76: The goddess is not having a good time either

Depressed as he was, Su Yue still perked up.

There might still be shocking secrets hidden within this picture.

He carefully examined the picture. It seemed to be taken in a coffee shop or tea room. What exactly it was, Su Yue couldn't tell due to the blurriness and the System's AI-based restoration, which relied purely on AI speculation to add pixels. He couldn't determine the location.

In the center of the picture were two figures. The one with her back to Su Yue was clearly a woman, with a graceful figure, curves in all the right places, and very sexy.

Since her back was to the camera, Su Yue couldn't see her face, only her long, slightly wavy hair. To his surprise, the woman seemed to be a smoker, as she was playing with a lighter and had a delicate metal cigarette case beside her.

This was a woman from high society, with a sexy figure, slightly wavy hair, and who smoked. This was the information Su Yue could gather from the image for now.

Across from this woman, facing Su Yue, was a man. This man looked familiar, and Su Yue recognized him at a glance.

Wang Lin!

Manager of Kelly Investment's Asset Management Department, second son of founder Wang Jian, and brother to Wang Hai.

A brief profile of Wang Lin instantly appeared in Su Yue's mind.

Wang Lin in the picture appeared very gentlemanly. He had a gentle smile on his face, and even though the woman was blowing smoke towards him, he didn't seem to mind at all, even appearing to encourage it.

Honestly, from a visual perspective, Wang Lin was much better than Qian Boda. Compared to him, Wang Lin truly had the air of a noble young master.

It was quite strange. Qian Boda was the heir to the Qian family business, and the Qian family, strictly speaking, was a family with some history, considered local gentry in the past.

Yet, Qian Boda's behavior was very dissolute, and even his demeanor was that of a nouveau riche.

On the other hand, Wang Jian was a true grassroots success story, starting with real estate and construction sites. His son, however, had a kind of aristocratic style.

In the previous information about Wang Lin, there were many photos of him, and in almost all of them, Wang Lin gave off a feeling of basking in the spring breeze.

This was the so-called 'noble aura'.

Of course, this also made it difficult to see through Wang Lin at a glance. For example, Su Yue had already finished looking at the picture but couldn't even confirm the relationship between Wang Lin and this woman.

Based on their behavior, you could say they were on a date, or just friends meeting for a meal, or even a business meeting, or perhaps they just met by chance and decided to seize the moment.

Su Yue felt a slight headache.

What was this?

Was this so-called B-level intelligence just showing how a noble young master picked up women?

He couldn't get any useful information from this picture, not even the identity of the woman.

After all, all he could see was a back facing the camera, no face.

However...

Su Yue's eyebrows slightly raised.

The Intelligence Outpost providing this picture and labeling it as B-level already indicated a lot.

Although Su Yue still didn't know how the Intelligence Outpost collected information, he had summarized a few patterns.

Clearly, the System itself had some judgment on the level of intelligence, and this judgment might be based mechanically on the difficulty of obtaining the information.

For example, the previous intelligence on Wang Lin was something that could be collected with a little time, which was the most basic D-level.

Lan Zijun's intelligence was different. Lan Zijun was at home wearing minimal clothing, so she must have taken precautions to keep it private and wouldn't give others a chance to peek.

The fact that the System could obtain it suggested that the System might have hacked into Lan Zijun's home surveillance system.

Qian Boda's intelligence also proved this point. The videos Qian Boda filmed himself, which he had already deleted, were retrieved and restored by the System.

Therefore, these two pieces of intelligence were C-level.

And this current piece of intelligence was B-level. From the picture, it was clear that the System had found the surveillance footage from who knows where and captured this image.

From this perspective, the woman's identity might be quite special.

The Intelligence Outpost's target of investigation was Wang Lin, and this woman likely had some kind of relationship with Wang Lin, otherwise, she wouldn't appear in the System's intelligence.

And despite having a relationship, even the almost ubiquitous Intelligence Outpost System could only obtain such a picture, indicating that the relationship between the two was very secretive.

For a normal relationship, even a casual one, why would it be so hidden?

However, this was just one possibility.

The System was, after all, a System. It was only responsible for collecting intelligence, not for organizing and analyzing it.

Perhaps it determined that this intelligence about Wang Lin meeting the woman was valuable because the collection process was difficult and seemed very secretive, thus classifying it as B-level intelligence.

