Refraction

To avoid facing too bright light, the surveillance cameras in the conference room are usually installed on the same side as the windows.

But even with such considerations, the projection screen in the monitoring screen was still reflected in white, and the screen projected at that time could not be seen at all.However, the monitoring shows that at 13:23, everyone in the marketing department meeting room had a sudden reaction, and at almost the same time, the director Luo Ge made a sudden action of disconnecting the connection line—according to Luo Ge’s confirmation, it was "Xiao Zheng gave When Yang Yi sent a video".

"Hey Qiu Mang?" Luo Ge didn't understand why she wanted to locate the precise time of the incident: "What's the matter? Could it be that Xiao Zheng has some 'alibi' at this time?"

The "alibi" he said refers to actions that conflict with "being able to transmit video at the same time"-for example, he was on the phone and occupied the signal; for example, he had a definite witness to prove that he had no contact with the through the phone.

But Zheng Yi didn't have any evidence.

Qiu Mang sent a WeChat message to Zheng Yi to verify it after getting Luo Ge's confirmation, and Zheng Yi said that there was nothing at all—"At that time, I seemed to be being beaten for Yang Yi."

Qiu Mang was very sad to get this answer: he was being beaten for Yang Yi, but Yang Yi was deliberately slandering him.

The camera in front of the company has a narrow field of view and cannot take a panoramic view—only from 13:06, there are "two suspicious-looking" people dangling around, and one of them frequently shakes out of the screen outside. 13:12 The person who stayed in the picture seemed to be attracted by something nearby. Zheng Yi's small half figure entered the painting for a few seconds, and the person stretched his fingers towards Zheng Yi and walked out of the monitoring range—— Go and "reason" with Zheng Yi.

But after that, Zheng Yi was pestered and dragged into the fire escape—and Qiu Mang knew that the property didn't set up surveillance there.

Although it is common sense: no one will be so idle that he will send flirting videos to other people in the process of arguing with others... But there is no conclusive evidence in the direction of checking the timeline, so everything checked so far is Waste of energy.

It is easy to smear, but too difficult to whiten.

Qiu Mang sighed in distress, turned around and walked out of the marketing department meeting room.

Brother Luo was still asking: "Does Xiao Zheng have any evidence?"

Qiu Mang vented his anger: "Don't just say 'Xiao Zheng'——Zheng Yi is your same level!"

After talking harshly, Qiu Mang felt that her indiscriminate attack was really unnecessary.But Zheng Yi is in the center of the turmoil, and Qiu Mang has no time to make the most perfect emotional management.

After leaving the conference room, Qiu Mang called Yang Yi's name: "Come with me."

Turning around and walking more than ten steps, he realized that Yang Yi hadn't followed; looking back, he was being stopped by Brother Luo as if he was asking questions.

After they finished speaking, Yang Yi and Qiu Mang entered the HR office.

Qiu Mang hit the pain point directly: "Are you in debt?"

Yang Yi was stunned for a moment: "This is my personal matter, it has nothing to do with the company."

Qiu Mang sneered: "It's just the two of us in the office, and I won't spread the word about your personal financial management problems. But as long as I find out what happened this time, you pack your things and prepare to leave HALO."

Yang Yi shrugged, as if he didn't care about Qiu Mang's threat.

"I was one of the few people who knew about the installation of cameras in the hotel to blackmail Zheng Yi. Today you claimed that Zheng Yi didn't delete you and kept pestering you. But the day you asked Zheng Yi to delete your contact information, He told me about this matter - he never made things difficult for you; so that day he thought that I used my position to stand up for him to harm you, which caused you to ask him to delete it after many days You; at that time he told me that everyone makes mistakes, and he was afraid that criticizing you would make you too guilty—but what about you? What the hell are you thinking?"

Yang Yi was silent.

"When you directed and acted 'Zheng Yi harassed you with a video', did you know what he was doing? He was being beaten—for you."

"Being beaten?"

"The debt collection agency asked you to find HALO, afraid that you would not be able to deal with it, and Zheng Yi blocked it for you--I really hate him now because he thinks that he is called 'Zheng Yi' and he really regards himself as a representative of justice, and I hate him for meddling in his own business ; If he doesn't stop you, your plan to harm him this time will never come true."

Yang Yi was silent for a long time, then raised his head and looked at Qiu Mang calmly: "Where's the evidence? Does Qiu have any evidence?"

