Then let the witch offer her loyalty

It wasn't until Cao Jiande returned home and made a special phone call to Wu Yueping that Chen Moxin knew the "apple" definitely wasn't an apple.

Who would make a special phone call just for a bag of apples? Do they think leaders have all that free time?

Not to mention the indirect remarks that followed.

Cao Jiande is quite cunning. Even when making a private phone call, he considered the possibility of being recorded. Instead of directly offering to help Wu Xuan, he offered his "blessings".

The subtle hints of "blessings," combined with the earlier mention of the bag of "apples," essentially confirm that Cao Jiande and Wu Yueping have quietly completed a transaction.

Now that the fish has shown its face, the next step is to figure out how it got the back door.

This kind of thing, if you don't weigh it, it's less than four ounces; if you do weigh it, it's a thousand pounds and it can't withstand it.

Openly using back doors is suicidal; do you really think the courtroom is just for show?

People like Cao Jiande must have certain methods that allow the formal employment process to be compliant on the surface while achieving their goals in secret.

Once you uncover this method, the rest becomes simple.

...

The next day, Chen Moxin deployed the tarantula robot into Cao Jiande's office to monitor and record his every move.

Today, the bureau also held a written test for the promotion of permanent staff. However, candidates like Chen Moxin, who were recommended for meritorious service, were exempt from the test according to regulations, which saved him a lot of time.

Just as Chen Mo was working absentmindedly, a figure walked up to him, accompanied by a faint, sweet strawberry scent.

Luo Lingyou handed him a stack of documents: "Here, this is for you."

Chen Moxin thought she was there to make him do chores, and a troubled look appeared on his face: "Mio, I have too many chores on my hands. Can you go and torment the other animals instead?"

Luo Lingyou rolled her eyes: "We're not even in the same unit. You're not qualified to help me with my work. Open it and see what's inside."

Chen Moxin opened the document and glanced at it.

"Hmm? A question bank?"

He quickly flipped through the document and confirmed that it was indeed the question bank, containing past interview questions.

The assessment process for converting non-permanent staff to permanent staff at the Administration Bureau consists of five steps: nomination of candidates, written examination for recruitment, interview for those who pass the written examination, public announcement of those who pass the interview, and formal conversion to permanent staff after the public announcement period.

Chen Moxin has already passed the first two steps; what follows is the most difficult and unpredictable interview.

During the interview, the interviewer will ask questions in specific scenarios to observe the candidate's speech and thereby assess their knowledge, abilities, psychological qualities, and so on.

Luo Lingyou provided a question bank of real interview questions from the past five years, including the corresponding standard answers.

The interview questions for the management bureau's promotion process are different every year and will not be repeated, so the questions in these question banks will definitely not be asked again.

However, by reviewing past years' question banks, one can gain some understanding of the question patterns and the logic behind the answers, so people still spend time reviewing them.

Chen Moxin looked at the question bank in her hand, and was at a loss for words.

No way, does anyone really think he's going to have a proper interview?

Chen Moxin accepted the question bank for the time being, and like a deeply affectionate gentleman, covered his heart with his hand: "Tell me, how should I thank the beautiful, generous, and kind-hearted Mio?"

Luo Lingyou snorted lightly, "No need to thank me. I just got it from someone else and made a copy for you." ←←← (Actually, he stayed up all night organizing it himself last night)

"I'm going back to work now. You can look at it at your own pace when you have time. Oh, by the way..."

She punched the back of Chen Moxin's seat with her little fist.

"What do you mean 'baby'? Speak properly and stop acting crazy."

...

That day after get off work, Chen Moxin did not go home on time, but stayed at the bureau to work overtime, citing unfinished work as the reason.

The tarantula robot had been monitoring Cao Jiande all day; it was time to see what it had found.

Chen Moxin found a small meeting room without surveillance cameras, locked the door, and used her phone to speed up the playback of the surveillance footage.

For middle and lower-level leaders like Cao Jiande, who are getting old and nearing retirement, and have no further opportunities for promotion, their work is usually quite leisurely.

Drink some tea, read the newspaper, sign a few words on a document, and you've got your daily wage.

Some people don't understand why someone like Cao Jiande, who is about to retire, would not enjoy his later years but instead take risks to seek personal gain.

Actually, that's not the logic.

It is precisely because of old age that one has to take risks.

Public service is a cruel job. When you hold an important position, everyone treats you with utmost respect and fawns over you.

After retirement, who do you think you are?

Once you take off this uniform, you're just an ordinary person. Your former subordinates will no longer pay attention to you, those who used to fawn over you will look down on you, and even your nanny will roll her eyes at you impatiently.

Leaders of high enough rank are fine; their retirement benefits are also high.

But for someone like Cao Jiande, who is neither here nor there, retirement means he won't have to worry about food and clothing, but he will never again enjoy the respect he once had.

Especially since he has no children, the older he gets, the more insecure he feels.

This sense of security cannot be filled by others; it can only be provided by oneself.

