We asked you to solve cases, and here you are sharing your criminal experiences?

What Song Qianxia hates most in her life is when people try to cover up their crimes in front of her.

It felt like she was playing a game and was about to destroy the opponent's crystal, but then the opponent just unplugged the network cable.

This is an utter disgrace!

So what if paper certificates are destroyed? In this digital age, nothing can truly be erased.

Song Qianxia minimized the municipal bureau's intranet page and skillfully typed a few shortcut keys. The computer screen instantly turned into a pure black interface displaying the underlying code.

"Lin Wan, go make me a cup of coffee, double espresso," Song Qianxia called out without turning her head, her finger already on the enter key. "In three minutes at most, I can tear the firewall of that crappy financial server of the Xinghai Foundation to shreds. I'm going to pull out the mirror image from their underlying database."

She refused to believe it. If paper could be burned, how could they possibly eat the data fragments on the hard drive?

Just as she was about to press the Enter key to run the attack script she had written,

Snapped.

A large, well-defined hand landed directly on her keyboard.

Song Qianxia was stunned for a moment, then looked up along that hand and met Gu Tingchen's eyes, which were as cold as an ice cellar.

"Captain Gu, what are you doing?" Song Qianxia exclaimed anxiously, reaching out to pry his hand away. "Stop fooling around, time is precious. Once they realize what's happening and activate the physical barrier, it'll be difficult to get in!"

Gu Tingchen didn't say anything. Instead of letting go, he reached over Song Qianxia's shoulder with his other hand and decisively pressed the power switch on the monitor.

The screen went black instantly.

"Holy crap!" Song Qianxia exploded, jumping up from her chair. "Are you crazy, you living devil?! I'm about to go in!"

Gu Tingchen stood in front of her, looking down at her, his figure as straight as a wall.

"Song Qianxia, ​​have you forgotten what I told you?" Gu Tingchen's voice was extremely authoritative. "You're now in the Jiangcheng City Public Security Bureau's Major Crimes Unit!"

Song Qianxia raised her head defiantly. "We're in a real crisis! Old Zheng's attempt to raid them failed, and the cashier's whereabouts are unknown. We don't even have any substantial evidence right now. If I can hack in and get their original money laundering data, the case will be solved immediately!"

"And then what?" Gu Tingchen asked her in return.

This question stumped Song Qianxia.

"How can you submit a data image obtained through illegal intrusion as legal evidence to the prosecutor's office?" Gu Tingchen pointed to the black screen. "If the defense lawyer simply asks in court whether the source of this data was legal and whether it was obtained through legal procedures, your so-called evidence that could nail them down will instantly become worthless!"

Song Qianxia pursed her lips. In her past life, when she was a master of deception, she didn't care about courts or anything like that. As long as the dirt was verified and posted on the dark web, the underworld would naturally handle it.

"I can erase all traces so they can't find out it was me," Song Qianxia said, making a last-ditch effort.

Gu Tingchen was so angry he laughed.

"Data that leaves no trace is, in the eyes of a judge, equivalent to falsified data. Do you think the courtroom is a game?"

Gu Tingchen placed his hands on the back of Song Qianxia's chair, enclosing her in a very small space.

"Song Qianxia, ​​I want more than just to know the truth. I want a legal, irrefutable chain of evidence to send these people to prison, ensuring they can never rise again!"

These words were spoken with conviction. Looking into Gu Tingchen's eyes, Song Qianxia suddenly felt a little guilty.

She gave in and plopped back down in her chair.

"Then what do you suggest we do? Following your procedures, the opportunity will be completely lost."

Gu Tingchen straightened up and turned to look at Lin Wan, who was standing to the side, not daring to make a sound.

"Lin Wan." Gu Tingchen regained his commander's cold demeanor. "Take the letter of introduction from the Major Crimes Unit and go to the court to obtain an investigation order. Then go to the Cyber ​​Security Branch to obtain a letter of assistance in extracting electronic evidence."

"After obtaining the necessary documents, we went directly to the data center of the city's telecommunications operator and requested their cooperation in retrieving all server logs that the Xinghai Foundation had backed up in the cloud over the past three years. The entire process was conducted with the body camera on."

Lin Wan stood at attention. "Understood! I'll go right now!"

Watching Lin Wan's hurried departure, Song Qianxia sighed deeply.

Getting certificates, going to court, contacting the telecom operator—this cumbersome process can easily take half a day to complete.

The waiting time was the most agonizing. Song Qianxia wandered around the office boredly, clearing out all the snacks on Lao Zheng's desk.

During this time, Gu Tingchen was constantly on the phone coordinating resources from all sides, so busy that he didn't even have time to drink water.

I stayed up until 4:30 pm.

The door to the large office was flung open. Lin Wan rushed in, panting and covered in sweat, clutching a black, encrypted portable hard drive tightly in her arms.

"Captain Gu! We got it!" Lin Wan placed the hard drive on the table and breathed a sigh of relief. "The telecommunications bureau was very cooperative and made a full physical image of the disk."

Song Qianxia's eyes lit up, and she immediately snatched the hard drive and inserted it into her specially encrypted computer.

Without needing illegal hacking tools, she directly opened the hard drive using compliant data recovery software.

When the data was displayed on the screen, Song Qianxia was stunned.

This is completely different from the data she previously stole using hacking methods.

At the bottom of every document and every transfer record lies a complex string of gibberish.

"What is this?" Song Qianxia pointed at the garbled text.

Gu Tingchen walked behind her and glanced at the screen. "This is the official tamper-proof hash value, and also a timestamp certified by the Department of Justice."

"With this, even if the Star Sea Foundation's lawyers are eloquent, they cannot deny the authenticity of these data at a specific point in time."

Song Qianxia stared at the data labels backed by national credit, and felt a strong shock to her.

She used to think that being alone and doing whatever she wanted was the strongest. Rules were nothing more than shackles that bound the weak.

But now, looking at the hard drive that had gone through so many complicated procedures to get back, she suddenly understood Gu Tingchen's insistence.

No matter how strong an individual is, they cannot defy the order of society as a whole. But if you can control the rules and have the state apparatus back you up, that is a true game-changer.

Song Qianxia swallowed the potato chip crumbs in her mouth and placed her hands on the keyboard.

"Living Yama." Song Qianxia didn't turn around, her voice less casual than usual. "You're right, legal weapons are indeed more lethal."

She typed rapidly on the keyboard, importing the timestamped data into the analysis software.

"Now, let's see what shady things this Meng Xiaoqing has destroyed for them!"