Double evil in the business district

Chapter 433 Xiao Yue's Persistence: A New Breakthrough in the Financial Mystery

The blue light from the surveillance screen cast shadows of varying depths on Xiao Yue's face. She placed her wedding ring against her lips and bit it gently. The scent of rose salt remaining on the metal surface, mixed with Shen Ting's usual cedar perfume, created a slightly bitter ripple on the tip of her tongue.

The central air conditioner in the Finance Department suddenly made an unusual noise. The traces of undried red wine in the cracks of the nano-floor vibrated slightly with the airflow, transforming into a string of unusual numbers on the financial statements.

"Ms. Xiao's wedding ring is so beautiful." Financial Director Ma tapped the rose relief on the safe with the end of his pen. The metallic clang startled a blue magpie perched outside the window. "I heard that Mr. Shen ordered it using a pink diamond from the family's secret stash?"

But...&34; His crocodile leather belt rubbed uncomfortably as he leaned over.&34;No matter how precious a gem is, it can't illuminate the sewers of some old debts.&34;

Xiao Yue held down the strands of hair that had been blown apart by static electricity, and as her fingertips slid across the smart screen, she deliberately called up the ward surveillance footage of her father three days before his death.

The faded hospital gown in the picture overlapped with Manager Ma's silver-gray suit. She looked at his suddenly constricted pupils and suddenly smiled the flawless smile Shen Ting had taught her: "You're right, that's why I want to borrow your 2019 reserve fund ledger."

When the setting sun dyed the safe's combination wheel blood orange, Xiao Yue finally heard the clear sound of the metal lock cylinder popping open.

The brown paper bag hidden at the bottom exuded a faint musty smell, and the red light of the micro recorder in the second button of her shirt flashed three times at the same time - this was the Morse code that Shen Ting tapped with his little finger on the back of her neck when he tied her scarf this morning.

"Team Leader Xiao!" Cashier Liu's patent leather high heels slipped at the end of the corridor, and the coffee in his arms spilled between the two of them, forming a sticky dividing line.

She stared at the ID card on Xiao Yue's chest and suddenly began to nervously tear the rhinestones on her nails: "That overseas consulting fee... I mean the voucher automatically generated by the system... Manager Ma said..."

Xiao Yue reached out to catch the falling Blue Mountain coffee cup, and her fingertips brushed across a fresh scratch on the bottom of the cup - exactly the same as the edge of the bone china cup that had broken in Shen Ting's study last week.

She folded the soaked tissue into a square shape and stuffed it into the other person's palm. This comforting gesture her mother taught her before her death made Liu Chuan Na stagger back as if he was burned.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the Finance Department was immersed in the disinfectant-like moonlight. Xiao Yue pushed the hot smart glasses to the top of his head.

In the holographic cash flow diagram, a dark green tributary suddenly trembled when she scooped up the third spoonful of ice cream - it was a medical device company registered in the Cayman Islands. The abbreviation of the third name on the shareholder list perfectly matched a smeared seal on the letterhead of the blood-stained medical record in her shirt pocket.

&34；黄审计员，请调取三年前所有脑机接口耗材的报关单。&34；她的声音惊醒了休眠状态的打印机，吐出的热敏纸卷上，墨迹未干的&34；沈氏生物&34；字样正在吞噬旁边&34；萧氏医疗&34；的笔划。

The glass curtain wall reflected half of a navy blue cuff at the corner of the corridor. That was the color of the cufflinks that Shen Ting's assistant wore this morning.

As the first arc of dawn cut through the city skyline, Xiao Yue was using the diamond edges of her wedding ring to cut and seal the file bag.

The encrypted communicator suddenly vibrated and Shen Ting's sleeping face popped up on the desktop. The chip interface on the back of the man's neck was still flashing with a blue light. On the fragments of the family tree scattered beside the pillow, a surname that had been burned by fire was oozing cinnabar red in the morning light.

The neon lights outside the window blurred into blurry spots on the tempered glass. When Xiao Yue stuffed the encrypted USB drive into the mint candy tin box, her fingertips touched the tiny scratches on the inner wall - those were the spiral patterns that Auditor Huang had accidentally left with his pinky ring when he handed over the overseas account backup three days ago.

The blue ribbon hanging from the central air-conditioning outlet suddenly moved without wind, casting a swaying shadow on the draft paper where she was calculating the number of layers of equity penetration, just like the dark blue arc wrapped around Shen Ting's fingers when he was playing with her wet hair in the bathtub last night.

"Team Leader Xiao, this is the cold chain transport order from Rongchang Pharmaceutical." Secretary Gao slid in on a suspended office chair, and the crystal nails knocked against the edge of the tablet, making a crisp sound like shattering ice.

When Xiao Yue took the document, she seemed to accidentally stroke the smart bracelet on the other person's wrist. The jumping breathing rate curve on the dial made her pupils shrink slightly - the data fluctuations were exactly the same as when Liu the cashier suddenly had heart palpitations in the tea room three days ago.

She pushed the strawberry cake to Auditor Huang, who was checking the customs declaration. The edible gold foil on the frosting gave off a strange luster under the nano-light.