This time it was Qiumang's turn to be silent.

"If there is no evidence, everything you say now is slandering me." Yang Yi bit Qiu Mang back and laughed again: "How do you know the specific process of their dispute? Besides, even if he was beaten How can you prove that he has no time to harass me?"

"You're really gross."

"Whether I'm disgusting or not is your subjective opinion, Manager Qiu, but I think it's best for Manager Qiu to deal with things objectively - HALO knows about your relationship with Zheng Yi; you can enter the company just by saying hello The middle-level phoenix, there is no need to put us little people who can't fly up if they die..."

"..."

"It's okay, I'll go."

After saying the last sentence, Yang Yi said goodbye and walked out of the office.

Qiu Mang felt that this person was really scary; he stared at his back until he disappeared around the corner before pressing the recording button—all the guiding words were vaguely passed by him in silence, without recording any effective information.

The computer screen is densely covered with the monitoring images of the nine locations of HALO, and the images from 13:00 to 13:30 are repeatedly and quickly rotated; the people coming and going at double speed from the bird's-eye view make Qiumang feel nauseous.

Mayflies may be able to shake trees...

Because the big tree was busy looking up to the sky, it didn't expect that the flies and dogs were eating away at it.

When the monitoring background is turned off, the software program freezes for a while.

Qiu Mang sipped his coffee distractedly, but inadvertently caught sight of two adjacent freeze frames.

At 13:00, the cameras at the entrance of the marketing department office and the tea area of ​​the visual department office respectively recorded the figures of two people returning to the company after their lunch break; the coincidence is that they each hold a cup of take-away drink of the same brand .

According to the packaging, Qiumang can quickly identify the brand - this beverage brand has a store at the bottom of the office building, and it is a relatively expensive beverage store.If Yang Yi, who has always had extravagant spending habits, held it, Qiu Mang would not be surprised; but if she held it, who always claimed that she was poor and poor, Qiu Mang would feel something was wrong.

The worst part is: Could it be that the two met during their lunch break?

A conjecture gradually took shape in Qiumang's mind: if someone is acting with Yang Yi at the other end of the dialogue bar...then is it possible that this person is her?But... why bother?

Yao Jiaren was restless.

After the incident at noon, Yao Jiaren immediately followed Chen Gong to the marketing department.

When Chen Gong went into the conference room to talk to the director of the marketing department, Yao Jiaren took the opportunity to catch a passerby in the tea area to ask about the situation: "I heard that Supervisor Zheng's...is very exciting? Do you have any photos?"

"I was unplugged by Brother Luo before I could take the picture - but I saw it with my own eyes, it's not really exciting... The figure is pretty good!"

"Hey... eh? Who is that guy Zheng Jian likes? —— You secretly pointed it out to me, and I was a little curious about his beauty."

"It's okay, I know how to dress up... Don't look back—it's the one in the middle of the second row."

"Huh... I guess he's a high-ranking person, and he can fool your young master into a mess... Eh? Besides that video, did Supervisor Zheng say anything flirty at that time?"

"No, just the video."

"What about before the video?"

"No."

"Didn't see it or didn't it at all?"

"No—hey, it's strange for you to say that: if Supervisor Zheng harassed him, how could there be no other records of the conversation?"

"Yeah! It's so strange..."——this was the conclusion Yao Jiaren wanted to draw.

In fact, not long after he first came to the company, Yao Jiaren didn't have much friendship with Zheng Yi.

But Yao Jiaren subconsciously wanted to stand by Zheng Yi's side and fight against the malicious hiding in the dark together - otherwise, he might never be able to get out of the shadow in his heart.

No matter how much you can help, help; even if it's just to pry the suspicion of a passerby.

Regarding today's matter, Yang Yi claimed that Zheng Yi was entangled endlessly because of love.

Yao Jiaren encountered exactly the same thing: At that time, he helped a drunk girl and posed smiling faces at the camera with her; when he pressed the shutter, he never thought that one day this group photo would become evidence of his "aggression against colleagues".

The information presented in a picture is limited, but it can be interpreted in thousands of ways.

What's even more ridiculous is that among so many interpretations, everyone is willing to believe the dirtiest one.

Keeping calm, Yao Jiaren sorted out the collected information over and over again.But no matter how I think about it, I feel that something is wrong.

