Chapter 154: Shattered Trust

In the morning, Zhong Shi was planning what kind of villa he should build in the countryside. At noon, he left Xia Company for lunch.

After seeing him leave, Xia Yu stopped playing Spider Solitaire on his computer.

The computers in the company only had built-in games, so he had no choice but to pass time with them.

After closing the game window, Xia Yu tried to connect to Zhong Shi’s office computer directly, but failed.

The security measures at Zhong’s company were pretty good.

Level 3 programming wasn’t particularly advanced technology.

After giving up on the attempt, Xia Yu approached Zhong Yunze and left the company under the pretext of going out for an investigation.

He found an internet cafe, showed his ID to get a private room, and then connected to Heimao’s (Black Cat) body.

The black cat sunbathing on the villa balcony was now controlled by Xia Yu.

Standing up, Xia Yu adjusted to the cat’s body and ran outside through the window.

Although the villa was quite a distance from Zhong Shi’s company, this posed no problem for Xia Yu.

Black Cat Yu arrived at a bus stop, spotted a bus, and leapt onto it.

Previously, he wouldn’t have dared to do this because his agility level was too low. Now, at level 4 agility, doing this was as easy as walking on flat ground.

Hitching a ride on the bus to the office building, Xia Yu casually followed a woman inside.

The security guards assumed the black cat was just the woman’s pet and didn’t question him.

After shaking off the woman who tried to pick him up, Xia Yu located the office of Zhong’s company.

Using various obstacles along the way, he reached Zhong Shi’s office door.

Peeking out, he knocked on the office door and then hid aside.

Zhong Shi opened the door and looked outside, but saw no one.

Puzzled, he stuck his head out again, looking left and right, but still saw no one. He didn’t notice the cat slipping into the room from under his feet.

After closing the door, Zhong Shi thought he must have imagined it.

He sat in his chair for a while, but since he was preoccupied with plans for retirement in the countryside, he had no heart for work. Eventually, he made an excuse and left the company.

This worked out well for Xia Yu, who had anticipated waiting until evening, but unexpectedly, Zhong Shi ended up helping him by leaving early.

Emerging from his hiding spot, Xia Yu turned on the computer, jumped onto the desk, and activated the monitor.

Holding the keyboard and lying on the leather chair, Black Cat Yu raised his paw and began typing.

He had already received permission from Zhong Yunze to use the company computers freely, so his actions were considered legitimate.

There was nothing suspicious on the computer, so Xia Yu started recovering deleted files.

From among them, he found an audio recording.

Picking up the headphones, he put them on his cat ears and clicked play.

“…I’ve gotten the materials. How should I send them to you?”

“Use a no-name email. The email account has already been sent to you…”

Putting down the headphones, Xia Yu didn’t expect Zhong Shi to have recorded the transaction.

Judging from the traces on the computer, the audio had been transferred from a phone recording to a USB drive via this computer. Zhong Shi, with only a middle school education, clearly hadn’t realized that deleted files from a computer could still be recovered, and even a beginner could do it by following online tutorials.

He also probably hadn’t expected a cat would come into his office.

The information in this recording was quite complete—Zhong Shi had even read out a bank card number.

As evidence, it was sufficient.

Xia Yu sent the recording to his own email account, erased the traces, and then crawled on the floor to confirm through the door crack that no one was outside. After opening the door, he returned the same way he came.

At 8 PM, he controlled the black cat back to the villa, logged out of the game, and returned to his own body.

At this point, he was already lying in his own bed.

This AI remote control system was truly very convenient.

He took out his phone and downloaded the audio evidence from his email.

According to regulations, for audio recordings to be used as evidence, the content needed to be written into a document and the recording burned onto a CD. However, that part wasn’t his responsibility anymore—it could be handed over to Zhong Yunze.

He would submit it tomorrow. He wondered what expression Zhong Yunze would have then.

Yawning, Xia Yu continued lying there, thinking he should hand over the recording early tomorrow and then go see An Siyao.

He hadn’t gone today—wondering if anything had happened.

He had already instructed An Siyao that if anyone requested treatment while he was away, she should refuse by claiming he was feeling unwell.

After lying there for a while unable to fall asleep, he gave himself some comfort.

Giving himself reassurance felt like counting sheep to fall asleep—an oddly comforting sensation.

As the moon set and the sun rose, Xia Yu’s alarm clock rang accordingly.

He turned off the alarm, got up, washed up, and coincidentally met Zhong Yunze.

Zhong Yunze was in a fairly good mood. He had already decided to follow An Tianfeng’s advice and become a subsidiary of the An Group. After making this decision, he had immediately relaxed.

As long as he gave up striving, his worries couldn’t catch up with him.

At that moment, he was thinking about Xia Yu—keeping him at the company was too boring. Maybe he should give Xia Yu his own laptop to play games in the office.

One person being a couch potato felt guilty, but having another person be a couch potato together brought comfort.

He knew Xia Yu had played Spider Solitaire all morning the previous day.

Seeing Xia Yu approaching, he raised his hand to talk about this, but Xia Yu beat him to it.

“Actually, I have something to discuss with you.” Xia Yu took out his phone, opened the music player app, and pressed play.

“What is this?” Zhong Yunze curiously listened while brushing his teeth.

The voice from the phone played:

“…I’ve gotten the materials. How should I send them to you?”

This voice sounded familiar—wasn’t it his uncle’s voice?

“…Recently, Zhong Yunze invited An Tianfeng over. Let me observe the situation. You don’t need to…”

Hearing this, the toothbrush in his hand dropped to the floor.

The content of this recording!

That traitor was actually his own uncle!

And I trusted him so much!

However, what shocked Zhong Yunze the most wasn’t that.

He raised his head, looking at Xia Yu in disbelief.

Didn’t you say you were just pretending? Didn’t you say you were only fooling my mom? Didn’t you say you couldn’t solve it?

And yet you figured it out the very next day?!

Flashes of Xia Yu’s words from yesterday reappeared in his mind:

“I used to help her with small problems, so she thinks I can even handle company matters. But how could I have such capability? Don’t you agree?”

“This matter is indeed very complicated. I shouldn’t bother you further. Just give me a workstation, and I’ll pretend to work.”

The way Zhong Yunze looked at Xia Yu now turned sorrowful.

You actually deceived me!

“What’s wrong?” Xia Yu felt somewhat uneasy under Zhong Yunze’s stare.

“Nothing!” Feeling wronged, Zhong Yunze picked up his toothbrush, loudly said thanks, and rushed out of the bathroom.

Looking at Zhong Yunze, who seemed to have been bullied, Xia Yu was completely confused.

Back in his room, Zhong Yunze felt hurt for a while before calling An Tianfeng.