Transform into a human

In the autumn of Star Calendar 2599, reporters and Justice Department agents who had just left the police headquarters rushed back to University City because of a case that had shocked the Federation—

Yue Lai, the hero who saved the police headquarters and who gained everyone's attention at the hearing, actually attacked and killed Hou Fan, the director of the Prosecutor General's Office!

He also claimed that Hou Fan was the mastermind behind the series of cases.

This news was like a bolt from the blue, and before the afterglow of the hearing had even faded, it immediately topped the trending topics lists in three virtual cities. On the Chain Crystal Network, Penglai, St. Johannesburg, Winterfell... everywhere you looked, there was a stream of information discussing this matter.

This matter has even attracted the attention of Parliament. Since the temporary hearing committee composed of three members of Parliament had not yet been dissolved, it was naturally appointed as a new temporary working group, and a new hearing is scheduled to be held again tomorrow.

The person being tried this time is Yue Lai.

As for Xia Du, due to her experience working at the Vatican, she was transferred to the Inquisition, while Yue Hao was handled internally by the FBI.

The Vatican and the Bureau of Investigation will follow the will of the Imperial Diet and the Grand Council, so it is foreseeable that their handling of the matter will depend on the sentence handed down to Yue Lai.

In the familiar No. 14 prison, Hong Ji sat tensely outside the third-floor cell, his eyes fixed on the three men who had intercepted Hou Fan.

Prison No. 14 was designed to hold only martial arts practitioners, but it was currently housing two flower-wearing men. He was forced to become a jailer himself, and began to deeply question the meaning of his actions.

Even if he really wanted to escape, there was nothing he could do to stop him!

Helena last saw Yue Lai more than half a month ago when she submitted her commission; at that time, Yue Lai still regarded her as an ordinary old lady.

Now we finally have a chance to talk about it.

"Brother Yue Lai, I'm so sorry..."

Yue Lai looked at the next room in a daze, as if the old lady in front of him was overlapping with the little girl who used to cling to him. After growing up, the little girl rarely called him "Brother Yue Lai" anymore, perhaps because she felt awkward looking at his eternally young face.

In short, he changed his address for the girl from "Helena" to Mrs. Casti.

"Helena, you can tell me about this."

"I'm sorry..." Helena apologized again, "I also had my own unavoidable difficulties."

"So that's how it is."

Yue Lai understood; Helena was not alone!

"them……"

Yue Lai wanted to ask "Who are they?" but he swallowed it back, realizing that it would be pointless to do so.

"But Brother Yue Lai, it seems you knew all along that I was the one who lured you into this trap?"

Watching the old woman in front of him call Yue Lai "brother", Hong Ji did not feel anything strange. There were quite a few immortal beings in the Federation. Such scenes were common in various film and television works, mostly tragic dramas in which an immortal being bids farewell to his human lover.

However, this was the first time he had seen it in real life.

"National universities have three legendary campus stories, and you're probably the 'Homework Genie'!"

Hong Ji's eyes widened. He had heard of the three major campus legends in the university town, but he had only regarded them as some kind of strange tales. Now, it was said that the homework fairy was this old lady in front of him.

Are you kidding me!

Even the sparrows two steps away, who were resting with their eyes closed, couldn't help but glance at them.

Helena's eyes curved into crescents: "I was still thinking about how to subtly reveal it and surprise you, Brother Yue Lai."

Hong Ji couldn't help but join their conversation: "You mean you helped the police solve hundreds of cold cases? This, this..."

"What, doesn't it look like it?"

"But what gives you the right?!"

Yue Lai said coldly, "Your entire police force is a bunch of useless trash!"

Hong Ji glared angrily.

Yue Lai said unhurriedly, "My husband was killed tragically, and the police classified it as a pirate attack, but they couldn't even find a trace of the pirates."

"Besides, Esfri is where the Central Fleet headquarters is located. Which pirate would dare to be so blind? Unless it's for some huge profit, or they have powerful connections."

Although the person in question was right there, Yue Lai still wanted to tell the story himself:

"The girl had no choice. Having lost trust in the police, she could only rely on her own strength, but what could a bakery maid like her do?"

"She wanted to solve the case herself, so with a naive idea in mind, she bought piles of detective novels, hoping to learn how to solve cases."

"This reading has lasted for twenty years."

Hong Ji's previously furrowed brows were smoothed out, and his eyes darted around, unable to look Helena in the eye.

Although he held the position of warden of the Southern Continent prison and had done many dishonorable things, whether by choice or by force, he was still shocked by what Bryce and the Taiyang Group had done and felt genuinely ashamed.

I feel ashamed to be a member of the police force.

He even deceived himself at one point into believing that these were merely the results of a power struggle among important figures, until now, when the person in question is truly sitting in front of him.

"Brother Yue Lai..."

"Let me finish my story for this officer. I'm better suited to be the storyteller than you are."

"The girl exhausted her thinking, learning everything she could from detective novels, but she never had a chance to use it because she couldn't even access the files of the serial murder case."

"She even took up the path of spies for this purpose, but like other talented people in the countryside, she stopped at the level of a mere novice and could not make any further progress."

"Until a few years later, a stroke of luck appeared. She read a post on the Chain Crystal Network by a student from a federal national university, complaining that the 'bonus question' was too difficult, and thoughtfully attached the case file."

"Then Homework Wizard was born."

Hong Ji couldn't help but ask, "Wasn't it said that the students found the 'answers' in their emails inexplicably? How did Ms. Casti get into their email accounts?"

"You call yourself a cop?" Yue Lai mocked mercilessly.

The warden blushed and said, "I'm in charge of the prison system, not criminal investigation!"

"Sharing case files on the Chain Crystal Network is against regulations, so students would store the case files in anonymous email addresses and then publish the email account and password."

"This can be considered cheating in a certain sense, so they tacitly announced that the answers suddenly appeared in their email, and your colleague in charge of criminal investigation was able to close the case smoothly, so naturally he didn't bother to make a fuss."

"That's how the legend of the Homework Sprite came about; it's really just a tacit understanding between the three parties."

"One is responsible for completing the work, one is responsible for graduation, and one gets involved in real cases."

Hong Ji suddenly realized something: "Could it be...?"

"You're also a spy among the flower-wearing disciples, so it seems you figured it out?" Yue Lai sneered. "The girl accidentally completed the oldest promotion ritual for spy flower-wearing disciples. According to this ritual, even a coded tablet isn't needed for promotion, which is how she waited for revenge 20 years later!"

"This is fate's gift to those who suffer!"