293: You don't have much time left.

The moment Liang Yuzhu stepped into the basement, she was stunned by the decor inside.

She never expected Su Yue to build such a large basement, and this basement was fully equipped with everything, not only desks and computers but even a pile of fitness equipment.

She quickly understood why Su Yue's skills were so good now; he must have spent a lot of time training here.

Even just standing at the entrance and looking, they couldn't see the entire layout of the basement.

Liang Yuzhu also perked up, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Su Yue.

"Su Yue, can I take a look around your basement?"

Su Yue generously agreed and said, "Liang Yuzhu, feel free to look around. If you have any suggestions about this place, you can also bring them up, and I'll see if I can improve it."

The current basement automatically updates; as long as he thinks about how to change it, it can be modified according to his ideas. He hasn't found any major flaws yet and is increasingly satisfied with this basement.

On weekends or during his free time, Su Yue would also stay here, learning more knowledge to make himself stronger.

Lin Jia and Tian Yuwei immediately spoke up, "We want to look around too."

Su Yue nodded, "Feel free."

Su Yue did not personally accompany them on the basement tour. The current basement is fully equipped, and they wouldn't feel bored exploring it.

For Su Yue right now, checking the new intelligence was the most important thing.

He walked over to the desk, pulled open the drawer, and as expected, there was a familiar brown paper bag inside.

Su Yue picked it up and found that this time the intelligence was thicker than the previous times.

As Su Yue opened the paper bag, he wondered, since it was so thick this time, whether the intelligence level would be C-grade, B-grade, or even A-grade.

Speaking of which, he hadn't received an A-grade intelligence report yet, and he didn't know when he would receive one.

The content of the B-grade intelligence reports these past few times has been so explosive, an A-grade report would probably be even more shocking, right?

Su Yue opened the paper bag, pulled out a thick stack of papers, and finally, he poured a USB drive out of the paper bag.

Su Yue couldn't see any clues from the appearance of the USB drive; it was just an ordinary USB drive, and he didn't know what content was inside.

He sat on the chair, opened his laptop, and then checked the papers he took out of the paper bag.

When he saw the text inside, Su Yue was a bit bewildered.

Code?

Su Yue quickly flipped through the thick stack of papers, hoping to find text other than code, but he was ultimately disappointed; this time, there was indeed only a large stack of code.

Although Su Yue didn't understand code, he knew a little about it, and he quickly saw that this was a large section of source code.

Realizing this, Su Yue was even more confused.

What's going on? Why is there source code?

He felt puzzled by this intelligence report. He flipped through the paper bag again and found the intelligence level for this time.

As expected, this intelligence report was still B-grade.

Having found no useful evidence on the papers, Su Yue could only insert the USB drive into the computer to see what intelligence was inside.

While Su Yue was starting the USB drive, Liang Yuzhu and the other two had already taken a quick look around the basement. The three of them shared a look of admiration for Su Yue.

Don't let the fact that it's a basement fool you; with Su Yue's setup, it wasn't any worse than their rented apartment upstairs. In fact, because the space was so large, anything you could think of was here.

Fitness equipment, gaming setups, even kitchenware—everything was here.

Perhaps worried about smoke, he had even specially walled off the kitchen area and installed a range hood inside.

The several of them were truly shocked by Su Yue now, simply unable to imagine how he had secretly done so much in the basement.

However, although the three were curious, they didn't press further.

It was already great that Su Yue was willing to bring them to visit his secret base. It was better not to ask about some things that shouldn't be asked.

Liang Yuzhu saw the brown paper bag in front of Su Yue immediately. Remembering that Su Yue had used this bag to provide her with intelligence several times before, her eyes instantly lit up, and she quickly walked over to Su Yue.

Unlike the eagerness in her steps, she spoke with a bit of hesitation.

"Su Yue, are you... busy?"

Liang Yuzhu wished she could immediately ask Su Yue if he had received new intelligence, but for fear of causing Su Yue to misunderstand, she could only pretend to ask calmly.

The urgency in Liang Yuzhu's words was still quite obvious, and Su Yue immediately heard her curiosity.

When Su Yue originally brought Liang Yuzhu back, he had already thought that he would still share the intelligence with Liang Yuzhu this time. Seeing that she was already impatient and asking, he nodded.

