77: I will live and die with you?

"Chuangtong Logistics..."

Su Yue looked at the name on the computer. The name was very familiar; Su Yue felt like he had seen it somewhere before.

He quickly opened his old computer and found Wang Lin's information.

Indeed, there was a section in Wang Lin's information that read:

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

Kelly Group had invested in Chuangtong Logistics, and Wang Lin was the person responsible for assessing and supervising the daily funds of these investment projects. Su Yue wasn't entirely clear on how these so-called capital or investment companies operated daily, but he at least knew that this sentence could be interpreted as Wang Lin investing in Chuangtong Logistics, only the money belonged to Kelly Group.

And Wang Lin happened to be the intelligence target given by the System. Clearly, the System believed his intelligence was valuable.

Being valuable naturally implied there was something unusual about him.

Was there any connection between the two?

Or was it just a simple coincidence?

Su Yue thought for a moment, then suddenly chuckled.

This list was given by Lin Jia. Lin Jia had only provided the suspects and roughly explained her reasons for suspicion. For example, for Chuangtong Logistics, her reason was simple and blunt: Sun Xiangdong, the Boss of Chuangtong Logistics, was a pervert.

A pervert was clearly not enough for Lin Jia to include him on a list of people potentially harmful to her. There must have been a story Lin Jia didn't write down.

Since that was the case, it would be better to just ask her directly.

Thinking of this, Su Yue picked up his new phone. As he dialed, Su Yue couldn't help but feel a little emotional inside.

How pathetic was it to do this kind of underground work in an era where everything was real-name registered and all information was entered into big data? To use a classic phrase, communication relied on shouting.

Of course, Su Yue didn't rely on shouting, but on passing notes. But this extremely primitive method, in Su Yue's opinion, was not much different from just shouting.

It wasn't that Su Yue couldn't think of more effective and convenient ways to contact her, but rather, he simply didn't dare to use them.

In this day and age, if you accidentally use your mobile phone to register an account online, and you're unlucky, within a minute, countless calls will come in. The caller can accurately address the phone owner by name as soon as they speak, and some can even directly state the owner's profession.

Logically, the country has legislated to protect this privacy, and this data is also stored with telecommunication operators. Even if the owner themselves goes with their ID card to check certain details, it takes several minutes.

Yet, in front of these people, laws and real-name registration seem like mere formalities. Their speed is as if they have direct access to the database.

What's more absurd is that the owner tries to trace the caller's number but finds absolutely nothing. When they ask the Police Officer, they're told the call originated from abroad.

The question is, how did the owner's information, properly stored with legitimate telecommunication operators, mysteriously end up abroad?

Given this, Su Yue really didn't dare to use his own phone to contact Lan Zijun and others, because he knew deeply that the current so-called information security was a joke.

As long as Lan Zijun and the others wanted to know, they could easily discover Su Yue's true identity.

And now, Su Yue finally didn't have to worry about this anymore. Because he finally had a phone that couldn't be tracked.

Not being tracked not only meant his phone didn't have a unique code, but also that his phone came with a virtual number function.

Such virtual numbers were common in the past, essentially special number ranges assigned when internet calls accessed operators. They didn't require real-name registration, but other functions were the same as normal numbers.

However, with the improvement of various laws and regulations, these virtual numbers have basically become extinct. Even the so-called non-real-name cards used by domestic fraudsters are actually real-name registered. They just trick others into opening accounts with real names under the guise of part-time jobs like online brushing, or they collude with telecommunication operator staff to copy customer cards.

Regardless, Su Yue finally didn't have to worry about his phone number being tracked, and he could finally use the simplest, most convenient, and fastest method of making calls.

Of course, by locking onto signal base stations, it would still be possible to find Su Yue's approximate location. But Su Yue was now in a City Village, where one base station covered at least tens of thousands of people. Without the phone's chip identification code, trying to find Su Yue? Impossible.

This is the so-called 'great hermit in the city'!

The call connected, and a familiar pleasant voice rang out: "Who is this?"

"I am Yuan," Su Yue casually turned on the voice changer function. With the equipment, he no longer needed to strain his vocal cords.

"Uh..." Lin Jia clearly hadn't expected to suddenly receive a call from Yuan, and Su Yue's voice with the voice changer was obviously inconsistent with his daytime voice, which made her slightly stunned.

Su Yue didn't care about this small flaw. He continued speaking on his own: "I have received the suspected targets you sent. Now, I would like to ask you for some details."

"What details?" Lin Jia's tone was slightly cautious.

"Among your suspected targets, there is the Boss of Chuangtong Logistics, Sun Xiangdong. I want to ask you, how did you come into conflict with him?"

