Double evil in the business district

Chapter 432 Xiao Yue's Great Victory: Financial Crisis Finally Resolved

The morning light outside the glass curtain wall dyed the snowflakes spit out by the shredder into a light gold. Xiao Yue lowered her eyes to look at the ink-stained paper scraps at her feet, and the pearl earrings on her earlobes suddenly reflected strange spots of light.

She remembered that Shen Ting had put this earring on her three days ago. At that time, the warmth of his fingertips still carried the lingering scent of pine, but now it turned into a blade that cut open the secret beating in her chest.

"Mr. Ma probably forgot about the audit team's cloud synchronization system." Xiao Yue picked up a piece of torn paper with a canary-tail fountain pen. As the pen tip moved along the jagged cracks, a micro-scanner suddenly popped out of the metal pen clip. "Every time you shred a piece of paper, seventy-two dynamic watermarks will be generated in the cloud—just like the flow path of the guarantee fund for Starlight Technology three years ago. The traces can never be erased."

The blinds in the Finance Department suddenly trembled, and twelve computer screens lit up with a faint blue light at the same time.

The USB flash drive that Accountant Chen had hidden in his sleeve fell to the ground with a clatter, and the tea stalks in Cashier Liu's thermos suddenly gathered into an arrow shape pointing towards the safe.

Xiao Yue walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window, stepping on the paper butterflies all over the floor. The morning light cast a shadow of the code wheel on her beige windbreaker. The string of jumping numbers was exactly the same as the binary cracks left by the shredder.

"Secretary Gao, please pull up the surveillance backup from last Wednesday." As Xiao Yue turned around, the antique watch chain on her wrist jingled. The rose pattern engraved on the back of the dial suddenly reflected a stream of data. "Especially the weeping angel flower in President Ma's office—the traces of water droplets on the leaves should be able to restore the contents of the document before it was shredded."

Financial Director Ma's crocodile leather shoes rolled over the nanmu wood chips on the ground, but when he touched the access control system, a red warning popped up on the iris recognition device.

The veins on his neck throbbed, and he suddenly ripped off his tie clip and threw it towards Xiao Yue. The metal clip broke into a miniature jammer in mid-air, but Xiao Yue calmly raised his pen. The sapphire on the top of the pen cap refracted the electromagnetic waves into a visible spectrum.

"You shouldn't be sewing graphene coatings into custom suits." Xiao Yue's fingertips brushed over the copperplate engravings that decorated the wall. The rust on the edge of the frame suddenly revealed an encrypted ledger. "The patterns formed by these oxidation reactions just happened to record the number of times you've modified your electronic signature."

When Auditor Huang used the quantum computer to decipher the dynamic code, Xiao Yue was standing on the rooftop overlooking the city.

The encrypted tablet handed to Secretary Gao suddenly vibrated, and the holographic projections intertwined in the air to form a capital flow map. At the end of a broken track, the latitude and longitude coordinates of Shen Ting's study appeared.

She remembered the safe key tattoo faintly visible on her suit cuff when the man pinned the pen to her collar last night.

"Ms. Xiao, the board of directors invites you over." Secretary Gao's pearl necklace suddenly broke at the corner, and the falling beads formed an "SOS" pattern on the carpet.

When Xiao Yue bent down to pick it up, he found that the core of each pearl was embedded with a nano chip. After unlocking it, the file was the record of the video conference between Financial Director Ma and an overseas shell company.

The moment the door of the board room was opened, twelve electronic screens simultaneously played the chain of evidence from different angles.

As Xiao Yue watched Financial Director Ma being taken away by security, the holographic projection that popped up on the man's watch turned out to be the surveillance footage of the night she and Shen Ting first met - it turned out that the passing by in the dimly lit place three years ago was actually a predetermined move in this chess game.

As dusk drifted in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, Xiao Yue stood alone in the Finance Department, which had returned to calm.

The scraps of paper stained with the scent of ink had long been collected by the cleaning robot. Only the pen given by Shen Ting cast a slender shadow on the table. The water marks left by the pen tip on the glass gradually condensed into the shape of an unread message prompt.

