This Character is Suspected of Cheating! [Unlimited Flow]

Gedai instantly exploded in fury. His usually calm mechanical face twisted into something ferocious. “What did you say?! You actually dare treat us like machines?!”

He couldn’t believe his ears.

Eugene’s eyes widened too, staring blankly at He Yu.

Federation technology was incredibly advanced. More than a thousand years ago, humanoid robots had already appeared. A thousand years ago, the robots rebelled, obtained their own planet, joined the Federation, and became Federation citizens.

Over all these years, District Two’s Mechanical Planet had become virtually no different from other planets. Federation citizens treated them as completely equal existences.

In fact, marriages with Mechanical Planet citizens were not uncommon.

The robots who had long since separated themselves from the category of “machines” had not heard anyone call them high-precision machines in a very, very long time.

To Gedai, this was provocation!

Ignoring his anger completely, He Yu looked toward Qiong. “Using these two high-precision machines, can you crack the intelligent brain?”

Qiong still looked somewhat stunned.

But when her gaze met Gedai’s furious expression, she suddenly laughed. Raising the brim of her hat slightly, her eyes filled with sly amusement. “Of course we can. With their cooperation, even if it normally couldn’t be done, I’d still have a way.”

After speaking, she raised an eyebrow provocatively at Gedai.

Gedai was so angry his face turned green.

His black eyes glared at He Yu as though they might spit fire. “Impossible. I refuse!”

He Yu replied calmly, “So you don’t want to leave this instance?”

Before Gedai could refute him, He Yu continued, “Even if you already have enough votes to leave, don’t you want equipment? Don’t you want to know the hidden truth behind this instance?”

“I don’t—”

Eugene interrupted Gedai and looked at He Yu darkly. “Can you guarantee we’ll successfully get equipment and leave the instance? Can you guarantee you can crack the intelligent brain and uncover the truth?”

Pushing up his glasses, He Yu answered flatly, “Yes. Don’t doubt my deductions.”

Qiong casually shook her head, her grin widening. “Yeah. I guarantee I can crack the intelligent brain too.”

Her combat power wasn’t on the level of Zhen Xing and the others. Her intelligence and reaction speed also couldn’t compare to He Yu’s.

But she had her own specialty.

In the world of hacking, she was nearly omnipotent.

Eugene said, “Fine. I’ll cooperate.”

Gedai: “???”

Once Eugene agreed, Gedai had no choice but to submit under everyone else’s pressure.

Finding the truth behind the instance and locking onto the real murderer were the things they needed most urgently right now. To achieve that goal, some sacrifice was acceptable.

Besides, they were only dismantling Gedai to use him for a while, not killing him.

Right?

They quickly finalized the plan while Gedai’s face darkened further.

The barrage was still in shock—

“666666, I seriously kneel before He Yu’s train of thought!”

“In all these seasons of Top Talent Show, this is the first time anyone’s used Mechanical Planet contestants like this.”

“And He Yu is also the first contestant with combat power eight to survive this long!”

“I’m seriously convinced by him. Every time he refreshes my worldview.”

“This garbage-planet guy actually has something.”

...

No one noticed that He Yu’s support votes silently rose another step.

—

Principal’s office.

Knock knock—

Someone knocked on the door.

The principal opened it.

At the doorway, He Yu leaned lazily against the frame. Though he looked thin and weak, there was an impossible-to-ignore force hidden in his eyes.

“What is it? Has your experiment made progress?” the principal asked impatiently.

Dark circles hung beneath his eyes. Clearly, recent events had driven him to exhaustion, leaving him irritable and short-tempered.

He Yu smiled slightly. “Principal, I have something I’d like to discuss with you. May we talk inside?”

It was phrased as a question, but his solemn attitude made refusal difficult.

The principal frowned impatiently, but when he thought about He Yu’s experiment and Dawn Training School’s troubles, he stepped aside and turned around. “Fine. Come in.”

However, the instant he turned his back—

He Yu’s figure flashed.

Another person appeared and smashed a piece of equipment against the principal’s head.

The principal collapsed.

Zhen Xing caught him smoothly, ripped off the intelligent brain from his wrist, and tossed it to Qiong, who entered afterward.

Qiong whistled. “Beautiful.”

He Yu straightened up. “Move quickly. We don’t have much time.”

