66: Chapter 66 The evidence was altered, which conveniently proves it to be true.

[Lin Jin voluntarily inherits the Rule Maintenance path to assist No. 9 Forbidden Zone in positioning.]

When that line of text fully appeared, the air in the conference hall turned cold.

It wasn't the temperature.

It was that everyone realized something was altering the evidence right in front of the three-party review committee.

Chen Ye's face went dark.

"Voluntarily?"

"Who volunteered?"

"It's literally changing the file right in front of our eyes!"

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, and frost rapidly covered the edge of the review table, temporarily suppressing the white light near the correction copy.

But that white light was no ordinary contamination.

Once the frost landed on it, it could only delay it, not block it.

Gu Changye reacted the fastest.

He slammed his hand down on the containment box beside him.

"Abyss Processing Bureau recorders, initiate contamination evidence chain capture."

Six processing agents opened their black containment boxes simultaneously.

A ring of dark blue runes rose from the boxes, enveloping the projection wall, the correction copy, and the conference table.

[Recording started]

[Capture target: Suspected residual interference from the God System]

[Interference target: Last page of the correction copy]

[Interference method: Real-time tampering with text definition]

Inspector Han Su's expression also changed.

He had originally intended to invalidate the correction copy.

But the interference from No. 9 Forbidden Zone happened to occur at this very moment, and it altered the text in public.

This was equivalent to directly proving:

This copy was not a simple forged document.

It had indeed touched upon content that the main remains of No. 9 Forbidden Zone did not want people to confirm.

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue sat at the remote station for the Department of Education, his eyes as deep and still as stagnant water.

He didn't speak.

But Lin Jin could tell.

He hadn't expected No. 9 Forbidden Zone to intervene at the review site either.

Or rather, he had anticipated there might be interference, but he hadn't expected it to be so crude.

Changing "suggested guidance" to "voluntarily inherited."

This was no longer concealment.

It was forcibly stamping Lin Jin.

Lin Jin gripped the rule correction wrench.

As soon as the wrench was in his hand, it felt like his brain was being pricked by countless fine needles.

The qualification self-check just now had already consumed a significant amount of his mental energy.

Now, continuing to correct the interference from No. 9 Forbidden Zone would place an even heavier burden on him.

The Hand of Rules popped up a warning.

[Current contamination erosion: 43%]

[Mental load: High]

[Target: Tampered text segment in the correction copy]

[Error definition: Voluntarily inherited]

[Original record: Suggested guidance]

[Correctable]

[Warning: Correction target has a real-time connection with the remains of No. 9 Forbidden Zone]

Seeing Lin Jin's face go pale, Chen Ye immediately asked:

"Can't you let Captain Gu and the others contain it?"

Gu Changye said in a deep voice:

"We can record, but we cannot correct."

"What No. 9 Forbidden Zone is changing is the definition, not just the text."

"It must be handled by the rule correction tool."

Lin Jin didn't wait any longer.

He pressed the Mutual Verification Contract record, the admission notice, and the results of the qualification self-check he had just performed right next to the correction copy.

"I personally rejected the sample inheritance."

"The academy identity anchor has already been established."

"The rule correction tool's self-check has already confirmed I am a conditional holder."

"The Abyss Processing Bureau is currently recording the tampering process."

He stared at the line of text that had been corrupted.

"The evidence chain is sufficient."

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue suddenly spoke up:

"Lin Jin."

"You had better think clearly."

"If you use the rule correction wrench to correct the document now, it is equivalent to admitting that this copy has a direct rule association with you."

Lin Jin looked up at him.

"Your words are even more urgent than No. 9 Forbidden Zone's tampering."

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue's gaze turned cold.

Lin Jin smiled.

"Thanks for the reminder."

"I will also write your reminder into the record."

Gu Changye immediately said:

"Record it."

The processing agent responded:

[Recorded statement by Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue from the Department of Education's observer seat: Attempted to prevent the correction applicant from correcting the real-time tampered segment.]

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue's expression finally became a bit ugly.

Inspector Han Su frowned.

"Vice Director Zhou, please mind the boundaries of the observer seat."

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue didn't speak again.

Lin Jin raised the rule correction wrench and pressed it onto the line of text.

The white light surged violently.

All the lights in the conference hall flickered.

