He Shuhang thought his plan was foolproof. He had been preparing for this matter since he received the cooperation invitation from that company, building a good relationship with the administrator, paying attention to the schedule of each laboratory, and observing the progress of Shen Yuhuai's laboratory...
The regular machine maintenance at the institute was a great opportunity for him. There were many people coming in and out, and the institute was not well guarded. If something went wrong, there would be many ways to shirk responsibility. They even entered the administrator's office several times to repeatedly confirm the shift schedule and tampered with the surveillance.
But when he heard Chen Qizhao's words, he felt a little panicked for some reason.
"The USB drive you took is my experimental data. How long will it take me to repair it if it is damaged?" He Shuhang forced himself to calm down. "Don't you think I'm nervous?"
The interrogation took place in the reception room of the Ninth Institute. In addition to the guards and people from the police station, there were also several people from the institute.
They were also doing research, and the corruption of experimental data would make everyone nervous. They could naturally understand He Shuhang's excitement.
"Well, if it's just a USB flash drive issue, it's probably a misunderstanding."
"You two are too impulsive. If you have something to say, just talk it out. Why are you fighting?"
"Young people should not be too radical."
To deal with He Shuhang, we cannot simply let the matter go peacefully. A simpler approach could be to knock him out, drag him into the car, and take away the USB drive. The incident happened suddenly. Using the simplest and quickest method may produce a smoother result, but it cannot change the fundamental problem. There is one He Shuhang today, and there may be another He Shuhang tomorrow.
He Shuhang's success is inseparable from the irresponsible management of the institute, so this matter must not only be made a big deal, but also made a very big deal in order to arouse the vigilance of others.
In his original plan, he had found a male student who had some grudge against He Shuhang to cause trouble, and he also prepared another set of words to deal with other people's inquiries, shifting the matter itself to the personal grudge between the male student and He Shuhang.
But the incident happened suddenly, and He Shuhang's actions were unpredictable.
When He Shuhang came out with his friends, the student he was looking for failed to arrive on time.
So he could only ask someone to call the police in advance based on the situation. He originally planned to fight on behalf of the male student under the pretext of being a friend, but something unexpected happened.
Because Shen Yuhuai was present, many things could not be explained to him at all.
The fight took place and the police were called.
But if you want to make a big fuss, you can't use the original plan, you can only make up a temporary excuse.
Chen Qizhao listened to the voices of the people around him and He Shuhang's hilarious explanation. Just as he was about to speak, a hand suddenly covered his eyes.
His hair was lifted up, and a cold hand was pressed on his forehead, followed by a slight tingling sensation.
The cotton swab soaked in iodine fell on his wound. Chen Qizhao saw Shen Yuhuai standing very close to him and noticed the slightly cold eyes under his glasses. The words that were about to come out of his mouth were stuck, and just as he was distracted, a Band-Aid was covered on his wound.
"Okay." Shen Yuhuai let his hair down and used his fingers to tidy it up a little. "The wound is very close to the eye."
Chen Qizhao inexplicably lowered his head and simply explained: "I will pay attention next time."
He Shuhang gradually relaxed when he heard the whispers of people around him. He had nothing to be afraid of. He just had to stick to his guns and say that it was experimental data. They didn't know why Chen Qizhao appeared in that place, but their incident had nothing to do with Chen Qizhao, and the other party couldn't possibly know their plan. As long as they could keep the matter quiet and fool around, there wouldn't be any big problems...
"We were impulsive. It was too impulsive. Nothing happened. How about you, Junior Brother, come with us..." He was just thinking about how to end it when he heard Chen Qizhao speak.
But Chen Qizhao spoke up at this time: "But the strange thing I'm talking about is not the USB drive."
"I said they were weird. When I saw them, they were walking close to the wall and looking behind them from time to time, as if they were worried or avoiding something."
Chen Qizhao looked at He Shuhang, it was time to use the male student as a cover: "A friend of mine had some conflicts with Senior Brother He a while ago, and Senior Brother He is also a friend of Brother Huai. I originally wanted to resolve their relationship if I had the chance. In addition, Senior Brother He's behavior was a little strange at the time, so I thought something had happened, so I went up to say hello to them."
He Shuhang's face froze. He did look back twice, but only once.
"Oh, by the way, I was just waiting for my friend at that intersection. We had originally agreed to go play nearby, but he was delayed by something and didn't come." Chen Qizhao took out his cell phone, which contained the chat records he had prepared in advance with the male student he had an appointment with, which just explained why he was at the intersection.
