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

But he had a vague feeling that she was as dangerous as a time bomb.

Although he says there's nothing to hide about his true identity, he's still somewhat troubled if his personal information is actually exposed.

After all, while there weren't many girls who wanted to kill him, there were certainly some.

“If what happened before was a matter of courtesy before resorting to force, now that the courtesy has been shown and we’ve become acquainted, let me ask you two serious questions,” Chen Ya said. “Who instructed you to hack into my computer?”

When Chen Ya suddenly became serious, he exuded an aura of authority that made Xia You a little scared.

At her age, she can be unrestrained on the internet, but facing the wrath of adult men is like sending her on a trip to Jurassic Park.

Especially since this adult male is a cool boy, he exudes a lot of intimidation.

scared.

"Someone's coming."

Xia You pointed behind Chen Ya, squatted down slightly, and assumed a starting position.

"Do you think you can fool me with something like this?" Chen Ya took a step forward.

Who are you talking to?

He heard Gu Yuqing's voice from behind, and his body jolted as the girl in front of him darted away.

At the last moment, he grabbed the hood of the girl's hoodie, but the girl slipped out from under the oversized hoodie like an eel.

The last thing Chen Ya saw was a girl wearing a crop top swinging her arms and running away from under the fireproof roller shutter.

Chen Ya stood there, holding the coat she had shed, stunned.

"Your waist is so slim."

A handbag hit him on the back of the head.

"You disgusting lolicon." Gu Yuqing walked to his side, peeked around but couldn't see the girl from before, then turned and asked, "Who was that?"

"I don't know either," Chen Ya said.

"Don't you know why you're looking at someone's waist?"

"...Well, I just saw it in a very ordinary way."

I unexpectedly met Y, but I didn't get any information about her except that she was a girl in her early teens.

Fortunately, there were other clues as well.

He reached into his pocket, pulled out the bottle of Dr. Pepper, and crumpled it up along with his coat.

Then he turned to Gu Yuqing and asked, "Why are you back?"

Gu Yuqing blinked twice, stared at him, and said, "I want to see you."

Chen Ya suddenly lost his speech.

Straight balls are hard to defend.

……

In China, Dr. Pepper is not a mainstream carbonated beverage brand, mainly because few people can accept its taste.

It's not just that it doesn't adapt well to the local environment in China; it can adapt to the local environment in very few places around the world, except for the United States.

Having lived two lifetimes, this was the first time Chen Ya had ever seen a Dr. Pepper beverage can in real life. If it weren't for a certain cartoon from a long time ago, he wouldn't even know about this brand of soda.

He took a quick look around the shopping district on the ground, but neither convenience stores nor street vending machines sold this product.

In other words, Y did not buy the drink nearby; it was more likely that Y bought it in a place where Y frequents.

Besides this clue, he also found a subway card, some loose change, and a temporary internet cafe pass in the girl's coat.

The subway card is an anonymous prepaid card, but the card reader can show the time and amount of the last transaction.

The subway in Beijing charges a fare per station. By calculating the fare amount, you can determine how many stations you have traveled, and from that, you can deduce where Y's departure station is.

The internet cafe's login pass has a number. You can use the number to look up the ID card of the person who logged in at the corresponding internet cafe.

Chen Ya used a little trick to get the internet cafe manager to help him check her ID card—it belonged to a woman named Li Mei, born in 73, who was an older woman.

Y is clearly a minor, so it's impossible for her to use her own ID card to access the internet.

However, after Chen Ya pressed her for answers, it turned out that Li Mei's ID card wasn't one of the internet cafe's "stock," and it was clear that this person had some connection with Y.

After using a few more tricks, Chen Ya discovered that this middle-aged woman named Li Mei was not from Beijing.

Her last public appearance online was on the website of a housekeeping company.

In this way, the search range for Y is greatly reduced.

In the evening, Chen Ya sat alone in his office. On the laptop screen beside him, the cursor suddenly started moving on its own.

Create a new text document, switch the input method, the cursor jumps, and a line of text smoothly appears on the screen:

"hello."

Chen Ya stared at the screen for a while, tapped the keyboard twice, and typed a line of text into the document:

"Do you have to contact me this way?"

The other party replied with a very nonchalant message:

"Is there a problem?"

If it were before, Chen Ya would probably have imagined a bald programming expert arrogantly raising his eyebrows at him when he saw this sentence.

But now, all he can picture is that brat on the other side of the computer looking like he's asking for a beating.

“If you want to talk about something important that we haven’t discussed yet, you can say it now,” Chen Ya said.

On the screen, the words from the other side appeared one by one:

"Just a friendly reminder, I only became interested in you after seeing someone on the dark web offering a high reward for a vulnerability in your company's system."

"Of course I didn't sell the vulnerability in your system. The person who put up the bounty offered too high a price, and the security level of your system was too poor, which disrupted the market. So I upgraded the security level of your system by several levels. Now I estimate that not many people can break through it. I did it on the side, no need to thank me."

