I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 171 You are so stupid that it chills my heart
"Not sure, let's hope so. Let's wait for news from the minister."

Xu Zhe took a deep breath and said.

Now the siege...

We really have to rely on Lin Xingan alone...

He narrowed his eyes.

But just as he raised the hand to drink the water, he suddenly paused.

"Damn it, that annoying idiot is here again."

Xu Zhe's ears moved.

There was a hint of gloom in his eyes.

Then, without waiting for Zhao Wuji and Ke Ke to ask, Li Jiu's exaggerated laughter came from the corridor.

Not to mention making an appointment, he didn't even knock on the door. He pushed open the door of Xu Zhe's office without any hesitation.

"Hey! Director Xu, long time no see, long time no see!"

Li Jiu looked at Xu Zhe with a sullen look.

Then he took out a few recruitment flyers from his pocket and gave them to Ke Ke and Zhao Wuji.

"Everyone, this is the recruitment position and information of our Coordination Department."

"Everyone can vote now. After all, we have few vacancies in the Coordination Department, and you have so many people in the Siege Department. We have no other choice! First come, first served!"

"Hey! Director Xu, don't be so anxious! Although the competition is so fierce, I know a position that is perfect for you!"

"As long as you apply, you will be admitted 100%!"

Li Jiu directly put his arm around Xu Zhe's shoulders and took out a brand new flyer from his arms.

There was only one position above, which was obviously specially made for Xu Zhe.

"Director Xu, how about this position?"

He pointed at the word "Security" and looked at Xu Zhe's face and asked jokingly.

Seeing that Xu Zhe didn't say anything, he started laughing again.

"Director Xu, look at you, you have such good ears, and you just sit there in the security office, who can escape?"

"And you're so skilled, with you alone, our entire security team wouldn't have to work!"

"But considering that you're in charge of the Siege Division, ensuring the safe passage of people and animals... I really need to consider that..."

"But don't worry! We've been friends for years. I'll find some connections for you. You can get this security guard if you invest!"

"Work for two months, and I'll promote you to security captain! How's that?"

Li Jiu burst into laughter.

His arrogant words also made his colleagues who were still working outside feel uncomfortable.

"Deputy Minister Li, if you have nothing else, please go back."

"This is the Siege Division, not the place for you to go crazy."

Seeing this, Keke opened the door and said while suppressing his anger.

"...Director Ke, don't you understand the current situation?"

"This is the Siege Division, but won't it be so in a week?"

"Just now we were discussing internally whether to merge your Encirclement and Killing Division into the Coordination Division or disband it outright."

"Ah, you said that your siege department is such a mess that it's really difficult for our coordination department to handle it. Why don't you just disband it directly?"

Seeing the door open, Li Jiu also looked at the ordinary colleagues in the siege department outside and said.

They were also given recruitment flyers.

"Li Jiu, that's enough."

Xu Zhe put down the water cup and spoke slowly.

He leaned on the table, picked up the security guard recruitment notice, and flicked it lightly.

The thin paper cut across Li Jiu's face like a knife, and with a clang, it was nailed to the wall behind him.

Then he collapsed and slowly slid to the ground.

"..."

A trace of blood seeped out from Li Jiu's face.

"Li Jiu, go back and fix your report. Our Siege Division is not a circus. We don't welcome clowns."

"Alright, haven't we given you half a day to rest? Why are you staying here to watch the clowns?"

Xu Zhe chuckled and waved his hand.

This caused laughter in the corridor.

"you……"

Li Jiu raised his hand and touched the faint scratches on his face.

As the people around him laughed, his expression darkened.

"Xu Zhe, you still think you are..."

"Oh!"

Before Li Jiu could finish his words, the ghost domain around Xu Zhe suddenly exploded!

He seemed to have transformed into a human-shaped bat, and appeared in front of Li Jiu as if teleporting. He grabbed Li Jiu's neck and slammed Li Jiu's head against the wall with a bang!
The extreme coldness instantly covered the entire siege unit!
The expressions of everyone around changed at once.

Just as Ke Ke was about to go up, he was stopped by Zhao Wuji.

"Old Xu knows what's going on."

"……it is good."

Koko nodded.

"Xu Zhe, you... you still dare to..."

"Li Jiu, how dare you?"

Xu Zhe's hand suddenly exerted force!

Li Jiu's face turned pale instantly, and the words were stuck in his neck!

"Li Jiu, regardless of what the outcome will be in a week, right now we are still in the Encirclement and Killing Division."