Chen Qizhao's eyes stopped at He Shuhang, and as he looked at his gradually losing composure face, he continued, "When I greeted them, I noticed that Senior He's hands were shaking, and he seemed very nervous with them in his pockets. So I grabbed his wrists, but who knew they would react so violently? They didn't even explain to me what was in the USB drive, but just started to attack me. It seemed like they were avoiding something."
He Shuhang's friend was also a little panicked when he heard this, and quickly retorted: "You are talking nonsense!"
"Why are you so excited? I didn't say anything..." Chen Qizhao suddenly remembered something and added, "Are you so excited because you feel guilty? Could it be that your USB drive contains things stolen from the research institute? Oh, right... Now that I think about it, you were not trying to avoid surveillance at that time, were you?"
He looked at the guard of the institute and asked, "There seem to be several surveillance cameras in that place, right?"
"Yes." said the guard.
Shen Yuhuai had been listening nearby. When a fight broke out, both parties were upset, especially He Shuhang. From the moment he arrived at the scene, He Shuhang seemed to be reluctant to call the police. Generally speaking, when something like this happens, people would be eager to seek justice, but He Shuhang seemed to be worried that the matter would get out of hand and was looking for ways to settle the matter peacefully.
Because of this, it seems very strange.
"How about we check the surveillance?" Chen Qizhao continued, following the guard's words: "You will know after watching the surveillance. If it is my fault, I will definitely apologize to my senior brother."
He asked He Shuhang: "Right? Senior brother? If there is any problem, just look at the surveillance camera and it will be solved."
When the word surveillance was mentioned, He Shuhang and the other man's expressions suddenly changed.
No, you can’t check the surveillance... If you check the surveillance at this time, you will find that the surveillance has been tampered with.
"No need... It's just a matter of a USB flash drive." He Shuhang said hurriedly: "We misunderstood Junior Brother, this matter ends here..."
Chen Qizhao looked at them in confusion, and suddenly smiled: "Brother, why don't you check the surveillance? You guys are so weird, I told you guys stole something, and you just let it go?"
He Shuhang suddenly stopped talking.
Shen Yuhuai suddenly said: “If I remember correctly, the student laboratory in Building A should have stopped before 2 o’clock today?”
"Yes." The researcher next to him suddenly remembered something. "The maintenance man came this afternoon. Most of the labs in Building A stopped working, including the student labs. Are you from S University? Only three labs in S University are open today. Your students' labs should have stopped working at 2 o'clock, right?"
He Shuhang's face turned pale. "Yes, after we finished the experiment, we looked at other laboratories nearby... that's why it has been delayed until this point."
Shen Yuhuai asked again: "Which laboratory?"
He Shuhang's face became even uglier. They waited until the students in their own laboratory left and then slipped directly into Shen Yuhuai's laboratory, copying materials the whole time. How could they know which researcher's turn it was in the laboratory next door, and what experiment they were doing? His mind was in a mess, and he randomly picked an experiment and said, "I don't remember, it seems to be nano..."
Chen Qizhao frowned slightly and glanced sideways at Shen Yuhuai.
He was about to continue to lead the question to the surveillance, when he suddenly heard Shen Yuhuai speak.
Shen Yuhuai looked directly at the researcher next to him: “Engineer Liu, I want to apply to view the surveillance.”
He looked at He Shuhang: "If there is no problem, I will bear all the consequences."
The people at the police station did not expect that the matter would turn into a dispute between students, and now it involves issues related to the research institute. Since we want to check the surveillance, we naturally have to go to the monitoring room at the gate.
He Shuhang nervously followed the others to the monitoring room, and suddenly heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the surveillance cameras along the way to the research institute.
How could he have forgotten that the surveillance systems within the institute are independent, and the only surveillance the guards could see was the surveillance outside the laboratory. At most, they could only see the two of them coming out, and they could not see what was happening in the laboratory building. Besides, it is normal to look back when walking. Can't they look back when they hear some noise?
Most of the surveillance screens were of the periphery of the research institute. In the end, we were able to find out the time when He Shuhang and the other person came out. They did look back when they left, but there were no major problems in the surveillance and it was not strange at all.
"It looks fine," the guard said.
He Shuhang smiled awkwardly: "Maybe it's just a misunderstanding."