If it is said that Zheng Yi played with Yang Yi's feelings at the beginning, it is reasonable for Yang Yi to play him like this now; but after hearing from Qiu Mang that it was Yang Yi who tried to play tricks on Zheng Yi, Zheng Yi did not feel sorry for Yang Yi in the end...

Yang Yi was attacked because he wanted Zheng Yi to be unable to stay in HALO—where did such a raging "hate" come from?

Because of the injured relationship, Qiu Mang told Cheng Shen to "go home early after handing over the most important work", but Cheng Shen still patiently explained all the things to be finalized within this week of the "three-in-one" project .

After moving his wrist a little, Cheng Shen turned his head to look at Yao Jiaren's workstation - he was looking at the computer, but obviously absent-minded.

My left middle finger is broken, if I ride a motorcycle back at night...it's okay to slide home by myself, and it's fine to drive Yao Jiaren.

Cheng Shen was a little frustrated.I wanted to say that I could use the excuse of sending him off to stay with him for a while... that's all.

When he stood up to pour coffee, Cheng Shen passed by Yao Jiaren, and had nothing to say: "Brother Chen, haven't they come back yet?—We've all been back for more than 20 minutes."

"Yes." Yao Jiaren smiled at him: "You also listen to sister Qiu, go back early."

Cheng Shen whispered, "I'll wait for you."

"Need not."

"Then...I'll wait for Brother Chen and Brother Zheng——I have to wait until this matter is settled before I can rest assured."

"Okay." Yao Jiaren obeyed Cheng Shen's obstinacy and asked him, "Does the injury hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt now."

"Ah."

At this moment, a series of email notifications sounded.

Yao Jiaren clicked on his mailbox—it was a notification from the Human Resources Department: Due to special reasons, Zheng Yi was temporarily demoted to the deputy director of the visual department of HALO; the director of the visual department was replaced by the former deputy director, Chen Gong.

The volume of the noisy discussions around them doubled.

The specific reason was not specified, but Zheng Yi was punished.

But it seemed like a punishment, but it didn't change the real situation.

Cheng Shen lost his temper while smoking a cigarette: "Didn't Sister Qiu say that she believed in Brother Zheng? Besides, I can testify that Brother Zheng was beaten up! —— How can someone send a video to others in a leisurely manner after being beaten up?"

Yao Jiaren doesn't know how to smoke, so he held a burning cigarette and smiled wryly: "It's really simple for you to think. Sending a video was a premeditated action, and being beaten was a temporary emergency, and there was a time gap in between--all the things that didn't happen The 'evidence' recorded by surveillance, if publicized at this juncture, will only be regarded as a sophistry by everyone."

Cheng Shen snorted a puff of smoke irritably: "How can it be so complicated?"

"If people's hearts weren't so complicated, I wouldn't be where I am today."

Cheng Shen shut up.

Think about it carefully: In order to frame Zheng Yi, Yang Yi set up a trap with no loopholes—since he suddenly asked Zheng Yi to delete himself a few days ago, he blocked Zheng Yineng's mouth to defend himself; During the departmental report time in the afternoon, the audience directed and acted out the drama from receiving harassment to deleting contacts, erasing the only evidence that could be used for verification.

Only everyone was left in shock, and recorded the scene that flashed by before their eyes, and it was too late to deliberate, and condemned Zheng in their hearts.

Cheng Shen was puzzled: "It's only been two hours since the incident happened, and the truth hasn't been found out yet; but sister Qiu clearly knows that Brother Zheng is innocent, so why did you demote Brother Zheng?"

"Become Deputy Supervisor Zheng and Supervisor Chen, do you think this punishment is any different from the previous structure?"

"I don't know...it feels like there is no difference."

"That's right, there's no difference." Yao Jiaren analyzed: "If I'm not wrong, sister Qiu's 'punishment' is to lure snakes out of their holes."

"What do you mean?"

"After Zheng Yi was punished, the company's attitude was 'the case is closed'; but the closing of the case did not bring any substantial setbacks to Zheng Yi—the opponent had already spent a lot of effort to stir up the matter, but If the goal of 'defeating Zheng Yi' is not achieved, if you continue to put aside the weekend for two days, you will become a Rashomon in the future. If you are the opponent, what will you do?"

"I will...make up the knife?"

Yao Jiaren nodded.

Pressing the phone and looking at the time: "Put out the cigarette and go, the weekly meeting is about to start."

The author has something to say: Zheng Yigao can fight back in the next chapter, see you tomorrow!