Chapter 79: The Price of Doing Good Deeds

Friday.

Inside the campus of Kyoto University of Science, the sky was already dim.

Professor Hua Yunfeng and Professor Feng were just preparing to gather the professors to head to the lecture hall.

The professors from various departments who had watched Jiang Zhe's live broadcast earlier had already gathered in the lecture hall in advance.

This time, the professors occupied almost half of the hundreds of seats, and many college students and graduate students were standing on both sides, standing respectfully.

Seeing this scene, Professor Hua Yunfeng was somewhat stunned.

"You all brought your own students, and even dragged other friends along?"

Below the podium, some professors whom Professor Hua Yunfeng didn't recognize smiled awkwardly.

"Yes, we watched that video where Jiang Zhe decrypted the information; I think it is very educational for my students!"

"That's right, those videos can broaden their horizons; so I brought the kids along."

"Regardless of whether what he says is correct, that way of thinking is worth learning for the children."

"..."

Most of the professors still quite appreciated Jiang Zhe's logical thinking.

He was almost completely different from ordinary top students. Call it unconstrained, but he could provide concrete examples.

Call it conjecture, yet he could provide original scientific theories that were hard to find fault with.

Just these two points alone made him a figure that ordinary top students or geniuses could not compare to!

"That's fine too. It's not time yet, there are still 2 hours until the broadcast starts; everyone, feel free to discuss among yourselves first."

Professor Hua Yunfeng glanced at his phone. It was 6:00 PM, and then he sat on the podium with Old Feng to wait for the broadcast.

But what puzzled the two of them was—

Why was there no news about Jiang Zhe's live broadcast on the Television Station's website?

This made Professor Hua Yunfeng and Old Feng feel strange; they thought something had happened to Jiang Zhe.

...

At this moment, in the online live broadcast room.

The audience was also anxious, constantly refreshing the Television Station's official website.

On the official website, there was simply no news or schedule regarding Jiang Zhe hosting.

"What's going on? Why hasn't anything been reported about Jiang Zhe's content today?"

"Yeah, I waited all day and didn't see anything. Don't tell me he's not broadcasting anymore?"

"That's really possible. On his Weibo, there's no news other than the post about selling the 'Cloning' concept; I left him messages, but he never replied. Wang Lin and Xiao Shiyi haven't replied either. I seriously suspect that something might have happened to them."

"Does anyone know the truth?"

"This... I know. I live in the same dormitory building as them. I'm a family member of another host. The day after the Mysterious Person incident, police from three police cars went to look for Jiang Zhe. Later, he, Wang Lin, and Xiao Shiyi stopped going out. They only exercised in the residential compound and chatted with neighbors about trivial matters. I don't know what happened either."

"What exactly happened? Could it be a follow-up interview about the Mysterious Person?"

"Hmm, that might be it!"

"..."

The audience could only guess and could not get confirmed news.

Little did they know...

Jiang Zhe's casual actions that day had attracted the attention of the state apparatus!

...

At this moment, inside the Television Station's dormitory building.

Wang Lin and Xiao Shiyi were originally supposed to rest for seven days.

But Jiang Zhe only rested for six days before he was about to go to work.

They couldn't sit idle either and wanted to follow Jiang Zhe back to the Television Station to work early.

Mainly, it had been too boring lately; it felt like they were under house arrest!

These past few days, they hadn't gone out at all; Station Manager Zhao had specifically warned them—recently there are many things happening, stay at home, don't go out!

During this time, the three of them did observe that many reporters were waiting at the entrance of the dormitory building, waiting for the appearance of the Television Station's top dog, Jiang Zhe.

Actually, those reporters were not the first to come.

The first to come was actually the director of The First Police Station, who was also Officer Su Cheng's top superior. He personally brought his subordinates and drove three police cars over.

They simply interviewed Jiang Zhe, Wang Lin, and Xiao Shiyi about that day.

That's right, just a simple interview, nothing more!

The police station interviewed all the Television Station staff to confirm if their testimonies were consistent.

After that, nothing happened, and they left.

This incident made Wang Lin and Xiao Shiyi even more suspicious that the Mysterious Person was not some so-called special police officer, but a true superhuman!

Actually, the source of this matter was indeed caused by Jiang Zhe's heroic act.

As the first investigator to enter the Television Station building, Officer Su Cheng was directly subjected to testimony verification by the Ministry of State Security.

After all, the Mysterious Person had indeed appeared from the Television Station; and Officer Su Cheng was the first-hand investigating police officer, and the city's entire special police brigade had privately pointed out one after another—the Mysterious Person was not one of their members.

