Stuck in a Chinese novel

"Thanks for meeting with us, Mister Ruan," Rin said as she was brought to Wei Jun's office along with her team. Lao Chen had asked them to leave their guns at the reception which they were easily able to do so because their main weapon wasn't a gun anyway.

Wei Jun nodded, no apparent expression on his face as he replied, "Can I get you anything?"

"We're fine, thanks," Just as the young man next to Rin was about to speak, Rin beat him to it and turned the option to refreshments down, making the young man a little disappointed.

"Then what can I help you with?" Wei Jun got straight to the point.

"You wouldn't happen to be familiar with 'Angelic Healers', would you be?" Rin also got straight to the point and asked.

Wei Jun made a strange face as if he couldn't remember before he added, "No, the name doesn't ring a bell. Sounds lame as well."

"Are you sure?" Rin asked before she added, "It's a subsidiary company under Ruan Enterprises."

"That and many more. It is impossible for us to keep track of each and every one. Proper logs can give you an answer." Wei Jun replied.

"We already got that from your sister." The young man next to Rin said, his voice a little arrogant as if he could tell Wei Jun was rehearsing a story.

To the older man behind them though, it sounded entirely different. It sounded like stupidity. Up till now, it was an interview.

"Then if you already have these answers and you're still here means you suspect me." Wei Jun said, with a taunting smile on his face.

Now it was an interrogation and that was how their target was going to act.

"What my colleague was just trying to point out is that we already followed on the most basic of questions with the company CEO," Rin calmly tried to salvage the situation.

"But unfortunately, the CEO didn't have an answer. We are now trying to follow up with the rest of the directors to see if there were any discrepancies." Rin explained.

"Haha." Wei Jun chuckled. That chuckle said everything that Rin needed to hear.

Her subordinate was sloppy and had almost cost her the entire situation. Not only had he given them away, he also risked the entire investigation.

A simple show that Rin had no control over her subordinates. That was what it sounded like.

"What's so funny?" The young man distastefully asked.

"Speaking when your superior is trying so hard to diffuse the situation. That just shows how less of control she has over you." Wei Jun made sure to point that out.

That changed the older man and Rin's facial expression a little. Conveying it under the concealment of a chuckle was something else. Saying it to their faces was something else.

"I apologize for my subordinate's rude actions," Rin said, her expression not that well. From colleague to subordinate, the difference in those titles was clear.

"To answer your questions, officer," Wei Jun said, acting as if the subsequent conversation never happened, "You can have access to the company logs. Although I don't know if such a pharmaceutical company exists, we do have a subsidiary that is about to invest in pharmaceuticals. Once we do that, the ring would become heavily entangled causing your objective to be very hard to fulfill since it would mean giving away company logs to you."

"And when does that begin?" Rin asked.

She didn't have a good feeling about the answer to come. A permission so easily meant only one thing. The other side was playing with them.

"Tonight at midnight." Wei Jun said with a smile that had mockery written all over it. The young man couldn't understand the essence of the issue but he could sense something was off from that smirk.

As for the older man and Rin, they could tell what Wei Jun's actions signified.

"Then, I'd rather not waste any of your and my own time. We'd like to begin right away." Rin said, deciding to play along because that was the only option they had.

"Sure," Wei Jun said before he called someone on his cell phone. After a few minutes, Li Wei appeared with her usual black-colored outfit consisting of jeans and a tight T-shirt.

Since the intelligence team of Wei Jun had unfortunately run away, Li Wei took an office in the main building as Wei Jun's secretary. Well, that was her surface role. Her real job was to do the dirty work that required a computer and a virus for Wei Jun.

"This is my secretary, Miss Wei," Wei Jun said, introducing Li Wei before he added, "She will guide you to the mainframe. You can check the data from there."

Guide was a fancy word. She was there to keep an eye on them so they didn't download anything. Rin knew that but once again, she knew she wasn't in charge.

With a slight nod, she left with her men before she called the rest of her team in, telling them to drop everything and get there.

~~

"There are millions of them here." The young man frustratingly said after three hours of constant checking.

"It's a big company. They create many paper companies a day and then erase them on the same day. Only some of them stick around." The older man with the most experience among them said.

"And we're looking for one of those." Another young man raised the question, "This is like finding a needle in the haystack."

"The purpose of a paper company is to evade many problems. They would be stupid to separate data in case situations like these arise." The older man said.

"And these guys are quite thorough even in that regard. Everything is detailed perfectly, down to the last line." Another young man said.

"Which only makes it difficult for us to distinguish between the ones that are real and those that are just for display." Another young man remarked.

"This isn't working," Rin said.

"We don't even know if it's in here or he's just playing with us." The young man from earlier said.

"No, it's here. It's part of the trick." The older man said before he added, "We just don't have enough time to figure out the pattern."

"That only leaves us with one option," Rin said.

"We were permitted to look, not download," The older man said as if he could read what was in Rin's mind, "Any data obtained otherwise would be dismissed in the court."

"If we go with a public case. The Ruan family itself is a family of cultivators. The company may be in people's name, but they themselves come under the jurisdiction of CSF." Rin replied.

"Doesn't mean they don't have a right to defend themselves. Anything that goes against the normal procedure can be held against us." The older man argued.

"…" Rin was quiet in that case before she said, "We have to assume they don't go that far, and even if they do, we can still count on the Lieutenant and get our jobs done. What happens afterward would be fate."

A simple theory of it was what it was.

They couldn't get the proof the right way so they had to go the wrong way. Once they did, they would be counting on the fact that the CSF could pressure the company into fessing up.

If they lost, then they just lost. Nothing more, nothing less.

"But there's one problem we need to deal with before that." The older man said but didn't look at the problem itself who was keeping an eye on them as well.

Rin knew who the man was talking about. The one person who was there to keep an eye on them.

Li Wei looked at them scheming and whispering among themselves. She was nervous the entire time, to say the least. The reason for that was because the files they were looking for

were

among the files that were given to them. She was afraid they would find it at any time and the entire game would be over.

But…

"The moment they start acting like they're discussing their strategy, they're discussing you. Which means they have no useable information and need to occupy your attention." She remembered Wei Jun's instructions if that situation were to ever happen.

She also remembered what she had to do about that. She pretended to go back to reading her files on her computer and ignored Rin's team who were still making plans.

On the other side, Rin and her team finally finished making their plan. They all looked at the young man who had been rude to Wei Jun earlier.

The young man smirked, his pearly white teeth on display as he said with the most confident smile that could ever exist, "Leave it to me," Which none of them wanted to but they had no other choice.

"Watch me swipe her off her feet."