Chapter 456 The Gu Family Boy Scouts, On the Move!

A cup of coffee was splashed solidly onto Lin Jiakang's delicate face.

Brown liquid streamed down his gold-rimmed glasses, staining his expensive custom-made suit.

"Ah—!" Lin Jiakang screamed and jumped up. "Are you crazy! Do you know how much this outfit costs?!"

"Two thousand US dollars? Are you trying to fob me off?" Chen Xinyue slammed her empty cup on the table, her thuggish manner clearly learned from someone. "Even the gatekeeper at our factory earns more than that!"

The bodyguards behind Lin Jiakang were about to make a move.

The shadow in the doorway suddenly moved.

Gu Beichen took a step forward.

The floor made a dull thud.

He didn't speak, but reached out and unbuttoned the top button of his collar, revealing faintly visible scars and a menacing aura that seemed to have crawled out of a pile of corpses.

The bodyguards managed to bring the car to a screeching halt, their calves starting to cramp.

"This is the Blue Ocean, not a place for you to run wild." Gu Beichen's voice wasn't loud, but it struck everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer. "Anyone who wants to make a move, ask me first if I'll allow it."

Lin Jiakang took off his glasses and wiped the coffee stains off his face in a disheveled manner: "Su Yue! Don't push your luck! Do you know the connections the Lin family has in Beijing? If you offend us, your medicine won't leave this island!"

Su Yue picked up the half-wet check from the table.

"The Lin family's connections?"

She pinched one corner of the check with two fingers and tore it gently.

"Sizzle—"

The check was split in two.

"Sizzle—"

Four and a half.

Su Yue tossed the pile of scraps of paper into the air, and the scraps fell like snowflakes onto Lin Jiakang's head.

"Take this back and tell your old man." Su Yue clapped her hands. "If you want to live, then obediently line up and register. Trying to bribe me? Sorry, Lan Hai has no shortage of money, and it certainly doesn't lack backbone."

"roll."

That's all there is to it.

Lin Jiakang's hand was trembling as he pointed at Su Yue, but under Gu Beichen's cold gaze, he ultimately didn't dare to utter any harsh words and fled in disarray with the group of disheveled experts.

Watching the group's disheveled figures, Chen Xinyue breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Su Yue with lingering fear: "Factory Manager, was I too impulsive?"

"What's the rush?" Su Yue took out a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the coffee stains splattered on her sleeve. "Good for you. Remember to use boiling water next time. It's not sincere to splash cold coffee."

Gu Beichen closed the conference room door, took out a letter from his pocket, and handed it to Su Yue.

The envelope was made of special kraft paper and stamped with the highest-grade red sealing wax seal of the capital.

"This was sent by Commander Zheng just now."

Su Yue opened the envelope.

Inside was a gold-embossed invitation.

[We cordially invite Ms. Su Yue from Blue Ocean Biopharmaceutical Factory to attend the National Conference for Commending Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievements.]

The signature is from the most central office in Beijing.

Su Yue looked at the words, her fingertips slightly burning.

“It seems,” she closed the invitation and looked out the window, “that the real battlefield is in the capital.”

Gu Beichen stood behind her, his hand on her shoulder.

"Then let's go."

"Take back the glory that belongs to you."

The sea breeze, carrying a salty, fishy smell, blew across the mottled red brick walls of the military compound.

Gu Ping'an squatted by the drainage ditch at the base of the wall, holding a foxtail grass in his hand, with a camouflage ring made of willow branches on his head.

He pulled his hat brim down very low, revealing only a pair of bright black eyes, staring intently at the man in gray overalls fifty meters away.

That was a stranger's face.

This person loitered around the back gate of the compound for three days.

He neither sought help nor did he handle anything; instead, he focused on staring at the stinking ditch leading to the sewage outlet of the Blue Ocean Pharmaceutical Factory, while scribbling and drawing in a small notebook.

"Brother, a mosquito bit me."

Gu Ningjing lay down next to him, the chubby boy clutching a glass bottle filled with white powder, a clod of mud stuck to the tip of his nose.

Behind her, there was a small bamboo cart. Yun Ting was sitting inside, sleeping soundly with a pacifier in his mouth and a long drool hanging from the corner of his mouth.

"Shh—the target has moved." Gu Ping'an spat out the foxtail grass in his mouth and pulled his willow hat down. "Plan Two, follow up."

The man in the gray overalls closed his notebook, looked around, and seeing that no one was around, he followed the wall and crawled into the overgrown wasteland.

That was the reserved site for the second phase of the pharmaceutical factory project, and the ventilation ducts that had just been laid were buried underneath.

Gu Ping'an crouched down, his movements as nimble as a little monkey.

He turned around and made a gesture to Gu Ningjing.

Gu Ningjing immediately understood, stuffed the glass bottle into her pocket, pushed the small bamboo cart, deliberately made some noise, and followed along unsteadily.

Hearing the sound of wheels crushing gravel, the man in gray overalls turned around abruptly.

Upon seeing two toddlers pushing a stroller, the man's tense shoulders relaxed.

He forced a smile, but the smile looked awkward no matter how you looked at it, like a layer of skin stuck to his face.

"Little friend, what are you doing here? The grass is too tall, there are snakes."

Gu Ping'an didn't say anything, but just stared intently at the liberation shoes on the man's feet.

The soles of my shoes were covered in red mud, a type of soil unique to Red Star Farm.

But this person clearly came from the dock on the east side.

This person is dishonest.

"Uncle, we're lost." Gu Ping'an took a step forward, blocking Gu Ningjing's path, his voice clear and bright, "Could you lead us out of here?"

The man in the gray overalls rolled his eyes.

In this desolate wilderness, we're just in need of someone to provide cover.

"Okay, Uncle will take you there." The man took out two pieces of fruit candy from his pocket, unwrapped them, and the smell of cheap artificial flavoring immediately hit Gu Ping'an's nose. "Here, have some candy. Uncle has a question for you. Under that big chimney up ahead, isn't there a small house surrounded by an iron fence?"

That was the backup generator room of the pharmaceutical factory.

Gu Pingan took the candy, but didn't eat it. He just held it in his hand and twirled it twice.

"That's where the giant monster is kept," Gu Ping'an said with a straight face, making up a lie. "Mom said that anyone who gets close will be eaten."

The man chuckled, clearly not taking the child's words seriously, and reached out to grab Gu Ping'an's arm: "Come on, take Uncle to see what the monster looks like."

Just as his hand was about to touch Gu Ping'an's shoulder.

"Tranquility! Make your move!"

Gu Ping'an suddenly pulled back, his body sliding away like an eel.

Gu Ningjing let go of the stroller handle, took short strides and rushed over, the glass bottle cap in her hand already unscrewed.

Without hesitation, she slammed her head against the man's thigh, causing the bottle in her hand to fall to the ground.

puff--

A large cloud of white powder exploded, scattering all over the man's trouser legs and shoes.

That was Su Yue's specially made tracking powder. It turned blue when it came into contact with water, couldn't be washed off for three days, and had a peculiar sulfur smell that could be detected by police dogs from two miles away.

"You little brat!" the man roared, raising his hand to slap Gu Ningjing.