"Appointed by the committee and rated by the Coordination Department, responsible for catching people and animals. How dare you come in here so brazenly?"

"besides!"

Seeing that Li Jiu wanted to speak, Xu Zhe slammed his head against the wall again with a bang!

"Also, after Taoyuan reappeared, did our siege team say that team leaders and above are prohibited from using mobile phones with internet access to communicate?"

"You didn't listen, and Taoyuan took advantage of you and were taken into our siege and killing team. We haven't said anything yet, and you come here to show off your power..."

"Hehe... Do you really think our siege team has no one left?"

Xu Zhe's grip tightened.

Li Jiu's face became paler and paler.

"Li Jiu, I really don't understand what those good-for-nothings in the Coordination Department are thinking when someone as stupid as you becomes their leader."

"Use your brain. If our siege team fails to take down Taoyuan in a week and truly disbands, then what do I have to fear now?"

"If we've dealt with Taoyuan in a week, I'll have nothing to fear. Then it will be your turn to prepare for the liquidation."

"So you're rushing here to die at this moment. That's really... so stupid that it chills my heart..."

Xu Zhe said through gritted teeth.

And his words also made Li Jiu's eyes reveal a hint of fear.

He actually didn't dare to look Xu Zhe in the eye.

"Oh!"

Xu Zhe sneered, looked at Li Jiu deeply, and threw him to the ground.

"Cough! Cough-cough-cough!"

The dizziness caused by lack of oxygen after suffocation made Li Jiu's eyes go black and his whole body went limp!

I couldn't even stand up the first time!

"...Xu Zhe...you...can do it. You're awesome. You're ruthless enough."

"I want to see how this mess of your siege and killing department ends in a week!"

After gasping for breath for a long time, Li Jiu leaned against the wall and spoke again.

But the confidence is far from enough.

But Xu Zhe just silently took back the ghost domain and looked at him coldly.

"..."

Under the whispering gazes of the people around him, Li Jiu's face turned pale and blue, and he walked away with twitching mouth corners.

At the door, he happened to see Zhang Guang who had just come in.

"Deputy Director Li, take care. I won't see you off."

Zhang Guang also said lightly.

"Humph!"

Li Jiu snorted coldly, his expression darkened again, and he left without saying goodbye.

"minister."

Xu Zhe winked at the people around him.

Everyone also consciously picked up the recruitment information flyer that Li Jiufa had just distributed.

"You did well, that's how it should be."

"Otherwise, this week... hehe, there's no telling how they might interfere with us again."

Zhang Guang nodded to Xu Zhe and spoke loudly on purpose.

"Just as Director Xu said, we'll give everyone half a day off today. Everyone go back and have a good rest." "Tomorrow! Everyone, come on time!"

"Look how scared you are by a military order! The siege and killing troops will not be defeated!"

"What are you afraid of? I'll hold up the sky if it falls!"

He glanced at the people around him, waved his hand, and walked into the office.

Sitting in the middle seat, with his eyes closed, his face showed no emotion.

Just a hint of...seriousness.

Could it be that Lin Xing'an doesn't know the location of the Taoyuan host?

Xu Zhe's Adam's apple rolled.

"Minister, Lin Xing'an..."

He couldn't help but ask when he heard that almost everyone outside had left.

I have to admit that the siege now really depends on Lin Xingan alone...

Even the fate of the entire committee...

"Let's go! Call Bai Yue upstairs! Go to the technical team!"

Zhang Guang was silent for a long time before opening his eyes. Instead of answering, he took a deep breath and spoke.

Xu Zhe and the others exchanged glances and didn't ask any more questions. After going to the logistics department to call Bai Yue, several directors followed Zhang Guang's steps.

The technical team is also in the North City Light Building.

Even though it's just a group under the Operations Department of the Siege and Killing Division.

However, because they had to track down Taoyuan and confront Taoyuan head-on on the Internet, the technical team was basically independent and had a two-story office space.

It is larger than all other groups in the Operations Department combined.

"Di Di!"

After passing a round of verification, several people got on the elevator.

There was silence in the car.

Half a minute later, the elevator stopped at 1450.

This is the top floor of the City Lights Building.

It is also where the technical department is located.

After another round of verification, several people released the ghost domain to activate the door lock, and the electronic door on the 1450th floor opened with a click.

The sounds of keyboard typing, mouse clicking, and people walking around and talking were the first to be heard.

Then, what comes into view is a huge curved screen that covers the entire wall after connecting the upper and lower floors, with more than a hundred screens.