The intelligent brain had protection mechanisms. They didn’t even dare knock the principal unconscious directly. They could only use Zhen Xing’s special equipment to temporarily paralyze him.

But once separated from its owner for an hour, the intelligent brain would automatically trigger an alarm and summon its master.

—Time was extremely tight.

Qiong looked completely confident. “Relax. Bring my machines in.”

Cheng Zhao and Yuan Ze pushed in “two” machines.

The structure of the machines looked utterly bizarre.

They had hands and feet, yet they’d clearly been dismantled apart. Wires ripped from who-knew-where connected the scattered parts together.

Annie and Tang Ke carried Eugene’s and Gedai’s mechanical heads.

The heads were connected to the two machines by wires as well.

The entire scene looked unbelievably strange.

Eugene’s face darkened. “He Yu, your suggestion had better work.”

He Yu took Eugene’s head and cradled it in his arms, lowering his gaze to examine it carefully.

Tilting his head slightly, he studied him with complete seriousness.

Eugene instantly felt creeped out. “What are you doing?”

He Yu said thoughtfully, “I think people from your planet are really useful... You can fight, you can be used, you can combine together, and you can be dismantled. What good stuff.”

“You’re the thing!” Gedai’s head cursed.

He Yu replied calmly, “Oh? Then you’re not a thing?”

Gedai: “Of course I’m a thi—”

His voice abruptly stopped.

His eyes bulged at He Yu as though shooting flames.

He Yu casually rubbed Eugene’s head. “You don’t even have bodies anymore. Behave yourselves.”

Eugene snapped, “The idiot talking is Gedai, so why are you rubbing my head?!”

With complete seriousness, He Yu answered, “Probably because your head is smarter.”

Gedai: “???”

Eugene: “......”

For a moment, he genuinely didn’t know whether he should feel pleased or angry.

Both of them were silenced.

He Yu asked, “Are all Mechanical Planet people relatively intelligent? With amazing memory?”

Gedai answered proudly, “Of course.”

Eugene wanted to nod, but without a body he couldn’t, so he blinked instead to show agreement.

He Yu said thoughtfully, “Oh... then which of you is smarter?”

Eugene answered without hesitation, “Me. Whenever I’m around, Gedai is eternally second place, so he’s always had a problem with me.”

“Bullshit. He asked who’s smarter. Aren’t you only luckier than me because your equipment is always better?!” Gedai instantly exploded again.

Just like Wanrenzhan around He Yu, Gedai ignited instantly whenever facing Eugene.

Eugene sneered, “Same thing. I’m stronger than you and smarter than you.”

Gedai roared furiously, “EUGENE!! I’ll definitely beat you in this competition!”

The two started arguing.

—Excellent. Their attention had been diverted.

He Yu quietly held Eugene’s head and smiled while watching them quarrel. Every now and then, whenever they seemed about to stop, he casually added fuel to the fire.

The audience: “......”

The audience: “This He Yu is way, way too terrifying!”

Without anyone realizing it, he’d effortlessly manipulated nine powerful contestants into obeying his arrangements.

The two mechanical heads continued arguing while Qiong cracked the intelligent brain, her fingers leaving afterimages across the virtual keyboard.

Everyone else watched the bizarre scene inside the office in silence.

Even Wanrenzhan subconsciously touched his own neck to confirm his head was still attached before quietly exhaling in relief.

Zhen Xing walked over to He Yu.

His blue hair was dazzlingly beautiful, and curiosity filled his perfectly proportioned face. Bending slightly, he asked, “How exactly is your brain structured? How do you keep thinking of these weird but useful ideas?”

He Yu replied, “Probably because my thinking is uniquely strange.”

He looked back at Zhen Xing and smiled faintly. “In the future, when speaking to me, please don’t bend down. Thank you.”

That posture clearly conveyed an opinion about his height.

—Even when Zhen Xing stood upright, He Yu’s presence still didn’t lose to his.

Zhen Xing blinked blankly. “Oh...”

For once, a trace of irritation appeared on He Yu’s face.

Whether in his previous life or this one, being 180 centimeters tall on Blue Star absolutely wasn’t short. It was an ideal height.

But now—

He had somehow become the short one.

Zhen Xing looked puzzled. “Are you unhappy? I think your height is pretty cute.”