Shen Yuhuai's eyes stopped at the surveillance position, and he suddenly asked: "Can we see the surveillance of Building A here?"
He Shuhang's expression suddenly changed.
The researcher said, "For internal surveillance, you need to go to the administrator's office on a single floor."
"The surveillance doesn't reveal anything." Chen Qizhao couldn't let this go. He didn't expect the internal surveillance system of the institute to be so complicated. He had no choice but to say, "You guys just talked so strangely. If I really wronged you, I will definitely apologize to you."
In my previous life, I heard that the surveillance was tampered with. Judging from He Shuhang's current performance, there must be something fishy, so the surveillance at this moment is most likely problematic.
Shen Yuhuai glanced at Chen Qizhao for a moment, "Since Qizhao has wrongly accused you of stealing information, then watching the surveillance is the best way to prove your innocence, so as to avoid other troubles in the future."
Chen Qizhao also nodded, and secretly glanced at Shen Yuhuai when he lowered his head.
Shen Yuhuai's expression was more serious than usual, and his face seemed to be covered with a layer of ice when he was silent.
Things have gotten to this point that even the police have shown up. If everything could be resolved by watching the surveillance footage, everyone present would be happy to do so. After all, dragging it out any further would be a waste of everyone's time.
Everyone thought so, except He Shuhang, whose face turned pale. This paleness turned into a horrible white when the administrator turned on the surveillance of Building A.
"Strange!? There's something wrong with this surveillance video." The administrator asked, "Why isn't it moving?"
The surveillance footage followed He Shuhang and his companions all the time, but when they reached a certain position, the entire footage stopped, and it was obvious that there had been some human damage. At this time, everyone's eyes immediately turned to He Shuhang, who said with a pale face that he didn't know, but put the USB flash drive he had been holding in his hand into his clothes.
The people from the research institute noticed something strange and immediately went up to him, held his hand and snatched the USB flash drive from his hand.
He Shuhang shouted, "Give it back to me!"
The researcher was even more puzzled. "We'll just look at the data in the USB drive. We won't touch your stuff."
There are also confidential projects within the Ninth Institute, but Building A is a semi-open laboratory building, and students from S University usually come here. The personnel screening is not as thorough as in other laboratory buildings. Even so, other important experimental groups occasionally borrow the special laboratories in Building A.
If this involves stealing data, then the problem is serious.
Several researchers who followed him had serious expressions and were about to check He Shuhang's USB drive on the spot. This inspection directly revealed a big problem.
When seeing the locked files appearing on the computer screen, the faces of the friends who came with Shen Yuhuai changed drastically. They rushed over and grabbed He Shuhang by the collar, "You stole our data!"
He Shuhang was speechless and his whole body was shaking.
He thought of the promise that person made to him. As long as he stole the data, not only would he be guaranteed a place in S University, but the other person would also connect him with a respected professor at the target university. At that time, he could follow the professor into a more promising project team. His future would be smooth sailing... Even when he graduated and left school, not only would there be many research institutes and laboratories that would compete with his, he would also have better resources to provide research funds...
But why is it like this now? Shouldn't it? They should be foolproof, sending out the data and cleaning up other traces. When the truth comes out, no one should be able to guess it's them because they have already left the laboratory.
While trembling, his eyes suddenly turned to Chen Qizhao who was standing in the corner.
The others were discussing the leak of experimental data, only Chen Qizhao was standing in the corner, looking at him coldly. When He Shuhang met those eyes, he suddenly remembered the half-smile in Chen Qizhao's eyes when he met him outside the research institute. It was as if in the other person's eyes, he was just a clown.
At this time, He Shuhang suddenly saw Chen Qizhao's mouth opening and closing, saying something silently.
The next second, a chill ran up from the soles of my feet, and the other party uttered two words silently.
He said he deserved it.
He Shuhang looked horrified: "You..."
But Chen Qizhao ignored him, and walked straight to Shen Yuhuai, his cold eyes fell on the computer screen, and continued: "Can you let me take a look? I know a little about computers, maybe I can help you restore the surveillance."
The administrator saw this and asked, "Can you?"
"We need to take a look to see if it's data corruption or some other reason." Chen Qizhao sat down on a chair and looked carefully for a while before explaining: "This should be replaced with pre-recorded surveillance footage. You can see that the length of time is not right. We can check the source data disk... maybe search them. If it was done today, they should have footage that can be replaced. If we're lucky, we can even see the copied source data..."