"Also, let me remind you of something: be careful about your own company. If the other party is willing to pay a high price and there's no response, they'll naturally try other methods. You know, social engineering."

After saying this, Chen Ya's expression changed slightly.

If what Y said is true, then the company's current situation can only be described as extremely precarious.

He typed in the document: "Interested in getting to know each other? At least next time we chat, we won't have to use such an impolite approach."

The other end seemed to be getting excited: "If you can hack into my computer one more time, I'll give you my private contact information."

Chen Ya typed, "I don't have time, but I did manage to get some of your personal information. Does that count?"

The other side sent a "?"

Chen Ya typed with a smile: "Your surname is Xia, and your nanny's name is Li Mei, right?"

The cursor on the screen flickered, and then a line of punctuation marks appeared:

"???!"

Chen Ya laughed even more heartily.

This means I guessed correctly.

He continued typing: "Am I now eligible to have your contact information, Ms. Y?"

A message pops up on the screen document:

Seeing this message means the other party has gone offline and does not want to talk to you. This message was sent by the AI ​​assistant.

It seems the other party has already left.

……

The next day at work, Lu Keke was called to Chen Ya's office. Chen Ya immediately closed and locked the office door, looking mysterious and suspicious.

"Have you noticed anything unusual lately?" Chen Ya asked.

Upon hearing this, Lu Keke immediately thought, "Boss, your flirting skills are outdated. Don't think you can stir up a girl's emotions by just spouting some corny pickup lines. At least come up with something tasteful!"

"What do you want to do?" Lu Keke asked warily.

Chen Ya carefully considered his words:

"So, have you noticed any strange people or things within the company?"

Lu Keke looked troubled. The strangest person in the whole company was you, the boss who worked overtime until 11 p.m. every day and still hitched a ride with the employees.

However, considering her career prospects, she ultimately kept those words to herself.

"What happened?"

Chen Ya became serious and said, "What follows will be disclosed to you as part of the confidentiality agreement. What I want to tell you is that there may be a mole within our company."

"A mole?!"

Lu Keke gasped and then covered her mouth.

“Yes, a mole.” Chen Ya nodded.

Lu Keke's eyes darted around, and she asked in a low voice, "You came to see me because you've found something?"

Chen Ya also leaned closer and whispered:

"Actually, I discussed this with Luan Qingying and the others all night yesterday, and we investigated many potential suspects before finally coming to a conclusion."

Lu Keke listened intently, holding her breath. Chen Ya continued:

"We believe the most likely candidate is you..."

With a "smack," Lu Keke angrily slapped her thigh and shouted:

"How is that possible!?"

Chen Ya quickly said, "That's right, that's what I was saying too. I said that Ayana is a well-known content creator with millions of fans. Anyone in the company could be the mole, but she's the only one who can't be."

Lu Keke looked at him suspiciously: "You really said that?"

"real."

"Hehe, you know me pretty well."

In fact, this is a lie.

Last night, no matter how Chen Ya thought about it, he felt that Ayane was the most suspicious.

She joined the company late in life, so she didn't have a strong foundation. She had strong social skills and knew a diverse group of people, and many people in the company were easily swayed by her.

If she were an inside agent, the harm she would cause to the company would be the greatest.

If it weren't for Luan Qingying, Shi Chuandong, and others vouching for her, Chen Ya wouldn't have asked her to come for a meeting today.

However, Ayane's reaction to the questions did not seem fake.

Chen Ya had slightly improved his skills in micro-expression detection for criminal investigation, and Ayane's reaction didn't seem like that of a mole.

But on the other hand, Ayane is also the most likely person to know about the mole.

"That's why I came to ask you, have you noticed anything unusual lately?" Chen Ya asked. "Like, has anyone tried to win you over? Or are you gathering information from all over the place?"

Lu Keke frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly a flash of inspiration struck her, and she widened her eyes as if she had suddenly grasped a key clue, just like in a detective novel.

"There really is!"

She leaned closer and whispered, "There's this guy in the tech team who's always idling around, but he likes to ask people for information, saying he wants to learn. He even asked me for character design sketches. I don't know what he needs to learn."

Chen Ya frowned.

Surprisingly, it actually exists.

If this person has been active for several days, this gap in their activity is enough time for them to leak potentially fatal information.

Do you know his name?

Lu Keke shook her head: "There are too many people in the company, I don't know him well, and I can't remember his name."

"If you see him again, will you still recognize him?"

Lu Keke nodded and said, "Not only can I recognize him again, but I can also strike up a conversation with him. At the company, I always call him 'Hey, you there,' and nobody has a problem with it."

After saying that, she asked, "Should I find out that person's name?"

Chen Ya smiled wryly: "Even if we find out that person's name, then what?"