Starting from a Fake University
Chapter 439 - 279 Rumors Abound, Someone Smears (Fifth Update Request Subscription)_1

Chapter 439: Chapter 279 Rumors Abound, Someone Smears (Fifth Update Request Subscription)_1

Thump thump thump!

The office door was knocked on.

In fact, the office door was not closed. Ding Yue turned to look and saw two police officers at the door.

"Officer Zhang, right?"

Upon seeing this, Qi Chunsheng immediately came forward to ask.

It was Qi Chunsheng who had contacted the Mist City Police Department and spoke to Officer Zhang on the phone.

"Hmm hmm, you are Director Qi?" The middle-aged Officer Zhang nodded.

Behind Officer Zhang was a comparatively younger police officer.

Considering that they’d come to understand the case so late, it was clear that the police officers of this Parallel World were quite dedicated.

"Hello Officer Zhang, I am Principal Ding Yue." Ding Yue walked forward, gave Officer Zhang a simple handshake, and immediately started to discuss the case: "I guess the police would want to have the surveillance video from our Mist City Arts and Science University as soon as possible, right?"

"Yes, only after obtaining your surveillance video can we analyze the case tomorrow or later."

Officer Zhang nodded and said.

"Tomorrow? We can check now!" Ding Yue shook his head and said, "Officer Zhang, I assume you understand that with every minute we save in solving this disappearance case, our students are one minute safer, aren’t they?"

Upon hearing this, Officer Zhang looked at Ding Yue with surprise.

This young principal Ding seemed to be quite concerned and it was evident that he was very worried about the safety of the students--a very responsible principal.

"Right, but after obtaining the surveillance video, we need to perform a technical analysis to find leads. As soon as our technical staff starts work tomorrow morning, they will get right to it."

Officer Zhang explained.

According to the process, he was supposed to come to Mist City Arts and Science University to collect the relevant surveillance videos.

"No need, we can provide technical staff!" Ding Yue smiled and then looked at Xu Bin.

Xu Bin slightly nodded, then quietly hit the return key on the computer.

Then, on the projector screen in the office, one surveillance video after another began to appear.

"Officer Zhang, look, this is the video footage from September 30th, at 2:45 PM, when student Zhou Xiaoyan left the dormitory building."

Xu Bin explained to Officer Zhang.

Officer Zhang looked up and indeed saw the missing student in the surveillance video.

"You..."

"This is Xu Bin, our school’s top computer genius." Ding Yue confidently said, "The school’s surveillance system is his work; it’s extremely quick to check the school’s surveillance."

"Impressive, such talent." Officer Zhang couldn’t help but exclaim.

Usually, finding video footage of missing persons from surveillance videos requires the technical department of the police station to complete the task.

Surprisingly, just as he arrived, Mist City Arts and Science University had already filtered the surveillance videos via a computer genius.

"This is at 3:03 PM, when student Zhou Xiaoyan left the school gate. The surveillance video segment..." Xu Bin switched the video and played the next surveillance video segment for Officer Zhang and others: "From here we can see that student Zhou Xiaoyan met with a man, or rather, this man was waiting for her at the school gate."

"This man is highly suspicious. The disappearance of student Zhou is obviously related to him!" Officer Zhang used his many years of case-solving experience for such observations.

"Indeed, in the last footage from our school’s surveillance video, student Zhou Xiaoyan was last seen interacting with this man."

Ding Yue nodded, agreeing with Officer Zhang’s analysis.

In the surveillance video, you can see Zhou Xiaoyan at the gate, carrying a white backpack and dragging a suitcase, walking towards a man in a black jacket.

The man in the black jacket then carried on a face-to-face conversation with Zhou Xiaoyan and took the suitcase from her.

The two seemed to know each other?

"Is this man in the black jacket a student at your school?" Officer Zhang frowned and asked.

"Just a moment!"

Xu Bin went over to his laptop and operated it for a while after which he was able to extract a clear image of the man in the black jacket from the surveillance video.

"I can execute an intelligent comparison between his face and the photos of each student from our school!"

As Xu Bin spoke, he continued operating the system.

Officer Zhang couldn’t help but look at Xu Bin once again, was this young student of Mist City Arts and Science University this capable?

"Pretty impressive!" Officer Zhang couldn’t help but praise.

Ding Yue just smiled and said, "Our school’s top computer genius certainly isn’t just all talk!"

"The results of the comparison are out. This man in the black jacket is not a student at our school." Xu Bin shook his head and said.

"Then, this is going to be difficult to investigate. We will need to check the route surveillance of student Zhou, and that’s going to take a long time!" Officer Zhang noted that the case seemed to have reached a bottleneck.

If the man in the black jacket was not a student of Mist City Arts and Science University, they would have to check the surveillance video from when student Zhou Xiaoyan left the university.

"Officer Zhang, the more time we waste, the more danger our student Zhou is in. If I have the police’s Sky Eye Authorization, I can immediately track down the movements of Student Zhou Xiaoyan within the entire surveillance video of Mist City!"

