Chapter 27: The Failed Zero-Dollar Purchase Plan

"For this class assignment, I want to give extra praise to Mr. Robert. The point he raised about emotional split analysis is very consistent with the theory I taught in class. Of course, Miss Hoff wrote the most words this time, but I must say, word count does not represent the quality of completion. If you can explain your point clearly within 3000 words, I would be happier."

"And unsurprisingly, there is still one person who didn't hand in the assignment. Mr. Wei En, please come to my office after class. If you still don't intend to complete the assignment, then I think you don't need to participate in the final exam. After all, if you don't have any assignment points, even if you participate in the exam, you definitely won't get the credits for the semester."

Shiler closed the textbook in front of him and said, "Class dismissed."

Cat Getan University is located on the East Coast of the United States. As everyone knows, almost all famous universities in the United States are located on the East Coast, including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, etc.

Cat Getan University is not a competitor to these schools. Although it is a state-recognized national university, it is not an Ivy League school. And this ghost place, Cat Getan City, has a notoriously bad public security. Almost no local American students apply to this university. Even those who can go to college in Cat Getan can apply to good universities nearby.

This leads to students remaining at Cat Getan University either being unable to apply to outside schools or being international students.

You can hardly expect these people's grades to be very good. More than half of them can complete their assignments on time, all because of Shiler's formidable reputation.

But this is actually not the biggest reason why Cat Getan University's ranking is not high. After all, Cat Getan University has an extremely powerful backup support like the Wei En family. Even if it's just throwing money, they can invite many top professors. With top professors and top laboratory equipment, there is no need to worry about not attracting high-end talent. If you have to talk about the security problem, in fact, as long as you don't leave Cat Getan University, it is still very safe here.

The problem lies in the fact that the president of Cat Getan University has always been unwilling to let the Wei En family control the school too much. Don't think he is how noble. Cat Getan University is his bargaining chip for moving up in politics. He is unwilling to give this fruit to the Wei En family.

Therefore, Cat Getan University has always been in a half-dead state. Shiler is very dissatisfied with this. He doesn't want a teaching experience at a bottom-ranked school to appear on his perfect resume.

So no matter how chaotic Cat Getan is, Shiler just wants to farm at Cat Getan University. He set a small goal for himself, which is to first make Cat Getan University an Ivy League member.

Everyone is a Northeastern university, and Cat Getan University's football team's performance is also good. It's not too much to join the Ivy League, right?

And before that, even if Batman and other criminals beat each other's brains out, he doesn't want to care.

In the afternoon, after Bruce came to Shiler's office, he explained, "Professor, actually I didn't not write the paper. I'll have my butler send the flash drive over in a while..."

"If you didn't bring it, you didn't write it," Shiler said viciously.

He tapped the table and said, "If I can't do anything about Bruce not writing his assignment, then others won't be affected. That's what you think, right? After all, it's normal for people in the Wei En family to have some privileges."

"But the hundreds of millions of dollars you donated to the school didn't fall into my pocket. So if you don't write your assignment again, I will still deduct all your credits and make you unable to get your diploma."

Bruce whispered, "Actually, I have already received my diploma now. The factory that prints the diplomas is also my family's."

Shiler touched his forehead and said, "Why am I wasting my breath with this damn rich second generation... How is your investigation?"

"Miss Christine indeed hasn't left Cat Getan University. She disappeared within the school. But this matter really has nothing to do with Jonathan, because she disappeared only after Jonathan was arrested."

"Do you have any suspects?" Shiler asked.

"In fact, the president of Cat Getan University is highly suspicious."

Before Shiler could open his mouth to question, Bruce said, "I indeed don't have any evidence to prove that he kidnapped Christine, but the three jury members who actively tried to exonerate Jonathan, as well as Jonathan's defense lawyer, all come from a very famous gang in eastern Cat Getan, the Red Raven Gang."

"And the president of Cat Getan University and the boss of this gang are friends. They once went to the mayor's banquet together. And most importantly, his daughter married the head of the Red Raven Gang who is in charge of smuggling logistics."

"But what role does Christine play in this story? As far as I know, she is just an ordinary girl, but she is very beautiful."

"I suspect Miss Christine might have heard some of the president's conspiracy regarding Jonathan."

Bruce put his arms on the table, and he frowned and said, "You know, the football league is about to start. The cheerleading dance troupe has a lot of things to deal with. Before, their dance costumes for the new season hadn't been approved. Christine was very anxious about this and chose to go to the president. Perhaps it was then that she heard something she shouldn't have heard."

"Do you have any evidence?" Shiler asked.

"I think I won't dwell on evidence anymore. Of course, I won't just go to the president so arbitrarily, because this might alert the enemy."