Upon hearing this, the researcher immediately searched and found the USB flash drive on another person.
Sure enough, a video clip that was exactly the same as the surveillance data was found in another person's USB drive, and there was also a copied section of the original surveillance clip.
He Shuhang looked defeated, "Didn't you say that all the surveillance cameras were destroyed?"
"I'm just afraid that you'll go back on your word... I want to keep some evidence." The person being questioned lowered his head. He was afraid that He Shuhang would go back on his word and not give him what he deserved, so he wanted to save the video clip to threaten He Shuhang later. But who would have thought that this would be exposed, and this USB flash drive directly became the ironclad evidence of their theft of laboratory data.
The police officer's face darkened when he saw this. Who could have thought that a fight would lead to a laboratory data leak? "Come with me to the police station."
He looked at Chen Qizhao and said, "Classmate, please come with us and help record your statement."
Chen Qizhao nodded and cooperated very well: "No problem."
Shen Yuhuai's gaze stopped at Chen Qizhao, "Have you studied computer science?"
Chen Qizhao listened and explained: "... a little interested."
Shen Yuhuai: “Yeah.”
Chen Qizhao breathed a sigh of relief. He had a deep understanding of computers mainly because that was his major in his previous life. And this couldn't be considered a major. He thought the other party would directly interfere with the surveillance, but he didn't expect to use this method to back up the surveillance video.
It’s a pity that current monitoring equipment has not yet been upgraded to cloud backup and is also old. If it were replaced five or six years later, this method would be exposed in minutes.
No wonder no problem was found when the leak broke out in the previous life.
He followed the police station people away, but he didn't see the deep meaning in Shen Yuhuai's eyes.
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When the car arrived at the police station, Chen Shiming got out of the car and went straight into the police station.
Special Assistant Xu was overwhelmed when he received the news, especially when he saw his boss's gloomy face, he thought he was doomed soon. He thought that the relationship between the Chen brothers had only been stable for such a short time. Who could have imagined that the second young master would be taken to the police station for fighting.
He was waiting outside, debating whether to go in and stop the fight or something, but he didn't expect that about ten minutes later, he saw the two brothers walking out side by side.
Chen Shiming led Chen Qizhao out and said coldly, "If they beat you, won't you run away?"
"Why would I run?" Chen Qizhao fastened his seat belt and thought the question was inexplicable: "It's not like I can't beat them."
Chen Shiming looked at the band-aid on Chen Qizhao's forehead and said, "Okay, you can beat him."
Special Assistant Xu: “……?”
Recording a confession is nothing more than repeating what was just said. The evidence of He Shuhang's crime was clearly laid out, and the group of people basically left after going through the motions. Only one person was sent from the research institute, and the others were busy sorting out the aftermath of the incident. After Chen Qizhao received the news from Shen Yuhuai, he knew that the matter might take some time to deal with.
He originally planned to take a taxi back to school, but he didn't expect Chen Shiming to call him directly.
It turned out that Shen Yuhuai notified Chen Shiming and asked Chen Shiming to come and take him to the hospital for examination.
The carriage was very quiet, and the two brothers didn't speak again after they finished talking.
At this time, Chen Shiming suddenly leaned over, directly pulled Chen Qizhao's hand and pulled open his sleeves, "Is this what you said? Can you beat him?"
"I didn't hit him lightly, so I just got a little bruise." Chen Qizhao pulled his hand back, "No need to go to the hospital, just send me back to school."
Chen Shiming asked again: "What are you going to do in the institute?"
Chen Qizhao looked at him puzzledly: "I can't pass by?"
"I remember you had classes in the afternoon." Chen Shiming emphasized, "Chen Qizhao, you are skipping classes. You have been investigating the man named He a lot recently. Tell me, what is wrong with that man that is worth wasting so much time investigating?"
"Who hasn't skipped classes in college?" Chen Qizhao raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this. He sneered and leaned back. He didn't want to explain too much, so he brought up the male student to explain: "Besides, he had a little conflict with my friend before, and I accidentally heard something, so I asked someone to keep an eye on him for a while."
Chen Shiming: "Is it related to what happened today?"
"Aren't you asking even though you already know the answer?" Chen Qizhao didn't look at him. His eyes stayed on the scenery outside the window. He lowered his head and glanced at the bruise on his arm, then simply pulled up his sleeves.
Chen Shiming stopped asking questions and looked at Special Assistant Xu: "Go to the hospital."
