novelraw Chapter 306 - 171: Every Step Fraught with Danger (Second Update, Small and Exquisite Sword)
Chapter 306 - 171: Every Step Fraught with Danger (Second Update, Small and Exquisite Sword)
On a weekend, Thomas came to the office to work overtime?That’s really rare.
Joyce snorted, not thinking much of it.
He’s the Chief Technology Officer, a world-renowned expert in AI. He can work whenever he wants.
Who am I compared to him?
Do I have the right to interfere?
Joyce sighed internally. Although he attended Yan University and his annual salary is nearly a million, he’s still a loser from inside out.
While berating himself, Joyce checked his computer.
Then he noticed someone seemed to have tampered with his computer.
Impossible...
His surveillance clearly showed no one came in. Who could have touched his computer?
An invisible person?
What a joke.
Joyce believes in science, and modern science hasn’t reached the stage of creating invisibility.
He checked his computer again and found signs of tampering, but it wasn’t necessarily someone coming into his office; rather, his computer might have been remotely monitored...
Joyce immediately used software to investigate his computer.
Since his computer was simultaneously running other programs, the investigation was slow.
But he wasn’t too concerned, as long as he waited.
Ever since he felt like leaving this company, he didn’t have the urgency to complete work immediately.
Before long, Joseph Saunders and Mary Palmer arrived.
Their offices, one at the front desk, and the other next to Joyce’s office.
Joyce went to the pantry to grab some snacks and happened to meet Joseph Saunders and Mary Palmer.
As soon as Mary Palmer saw Joyce, she nervously asked, "Director Joyce, did I cause trouble for you?"
Joyce looked at her in surprise, "No, why do you say that?"
Mary Palmer immediately gasped in shock, "Didn’t your fiancée tell you about me calling you on Saturday?"
Joyce laughed, "Oh, that? She mentioned it. I didn’t work on weekends and had no issues, so after she told me, I just forgot about it."
Mary Palmer was even more surprised and felt wronged: "Really? She really said that? Didn’t she say she scolded me?"
Joyce: "..."
"She scolded you for no reason? What did you do to anger her? My fiancée has a great temper; she would never scold you for no reason."
Mary Palmer was so angry she nearly exploded: What the heck, asking like it’s her fault?! Clearly, it was the other party who provoked first! Saying "the one who starts is cheap"! How was she cheap?
She bit her lip and said, "Director Joyce, I only asked if you were coming to work overtime on the weekend; I didn’t mean anything else. But your fiancée..."
Mary Palmer said this and pulled out her phone, showing her conversation with Lawrence Winters: "Listen! Are these malicious words really my fault?"
Joyce heard the smooth yet delicate female voice and suddenly laughed, "You got it wrong. That’s not my fiancée’s voice. I said she wasn’t such a person and wouldn’t scold you for no reason."
Mary Palmer hadn’t had time to ask who was so malicious when Joyce said again, "Moreover, you speak ambiguously, misleading others; no wonder someone would scold you. You came to work overtime because your work wasn’t finished. How can you say you’re accompanying me? Also, those days’ breakfasts and dinners were reimbursed by the company. Why do you make it sound like you’re my nanny? I won’t accept that."
Then he took his snacks and went back to his office.
Mary Palmer nearly fainted from anger.
What kind of nanny!
Does he genuinely not know, or is he pretending?
It was the first time Joseph Saunders saw Mary Palmer so angry, her face turning purple and her features twisted, looking a bit scary.
He clicked his tongue twice and whispered, "...Do you also have times of setback?"
"Scram!" Mary Palmer glared at him and returned to her front desk position.
She couldn’t face him and didn’t speak with Joyce all day, leaving at five in the afternoon.
After she left, Joseph Saunders stayed because Joyce was still working.
The search program Joyce ran all day only uncovered a tiny clue.
Through reverse tracking, he locked onto the computer that remotely logged into his. It was surprisingly in the computer lab opposite his office!
He immediately recalled Thomas entering that computer lab on Sunday...
If there’s no connection here, he can cut off his head and kick it around.
Joyce’s expression turned somewhat grim.
Although the company’s computers are company property, Thomas definitely has the authority to check his computer. But why would he secretly use a computer from the lab across to remotely monitor his?