And the thing that gives people the greatest sense of security is money.

This is a world that laughs at poverty but not prostitution.

With money, you gain dignity.

That's why Cao Jiande was willing to make as much money as possible even as he was about to retire.

Chen Moxin watched the playback over and over again in the conference room, fast-forwarding through useless scenes and slowing down the parts that were noteworthy.

Cao Jiande spent most of his time in the office today, doing little work and mostly playing on his phone reading the news.

The only thing related to the upcoming probationary period assessment was that he reviewed the list of all the candidates who passed the written test and signed off on their permission to proceed to the next interview stage.

The whole process is quite ordinary—receive the file, review it, sign and stamp it, bag it, and deliver it.

There seemed to be nothing unusual.

If one didn't know that Cao Jiande and the Wu family had a deal, this would seem like a perfectly normal procedure.

However, Chen Moxin judged that there was a high probability that something fishy was hiding in this seemingly normal process.

According to Cao Jiande's conversation with his assistant, the file was to be submitted for sealing and would not be opened by the interview team until the day of the interview.

Unless the way to get things done is unreliable, like "making a verbal request," then any tampering can only happen during this process.

With this in mind, Chen Moxin focused intently and replayed the surveillance footage again.

Chapter 34 The Simplest Way: Opening a Backdoor

Chen Moxin repeatedly replayed Cao Jiande's process of handling the files, trying to capture any details hidden within them.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, he noticed something and zoomed in on Cao Jiande's movements.

In the video, Cao Jiande has already signed and stamped all the files and is putting them into bags one by one.

Pick up the first one and put it in.

Pick up the second portion and put it in.

...When I got the fifteenth one, I flicked my wrist and put it in.

The sixteenth portion, put it in.

Seventeenth point, put it in.

Put Chen Moxin's portion in.

With a flick of his wrist, he put Wu Xuan's portion in.

Twice more later, it was inserted by twisting the wrist.

Then they just put them in directly.

Chen Moxin rewound the video repeatedly, carefully observing Cao Jiande's actions. Relying on the ultra-high-definition resolution of the spider robot, she magnified the image and compared the details of the relevant documents.

Suddenly, he realized something and couldn't help but slap his thigh.

Happy.

I thought there was some hidden trick, but the method of opening a back door is really simple.

Chen Moxin put away her phone and pondered in her mind.

Now that we know how to open a backdoor, the next step is to figure out how to break the deadlock.

He conceived several plans in his mind, but they all required the use of psionic energy to some extent.

There's a prerequisite for using psionic powers: you absolutely cannot attract the attention of the department.

In other words, Liu Lan's "hypothetical value" cannot increase.

The effect of the [Raging Suppression] talent is: within 24 hours, the next 3 psionic releases will no longer accumulate Raging Erosion.

Take Chen Moxin secretly bringing the tarantula robot into the station yesterday as an example.

Leaving a phase imprint on the tarantula robot counts as one instance.

Leave phase imprints twice on diamond rings of similar value.

After entering the Bureau with the ring in their physical body, the mark is activated, and the phase transfer between the two objects is completed three times.

Exactly 3 times.

However, in Chen Moxin's current plan, to break the deadlock, even the simplest solution would require at least five releases of spiritual energy.

This has exceeded the scope of the [Rampage Suppression] effect.

However, he quickly came up with a solution.

Because this talent has a "bug" that can be exploited.

Chen Moxin glanced at the time; it was 19:23 PM.

He activated [Raging Suppression] and gained the effect that for 24 hours, the next 3 psionic releases would no longer accumulate Raging Erosion.

Then he did nothing, clocked out of get off work, and went home.

I slept soundly through the night and went to work as usual the next day.

After get off work that day, he stayed behind under the pretext of working overtime, hiding in a small conference room, and prepared a brown paper file folder and a stack of white paper in advance.

He stared at the clock on his phone, waiting for time to pass.

At 19:22 PM, he activated the power he gained from the second stage of psionic awakening: Phase Space.

Psionic Release, 1 time.

The personnel department office is located upstairs from the special investigation department, and the phase space can completely cover it, allowing Chen Moxin to sense all objects within the domain.

Soon, he sensed the safe containing the interview candidates' files.

With a thought, Chen Moxin remotely applied a phase imprint to the file folder using phase space.

Psionic Release, 2 time.

He glanced at the brown file folder next to him, which contained a stack of white papers.

The "value" in the phase transfer activation conditions only calculates the material and craftsmanship value of the object.

The candidate's file and the information inside appear to be classified and of high value.

However, this value is conferred by social attributes and will not be taken into account.

In determining the phase transition, it's just a manila file folder and hundreds of sheets of printed paper.

Meanwhile, Chen Moxin had already prepared the same file folder and put the same number of blank sheets of paper inside.

The "value" of the two is almost identical.

With a thought, Chen Moxin applied a phase imprint to the file folder beside him.

Psionic Release, 3 time.

[Rampage Suppression] has exhausted its effective uses.

but.