Chapter 58 However, Gu Sheng did not immediately set off...
However, Gu Sheng did not immediately set off for L City. He stayed in A City under the pretext of needing to prepare items for the mission.
Of course, Gu Sheng had no intention of doing any quests, nor did he need any quest items.
He simply didn't want to arouse Xia Yunzhou's suspicion, so he wanted to eliminate Baiyu Bio before heading to L City.
In order to gather more information, he infiltrated the employee group of Baiyu Biotechnology.
These groups include both official and unofficial groups.
Gu Sheng quickly discovered some clues in these group chats.
Gu Sheng discovered that someone had posted the same content in various groups.
This person seems to be inquiring about his work partner.
Based on the chat logs, it can be roughly determined that his work partner was seconded to another city a month ago, and then he completely lost contact with him.
The employee contacted his work partner's family, who said they received messages from his work partner every week.
The employee had seen those messages, but they felt completely lifeless; they clearly weren't sent by his partner.
Now he's afraid something might happen to his work partner.
Many people replied to him in the group chat.
Different groups have different focuses when replying.
Gu Sheng roughly summarized these replies and obtained some information that was not particularly important.
However, given the scarcity of information about Baiyu Biotechnology online, even this seemingly unimportant information is particularly valuable.
According to the group chat, Baiyu Biotechnology's headquarters are located in City L.
Its headquarters also serve as its research center.
The company has laboratories in cities all over the world, and the data and results obtained from experiments in those laboratories are transmitted to the headquarters for processing.
Of course, headquarters staff are also frequently sent to the laboratory for inspections.
Among so many experiments, there were quite a few top-secret ones.
To participate in those experiments, one needs to sign a confidentiality agreement. Some even require being monitored around the clock during the experiment, and one is not allowed to contact their family.
The employee who asked this question might be working with someone who participated in this kind of experiment, which is why they couldn't be contacted.
Research center?
Gu Sheng stared at the chat interface and thought to himself: Does this mean all the research data is here?
Destroying this research data would likely severely damage Baiyu Bio.
Of course, simply destroying data is not enough.
Gu Sheng continued scrolling through the chat history and found that the atmosphere in one of the work-related complaint groups was getting stranger and stranger.
The conversation shifted from helping that employee find a job partner to recounting strange things that had happened to people around them.
One of them told her about a strange thing that happened to her.
The woman said that when she first joined the company, her team leader wasn't the one she is now.
Her former team leader was a tall woman, and then she was transferred away three days after she joined the team.
She wasn't familiar with that team leader, and didn't even know his name. All she remembered was that the former team leader had a mole under his left eye.
Then one day, he secretly stayed at the company to work overtime because he hadn't finished his report. When he went to the bathroom after finally finishing the report, he saw the shadow of his former team leader in the mirror.
But it disappeared in an instant.
But she could clearly see the former team leader staring at her coldly.
This sounds like a ghost story.
To Gu Sheng's surprise, the group was more interested in the fact that this person could stay at the company after get off work hours than in discussing the story.
Through the chat, it was learned that Baiyu Biotechnology's headquarters has strict regulations on working hours. If you want to work overtime, you need to report and get approval at each level, and it is generally not approved.
Every day after get off work, patrolling guards will check all floors and will not allow anyone to linger.
The woman said she didn't want to work overtime either, but her team leader required her to submit a report the next day, so she had no choice but to hide in the toilet tool room to avoid the patrolling guards and stay to work overtime.
Moreover, after that little incident, she was terrified and stayed in the tool shed until dawn.
Gu Sheng seemed thoughtful after reading the story.
Given that there are large underground structures beneath the banking park, could there be similar spaces at Baiyu Biotechnology?
Gu Sheng found the design drawings of Baiyu Bio's headquarters online, as well as a documentary about the Baiyu Bio headquarters building made by an architecture enthusiast.
The headquarters of Baiyu Biotechnology is said to have been designed with the human body as its inspiration.
The headquarters building is shrouded in a white steel structure that mimics a skeleton.
This building cost a lot of money to design and build, and the finished building is indeed beautiful.
After watching the documentary and reviewing the design drawings, Gu Sheng immediately noticed something was amiss.
The actual usable area of Baiyu Biotechnology's headquarters shown in the video is significantly different from the design drawings; the actual area is much smaller.
This indicates that there are many hidden spaces in this building.
However, since this building is an irregularly shaped structure, some wasted space is to be expected.
You can't tell anything from this alone.
After reading this, Gu Sheng hacked into the surveillance system of Baiyu Biotechnology's headquarters.
However, he could only see the outside; the network inside the headquarters was not connected to the outside, physically isolating it from the possibility of being hacked.
Gu Sheng checked the surveillance footage around Baiyu Biotechnology and found that one place looked different from what was shown in the video.
Gu Sheng opened the video and compared it, confirming that this place used to be an open lawn, but now a huge shed has covered the lawn.
Gu Sheng watched the video carefully and noticed a large hydraulic lifting platform in a fleeting shot. This type of platform is usually used to transport large machinery.
But what kind of large equipment would a research center that stores data need to transport?
Moreover, they've even covered it up now. Is it something they can't bear to see?
Unfortunately, we can't see inside.
The monitoring perspective is limited, and we can't see much more.
