Chapter 211: A Brief Time Rewind

Inside the Waterfront Manor villa.

Third floor, master bedroom.

Jiang Zhe had just finished transferring money to Producer Xiao Qian when he heard a flood of notifications in his ears.

He quickly closed his eyes to check them.

[The advertisements you placed throughout Shandong Province have taken effect. Emotion Points gained: 24.6 million.]

[Target demographic: Young people.]

"Shandong, are there really so few young people there?"

He kept scrolling through the light blue prompt boxes, checking the target demographic. Most were young people, with a small portion being middle-aged and elderly people.

Yesterday's 30 million Emotion Points had been depleted by nearly 5.4 million.

"I guess the young people in Shandong have all gone out. Still, covering one-fifth is enough."

"But I can't invest in Shandong next time; I should stick to big cities."

"Check current Emotion Points."

[Current Emotion Points: 56.12 million.]

[Current Emotion Points are mainly sourced from the internet and are still taking effect.]

"That's good. The internet contributed the remaining Emotion Points for me to unlock the full version of the 'Golden Eyes of Truth'."

[Deducting 50 million Emotion Points to unlock the full version of the Golden Eyes of Truth. Specially gifted: Mental Potion +1.]

A bottle of purple potion appeared before him.

He didn't grab it, but instead carefully sensed the full version of the Golden Eyes of Truth.

In almost an instant, the entire world around him turned golden. In this golden field of vision, every single detail came into view.

He saw the DNA information left behind by the previous owner at the scene. This messy information on the ground mostly came from footprints stepped on and strands of hair in the wall cabinets.

The messy information, under the full version of the Golden Eyes of Truth, converged into pictures.

The first images to appear were of workers painting the walls and cleaning the room.

After actively stripping away these images, he saw even more incredible scenes.

He saw two male figures on his original large bed—one young man and one middle-aged/elderly man—engaging in some sort of dirty transaction.

Afterward, the handsome young man killed the previous owner and fled the scene.

"Stop, stop, stop. Freeze the image. You don't need to be so effective; I don't need these scenes."

"I know a murder happened in this house, and I know the reason. It was a brother avenging his dead sister, then entering the trap himself, and finally, the brother committed suicide in a small rental apartment outside."

He shook his head, and the golden images instantly vanished.

But soon, the images followed one after another again.

Then, after some time, the police arrived at the scene and bagged the body to take it away.

He also saw a familiar silhouette: Officer Su Cheng.

Officer Su Cheng walked around the third floor, strolled about, and finally stopped on the balcony, lighting a cigarette.

Jiang Zhe followed the golden vision forward, witnessing Officer Su Cheng from a past time period.

He analyzed a few sentences through Officer Su Cheng's lip movements.

"The murderer is Wu Qian's brother, Wu Ming, 28 years old."

"In order to investigate his sister's murder, he found this place. He discovered his dead sister's mementos in the basement. Later, to divert the owner's assets, nearly 210 million..."

"Through counter-investigation, he learned that the 210 million was mainly the owner's calligraphy, paintings, and assets, which eventually ended up in several orphanages in Su City, sponsoring many children and allowing them to live a good life."

"Later, on that rainy night, Wu Ming had relations with this male owner. Using the BDSM subculture as an excuse, he made the owner play the 'M' role, and strangled him when the owner was at his most satisfied."

"Hmm, although the method is a bit perverted, I'm not exactly a good cop either."

Then, the Officer Su Cheng from the past looked at some footprints on the grass to the side of the villa, then gazed into the distance, as far as two kilometers away.

His gaze locked directly onto a residential complex two kilometers away, specifically a certain room in a certain building.

"It's fortunate that you met me. I've decided not to arrest you."

"When the law cannot uphold justice for you, taking matters into your own hands is not shameful. But it's a pity, if you had known me, I would have made this owner die even more miserably!"

"You should do to him what he did to your sister."

Soon, Officer Su Cheng turned and left, coldly instructing the others: "Alright, we can close the case. It was the owner playing a very perverted game; later, the suspect fled to avoid suspicion."

"Contact Wu Ming, have him come over to make a statement, pay a fine, and give him a reprimand. That's enough."

As the lip-read words finished, the police officers in the room were dumbfounded, feeling it was unbelievable.

They all knew Officer Su Cheng was very strong, but they didn't expect him to solve the crime scene almost instantly.

Actually, seeing this, Jiang Zhe also looked stunned; he was truly shocked by Officer Su Cheng's deductive ability.

Soon, the golden vision disappeared, and a wave of fainting sensation struck him.

Jiang Zhe couldn't help but exclaim: "So you are that kind of morally grey police officer?"

"It's a pity your thinking wasn't thorough enough. It was precisely that action of yours that made Wu Ming think his deeds had been discovered by you, so he committed suicide within a few days after being interrogated by you and even made the news."

"You must have felt very guilty after seeing that!"

"And those two irregular spiritual entities in the basement earlier were likely Wu Ming taking his sister home."

