Chapter 472: People under the Torch (please vote for the big chapter)
At this moment, He Ao's bracelet vibrated.
He raised his bracelet.
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The weather is very good today, and the sun shines on the desk, bringing a little warmth.
Nok lowered his head, and a shadow covered the tablet in front of him that had turned off the screen.
He stood there in a daze, staring at the dark screen of the tablet with dull eyes.
"Hey."
The colleague next to him patted him on the shoulder.
"What's wrong?"
He suddenly woke up from his distraction and turned to look at his colleagues.
"The director is looking for you."
The colleague pointed in the direction of the director's office.
"okay."
Nok stood up in a daze, and hit the edge of the table directly.
"Nock, what's wrong with you today? Are you sick?"
His colleagues looked at him with some confusion.
"It's okay," Nok shook his head and forced a smile to his colleagues, "I'm thinking about something."
He stabilized his body and then slowly walked towards the director's office.
The door of the office was open. When Nok walked to the door, he found that a young man in formal clothes and a slicked back hair was already sitting inside.
Nok looked at the young man blankly, and the door behind him slowly closed.
The director rarely lets anyone outside the FBI into his office.
"Nock, let me introduce you," the director put on his glasses and pointed to the young man in front of him with a smile, "This is the lawyer of Qunxing Pharmaceutical. He is here to report a crime."
Then he pointed at Nok and said, "This is the most passionate agent in our bureau. Don't look at him because he is young. The biggest smuggling case in the bureau recently was handled by him, and he did it beautifully, with courage and courage."
seek."
Hearing the director's praise, Nok felt a little uncomfortable.
The so-called 'biggest smuggling case' was to capture a few wilderness hunters with shabby old guns. At that time, Nok rushed up with guns in hand, and the wilderness hunters were so frightened that they surrendered.
However, Nock did not miss the key information in the director's words. He looked at the young lawyer,
"Report a crime?"
What cases require the director’s personal reception?
And this person is from... Qunxing Pharmaceutical? What a coincidence? At this point in time?
"Hello, Agent Nock." The lawyer stood up and shook Nock's hand with a smile. "I came here today to report a suspected case of 'theft of trade secrets' to the FBI."
He slowly picked up the briefcase leaning on the chair and took out a stack of thick documents.
Nok looked at his actions blankly. In fact, these documents can be displayed on a tablet or electronic paper, but using a large amount of expensive paper to print them out is an 'elegance' exclusive to the upper class.
"This is the information we collected," the lawyer smiled and put the document on the table. "Zadi, the former security director of the Limen City Research Institute under the group, used his position to steal the group's important business secrets, and
He disappeared after the fire broke out in the institute last night. We suspect that he has absconded.
"Zadi's despicable act has caused huge losses to our group, putting a key project with a huge investment in danger of aborting, so we have come to report the case and hope that the FBI can bring justice to us and catch this heinous evildoer.
Disciples, there is still a bright sky in the store."
"Justice for you...?"
At this time, Nok picked up a book of information on the table and opened it. Hearing this sentence, he raised his head in disbelief and looked at the lawyer standing in front of him.
The lawyer was smiling and gentle, with a slightly resentful and aggrieved look on his face, as if he and Qunxing Pharmaceutical behind him were really innocent people who had been bullied.
Nok felt a breath rising to his chest, and the intense anger even made him feel slightly suffocated.
He reached out to grab the lawyer's shoulder and angrily questioned him about the institute's human experiments.
"cough--"
But just a second before he was about to attack, a slight cough sounded in his ears. The director lifted the milk tea pot next to him and took out three cups. His hand crossed the photo frame on the table and gave each cup
They were all filled with milk tea,
"Come on, come on, let's have a cup of tea. Making this milk tea has taken a lot of thought out of me."
After hearing the director's words, Nok's emotions that were about to explode were suppressed again. He took a deep breath and returned his gaze to the information in his hand.
"Let me check the information first."
There was a certain suppressed hoarseness in his voice.