The screen looks like dynamic DNA chains, or... a spider web.

The only difference is that the intersections are real-time surveillance images.

Each screen shows the home surveillance of a family raising humans and livestock, as well as key transportation hubs such as train stations and bus stations.

Once there is any problem with the people or animals appearing in the picture, they will be immediately extracted and analyzed separately.

This is the AI that studies the power of technology combination.

Have a completely independent network.

Although it is far from being as smart as Taoyuan, it is good enough.

Opposite the screen are rows of seats like a tiered classroom.

There are small computers on top.

Because it was independent and secretive enough, the news of the holiday downstairs did not spread upstairs.

Colleagues in the technical team are still working hard in front of their computers.

There are researchers, there are monitors, there are crackers...

It was the afternoon when the sun was at its brightest, and the technical team was located on the highest floor.

But not a single ray of sunlight entered.

The only light source in the entire floor is the light from countless computer screens.

So for a moment, no one noticed that Zhang Guang and several directors had come into the darkness behind.

"Ahem, little brother, where is your team leader Li?"

Zhang Guang glanced around and did not see Li Lu, the leader of the technical team.

So he patted a colleague who was writing code next to him.

“…Huh? Buchou!”

He saw Zhang Guang and then Xu Zhe behind him and was stunned.

"...The team leader is in a meeting, I..."

"No, I'll just go find her."

Zhang Guang glanced at the closed room in the corner of the big screen and nodded.

Then walk to the front.

"Everyone."

He clapped his hands and said, "Dear brothers from the technical team, thank you for your hard work during this period!"

"Thanks to everyone's unremitting efforts, we have already gained some clues about the location of Taoyuan's mainframe!"

It seemed that Zhang Guang was not exerting any strength.

But the sound was so loud that it could be heard throughout the entire double-story hall.

"Brothers, your hard work has paid off!"

"Being able to locate Taoyuan is inseparable from the efforts of everyone!"

"We will surround and kill the tribe, and the end of Taoyuan is just around the corner!"

"Don't be too happy yet."

Seeing everyone's eyes light up, Zhang Guang also smiled slightly.

"Brothers, this afternoon everyone will have a half-day paid holiday!"

"Everyone, go relax and adjust your mood!"

"Wait until tomorrow at work and officially enter combat mode!"

"Let's all eat up Taoyuan together!"

Zhang Guang took a deep breath and said!
And cheers broke out in the hall!
"minister."

Li Lu in the conference room heard the noise outside and opened the door and walked out.

She was wearing a smart suit and her black hair was tied in a ponytail.

Under a pair of frameless glasses, there are faint dark circles under his eyes, and he looks a little tired.

She first bowed to Zhang Guang, then nodded to Xu Zhe, and finally looked at Ke Ke.

"Sister Xiaolu."

"Ah."

Li Lu smiled at Ke Ke.

Although the two are five years apart in age, they joined the committee in the same batch.

We lived in the same dormitory at that time, so we were very familiar with each other.

"Minister, have we finally figured out the location of the Taoyuan mainframe?"

After everyone left, Li Lu also asked.

The content of her recent meeting was to reiterate the importance of Taoyuan.

"Yes."

Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Zhang Guang finally stopped keeping the secret and nodded heavily.

"Lin Xing'an really knows?"

Xu Zhe showed a look of shock on his face.

Zhang Guangze glanced at him and said, "The location of Taoyuan was discovered through the joint efforts of our entire siege team. It's the credit of our entire siege team."

He said quietly.

"……clear."

Xu Zhe's eyes showed a hint of understanding.

At the same time, the shock in his eyes intensified.

When Zhang Guang said this, it seemed that he was trying to deprive Lin Xing'an of the credit.

But in reality, this was to protect Lin Xing'an and build momentum for him...

Let Lin Xing'an better integrate into the siege team.

Wait until Taoyuan is destroyed...

By then, Lin Xingan's future in the Siege Division will be limitless...

What is the identity of this Lin Xing'an?
Who is Yu Yu?
Why does this name sound vaguely familiar to me? I feel like I've heard it somewhere before...

Xu Zhe frowned.

"Xiaolu, please check these two addresses for me now."

Zhang Guang took out a piece of paper from his pocket.

There are two addresses written on it.

"This is……"

"Yes, this is the location of the Taoyuan host."

Zhang Guang took a deep breath, placed his hands on the back of the chair, and clenched his fists, "Both."

(End of this chapter)