63: Recruiting Agents

Sitting at his desk, Su Yue's mood was slightly excited.

At the same time, there was a sense of relief.

He had been busy during the previous period.

Lan Zijun was actually a very difficult person to control; she was proud, strong-willed, and also very intelligent.

Dealing with her, Su Yue had to be cautious. Although he had only passed a few notes and executed two plans, it already felt like half his brain cells were dead.

However, all of this was worth it.

Now he had forty million in funds. Forty million could do many things, for example, save his life!

He had never forgotten the matter of his life being in danger mentioned in the first piece of Intelligence.

Although there still seemed to be more than five months left, Su Yue didn't like this passive feeling.

Of course, no one in this world liked this feeling.

And with forty million, Su Yue had a lot of room for choice.

He could choose to invest funds to expand his Intelligence Outpost to obtain more high-level Intelligence, some of which might be related to his life being in danger.

And if Intelligence gathering wasn't smooth, or if Su Yue couldn't interpret the content he wanted from the Intelligence given by the System, he could also take this money and leave far away.

This would require abandoning the Intelligence Outpost. Although Su Yue was the owner of the Intelligence Outpost, and only he could use everything inside, the Outpost itself was immobile. Su Yue was clear about this from the beginning.

However, when that time truly came, obviously life was more important. And with forty million in huge funds by his side, Su Yue could still enjoy a comfortable life.

It was just that he would have no connection with his dreams.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Su Yue took a deep breath and reached for the drawer.

Things should be done one by one, and the good show should be saved for later. The matter of expanding the Intelligence Outpost could wait. Let's see what Intelligence the System has brought this time.

Pulling open the drawer, a familiar file bag lay quietly inside, marked with a large letter D.

This was a piece of D-level Intelligence.

Su Yue casually opened the file bag. This time, there was a paper document inside.

"Name: Wang Lin, second son of Wang Jian, founder of Kelly Investment."

"Age: 33 years old. Company position: Asset Management Department Manager."

"Primarily responsible for the evaluation and daily fund supervision of some investment projects of Kelly Group. The businesses he is responsible for include Chuangmei Medical Co., Ltd., Huaxin Communications Company, Xinguang Home Appliances, Rongtai Commercial Chain, Chuangtong Logistics..."

"Family members include father Wang Jian, elder brother Wang Hai..."

"Hobbies: car racing, golf..."

The document contained a series of introductions about Wang Lin. Su Yue read it carefully and put the document down.

The target of this Intelligence was chosen by the System itself, but under Su Yue's instructions.

For Su Yue, it was inevitable that his Intelligence Outpost would be built to a high level, barring any accidents.

And for the Intelligence Outpost to upgrade, it inherently required funds. Su Yue didn't know how much this fund was yet.

In addition, the acquisition of Intelligence itself required funds. Although Su Yue still didn't know how the System acquired Intelligence, judging from the System's requirement to pay a budget, it was clear that the acquisition of Intelligence also had a process.

The lowest level D-level Intelligence required a budget of fifty thousand. The budget for high-level Intelligence would definitely increase exponentially.

Moreover, the Intelligence Outpost would definitely need to recruit operatives. Operatives needed to be paid, and their activities also required funds.

The funds consumed by a high-level Intelligence Outpost were not a small sum. Relying solely on Lan Zijun as a client was clearly not enough. Although she gave a one-time payment of forty million this time, this Intelligence was expensive because it was related to her life.

Lan Zijun couldn't possibly be assassinated every day, right?

Therefore, Su Yue had previously issued instructions to the Intelligence Outpost, allowing the System to independently collect Intelligence on wealthy people.

And the Intelligence in front of him was obviously a wealthy person selected by the System.

Su Yue was not familiar with Wang Lin, but he had heard of Wang Jian and Wang Jian's Kelly Investment.

This was a leading investment company in the local area, reportedly capable of mobilizing funds in the tens of billions range.

Of course, most of these tens of billions were raised through financing, and Wang Jian's personal assets were not that much. But being able to mobilize them, in a sense, these funds could all be regarded as his.

Moreover, in fact, this was after the funds in Wang Jian's hands had significantly shrunk. The overall economic environment had not been very good in the past two years. In fact, the investment and securities industry had been on a downward trend since the subprime mortgage crisis more than ten years ago. Wang Jian's Kelly Investment was the same.

This was indeed a wealthy target, but this Intelligence currently didn't have much value. There was no information that could be utilized inside.

Including what Su Yue was most concerned about, who exactly was planning to assassinate him, the Intelligence didn't mention it at all.

Su Yue sighed. D-level Intelligence was like this; all sorts of information were relatively superficial and could be obtained with a little time.

Since it was confirmed to be a wealthy target, he couldn't demand too much for the time being.

And he originally didn't think that the System could obtain Intelligence about who was planning to assassinate him by just choosing someone randomly.

The System was just a tool responsible for collecting Intelligence. It basically wouldn't draw conclusions or make inferences. It would only provide certain objective facts. The rest, like peeling back layers, was all done by Su Yue himself.

The only direction he could basically confirm was that the person preparing to harm him was very likely a wealthy person.

After all, the System said it would be half a year later. For some poor people, if they were unhappy with Su Yue and felt they couldn't stand it, they would just grab a butcher knife and go to his door that very night. What day would they pick?

Only wealthy people liked to scheme, and schemes that lasted for as long as half a year.

Shaking his head, Su Yue directly took photos of this Intelligence, saved them on his computer and phone, and then threw the document into the shredder next to him.

Doing this actually couldn't guarantee the safety of the Intelligence. Su Yue was very clear about this, but he currently had no way to do so. After all, the Intelligence Outpost was only D-level and lacked relevant means.

In addition, he planned to establish a subordinate organization similar to an Intelligence club, but this was also impossible because the relevant confidentiality work could not be carried out.

Forget it, let's get down to business. Upgrading the Intelligence Outpost should be able to solve many problems.

Moreover, after the Intelligence Outpost is upgraded, the level of Intelligence obtained will also be higher.

Collecting his thoughts, with a slightly excited mood, Su Yue spoke in his mind: "System, what are the requirements to upgrade the Intelligence Outpost from D-level to C-level?"

"To upgrade from a D-level Intelligence Outpost to a C-level, two conditions need to be met."

"The first condition requires two million in funds."

"The second condition," the System's voice continued, "requires recruiting two operatives."

Su Yue was slightly stunned.

Two million didn't sound like a small amount, but considering the potential benefits after the System upgrade, it wasn't too much.

After all, a D-level Outpost could help Su Yue earn forty million. Of course, this kind of thing might be hard to replicate.

But Su Yue had forty million on hand, so two million didn't matter. Rich and willful!

But two operatives would be difficult. He had only managed to trick Li Haoyang into being a reserve operative by taking advantage of Lan Zijun's challenge. Where could he find a second one?

The key was that operatives must be people Su Yue could trust, and honestly, Su Yue didn't trust many people.

Besides Li Haoyang, the only one left was his female roommate, Lin Jia.

Could it be that he had to develop Lin Jia into a so-called Intelligence operative as well?

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