10: I've been hailed as a god online, and I'm now enjoying a fifteen-day retreat!

Chen Jianguo pushed the door open and returned to the interrogation room.

He held an official document in his hand and, with unhurried movements, placed it in front of Jiang Ming.

"For seriously disrupting the order of a large-scale mass activity, in accordance with relevant regulations, it has been decided to place you under administrative detention for fifteen days and impose a fine of one thousand yuan."

While reading the decision, Chen Jianguo's gaze never left Jiang Ming.

He was observing.

Observing even the slightest, most subtle reaction from this young man.

However, there was nothing.

Jiang Ming simply listened calmly and then nodded.

"Thank you, Officer. I've caused you all a lot of trouble."

This level of cooperation.

This level of composure.

It was extremely abnormal.

In his thirty years of service, Chen Jianguo had seen all sorts of people.

Vicious desperadoes, silver-tongued fraudsters, and weeping first-time offenders.

But none were like Jiang Ming.

This extreme calmness didn't diminish the suspicion in Chen Jianguo's heart; instead, it grew even stronger.

This kid is definitely not simple.

The young officer, Xiao Wang, escorted Jiang Ming to the detention center.

Once in the police car, Xiao Wang couldn't hold back anymore.

"How exactly did you do it? Don't give me any of that magic trick bullshit. With a flock of birds that size, even David Copperfield would have to get on his knees for you."

Jiang Ming leaned back in the seat, watching the street scenery flash by outside the window.

A smile appeared on his face.

"In fifteen days, everyone might see an even more spectacular magic trick."

The words were light, yet they left Xiao Wang feeling a sense of helplessness.

It was like punching a bale of cotton.

In the end, he could only squeeze out: "You'd better behave yourself."

The police car drove into the detention center.

Jiang Ming officially began his fifteen-day "seclusion."

He quickly adapted to the environment.

He woke up, ate, exercised, and slept on schedule every day.

The others in the cell saw how young he was and that he was in for "disrupting order," so they all assumed he was just an ordinary college student who had made a mistake.

Jiang Ming didn't talk much, didn't cause trouble, and appeared completely unremarkable.

However, while Jiang Ming was isolated by high walls, the world outside had already completely exploded because of him.

The Jiangcheng Police's official Weibo account released a report regarding the "City Center Square Raven Incident," confirming that the "perpetrator," Jiang Ming, had been sentenced to fifteen days of administrative detention.

This notice instantly shot to the number one spot on the trending searches.

The comment section completely erupted.

"No way? He's arrested just like that? Does my Crow God have no face?"

"LMAO, how can the rules of mortals bind a god? These fifteen days are just a vacation for the old man."

"Is it possible that the Crow God himself wanted to go in for a few days of peace and quiet to experience life?"

Instead of calming public opinion, the official notice became the most potent fuel.

Sympathy, worship, and jokes about Jiang Ming, mixed with discussions about the official handling of the situation, pushed the popularity of the name "Crow God" to an unprecedented peak.

All kinds of fan-made videos, analysis posts, and memes spread virally across the entire internet.

The screenshot of Jiang Ming smiling before ending the stream was edited with various captions, becoming a new internet totem.

His TikTok account, "Jiang Lai," saw its follower count skyrocket even while he was deprived of his personal freedom.

Two million.

Two and a half million.

Three million.

The ticking numbers highlighted the absurdity and intensity of this online carnival.

At the TikTok Content Moderation Center, Zhao Lin received a notice from her supervisor.

She was suspended for investigation because she had unilaterally raised a "high-risk livestream" to S+ weight and reported it directly to headquarters, creating a massive public relations risk.

Holding the thin notice, Zhao Lin felt no anger; instead, she felt a sense of calm, as if the dust had finally settled.

That sky-blotting raven vortex had long since shattered her professional burnout.

Meanwhile, the comment section of the former million-follower influencer "Scientific Iron Fist" Li Hao had completely turned into a massive scene of mockery.

After being drowned in endless comments of "fraud," "give me back my Carnival," and "where's your science?", Li Hao silently deleted all his videos.

He posted a short status: "I was wrong."

After that, the account was never updated again, completely vanishing from the public eye.

