Chapter 141
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Chapter 141 The Biggest Question
Zhang Weiping from the security department was quite capable. In the vast main building of the group, he managed to clear out a sizeable storage room where two bloody bodies were thrown in. To be precise, one body had already become a corpse, while the other was still unconscious.
When Zhang Weiping saw Su Rui and Lin Aoxue approaching side by side covered in blood, he hurried forward and said, “CEO, son-in-law, they’re inside.”
Hearing the words “son-in-law,” Lin Aoxue raised her eyebrows slightly, while Su Rui patted Zhang Weiping’s shoulder and said, “Good job.”
“Please give instructions for the next steps, son-in-law!” Zhang Weiping knew he had pleased his superiors, which made him very happy and filled him with even more energy.
“Guard the door. No one is allowed to enter without my permission.”
“Yes, sir! You can count on me!”
Zhang Weiping stood tall, saluted, and then turned to Chen Dawu saying, “Did you hear the son-in-law’s orders? Get twenty people from the patrol team to guard this place. No one is allowed in!”
Upon hearing this, Chen Dawu ran out with great enthusiasm.
“Are you ready?” Su Rui stood at the door and glanced at Lin Aoxue beside him.
He had asked this question to Xue Ruyun before, but although she verbally said she was ready, mentally she wasn’t prepared.
And this time, was Lin Aoxue ready?
Su Rui looked at her exquisite profile and shook his head.
When her neck was being strangled in that terrifying moment, Lin Aoxue hadn’t panicked too much. But now that she had calmed down and thought about facing a bloody corpse, she still felt very uncomfortable.
“Put this on.” Su Rui handed Lin Aoxue a disposable mask.
Seeing her hesitant look, Su Rui smiled and said, “I found it in your office.”
Seeing Su Rui’s smile, Lin Aoxue inexplicably felt much better: “How did you find this in my office? When did you get it?”
“It was under the coffee table. I just grabbed it, but you didn’t notice.”
As Su Rui spoke, seeing that Lin Aoxue still hadn’t taken the mask, he simply opened it himself and moved to put it on her face.
Lin Aoxue instinctively wanted to dodge, but remembering how Su Rui had wrapped the scarf around her neck earlier, her body suddenly stiffened, allowing him to put the mask on her face.
Zhang Weiping and his subordinates kept their eyes down, resisting the urge to look in their direction.
After putting the mask on Lin Aoxue, Su Rui extended his hand to her:
“Come on, join me to see your current and future enemies.”
Lin Aoxue hesitated for a moment but still didn’t place her hand in Su Rui’s. This gesture was truly too difficult for her.
“Follow me.”
Su Rui didn’t continue to pressure Lin Aoxue at this critical moment. He simply took hold of her wrist and led her into the room.
Miss Lin could only follow behind him. This was the first time a man had held her wrist, and it felt strange.
As soon as the door opened, a strong smell of blood hit them in the face! It made Lin Aoxue feel suffocated!
Fortunately, Su Rui had already put the mask on her, otherwise, the young lady of the Lin family would definitely have been vomiting uncontrollably!
Even so, her brows were tightly furrowed, and her face was pale!
“That fool Zhang Weiping didn’t even think to open a window.”
Su Rui walked forward and opened the only window. Fresh air rushed in, making the bloody smell in the room less intense.
Aikema, who was extremely skilled at stealth assassination, was covered in blood and still in a deep coma.
Greet lay flat on the ground, his face ashen, his body completely cold.
Seeing this scene, Lin Aoxue raised her eyebrows and unconsciously touched the wound on her neck.
It was this ashen-faced man who had almost made her leave this world forever.
As if seeing through Lin Aoxue’s thoughts, Su Rui said, “The power of profit is infinite. It can make anyone become ruthless.”
After a pause, Su Rui’s eyes flashed with a complex, indecipherable meaning as he continued, “For huge profits, they can easily kill, and they can easily kill many people.”
Su Rui spoke slowly, and no blame could be heard in his words, but Lin Aoxue felt guilty for the first time.
Perhaps she shouldn’t have so prominently published the paper on Tricholammonium in Nature magazine. She should have just made money quietly. Why did she have to be so flamboyant? Why did she need to attract the attention of the whole world?
“This is not your fault.” Su Rui truly seemed to possess mind-reading abilities, as if he could completely see through Lin Aoxue’s thoughts: “You didn’t know there was such a huge risk behind Tricholammonium. If I were you, standing in your position, I would have done the same thing. Do you remember, after you announced the new synthesis method for Tricholammonium, Bikang’s stock had five consecutive days of limit-up.”
