I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

……

Late at night, Xia You was awakened by a series of urgent phone calls.

He opened his eyes groggily, and when he saw that the caller was Chen Ya, he immediately became alert.

"Hey?"

"Y, I've got a job for you. Get up quickly, I need you to help me locate a criminal gang."

Xia You put on her pajamas and casually turned on the laptop that was next to her.

"what happened?"

“A friend of mine has been kidnapped,” Chen Ya said briefly on the other end of the line. “I need to locate the addresses of several mobile phones.”

Xia You typed quickly on the keyboard: "It's nothing."

On the other end of the phone, Chen Ya sat in an emergency response vehicle with a laptop on his lap, surrounded by a team of heavily armed police officers.

Chen Ya had the phone on speakerphone. After hearing the voice coming from the speakerphone, Captain Chu frowned and exchanged a glance with Xiao Liu next to him.

The person I'm talking to sounds too young, doesn't they?

Is he still a student?

Chen Ya continued typing with one hand, "I've already sent you the machine code. Please check it. Time is of the essence, and I need you to resolve this as quickly as possible, Xiao Y."

"Received, Little Y." The girl's fingers danced nimbly across the keyboard, then, as if remembering something, she suddenly smiled and said, "Little Eagle, it feels like something like this has happened before. I miss it so much."

Chen Ya's voice came through the phone: "Yes, a similar thing happened in 18. We also worked together remotely. That time it took us 6 minutes and 38 seconds to complete. I wonder if we can break the record this time."

“We seemed to have argued that time, and were in a cold war, which affected our teamwork a little,” Xia You said. “But this time, we’re on the same wavelength. Little Eagle, don’t you agree?”

"...Little Y, I must remind you, my phone is on speakerphone, and there's a squad of police officers sitting over here."

"..."

Xia You slammed her head onto the bed, punched the pillow twice, her fingers sinking deep into the soft down, her face turning as red as if it were about to bleed.

After a brief moment of awkwardness, she quickly regained her composure and returned to her computer.

"Little Eagle, you just messed with my mindset and seriously affected my progress."

The girl's tone was terrifyingly cold, and her forceful words were so obvious that it was an overreaction.

"Fortunately, it's finished. This time it took... 2 minutes and 16 seconds." The girl pressed Enter forcefully.

About ten minutes later, Qi Shiyan was still anxiously holding his phone, waiting for the kidnappers to contact him, while news came from the front lines: the kidnappers' hideout had been breached and the hostage, Qi Yunche, had been rescued safely.

The moment the riot police stormed the gate and took control of everyone, the kidnappers couldn't understand how the police had found them when they hadn't even contacted the hostages' families.

Chapter 250 The Fake Bodyguard, the Real Bodyguard

"Team 1 is ready to attack, please give instructions!"

"Team 2 has arrived at the designated location!"

"Group 3 is ready!"

"...Attack the goal!" Captain Chu shouted into the walkie-talkie.

"Whoosh!"

The windows shattered, and the front door was kicked open.

When he put down the walkie-talkie, Captain Chu knew that he had won the game.

Everything went too smoothly, so smoothly that he felt a little depressed.

He had never handled a case that made him feel so frustrated.

Director Liu, Chen Ya's immediate superior, asked him to "cooperate" with them in handling this case, and at first he thought it was a burden.

What was supposed to be "cooperation" turned into him trying to be one step ahead of them at every turn.

Just as they were getting a lead, the kidnappers, without relying on any clues from the police, started from scratch and figured out the number of kidnappers, their identities, routes, and locations.

In the past, Captain Chu would be very excited when he pressed the intercom button, but today, he felt like he was watching a replay of a football game, and he couldn't get excited at all.

The outcome was predetermined.

Before they even got out of the car, the kidnappers had already told them about their weapons.

"Director Liu, what kind of monster do you know..." Captain Chu smiled wryly.

He fiddled with the walkie-talkie in his hand, and suddenly an idea popped into his head.

If we could keep this guy in the police force, how much would our annual crime-solving efficiency improve?

……

Chen Ya sat in the car with his phone on speakerphone.

After a long while, a soft, weak female voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Little Eagle, has the operation already begun?"

“Yes,” Chen Ya replied.

"call."

A soft sigh came from the girl over there, as gentle and mild as her name, sounding as tender as a summer night with a gentle breeze.

“I need to explain what happened just now,” Xia You said. “When people have just woken up, they tend to say things without thinking, just like when they are drunk. You should know that.”

“I know,” Chen Ya said. “I understand that feeling.”

"So what I just said was probably drunken talk."

The girl's voice carried a warm, smoky quality; the whispered words, suppressed in her throat, were more beautiful and alluring than any other words.

"Let me say one more thing while I'm still a bit tipsy: our level of telepathy has improved again! This time the record is 2 minutes and 16.83 seconds. How can we break it next time?"

“I’m afraid we’ll have to max out our telepathic connection level, but,” Chen Ya said, “Little Y, I must remind you that although all the officers on my side have gone to the attack site, it’s not like there aren’t others left behind.”

"Snapped!"

The other end hung up very quickly.

The policewoman sitting opposite Chen Ya looked at him with a strange expression.

Judging from their voices, the girl from before and the man in front of me are probably quite different in age.

Such feelings are protected by law, but not necessarily blessed by ethics. That's what the policewoman wanted to tell him.

Chen Ya accepted the suspicious looks with equanimity.

In 2 minutes and 16.83 seconds, from when Xia You answered the phone to locating all the kidnappers' identities and addresses.

