Interstellar Judge: Saving the Overcrowded Underworld

[Everything here is fictional. The underworld in this interstellar setting is different from the underworld you may know, so please don't nitpick about that. Thanks! Please read only if you're okay with this.]

In Star Calendar Year 1046, humanity no longer believed the underworld existed.

Shi Jingmo, who had believed in science all his life, arrived in the underworld after death and became a newly appointed judge.

Interstellar society was in chaos, with an extremely high crime rate. Space pirates could send over a thousand people to the underworld by hijacking a single spaceship, while criminals could conceal their identities and commit crimes again at any time after undergoing genetic modification...

To save the overcrowded underworld, Shi Jingmo, the only judge who had lived in the interstellar era before his death, was dispatched to the stars.

And so, less than a month after dying, Shi Jingmo returned to the land of the living.

As an interstellar judge, Shi Jingmo could see everyone's merits and misdeeds at a glance.

A kind security guard? No, he's Eides, a murderer who's undergone genetic modification four times and has over a hundred lives on his hands!

A planetary governor who loves the Alliance? Don't make me laugh. He's the mastermind behind the most notorious band of space pirates!

In just six months, Shi Jingmo made a name for himself, becoming the most famous law enforcer in the Interstellar Alliance. People nicknamed him "Hawkeye."

Every criminal feared him and wouldn't dare show their face in front of him.

But what about the man standing before him, whose hands were spotless and who had no criminal record, yet could whip out a knife at any moment and stab anyone but him...

Why did he keep showing up in front of him every day?

Chu Feibai, a man with a potential crime rate of 99%, was seen by everyone as a dangerous criminal, yet in front of Shi Jingmo he was as docile as a tamed big cat.

Shi Jingmo, who had lost his memories of his previous life, didn't know what had happened between them, but he knew one thing:

If he abandoned this body and returned to the underworld, Chu Feibai would kill everyone on the spot, then take his own life to follow him...

Looks like this assignment in the human world will never be over!

Unless something unexpected happens, this should be going premium on March 3.

My completed works include Everyone Across the Stars Watches Me Get Baited, Everyone Livestreams My Transmigration, and I Made a Fortune Raising Kids. Feel free to check them out!

Synopsis for Everyone Across the Stars Watches Me Get Baited:

Lin Jue always thought something was strange.

Whenever he woke up, he found new memories in his mind. They belonged to him, yet felt utterly unfamiliar.

And inexplicably, temptations always seemed to appear around him:

A truckload of unattended cash, a box of priceless jewels, beautiful women of every shape and style...

All he had to do was lift a finger, and it could all be his.

He seemed to be blessed by the heavens: he had a stunning, manga-worthy face, perfect proportions, an exceptional mind, and incredible stamina. He could master anything without a teacher.

He also had skills that he shouldn't have known, according to his "memories":

Perfect marksmanship, the ability to change his voice at will, and remarkable disguise skills...

Someone like him should have been able to live well no matter what. Yet every time he resisted temptation, Lin Jue soon found himself in a desperate situation, forced to give in!

It was all so strange.

Lin Jue felt like a fish with a pair of giant hands in front of him, pushing everything around him just to make him bite the plump bait.

But Lin Jue had never been someone who let others control him!

His subconscious also told him:

He would never do anything illegal.

Yet Lin Jue discovered that when driven into a corner, he could grab someone and use them as a hostage without batting an eye, steal a rich man's possessions without hesitation, and infiltrate certain organizations with such skill that even he was shocked.

Whenever he stumbled into an underground organization, he would instantly switch into a dark mode, as if he were a bandit leader who'd been at it for half his life.

He knew exactly how to threaten people, and could tie them up quickly and neatly.

Everything was proving to him that:

He, Lin Jue, was actually a villain who would stop at nothing!

But deep down, Lin Jue didn't want to hurt any good people, and instinctively wanted to protect ordinary folks...

There had to be something wrong with his memories.

Lin Jue fought off the temptations that seemed to have been arranged for him, one after another, but the world only doubled down.

Finally, battered and bruised, Lin Jue's mind collapsed as he fought against the world's consciousness.

At last, he saw the truth:

He was in a virtual prison.

He, Lin Jue, had spent twenty years undercover in a space pirate gang, personally wiping out every pirate gang in the stars, rescuing tens of thousands of kidnapped civilians, and working from within to recover a battleship's worth of stolen national treasures...

Yet in the eyes of the people across the stars, he was a depraved devil who had slaughtered his mentor, a vicious pirate leader accused of kidnapping and killing every passenger aboard a spaceship...

After completing his mission, he returned to the stars, only to become a notorious villain. Over ten billion people across the stars petitioned for his execution!

Having lost his name and all his companions, and unable to prove his innocence, Lin Jue willingly surrendered.

He had intended to calmly await his death, but with insufficient evidence, the Interstellar Court threw him into Blue Star, a virtual prison, to bait him into committing a crime.

If he committed an unforgivable act, he would be declared guilty and sentenced to death!

Lin Jue lifted his head and smiled at the over ten billion viewers in Blue Star's livestream...

Synopsis for my completed work Everyone Livestreams My Transmigration:

Su Yu transmigrated from the twenty-first century to the interstellar era.

He was cautious in everything, afraid of revealing his secret as a transmigrator and of being captured and dissected by these interstellar humans for scientific research. But as a human from ten thousand years ago, he would always accidentally reveal traits that didn't belong to this era.

Su Yu broke out in a cold sweat, immensely relieved that he lived in a small town with fewer than a thousand people, worked as an ordinary farmer, and ran a little restaurant.

As long as he kept a low profile, no one would notice anything strange about him!

But Su Yu, a complete technophobe, didn't know that he'd been exposed from the very first day he arrived.

He wasn't a little farmer in a small town at all. He was an ordinary college student who had been voted by over a hundred million people to appear on a show called Primitive Life because of his looks.

Every guest on the show was pretending to live a primitive life from ten thousand years ago, but the other guests, who relied entirely on smart devices, were always flustered and helpless.

Su Yu, on the other hand, handled everything with ease. Every day he wondered what was going on in this town. Why were people blowing up kitchens with experiments every day? Why couldn't some people even sweep or mop the floor? Why did the neighbors get so excited and call him a genius just because he roasted a sweet potato? Why did they eat his simple hand-pulled noodles with tears in their eyes and marvel that a history student really was something special?

The neighbors kept coming and going. After a while, some would move away and new ones would move in.

That was a good thing. It lowered the risk of being exposed.

Su Yu remained calm, though he couldn't figure out why every neighbor seemed hopelessly inept, unable to do anything, and so easily impressed by his little tricks.

Su Yu lived peacefully for 365 days. Then, on the 366th day, a camera that had been hidden all along suddenly appeared before him. His neighbors and thousands of people claiming to be the production crew appeared beside it and congratulated him on completing the challenge and winning 3.65 million star coins!

Su Yu was stunned.

So the expression of secret relief he'd worn all this time, thinking no one had discovered him, and the diary he'd secretly kept had actually been under the eyes of hundreds of billions of interstellar viewers the whole time?

My completed works include:

Everyone Livestreams My Transmigration, Everyone Across the Stars Watches Me Get Baited, I Made a Fortune Raising Kids, My Accident-Prone Nature Goes Viral on a Workplace Variety Show, and I Came to Earth to Stock Up. Feel free to check them out!

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Theme: Punish crime and build a peaceful, stable society