Chapter 50
Even though Li Tingqin has a strong team of lawyers, this is in Country A, and his opponents are of the same level or even stronger than him. Li still has no way to escape unfair treatment. As a foreigner, even if he pays bail, he can be detained for 48 hours.
Li Tingqin sat on a cold chair in the police station with his legs crossed. He looked calm and showed no emotion. He did not answer any questions, and his lawyer did everything for him.
The lawyers and executives, on the other hand, "obstructed" the police in every possible way and seemed to be trying every possible way to cover up the situation in the factory.
The person outside the one-way window looked at the situation inside and said, "Do you think Li is panicking right now? The more his team uses all the clauses to defend themselves, the more it proves that there is something wrong with his factory."
"Let's find the evidence first, otherwise his team will accuse us of procedural irregularities."
These consortiums were certain that there would be evidence inside the factory, so they believed that as long as they entered the factory for inspection, they would be able to make strong charges within 48 hours and thus prove their guilt.
Under pressure from all sides, the struggles of Li Tingqin's team were ineffective. The police's expert consultants still risked procedural irregularities and entered the factory's laboratory for inspection.
"Once a problem is discovered, we can ask the national security department to intervene. By then, when dealing with a Chinese company, improper procedures will only be a small problem." They were too disdainful to deal with other Chinese companies, but Li Tingqin's coming here made them feel threatened. It would be best if they could sanction the Li family over this issue.
Because of their professional relevance, the expert advisory team naturally included people from these consortiums. They began to check the data in the laboratory and began to marvel: "Their research has actually progressed to this stage?"
"Oh my god, these Chinese researchers are really geniuses! This achievement is already far ahead of the industry!"
"Why are there only results here? How did he do it? Where's the core information? Find it quickly!"
Listening to the excited words of these experts, the police began to feel that something was wrong. What were these consultants looking for? Wasn't Li's laboratory studying some sophisticated instruments that were eliminated by their country and stealing their country's technical secrets?
Now looking at the research and development content of this laboratory, how come it doesn't look like it at all? The things involved here seem to be related to the business scope of several consortiums.
They knew that the Li family came from China to expand the market, and with low prices and certain technological advantages, they inevitably became competitors with these financial groups, and these financial groups targeted him for this reason. But now it seems that he is here to steal other people's research and development secrets?
Although they have been bribed, they cannot become victims of the fighting among these financial groups. If no evidence is found and the Li family's research and development secrets are leaked, they will be in a passive position.
So they stopped the experts from digging deeper into the data and interrupted: "It's time to go back. What's the situation?"
The consultants all shook their heads: "This is indeed the core technology that Li's is developing, but it has nothing to do with what the informant mentioned."
"Did we find the wrong factory? We should check all the research institutes and factories of the Li family."
The police said, "We have no reason to check other places in the Li family's home, and it's too late."
Now the head of the consortium finally recalled the personnel changes in the factory that were so minor that they were difficult to notice, and finally reacted: "Damn it! Li is still here... just to let us relax our vigilance. Their team may have all returned home!"
"They may have started cleaning up here a long time ago. No matter how hard we search, we won't find anything valuable!"
After hearing the news from the expert consultant on the scene, another person said, "No, in fact, the things he left here are also very valuable... After all, they are Chinese people's things, so we might as well take them away directly and treat it as a laboratory data leak."
But some people still realized that they had fallen into a carefully designed trap: "But now Li has made everyone think that we are teaming up to steal his business secrets..."
"If we can't find evidence within 48 hours, we will be in a passive position and our actions will be unexplainable."
“Can’t we ask the national security department to intervene?”
"Without any substantial evidence, they will just think we are after the Li family's business secrets."
They looked at Li Tingqin, who had been sitting quietly in the police station for a day with an upright posture and a calm demeanor, and they would let him go in less than 24 hours.
They still felt very unwilling and thought: "Since they brought the research and development materials back to China, if they want to continue the research and development, there must be traces. Maybe the researchers accidentally connected to an Internet computer, or maybe the USB flash drive that was plugged into an Internet computer was plugged into their confidential computer... In any case, with our network technology, we can definitely capture it."
Finally, he said decisively: "Arrange a network engineer immediately!"
"With the backward network security technology of the Chinese, even a large group like the Li family, their internal network is nothing more than our backyard."
They sneered, "And Li can only sit here now, what can he do about it?"
Li Tingqin drank water slowly from a disposable paper cup.
Everything had been arranged before, and now the response was no response. Even though he couldn't get any information from the outside world at the police station, he guessed that if they couldn't find anything, they might attack from the network.
But he believed that our researchers had all been trained in confidentiality, and they would not make such low-level mistakes that would allow the A countrymen to catch them. As for the losses caused by the attack on the group's network during the remaining period, it would be a necessary sacrifice, and the extent of the sacrifice would depend on how long the partners who stayed at home could resist...
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Gu Chen strolled around slowly, adjusting everything in the large garden to his liking. The sun was already setting.
He got in the car and saw that it was already past 6 o'clock. He said to Uncle Deng, "Uncle Deng, ask the director if he has finished get off work. You can ask someone to put the invitation letter in the duty room. We still have some time to go there, so they won't have to wait until they get off work."
Uncle Deng thought Mr. Gu was very considerate, but when he called him, he said he had to work overtime. Uncle Deng said, "Mr. Gu, these secretaries are the busiest. I'm afraid they have to work until nine or ten every day. We can still make it in time."
Gu Chen sighed inwardly. When Mr. Li returned to work, he probably followed the same schedule. At 10 o'clock, he was already asleep when he got off work.