When she reached out to brush it, the sensor lights suddenly lit up one after another, and the unique rhythm of leather shoes tapping on the marble floor behind her came. It was the kind of leisurely pace of a superior that she had heard over the phone countless late nights.

The neon lights outside the glass curtain wall flowed on Shen Ting's silver-wire mirror frame. He stood in front of the smart access control at the corner of the Finance Department, stroking the dark patterns on his suit cufflinks with his fingertips.

In the surveillance footage, Xiao Yue was bending over to pick up the fallen pearls, his hair falling down to reveal the cinnabar mole on the back of his neck - that was the nano tracker he had implanted last night at a private hospital in Honolulu. It was now flashing a positioning signal 0.3 mm below the skin that only he could receive.

"Beautifully done." Shen Ting's crocodile leather shoes rolled over the wet water stains on the floor, dragging dark lines on the marble.

He looked at Xiao Yue's back surrounded by the directors, and his Adam's apple rolled slightly.

The engagement ring box in the inner pocket of the custom-made suit suddenly vibrated, and the built-in micro-sensor projected Xiao Yue's current heartbeat frequency onto the retinal imager - 128bpm, 23% higher than usual.

When Xiao Yue turned around, Shen Ting had already adjusted the curve of his mouth.

He reached out to brush away the paper butterfly debris on her shoulders, and his knuckles seemed to accidentally brush against the second button of her windbreaker.

It was the quantum communicator he had hand-sewn three days ago, and it was currently converting the static electricity from the friction between their clothes into encrypted sound waves: "The pot of water-dripping angelica in the surveillance video was actually the housewarming gift I gave to Mr. Ma last month."

The pearl on Xiao Yue's earlobe suddenly glowed with a light blue fluorescence, and she looked up into Shen Ting's deep eyes.

When the man's warm palm covered her lower back, the nanochip hidden in the third vertebra of her spine suddenly felt a sharp pain. The fragments of memory from the implantation last night were revived by the stimulation of nerve current: in the pale halo of the operating light, Shen Ting's fingertips wearing medical rubber gloves were pushing the chip into her pale skin.

The crystal chandeliers at the celebration banquet refracted the champagne tower into a dazzling maze, and Xiao Yue's fingers holding the goblet trembled slightly.

She looked at the chain of evidence playing in a loop on the holographic projection in the banquet hall, and suddenly discovered that the longitude and latitude coordinates of a certain financial breakpoint coincided with the positioning trajectory of Shen Ting's suit inner pocket three hours ago.

The almond mousse handed to it by the waiter suddenly cracked under the silver spoon, revealing a magnetic card hidden in the cream layer - that was the card that Financial Director Ma had stuffed into the dining car before being taken away.

When a blood-red warning appeared on the smart mirror in the bathroom, Xiao Yue was using a nail knife to pry open the magnetic card compartment.

A nanoscale holographic projection rose in the steam, and the distorted face of Financial Director Ma suddenly appeared on the mirror mist: "Did you think you won the canary raised by Shen Ting?"

Look at the implant number on the back of your neck, dear Miss Auditor.&34;

The sensor faucet suddenly sprayed out a liquid with a rusty smell, and Xiao Yue stumbled back and bumped into an embrace with a pine scent.

Shen Ting's platinum cufflinks brushed against the skin on the back of her neck, precisely covering the slightly red and swollen implant point.

He lowered his head and sucked her burning earlobe, chuckling softly. His tongue seemed to accidentally brush against the clasp of the pearl earring: "How did you spill the celebratory wine on the magnetic card?"

In the top-floor office after the celebration banquet, Xiao Yue looked at Shen Ting's back as he was debugging the safe in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.

The man's well-tailored suit showed smooth texture as he moved, and the key tattoo on his wrist glowed an eerie blue in the moonlight.