“This proves you were right.” Su Rui’s eyes were bright: “Anyone in your position would have made the same choice. Don’t blame yourself anymore.”
Lin Aoxue nodded, with a hint of gentleness in her eyes.
“Leave what comes next to me. Just stand aside and watch. If there are parts you really can’t bear to see, then close your eyes,” Su Rui said.
“Okay.” Lin Aoxue was very obedient at this moment.
Su Rui ignored Aikema and crouched in front of Greet.
Who says dead men can’t talk?
He took out a folding knife from his body, then cut open Greet’s outer clothing. Soon, his entire body was exposed to Su Rui without any obstruction.
His skin was already ashen, and his chest had a large depression. Clearly, under Su Rui’s six furious heavy punches, his chest bones had broken in many places.
Lin Aoxue frowned but still didn’t look away.
Su Rui lowered his head and carefully examined his skin inch by inch. Seeing how serious he looked, Lin Aoxue’s eyes flickered.
After examining the front, Su Rui turned Greet’s body over and carefully looked at his back. Apart from some scars, nothing significant could be seen.
No suspicious points might be the biggest suspicion of all.
Su Rui turned to look at Lin Aoxue and said, “You said these two people were personally recruited by you half a year ago?”
Lin Aoxue nodded: “Actually, it can’t really be called recruitment. I had already sent them invitations through headhunters. These two were both associate professors at two strong universities in China, with strong research capabilities. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have let them enter Bikang’s core research lab.”
“And before they joined the company, I had detailed conversations with them. Academically, they were very accomplished.”
“What were their personalities like? How did they get along with others?”
Lin Aoxue glanced at the blood-covered Greet. It was good that the space here was not small, otherwise it would have been truly nauseating and terrifying.
“They got along fairly well with others. After all, these researchers focus their attention on research, and their interpersonal relationships are relatively simple. But overall, they hadn’t had any conflicts with others in the past half year. I would say their personalities were quite gentle.”
Lin Aoxue was right. In the entire Bikang Group, the research center was the most harmonious department. Everyone was immersed in their research. Once the research group set the general direction, everyone would divide the work, focus on their tasks, and there wouldn’t be any conflicts. This was very different from other departments, and there were no issues of shirking responsibility.
“But I feel their performance today completely contradicts the word ‘gentle’ you described,” Su Rui frowned. “This is indeed very abnormal. If they were truly pretending, pretending for half a year would be quite exhausting.”
Lin Aoxue couldn’t help but recall the scene of Greet strangling her neck. The ferocity in his eyes was still vivid in her memory. She nodded involuntarily, agreeing with Su Rui on this point.
“Indeed, to hide one’s true nature for half a year would be too exhausting.”
“Let me confirm with you once more, they definitely joined half a year ago? Were there any other personnel changes in between?”
Lin Aoxue thought for a moment: “It was definitely half a year ago, and there have been no personnel changes in the research center during this half year. They are the department with the most stable personnel in Bikang. The threshold to enter is very high, and the resignation rate is extremely low.”
Su Rui nodded and continued to ask, “So, the new synthesis method for Tricholammonium was only successfully developed five months after they joined Bikang?”
“That’s correct.”
“They couldn’t possibly have had that kind of foresight,” Su Rui said.
“You’re right,” Lin Aoxue continued the analysis. “The new synthesis method for Tricholammonium was just a coincidence. It was a surprise we got when a test direction completely failed. At that time, no one expected that this failed chemical reaction could actually produce Tricholammonium. They certainly couldn’t have anticipated all this five months in advance and infiltrated Bikang beforehand.”
“Yes, that would be too far-fetched.”
“There’s only one possibility,” Lin Aoxue pondered. “The two of them were bought by someone else.”
“Think again, is there anything that doesn’t add up?” Su Rui narrowed his eyes. “Carefully recall the entire process of the incident.”
Lin Aoxue frowned, forcing herself to recall the previous process again, including the moment when her neck was strangled.
“The eyes,” Lin Aoxue said after a moment of silence. “I felt his eyes were very fierce. Could it be that the person who bribed him had some leverage over him… and pushed them to desperation?”
“Even if desperate, they couldn’t possibly have that kind of skill,” Su Rui couldn’t help but recall Aikema’s superior assassination ability, that dagger that seemed to thrust out from the darkness had left an extremely deep impression on him.
This level of skill, even in the entire Western underworld, would be considered top-tier.
“The people are wrong,” Su Rui clapped his hands and said.