A cold consciousness surged back along the wrench.

[Voluntary inheritance established]

[Sample inheritance chain established]

[Lin Jin's assistance in positioning established]

The three "established"s were like three nails, hammered directly into Lin Jin's cognition.

Hallucinations briefly appeared before his eyes.

He was standing deep inside No. 9 Forbidden Zone.

All around him were countless white light screens.

On the light screens, they were all his name.

[Lin Jin]

[Maintenance position sample inheritance body]

[Voluntarily assisting in positioning]

[Voluntarily contacting the rule correction tool]

[Voluntarily entering the Rule Maintenance Special Class]

[Voluntarily investigating Lin Shoushan]

Every line looked real.

Because they were all snippets of facts.

He did indeed enter the special class.

He did indeed contact the rule correction tool.

He was indeed investigating his father.

But the fragments of facts had been reassembled by it into "voluntarily being recycled."

This was the most disgusting part of No. 9 Forbidden Zone.

It didn't need to completely fabricate things.

It only needed to reverse the cause and effect.

Lin Jin bit his tongue, the metallic taste of blood bringing him back to his senses.

He said in a low voice:

"My investigation does not equal my consent."

"My contact does not equal my belonging."

"My taking back of the tool does not equal my acceptance of recycling."

The rule correction wrench came down hard.

Crack!

The four characters [Voluntarily inherited] on the correction copy twisted violently.

The white light struggled like a living thing.

[Correction progress: 28%]

Lin Jin's wrist went numb.

He almost couldn't hold onto the wrench.

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, and a thin layer of ice landed on the back of his hand.

The chill did not absorb the rule backlash for him, but it helped stabilize his trembling muscles.

"Steady."

Chen Ye stood behind him, his shield blocking the white airflow that had suddenly whipped up in the conference hall.

"Nobody touch him!"

Zhou Heng looked at the twisted line of text, his eyes hardening.

Lightning condensed into a thin spear, stabbing at the white interference line on the edge of the projection wall.

"This is a review site."

"Not a place for you to change files."

The Thunder Spear broke through a segment of the white line.

[Correction progress: 47%]

Lin Jin looked up at him.

Zhou Heng said coldly:

"Don't misunderstand."

"I don't like it when others write 'arranged' as 'voluntary' either."

Lin Jin didn't smile.

He no longer had the energy to smile.

The second blow of the wrench fell.

Bang!

[Voluntarily inherited] shattered.

The original [Suggested guidance] reappeared.

But the interference from No. 9 Forbidden Zone did not disappear.

The white light began trying to modify the next segment again.

[To complete secondary positioning]

Was twisted into:

[And actively complete secondary positioning]

Lin Jin's eyes turned cold.

"Still changing it?"

Gu Changye immediately said:

"Recorded the second instance of tampering."

[Recorded: Residual interference from No. 9 Forbidden Zone attempted to tamper 'passive positioning' into 'actively complete positioning']

Inspector Han Su said in a deep voice:

"The copy contains real-time contamination; the Department of Education suggests immediate containment and that it not be used as evidence for this review."

Lin Jin looked up at him.

"Inspector Han."

"You just said it hadn't been decrypted and didn't possess evidentiary validity."

"Now that it's being tampered with in real-time by No. 9 Forbidden Zone, you're saying it has contamination and can't be used as evidence."

"So as long as the evidence is unfavorable to you, it can never be used?"

Inspector Han Su said coldly:

"I am controlling the risk."

Gu Changye spoke up:

"The risk is controllable."

"The Abyss Processing Bureau has completed the contamination capture."

"This copy can be used as contamination dispute evidence; it cannot be made public directly, but it can enter the three-party review containment chain."

Qin Shanhe immediately said:

"The academy agrees."

Inspector Han Su was silent for a moment.

"The Department of Education reserves its objection."

Gu Changye said calmly:

"Recorded as not opposing the temporary containment plan."

Inspector Han Su glanced at him.

He didn't speak again.

A third result automatically appeared on the review table.

[Third item tentative result: The correction copy possesses evidentiary validity for the review]

[Restrictions: Cannot be publicly disseminated, cannot be unilaterally destroyed, cannot be unilaterally removed]

[Three-party containment copy established]

Chen Ye finally let out a heavy sigh of relief.