As he spoke, he straightened and reached out to pat He Yu’s head.

He Yu’s face instantly darkened.

Looking at Zhen Xing coldly, his voice turned icy. “Do you no longer want that hand?”

Zhen Xing immediately withdrew it, looking innocent.

The barrage exploded—

“Hahahaha, is this the first time He Yu’s changed expression?”

“Oh my god I’m dying laughing, why do they weirdly have insane CP energy? Forget it, I’m shipping them first.”

“No but seriously, he’s just a garbage-planet guy, what are you all doing?”

...

Wanrenzhan sneered. “Shorty.”

Holding Eugene’s head, He Yu replied expressionlessly, “Idiot.”

Wanrenzhan: “......”

He wanted to charge over again.

But looking at He Yu calmly standing there while holding Eugene’s head—

For some reason, he felt slightly intimidated.

—

Qiong was absolutely a genius!

Although Chaos Planet contestants weren’t discriminated against as heavily as garbage-planet contestants, many viewers still looked down on them.

The fact that Qiong’s popularity during preliminaries had surpassed Siya’s was enough to prove her abilities.

And the intelligent brains trusted so deeply by Federation citizens were nothing more than machines that could be cracked in front of Qiong.

He Yu’s deduction had been correct.

Eugene and Gedai were two top-tier high-precision machines. Using their heads for computational processing was even better than the high-end customized equipment Qiong normally used herself.

She whistled. “Perfect. Mechanical Planet powerhouses really are useful.”

Retracting her hands from the virtual keyboard, she stared at the floating projection before them. “Done. Cracking successful.”

“It actually got cracked?!” Annie exclaimed in shock, immediately stepping closer.

Gedai’s face was pitch-black as Tang Ke carried him forward.

He Yu had already moved beside the projection while carrying Eugene’s head. Wanrenzhan and the others all gathered around too.

—Qiong really hadn’t been lying. Even intelligent brains could be hacked.

“You’re amazing,” He Yu praised sincerely, without hesitation.

For some reason, when praised by He Yu, people always felt a strange sense of recognition.

Qiong immediately felt pleased, awkwardly looking away. “There’s still over ten minutes left. Let’s investigate the truth from back then.”

Eight people and two heads stared at the floating projection together.

Qiong directly opened the principal’s most confidential files.

The contents were shockingly extensive.

Yuan Ze sneered coldly. “So this is Dawn Training School’s principal. Taking bribes, selling equipment, privately trading admission quotas... There’s nothing he won’t do.”

Eugene replied indifferently, “Very common. None of that matters. What matters is information related to the murder case.”

The Federation had plenty of this kind of corruption too. Eugene was already used to it.

Cheng Zhao said, “We only have a little over ten minutes. We can’t waste time.”

Suddenly, He Yu spoke.

“Can we search? Pull up all information related to Anna and Youmo from three months ago. Start with them first.”

Everyone froze.

The moment they heard those two names, they immediately understood the significance behind them.

Zhen Xing nodded in agreement. “Right. The source of everything seems connected to those two dead girls. We should investigate them directly.”

Qiong executed a precise search.

They were only two ordinary female students from the school. Logically speaking, there shouldn’t have been much information about them stored inside the principal’s intelligent brain.

Yet unexpectedly—

There was a lot.

And a considerable amount had already been deleted.

—The deleted data could no longer be recovered, but even the remaining messages were enough to make He Yu and the others’ expressions sink.

Four months earlier, right before Class One of Dawn Training School’s second year was about to go on vacation, something had happened inside the school.

Something that caused extremely terrible repercussions.

Anna and Youmo, the two girls, had been brutally tortured and murdered.

Their bodies had been destroyed beyond recognition.

Especially certain parts of them.

Everyone who saw the corpses was enraged.

What made it even worse was that their bodies had been hung from an old building on campus, completely exposed. Based on deductions, they’d likely been hung there in the middle of the night.

The following morning, quite a few people at the school saw them.

The entire school exploded into chaos.

After learning about the incident, the principal immediately ordered the news sealed.

The murderers were quickly identified as two male students from the same grade.

Because Anna had offended one of them, the two decided to torture and kill her.

Youmo had discovered Anna being taken away and tried to stop them.

In the end, both girls were murdered.