The car slowly drove towards the Li Group building. It was already 7 o'clock when it arrived at the parking lot downstairs. The lights on some floors had been turned off, and employees were leaving the building one after another.
Uncle Deng said, "Mr. Gu, please wait a moment. Secretary Lin will send the invitation letter down soon."
However, Uncle Deng looked at the employees who were leaving for a few minutes, but still did not see Secretary Lin. He frowned and called again: "Secretary Lin, why haven't you come down yet?"
Secretary Lin's voice was urgent, "I'm sorry, Uncle Deng, something went wrong just now and we needed to deal with it urgently. We didn't have time to contact you. Why don't you come up and get it yourself?" At this time, Secretary Lin had not realized how big the problem was.
Uncle Deng was a little unhappy. Mr. Gu had already been waiting for several minutes. It would probably take another ten minutes for him to go up and down, which was too much of a waste of Mr. Gu's time.
But since Secretary Lin said it was something that needed to be dealt with urgently, it must be an important matter for the group. Uncle Deng still said, "Then why don't you just ask someone to send it down?"
Secretary Lin said hurriedly, "Everyone on my floor is busy... and those who are off work have all left. I can't call anyone, so I won't talk to you anymore..." As if the seriousness of the problem was being measured in seconds, his tone became more and more urgent, and he hung up the phone.
Uncle Deng thought about it and realized that the board of directors' office was full of busy people. If he wanted to call people, he would have to go downstairs to call them. Instead of wasting time on communication, he might as well go up and get it himself. So he said, "Mr. Gu, please wait a moment. I'll go up and get it now."
Gu Chen nodded and said with a smile: "It's okay, Uncle Deng, I'm alone now, it's okay to wait for a while."
Uncle Deng got out of the car and walked into the building. He pressed the elevator button. When the elevator reached the first floor and opened its door, none of the people who were going downstairs to get off work came out. Instead, they pressed the buttons for their floors. Uncle Deng walked in somewhat puzzled and pressed the button for the 26th floor. Then some people who had reached the door ran back quickly, pressed the button for the elevator door to go up, and rushed into the elevator.
The elevator was packed with people, and it finally started to rise until it could no longer hold any more people. The people who squeezed in panted and asked, "Why are you suddenly told to return to your post? Did something serious happen?"
Everyone was confused: "I don't know? This is called overtime? Are you crazy?"
Someone opened the group's intranet to see if there was any relevant news, but found that the group's intranet had crashed and nothing could be found.
Someone joked, "Could it be that everyone went in to see why they were working overtime and crashed the intranet?"
However, the more Uncle Deng listened, the more furrowed his brows became. Now that the young master could not be contacted, it seemed as if something big had suddenly happened in the group, and they had actually notified these employees to return to work.
When they arrived at the 26th floor, all the employees in the elevator had left. Uncle Deng walked out of the elevator and walked quickly to the director's office. However, no one paid attention to him for the time being. Everyone inside was on the phone, frantically checking in on situations and arranging work.
"There are not enough people on duty at the Cyber Security Department. Not enough! Do you understand what I mean?"
"The emergency response mechanism has already been activated, but it seems that we are no match for the other side!"
"It hasn't been breached yet, but there's no way to fix this kind of thing. The data has been stolen. I've asked all the employees in the network security department to come back. You should also ask everyone in your department to come back and be on standby immediately."
“Can we know who the attacker is?”
"The other party used multiple network devices to jump and hide their tracks. We don't know yet, but we suspect they are foreign forces."
“Immediately contact the national security authorities to report the relevant situation to them and request their assistance.”
Vice President Xu, who was in charge of the group, said: "Immediately move the office to the 17th floor next to the Cyber Security Department so that we can follow up on the situation in a timely manner."
Vice President Xu saw Uncle Deng and said seriously, "Uncle Deng, can you contact President Li? Many important servers and network equipment of the group have been attacked by unknown personnel. The severity is greater than any previous attack. If President Li can make some decisions remotely via video, it will be much better."
Uncle Deng looked at the many people present, and although he believed that the cyber attack was related to President Li's detention by Country A, he could not reveal any speculation in this regard. Disclosing such news would only cause people to be uneasy.
He could only say, "Boss Li still has some business to deal with in Continent E, so he's probably still on the plane."
Vice President Xu thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Deng, you are here at the right time. How about you stay and help coordinate and arrange some work?" Uncle Deng is President Li's right-hand man and can help with the scheduling of personnel and work. Moreover, the response to cyber attacks requires immediacy. The other party chose to launch the attack after work. Now, except for the 24-hour duty personnel, everyone else is rushing back and is simply too busy to handle it.
Uncle Deng now realized the seriousness of the matter, so he nodded and said, "Okay."
Gu Chen sat in the car and waited leisurely, but he saw through the car window that the group's employees who were off work began to flow back into the building, and the lights that were turned off upstairs began to gradually light up, and Uncle Deng did not come down for a long time after going up. This building seemed to suck everyone back.
Gu Chen held his chin with his hand. It seemed that something big had indeed happened.
Then, he received a call from Uncle Deng: "Mr. Gu, why don't you let the driver take you back first? I'll help them deal with some urgent matters here and bring the invitation letter to you another day."
Gu Chen didn't expect to pick up an invitation letter on the way, and he also took out the effect that everyone was forced to work overtime, but since they were already here, there was no need to send everyone running around, he said: "It's okay, I'll go upstairs and take it back."
After hanging up the phone, he said to the driver, "Master Xu, please wait for me for ten minutes." Then he got out of the car and walked into the building.
Master Xu waited and waited, but after twenty minutes, the person still didn't come down.
"..." Is this group building going to eat people today or something?
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