164: Chapter 164 Being Too Accurate in Calculations Is Also a Sin

The monitoring hall of the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs.

A massive curved LED screen occupied an entire wall, covered with hundreds of densely arranged surveillance windows.

Gu Changan pushed open the glass door and strode in, his brow furrowed into a knot.

Chen Xiaobei sat at the main console, his hands striking the mechanical Keyboard so fast they left afterimages, as beads of sweat dripped from his forehead.

In the very center of the large screen, a single enlarged window showed a livestream room.

The number of online viewers in the top right corner had already surpassed three million, its popularity firmly holding the number one spot on the entire internet.

In the video, a scrawny man wearing a low-quality yellow Daoist robe and a pair of old-fashioned round-framed black sunglasses sat cross-legged before the camera.

A Bagua diagram hung behind him, and he was fiddling with two strings of beads made from some unknown wood.

Livestream ID: Iron Mouth Divination Tianjizi.

He was currently on a voice call on screen with an honest-looking middle-aged man whose username was "Wife-fearing Brother Wang."

Tianjizi reached up to adjust the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, his lips curling into a cold, affectedly profound smirk.

"This fellow viewer, you need not speak. Your birth dates and the thoughts in your heart are already clear to this seat."

Brother Wang, on the other end of the call, looked shocked.

"Great Master, can you really calculate it? I've felt my financial luck has been poor lately. Can you help me see where I hid my..."

"Where you hid your private stash of money, right?" Tianjizi interrupted him directly, his fingers making a few divining gestures in the air. "Brother Wang, it's not that your financial luck is poor; it's that you are too careless."

Tianjizi lowered his voice, his tone extremely certain.

"Last night at 11:45 PM, while your wife was taking a shower, you took the 3,200 yuan in cash you saved this month and stuffed it into that old shoebox under the bed in the master bedroom."

"To be specific, it's under the insole of the blue sneaker for the left foot."

"There are thirty-two hundred-yuan bills in total. The serial number of the top one starts with WQ88, am I right?"

The livestream room went silent for two seconds.

Brother Wang on the other end of the call jumped straight out of his chair, his face looking worse than if he had seen a ghost.

"Holy crap! Great Master... you really possess a Heavenly Eye! You even know the serial numbers?"

Before Brother Wang could go verify it, a fierce-looking woman in pajamas suddenly burst into the frame, holding a blue sneaker and a stack of red banknotes.

The woman grabbed Brother Wang's ear and roared into the microphone.

"Well, well, Wang Daqiang! You actually dared to hide a private stash! You even managed to stuff it under an insole!"

The call was cut off amidst a flurry of screams and pleas for mercy.

The bullet screen of the entire livestream room exploded instantly, densely covering the entire screen.

"Incredible! This is absolutely a True God!"

"He can even calculate the serial numbers. This is more accurate than a surveillance camera!"

"Great Master, please give me a divination! I'll gift you ten rockets!"

Gift effects began to frantically spam across the screen.

Gu Changan stood before the large screen with his arms crossed, letting out a cold sneer as he watched the triumphant Tianjizi in the video.

"Chen Xiaobei, how did this blind man do it? What is the principle behind his fortune-telling?"

Chen Xiaobei's hands rapidly tapped the enter key, pulling up a row of green data stream code.

"Director Gu, this grandson isn't fortune-telling at all! He possesses an extremely perverted hacker System, which calls itself the [Omniscient Big Data System]."

Chen Xiaobei pointed to the data packets being analyzed on the screen.

"The robot vacuum in that Brother Wang's house has an internet-connected camera. Last night around 11 PM, the robot vacuum was working under the bed and happened to film the entire process of him hiding the money."

"This grandson's System forcibly intruded into Brother Wang's home LAN, retrieved the robot vacuum's surveillance footage, and even used high-precision AI to enlarge the image to see the banknotes' serial numbers."

"He packaged stolen citizen privacy as his own divined Divine Ability!"

Gu Changan's gaze turned completely cold.

Using hacker technology to peer at the soles of ordinary people's shoes was already a serious crime of invasion of privacy.

Chen Xiaobei swallowed hard, his tone becoming even more anxious.

"Director Gu, if it were just peeking at people's private stashes, I wouldn't have been so rushed to call you over."

"This guy's System computing power is terrifyingly high. Just ten minutes ago, he hacked into the internal network of our Donghai City police System and even touched the edge firewall of the Bureau of Anomalies."

"He's getting bolder and bolder, using our internal data to show off and attract traffic in his livestream!"

Gu Changan pulled over a chair and sat down, tapping the desk.

"Register an alt account and go meet him."

Chen Xiaobei immediately operated, using a blank IP to register an account named 'Jiangnan Misty Rain,' and directly gifted ten super rockets to push himself to the top of the donor list.

Tianjizi in the livestream room saw the ten rockets launch, and the eyes beneath his sunglasses lit up.

"Oh, thank you to boss 'Jiangnan Misty Rain' for the ten super rockets! Boss is generous!"

"Since you've made it to the top of the list, this seat shall perform a divination for you to guide your way."

Tianjizi closed his eyes with an affected air, his fingers starting to make random gestures in the air again.

In reality, he was frantically calling out to the [Omniscient Big Data System] in his mind.

"System, check the background of this 'Jiangnan Misty Rain'! The more detailed the better, I want to shock this big spender!"