Xu Bin suddenly turned around and said seriously to Officer Zhang.

Hiss!

Officer Zhang couldn’t help but gasp at his words.

Is he really that capable?

Just by giving him a lawful authorization, he could access and even match the Sky Eye Surveillance system of Mist City?

This sounds like a high-tech skill that only computer experts in sci-fi movies would have.

At least Officer Zhang knew that his colleagues in the Technical Department of the University Town branch wouldn’t have been able to do it. The Technical Department relied on analyzing the movement tracks and paths of Student Zhou Xiaoyan to selectively retrieve surveillance footage.

The advanced Sky Eye Investigation technology is not available to the University Town branch. It’s something that only provincial headquarters would have.

But a disappearance case like this obviously wouldn’t alarm the higher-ups!

"Is that true?" Ding Yue couldn’t help but look at Xu Bin and asked in astonishment.

Even Ding Yue thought that what Xu Bin has just said was impressive!

No wonder he is set to become the best hacker.

Of course, Xu Bin needed the Sky Eye Authorization from the police, otherwise, it would be illegal, and Xu Bin would not do it.

Xu Bin turned to Ding Yue and nodded firmly.

This small feat of technology was nothing in the eyes of the leading hacker, Xu Bin.

Even hacking into a super-encrypted internal network would be no problem for Xu Bin, but he would not do that because he is a man of principles.

"Officer Zhang, I trust in my friend!" Ding Yue said, looking seriously at Officer Zhang and nodding his head.

At a time like this, finding Student Zhou Xiaoyan as soon as possible is undoubtedly clear to Officer Zhang too.

Officer Zhang hesitated, then after about half a minute, he nodded and said, "Alright, I agree, but I need to check in first."

As soon as he finished speaking, Officer Zhang walked toward the floor-to-ceiling window, took out his mobile phone and made a call to his superior.

The phone call lasted about two minutes, and then Officer Zhang came over and said, "Alright, we, the police force, can authorize you. You will work as a technical assistant to our case."

Xu Bin was pretty excited to hear what Officer Zhang said.

After all, it was the first time that his hacking skills would be used to serve the people!

Then Officer Zhang gave Xu Bin a password to gain the Sky Eye authorization from the police. As such, any actions taken by Xu Bin from then on would not be considered illegal as he had the police’s permission.

Once Xu Bin obtained the authority to freely access the surveillance videos of Mist City, he quickly used his skills to search for Student Zhou Xiaoyan’s picture within the city-wide surveillance footage on his computer!

The reason for searching the whole city was that the police had already checked Zhou Xiaoyan’s transportation records.

She had not purchased any train, bus or plane tickets to go home. In the absence of any ticket purchase records, it was highly probable that Zhou Xiaoyan was still in Mist City.

"Bin, how long will this take?" Ding Yue approached Xu Bin and asked curiously.

"Cough, Yue, if you could provide me with the world’s most powerful computer, this would only take a few seconds. But given the current situation, I have set the best track route for selection, this will still take at least half an hour, as the amount of surveillance footage is huge."

Xu Bin explained.

After hearing Xu Bin’s explanation, Ding Yue understood that even if it took half an hour or an hour, it was still relatively fast.

If they didn’t proceed in this manner, Officer Zhang and his team would probably just get the surveillance video recording from the Mist City Arts and Science University and return to the police station, where the responsible ones might start working overtime tonight.

But under normal circumstances, a missing persons case like this would be continued using the relevant technologies after the police officers were back on duty the next day.

Officer Zhang had said that it would take some time to find Zhou Xiaoyan’s surveillance footage tracks.

Without thinking, Ding Yue knew that it would have to start with several days at the least.

If they delayed that much and Zhou Xiaoyan got into any danger, wouldn’t that be a disaster?

Nothing should happen to any student of his Mist City Arts and Science University, Ding Yue would never allow that. After all, during the daily teaching and during vacations, the school always emphasized safety for its students.

"Principal Ding, so many people online are saying that we are irresponsible about student safety, so much slander, it’s making me furious!"

While Xu Bin was busy searching, Wen Ruohan came up to Principal Ding holding her cellphone and spoke angrily.

In the beginning, they were just rumours, then somebody stirred the pot, and netizens started saying that the students of Mist City Arts and Science University are disappearing, that the school is not responsible, and that the safety of students is not assured, scathing criticisms without any basis.

"Hmm?"

On hearing this, Ding Yue looked at Wen Ruohan’s phone and found indeed there seemed to be some people deliberately spreading rumors and leading negative opinions.

Could it be that someone is seizing this opportunity to tarnish the reputation of his Mist City Arts and Science University? Trying to start rumors and discredit the institution?

Of course, this was just Ding Yue’s conjecture. It might also just be that some marketing account was leading the discourse and wound up causing a scandal.

"Principal Ding, if these rumors cause considerable impact, we can take public security management penalty measures and detain the rumormongers!"

Officer Zhang looked at Ding Yue and said very seriously.