66: Get the goddess and make a fortune!

Looking at Lin Jia's exquisite and beautiful face, Su Yue shook his head in self-mockery in his heart.

To be honest, Lin Jia's appearance, temperament, and even personal ability were all top-notch. Even compared to Lan Zijun, she was only lacking in family background.

Lan Zijun was born into a wealthy family, while although Lin Jia had never mentioned her family, judging from her various daily behaviors, her life was quite comfortable, but she shouldn't be from a super-rich family.

Probably a family with a few million in savings and several properties in hand.

As for someone like Su Yue, when facing Lin Jia, although he wasn't completely self-conscious, he could always feel the differences between them in the details.

For example, both renting in the City Village, Su Yue was there because it was cheap, while Lin Jia was there for the quiet.

Therefore, Su Yue often regarded Lin Jia and Lan Zijun as the same type of person, neglecting the fact that she was actually just a young girl.

She loved gossip, had strong curiosity, and sometimes liked to let her imagination run wild.

"Uh, actually, logically speaking, it's the same," he said cautiously. "It's just that in terms of the skills required, counter-surveillance is much easier than surveillance."

"For example, to do surveillance, you first need to master the technique of escaping. If you can't run fast, getting beaten up is also an option," he joked.

"Then I'll try counter-surveillance first," Lin Jia indeed let her imagination run wild for a moment.

"Okay, I have some relevant materials on my end. I'll send them to you later," Su Yue nodded.

"Okay."

Lin Jia pulled her feet back onto the chair again, curling up like a cat: "Oh right, I haven't asked you what you came to see me for."

Su Yue's main purpose was actually to gauge Lin Jia's interest in intelligence work, but he did have one other thing.

"Oh, it's like this," he said slowly, "Do you know when the landlord will be back?"

Lin Jia was taken aback, clearly not expecting Su Yue to ask about the landlord, after all, this creature called 'landlord' had been out of their lives for a long time.

Because the landlord had gone abroad a long time ago, they both paid rent via mobile transfer.

"Why are you asking this?" she asked suspiciously.

"I want to renovate my bedroom, and also, I want to remodel our yard."

Su Yue explained: "Our house is old, the yard is prone to water accumulation, and the first floor is also prone to dampness. I want to raise the yard a bit, put in some grass, and build a walkway."

"I want to see what the landlord thinks," he said honestly, while Lin Jia nodded understandingly.

Su Yue was right, the drainage system in the City Village was not very good, especially after the surrounding areas had been renovated and the terrain was generally higher, the City Village became a place very prone to water accumulation, especially in everyone's yards.

Because after multiple road repairs, the road surface was also slightly higher than the yards.

It was okay before, but after several heavy rainfalls this spring, everyone's yards experienced water accumulation, so this problem had to be taken seriously.

As for dampness and so on, this was a common problem with old houses. The house Su Yue and Lin Jia lived in was okay, but they heard that in some nearby houses, even the beds had started to grow mold.

This kind of renovation naturally required the landlord's permission, and Lin Jia was much more familiar with the landlord, as Su Yue had only ever met the landlord once in total.

"Okay, I'll ask. The landlord will definitely agree, and I'll pay for it," Lin Jia said, taking full responsibility.

"No, you should first help me ask when the landlord will be back," Su Yue shook his head. "I actually want to discuss signing a longer lease with him and renovating my bedroom."

"Then you'll have a wait," Lin Jia shook her head, a sympathetic smile on her face. "The landlord probably won't be back within two or three years."

"Why?" Su Yue asked, puzzled.

"You know the landlord went abroad to accompany his daughter studying, right?" Lin Jia glanced at Su Yue, and Su Yue nodded.

"His daughter found a foreign boyfriend while studying abroad, got pregnant, and the guy ran off. The landlord has to take care of his daughter and also help take care of his grandson," Lin Jia sighed slightly, speaking concisely, clearly not wanting to delve into the landlord's private matters.

Su Yue also fell silent. When he was in college, many female classmates were full of longing for foreign men, always talking about how gentle, considerate, and gentlemanly they were.

In the end, she married an Indian international student, and after going back home with him, she discovered he had a legal wife back home, which was allowed by local law. Moreover, he was an abusive husband; every few days, her face would be swollen like a bun, and he would talk about how using hands to clean after going to the toilet was healthy living, only to be triggered by someone exclaiming that their house actually had a toilet.

Everyone has their own choices, there's nothing to say about that.

"Then I can only ask him on WeChat," Su Yue stood up. "Get some rest early."

"You too, remember to send me the materials," Lin Jia waved her hand.

