Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 385 Scapegoat

Fuling stared at Duan Mingyuan for a long time. She felt that the question he asked out of the blue was indeed a bit cold.

Because he told the truth.

According to the regulations of Universal Company, employees with positions above department director will be equipped with one or more Nagaeda guards. Depending on the importance of their department and the risks faced in their daily work, the authority to mobilize Nagaeda guards may be increased.

This is not only to protect their personal safety, but also to show how much the company values ​​them.

So from this perspective, the company actually doesn't value her as the new director of the life sciences department.

"There's a reason for that."

Facing the cold reality, Fuling chose to make excuses, "Xifeng was originally assigned to the Life Science Department's Nagaeda Guard. After he defected, the position became vacant. According to the original process, the company was going to arrange a new Nagaeda Guard to take over Xifeng's work, but too many things have happened recently, and the higher-ups may be too busy to handle it."

Regardless of whether Duan Mingyuan believed it or not, Fuling herself believed it anyway.

If you put the blame on the current affairs of the universe, as long as you deceive yourself, you will feel much better.

"But as far as I know, the new director of the Cosmic Market Relations Coordination Department does not have these worries. As soon as he took office, the company assigned him a new long-branch guard, and the few who were previously on the Blue Star mission all went on vacation."

Heya told the truth leisurely, and used a relaxed tone to stab Fuling's heart like a sharp knife.

"You, me, you!"

Poria hesitated.

As a colleague in the company, she certainly knew about the Cosmic Relations Department, but what could she say?

He is his biological son.

After Qinghua made a mistake, the Granite Group immediately changed the person it was training, and the Semitic people of the Mandala Group only wanted her to be a puppet director because she had no Semitic blood at all. Even her mentor, who had almost dedicated her entire life to the group, ended up only having a Nagaeda guard assigned to her.

Perhaps in the eyes of the consortium, there is no need to invest any resources around the puppet.

"But don't be too sad. Saintfield VI doesn't have any Long Branch Guards around him, and he's dead."

Duan Mingyuan continued to comfort Fuling.

The reason why he asked this was that he was curious about the movements of Nagaeda Konoe. When Saint Field VI died in his room, he already found it incredible.

Although they had stood on different positions, Duan Mingyuan still spoke highly of Nagaeda Konoha's strength. Among the many opponents he had encountered, he was second only to "Cocoon" and could be ranked in T1. If they met the witch mentioned by Heya, it should be a battle of equals.

You have to know that when there was a little disturbance on Blue Star, the Long Branch Guards would attack heavily one by one. In just a few months, he encountered three Long Branch Guards. According to the third prince, this frequency of appearance has caught up with the company's front-line battlefield on the "cocooned" planet.

However, when it came to the company's internal problems, Nagaeda Konoe and others disappeared.

Duan Mingyuan was exhausted by what happened in the past few days.

Obviously, the people he faced were all extremely high-ranking and important figures in the universe, but each of them was like a newly hatched chick. An accident could happen even when he went to have dinner with his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Duan Mingyuan now suspected that these people couldn't even walk properly on his boat. God knew what kind of accident would happen to them if he wasn't careful.

"Perhaps it's because... there's a conflict between the Long Branch Committee and the Saintfield family?"

Fuling seemed to be thinking about something.

After all, before the incident on Blue Star was fully investigated, the Saintfield family had made Xifeng's defection known to everyone. Now Xifeng is still missing, and his armor is nowhere to be found, but his crime of defection has already been established.

This had a huge impact on the reputation of the Long Branch Committee, and many people on the committee who knew Xifeng still do not believe that Xifeng would betray the company.

But even so, even for the sake of face, the Long Branch Committee should send one or two guards to pretend. After all, Saintfield VI is the leader of the Mandala Consortium and one of the leaders of the Universal Company.

unless……

Someone within the consortium had long known that Saintfield VI would die on the eco-ship.

Fuling couldn't think any further. If she attributed the death of Saintfield VI to family strife, or even that one of them was involved with a wizard, then her future would probably be dark.

This is no longer a question of whether the company will send Nagaeda Konoe to protect her, but rather that as the manager of the ecological ship, she is very likely to be blamed for all the turmoil after the dispute over the head of the family comes to an end, and then follow in Qinghua's footsteps and be brought to trial, becoming the younger generation's duo of imprisoned heroes.

For a scapegoat who takes the blame, there is naturally no need for the consortium to arrange Nagaeda Konoe by her side.

"You're reminding me."

Fuling finally heard some concern in Duan Mingyuan's cold words. Although he exposed the cold reality, he was sincerely reminding her that the crisis was coming.

What's worse is that if her inference is correct, this seems to be a reason for the wizard not to attack her.

After all, the new head of the Saintfield family will need to find a scapegoat who can take all the responsibility.

"I remembered that I still have some work to finish. You guys go ahead."

Fuling suddenly said that she didn't want to sit and wait for death.

Even if the fate of taking the blame was inevitable, she at least had to know the real culprit behind the incident. She couldn't die without knowing how he died.

This is not difficult to check. Some clues can be found from the personnel dispatch when Saint Field VI came to the ecological ship.

Duan Mingyuan looked Fuling up and down. He felt that this good friend was full of the aura of death.

It's like those dead people in movies who suddenly discover a conspiracy and are suddenly attacked when they find clues on their own.

In the end, they will find Fuling covered in blood, with a hole in the chest, lying on her desk, using up her last bit of strength to point her finger at a symbol.

Thus, a new decryption game begins.

This is his "anti-blade radar" coming into play again.

Heya believes that the premise that the wizard will not kill Fuling is that she remains in her current state and knows nothing about the upcoming conspiracy, but once she follows a certain clue, she will unlock the ending of "You know too much."

"You go with her."

Duan Mingyuan said to Heya that although Heya claimed that he could not take the power away from his planet, it should not be a problem for him to deal with a few wizards who knew him well.

What's more, she seemed to understand wizards very well. Even if she couldn't defeat them, she could still play the emotional card.

"understood."

Heya stretched and said to Fuling, "But the price of hiring me as a bodyguard is not cheap."

“How much is the hourly wage?”

Fuling asked immediately, the only good news is that money is not a problem for company executives.

"I don't want money."

But Heya waved her hand and said, "This is a favor. You have to pay it back to me one day."

(End of this chapter)