The lawyer on the side naturally picked up the milk tea at hand, looked at the director and chuckled, "I heard that the FBI has information about Zaidi? In fact, Director Solin, you can do this, contact Zaidi first, and lure him
Go to the location we designed and capture him in one fell swoop when the time comes."
Having said this, the lawyer glanced at the small office with a vague look, "If the FBI does not have enough manpower, we at Qunxing Pharmaceutical can also provide some 'support'. After all, it is us ordinary citizens who maintain fairness and justice in the federation."
and the obligations that legitimate businesses should fulfill.”
"Oh? Is there such a good thing?"
The director smiled and narrowed his eyes.
But Nok, who was flipping through the information, froze in place.
Both inside and outside the lawyer’s words indicated that they knew ‘Zaidi’ had contacted the FBI.
But in Limen City, only two people knew about this matter, one was himself, and the other was... His eyes glanced at the director who was smiling and his eyes were almost gone.
But he quickly realized that if it was the director who said it, the lawyer wouldn't have hinted like that, and the lawyer didn't seem to know that he was the agent contacted by 'Zadi'.
The director once said that he would report that information to his superiors.
Nok glanced at the lawyer who still had a gentle smile on his face. It seemed that this was the result of the 'report'.
This is not a coincidence at all, Qunxing Pharmaceutical came prepared.
Moreover, the crime of 'stealing trade secrets' is easier to convict than 'arson'.
Star Pharmaceuticals has made it clear that it wants to use the power of the FBI to catch ‘Zaidi’.
At this moment, Nok suddenly remembered what the director had asked before, why did ‘Zaidi’ not report through public channels, and why did he send it to his private mailbox?
Because ‘Zadi’ doesn’t trust the FBI at all!
Nok suddenly felt desperate. The wall he had always thought he could rely on collapsed and turned into huge rocks pressing on him.
He is not a supernatural person, nor does he have a lot of experience. Without the identity of an FBI agent, he is nothing.
With his own strength, wanting to investigate the institute, investigate Qunxing Pharmaceutical, and seek justice for those who lost their lives or even died innocently in the institute is tantamount to wishful thinking, even for those colleagues and leaders who were speaking kindly to him at this moment.
, may become his enemy in the next second.
At this moment, he seemed to have fallen into the darkest abyss, and there was no trace of light around him.
A cold feeling crawled all over his back, and the sun shone on his arms, and he only felt the biting cold.
Is this what 'Zaidi' is facing now? The whole world is his enemy, and he has no one he can trust and cannot trust.
Nok's movements while flipping through the information were frozen in the air.
"Nock, you have to pay more attention to this case," the director on the side chuckled softly. His round forehead reflected the light in the sun. He smiled, and the facial features on his face seemed to be squeezed together, "with Qunxing Pharmaceutical
Once you have a good relationship, your work will be much smoother in the future. You have to understand where you should be careful and where you shouldn't be."
'You have to understand where you should be careful and where you shouldn't be.'
This sentence hit Nok's heart like a heavy hammer. He raised his head with difficulty and looked at the lawyer in front of him.
At this moment, the lawyer was also looking at him. The young lawyer stood up and said with a smile, "Of course, what our group likes most are young talents like Mr. Nock. Mr. Nock is courageous and knowledgeable at a young age.
There will definitely be a bright future ahead.”
As he said this, the lawyer took out an invitation letter from his pocket.
"I happen to have an invitation letter here for the group's charity dinner. It is said that young talents from the entire Limen City will appear at this dinner, and both the mayor and senator will attend.
"I wonder if Mr. Nock has a girl he likes? Maybe at this dinner, he can meet the blessing of the God of Love."
Nok looked at the invitation that was handed to him with gilt edges and inlaid with rubble.
In the past, at a high-society dinner party like this, he would be chased away by the security guard even if he glanced at the edge of the door.
Vaguely, the sound of people drinking and drinking seemed to appear in his ears, and soft dance music echoed.
What the lawyer handed over was not an invitation letter, but a road to the sky.
The invitation letter is not important, and even the dinner is not important. What is important is that Qunxing Pharmaceutical can easily gather a group of upper-class people.
