"It's over, it's over!" While running, she looked at the watch on her wrist. It was already past 10. Wu Qian was depressed. If Xu Zhe, that bastard, hadn't run to the food stall at 2 a.m. yesterday to get "Mary", she wouldn't have overslept.
Finally entering the office building, Wu Qian's pace quickened a bit. Otherwise, they were also a team that had practiced, and wearing leather shoes did not affect their speed. Three steps became two steps, and she rushed to the front of the office. She panted and looked at her watch. Fortunately, it was just 10:20. The office was quite quiet. I guess I was the first team member to report.
Of course, Xu Zhe who lives here is excluded.
In a good mood, Wu Qian pushed open the door with satisfaction, then was at a loss.
As if God was playing a trick on him, those lazy team members came in full force today, and they all sat in their seats with serious expressions.
There is no one writing, no one playing games, and even no one slacking off.
Xu Zhe, Tiechui and Haozi were all gathered in front of Ouyang's desk with extremely serious expressions.
"A meeting? Why is it so quiet?" Wu Qian whispered to herself, trying to move as slowly as possible. Her footsteps were so light that Cat broke into a cold sweat. She wished she could turn into air and float in, just because she didn't want anyone to notice her lateness.
"Are you late?" However, there are always those ignorant people who can't lift the "kettle".
Xu Zhe, who was in deep thought, greeted the "cat" as soon as it took two steps.
"I still don't know who did it..." He broke his tooth and could only swallow it.
Wu Qian closed the door casually and sat back at her desk. Her good mood was completely ruined.
But within a dozen seconds of sitting down, he naturally blended into the dead silent atmosphere of the office.
There is no need for any intuition to help. Anyone with eyes can tell that today's Paranormal Investigation Department is very strange.
Curious people gathered around the boss's desk, only to find that everyone's eyes were focused on a phone.
Just as Wu Qian was about to ask a question, the phone rang.
The boss looked a little nervous. He covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed twice before answering the phone.
I don’t know what was said on the other end of the phone, but the boss only said five words during the thirteen-minute call.
That is "I understand..."
After hanging up the phone, the boss shook his head regretfully.
"Just as I thought, they won't agree." Haozi stretched himself lazily, looking as if he had expected this.
"But we sorted out so much information and sent it over, you should at least give it some serious consideration, right?" Tiechui seemed a little disappointed. After all, he had participated in the "sorting work" and was specifically responsible for pressing the buttons on the fax machine...
"Is there really no solution? Boss..." Wu Qian rarely saw an unwilling expression on Xu Zhe's face, but she saw it today.
"What are you doing?" Wu Qian, who was standing by, was confused.
"Injunction..." Haozi answered concisely enough, "Xu Zhe wants to apply for a domestic injunction against the founding group."
"Is it that difficult?" Wu Qian didn't think so. After all, according to the procedures, as one of the inspection departments of the Security Bureau, as long as the information compiled is sufficient, it is fully capable of requiring any company to stop production, or even drive multinational companies out of the country.
"What's so difficult about this?" Haozi was too lazy to explain. "Sister, do you understand the situation? Do you really think that the Founding Group is the same as an ordinary chaebol? Forget about completely cleaning up the domestic branches of Founding. Even if you order all companies related to Founding to stop production for a month, it will be enough to affect the percentage of the national GDP."
"The higher-ups responded to our application in the same way, with a perfunctory attitude. They emphasized the seriousness of our actions and the impact it would have on our international image..." Ouyang could only sigh faintly.
"So even if the wolf is lying next to us, we can only watch it bite us to death?" With his hands hanging at his sides clenched into fists, Xu Zhe once again understood the sorrow of being a human being.
"It's a pity that everything we have done, even ourselves, has not been recognized by the world and the country... So let's work hard in silence and save this poor country in silence..." Ouyang seemed to be making a request to Xu Zhe.
"I hope we can hold on to the end..." He stood up from his seat, with too many regrets in his heart that he could only bury. Xu Zhe walked silently towards his "bed", wrapped in a black sleeping bag and continued to "vent" while snore loudly.
The atmosphere in the office was heavy all morning, probably because Xu Zhe was in a bad mood
Until noon, there seemed to be a turn for the better, but it was a "bad" turn...
At exactly 12 noon, the unique sound of the lullaby rang out.
"Damn it, I dialed the wrong number." Xu Zhe answered the call in his sleeping bag, not giving the other party a chance to speak, and just wanted to hang up.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't be so angry. Are all the civil servants in your country so rude?" The person on the other side sneered sarcastically.
Xu Zhe immediately sat up from his sleeping bag, his sleepy eyes now unusually alert.
"Who are you?" Xu Zhe's tone became calm, but with a chilling coldness.
"Just call me 'player' for now. Are you interested in participating in my game?" There was no fear at all, and it seemed that Xu Zhe's seriousness made the other party more interested.
"I'm sorry, I'm not interested in taking care of children. If you want to play games, you should find the teacher at the kindergarten." The sharp sarcasm was Xu Zhe's signature.
“Hehehe, it seems that you are indeed quite interesting.” The other party’s laughter became more unbridled, “It’s a pity that this is a game specially prepared for you. You have no right to choose whether to participate or not…
The name of the game is, 'Killing Half Time'.
Half an hour from now, I will kill someone, and you must try to find me within this half hour.
If I can't do that, I'll kill two more people in the next half hour, and so on.
By the way, let me remind you that there are still 28 minutes left in the first half. Do you have anything else to say?"
"Yes...Take me to say hello to your mother..."
The only sound on the phone was a busy tone.