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"You still dare to come to work." Zhou Min sat at his workstation, picked up the paper documents on the table with one hand to cover it up, put the other hand to his lips, and spoke in a low voice to Huang Peiyi next to him.

After the man came out of the restaurant yesterday, he kept following Huang Peiyi with a switchblade hidden in his hand. Considering that she went to the restaurant to have a secret conversation with someone, Zhou Min had a rough guess.

Either Huang Peiyi had made a mistake at work and Party A wanted to teach her a lesson, or she had completed her task and Party A wanted to silence her.

Now it seems that the former is more likely, because Huang Peiyi is still sitting in the office working hard on modeling, which is strong evidence that she has not completed the task.

Shouldn't I be the one asking you this? Huang Peiyi's hand on the mouse trembled as Zhou Min took the initiative to talk to her, and she almost deleted the unfinished model.

Huang Peiyi, relying on the fact that there were so many people in the office and that the people around her wouldn't do anything illegal, tightened her grip on the keyboard, as if to give herself courage. She trembled as she spoke, "If you dare to come to work, why shouldn't I?"

Last night, on her hurried way home, she figured out what had happened. The man who had been following her was the one sent by Party A to talk to her. She also knew that Party A probably didn't want her to withdraw from the mission, so he wanted to teach her a lesson after the conversation.

As the saying goes, give a slap and then give a sweet date. As long as the slap is strong enough, it will surely make the person afraid to ask for more.

Fortunately, Zhou Min blocked Party A's slap.

After discovering that the difficulty of the mission was far beyond her expectations, Huang Peiyi began to gradually destroy the traces so that she could escape smoothly. Naturally, she was not afraid that Zhou Min would torture the man out of something after catching him.

But there was one thing Huang Peiyi couldn't figure out. If Zhou Min was really someone sent by Zhenbang Group to monitor her, why would he help her? Torturing someone of unknown origin versus torturing a suspicious group employee, no matter how you think about it, the latter is more reasonable, right?

However, Huang Peiyi did not think too much about it at that time. She hoped that Zhou Min's behavior would make the situation more chaotic so that she could escape smoothly.

But just as Huang Peiyi was about to drive out of City G, she was intercepted by people sent by Party A.

There were ten cars and dozens of people.

Of course, Huang Peiyi didn't count. These were what Party A said when he pointed a gun at her head, along with some obscenities that were too harsh to hear. He said that it was because of her non-cooperation that they had wasted so much manpower and resources.

Huang Peiyi had never seen such a big scene before. She was trembling with fear and knelt on the ground, crying and hugging the client's thigh. She said that she would complete the task well, but today she had to rush back to attend the funeral because her younger brother was killed in a car accident.

"Don't be ridiculous! Do you think we didn't investigate your family background before letting you take on this mission?"

Withdrawing a non-existent brother, Huang Peiyi swallowed her saliva and thought in her mind what else to say to save her life.

"You killed our people. This can't end well."

ah?

Huang Peiyi never expected that Zhou Min not only disrupted the situation, but also overturned the table.

"It's unfair! I didn't kill him..."

Huang Peiyi persuaded the client to finally come to his senses. Even if she was bold, she wouldn't dare to shoot someone in the street. Guns were strictly controlled in the federal government, and ordinary people couldn't get their hands on them without connections.

Hearing the people from Party A gathered around analyzing the situation, Huang Peiyi wanted to interject, "Since it's strictly regulated, why do you all still have one?" Fortunately, her strong desire to survive still controlled her inability to resist talking nonsense. She wished she could reduce her presence even more.

Huang Peiyi squatted on the side and eavesdropped silently. The person sent by Party A to talk to her was shot dead in a remote street two kilometers away from the alley where she escaped, and the FBI was alarmed.

According to insiders, there were no witnesses, no surveillance records, the body was cleaned very carefully, and there was no bullet or other valid biological information.

The only clue at the scene was a rose that was shot to pieces along with the corpse's head.

Huang Peiyi was busy packing her luggage and fleeing at the time, so naturally she didn't have enough time to accomplish so many things.

Huang Peiyi still did not give Zhou Min away. If she said that Zhou Min did all these things to help her, she would rather just walk into the gunpoint and die.

She only said that she got rid of the man at that alley, and she knew nothing about what happened afterwards.

Zhou Min's behavior was like Lin Daiyu uprooting a weeping willow tree. It really overturned Huang Peiyi's subjective view of her sweet image and directly made Huang Peiyi rule out the possibility that she was from the Zhenbang Group.

This means that Huang Peiyi’s previously interrupted work can still be carried forward, but it is unknown what results the changes tonight will lead to.

In the end, Party A did not let her off easily. Not only did they force her to return the deposit she had paid earlier, but they also asked her to complete the task within the deadline. As for subsequent remuneration, there was no talk of it.

All the money was used to deal with the people from the Investigation Bureau! Before leaving, Party A patted Huang Peiyi's face with his gun, asking her to be obedient and not cause any more trouble.

Shit client, shit job. Huang Peiyi was busy carving useless patterns on the awful model, while she cursed everyone who had made her unhappy.

Of course, Huang Peiyi still looked calm, fearing that Zhou Min next to her would misunderstand that she was dissatisfied with her.

This guy is a real killer, and he has a gun.

Zhou Min couldn't help but wonder why Huang Peiyi dared to come to work when she heard him say that.