After sighing for a moment, he shook his head, not wanting to think about those messy matters.

Then he grabbed the purple potion in front of him and drank it in one gulp.

[Mental Points: +100!]

"100 points?"

After taking the potion, his originally tired mind was instantly refreshed, and his vision cleared up.

This ability no longer belonged to the scope of the Golden Eyes of Truth, but was a function capable of something similar to time regression based on traces left at the scene.

He had every reason to suspect that the system had some misunderstanding of the [Golden Eyes of Truth].

"Check personal panel."

[Name: Jiang Zhe]

[Age: 25]

[Personal Attributes—]

[Strength: 115 points]

[Agility: 115 points]

[Constitution: 115 points]

[Spirit: 115 points + 100 points = 215 points]

[Abilities: Photographic Memory, Autonomous Forgetting, Clairvoyance (Unlocks pending), Dream Manifestation (Unlocks pending), Golden Eyes of Truth (Fully unlocked)]

"I can now use the Golden Eyes of Truth multiple times. I wonder what miraculous effect this ability will have on fake videos and documents?"

Just then, the door was knocked upon.

"Enter."

Wang Lin and Xiao Shiyi walked in, the two of them asking one after another.

"Brother Jiang, how did you figure out the illness of Producer Xiao Qian's father?"

"He just called to tell us. We were preparing to lend him money, but he said you already lent him 500,000."

Jiang Zhe shook his head. "When there's trouble, one naturally has to help. If I have the ability, I help. If there's nothing else, I'd like to continue sleeping for a while."

Wang Lin said with a look of frustration: "Just now, when Xiao Shiyi and I were on Weibo, we realized the three of us have been playing too hard lately. Both the Weibo Night and the official 'Science Strong Nation Plan' have invited us."

Xiao Shiyi quickly explained: "Old Zhao handled the Weibo Night invitation. He knows your personality and that you wouldn't share a stage with actors, so he turned it down for you. The 'Science Strong Nation Plan' invited you a week ago, but Old Zhao didn't receive that call. Old Wang and Wang Lin's dad didn't receive the official call either, so Old Zhao didn't know. We only just saw that the officials invited you to join CCVV1 as an evening guest."

"Later, it seems CCVV1 blacklisted you. You can find your name on their blacklist on their official website, and all TV stations under CCVV have blacklisted you. This scandal is online, and you've become a laughingstock among peers."

Hearing this, Jiang Zhe looked thoughtful. "Is that so?"

The system had given a hint: the hosting location was fixed at the Suzhou TV Station. Only by popularizing science there could he gain Emotion Points and unlock task progress.

No wonder he felt that the recent surge in his fame was disproportionate to his daily treatment.

It was because he and the others had completely ignored external affairs.

But what does being blacklisted matter?

Soon, Wang Lin asked with a worried look: "Brother Jiang, will we have offended the officials? Should we go apologize and say we truly didn't receive news of this invitation?"

Hearing this, Jiang Zhe shook his head slightly. "Official or not, it actually has nothing to do with me."

"Besides, I don't even have a shred of belonging to this world. I don't seem to love your country very much, and I certainly won't act according to the officials."

If it were anyone else, Xiao Shiyi and Wang Lin would definitely have lashed out in anger.

But this was Jiang Zhe; Jiang Zhe was simply not a person from this world or this country.

Thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be the country of this body, not the country of Jiang Zhe's soul!

The fact that Jiang Zhe was special was something both of them actually knew.

Since Jiang Zhe revealed that he was the Mysterious Person, the two of them had guessed this possibility during daily discussions. Later, unable to resist the two of them, Jiang Zhe finally came clean.

When they first learned of this, the two were extremely excited. But after the excitement faded, it didn't seem that special; it was the same principle as the ancient concept of borrowing a corpse to return to life. They didn't develop any strange feelings toward Jiang Zhe, but instead believed that Jiang Zhe was truly a person who could rewrite the entire world. Afterward, the three of them lived in peace, continuing as they were.

Jiang Zhe said: "As long as Old Zhao's TV station doesn't blacklist me, I have the confidence to build this station into the number one station in the country. As for CCVV, I don't care about it at all."

Hearing these words, Xiao Shiyi and Wang Lin smiled, secretly happy in their hearts.

They certainly knew the capabilities of a transmigrator, and believed even more in the capabilities of the Mysterious Person.

In their daily lives, when observing how officials operated, Xiao Shiyi and Wang Lin actually both had a bit of stubborn rebellious spirit; they simply didn't like being restricted by others.

If they could be free, who would want to be a beast of burden for their whole life!

"That's right. Under Brother Jiang's guidance, our TV station will be the number one."

"But let's still be low-key. We should just do our own thing. We can go our whole lives without interacting with those officials. After all, officials have both good and bad apples. Some petty ones might blacklist us, which is understandable, but we shouldn't paint them all with the same brush."

Jiang Zhe nodded silently. "Wang Lin's words make sense."