This matter was soon escalated to the Ministry of State Security!

The data department of the Ministry of State Security seriously suspected...

That some organization was conducting illegal individual human experiments.

So the higher-ups passed the order to the Su City The First Police Station, sending the director to lead people for a visit and investigation.

Upon receiving the higher-ups, in order to protect Jiang Zhe's personal privacy, Officer Su Cheng could only embellish his description of that night's situation.

He knew that the Mysterious Person was Jiang Zhe, and many aspects of the analysis pointed to Jiang Zhe.

So Officer Su Cheng could only add embellishments to the truth—Jiang Zhe returned to the lounge after hosting the show, then used a computer to remotely turn off the building's main power, and then entered the basement.

Since there was no surveillance at the crime scene, and even fingerprints and footprints were difficult to identify.

It was enough to see that Jiang Zhe was a meticulous person who didn't leave any traces—this gave Officer Su Cheng a chance to improvise.

Officer Su Cheng also knew that his actions might involve criminal charges, but he was willing to take the risk, just because Jiang Zhe saved his three subordinates!

So, Officer Su Cheng very successfully confused the investigation by the Ministry of State Security.

However, later on, the people from the Ministry of State Security locked on and determined that the Mysterious Person was in the Television Station, but they couldn't investigate it, so they could only use the most traditional method: visiting. But the visits yielded no results, so they temporarily gave up the investigation.

Later on, Station Manager Zhao learned of the news and contacted Jiang Zhe, Xiao Shiyi, and Wang Lin, telling the three of them not to go out recently to avoid unnecessary media disputes.

So the three of them had been staying at home playing games and taking walks downstairs for nearly 6 days. Therefore, to the outside world, it looked like they had disappeared, but in reality, they hadn't.

When Jiang Zhe learned the truth, he suddenly realized two principles.

1: The price of doing something, whether it's a good deed or a bad deed, if you dig deep into it, the price is really high!

2: The state apparatus is truly watertight when it does things!

This incident sounded an alarm for him!

...

In the evening, on the way to the Television Station.

It was mid-November, and the weather was getting colder.

Pedestrians on the road had already added thicker clothing, and some had already put on cotton coats.

At the intersection, while the three of them were waiting for the traffic light, Jiang Zhe was recognized by enthusiastic fans. They took a few photos, and after the fans expressed their concern, they left consciously.

"The air outside is still better!"

"Yeah, these past few days felt like being in prison!"

"I really hope the Mysterious Person doesn't take action in the future. The subsequent trivial matters are too troublesome!"

"I deeply agree; if I were the Mysterious Person, I do a good deed, and I still have to be investigated by the state level non-stop, right? It's really annoying. If it weren't for the Station Manager calling us to tell us not to go out, I would have thought the matter had passed long ago. In fact, it hasn't passed at all, someone has been investigating. If I were a superhuman criminal, I wouldn't be bored enough to go save police officers, right?"

"Sigh, some things can't be said; after all, they want to determine the unstable factors, and then see if it's controllable... I'm too lazy to talk about these things; we are all just ordinary people!"

The conversation between Wang Lin and Xiao Shiyi made Jiang Zhe, who was on the side, nod repeatedly, which was undeniable; this was the consideration at the state level. They do not allow a person who is beyond their control to appear.

Regarding this, Jiang Zhe's expression and mood were very complicated.

Thinking about it, it's human nature; he must restrain himself in the future!

At this moment, Wang Lin asked curiously:

"Teacher Jiang, when I went out, I glanced at the poll on the official website, asking you to talk about 'soul and Quantum' in this episode."

"You haven't seemed to do any preparation these past few days; they all thought we had disappeared. Speaking of which, have you decided what to talk about today?"

Xiao Shiyi also couldn't help his curiosity, "Yeah, speaking of which, what have you decided to talk about?"

What they didn't know was that Jiang Zhe no longer needed to prepare materials and programs in advance.

Because...

His Photographic Memory allowed him to recall materials in his mind at any time.

In this regard, Jiang Zhe revealed a mysterious smile, "Today, the content I will talk about will be very special!"

As for the content he was about to talk about today, he had actually already decided it.

It's just that this definition would be a bit big. In this program, he would challenge a dream of a real-world gold-medal Philosopher.

Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly!

If there was extra time, he might even talk about more explosive thought experiments!

As his words fell, Wang Lin and Xiao Shiyi looked amazed and vaguely started to look forward to it!

"I feel like today will be another hit!"

"Good luck, my food and drink depend on you, Teacher Jiang, haha!"