sightings
After Zhou Min's fever subsided and he returned to work, he didn't see Zhou Qiting for several days, neither in the office nor in the cafeteria.
Come to think of it, the young lady has so many "toys", it's normal for her to get tired of the old ones and love the new ones.
Enjoy life while you can. Once Zhou Min pays off his debt, the eldest lady’s time for enjoyment will also begin to countdown.
I wonder if Zhou Qiting would recognize Zhou Min's eyes at the last moment, or would he remember the unfulfilled promise?
Zhou Min scooped up some wolfberry leaves from the soup bowl with chopsticks and chewed them carefully. The tender leaves, soaked in the broth, had a bitter taste, somewhat similar to the bitter thorn leaves from before. It must have been the coincidental change in the soup's color that distracted her from thinking about Zhou Qiting.
Zhou Qiting no longer entered and exited the Zhenbang Group, which was a good thing for Zhou Min. At least she could focus more on her mission, and she was not worried about not being able to find Zhou Qiting in the future.
She installed a disposable signal transceiver on Zhou Yiting's car. When not triggered, it would be in dormant mode and almost impossible to detect. Only when it received specific instructions from her would the device start up and send the real-time location to the receiver.
Even if she was discovered, it didn't matter. Zhou Min was confident that she could find Zhou Qiting's whereabouts again. As long as she was still alive, she had enough patience to continue to fight with Zhou Qiting.
She wants to become the ghost that lingers in Zhou Qiting's smooth life.
Zhou Min swallowed the wolfberry leaves and soup in his mouth, picked up the plate with only vegetable juice left but no rice grains, put the plate into the recycling point, and returned to the office to take a nap.
On the desk still lay the stack of paper product materials that he had read over and over dozens of times. Until today, Zhou Min had been forced to remain idle, with almost no progress on the task.
Her good colleague, on the other hand, seemed a little absent-minded. He modeled the computer desktop from several angles without adding a single line. Even during lunch break, he was still staring at the turned-off mobile phone screen in a daze.
Could it be that the progress of the real work has also reached a bottleneck?
Zhou Min thought this might be a good starting point, so he took it to heart and decided to show his helpfulness tonight and check on his good colleague Huang Peiyi after get off work.
If he could use this to get evidence that she was a business spy, that would be great. If that didn't work, Zhou Min would have to talk to her directly and openly about cooperation.
I wonder if she would mind if I talked to her at gunpoint?
Seeing Huang Peiyi's frown and white knuckles gripping the armrest of the chair anxiously, Zhou Min calmly withdrew his gaze and thought secretly in his mind.
As Zhou Min expected, Huang Peiyi did not stay to work overtime tonight. As soon as the working time came, she hurriedly punched in and walked out.
Zhou Min followed slowly. She had systematically learned how to track in the organization, with the aim of solving targets in sparsely populated areas to reduce unnecessary trouble.
You cannot be too close to the target, otherwise you will be easily discovered by a highly vigilant target; you cannot be too far from the target, otherwise you will be easily thrown off by a target with strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities.
Zhou Min and Huang Peiyi kept a distance from each other. After the other got into a taxi, Zhou Min hesitated for a rare moment, but finally scanned a shared bicycle with a less conspicuous color and started pedaling in a few seconds.
It’s really not because she is poor.
Admittedly, the best thing to do at the moment is to stop another taxi, throw down two large bills and tell the driver to "follow the car in front."
Then pray to God that the other party doesn't notice the bright yellow taxi following closely behind.
Furthermore, Zhou Min thought that although her appearance was not shifty, she was not upright either. In G City, where the proportion of enthusiastic citizens was relatively high, there was no guarantee that the driver would report her suspicious stalking behavior.
It’s true that she wanted to discuss cooperation with Huang Peiyi, but she didn’t want to do it in the police station.
But since they were charged with different crimes, it would be difficult to lock them up together, right? Zhou Min pedaled her shared bike vigorously while keeping an eye on the surrounding traffic. When she looked up again, she saw the taxi Huang Peiyi was riding in, following the evening rush hour traffic onto the elevated highway.
……All right.
It was too late to stop another car. Zhou Min dragged her newly recovered body, pedaling the wheels of the car until they were almost smoking. Fortunately, the road was more congested during the evening rush hour, and she barely reached the exit of the elevated road before losing Huang Peiyi.
"Huh..." Zhou Min panted and watched Huang Peiyi get out of the car and enter a restaurant.
Zhou Min parked his bicycle, turned into the convenience store next to him, bought a bottle of oolong tea and a triangular rice ball, sat on the high chair provided for rest in the store, and stared at the restaurant entrance through the glass wall.
Zhou Min pinched the two corners of the triangular rice ball package and tore it open casually, not caring about tearing the seaweed wrapped around the rice ball. She stared at the entrance and exit of the restaurant without blinking, analyzing Huang Peiyi's purpose of coming here tonight.
Zhou Min opened the mobile phone app to check. This is a reservation-only restaurant with a high average price, but the exterior decoration is not high-profile, which means that it has good privacy and is a good place to talk about things.
Could it be that Huang Peiyi had already stolen what she wanted during Zhou Min's days off? Zhou Min chewed on a rice ball and wiped the seaweed crumbs from the corner of her mouth with her index finger. Combined with Huang Peiyi's unusual behavior she had observed today, her suspicions gradually grew in her mind.
