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Chu Si truly wanted to help, but just as Zilder Feng’s verification ended, the electronic voice had already started reporting Roger’s identity information. Unfortunately, besides being the head of his security guards, Roger didn’t have much information about his identity to speak of. There wasn’t enough time for Chu Si to perform anything complex, so he could only use the simplest and crudest of methods.
Using his own identity and authority to grant Sa’e Yang an exception?
However, the Security Building had a special role and placed great importance on safety and credibility, among other aspects. Every official was very sensitive to these kinds of things, and not to mention anything else, no one had ever used their authority to grant an exception, let alone receive an exception themselves.
Chu Si remaining silent wasn’t all that bad. If he really gave Sa’e Yang special treatment, it would actually make Sa’e Yang attract everyone’s attention and suspicion. Then wouldn’t he be drawing gazes to a hidden treasure?
As for finding other ways to avoid the verification, that was even more impossible.
On both sides of this passage were solid metal walls. As long as you walked forward, the verification door was unavoidable. If you turned the other way, there was only one path, which was to jump into the starry sea.
And it wasn’t a small deal, either, because if Sa’e Yang jumped out of this spaceship with one foot, his other would be hung up on a wanted poster. Perhaps there would be a buy one get one free and even Chu Si would be strung along. By then, the wanted poster’s range would be well beyond that of many years ago— the entire universe would be after his head for the foreseeable future.
How exciting.
Chu Si’s face remained expressionless, but his mind was rapidly passing through various unreliable plans. Just as he felt that the situation was truly worrying, Sa’e Yang, who had been half a step behind him, suddenly approached.
A low voice pressed by his ear and flowed in: “Executive, let me borrow your communicator.”
Chu Si thought, could you stop fucking talking by my ear, but before he could make a move, a hand had already silently groped from behind his waist into his pants pocket.
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Chu Si: “You…”
The electronic voice before them was still reporting data, overshadowing Sa’e Yang’s voice. Behind them, Shao Heng happened to be explaining something to the security forces, so he probably didn’t notice what was happening either. The bones on the side of Chu Si’s face moved slightly but instantly returned to normal. That hand felt around and pulled his communicator away.
Sa’e Yang’s voice sounded calm and composed, but that didn’t mean he was confident enough to handle his identity issues in such a short amount of time. Chu Si knew him too well. This person wasn’t in a hurry or a panic only because he never knew how to write the characters “nervous” in his lifetime. Maybe he even found this situation quite exciting and interesting.
Chu Si couldn’t help but sneer at this thought.
Sa’e Yang might be reckless when it came to finding excitement, but Chu Si wasn’t willing to be crazy along with him. So he glanced at the security verification door that he was about to enter, turned his head, and casually said, “There’s something else, Shao Heng.”
When he spoke, his expression was calm and casual. The glasses that Sa’e Yang casually placed on his nose added a hint of mechanical coldness to him, which would never let anyone suspect he had any ulterior motives.
“Ah?” Shao Heng turned his head to look at him, “What’s wrong, Executive?”
As he spoke, he made a pause gesture to the security team behind him and took a few steps towards Chu Si. Sa’e Yang raised his eyebrows at Chu Si and took the opportunity to give way, adding one more person to the line ahead of him.
Chu Si said to Shao Heng, “Do you have any news about Old Shao?”
Shao Heng lowered his eyes. “I haven’t been able to contact him yet. Only a portion of the military is participating in this organization, and the rest have either not woken up yet or haven’t found our exact location. There were probably some accidents during the explosion. The old man and his hospital weren’t within the dragon pillar circle at their base, so perhaps they were taken by a neighboring circle.”
The electronic voice of the verification door rang out again: “Identity verification, Chu Si, DNA scan results, biological DNA and intelligent mechanical DNA, sequence determination in accordance with database information, authority authentication at the highest execution authority of the Security Building, the highest leadership authority of Security Unit No. 5, the highest dispatch authority of the security troops, the highest control authority of the White Wolf Ship…”
For the first time, Chu Si felt that this electronic voice was very verbose. The long and messy series of titles and permissions not only made people grow calluses on their ears, but also had a useful function during this critical moment: stalling for time.
He wanted to look back and see how Sa’e Yang’s preparations were going, but the old Zilder Feng was standing behind the verification door, gaze locked on Chu Si, listening to the long list of permission levels, his eyes envious.
Chu Si had seen this kind of gaze numerous times. Ever since he was promoted from the position as an official of Office No. 5 to its highest executive, Old Feng had always looked at him in this kind of way, blatantly and unhesitatingly. This was only possible because the person in this position was Chu Si. A person who wanted to extend and expand their power would only see that gaze as a precursor to rebellion and power-grabbing.
