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"I called you, but you seem to be busy." Lao Huang wiped his forehead, "Have you read all the messages?"

"Not yet." I took out my phone, and it turned out that Lao Huang got back to me a few minutes after I sent him a message to remind the boss.

On the screen of the mobile phone it was clearly written: "Someone took the boss's computer."

I can't understand how.

"What do you mean someone 'took' the computer?" I stared at the phone, then glanced at him again, "Do you mean someone went to the boss's work station and used his computer?"

"It literally means 'taking' the computer, and the computer was 'taken'." He reversed the main clause, as if it made his meaning clearer, "The colleague from the IT center came to take it, said It’s the boss’s computer that needs to be overhauled. When he came back, he asked the colleague next to him. He heard that it was someone from the IT center, and he was obviously blank for a second. But you know the boss, his appearance never speaks. I dare not ask .”

Lao Huang has tricked me so many times in this matter, I narrowed my eyes: "Do you want me to ask?"

Old Huang pursed his lips: "My friend, the point is not that - of course, if you plan to ask, I have no objection to hearing his reply."

"When did the idle guys in the IT center come to/door service?" I glanced at him, "Do you look familiar? Are you sure they are from the IT center, not the intranet maintenance or network security people?"

"I'm just waiting for you here because I'm not sure." He looked at me and took a breath.

We looked at each other in silence for a while.

This thing is very strange.Well, the boss is the director of the department after all, and the salary is better than ours. The colleagues in the IT center came here to recycle old refrigerators and broken computers. Today is Monday, so why not send a spare one along?Thinking of the speculation in the boss's office, my muscles stiffened for a moment, and I looked up at Lao Huang: "Have you reminded the boss?"

"No." Lao Huang was stunned for a moment, then patted his chest, "Don't stare at me like that. You're afraid."

I rolled my eyes.

"It's weird that you can be pretty and intimidating at the same time." He frowned defiantly. "Why?"

"Just too confused to tell whether you're sexually harassing or personally attacking." My muscles relax, and I joke with him, "Maybe it's both?"

"If everything has to be determined, the look you gave me just now must be serious workplace violence that caused mental damage." Lao Huang folded his arms, "I didn't have time to say it. The person who took the computer just left when you sent the message Not long after, the boss came back."

"Okay." I breathed a sigh of relief. It would be bad if the boss felt that I didn't report the truth. "Don't ask him yet. I'll go to my colleagues on the intranet to have a look."

"What do you think..." Lao Huang looked at me, then suddenly fell silent, and didn't say the rest.

Now that everything is in danger, and the computer is suddenly taken away, what else can it be?I met Lao Huang's eyes and turned to look for Lao Ye.

Although I don't know whether Lao Ye belongs to Group A or Group B, the big boss will definitely entrust this matter to someone I trust very much. I found him in the office without any surprise.This is the first time I've come here, and it's also the first time I've seen Lao Ye. He looks thinner than the photos on the intranet.

"Oh, Yao, right?" He stood up and scratched his head, "Uh—wait for me."

He took me to a small conference room that was empty.I knew something was wrong on the way. When I saw me, I went to the meeting room without asking anything. If I didn’t know, I thought there was some dark secret between us: at least Lao Ye must have a dark secret in his heart.

Our boss is under suspicion.

"Do you mind putting on the mask?" Lao Ye turned on the computer screen and said, "There is a person in our department who has been coughing."

"Oh! Okay. I'm sorry." After returning to work, I used to take off the mask when talking with the big boss and Jocelyn alone, "Thank you."

This is mainly because Jocelyn will take off the mask first.It's kind of like the new age disarming and entering the imperial city: so even if it breaks the rules, I still do it.Because I was in a hurry today, I forgot to put it on immediately.

Lao Ye pays attention to rules.I wonder.

"Are you here for Jessica Tan's business?"

I nodded calmly: "Rudra's computer was taken away, are you here to be investigated together?"

"Yes. But it's just a routine investigation, and it should be over soon." He patted his forehead, "Ah, I'm sorry. Should I pour you a glass of water first?"

"You are so kind. No need." I said with a smile.

Jessica Tan is the full name of Passerby A.She is one of the few Chinese colleagues in our department who often eats with An Ning, and she had a private chat with her before because of the matter of catching the ghost.In Singapore, "Jessica" runs everywhere, and our company has several, so it usually involves cross-departmental cooperation, and they will be called by their first and last names.