Accepting this invitation letter is equivalent to accepting the invitation of Qunxing Pharmaceutical.
Knock seemed to be able to see the feasting upper class slowly opening its doors in front of his eyes.
He glanced at the bracelet on his hand, which recorded the private email address left by 'Zadie' for him. As long as he could find a way to trick 'Zadie' out...
Boom-boom-boom-
Nok seemed to hear his own heart beating faster and faster.
Destiny placed him at a fork in the road. One side of the road was paved with gems and lights. There were graceful girls swaying on the stage. People in luxurious clothes raised crystal-carved wine glasses to him.
On the other side, there is an endless, everything-devouring pitch-black night. In the deepest part of the night, a lonely and blurry figure is standing there quietly. He stands alone in the deepest night, his body flickering.
With a glimmer of light.
This light was so weak and dim, as if it would be completely swallowed up by the night in the next second.
Nok stared at the invitation in front of him as if looking at the fork in his fate.
Finally, he smiled softly and put the information in his hand on the table. "Sorry, I have something to do at home. I have to go back."
After that, he turned around and walked towards the door without looking back.
Why did ‘Zaidi’ choose me? Will he send his information privately?
The other party had obviously investigated him. Nokk didn't know what the other party's investigation revealed, but he knew that the other party's behavior of only sending him an email meant only one thing.
The other party believes him.
Even in the darkest night, the other party believes that there are other people shining brightly in the endless darkness.
He cannot live up to this trust, just as a man walking in the dark cannot live up to the torch that illuminates his body.
The automatic door of the office slowly closed.
For the first time, an expression other than a smile appeared on the young lawyer's face. He stood there holding the invitation letter, as stiff as a puppet that had been stripped of its luxurious clothes.
"Asshole!"
The director seemed to finally react at this moment. He slapped the table and stood up suddenly.
Only then did the lawyer wake up from his shock. He turned around and looked at the director.
The director, who seemed to be in a rage, directly picked up the phone on the table and said, "Tell that little bastard that he has been suspended. If he can't figure out where he went wrong, just get out!"
The C-level sense of oppression spread to every corner of the entire small office in an instant.
The young lawyer was almost suffocated by this terrifying atmosphere. He put away the invitation tremblingly and looked at the director, "Director Solin, calm down. Young and promising people will inevitably have some anger. Calm down, calm down."
"
At this time, the director seemed to realize that the oppressed lawyer was about to die. He quickly calmed down and put a smile on his face again, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's my fault. This bastard is still too impatient.
In this way, I will immediately call the steady and reliable agent in the bureau, and he will definitely be able to handle this matter."
"Okay, okay, okay"
The lawyer who finally regained his breath sat back on the chair. He looked at the director's smiling face again. The other party's attitude was so good that he couldn't express the anger in his heart and could only hold it back.
But he was no longer in the mood to chat with the director.
The waiting time is always long, so the lawyer took a sip of milk tea.
He glanced at the desktop of the director's desk, and his eyes rested on a picture frame.
In the photo frame, the director and his wife are leaning together, their elderly parents are sitting in front, and three children, one older, two younger, are standing on the left and right.
Judging from the newness of the photo frame and the appearance of the director, it seems that this photo was taken not long ago.
It's a good family, including young and old.
The lawyer withdrew his gaze and continued to look at the closed office door.
Soon, an older middle-aged detective opened the door and walked in.
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Nok returned to his workstation, simply took two things, clicked on his bracelet and started editing emails quickly, and quickly ran out the door.
At the workstation next to him, the colleague who was eating instant noodles was leaning on his office chair and watching a promotional documentary about Ander.
The screen finally pauses in front of Ender's tombstone.
Behind this lonely tombstone are densely packed other lonely tombstones.
"It's not that easy to be a hero."
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"So do you have any solution now?"
Under the bright sunshine, Roger, standing by the window, asked softly.
He Ao looked up at the sunshine outside the window, and the even light spread on his cheeks, "Everything will have a solution."
He raised his bracelet and glanced at the newly received mail in the mailbox.
This task is indeed much more difficult than before.
