Chapter 350: Cafeteria

Luyingying sat up with a "swoosh", "Why are you back again?"

"I saw ants crawling in the cafeteria, so I wanted to ask whether I could cook for myself or have my family send some snacks in."

Ordering takeout is absolutely impossible.

Su Yu can only think of these two ways to fill her stomach. Most of her snacks are suitable for breakfast but not great as a main meal, so she has to have her family prepare some dry rations.

Luyingying knit her eyebrows, "Ants?"

"Yeah!"

"Where?"

Su Yu led Luyingying over.

The two watched the ants on the back wall of the cafeteria crawl all the way into the back kitchen, and Luyingying felt her stomach churn.

"That shouldn't happen!"

This place is so important; the cafeteria shouldn't have problems!

Su Yu took out her phone and did a series of "click‑click" shots of the things, also capturing Luyingying's image.

"Why are you filming this?"

"Afraid they'll silence me."

She recorded a video, set up the program, and if she gets silenced, this thing will be sent to the entire internet.

Luyingying was both amused and exasperated, "It could just be an accident, or maybe in the corner where the staff didn't notice."

Su Yu turned and left, "I'm going back to the dorm to eat; I've been hungry all morning!"

【Thought】 "You don't trick kids like this, huh? I even thought Luyingying was really on my side!"

【Thought】 "Who would have thought I'd be so hungry at the base that I can't even finish a meal!"

Su Yu internally vented a lot, and when she reported her daily routine that night, she mentioned this incident. The confidentiality rules didn't forbid saying this!

"Sweetie, are you getting enough to eat over there?"

Su Yu nodded, "Don't worry, Mom, it's plenty!"

Su Yu walked over to the nearby drawer, took out the snacks she had brought before, and waved them, "Mom, rest assured, safe and reliable!"

They were all taken from home. There's also a camera at her room's doorway; Wulongcha checks the footage before returning, and only lets her into the room if nothing's wrong.

"That's good!"

After chatting with family and Liang Yan, and texting Tang Can, Su Yu slept peacefully. Meanwhile, in the base's senior office, people came and went.

The internet prodigies who have already signed indefinite contracts were swearing and grumbling while working.

"This place can even do this, yet they don't let us wander around!"

"If you wander, it's fine; who doesn't have a secret!"

"We can't destroy someone's confidant!"

"That poor girl is miserable; she was just holding money, looking glossy and well‑nourished, but she risks her eyes, looking around recklessly—anyway she won't die from eating!"

"She's just pretentious!"

"Not pretentious—what about the heir? After this, the company she would inherit might be gone."

"Exactly, if we can't deal with her, can we even deal with her family?"

"They say she sold herself in for the family's future, tsk, all that work was for nothing!"

"Nonsense, our pitiful wages are still okay; as long as we don't starve to death!"

Su Yu's coworkers were being sarcastic, treating the conference room like their own office, saying whatever they wanted. The person in charge of them trembled, wishing they could step forward, cover their mouths, and drag them out!

Haven't you seen how the leaders above have faces blacker than ever? A coat of oil makes them a dazzling black! The entire administrative building was brightly lit!

The next day, the whole base underwent a massive personnel turnover.

Su Yu was taken by Luyingying to have breakfast.

"Really eating?"

Su Yu had also brought some oatmeal, soaked it in the dorm, so a makeshift breakfast was possible.

"Mm! It's all cleared." Su Yu followed Luyingying into the cafeteria; indeed a new batch of people had arrived, and many cameras were installed, allowing a clear view of the back kitchen from the main hall.

Luyingying picked up a few fried dough sticks, ordered a cup of soy milk, "Aren't you eating?"

Su Yu sighed; she didn't really want to eat, haunted by a mental shadow. At home, if she saw ants, she could pay the servants to wash it ten more times—could she do that here? "I'm not hungry for now!"

【Thought】 "If you hadn't taken me, I would have eaten already!"

Luyingying sighed, "If you can't finish, just go back to the dorm!"

"Thanks, sis!"

Su Yu ran back to the dorm, made oatmeal, took out a bag of biscuits, shuffled her feet, and ate while watching a drama.

After happily finishing breakfast, Su Yu went to the office and found her workload had surged.

"What's going on? Why are there so many tasks for me to do?"

Su Yu suspected she was being retaliated against. The work wasn't much; it was just all the tasks of this office. If she did them all, what would others do? Zhaoshizhe felt guilty, "Sorry, Teacher Su Yu, the situation here has angered the higher‑ups; everyone else has been sent to various jurisdictions for detailed network investigations. For this period, you'll have to work harder; sorry for the inconvenience!"

Strictly speaking, as the main culprit, Su Yu was helpless and had to do the work.

Time quickly passed until Su Xi and the others came to visit her.

But before they could meet, Su Yu was dispatched on a mission.

"Why do I have to go?"

This time she had to go to the border. To be honest, Su Yu was terrified of dying, especially since she's still so small and hasn't drawn all her cards yet.

"I could clearly pull all that stuff from the internet; what's the point of sending me in?"

Su Yu reasonably suspected someone was using official channels for personal revenge, wanting her dead. When Su Xi and the others arrived, they'd be given a corpse of hers.

Luyingying and Zhaoshizhe were still in the dark; only upon reaching the target base would they get further information.

"Those are orders from above; we can only carry them out."

Su Yu followed Zhaoshizhe and Luyingying to another base. At this base, Su Yu could still see the border line!

"Knock knock!"

"Come in!"

"Excuse me, which one is Teacher Su Yu?"

"Me!"

Su Yu raised her hand. The person who had asked looked somewhat at a loss; the other person stared suspiciously at Su Yu's face, then looked at Luyingying and Zhaoshizhe, who kept nodding solemnly.

"Can she really do it?"

"Don't worry, she's the most suitable candidate on our side!"

Everyone in their entire base combined couldn't match her alone — sending her over showed real sincerity!

The other party mysteriously gave Su Yu a computer. Wulongcha told Su Yu to do as it said.

【A copy, not the original. It won't be of much use even if you get it working. Because it was copied, some code was damaged. I can search for similar code on the network, but it may not be accurate.】

Su Yu told Zhaoshizhe and Luyingying truthfully.

The two on this side looked at Su Yu in surprise. "How do you know it's a copy?"

Su Yu had a bad feeling. "You didn't deliberately make a copy to test people, did you?"

This was Su Yu's stereotypical impression — whether it was some of the geniuses here or some of the people above, they all loved this kind of "test."

But she didn't need that!

And she couldn't just state her secret directly. Every time she encountered this kind of test, Su Yu's mood soured!

People get annoyed! Nobody wants to do the same work two or three times! "No, we copied it purely because we were afraid of damaging the original data, so we made some copies to examine and study."

Wulongcha was helpless. 【The intention is good, but others are guarding against you too!】

Thanks, darlings, for the votes~ The previous chapter was slightly revised, but it doesn't affect the reading~

I'm so sleepy. Two thousand words first in the early hours, and the rest will be posted before noon~