She needed to confirm it herself.
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Someone is following me.
After Huang Peiyi came out of the restaurant, she vaguely felt that someone's eyes were glued to her. No matter how she moved through the crowd, no matter how fast or slow her steps were, she could not get rid of this uncomfortable feeling.
Coupled with the stagnant progress of her "work" during this period, Huang Peiyi couldn't help feeling anxious.
Who is following me?
Today she asked Party A to come out in order to cancel the original agreement, because she found that her initial estimate was wrong and it was much more difficult than she thought to steal the prototype code of Zhenbang Group's core system.
More importantly, she has been targeted by the company. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why the company would send a colleague who seems to have a close relationship with the boss to sit next to her in the office, and come to work early every day like her. Isn't it just to keep an eye on her?
Fortunately, Huang Peiyi believed that she was flawless in her work and had always been very cautious in her work. She should not have left any evidence this time, otherwise the company would have notified the investigation department to arrest her.
But the reason why Party A is Party A is that it has enough confidence to control Party B, both in terms of money and personal safety.
Although the other party had just calmly advised her not to think too much and to complete the task as soon as possible, and never mentioned the termination of the contract, Huang Peiyi still saw a hint of displeasure when the other party answered the phone, and realized that it would be difficult for her to get out this time.
She finally took back her words about terminating the contract, and only asked the other party to give her some more time... She wanted to make sure that she could escape from G City smoothly and disappear without a trace.
While Huang Peiyi said "I will definitely complete the mission", she was planning an escape plan in her mind.
After trying several times and still failing to shake off that gaze, Huang Peiyi hurriedly stepped into a dim alley, hoping to use the complex alley environment to shake off the person following her.
As Huang Peiyi was moving quickly through the narrow alley, the worst situation happened. Without the protection of the public's sight, the people behind her became more and more unscrupulous, and their footsteps were getting closer and closer.
Her back was tense, but she kept walking, one hand in her bag, holding the pepper spray, ready to fight back if the man approached her.
Unexpectedly, just as she was about to exit the alley, the footsteps behind her suddenly became chaotic and stopped completely. Huang Peiyi took this opportunity to step into the light that separated the fear behind her. Before turning around at the alley, she glanced back cautiously.
I saw a girl with long brown curly hair, holding the hands of a man in black behind her back. Her face was gloomy, and she stepped on the man's knee with one of her white canvas shoes, showing a suppressive posture.
Wu Min?
"You go first."
Huang Peiyi had no intention of going back to help, and upon hearing this, she withdrew her gaze and disappeared around the corner without looking back.
"Who sent you?"
When Zhou Min turned around to ask questions, the man suddenly exerted force, broke free from the grip, and stabbed Zhou Min fiercely with the switchblade that had been hidden in his sleeve.
"Tsk." He doesn't know what's good for him.
Zhou Min dodged to the inside of the opponent, and at the same time, she chopped his right arm holding the knife with her left hand, causing a moment of stagnation. She grabbed the man's wrist with her left hand and took the opportunity to kick him in the crotch.
With a wail, the man arched his body in pain. Zhou Min clenched his fist and hit him directly in the face, not giving him any time to react. Soon, blood from his mouth and nose covered his face.
A similar scene brought back memories of the day Zhou Min was injured, bringing up the negative emotions she had been unable to suppress since that day. The blood on her right fist's knuckles pried open even more terrifying memories in her heart -
Corpses littered the ground, a sea of crimson stretching as far as the eye could see, a dagger stabbed deep into the heart, and the right hand holding the dagger, wet with the spurting warm blood...
Die, you die, I die too, we all die...
The surging ferocity was like a wave, breaking down Zhou Min's psychological defenses. She completely forgot the purpose of tonight, the mission, the bottom line she had been holding on to, and even forgot who she was.
It was not until the man, who had been beaten to death, struggled to open his mouth with several missing teeth and squeezed out the word "please" that Zhou Min's sanity was instantly restored.
She released her grip, allowing the man to struggle to get up from the ground and flee in panic.
Zhou Min stared in disbelief at the rose on the back of his hand. Blood had become the perfect pigment, imbuing the dead object with extra warmth. It was now blooming voluptuously, signaling her loss of control again after three years.
She shouldn't be like this.
Zhou Min's eyes were bloodshot and her breathing was ragged from the intense effort she put into suppressing it. She gritted her teeth and fished out the tin box from the side pocket of her dress, trying to calm herself down as usual, using external objects.
But Zhou Min forgot too many things tonight, including that she had thrown the tin box of cigarettes far away into the trash can and replaced it with a tin box of candy in order to completely quit smoking.
She looked at the candies covered with icing sugar in the box after opening the lid, and her tense emotions were finally released. The violence lost its focus and turned into gentler and more mournful tears, which slid down from the corners of her scarlet eyes, washing away her unforgivable sins in vain.
She shouldn't be like this.
Zhou Min leaned against the mottled wall, her throat rolling and she couldn't help sobbing softly. Tears flowed out of her eyes like broken strings, and her thick eyelashes drooped slightly after being wet. So she raised her head and opened her eyes wide, but she caught a glimpse of someone standing under the street light in the distance outside the alley.
It’s Zhou Qiting.
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