"Yes, I just received new intelligence."

Indeed, after Su Yue said this, Liang Yuzhu's eyes instantly lit up, already a bit impatient.

"This intelligence..."

Su Yue directly handed her the code that he had just flipped through and said, "Take a look."

Liang Yuzhu nodded heavily, "Okay."

Liang Yuzhu would get particularly excited whenever she encountered something related to a case, and this time was no exception. When she took the papers from Su Yue's hand, she couldn't wait to start flipping through them.

Lin Jia and Tian Yuwei, who were following behind Liang Yuzhu, weren't as enthusiastic about the intelligence, but because Lin Jia had already helped Su Yue receive intelligence before, hearing that Su Yue had new intelligence now, she also curiously came closer.

Su Yue didn't care what they were thinking; he directly opened the content on the USB drive.

On the USB drive, there was a video and an audio recording.

Su Yue first opened the video. The video was surveillance footage of two people arguing in an office.

However, this surveillance wasn't high-definition, and he couldn't clearly see the faces of the two people in the frame. As for the conversation, he didn't hear anything at all.

After watching the entire video, Su Yue clicked on the audio recording.

This recording was clearer than the video. It was likely a phone recording, very short, with only three sentences back and forth.

"Crimson Blood, if you don't want anything to happen, hand over the source code obediently."

"Heh, dream on. I won't hand it over even if I die."

"Fine! You brat are asking for trouble! Just you wait and see."

After reviewing all the intelligence, Su Yue was still a bit confused about this case.

It could be seen that this case was related to a programmer, which could be inferred from the source code and the call recording. The programmer's name was 'Crimson Blood'.

However, 'Crimson Blood' was clearly just a codename, not the person's real name.

As for the two people in the video, perhaps Liang Yuzhu's team could help identify them.

Liang Yuzhu had always been meticulous in handling cases, but this stack of source code in front of her really left her bewildered.

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However, she wasn't flustered and asked for Su Yue's opinion.

"Su Yue, can I make a copy and take it back to Police Station?"

Although she, Liang Yuzhu, couldn't understand the source code, there were so many capable people at Police Station; someone would surely be able to figure it out.

Su Yue nodded, "Yes, you can copy it."

Thinking of something, he reminded her, "But you need to tell your people not to actually build the program."

After all, this belonged to someone else, and it wasn't appropriate for them to use it without permission.

Moreover, based on the content of the phone recording, this source code seemed very important.

Liang Yuzhu could take it back for investigation, but anything more would be inappropriate.

Liang Yuzhu naturally knew this point, and she nodded affirmingly.

"Su Yue, don't worry. I won't copy the core content of this code, and I will remind my colleagues not to over-analyze it."

Su Yue was quite confident in Liang Yuzhu's work. Since Liang Yuzhu had repeatedly assured him, he naturally had no objections.

"Okay."

Meanwhile, Lin Jia, who was originally watching from the side, suddenly spoke up, "Captain Liang, can I take a close look at this code?"

Liang Yuzhu was a bit surprised that Lin Jia would suddenly be curious about code, but she still handed it to her.

"Here."

Lin Jia quickly thanked her, "Thank you, Captain Liang."

Su Yue was also a bit surprised by Lin Jia's sudden curiosity about code and looked at her with some astonishment.

"Lin Jia, why are you suddenly interested in code?"

Lin Jia didn't hide it and explained, "Haven't I been staying at home all this time? I was bored, so I learned a bit of programming."

Hearing Lin Jia say this, Su Yue and Liang Yuzhu both felt relieved.

With just simple self-taught programming, Lin Jia probably wouldn't be able to figure out what this code actually meant.

And the truth was indeed as the two of them had guessed. Lin Jia observed carefully for a long time but ultimately didn't come to any useful conclusions.

However, she emphasized, "Su Yue, this source code is very logical, and the software built from it can surpass 95% of the software on the market. The person is truly amazing."

Although Lin Jia had only been exposed to programming for a short time, she could still see that this source code was no joke; it was truly powerful.

Su Yue had already felt that this source code was unusual; otherwise, no one would threaten an engineer's life over it. Now, hearing Lin Jia say it so confidently, he also confirmed the idea in his mind.

