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Chapter 520
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After seeing off the four visitors, Sun Cheng did not return to the reception room.
Before his arrival, the four visitors had been waiting in the reception room for over half an hour.
Sun Cheng was naturally suspicious, especially since one of the four was from the National Security Bureau. Who knows if they had left any surveillance or monitoring devices here.
Without seeing the surveillance footage, he wouldn't stay here for long.
After returning to his office, he hung a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door and walked to his desk. He lightly tapped on what appeared to be an ordinary desktop.
Instantly, the desktop, which looked no different from an ordinary redwood office desk, split open like a machine, revealing a hidden groove about 60 centimeters long, 40 centimeters wide, and 15 centimeters deep.
Inside the groove was a metal box emitting a silver-gray glow.
Sun Cheng skillfully opened the metal box.
This metal box was a miniature signal receiver base station for the mosquito-like micro reconnaissance devices he brought back from the Transformers Universe to the Real World.
Of course, Sun Cheng preferred to call it a "hive."
The wonderful experiences of the past year had caused him to suffer from a severe lack of security.
Apart from himself and Ye Qi, he viewed everyone around him with scrutiny and caution.
Therefore, Sun Cheng placed a hive of the micro reconnaissance devices inside the corporation.
Hundreds of mosquito-like reconnaissance devices were scattered throughout the office building, monitoring every employee for him at all times.
In fact, he now felt more and more that he was right.
So far, Sun Cheng has discovered six "new employees" with various purposes entering Cybertron, and has noticed the embezzlement and waste problems of seven middle and high-level managers.
As for employees who slack off during work hours, there are even more of them. Many so-called "corporate elites" who have become old hands in other corporations have already been put on his dismissal list.
After the three-month probation period, these employees who do not take their work seriously and are likely to corrupt the collective atmosphere of the corporation will be pleasantly surprised to receive a dismissal letter from the corporation.
In front of Sun Cheng was a metal box that looked like a computer, which was used to store and process all the feedback information from the micro reconnaissance devices.
"... There should be some footage from the mosquitoes I released in the reception room!"
Due to his frequent use of the device, he skillfully operated it and quickly found what he was looking for.
It was a video from nearly an hour ago, when the four visitors had just arrived at the corporation and were waiting in the reception room because Sun Cheng was in a meeting.
After carefully watching the video twice, he closed it.
To Sun Cheng's surprise, he thought the visitors would leave something behind in the reception room. However, Liu Qingyun, who was from the National Security Bureau, only looked around the reception room with a scrutinizing gaze in the video, but did not take any further action.
"It seems that my removal of their surveillance devices near Villa last time had some effect!"
After getting a satisfactory answer, Sun Cheng retrieved the signal receiver base station and sat back in his chair, thinking about his next move.
Meanwhile, in a conference room in a building in South Capital that he was unaware of, the four visitors who had just left Cybertron had arrived.
It was a medium-sized conference room of about 60-70 square meters. Although the conference room was not large, it was filled with people sitting in front of an oval conference table.
If Sun Cheng were here, he would probably recognize one of the middle-aged men sitting in front of the oval conference table. He was Liu Zhen, the director of the National Security Bureau of Xia Country, whom Sun Cheng had recently met.
"... Now that everyone is here, let's begin the meeting!"
The middle-aged man in front of the oval table, whose nameplate read "Secretary: Wang An," spoke first.
Those who are familiar with Xia Country's politics and follow the news would immediately recognize this middle-aged man.
His name was Wang An, 47 years old, and he was the secretary-general of the Presidential Palace's Secretariat. His position may not be prominent, but he was essentially the senior assistant responsible for the president's daily life and work.
In a sense, Wang An also represented the will of the president. His presence here meant that the president was also paying attention to the progress of the matter.
Beside Wang An sat several ministers and bureau-level officials from important departments of Xia Country, including Chen Jichang from the Equipment Department, Liu Huayu from the National Asset Management Bureau, and Liu Zhen from the National Security Bureau.
The oldest among them was undoubtedly General Chen Jichang, a 65-year-old veteran general who had been involved in defense and military equipment development for over 40 years. He currently served as the Minister of the Equipment Department.
After Wang An announced the start of the meeting, General Chen Jichang was the first to respond, saying, "I received the notification just yesterday, so my understanding of the specific situation is very limited. Director Liu, I heard that they initially contacted your department. Could you please provide us with a detailed introduction?"
"No problem, General!"
After considering his words for a moment, Liu Zhen began to speak, "Two days ago, a faction calling themselves the 'Progressive Chinese Federation' infiltrated our National Security Bureau's internal network through unknown means."
"According to their claims, they took such actions because our National Security Bureau had personnel monitoring Sun Cheng, the CEO of Cybertron Technology Group, during the investigation of the mysterious death of a CIA agent that occurred in South Capital some time ago."
"... And that led to this series of events!"
Liu Zhen took about ten minutes to explain the sequence of events in detail to everyone in the conference room.
Although he had reported to the presidential palace at the earliest opportunity and it was certain that the presidential palace had notified the relevant departments, such as the Equipment Department and the National Asset Management Bureau, and would have provided them with copies of Liu Zhen's report, in the past two days, the National Security Bureau had been working tirelessly. While they still had no clue about the "P.C.F." information, their investigation into Sun Cheng had been very smooth and yielded significant results.
They not only discovered that earlier in the year, Sun Cheng had fallen into a high-interest loan trap disguised as a campus loan due to a classmate's scheme, but they also cautiously included his potential infatuation with his adoptive sister, Ye Qi, in the personal investigation report.
It was not surprising for intelligence agencies of almost every country to recruit various experts.
For example, the CIA would go to great lengths, including coercing well-known hackers from Europe and America to work for them.
They even recruited a large number of experts from the underworld, drug traffickers, scammers, and kidnappers within the CIA, training them as agents.
While Xia Country's National Security Bureau did not go to such extremes, they had also recruited experts in fields such as medicine and psychology, in addition to experts focused on military, technology, business, and industry.
Top-notch psychologists and emotion experts could discern a person's psychological activities and personal emotional issues through certain behaviors.
From this, it could be seen how seriously the National Security Bureau regarded Sun Cheng, or rather, the mysterious organization known as the "P.C.F." that he had virtualized.
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