...

Returning downstairs, Su Yue was in a good mood.

Sitting by his bed, Su Yue turned on an old desktop computer and began searching for information.

He had no choice, his laptop was currently in the basement, now dedicated solely to storing confidential documents.

However, simple surveillance and counter-surveillance techniques were not considered classified information; a quick search online would yield results. Moreover, when Su Yue obtained the Intelligence Outpost System, the System rewarded him with professional skills in this area. By casually copying a section from the internet and making minor modifications, a basic surveillance and counter-surveillance textbook was freshly produced.

Su Yue casually sent this document to Lin Jia, and immediately a smiley face replied: "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Su Yue replied sincerely.

For him, this material was equivalent to training for a potential employee.

Returning to the contact list, Su Yue clicked on the landlord's name.

"General Manager Zhang, let's schedule a time to talk. I want to rent this house long-term."

General Manager Zhang was the landlord. After sending the message, there was no reply, but Su Yue didn't mind, after all, the other party was abroad and there was a time difference with China.

Putting down his phone, Su Yue began to seriously organize his plan.

He went to see Lin Jia mainly to gauge her interest, and the result was quite good; Lin Jia was unexpectedly interested in intelligence work.

Well, actually, it wasn't entirely unexpected. If Lin Jia didn't have a strong thirst for knowledge and ambition, coupled with high emotional intelligence, being good at observation, good at summarizing, and skilled at analyzing customer psychology, she wouldn't have become a successful Sales Director.

It's worth noting that she graduated slightly earlier than Su Yue, but only by one year, and the company she worked for was not a small company, but an industry benchmark enterprise, Tiancheng, whose scale was not much inferior to Lan's Group.

In terms of both ability and connections, Lin Jia was very suitable to be an intelligence agent for the Intelligence Outpost, and she would definitely live up to the title of "agent."

If he could recruit her, Su Yue could only say, he hit the jackpot!

However, Lin Jia was currently only interested in surveillance and counter-surveillance techniques; there was still a considerable distance before she became truly interested in intelligence work, let alone interested in joining the intelligence organization anonymously led by Su Yue.

This was not a problem. Su Yue already had a complete plan; now he just needed to wait for time to work its magic.

As for Su Yue's mention of renovating the yard and his bedroom, it wasn't just an excuse he casually made up.

In fact, this was one of the things he planned to do next, and it was quite important.

Su Yue now had 40 million, but he couldn't expand his Intelligence Outpost yet because the conditions for expansion had not been met.

Furthermore, he hadn't purchased any equipment because he knew very well that as the expansion of the Intelligence Outpost was put on the agenda, secrecy, or rather, concealment, began to become one of the key focuses of the Intelligence Outpost.

And now is the era of big data. The meaning of the big data era is that most of everyone's information will be collected in various ways and become part of some big data.

This has little impact on ordinary people; in fact, were it not for data being inexplicably leaked, this matter should have more benefits than drawbacks. But for someone like Su Yue, who engages in intelligence work, it is completely different.

This means that everything he does is essentially exposed. Before involving any sensitive data, he is just a few cold codes in big data. But once it involves certain hot confidential information, it is estimated that in the eyes of someone with ulterior motives, he will immediately stand out like a firefly in the dark night.

Therefore, Su Yue must find a way to erase his electronic footprint in big data. And all equipment sold on the market now comes with big data collection functions; even a mobile phone input method will request camera and recording permissions so that it can unknowingly listen to user conversations and push targeted advertisements. This means Su Yue simply cannot purchase the equipment he wants from the market.

Fortunately, the System has a store function, but this function can only be activated after expansion.

Besides secrecy, another key focus is security.

And frankly, the security of his current Intelligence Outpost is somewhat worrying.

Although entry requires triple verification via fingerprint, iris, and questioning, this verification only confirms whether the entrant has the right to use the Intelligence Outpost; it provides no substantial help to the security of the outpost itself.

The door entering the outpost is currently just an iron door, and it is only a mere two meters from the surface, covered with ordinary soil. Such conditions, let alone defending against outsiders, if the sound inside is a little loud, Su Yue is afraid of being heard by people outside.

What Su Yue criticized the most was that the basement space was vast, but the entrance was in the yard.

Now Lin Jia has installed surveillance in the yard, and although the surveillance did not capture the corner where the basement entrance is located with Su Yue's accompaniment, this made Su Yue realize a sense of crisis.

His frequent appearance in the basement, over time, is almost bound to attract others' attention!

Therefore, he must renovate the exit of the basement.

Relocate the entrance to his own bedroom!

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