He nodded, indicating that he understood.

After hearing Lin Jia say this, Liang Yuzhu became a bit more cautious and proactively asked Lin Jia to pick out the important information from the code, without copying this useful information.

Although she didn't know where Su Yue got such important source code, Liang Yuzhu remained cautious to prevent the other party's secrets from being leaked.

With such important source code, the programmer definitely wouldn't want their work to be plagiarized.

Su Yue proactively invited Liang Yuzhu to check the intelligence on the USB drive: "Liang Yuzhu, see if you can get any leads from these two clues."

Liang Yuzhu nodded quickly, leaned over to Su Yue's computer desk, and carefully checked the content inside.

However, the first video was too blurry, and Liang Yuzhu could only vaguely guess one sentence by lip-reading.

"If you don't accept it, then get out."

Combined with the scene of the two people arguing in the video, this sentence was easy to understand. It seemed like an employee went to confront their boss and was rebuffed by the boss.

However, Liang Yuzhu said, "We can ask the technical department to help interpret this video."

Liang Yuzhu only knew a few simple spoken words; the technical department people were better than her, and they should be able to interpret more useful information.

Su Yue originally sought out Liang Yuzhu intending to leverage Police's resources. Hearing this, he nodded and added, "Can the faces of these two people be restored?"

For some reason, Su Yue felt that the figure of the man sitting behind the desk was a bit familiar.

But this video was like it had ten layers of pixelation, and he wasn't sure if he had mistaken the person.

Liang Yuzhu was silent for a moment, then said, "I can only try my best to get them to work on it."

After all, the quality of this video was really poor, and she couldn't guarantee 100% that the video could be analyzed.

Su Yue nodded, "Okay, okay, as long as they can give it a try."

Liang Yuzhu asked, "Su Yue, do you know what this intelligence is related to?"

As the Captain of the Criminal Investigation Team, Liang Yuzhu had always been privy to firsthand intelligence. However, with the intelligence shown to her today, she couldn't immediately figure out what it was related to.

Su Yue didn't dare to speak too definitively, "I might know who this is related to, but I still need to verify it."

Hearing Su Yue say this, Liang Yuzhu felt much more at ease.

Su Yue's intelligence had always been very accurate. Now that he had obtained definitive intelligence, it meant that this intelligence was definitely related to the upcoming case.

If he already had a direction for the upcoming investigation, then things would be much easier.

Of course, Liang Yuzhu wasn't thinking of relying on Su Yue for everything; it was just that with his presence, she could solve the case faster.

What's more, Su Yue was now famous within Police Station. Many people at Police Station admired Su Yue and felt it was a real shame that Su Yue wasn't a Police Officer.

Of course, Liang Yuzhu didn't tell Su Yue about this. For some reason, she had a gut feeling that Su Yue wouldn't want to join Police Station.

Since Liang Yuzhu had said she would help him check the video, Su Yue also felt much more relaxed.

Actually, he felt that this intelligence was related to the Hacker.

It seemed the Hacker was indeed currently under threat of life. He didn't know if he was alright at the moment. If something had already happened, then the talent he had finally found would be lost just like that.

Thinking of this, Su Yue felt a bit restless.

He had already sent people to investigate matters related to the Hacker a long time ago. However, either the Hacker was too inconspicuous in reality, or he hid himself too well, as his men hadn't managed to investigate even a single useful piece of information.

However, with the new intelligence now, it would be a bit easier to investigate.

Su Yue couldn't help but curse the other party in his heart. He was indeed being cautious, preventing Su Yue from potentially harming him, but he was also blocking his own path to rescue and might even end up trapping himself and his life.

Su Yue felt completely speechless, yet because the Hacker truly had capability, he didn't want to miss out on such a good talent.

He had to find the Hacker as soon as possible and bring him to his side.

Therefore, he first logged into the email he usually used to contact the Hacker and sent him an email.

"I already know your difficulties. I can help you with whatever assistance you need, but afterward, you will need to work for me. If you've thought it through, contact me as soon as possible. I know you don't have much time left."

After sending the email to the Hacker, Su Yue contacted Old Sha and Huang Mao again, took a photo of the blurry video, and said.

"You two take a look and see who these two people are, or check which company has this kind of decor."

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