Gu Sheng stared at the screen for a while, then suddenly narrowed his eyes.
We can't hack into Baiyu Bio's internal network, but we can try other ways.
Then, Gu Shenghei entered the L City government network.
Gu Sheng searched for Baiyu Biotechnology on the government's internal website and found quite a lot of information.
As a star enterprise in L City and a major taxpayer, Baiyu Biotechnology is naturally frequently mentioned on the government's internal website.
Gu Sheng quickly skimmed over the text related to Baiyu Biology.
It must be said that Baiyu Biotechnology is very cautious in its work. Even now, Gu Sheng has not found any useful information.
After reading through all the content, Gu Sheng still found nothing.
Based solely on this information, one might perceive Baiyu Bio as a legitimate, compliant, and innovative company, a model enterprise in the pharmaceutical industry.
Gu Sheng was thinking as he mechanically flipped through the web pages.
If they can't find anything, he'll have to make a trip to L City.
Just then, a chart flashed past Gu Sheng's eyes.
He paused for a moment, then flipped the chart back over.
That was Baiyu Biotechnology's electricity bill record from last year.
Gu Sheng looked at the numbers on the screen and tilted his head slightly.
Looking at those numbers, Gu Sheng silently wondered: Does a research center that doesn't even have a laboratory need to use so much electricity?
Thinking this, Gu Sheng logged out of the government's internal website and went to the internal website of the L City Power Supply Bureau.
Here, he found Baiyu Biotechnology's electricity usage details.
Strangely, the details only recorded the daytime electricity usage of Baiyu Biotechnology's headquarters building, with no record of nighttime usage, as if it had been deliberately erased.
The electricity consumption during the daytime is far less than the total monthly electricity consumption of the Baiyu Biotechnology headquarters building.
Therefore, the extra battery power is used at night.
It is known that Baiyu Biotechnology's headquarters prohibits employees from working overtime, so who was using the electricity at night?
Gu Sheng thought of the actual usable area, which did not match the design drawings.
It seems that the lost area has been put to good use.
I thought of the reflection in the mirror that the employee mentioned.
It seems that it wasn't her imagination; she did indeed see her former team leader at that moment.
Her former team leader was on the other side of the mirror.
Hidden spaces, vanished employees, erased power consumption.
What shady business are you doing that you're so afraid of being discovered?
Gu Sheng stared at the details sheet for a long time.
An idea formed in his mind.
With so much electricity, instead of letting them use it for bad purposes, it would be better to let Gu Sheng use it to rid the people of harm.
Gu Sheng clicked on the photo of the Baiyu Biotechnology headquarters building.
Gu Sheng looked at the steel frame outside the building and the main building inside.
The main building of Baiyu Biotechnology's headquarters also uses a lot of metal.
There is a huge lightning protection device on the roof of the building.
The steel structure, made of metal, looks very similar to an electromagnetic coil.
If we add some ultra-high voltage direct current...
Gu Sheng's fingertips lightly swept across the screen, as if tracing the path of an electric current.
That would look really good, maybe even better than a bank headquarters building cut in half.
Gu Sheng continued flipping through the information about Baiyu Biotechnology's headquarters in the power supply station's archives.
As a key unit in L City, Baiyu Biotechnology has very detailed records.
Although it can be seen that some details have been erased, the remaining content is sufficient for Gu Sheng's needs.
Gu Sheng found all the information he needed here.
Gu Sheng turned off his computer, stretched, and glanced at the time; it was already midnight.
He realized he had been dawdling for so long, and Xia Yunzhou should be urging him soon.
However, some things can't be rushed. For now, let's go to sleep.
The next day, Gu Sheng was woken up by the ringing of the telephone.
He picked up his phone and saw that it was an unfamiliar number.
After Gu Sheng answered the phone, Xia Yunzhou's voice came from the other end. Just as Gu Sheng had expected, Xia Yunzhou was urging him.
"I heard you're preparing for a mission? But according to their reports, you've been staying indoors every day these past few days and haven't gone anywhere."
Gu Sheng yawned and said, "You've been following me?"
Xia Yunzhou chuckled lightly: "There's nothing in City A that I don't know."
"Since you know everything, why did you call to ask me?"
"Because I want to hear you say it yourself."
Gu Sheng said, "So, you're saying I'm trying to slack off? I suddenly feel that Cheng Ruhui is actually a decent person; at least he doesn't assign me any tasks."
"Is that so? But as far as I know, you were just recently sent by President Cheng to develop new business."
Gu Sheng paused for a moment, then forgot about it.
He replied casually, "Soon, in two days at most, I'll set off. After all, it's such a big deal, I need to mentally prepare myself."
Xia Yunzhou snorted coldly: "Then I'll give you two more days. I hope you know that my patience has its limits."
Gu Sheng hummed in agreement a few times, then hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Gu Sheng walked to the window, lifted a corner of the curtain, and looked out. Unsurprisingly, he saw several suspicious-looking people on the street corner.
That must be the person Xia Yunzhou sent to keep an eye on him.
Whether it was unintentional or someone said something to them, those people always just watched from a distance and never approached the place.
It was less like tracking and more like stalking.
But none of that matters. As long as they don't affect Gu Sheng, he doesn't mind.
It's time to do something.
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