It sounds unbelievable, but it's actually not difficult once you figure it out.

The kidnappers had spent a long time scouting the location, just to wait for Qi Yunche to go out alone. Even though there were no cameras at their scouting spot, there must have been cameras around.

They identified blind spots in nearby cameras, filtered communication frequencies within a specific timeframe, and then identified regular contacts. They extracted all the information, including the kidnappers' phones and the number of the person in charge behind them.

Next, we'll use empty data packets to hack into their phones, obtain their location, and that's it.

It's illegal, but it works.

The reason they were able to complete it in such a short time was that he and Xia You developed a program specifically for this purpose.

Simply input the specified data and let the program run automatically; it generates data in a user-friendly, one-click process.

Why develop this software? Because something similar has happened before.

……

"The hostage has been found! The hostage is safe!"

"Secure the hostages, search the remaining area!"

"Roger that!"

When Qi Yunche was discovered, he was still eating roasted sweet potatoes, his ears and fingers were frozen red, and he was huddled in a corner shivering.

The girl's hair was a little messy, and the white breath she exhaled mingled with the steam from the roasted sweet potatoes. Through the smoke, her skin was so white that it was almost translucent, looking like a dewdrop in the early morning.

Apart from that, she hasn't changed much from before, and she even seems to be enjoying her meal.

Police officers rushed into the room and draped a thick military green cotton-padded coat over Qi Yunche. Amid the chaos, Qi Yunche was still confused when he was ushered out of the abandoned house and into an emergency vehicle.

Just before getting into the car, she heard the kidnappers screaming in the next room.

"How did you find me? You hadn't even called yet! Is the efficiency of case handling this high now?"

She received no response, but was simply pushed into the car. When she turned around, she was pleasantly surprised to see Chen Ya sitting in the car.

The man was wearing a fitted trench coat, with his laptop on his lap. His expression was meticulous, and his face was illuminated by the laptop's soft blue light.

The lighting was dim. As the saying goes, a beautiful woman is best seen under a lamp, and the same applies to handsome men. With the dim light from the laptop, Chen Ya appeared to be surrounded by a halo.

As soon as Qi Yunche sat down next to him, she excitedly exclaimed:

"Chen Ya, let me tell you, I was just kidnapped! Those guys put a bag over my head, and I was dazed when they brought me here. I said I was cold, and they threw me a roasted sweet potato to eat, and then..."

She was rambling on about her grand adventure when she suddenly realized there was an even more important question she hadn't asked:

What are you doing here?

"I'm here to buy roasted sweet potatoes."

Qi Yunche glanced at the half-eaten sweet potato in his hand and handed it over: "Here you go, five cents each."

"Too expensive, I won't buy it." Chen Ya lowered his head and continued operating something on the computer.

"Want it for free?" The girl tightened her coat.

The main reason for eating roasted sweet potatoes was to keep warm, but once inside the car it gradually warmed up, and the roasted sweet potatoes had gone cold, so they were no longer needed.

"Giving it away for free is acceptable."

Chen Ya casually took the roasted sweet potato from her hand and immediately put it in his mouth.

Seeing him put his leftovers into his mouth like that, Qi Yunche's face turned bright red, but he didn't dare to say anything, after all, he was the one who handed it to him.

After typing a string of characters on the keyboard, Chen Ya finally came to his senses and looked at her: "How come you have roasted sweet potatoes?"

"I asked the kidnappers for it."

"The kidnappers even bought you roasted sweet potatoes?"

"No, they roasted it themselves," Qi Yunche's face turned red again. "I told them I was going to freeze to death and wouldn't be able to get a good price, so they impatiently threw the roasted sweet potato at me. I've been tied up once before, so I've learned my lesson. Oh right, didn't I tell you before?"

Chen Ya was surprised: "You're really bold."

"I was even talking to them. I told them my family just bought a house and we don't have any cash, so they kidnapped the wrong person. I was trying to get some information out of them, but nobody paid any attention to me." Qi Yunche smiled and tilted his head to look at Chen Ya. "Wasn't I brave?"

“They’re not only brave, but also a bit reckless,” Chen Ya said. “If they don’t get the money, they might kill you to silence you. Luckily, these people aren’t after money.”

Qi Yunche gasped in shock. Chen Ya's words had been so realistic that she almost thought she was dead. She touched her chest and, finding herself still alive, finally felt relieved.

"Wait, you're saying they're not after money? What are they after?"

Chen Ya smiled without saying a word.

The car door opened again, and Captain Chu climbed onto the car, panting, and said, "It's done. All the suspects have been arrested, and none have escaped."

"Well done," Chen Ya praised.

Captain Chu smiled proudly, but then his smile faded.

There doesn't seem to be anything to be proud of.

Qi Yunche sensed this subtle emotion and quickly glanced between the two of them.

"So, so, so," the girl stomped her feet in a hurry, "Chen Ya, why are you here?"

"Come and eat some roasted sweet potatoes." Chen Ya put another sweet potato in his mouth, and after eating it, he said, "It's cold."

Qi Yunche took the sweet potato from his hand, put it in his arms along with his hand, and said with a smile, "Then I'll warm it up for you."

A soft, warm touch came from his hand. This gesture was a bit too intimate; only lovers would do that. The girl was doing it in front of Captain Chu, which was quite bold. Chen Ya raised his eyebrows sharply.

Qi Yunche deliberately held his gentle hand in his soft palm with a smile on his face.

Girls often develop feelings for boys who appear in their presence during times of crisis.