The clamor of the outside world had nothing to do with Jiang Ming inside the detention center.

On his first night there.

When the lights in the cell went out and the sound of steady snoring rose around him, Jiang Ming slowly closed his eyes on his single bunk.

The entire world instantly fell silent.

His consciousness sank into that familiar ocean of chaos.

It was time for the second Fate Selection.

Jiang Ming first checked his emotion points balance.

Total: 111,895 points.

After the livestream settlement, he had spent 2,000 points to enhance the selection quality.

The emotion points required for the second selection was ten thousand points.

Jiang Ming issued the command.

"System, consume ten thousand emotion points points and initiate 'Destinys Triple Choice'."

[Received! emotion points reduced by 10,000 points. Opening a high-spirited second selection for you!]

The system's response was much more lively than the first time.

[Quality enhancement effect active. This selection is connecting you to higher-dimensional possibilities...]

Light blazed within Jiang Ming's mind.

Three cards slowly emerged.

Their backs were no longer a blurry starry sky, but clear, deep, slowly rotating galactic vortices, with faint golden halos flowing along the edges—more refined than the newbie benefits by several levels.

With a thought, Jiang Ming flipped over the first card.

The card transformed into a burst of light, and a line of text appeared clearly.

Option A: [Photographic Memory] (Passive Skill): Your brain will be transformed into a biological supercomputer. All information you see, hear, and perceive will be recorded without loss, and can be retrieved and replayed with 100% precision at any time according to your will.

A divine skill.

An absolute divine skill for learning.

With this skill, any field of study, any knowledge, would open its doors to him.

Jiang Ming's heart rate quickened slightly, but he suppressed the impulse.

He flipped over the second card.

Option B: [Absolute Stealth] (One-time Item): A card carrying the power of special rules. After use, you can reshape your personal information, facial features, social relationships, and even internet traces according to your will. The system will generate a brand-new, seamless, and legal identity for you. All information of the old identity will be temporarily sealed until you actively deactivate it.

The perfect item to solve his current troubles.

With it, Jiang Ming could escape the vortex of the "Crow God," change his identity, and live freely.

It was very practical, but a one-time consumable felt like a bit of a waste.

Jiang Ming took a deep breath and flipped over the final card.

Option C: [Voice of the Mind] (Elementary): Grants you the ability to listen and transmit. You can communicate on a mental level with creatures other than humans that possess basic intelligence.

Current effective range: A radius of 100 meters with you as the center.

The moment he saw this option, all of Jiang Ming's hesitation vanished.

He quickly made an analysis.

[Photographic Memory] was strong, but it leaned toward accumulation and learning; its effects were slow and couldn't be immediately converted into combat power or influence.

[Absolute Stealth] could solve the immediate identity crisis, but it only treated the symptoms, not the cause.

As long as he continued to stream and cause trouble, he would be exposed again sooner or later. Changing his identity would mean giving up the massive prestige accumulated by the "Crow God" identity, which was an incredible start.

And [Voice of the Mind] was a perfect match for [Raven Summoning Technique].

One was responsible for "deploying troops," and the other for "communication."

If he could communicate directly with the ravens, what he could achieve would be far more than just simple "circling" and "gathering."

He could command them to scout, transmit information, perform precision attacks, and even understand what they saw and heard.

This was no longer simple summoning; it was true control.

It was much wiser to deepen and strengthen a single ability system to form one's core competitiveness than to dabble in everything.

What he needed to do was strengthen the persona of the "Crow God," not run away from it.

Without any hesitation.

Jiang Ming made his choice.

"I choose C."

[Selection Confirmed: Voice of the Mind (Elementary)!]

[Congratulations, Host! Now, you can chat with those cute little fellas!]

The card transformed into a warm stream of light, pouring into Jiang Ming's brain.

A brand-new flow of information and energy spread through his mental world.

He felt his mental power being expanded and remodeled once again.

The entire world, in his perception, instantly became different.

It was no longer silent.

Faint, noisy, yet vivid "voices" came from all directions.

They weren't heard through his ears.

But rang directly within his mind.

"Hungry..."

"Cold..."

"Itchy... so itchy under my wing..."

"That human is grinding his teeth, so noisy..."