Chapter 514: Seizing the Initiative

After the graduation ceremony, the school organized a dinner party.

After all, the student entrepreneurs were considered valuable human resources for Nanjing University of Technology, and among them were several who had achieved some success; no one could say for sure what their future held.

However, Sun Cheng did not attend; he still had quite a few things to handle.

Cybertron Technology, having just completed its group restructuring, had a mountain of matters requiring his attention, and more importantly, he still needed to deliberate on the subsequent series of actions following his contact with the state.

Driving Ye Qi back home, both of them rarely dined out.

For one, Ye Qi had a slight obsession with cleanliness and always felt that food made outside was not hygienic; for another, her own culinary skills were quite good.

When they were young, Ye Qi's parents were quite busy with work, and when Sun Cheng was adopted, he had lost quite a few memories due to what seemed to be a head injury from a car accident; so, although he was already over ten years old when he was adopted, he lacked the ability to do things for himself for a long time.

In Sun Cheng's memory, from a very young age, it was Ye Qi who took care of him and was responsible for both of their meals and even their daily lives.

Because of this, he had been accustomed to a life with her from very early on.

Parking the car in the garage, after the door locks clicked open, Ye Qi stepped out from the passenger seat.

"I'm going to go make lunch first. I bought quite a lot of ingredients just now; how about hot pot for lunch?"

Walking straight toward the trunk, Ye Qi opened it and took out the two large bags of ingredients she had bought when they passed by a supermarket earlier.

Sun Cheng replied, "Sure, you go up first. Leave the groceries there, and I'll bring them up in a moment!"

"No need, they aren't that heavy!"

Ye Qi lifted the bags, "My handbag is still in the car; you can help me bring it up later!"

"Alright then!"

Sun Cheng didn't insist. He guessed that Ye Qi had already decided on hot pot for lunch while they were shopping at the supermarket, so besides buying a few boxes of beef and lamb slices and two large pork bones to prepare the soup base, most of the items were vegetables like lettuce and bean sprouts.

The two bags of ingredients looked heavy, but together they weighed at most ten pounds or so. Like him, Ye Qi exercised at home for an hour or two every day, so she wouldn't be exhausted just from carrying these few ingredients from the garage to the kitchen on the first floor.

Because the entrance to the underground Safe House was hidden inside the garage, Sun Cheng had developed the habit of locking the garage whenever he used it.

After Ye Qi left, he picked up her handbag from the passenger seat, locked the car doors and the garage, glanced around seemingly casually, and then entered the villa.

In the first-floor kitchen, Ye Qi placed the groceries in the relatively spacious kitchen and then returned to her own room.

She had applied light makeup when she went out, and her outfit was a rare, party-specific ensemble, so naturally, it was inconvenient to cook in it.

Sun Cheng didn't pay her any mind; ever since he had kept Ye Qi with him, the division of labor between the two of them had been very clear.

Because her livestreaming time was in the evening, Ye Qi would sleep in during the morning and often wouldn't wake up until noon. She didn't eat breakfast and didn't need it prepared, so Sun Cheng had to prepare his own.

Besides that, he was responsible for the maintenance of home appliances, computers, and the moving of large items.

As for lunch, dinner, and other miscellaneous household chores, Ye Qi was responsible for those.

Neither of them had any intention of hiring outside domestic help, but considering everyone was busy, even with Ye Qi doing some simple daily cleaning, there were inevitably areas that went unnoticed.

Therefore, every week, Sun Cheng would hire a cleaning service to perform a thorough cleaning of the villa, excluding his office and the garage.

Even though they lived together, they still had a considerable amount of personal space.

For instance, Sun Cheng rarely entered Ye Qi's bedroom or the livestreaming room specially set up for her; likewise, Ye Qi would not casually enter his bedroom or office while he was working or resting.

Because he didn't need to go to the company today, although the smell of hot pot was strong, he did not return to his room to change into Normal Mode home clothes like Ye Qi.

Closing the door and hanging his suit jacket casually on the coat rack in the corner, Sun Cheng walked to his desk and sat down.

Barricade, disguised as a laptop, was currently lying quietly on his desk.

However, Sun Cheng did not open it directly. After sitting down at the desk, he opened a hidden compartment underneath it, took out a cylindrical object smaller than an adult's thumb, pressed it gently at one end, and tossed it out.

It was truly miraculous; that small, unremarkable-looking metal cylinder, after being tossed away, only flew forward for a short distance due to inertia before hovering steadily in mid-air.

Then, several vibrations in the air, invisible to the naked eye, surged outward in all directions with it as the center.

After lasting for a full ten seconds or so, it appeared to lose all its power and fell to the ground.

This was a detection device for electronic products. Don't let its small size fool you; it could emit a type of super-electromagnetic wave that would detect and cause all Chip components within a five-meter radius that had not undergone anti-electromagnetic treatment to crash.

The reason Ye Qi's computer and livestreaming equipment at home often had problems was because of it.

In fact, after Sun Cheng realized he was being watched, he had personally used some equipment brought back from the Transformers universe to manufacture a batch of these detection devices to avoid leaving behind any bugs or cameras after someone invaded his home.

The detection cylinder was just something he had manufactured in a hurry, so the first batch produced were all disposable items.

Therefore, Sun Cheng didn't even glance at the detection device that had fallen to the floor and spoke to Barricade, disguised as a laptop on the desk in front of him: "Barricade, pull up the residential security records..."

The originally closed laptop screen popped open automatically, and at the same time, a Decepticon emblem familiar to him appeared on the screen.

Barricade's cold electronic voice also sounded: "At 10:21 AM, two unidentified individuals approached the villa and left suspected surveillance devices in multiple locations around the villa, though the two did not enter the premises."

To ensure his own safety, after purchasing the two villas located in this high-end residential area, Sun Cheng had successively ordered Barricade to deploy more than six hundred surveillance cameras throughout the complex, covering almost the vast majority of the area and blind spots of the entire neighborhood.

So, as long as he needed, Barricade could immediately pull up information on all residents, visitors, and vehicles entering and leaving the complex every day.

As a man with a severe lack of a sense of security, privacy laws were just toilet paper to Sun Cheng.

Anyway, those surveillance cameras from the hands of Decepticon Engineers were not only small in size but also placed in very hidden locations; even if they were discovered, it would be difficult to trace them back to him.

"They're moving quite fast!"

Sun Cheng raised an eyebrow slightly; it looked like the other party was prepared to monitor him for a period of time before considering whether to make contact.

It was just that this caution was clearly contrary to his original plan.

Since he had already launched the secret organization P·C·F, he had to make the fact that he had someone behind him an established reality.

Only in this way could he avoid being eaten down to the bones in his contact with state-level forces.

Thinking of this, he immediately took Frenzy out of his pocket and placed it on the desk next to the laptop disguised as Barricade.

"Transmit the locations of all suspicious surveillance devices to Frenzy. Frenzy, clear them out!"

Next, it was just a matter of waiting for people to 'take the initiative' to come to his door and 'request an interview' with him.