Chapter 238: The Entire Factory Goes Bankrupt?

Su Yue walked in.

She was wearing a simple white shirt and blue pants, her face was bare of makeup, and she even looked a little pale from staying up all night.

But her back was ramrod straight.

All eyes instantly turned to her, and in those eyes were guilt, worry, and utter helplessness.

Su Yue looked around, taking in everyone's expressions.

She didn't fly into a hysterical rage or break down in despair as anyone might have imagined.

She simply walked calmly to the head of the table, pulled out a chair, and sat down.

"I know what everyone is thinking."

Her voice wasn't loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly, carrying a strange, calming power.

"Everyone is thinking that the factory is going to close down, we will all lose our jobs, and we will be burdened with debts we can't pay off."

The meeting room was deathly silent, and the experienced workers lowered their heads in shame.

"I'm not here today to assign blame," Su Yue said slowly, her gaze sweeping over Chief Engineer He. "I will bear all the losses from the fire, all the compensation, and all the penalties for breach of contract."

"What?" Chief Engineer He looked up abruptly, unable to believe his ears.

"The factory won't go bankrupt, and none of you will lose your jobs." Su Yue said each word clearly and firmly. "I assure you all, the pharmaceutical and medical equipment factory will resume production within a month. We will double down on all previous orders and deliver them to our customers with guaranteed quality and quantity!"

These words were like a shot of adrenaline, deeply affecting everyone present.

Looking at the slender young woman before them, whose shoulders seemed capable of bearing the entire sky, all their fear and despair were miraculously soothed at that moment.

After the meeting, everyone seemed to have found their anchor again, leaving the conference room with a sense of relief at surviving a disaster and a determination to burn their bridges.

Su Yue left Chief Engineer He and Gu Nanxing behind.

As soon as the conference room door closed, Su Yue's calm demeanor vanished instantly, replaced by a cold and murderous aura.

"Chief Engineer He, do you think this fire was a coincidence?"

Chief Engineer He was taken aback, then realized what he meant: "Comrade Su Yue, you mean..."

“Millions of dollars worth of medicine were burned the night before we were supposed to ship it. The other party was able to find the warehouse where our medicine was stored so accurately, and also detonate our batch of goods among so many other items.” Su Yue’s fingers tapped lightly on the table. “This means that there is a mole in our factory, or in our transportation process.”

"A mole?!" Chief Engineer He exclaimed in shock.

Gu Nanxing reacted even faster, immediately making the connection.

"Sister-in-law! I remember now!" she said urgently. "The last time there was a fake medicine incident at Baicaotang, the news leaked out incredibly quickly as soon as there was any trouble at the factory! I found it strange at the time, and now I think it must have been someone tipping us off!"

She turned her suspicious gaze to a list of key personnel who had access to production plans and shipment batches.

Those are all experienced workers who have been with Chief Engineer He for over ten years.

Su Yue looked at the list, a cold smile curving her lips.

"Since there's a snake, we can't just dig up the grass. We have to set a trap so it can crawl into it on its own."

She looked at Gu Nanxing; a plan to turn the tables on him had already taken shape.

“Nanxing, go back to the workshop now and find an opportunity to ‘accidentally’ reveal a piece of information to someone.”

"Just tell them that although this batch of medicines was destroyed, the Huo family in Hong Kong has already urgently allocated a huge sum of money. The next batch of even more precious imported medicinal materials will be secretly transported over first thing tomorrow morning."

"Moreover, for safety reasons, this batch of medicinal materials will be stored directly inside our factory in the most confidential and highest-security 'Warehouse Zero'."

Gu Nanxing's acting skills truly shone at this moment.

That noon, while eating in the cafeteria, she deliberately sighed and complained to a well-known, loud-mouthed chef.

"Master Wang, what kind of situation is this! We finally got a new batch of medicinal herbs, but my wife raised the security level to the highest and put them directly into some kind of 'Warehouse Zero'."

"That place is guarded by soldiers three or four layers deep. Even I, as the deputy director, can't just go in! How are we supposed to carry out our work like this?!"

This complaint, mixed with a young girl's naiveté and "dissatisfaction" with her job, seemed incredibly genuine.

As expected, Mr. Wang fell for it. While comforting her, he treated this "secret information" as a great topic of conversation and kept it in mind.

As evening approached, the workday ended with the ringing of the bell.

A technician surnamed Sun, with his head down, walked out of the factory gate, blending into the crowd.

Instead of going straight home, he circled the streets twice to make sure no one was following him before sneaking off to a secluded public phone booth on a street corner.

He had just picked up the phone, but hadn't even had a chance to dial yet.

A hand suddenly reached out from behind him and pressed heavily on the hook for hanging up the phone.

Technician Sun was so frightened that he turned around abruptly.

Gu Beixiao was leaning against the door frame of the phone booth, an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth, his peach blossom eyes looking at him with a half-smile.

"Master Sun, who are you calling so late?"

In the alley next to the phone booth.

Gu Beixiao didn't even lift a finger; he simply pinned Technician Sun against the wall and waved the inland number the other man had just been about to dial in front of him.

"Tell me, what benefits did the people from Baicaotang give you?"

Technician Sun's psychological defenses crumbled the moment he saw Gu Beixiao's face.

He was trembling like a leaf, and stammered as he confessed everything.

It turned out that his son, who was a workshop director in a factory under the command of a former subordinate of Baicaotang, had his future controlled by the other party.

The other party threatened him that if he didn't cooperate, his son would be fired immediately and his reputation in the industry would be ruined.

Driven by his love for his son, Technician Sun was forced to reveal the location of the medicine warehouse and the transportation time.

"I...I really didn't mean to! I didn't know they would set a fire!" Technician Sun cried, tears streaming down his face. "I thought...I thought at most they would report us and have the industry and commerce bureau come and seal us off..."

Gu Beixiao interrupted him impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense! What else did they ask you to do?"

Technician Sun seemed to recall something even more terrifying, and his body trembled even more violently.

He shakily pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, on which a few words were scribbled.

"They...they said the last mission was just an appetizer. They've given me a new mission..."

Technician Sun's voice was trembling with tears.

"Let me... let me find a way to get the internal structure diagram of 'Warehouse Zero' no matter what."