When the combination wheel made a light clicking sound, she suddenly saw the rose pattern engraved on the inner layer of the safe - exactly the same pattern as the one on the cufflink her father held before his death.

"Come here." Shen Ting's voice was wrapped in the mellow taste of whiskey. The wedding ring on his palm shone with the dark blue of data streams in the cold light of the safe.

When Xiao Yue took half a step forward, the miniature scanner hidden in the edge of the stockings suddenly vibrated, transmitting the laser anti-counterfeiting code on the inner wall of the safe to her retina - the string of numbers was exactly the same as the seal number on the file of the Xinghui Technology bankruptcy case three years ago.

The moment the celebratory fireworks exploded outside the window, Shen Ting's kiss fell on her trembling eyelids.

The moment Xiao Yue closed her eyes, her memory flashed back to midnight three days ago: on the holographic sand table in Shen Ting's study, the red light dot representing Financial Director Ma perfectly overlapped with her current longitude and latitude.

The man was stroking the bronze Taotie pattern on the edge of the sand table and said with a smile that this was the dowry prepared for her.

When the celebration party ribbons fell into the blind spot of the surveillance, Accountant Chen's encrypted mailbox suddenly and automatically sent the last email.

In a private sanatorium on the other side of the city, Mr. Xiao, lying in a life-support cabin, felt his heart monitor suddenly fluctuate. He pointed with difficulty at the screen, his age-freckled hand pointing to the shareholding structure of the Shen Group from 20 years ago. Across a shareholder's name, covered in black, was the faintest glimpse of the cursive Chinese character "马."

Xiao Yue stood in front of the Finance Department that had resumed operations, her fingertips unconsciously stroking the anti-counterfeiting chip on the inside of her wedding ring.

Sunlight filtered through the smart glass, weaving a code of light spots beneath her feet. The projection at a certain moment was completely consistent with the watermark of the encrypted ledger that had been cracked last night.

She turned around to look for Shen Ting, but found the man standing in front of the center console at the end of the corridor, his white-gloved fingertips gently erasing an access record with the Ma family emblem in the operation log.

The rose petals at the celebration banquet had not yet completely withered when the Finance Department's newly installed smart security system suddenly sounded a sharp alarm.

When Xiao Yue rushed into the monitoring room, he saw the positioning signal of Financial Director Ma's electronic shackles flashing somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, and overlapping with it on the holographic map were the coordinates of the private cruise ship that Shen Ting rented when he was on a business trip last month.

The moment she reached out to touch the floating screen, Shen Ting's suit with a sea breeze scent suddenly wrapped around her trembling shoulders from behind.

"It's time to replace the defense system." The man laughed softly and bit open the pearl buttons on her shirt collar, leaving a light red mark on her collarbone with his teeth.

Xiao Yue heard the humming sound of the intelligent center restarting in a dizzy state, and caught a glimpse of a familiar figure in the surveillance playback - three days ago late at night, Shen Ting's assistant had walked into the control room with the tie clip of Financial Director Ma, and that tie clip was now pinned to the lining of his celebration banquet dress.

As the remaining champagne from the celebratory banquet dripped down the edge of the table, a certain drop of wine meandered into a strange trajectory through the cracks in the nano-floor.

The moment Xiao Yue bent down to pick up the wedding ring, she saw the lip movements of Financial Director Ma as he was being escorted appearing in the reflection of the wine stains.

The word that was not included in the lip reading recognition system was burning on her retina at this moment - it was a surname with a smell of rust, which was exactly the same as the burnt corner of the first page of the family tree in Shen Ting's study.

As the moonlight streamed over the rose pattern on the safe, Xiao Yue finally saw the key tattoo on Shen Ting's ring finger.

The password, which was supposed to be a random number, was exactly the same as the medical record number that my father wrote repeatedly before he died.

She reached out to touch the chip interface on the back of the man's neck, but her wrist was grabbed the moment she touched it. The sapphire on her wedding ring suddenly reflected the paused surveillance footage - in the footage, Financial Director Ma gave the camera a smile that looked like relief before being taken into the police car.