The incident involving He Shuhang caused a big stir, and the institute immediately conducted an internal audit after the incident. Although the incident occurred in Laboratory Building A, such a situation was indeed a major accident in the institute's internal management. In particular, the laboratory where the information was leaked was Shen Yuhuai's working group. As one of the key planning projects within the institute, the project was favored by many leaders and immediately attracted the attention of superiors once the incident occurred.
This time, He Shuhang had planned carefully, even the timing was very good, and he chose a reasonable time period to enter the laboratory to commit the crime. If the matter had not been exposed by accident, the subsequent investigation might not have found any suspicious points in the timing of the crime.
Because of this incident, He Shuhang was not only disqualified from all key evaluations of the school that semester, but was also given a serious warning. He also faced the consequence of being sued by the Ninth Institute and facing imprisonment. With such a problem, the rest of his life is almost ruined. His admission to graduate school is in vain, and he may not even get his degree certificate. He will have to serve a few more years in jail. In the future, no company or research institute will choose to hire a student with such a criminal record.
When Shen Yuhuai told Chen Qizhao the results of the handling, the two were eating in the cafeteria of S University.
"So he planned this in advance..." Chen Qizhao poked at the mushroom soup. "Then why did he do this? Just to keep his admission to graduate school?"
"Not only that, the company he contacted promised a lot, including helping him find a mentor and providing research funding."
"He later confessed that he had made a lot of preparations, including checking the work schedule several times when the administrator was away. We happened to be using that lab during that period, and there was data in the lab that was about to be submitted to the instructor, so he would act after determining the time to commit the crime."
Shen Yuhuai thought of the time when he saw He Shuhang outside the administrator's office before. It was probably He Shuhang who was checking the duty hours of their laboratory. After all, a working group like theirs did not need to use a student laboratory, and there were always people in the laboratory.
This time, He Shuhang stole the spare key from the administrator's office to enter the laboratory, but he was not sure he could control all the surveillance cameras, and the only surveillance camera that could be blurred was the one in the administrator's office. Therefore, He Shuhang did not dare to take action at such a time at night, because he needed a legitimate reason to enter and exit the laboratory building so as not to be suspected by subsequent investigations. In the end, he chose such a time.
While the administrator was communicating with the maintenance technician in other laboratories, he cooperated with others to do the work in the office.
Chen Qizhao understood that it was a promise of a future.
He did not sympathize with He Shuhang's ending. This man had caused all his own misery. If this matter had not been exposed, everyone in Shen Yuhuai's experimental group would have to bear the scandal of the leak.
"Then your laboratory won't leak secrets again after this, right?" Chen Qizhao asked, "There won't be another He Shuhang, right?"
"No, He Shuhang was able to take action only because of the semi-annual maintenance. The administrator of Building A was also held accountable for this incident." Shen Yuhuai said: "The rules for laboratory management have been revised, and even the student laboratory building will be strictly managed. This kind of thing will not happen again."
His gaze stopped on Chen Qizhao. The wound on the boy's forehead was only a shallow mark left, which was completely invisible without careful observation.
Shen Yuhuai suddenly said: “Qizhao, thank you this time.”
"No, I just happened to pass by..." Chen Qizhao sat up straighter after hearing this, "Brother Huai also helped me a lot. This is just a small favor. It's because He's done too many things that he noticed the problem."
Being able to help Shen Yuhuai solve a problem can be regarded as repaying the favor of the previous life. Shen Yuhuai helped him too much in the previous life, but there are fewer things he can do.
Shen Yuhuai smiled: "A friend in the lab said he would treat you to a meal after this busy period, so don't refuse then."
"Oh, okay." Chen Qizhao lowered his head slightly, looking at the mushroom soup in the bowl, and when he looked up, he met Chen Yuhuai's eyes, "What's wrong?"
“No.” Shen Yuhuai looked at him, “I think you’re a little thin.”
Chen Qizhao doesn’t feel that he is thin. His current weight is just right and he is very healthy.
Shen Yuhuai looked at his picky eating appearance, and he hadn't scooped much of the bowl of mushroom soup yet. He lowered his eyes slightly. There was something he didn't reveal on the spot. On the night he stayed overnight, he accidentally saw Chen Qizhao's class schedule.
The day of the incident was Wednesday, and Chen Qizhao had a full schedule of classes on Wednesday afternoon.
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Xiao Chen (a little hasty, but successful)
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