Could it be that she, like Zhou Qiting, was somewhere watching the whole process of him beating someone up?

That shouldn't be the case. Zhou Min's movements in the alleyway couldn't be seen from any other angle except from Zhou Qiting's direction. Furthermore, when Zhou Qiting walked towards her, his eyes didn't wander away; they stared directly at her. Therefore, Huang Peiyi's presence could be ruled out.

After running away last night, Zhou Min finally came to his senses and felt that his reaction to Zhou Qiting was really bad. He did not seem like a killer with many years of experience, but more like a frightened young man.

After weighing the pros and cons in her mind, Zhou Min felt that she couldn't give up this big order easily. After all, the sunk cost was there and she needed the money, so she decided to mend the situation and sent a message to Zhou Qiting seriously to make a patch.

"Actually, I'm an FBI agent. We received a tip that a commercial spy, known for his numerous crimes, has infiltrated the Zhenbang Group. To avoid alerting the perpetrators, my superiors ordered me to conduct a covert investigation."

"Miss Zhou will keep my secret, right?"

Attached is a picture of the Investigation Bureau ID card that Zhou Min had forged in order to avoid cross-city iris testing. Private information such as name and number were covered in the picture.

It still sounded very believable. Zhou Min comforted himself in his heart, but in fact he was worried.

"Keep it a secret? Okay, but..."

Zhou Qiting flipped through the investigation briefing just sent to her by her subordinates and confirmed that the other party's identity "Wu Min" was a forged one. Although the identity information was complete, many discrepancies would be found if the past experience was checked.

For example, work photos from a previous company, graduation photos from university, etc. These relatively personal information were not too difficult for Zhou Yiting to obtain.

Seeing the faces in these photos that did not match Zhou Min's at all, Zhou Yiting decided to add some details to the Zhou Group's background check process to prevent "commercial spies" or "federal agents" from infiltrating his own company.

As for Zheng Siying, we’ll talk about it later.

It’s not that Zhou Qiting is so mean that she can’t stand seeing Zhenbang Group doing well, but she made a sudden decision to lower herself and personally help Zheng Siying keep an eye on this “federal agent”.

"But what?" Zhou Min replied with gritted teeth.

I hate people who only speak half the words the most!

"You won't refuse my personal invitation outside of working hours again, right?"

Oh, are you discussing this with me? That's quite thoughtful.

Secondly, I hate people who threaten others!

After taking a deep breath to calm himself, Zhou Min replied flexibly, "Of course not, Miss Zhou. I would be honored to receive any invitation from you."

Who is this all because of? Thinking of this, Zhou Min stared at Huang Peiyi with an uncontrollable sneer on his face.

Huang Peiyi had been keeping an eye on Zhou Min, so she naturally sensed the gaze that seemed to want to kill her, and her spine suddenly went numb.

"Peiyi, let's have a good chat during lunch break. You won't refuse me, right?"

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"You are a business spy."

In the corner of the cafeteria, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, Zhou Min directly revealed his trump card and gave Huang Peiyi a royal bomb.

Huang Peiyi naturally would not have thought that Zhou Min had listened to almost all of her call records that day. She just thought that the information was obtained by her interrogating Party A's people.

Thinking of the man Zhou Min killed last night, Huang Peiyi's throat tightened and she remained silent cautiously, fearing that she would say something wrong and annoy the person opposite her.

Zhou Min completely ignored the fact that Huang Peiyi was too nervous to eat and drank the soup in the bowl slowly and leisurely. The five-fingered ginseng and pork rib soup had a slight sweetness to it and was quite delicious.

Zhou Min just thought that Huang Peiyi's nervousness was a subconscious reaction to being exposed by her.

By the time Zhou Min had eaten his fill, Huang Peiyi, who was sitting opposite him, was so restless that she couldn't eat much.

Zhou Min took out a napkin, wiped the corner of his mouth, put on a kind smile, and said sincerely: "Don't be nervous, I just want you to do me a small favor."

No matter how kindly she smiled, in Huang Peiyi's eyes, she looked like a smiling tiger, who might turn hostile and overturn the table in the next second.

Huang Peiyi suddenly felt a little pathetic. She thought she had saved her life temporarily, but she didn't expect that her life was still hanging on a wire rope, with the word "death" written on both sides. If she took a wrong step, she would be completely finished.

Huang Peiyi spoke tremblingly: "You, you tell me, as long as it is something I can do, I will definitely do my best."

"I want you to help me get the customer data and supplier information of Zhenbang Group, and..."

Zhou Min was not stupid. She didn't want Huang Peiyi to guess her goal from the information she wanted, so she reported a series of items and included the information she really wanted.

Kill me, really, kill me. Huang Peiyi listened to Zhou Min reading out more than a dozen items of information that could be considered commercial secrets like the names of dishes, wailing in pain in her heart. If she had a mirror in front of her at this moment, she would have been able to deeply understand what it meant to want to cry but not be able to.

After Zhou Min finished speaking, Huang Peiyi still took out her usual attitude towards the difficult Party A, which was - "Okay, got it, no problem."

Life is bitter, Huang Peiyi sighed inwardly.

At this moment, the vibration of the cell phone interrupted Zhou Min's words to Huang Peiyi to get the information within three days.

Zhou Min picked up his phone and unlocked the screen, and saw a message from Zhou Qiting. It was an address and a sentence: "See you tonight."