Chapter Thirteen: A Timely Premonition

(Tears, after a burst, the monthly passes aren't even half of what they were yesterday. Have everyone's basic monthly passes already been used? There are still three days left for the double time. Brothers who still have passes, don't hold onto them. Starting on the 8th, you'll need two passes to match one now. Thank you, everyone!)

For Li Yan, watching the computer screen like this is actually quite dull.

His starting point was to see if he could check through such a channel to find out if there were any traitors among the company's high-level executives. However, trying to achieve this by hacking into the computer network and monitoring computer screens seems quite unlikely. Anyone who is truly a traitor would probably already know if there's any action tonight and might not even need to keep watch through a computer.

However, spying on what others are doing does have a certain level of excitement. Especially when peering into the personal computers of company executives, to see what they do at home. It also indirectly reveals their style and characteristics, so it wasn't too boring for him. He started by rotating through their computer screens, getting a general understanding of the situation.

Basically, the numbers he distributed were all hacked by 526. He was informed which screen corresponded to which number, so he could identify the people by their QQ numbers in Yurong's computer.

Among these executives' computers, they didn't brush off Zhang Yurong. At least the computers were on. But several screens were static, suggesting the owners weren't present, or not always in front of them. For the computers with activity, a few were browsing the news, while others were viewing documents on their devices.

All in all, it turned out to be a rather dull affair.

Even the privacy revealed was not particularly interesting. No high-level was caught in inappropriate chats or watching adult content, and naturally, there was no communication with others as well.

Nonetheless, surveillance is inherently tedious, requiring long hours of monitoring due to its uncertainty; no one knows what the other party might do next.

The door was securely locked, and Li Yan played some music at a low volume. He then used Zhang Yurong's computer to browse the internet while adjusting his computer to display all screens, occasionally checking them.

As time ticked away, at eleven o'clock in the evening, a QQ notification sound chimed on Zhang Yurong's computer, signaling a new message in the temporary reporting group!

Is something happening?

The previously bored Li Yan immediately perked up. Upon checking the group's message, it came from PR Director, Lin Fenni:

"Just received news from a media friend that Zhou Shiru has contacted some financial journalists to convene a press conference at 12 o'clock! It's highly likely orchestrated and arranged by Changhe Group!"

Li Yan had a rough idea that Changhe Group was the competitor lodging complaints against Paradise Group, and Zhou Shiru was the former chief lawyer of the legal department, now regarded as the bribed traitor they all faced.

The fact that this news was first sent by the PR Director wasn't surprising, as her media connections were the most extensive. However, given his distrust for all of them, Li Yan didn't immediately believe her words. Instead, he checked her QQ number and then opened the surveillance window on her computer screen corresponding to her number.

At this moment, the QQ group quickly became active with messages as other executives swiftly responded to the news. Some inquired whether it was true and reliable, some questioned where the press conference would be held, while others asked for Changhe Group's reaction, wondering if they were in league together...

Of course, everyone was also waiting for instructions from President Zhang Yurong on whether to immediately start a video conference. Some emergency plans had already been established during previous meetings; they now only needed the president's directive.

But Li Yan was not paying attention to the group messages; his focus was entirely on the screen of his computer. What he saw was Lin Fenni's computer screen, and she also had the QQ group open, naturally seeing all the remarks in the group.

However, his main concern wasn't the group discussions, but the content in another dialog box open on Lin Fenni's desktop.

He couldn't see who was typing off-screen but clearly noticed that after Lin Fenni exposed the news, she was only observing the QQ group activity without talking, instead engaged in a separate chat with someone else. Seeing the unfinished chat log with that person, it was apparent that this was the so-called media friend who had provided her with the tip.

Originally, this wasn't surprising—some preferred phone calls, others text messages, and the media friend could be more than just a news-reporting journalist, perhaps an editor, chief editor, or planner, making it plausible even to chat from home via computer.

However, what led Li Yan to smirk was the information disclosed by the person to Lin Fenni—everything was set and ready at the Century Seaview Hotel, the press conference was already in preparation, and it would "timely advance" at 11:30 at night. At this moment, some media have already arrived on site, with others continuing to rush there!

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