There was an uproar at the entrance of the research inst.i.tute.
Everyone was confused.
Liao Quan's face turned pale as he muttered anxiously, "Deputy Director, why…?"
s.h.i.+ Fu interrupted him sternly before he could finish speaking. "The First Research Inst.i.tute doesn't raise ingrates! Since you've chosen to leave, you don't have to come back here."
Liao Quan's face was pale. His hands hung down heavily, and he still wanted to struggle. "Deputy Director, I don't know what you're talking about. We're not ingrates or traitors. You must have misunderstood…"
"Do you want me to show you the evidence?" s.h.i.+ Fu said decisively.
Liao Quan and the few people behind him who could not swipe their cards were all stuck and could not say a word.
They did not dare to let s.h.i.+ Fu show evidence.
Because they had a guilty conscience!
Zhou Zhou looked at them and asked the angry middle-aged man in a low voice, "Deputy Director, what did they do?"
s.h.i.+ Fu suppressed his anger and said in a hoa.r.s.e voice, "They went to Ji Ziyin's laboratory behind the research inst.i.tute's back.
"It's not easy for the First Research Inst.i.tute to nurture a person. Since they chose to go to another place, we won't force them to stay, nor will we give them a chance to steal the research inst.i.tute's technology."
His voice was not loud, but many people at the entrance p.r.i.c.ked up their ears to listen to what was happening.
A commotion instantly ensued at the entrance of the research inst.i.tute.
"They betrayed the First Research Inst.i.tute. How can they have the cheek to ask the Deputy Director why he didn't let them in? Gos.h.!.+"
"Ji Ziyin was just involved in the scandal of seizing someone else's research results not long ago. These people are really spineless to actually work with such a person."
"They want to climb up the social ladder…"
Liao Quan and the others' faces were bright red, and their expressions were very interesting.
They were pointed at like street rats and were too ashamed to stay. They said goodbye to s.h.i.+ Fu before slipping away without looking back.
…
They had been chased out of the First Research Inst.i.tute.
An hour later, Ji Ziyin received this embarra.s.sing news.
She briefly counted their names before realizing that all her people had been caught.
Ji Ziyin did not believe that this fast, accurate, and ruthless style was s.h.i.+ Fu's or Feng Yu's.
A person immediately appeared in her mind.
It was Qiao Nian again…
Ji Ziyin's face was ashen as she smashed a cup!
* * *
In the next two days, Qiao Nian realized that Lu Zhi had not updated his Moments again.
Their WeChat chat was still on the question mark she sent to Lu Zhi three days ago. Lu Zhi did not reply for three consecutive days.
This had never happened before!
On the third day, Qiao Nian finally sensed that something was wrong and called Lu Zhi's private number.
Beep…
The call went through.
Qiao Nian walked to the balcony and looked at the scenery outside.
In the past few days, the weather in the independent continent had been clear, and the wind was refres.h.i.+ng.
Beep…
Qiao Nian held the cell phone to her ear. It had already rung more than ten times, but no one picked up.
Frowning, she returned to her room and held her cell phone in one hand. Then, she opened her laptop.
She pulled out the search software and entered Lu Zhi's personal information. Hitting the Enter key, the search software began to update…
Qiao Nian's first call had already been automatically hung up because no one picked up. She made a second call and continued to stare at the computer screen from the corner of her eye.
No one picked up the second call.
At the same time, Lu Zhi's location was retrieved.
He was actually not in the illegal district.
Instead, he was in Country M.