I have a headache.She has a problem, she can't passerby B...

wrong.At the beginning, the person in contact with passerby C in our department was passerby B. If the boss was found from Jessica, the first "vine" should be An Ning, who was in contact with passerby A, Jessica.I lowered my posture and said softly: "Can you tell me a little bit?"

Lao Ye nodded: "Of course. What do you want to know?"

"I hope to ensure the information security in the department. Who else needs my extra attention? I want to cooperate with your work as much as possible." I kept smiling.

"Well, in fact, it shouldn't matter, you are very careful." Lao Ye smiled in surprise, "The clues we are currently pursuing are from Wang Wenbin to Jessica Tan, and it should be over here, after all, it is just a few separate documents , not a systematic data leak, generally speaking, there will not be too many participants."

"I see." I nodded. "Jessica is under my management, but not my direct report. Do you want me to send my computer over?"

"It's not necessary, no need." Old Ye said, "Don't be nervous, Yao, this has nothing to do with you. If there is anything we need, we will notify you in advance. We have been specifically told to pick up Rudra's computer today, and it does not belong to Usually."

"Oh. Okay. I'm really sorry to bother you when you are so busy." I smiled and stood up, "If there is anything else, you can send me a message on the intranet, okay?"

"Of course. I'll copy you soon after the investigation results come out." He left the keyboard from time to time while typing, and stood up to send me off, "Uh, yes. Nice to meet you in person."

I bumped elbows with him: "Nice to meet you, Benjamin."

I went back to the nineteenth floor.

"It's all right." I said, my tone was much more relaxed than before, "It should be all right. Jessica is under investigation."

Lao Huang frowned, obviously not thinking about it: "Okay...but why did you take the boss's computer?"

"It shouldn't matter if someone scares him." I comforted.

But I haven't figured it out yet—how could Jessica get involved with Passerby C?

"Who frightened him?"

"They didn't say it." I was deliberately vague.But who else, the big boss.He can figure it out by himself.

Lao Huang looked at me more and more complicatedly: "Who are 'they'?"

I took a breath, narrowed my eyes and said with some caution, "Xiuwen, you don't want to know."

"Okay, okay." Lao Huang rolled his eyes indifferently, "But... Jessica, she is in the Philippines project, is it because Wen Bin's matter implicated her?"

"It sounds like that. I'm still stuck in the puzzle, and I can't solve it for you now." I said.I was responsible for finding passer-by C, and only a handful of people in the company knew about it, and I didn't even tell Lao Huang.He didn't know about it, so naturally he wouldn't ask too much.

My mood is far from being as relaxed as it appears on the outside.

Zeno said that human knowledge is like a circle, and the outside of the circle represents the unknown.The more you know, the bigger the circle, and the more you don't know.Now I fully understand why his contemporary Socrates said "the only thing I know is that I know nothing", and that's pretty much how I feel right now.

I got so many clues that they turned into a mess.After Lao Huang left, I sat alone in the conference room for a long time. It is very irrational to rely on one clue to try to stitch another clue. People can do this when they are reading mystery novels, but if someone really handles the case like this, It will only make your nose full of dust.

Any clue must be attached to hard evidence, and I only have two things at hand, which can be confirmed as facts:

First, Passerby C gave Miss Pan De the data of the Philippine project.

Second, the person under investigation is Jessica.

During this period of time, there was a lot of information and doubts abounded. If I saw everyone as an insider, I would be too weak to work normally. Therefore, I deliberately placed some things in order to free up time to deal with BCG and conceive countermeasures. time.However, I am like a flat boat, surrounded by treacherous winds and clouds, and turbulent undercurrents. I can't leave my oars for a moment, for fear of capsizing, and in the end I can only carve the boat for the sword.

I rubbed my head, thinking hard.There are too many distracting thoughts that I have left behind in the storm, how many can I salvage at this moment?For a while, many messy thoughts flooded into my mind, and I managed to grasp a few related to this.

For example, now that Kevin has reached a certain level of cooperation with Miss Pan De, An Ning may not be as innocent as I thought at first.

For another example, Hui Lin once reminded me that something was wrong in the department.

The phone vibrated.I suddenly came back to my senses and was taken aback. It was the news from Hui Lin.

She sent two in a row:

"Are you still in the company?"

"Would you mind stopping by? Jessica Tan is with us."