But what if they just met by chance?

Or what if they were old classmates who hadn't seen each other in a long time and just chatted when they ran into each other?

If the System's intelligence was considered a resource, refreshing every seven days was actually a bit slow. Even after the System upgrade to every five days, it was still somewhat slow.

Scarcity made the intelligence highly valuable.

Su Yue tentatively asked, "System, how much budget is needed to specifically investigate this woman?"

"Since the Intelligence Outpost itself could not confirm the woman's identity, and this picture itself was restored from residual fragments of deleted public surveillance system footage, if a specific investigation of this woman is required, the Intelligence Outpost needs to obtain a massive amount of video data, including but not limited to urban surveillance, company internal data, archives, etc., and then perform facial recognition comparison."

"Preliminary estimate of the required budget is four million!"

Su Yue almost spat out blood.

Four million for a woman's information. If she was a key figure, fine, but if she was just a casual encounter for Wang Lin, then he would have lost a fortune!

After all, Wang Lin was still unmarried at this point, and even if he had a casual encounter, he wouldn't fear accusations of infidelity.

Forget it, Su Yue shook his head slightly.

He still knew too little about Wang Lin. He would wait until he collected more intelligence.

Moreover, the intelligence provided by the System often only solved a specific problem that Su Yue couldn't solve at the moment, such as a piece of intelligence that was beyond his reach.

For everyday intelligence gathering, Su Yue didn't entirely rely on the System. For him, the Intelligence Outpost was just one stable and powerful source of intelligence, not the only one.

He had other ways to obtain intelligence, for example, from the Intelligence Officer!

He unplugged the USB drive, opened a web page, and logged into an email account.

Indeed, there was already a new file in the inbox, and the source of the file was none other than Lin Jia, who lived under the same roof as him!

He casually downloaded the file, unzipped it, and as soon as he opened it, a look of surprise appeared on Su Yue's face again.

Lin Jia was indeed worthy of being a Sales Director; the materials she sent over were more than ten items!

Clearly, these were all people she had sorted out herself and believed might be unfavorable to her.

Su Yue casually opened the first one. It also had a photo, but this photo was clearly clipped from an official website.

This was a beautiful woman, and her identity was the Public Relations Manager of Baoguan Cosmetics.

As for why she might have ill intentions towards Lin Jia, Lin Jia herself had indicated it with four simple words: 'Competition'.

Su Yue understood this very well. The company Lin Jia worked for was Tiancheng International. Tiancheng International was a company that produced and sold daily necessities and cosmetics, and it held a certain market share.

This was a local daily chemical and cosmetics group, and Lin Jia worked for the subsidiary responsible for sales and promotion.

Baoguan, on the other hand, was an imported brand, whose parent company was an international giant that had established a branch in China. The business scopes of the two were highly overlapping.

A wise man once said that between peers, there is only naked hatred. It was very reasonable for a Public Relations Manager at Baoguan to want to eliminate a key sales member of a competitor.

After all, Baoguan had previously dominated the domestic market, and now the market was gradually being taken over by other brands, partly thanks to Lin Jia.

Because the domestic branch headquarters of Baoguan and Tiancheng International, where Lin Jia worked, were both in the same city, the two sides were in direct conflict. It was possible that Lin Jia had snatched away a lot of their business.

Well, there was no 'possible'; since Lin Jia had listed the other party on the list, it indicated that this was a certainty.

After reading four or five pieces of information, all about Lin Jia's competitors, Su Yue felt a bit emotional.

Despite Lin Jia's glamorous appearance, her life was really not easy. Although she adhered to the philosophy of 'the more friends, the more paths', and had always been dedicated to maintaining relationships with various parties, there were some things she clearly couldn't avoid.

For example, the hatred of her peers.

And besides these peers, the remaining people were also more troublesome than the last for Su Yue.

These were all people who coveted Lin Jia's beauty. They either tempted her with benefits, threatened her, or used not signing contracts as a condition to pressure her.

Lin Jia refused all of them, but after refusing, there were still lingering issues, and they were listed by Lin Jia, indicating that in her view, these people still had ulterior motives towards her.

Well, it seemed being a goddess wasn't easy either.

Su Yue continued to read, and when he saw a name, he was suddenly startled.

He seemed to have seen the name of this logistics company before!

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