Shiler said, "I suspect Miss Christine is not dead yet. You know, if the person who did it is really the president, then he is unlikely to kill Christine directly, because the cheerleading dance troupe cannot replace a leader in such a short time. And if the cheerleading dance troupe has problems, it will definitely affect the football team's performance. This is the only thing Cat Getan University can show off, and it is part of the president's personal resume."

Bruce sighed and said, "In any case, Miss Christine is innocent."

"Have you seen Gordon recently? How is his progress?"

"Not very smooth. I think if I can find Miss Christine and let her act as a witness to accuse this group of people of intentional exoneration, then perhaps Jonathan can go to jail."

"Actually, have you ever thought about it? Jonathan going to jail doesn't necessarily have to be Cat Getan Prison."

"Do you want me to build a private prison?"

Shiler didn't speak. He just stood up and said, "Are you planning to go through such a process for every criminal you catch in the future?"

"Or do you think it's interesting to go around in circles with them in these judicial trial procedures full of injustice?"

"With this time, not just the Mo Sen block, you could settle the gangs in the surrounding two or three blocks."

"What exactly are the things Batman should do, you know better than me, Bruce."

Bruce left again with a heart full of worries.

Shiler still had a problem to solve, which was that if Jonathan went to jail, regardless of which prison he went to, the source of Fear Toxin would be unstable. The ones he had in his hands would be used up sooner or later. And he himself didn't have the formula, let alone know how to prepare it. It would be a pity if such a useful weapon disappeared just like that.

Shiler was more cunning than the current Batman who was charging around. He knew that the best way now was not to go to Jonathan to force the formula of Fear Toxin, nor to fish him out of jail and control him to work for himself. That was both troublesome and dangerous.

What he had to do was to find a buyer for Jonathan, let those people force out the formula, control Jonathan to work, and then Shiler would continue to sit back and enjoy the theft of ready-made Fear Toxin.

That group of people wouldn't use Fear Toxin to do anything good, so as long as they didn't get it, wouldn't that be fine?

If asked, it's all zero-dollar purchases. You produce at that end, and I steal at this end. Steal as much as you produce. With the sharp weapon of Gray Mist, can you still catch me?

The current Jonathan was still too green. Shiler estimated that he had likely already handed over the formula of Fear Toxin long ago. After that group of people got the formula, they had plenty of ways to manufacture it.

Shiler knew that since this group of people wanted to do something big, the quantity of Fear Toxin wouldn't be the small-time stuff Jonathan was doing. And to produce this toxin on a large scale, they must need a factory assembly line.

There were many chemical plants in Cat Getan, but most of them weren't very professional. To have a high-end chemical agent production line, there was only one place that had it, and that was the Wei En Chemical Plant.

No matter how this group of people tried to cover up and operate, if they wanted to achieve their goal, they absolutely couldn't bypass the production line of the Wei En Chemical Plant.

With the Gray Mist ability, Shiler could go a bit further at night.

As he expected, it was another rainy night. Outside the railing of the Wei En Chemical Plant, Shiler saw a car with a license plate ending in 676 drive into the chemical plant.

In the following days, trucks constantly shuttled between the Wei En Chemical Plants, seemingly transporting some large equipment. Shiler didn't intend to stop them, but instead tracked the trucks and found the destination where they stole the chemical plant production line.

Very naturally, it was in the eastern part of Cat Getan City, the territory of the Red Raven Gang. There was also a chemical plant there, but it wasn't as large as the Wei En Chemical Plant. Those production line equipment stolen from the Wei En Chemical Plant were all transported to this small chemical plant.

But heaven didn't fulfill wishes. This production line had problems as soon as it started working. First, they were missing a few machines. After all, the production line of the Wei En Chemical Plant wasn't prepared for manufacturing Fear Toxin, and some machines still needed to be bought.

Second, the chemists they found didn't seem to be as good as Jonathan. The experiments before the assembly line went very unsmoothly. The Fear Toxin replicated wasn't as strong as Jonathan's, and even less concentrated.

So all the problems returned to the problem of them having to fish Jonathan out. Although the Scarecrow criminal Jonathan was just starting out, his professional level was very powerful. The Red Raven Gang couldn't kill the donkey after the mill was finished, so they still had to find a way to help him exonerate.

Shiler didn't expect this group of gangsters to be so stupid. They had already gotten the formula, but they still couldn't produce it. He had already planned to block the shipment outlet of the production line and open his mouth wide, swallowing as much as they produced.

Shiler's zero-dollar purchase plan failed, but he didn't intend to give up. Since the Red Raven Gang couldn't do it, he had to find a more powerful buyer for Jonathan, such as Sal Maroni. ===== CHAPTER 28 =====