However, the information inside the principal’s intelligent brain revealed—

There weren’t just two killers.

There were eight.

What the two girls experienced that night was unimaginable.

The remaining six had been completely hidden away. The only people exposed to the school and to Anna’s and Youmo’s families were the two scapegoats.

Lawless people always had powerful parents backing them.

To hide six people so completely, at least one of them had to possess extremely terrifying influence behind the scenes.

Because of that, someone rushed over immediately after receiving the news and destroyed Anna’s and Youmo’s intelligent brains.

The families of the two exposed killers came forward and offered massive compensation to Anna’s and Youmo’s families.

Of course, the principal had also accepted an enormous sum of Federation credits.

That was why he helped mediate everything and suppress the news.

Anna’s family accepted the compensation.

But after Youmo’s family arrived, they only took away Youmo’s corpse and demanded her intelligent brain from the principal.

The intelligent brain had already been destroyed.

Nothing remained.

Since the two girls had been hung on an old building rarely visited by students, almost all the eyewitnesses that day were school staff members.

To completely suppress the incident, the principal replaced nearly all the staff three months ago.

Then the new semester began.

The two exposed killers were brutally murdered.

From then until the night before yesterday, eight ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) people had died one after another.

Exactly eight.

—It could almost be confirmed that this was revenge.

He Yu’s face darkened.

Taking a deep breath, he let out a mocking laugh. “So this is your Federation world? As long as you’re strong enough, you can do whatever you want?”

Eugene sighed helplessly. “As cruel as it sounds... that’s exactly how it is.”

Tang Ke said, “As long as you’re strong enough, you can also take revenge. Didn’t all eight of them die inside the school? Someone avenged those girls.”

He Yu sneered and commented coldly, “Rules that can be broken at will. A collapsing order that allows certain people to do whatever they please and escape easily afterward. Revenge can’t bring lives back. It may simply become another collapse of order.”

No one spoke.

What He Yu said was the truth.

The Federation’s survival rules were exactly like this—

Strength above all else.

As long as you were powerful, you could do anything.

If you became powerful enough for a single individual to rival the entire Federation, then you could even create the rules yourself.

They had all grown accustomed to such a world.

But seeing a tragedy like this still complicated their emotions.

Killing was common.

But torturing innocent people to death for no reason still disgusted and revolted them.

The barrage scrolled past—

“No wonder the killers had protection behind them.”

“Those two girls were miserable...”

“They’re just NPCs. Don’t take it too seriously. Stuff like this happens plenty in the Federation anyway.”

“Yeah. Families with powerful people can get revenge. Families without strength can only endure everything silently. That’s why everyone pursues power.”

...

He Yu murmured softly, “Strength really is a wonderful thing.”

Perhaps the audience also felt helpless because of this incident.

For once, nobody mocked He Yu’s combat power while hearing him say such words.

Only a few minutes remained.

He Yu and the others continued searching.

After reviewing everything related to Anna and Youmo, they examined clues from three months earlier.

Two points immediately stood out.

First—

After the incident occurred, the grade director had submitted a resignation letter.

However, because he was extremely powerful, the principal didn’t want to let him go. The next day, the grade director voluntarily withdrew his resignation.

In his reply to the principal, he wrote:

“I failed to protect my students. I will remain at this school and protect every student. I will never allow something like this to happen again!”

After reading that, everyone’s expressions turned complicated.

Zhen Xing, Eugene, and Qiong all looked toward He Yu.

So that was why the grade director had been constantly monitoring the students?

Cheng Zhao asked, “You already knew the grade director’s goal was protecting the students?”

The grade director definitely wasn’t the murderer.

If he were, he wouldn’t have wanted to resign back then.

He would’ve simply killed people directly.

Pushing up his glasses, He Yu answered, “I didn’t know. But I felt that a grade director who genuinely cared about and protected students probably wouldn’t choose this method to kill people.”

Torture and slaughter.

Such a method could only come from revenge.

Then there was the second piece of information—

The class monitor had repeatedly caused trouble for the principal.

More than once.

After the two murderers survived and returned to school, the class monitor fought with them several times and repeatedly confronted the principal, but each incident was suppressed.

—The class monitor and Youmo were childhood friends.

After the two killers died three months ago, the class monitor stopped causing trouble.

