.

"Everyone, look at the screen. This is the 'system' itself extracted from the blood of that high school student who jumped off the building."

Qin Mingyue stood in front of the slides, holding a high-brightness laser pointer in her hand.

The large screen then displayed an electron microscope image magnified tens of thousands of times.

It was a silver metallic structure, a hundred times smaller than a sesame seed, its surface covered with extremely precise and complex integrated circuits.

"I conducted spectral analysis and physical disassembly of the chip overnight."

Qin Mingyue pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses, her tone as cold and stern as ever.

She ruthlessly tore away the most mysterious veil of secrecy in the world of online novels.

"This is neither a divinely ordained advantage bestowed by a higher-dimensional deity, nor a manifestation of any universal law."

"It is a 'pseudo-system' artificially synthesized using cutting-edge nanotechnology and a very small amount of otherworldly spiritual energy residue."

Zhao Tiezhu stared wide-eyed, holding a teacup bigger than his face.

"Forensic Doctor Qin, can you speak in a way I can understand? How did this lump of iron turn someone into a dragon king?"

"It's very simple, bioelectric stimulation."

Qin Mingyue used a laser pointer to circle several tiny probes on the chip.

"It penetrates the human nervous system through capillaries and takes root directly in the cerebral cortex."

"It controls the body's endocrine system by releasing microcurrents, causing people to experience intense auditory and visual hallucinations."

Qin Mingyue sneered, her face full of disdain for this inferior technology.

"In other words, the high-class 'ding' that the high school student heard in his mind."

"It's just a spasm in the nerve endings caused by the discharge of this broken chip."

Upon hearing this, the entire conference room fell into a brief, deathly silence.

Zhao Tiezhu gulped down a large mouthful of strong tea, so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

"Good heavens! After all this time, this is just a miniature pyramid scheme machine with a built-in brain-computer interface?"

"I thought there were really so many gods descending to earth, mass-producing main characters in our Jinghai City!"

Su Xiaoxiao sat in front of the computer, her hands clapping loudly on the keyboard, her expression unusually solemn.

"Brother Tiezhu, this is much scarier than pyramid schemes. Pyramid schemes at least require some verbal persuasion, but these people directly use physical force to sell!"

She quickly pulled up a set of citywide meteorological monitoring data.

"Look here, everyone. There was heavy fog in Jinghai City for the past few days."

"The mastermind used thousands of miniature stealth drones to disguise these nanochips as aerosols."

"They sprayed it indiscriminately from the air in densely populated areas of the city, like fairy maidens scattering flower petals and leaflets!"

Su Xiaoxiao zoomed in on a section of the intersection's surveillance footage, in which several passersby were talking to themselves and gesturing wildly.

"As long as an ordinary person accidentally inhales particulate matter while breathing, or drinks water exposed to the air."

"This chip will automatically enter the body, completing the so-called 'forced binding'!"

Lu Jingyan leaned back in the ergonomic chair, his long legs casually crossed.

He held an unlit cigarette between his fingers, his deep black eyes gleaming with extreme rationality.

After hearing these reports, he was not alarmed at all; instead, he let out a very low, cold laugh.

The laughter was filled with undisguised mockery.

"Manufacturing substandard and unregistered electronic products and then proceeding with large-scale human implantation without approval from the National Medical Products Administration?"

Lu Jingyan casually tossed the cigarette in his hand onto the table and slowly stood up.

A powerful, terrifying sense of oppression, belonging to law enforcement, instantly swept across the entire scene.

"This guy is much bolder than those previous sons-in-law who only knew how to talk nonsense."

He braced his hands on the conference table, his gaze sweeping across the 100,000 red dots on the screen with a sharp, piercing look.

"What do you mean by a stroke of luck, or system binding?"

"Putting this kind of untested, low-quality electronic waste into people's minds is no longer an ordinary scam."

Lu Jingyan's voice was firm and resounding, each word striking precisely on the gavel of the law.

"This is practicing medicine without a license! It seriously disrupts the national market economic order!"

"Furthermore, it involves the release of dangerous substances, endangering public safety!"

He straightened the collar of his special forces uniform, his eyes revealing an absolute fanaticism for the rule of law.

"Those lofty systems in online novels have been turned into electronic waste on an assembly line by him."

"They still dare to use such a vile and malicious tactic as forcibly bundling software?"

"Do they really think that China's market supervision bureau and criminal law are just for show?"

Zhao Tiezhu was so excited that he slammed his hand on the table and stood up.

"The boss is right! This is a serious violation of consumer rights!"

"This unscrupulous manufacturer must be found and made to pay a fortune, leaving him with nothing!"

"But boss, 100,000 fake systems have already been spread out. Where are we going to catch the mastermind behind this?"

A sly smile suddenly appeared on Su Xiaoxiao's originally serious face.

She excitedly pushed up her black-rimmed glasses and pressed the last Enter key on the keyboard.

"Boss, since this piece of junk is a man-made electronic product, it must interact with the main server!"

"I just tried to intercept the 'mission settlement request' sent by the chip inside the high school student who jumped off the building!"

The image on the big screen was instantly split into countless pulsating streams of code.

Green characters flooded the screen like a waterfall.

"This defective firewall is outrageously rudimentary; it doesn't even have a proper encryption protocol!"

Su Xiaoxiao raised her chin triumphantly, her eyes shining brightly.

"I reverse-engineered its underlying code and successfully bypassed three foreign proxy gateways!"

"We've directly caught the mastermind's physical IP address hidden on the dark web!"

A crisp system notification sound followed.

The 100,000 red dots on the big screen quickly converged.

Finally, it transformed into a giant red crosshair, locking onto a desolate area on the western outskirts of Jinghai City.

A red halo flashed wildly on the map, accompanied by a piercing alarm.

Location successful!

Su Xiaoxiao reported loudly, her voice filled with the elation of solving the case.

"The main server for the signal source is located in the abandoned underground air-raid shelter No. 713 in the western suburbs!"

Lu Jingyan looked at the conspicuous location on the map, a bloodthirsty and cold smile curving his lips.

He grabbed the car keys from the table and strode towards the door.

"Tiezhu, go get your Gatling gun and hydraulic breaching hammer."

"Let's raid this illegal workshop."

Zhao Tiezhu roared excitedly and charged toward the armory like a tiger released from its cage.

"Alright, boss! I'll go get the gear for the physical seizure right away!"

Lu Jingyan stopped at the conference room door, turned around and left a sentence, his voice as cold and sharp as a knife.

"Since this tech fanatic is so fond of aggressive sales tactics..."

"Then let's go there ourselves and check his business license."