"Now finally—"

Before he could finish his sentence, Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue on the projection wall suddenly stood up.

"I request to add a fourth item to the review."

The atmosphere in the conference hall instantly turned cold again.

Gu Changye frowned.

"Reason for the addition."

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue looked at Lin Jin, then at Zhou Heng.

"The Rule Maintenance Special Class has just established a Mutual Verification Contract."

"But this contract has not been reviewed by the Academy Ethics Committee or the Department of Education's Occupational Safety Division."

"The members include someone associated with No. 9 Forbidden Zone's residual positioning, someone associated with the Department of Education's sample evaluation, and a family member associated with the 104 Incident."

"I believe this team possesses a collective identity contamination risk."

Zhou Heng's expression sank abruptly.

"You want to break up the team again?"

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue said calmly:

"I am preventing you from being influenced by an erroneous contract."

Lin Jin looked at him and suddenly laughed.

"Vice Director Zhou."

"You just said that I would break Zhou Heng."

"Now you're saying the contract will contaminate him."

"What you're really afraid of isn't that he'll be contaminated."

"It's that once he has the Mutual Verification, it will be very difficult for you to define him individually."

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue's gaze turned cold.

Inspector Han Su also spoke up:

"The Mutual Verification Contract does indeed need to be reviewed."

Gu Changye looked at Lin Jin.

This time, he didn't directly object.

Because the team contract involved the identity stability of multiple people, it did indeed fall within the scope of the review.

Lin Jin sat up straight.

"It can be reviewed."

Chen Ye was anxious.

"Are you still okay?"

"I'm okay."

Lin Jin looked at Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue.

"Reviewing the contract is fine."

"But it must be reviewed word-for-word according to our terms."

"Not just because of your one sentence about 'collective contamination' can you label it an illegal contract."

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue said flatly:

"Then we shall review it word-for-word."

In the center of the review table, the four contents of the Mutual Verification Contract emerged.

[Team members are all independent individuals and shall not be redefined due to occupation, lineage, file, or sample number.]

[No member shall be used as a sacrificial node for the team's survival.]

[When external forces conduct identity contamination on a single member, the remaining members have the obligation to provide testimony for mutual verification.]

[The contract does not bind obedience, only mutual verification.]

The four lines of text floated quietly.

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue looked at the first line and suddenly said:

"The first line has an issue."

Zhou Heng looked up abruptly.

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue's tone was steady:

"Not to be redefined due to lineage."

"This would negate family guardianship and cultivation responsibilities."

"Zhou Heng has still not completed his post-adulthood family career inheritance filing."

Zhou Heng's gaze turned cold bit by bit.

Lin Jin finally understood.

What Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue was really trying to attack wasn't the entire contract.

It was the first line.

Because the first line didn't just protect Lin Jin.

It also protected Zhou Heng.

Not to be redefined due to lineage.

This sentence was just enough to block the Zhou Family from continuing to treat Zhou Heng as a continuation object for the Barrier Breaker route.

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue continued:

"I demand the deletion of the word 'lineage'."

The conference hall was silent for a moment.

Lin Jin looked at Zhou Heng.

"Answer this one yourself."

Zhou Heng stared fixedly at Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue on the projection wall.

After a long time, he said word by word:

"Don't delete it."

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue said coldly:

"Do you know what this means?"

Zhou Heng raised his hand, and the Barrier Breaker Position badge on his chest lit up.

"It means that from today on."

"The Zhou Family can cultivate me."

"But they cannot own me."

The first line of the Mutual Verification Contract lit up abruptly.

Gray-gold light spread from Zhou Heng, connecting with the other three.

The review record automatically wrote:

[Zhou Heng confirms: Retain the clause of not being redefined due to lineage]

[First line of the Mutual Verification Contract effective]

Deputy Director Zhou Chengyue's expression finally sank completely for the first time.

But before he could speak, hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the conference hall.

An Abyss Processing Bureau agent pushed the door open and entered.

"Captain Gu!"

"A copy rift has appeared on the east side of the academy!"

"The contamination source is suspected to be an overflow of No. 9 Forbidden Zone's residual positioning!"

"The rift target is locked—"

He looked at Lin Jin.

"The Rule Maintenance Special Class."