A cold mechanical voice echoed in his mind.

Warning.

Target IP has undergone multiple layers of military-grade physical encryption.

Forced analysis in progress... Analysis successful.

Target's true identity: Gu Changan, Chief of the Donghai Branch of the China Bureau of Abnormal Affairs.

Current location: Basement level three, Main Monitoring Hall, Donghai City Bureau of Abnormal Affairs.

Tianjizi froze for a moment, but instead of being afraid, he almost laughed out loud.

A government official? And a director at that?

If he could strip away the secrets of some director in front of over three million netizens, Tianjizi's reputation would absolutely resound throughout the entire country!

From then on, who would dare investigate him? He would be the True God of the online world!

Tianjizi snapped his eyes open, leaning forward slightly toward the camera with an extremely arrogant smile.

"This friend named 'Jiangnan Misty Rain,' or... should I call you Director Gu?"

The bullet screen in the livestream room stalled for a moment before scrolling even more frantically.

Gu Changan held the microphone, his tone flat and devoid of any fluctuation.

"Great Master's calculation is quite accurate. Since you know who I am and still dare to spout such nonsense here, you have quite the guts."

Tianjizi laughed loudly, slapping the table with his hand.

"Director Gu, this seat knows everything from astronomy to geography, five hundred years into the past and five hundred years into the future. What is there that I wouldn't dare say?"

"The secrets of you Mortals are like nothing before this seat's Heavenly Eye."

Tianjizi deliberately left them in suspense, blowing a breath into the microphone.

"Director Gu, you're thinking of having soy milk and fried dough sticks tomorrow morning, right? What a pity."

"This seat has calculated that Chef Wang from your unit's canteen ate two undercooked oysters at a roadside stall last night. He is currently in the hospital on an IV with diarrhea and has already requested leave from your logistics department."

"So, Director Gu, tomorrow morning you can only have white porridge paired with the pickled mustard greens the canteen auntie pickled herself."

As soon as these words were spoken, the livestream room fell into a dead silence.

Calculating a divination down to a canteen chef's diarrhea and leave? Even calculating exactly what pickled greens he would eat tomorrow morning?

Gu Changan turned to look at Chen Xiaobei.

Chen Xiaobei immediately pulled up the internal logistics management System, took a look, and nodded with a grim face.

Chef Wang's leave approval form had just passed through the internal network workflow ten minutes ago.

This meant that Tianjizi had truly and completely hacked into their internal office network, entering it as if it were uninhabited territory.

Gu Changan spoke into the microphone, his voice deep and carrying an unquestionable authority.

"Illegal intrusion into a state organ's computer information System and theft of internal data. You have violated Article 285 of the Criminal Law."

"Cut the livestream now and take the initiative to surrender. This is your only chance."

Tianjizi acted as if he had heard some grand joke, laughing so hard he doubled over, his sunglasses even becoming crooked.

"Catch me? Director Gu, stop trying to use those Mortal laws to scare this seat!"

"This seat has leaped beyond the Three Realms and is not within the Five Elements. The network is my Daoist temple, and data is my magic power."

Tianjizi had become arrogant to the absolute extreme. He decided to drop a bombshell to thoroughly trample this director's face underfoot.

"Director Gu, do you think a canteen menu is my limit?"

"This seat will gift you one more divination!"

Tianjizi suddenly leaned close to the camera and lowered his voice, his tone filled with provocation.

"This seat has calculated that your Bureau of Anomalies is planning an arrest operation code-named 'Thunderbolt Action' for next Wednesday at 2 AM."

"The target location is the abandoned pier in the south of the city. You're preparing to deploy three special ops squads to catch that Spirit Stone smuggler..."

"Shut up!"

Gu Changan gave a thunderous roar. A near-tangible Killing Intent transmitted through the microphone into the livestream, making the eardrums of over three million viewers go numb.

This was no longer just showing off.

This was an extremely serious leak of secrets!

'Thunderbolt Action' was a top-secret arrest plan jointly formulated by the provincial department. Once leaked in advance, not only would they fail to catch anyone, but it could also lead to major casualties among the Special Police comrades on the front line.

This Tianjizi had already stepped over the line of national security.

"Chen Xiaobei, immediately cut all external network streams for this livestream room!"

"Trace his physical IP address for me! Notify the Special Police Riot Squad to assemble on the first floor in full gear!"

Gu Changan's voice was as cold as an emotionless killing machine.

The livestream signal was forcibly blocked, turning into a black screen.

But Tianjizi's laughter still came through the audio channel, sounding extremely arrogant.

"Director Gu, getting anxious? Want to pull my plug? Too late!"

"This seat's System has undergone thirty-six layers of quantum encryption jump points via overseas high-orbit communication satellites!"

"Even your country's top supercomputer couldn't find my true physical IP if it calculated for a hundred years!"

"I am the invincible True God in the network world. You can't even touch my shadow!"

Gu Changan listened to the arrogant laughter in his headset, unhurriedly lighting a cigarette and exhaling a puff of blue-white smoke.

He gave a cold laugh and spoke a single sentence into the microphone.

"Great Master Tianjizi, since you are so calculating and never miss a detail."

"Then did you calculate that your own fortune today is a sign of great misfortune, and that a bloody disaster is imminent?"

A disdainful snort came from Tianjizi on the other end of the headset, after which the connection was completely severed.