"Manager Ma loves this store's hazelnut mille-feuille." The moment the silver fork pierced the cake base, semi-solidified raspberry jam slowly seeped out along the gap, just like the screenshot of the incomplete email found in Accountant Chen's computer recycling bin last week.

Auditor Huang pushed his holographic glasses, and a tiny spark suddenly burst out from the temples: "Ms. Xiao, why don't you meet with the logistics department directly?" His cream-stained fingertips paused on the virtual keyboard, and the clock numbers in the lower right corner of the projection screen suddenly distorted into the electronic lock code of the safe in Shen Ting's study.

Xiao Yue used the light reflected by her wedding ring to magnify the barcode somewhere on the document thirty times. The nano-level anti-counterfeiting patterns projected a variant pattern of the Shen Group's logo on her iris.

"Mr. Huang, have you ever seen a hibernating venomous snake?" She smeared the melted ice cream on the rim of her coffee cup, and the milky white liquid snaked along the wall, forming the outline of an overseas company's organizational chart. "If you try to pry open the frozen ground before the Waking of Insects arrives, you'll only get bitten back."

When Shen Ting pushed the door open, Xiao Yue was using an ultraviolet pen to illuminate the meeting minutes from three years ago.

The smell of quantum computer coolant on his windbreaker and the aroma of caramel pudding wafting from the thermal box entwined into a spiral of mist.

The jumping numbers in the holographic projection suddenly stopped collectively, as if the gold thread embroidered on the man's cuffs had locked the throat of the data flow.

"Your assistant has changed his cufflinks." Xiao Yue held the cherry that Shen Ting fed her in her mouth, and her tongue brushed across the calluses on his fingertips as she rolled away the core.

The scars left by the special training in the military were now pressed against the watermark of the medical equipment purchase order she had just deciphered, forming a mirror image with the personal seal of a certain director.

Shen Ting used his tie to wipe the frosting off the corners of her mouth, and the silk fabric stirred up tiny static electricity as it brushed against her skin.

The surveillance footage suddenly flashed with snowflake noise. The moment he bent over to sort out the pile of documents, Xiao Yue saw a fleeting red light flash across the chip interface on the back of his neck - it was exactly the same signal frequency as the sleep mode signal in last night's encrypted communication.

When Moonlight climbed onto the fingerprint lock of the safe for the third time, Xiao Yue finally pieced together the key from the shipping batch number of the brain-computer interface consumables.

The virtual currency on the holographic sandbox suddenly materialized into a physical entity. The moment she touched it, it turned into a sky full of stars and fell onto the velvet carpet sent by Shen Ting.

Auditor Huang knocked over the antique desk lamp when he rushed in. In the shadow cast by the rotating gilded lampshade, the reserve fund flow in 1997 was quantum entangled with the overseas consulting fees in 2023.

"This is impossible!" Auditor Huang pulled off his tie, and the iris scanner suddenly issued an error alarm.

His holographic glasses automatically brought up the confidentiality agreement of a merger and acquisition case from five years ago. The electronic handwriting at the signature decomposed and reassembled in the air, and finally transformed into the organ donation consent form number signed by Xiao Yue's mother before her death.

Xiao Yue placed the test tube in the refrigerator against his chin and shook it gently. The hidden layer of the biological sample transport form emerged from the white mist of liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius.

She put on the nerve-connecting gloves that Shen Ting had left on her pillow last night. The moment the virtual keyboard popped up, an offshore account that had been dormant for ten years suddenly woke up on the blockchain. The rhythm of the balance digits was perfectly synchronized with Shen Ting's heart rate monitoring curve in the top-floor conference room.

When the first ray of morning light pierced the fog of data, Xiao Yue found that all clues pointed to the old-fashioned paper shredder in the Finance Department.

When she squatted down, her wedding ring hit the metal shell, and the shape of the dent was exactly the same as the meteorite pattern on the Shen Ting family emblem.

On the half piece of thermal paper torn out from the gap in the recycling bin, the words "brain-computer interface" were being corroded by some acidic substance into the electrocardiogram waveform that appeared in her father's medical record.

The encrypted communicator suddenly vibrated, and the holographic image sent by Shen Ting condensed into an ice crystal-like quantum key above the shredder.

Xiao Yue dipped the tip of a nail polish brush into the coolant, and the molecular formula drawn on the bulletproof glass gradually developed into the first three digits of the account password.

Just as she was about to touch the fourth character, the entire smart glass suddenly switched to anti-peeping mode, and Director Ma's face, which was cut into pixel blocks by the data stream, emerged from the deep blue ripples.

Xiao Yue curled up in an ergonomic chair, the encrypted account information projected by the smart glasses spread out on the ceiling like a star map.

The matcha mousse sent by Shen Ting slowly collapsed in the constant temperature box, and dark green juice oozed out from the cream folds, which looked very much like the transportation record of the biological sample sealed in liquid nitrogen three hours ago.

She placed the wedding ring against her lips and blew away the warm air. The diamond's edges cast a tiny spot of light on the account key bar. Suddenly, she discovered that the Morse code rhythm of one of the characters exactly matched the sound of Shen Ting knocking on the wardrobe when he was tying his tie this morning.