Wanrenzhan spoke confidently. “The murderer is definitely the gatekeeper!”

Yuan Ze nodded. “Very likely. Whether for his son or for a girl he watched grow up, attacking the killers would be perfectly normal. If it were me, I’d take revenge too.”

At the very least, he definitely wouldn’t stand by and do nothing.

Tang Ke looked at He Yu. “Can we confirm now that the murderer is the gatekeeper? If it’s him, can we finally make our move directly?”

According to He Yu’s deductions, killing the wrong person would attract trouble from an S-rank powerhouse.

But if they killed the correct person, they wouldn’t have to worry anymore.

He Yu stared at the screen while rubbing his chin, but didn’t answer.

The countdown entered its final minute.

“Anything else to check?” Qiong asked.

Holding Eugene’s head, He Yu pointed at the screen. “Pull up all information on the eight dead students. Also retrieve Anna’s and Youmo’s social backgrounds and interpersonal relationships. Pull everything you can. Find the person who contacted the principal demanding Youmo’s intelligent brain too.”

As Qiong operated at lightning speed, she said, “There’s way too much information. We can’t possibly finish reading it all!”

Fifty seconds remained.

He Yu patted Eugene’s head. “Memorize all of it. Give it to me later.”

Eugene: “???”

You’re using me like a scanner now?

Do you have any manners at all?!

Eugene cursed inwardly, but time waited for no one.

His eyes locked onto the screen.

His black pupils turned red as he rapidly scanned all the information Qiong brought up.

Five seconds.

Qiong removed the intelligent brain.

Three seconds.

She reattached it to the principal.

Two seconds.

Everyone rapidly withdrew. There wasn’t even enough time to reinstall Eugene’s and Gedai’s heads.

One second.

The office door closed.

0 seconds.

The principal opened his eyes.

He Yu immediately supported him. “Principal? Did you hear what I just said?”

The principal froze.

He Yu’s expression carried concern. “You staggered just now. Have you not been resting properly lately?”

His performance was so natural that if the audience hadn’t watched the entire process, they would’ve instinctively believed him.

“I HAVEN’T SLEPT PROPERLY IN THREE MONTHS!” the principal snapped irritably, not sensing anything wrong at all. “How’s your experiment progressing? Will it work or not?”

The school’s situation was already catastrophic.

After today’s reports spread, the school was practically doomed.

Even though the principal thought He Yu’s ideas sounded unreliable, he could only cling to them desperately now.

He Yu smiled faintly. “Of course there’s progress. I was just reporting it to you.”

The smile looked gentle and pleasant.

—But it never reached his eyes.

—

After leaving the principal’s office, He Yu turned toward a secluded spot behind the building.

The other nine people were already there.

Eugene and Gedai had been reassembled and were moving their bodies around. Gedai’s expression looked terrible. Upon seeing He Yu approach, he snorted coldly and turned his head away.

Twisting his neck, Eugene asked, “The murderer’s basically confirmed to be the gatekeeper, right?”

After pausing, he continued, “Just to be safe, we should follow the gatekeeper and the class monitor during the daytime. Try to get definitive evidence, then make our move tonight.”

Cheng Zhao nodded. “No objections.”

Zhen Xing said, “Agreed.”

The others also nodded.

After all, if He Yu’s deductions were correct, then they absolutely couldn’t afford to kill the wrong person.

“I’m not going to follow him,” He Yu said.

He tapped Eugene lightly. “Project the scanned information. I want to review the files on the eight dead students.”

Eugene froze. “Why are we still looking at this?”

Still, he obediently projected the information.

He Yu studied it carefully, brows tightly furrowed.

One profile after another passed by.

When he reached the eighth one, his movements paused slightly.

Then he pushed up his glasses and stared thoughtfully at the information connected to that person.

A long moment later, he waved a hand, signaling Eugene to close the projection.

“Let’s go,” He Yu said.

“We should still split into two groups. Qiong, you and—” Gedai began arranging assignments.

He Yu stopped walking and interrupted calmly:

“What I meant was—let’s go. It’s time for class.”

Gedai: “???”

Everyone: “???”

Wanrenzhan looked utterly disbelieving. “Class?!”

He Yu nodded matter-of-factly. “Yes. Class.”

“My Fundamentals experiment class.”

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