Chu Si was stared at too closely at him, so if he turned his head to look at Sa’e Yang, it would seem a little too deliberate. He had to maintain his level gaze and finish walking past the security door.
He walked out of the safety gate and stood next to Old Feng. Old Feng and Roger were originally planning to lead the way, but when they saw his obvious intention of waiting for someone, they took a step back and waited with him.
“Wow, giving me so much face!” Shao Heng casually said as he walked along the safety gate. “Oh— Executive, don’t stare at me like that, or else I’ll start skipping.”
Chu Si was actually waiting for Sa’e Yang, but in order to avoid being too straightforward, his gaze fell on Shao Heng, and he caught a glimpse of Sa’e Yang’s movements in the corner of his eye.
“That… Mr. Yang, your communicator needs to be placed on the nearby teleportation platform.” Roger’s gaze shifted over Shao Heng and landed on Sa’e Yang, unable to help but let out a reminder.
Sa’e Yang looked as if he was sending a message to someone. When he heard this, he lifted his eyes and cooperated. Without any delay, he grabbed the communicator and raised his hand, with a face full of “fine, I won’t use it now.” Then he casually threw the communicator onto the teleportation station.
Chu Si furrowed his brows slightly. He didn’t know what Sa’e Yang had borrowed his communicator for. His first thought would be to create temporary identity data to be inserted into the database, replacing the original one belonging to Sa’e Yang. If it didn’t match incorrectly, there would be no problem.
But in such a short time, was there enough time to compile a relatively complete set of identity data? It was a joke.
Although Chu Si wasn’t as proficient as Sa’e Yang in this area, he still knew to some extent how troublesome this process could be. It would take some effort to just connect to the Security Building database, and such a process was impossible to successfully complete in the short time they had available.
When Shao Heng walked out of the security verification door, the communicator on the teleportation platform happened to enter the enclosed scanning area. In the darkness of the scanning area, the communicator was adjusted to its darkest brightness level, emitting a faint light. A progress bar was simply horizontal on the screen, and the progress prompt below read: Database signal interception process, 97%.
Whether it was fabricating a new identity or replacing an old one, they were all just pipe dreams. In such a short period of time, the only feasible method was to cut off the signal connection between the security verification gate and the database. This was not so troublesome to do. It was a simple interference, blocking the signal at the moment of querying identity information, allowing one to temporarily skip the inspection.
Sa’e Yang lifted his foot and entered the safety verification door.
The progress bar on the communicator screen in the darkness jumped up: 98%.
The electronic voice sounded: “Identity verification—”
The progress bar increased again: 99%.
Shao Heng walked up to Chu Si and opened his mouth. Just as he was about to say something, the blue light inside the safety door instantly turned red. Before everyone could react, the alarm sounded.
“What’s going on?!” Zilder Feng blurted out. Everyone’s gaze immediately fell on Sa’e Yang.
Chu Si’s eyebrows twitched.
But after the security door gave an alarm, it suddenly stopped. The electronic voice paused for a second before saying, “Warning, I cannot connect to the database-related identity information. I suggest re-examining or entering new data.”
Before Old Feng’s expression relaxed, Roger had already breathed a sigh of relief.
Shao Heng stared at Sa’e Yang for two seconds, then turned away and patted his heart. “That gave me a fright, this security verification door is really quite startling.”
“People from our building pass through this door all year round, so I almost forgot about this kind of stranger warning,” Roger said, raising his hand to Sa’e Yang. “Mr. Yang, don’t be nervous, it’s just because your identity data isn’t in our database. That’s a good thing. If it was there, then things would really get interesting.”
Shao Heng chuckled and said, “That’s true. Besides the DNA of the legitimate personnel of the Security Building, we only have those from the Space Prison in our database.”
Mr. Feng slowly closed his mouth and let out a deep breath, “I almost thought…”
“Thought what?” The two deputy executives next to him joked. “Could it be that you thought Executive brought back a person with DNA belonging to the Space Prison database? You really worry too much!”
Zilder Feng waved his hand. “Impossible, impossible. I was just slow to react for a moment.” This person was used to flattering, and for a moment he didn’t remember his current power and position. He subconsciously added, “Even at first glance, I can tell Mr. Yang is very serious and capable.”
Serious? Capable?
What level of blindness was needed to see this temperament in Sa’e Yang?
After listening to their back and forth, Chu Si silently turned away. It was best to keep Sa’e Yang’s identity a secret, otherwise… these people might line up and hang themselves outside his office when they found out the truth.
That scene… was unbearable to just imagine.
Not a thought about how he was smooching this prisoner either 🤷♀️
How very exciting right, Executive?
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