"Well, our company and his company have business dealings, so we often invite each other to some social events or gatherings. And at one gathering, he spoke disrespectfully to me, so I directly splashed coffee on his face in public."

"Afterward, I heard rumors that he felt very embarrassed about this and said that there would be a time when I would be kneeling and begging him," Lin Jia said, feeling slightly embarrassed but also hiding a trace of anger.

Meanwhile, Su Yue was secretly clicking his tongue.

His roommate looked gentle and refined on the outside, but he hadn't expected her personality to be so direct and fierce.

Although Lin Jia spoke subtly, Su Yue could guess some of the original words. The so-called kneeling and begging him likely meant 'kneeling and licking'. A man saying he would make a beautiful woman kneel and lick him was clearly a double entendre.

From this point of view, Lin Jia's vigilance towards Sun Xiangdong was not unfounded.

However, Su Yue felt that things shouldn't be this simple. Sun Xiangdong was not a fool. If he really intended to play any dirty tricks on Lin Jia, he shouldn't be so stupid as to let the word get out beforehand.

Of course, Su Yue didn't have Sun Xiangdong's information, and he didn't know if the other party was really that stupid, but he currently leaned more towards other possibilities.

"Do you have Wang Lin's information?" he asked thoughtfully.

"Wang Lin? The second young master of Kelly Investment's Boss?" As expected of a Sales Director of a large company, Lin Jia instantly knew who Su Yue was talking about: "Does he have any suspicion?"

"Kelly Investment invested in Sun Xiangdong's Chuangtong Logistics. Wang Lin is the approver and person in charge of this fund," Su Yue said calmly.

"Are you saying that the matter of me being followed is related to Wang Lin?" Lin Jia's voice was a little hesitant. "But I haven't had much contact with Wang Lin, not even business dealings, and we are in completely different fields."

"If he did it to stand up for Sun Xiangdong, that seems a bit hard to explain, doesn't it?" she retorted.

"I looked at the list you sent over. Based on my judgment, the possibility of peer rivalry is low."

Su Yue said calmly: "Because you mentioned being followed, following is a very patient behavior. And your competitors are basically women, and women are relatively less adept than men at planning a long-term conspiracy because they are relatively more emotional and lack sufficient patience compared to men."

"In other words, women are not good at planning this matter. This lack of skill makes them subconsciously avoid this method."

Lin Jia was silent. She was not a feminist; she knew Su Yue was speaking the truth.

"And simple hatred born of love, or wanting to harm you because you made them lose face in front of you, these all stem from desire."

Su Yue continued: "Desire is an impulse, and impulse is a short-term emotional fluctuation. This also conflicts with patience."

"Of course," he added, "I'm not denying these possibilities, but I believe these possibilities are relatively low."

"You mean, I'm being followed for other reasons, not personal grudges?" Lin Jia keenly understood Su Yue's meaning.

"Yes," Su Yue agreed. "Next, try to gather information on Wang Lin as discreetly as possible. Also, think back carefully, were you unknowingly involved in some secret matters!"

"Also, I will send Wang Lin's information to your email later. Pay attention to checking it."

After giving these instructions, Su Yue directly hung up the phone. He rubbed his chin.

Based on the phone call of the follower he overheard during the day, Lin Jia was not in any substantial danger at the moment.

Because that follower said he had been exposed and hoped the Boss would send someone else. This meant that the other party was still only conducting surveillance.

Surveillance, in essence, can be seen as a form of uncertainty. The other party was not sure whether they needed to harm Lin Jia.

Clearly, with Lin Jia having already noticed, the other party's actions would become more cautious, and the duration of the surveillance would also lengthen, because the difficulty of obtaining Lin Jia's information had increased.

This gave Lin Jia more time, and it also gave Su Yue more time.

The reason he said this was because Su Yue had suddenly thought of a key point just now.

Lin Jia didn't know why she was suddenly being targeted, and Su Yue had the same question.

After all, he had always remembered the intelligence provided by the System.

He was also in life-threatening danger!

Su Yue had carefully reviewed his experiences and people he might have offended in the past, but no matter how he thought about it, there was no answer.

After all, he was a commoner, and the people he could interact with were also from the grassroots level.

As the saying goes, 'When a common man is enraged, blood splatters five steps'. If anyone he had offended harbored a grudge, they would have likely come with a butcher knife long ago and stabbed Su Yue.

But just now, Su Yue thought of a new possibility.

Could it be that he was actually implicated by this beautiful roommate?

In other words, were he and Lin Jia sharing life and death?