Chapter 316 We can't accept this kind of "kindness"!

A huge accusation has been leveled against them.

Su Yue smiled.

"Director Zhao, you're exaggerating. Article 5 of Chapter 3 of the Secrecy Regulations stipulates that core classified materials are strictly prohibited from being transferred across regions. I'm just strictly enforcing the regulations; how does that make me distrustful of the organization?"

She stood up and gestured for them to proceed.

"Since this is an inspection, please proceed to the laboratory. However, let me make this clear beforehand: all inspections must be conducted under our supervision, and taking photos or making notes is strictly prohibited."

Zhao Lichun stared at Su Yue for a long time, then suddenly burst into laughter.

"Great! It's a good thing that young people have strong principles! Let's do it your way!"

A large group of people walked towards the core area of ​​the laboratory.

Just as Su Yue reached the corner of the corridor, Zhang Huilan came over carrying Gu Ping'an.

"Yueyue, Ping'an is acting strangely today. He keeps crying and looking for you."

The little guy's eyes were red, and as soon as he saw Su Yue, he immediately opened his little arms and rushed over.

Su Yue took her son and kissed his chubby face.

"What's wrong? Do you miss your mom?"

Gu Pingan leaned on Su Yue's shoulder and sniffed.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he straightened up abruptly, his large, dark eyes fixed on the group behind Zhao Lichun.

A chubby little finger shot out, pointing straight at the bespectacled researcher who had just spoken.

"bad……"

The little guy frowned, seemingly trying to search his meager vocabulary.

Su Yue's heart skipped a beat.

Ping An's talent has never faltered.

He was the one who pointed out that radio station that carried drugs last time.

She looked in the direction her son was pointing.

The bespectacled man was named Wu Yong. He looked refined and was adjusting his collar with his head down. When he noticed Su Yue's gaze, he smiled somewhat awkwardly.

"Bad... bacteria..."

Gu Pingan finally managed to utter two words, then buried his head in Su Yue's arms, rubbing against her with disgust, as if he had seen something extremely dirty.

Bad bacteria.

In the child's mind, only the poison used to try to contaminate the entire military region's water supply deserved that name.

Su Yue gently patted her son's back, her expression calm, but her heart was in turmoil.

There's something wrong with this Wu Yong.

Zhao Lichun glanced back and chuckled as he joked.

"Comrade Su, is this your young master? He's quite clever; he can recognize people at such a young age."

"My child is shy around strangers, please excuse the awkwardness."

Su Yue, holding the child, turned around and winked at Gu Beichen.

Gu Beichen nodded almost imperceptibly.

Upon entering the core laboratory, Zhao Lichun and his group immediately dispersed and pretended to inspect the equipment and records.

Although Wu Yong was looking through the ordinary documents on the shelf, his eyes kept glancing at the stack of red-marked file folders on Su Yue's desk.

Su Yue deliberately placed it there.

The words on it read in large letters: "Mutant Strain No. 3: The Ultimate Path to Gene Editing".

Su Yue handed Gu Ping'an to Zhang Huilan, walked to the desk, picked up the file bag, and seemed to want to put it in the safe.

"oops!"

She suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "accidentally" knocking over the teacup in her hand, spilling tea onto the hem of her skirt.

"I'll go take care of it."

Su Yue casually tossed the file folder onto the table and hurried toward the restroom.

Gu Beichen followed closely behind.

"What's wrong?"

"The bait has been cast."

Su Yue stood in front of the sink, not bothering to clean the water stains on her dress, but instead looking at herself in the mirror.

"The person Ping An pointed out is named Wu Yong. I just checked him; although he was looking at a regular document, his fingers were constantly moving in his pocket, so he was probably adjusting a miniature camera."

What's in that file folder?

"Discarded data of strain No. 3".

Su Yue pulled out a tissue to wipe her hands and threw it into the trash can.

“That was a dead end that we eliminated three months ago. Although that direction performed extremely well in the early stages, with frighteningly high activity, it would cause genetic collapse by the third generation, and might even backfire on the host.”

Gu Beichen leaned against the door frame, arms crossed over his chest.

"You want them to steal it?"

"Since Zhao Lichun wants 'political achievements' so much, I'll give him a big one."

Su Yue left the restroom and returned to the laboratory.

The file folder on the desk was still in its original place, seemingly unchanged.

But Su Yue keenly noticed that the crease at one corner of the document bag had changed.

The corner that was slightly raised just now has been flattened.

Someone has tampered with it.

She didn't say anything, walked over, picked up the file bag, locked it in the safe, and even deliberately turned the combination lock a few times.

In the corner, Wu Yong pushed up his glasses, concealing the glint of shrewdness that flashed in his eyes.

That night.

In the monitoring room, only the cold blue light emitted by the screens could be heard.

Gu Beichen pulled up the afternoon's surveillance footage from the laboratory.

In the footage, during the brief two minutes that Su Yue left, Wu Yong had his back to the camera, his body obscuring the desk.

But he quickly pulled a matchbox-sized object from his pocket with his right hand and pressed buttons repeatedly on the contents of the file folder.

His movements were skillful and extremely professional.

"He's an experienced one."

Gu Beichen freezes the frame and zooms in on what Wu Yong is holding.

"A miniature camera made in West Germany; these are very rare in China."

"It seems that Zhao Lichun came prepared this time."

Su Yue sat in the chair, looking at Wu Yong's greedy face on the screen.

"He wants to make a name for himself at the All-Army Science and Technology Achievements Reporting Conference a month later and seize control of the 'Bacteriophage Project'."

"That data is enough to give him a 'surprise' for a while."

Gu Beichen turned off the surveillance camera.

"Should we arrest someone?"

"Need not."

Su Yue stood up and stretched.

"If Zhao Lichun arrests him, he can at most say it's a personal act; it's like sacrificing a pawn to save the king."

"What I want is to uproot it completely."

The next morning.

Zhao Lichun and his group did not mention taking the data again. Instead, they changed from their aggressive attitude yesterday and became unusually easy to talk to.

"Comrade Su Yue, after our review, although your laboratory is a bit rudimentary, the procedures are fairly standardized. As for the data, since there are regulations, we won't insist on it."

Zhao Lichun's face was trembling with laughter, his wrinkles trembling, giving him a magnanimous appearance.

"However, you'd better prepare well for next month's briefing. All the army's leaders will be there, so don't mess things up."

"I will definitely not let Director Zhao down."

Su Yue smiled and saw him into the car.

As the jeep sped away, kicking up dust, the smile on Su Yue's face vanished instantly.

"He was in a hurry to go back and 'reproduce' the experimental results."

Gu Beichen stood beside her, coldly watching the direction in which the convoy disappeared.

"One month."

Su Yue turned and walked back.

"A month from now, when this peach has rotted in my stomach, I'll see if Director Zhao will still be able to laugh."

She walked into the lab, picked up the file folder that had been photographed, and casually threw it into the shredder.

With the hum of the machines, the erroneous data that could have caused a disaster was reduced to meaningless slips of paper.