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Chapter 652 - 652 652 Threats and Temptations

652: Chapter 652: Threats and Temptations?

I’ll Make Sure You Regret It!

652: Chapter 652: Threats and Temptations?

I’ll Make Sure You Regret It!

Ill-intentioned people come knocking on the door; those with good intentions would never show up uninvited.

The stout foreigner turned a ghastly shade of iron blue as soon as he entered the door.

Wu Jie couldn’t help but think.

No way?

Have I been exposed?

Whether I tampered with their system or planted Trojans and logic bombs, I was extremely covert!

To be on the safe side, Wu Jie even expended a considerable amount of energy points.

He temporarily elevated his skills like communication engineer and software engineer to the highest ‘Grandmaster’ level.

And the Trojans and logic bombs were purchased directly with energy points.

Given the current level of technology in the world, it was clearly impossible for them to be discovered.

So…

Are there other hidden cameras inside this server room?

Were my misdeeds secretly observed while I was committing them?

That shouldn’t be the case either!

If there were any, they would have definitely stormed over and caught me red-handed when I was covertly transferring their funds, rather than waiting until now.

And it’s only this foreigner who stormed in, judging from his muscular bear-like stature, he doesn’t look tech-savvy.

If it were a technical director who charged in, Wu Jie would believe that he might have been exposed.

Therefore…

Wu Jie remained unconcerned, without any sign of panic or confusion.

The foreigner, who strutted in with large strides, angrily pointed at Wu Jie and demanded in a raised voice:

“Say!

Was it you who sabotaged our server racks?”

“Is that what Director Li said?” Wu Jie loudly countered.

The foreigner retorted angrily, “He’s busy with other matters now, but I’ve checked with headquarters.

Our server racks and equipment are all custom-built and shouldn’t have any issues.

It’s too bizarre for them to have burned out twice in a row!”

“So you think I sabotaged it twice in front of Director Li’s eyes?

Are you suggesting Director Li is blind?” Wu Jie asked again.

The foreigner’s eyes bulged with frustration, his brows furrowed, his face growing even darker.

His large eyeballs seemed about to pop out.

Looking at his ridiculous demeanor, Wu Jie knew he was a foolhardy fellow.

He must be a relation hired to be a manager here.

Not very capable, but definitely utterly loyal to the Northern Fox Organization.

Seeing the foreigner in a daze, Wu Jie smiled sheepishly.

He calmly packed his laptop into his backpack, appearing indifferent without any sign of nervousness.

“I’m just a temp worker, and it’s only my first day on the job.

Isn’t it inappropriate for you to accuse me like this?”

The foreigner barked loudly, “But our equipment shouldn’t malfunction so easily.

If nobody tampered with it, how could it possibly fail twice in succession?”

Wu Jie chuckled, “The first malfunction was obviously an accident.

It might have been due to a power supply anomaly, or possibly overheating components!”

“And the second time…

Clearly, it was you who ordered the power restored without testing, right?”

“What now?

Are you here to find someone to take the fall?”

Wu Jie’s rebuttal made the foreigner glance away, a guilty conscience evident in his evasive action.

Such behavior only further convinced Wu Jie of his suspicions.

“Let me guess, the headquarters is demanding accountability, and you don’t dare admit that it was your own decision to forcefully restore power without testing, causing a set of equipment to be damaged.

So now you’ve come to find someone to take the blame?”

The foreigner pointed accusingly at Wu Jie:

“You’re spouting nonsense!

I’m only here to perform routine accountability!”

“Also, you’re an externally hired temp worker, so watch how you speak to me!”

“I am the manager of this office, and whether or not you get paid is up to me!”

His tone was haughty, laced with threat and intimidation.

What did that mean?

Of course, Wu Jie understood.

The foreigner kicked the door open and charged into the server room, dominating and imposing, with the clear intention of intimidating Wu Jie.

Then, naturally, it would be a blend of coercion and temptation to make Wu Jie admit to the fault and take responsibility for the damaged equipment.

Temp workers, just like interns, are ones to take the blame, right?

Hence, the foreigner might be carrying something like a hidden recording pen.

“Admitting” the fault would let the foreigner perfectly answer back to headquarters.

It figured.

Two Dell 4U rack servers each, with quad processors, 64 cores and 128 threads, nearly 20T of storage capacity…

Just the two servers alone would cost over two million Gold Coins in the market.

Not to mention the professional modifications done by the experts at headquarters to ensure the safety of dedicated network data, which added even more to the cost.

The damage to the equipment was a minor issue, but causing this business center to halt operations for three hours was a much greater offense.

Therefore.

If Wu Jie were an employee of Northern Fox’s headquarters, he definitely would have confronted the manager of Zanan City for accountability.

Facing immense pressure from his superior, the foreigner obviously needed someone else to carry the blame.

The technical director, Mr.

Li, seemed a typical ‘tech guy’ who didn’t know how to bend the rules.

So, the foreigner took it upon himself to approach Wu Jie for questioning, aggressively demanding answers, forcing Wu Jie into a confession.

However…

“So you want me to take the fall on your behalf?

Fine, name your price!”

“If you can give me a few million Gold Coins, I might consider helping you out.

After all, I’m just a temp, it’s normal for me to be the scapegoat!”

Wu Jie retorted with a grin, causing the foreigner’s face to redden with anger.

“You little rat, what did you say?

I give you several million Gold Coins?

You should be compensating our firm by that much!”

The foreigner still tried to bully by virtue of his position.

Feeling physically stronger and imposing, as if he could crush Wu Jie, a seemingly vulnerable and helpless programmer, through sheer presence.

Looking at him, one would think Wu Jie, with his attire and demeanor, indeed had the high IQ but low EQ of a stereotypical geek.

Someone whose combat effectiveness could be neglected.

“You want me to compensate you?

You hired me as a temp worker for a month, and the total compensation is only thirty thousand Gold Coins!”

“Since you don’t want to pay, fine then!

I absolutely refuse to take the blame for this!”

With these words, Wu Jie picked up his laptop bag and walked out the door.

Why stay?

Stay to get beaten up?

Admitting he broke the equipment would be like leaving behind a ticking time bomb, right?

At the latest, by tomorrow morning, as soon as the three games tonight were over, they would start losing a lot of money.

Once the accounts failed to pay the winning betters, the problems would definitely emerge.

When the investigation would reach Zanan City, Wu Jie did not know.

But being cautious is always wise.

Blame that wasn’t his to carry, he must not take.

Especially given the consecutive server failures were too suspicious.

Once the financial system blows up tomorrow and the accounts don’t tally,

the headquarters of the Northern Fox Organization will definitely think it’s been infiltrated.

And given that Zanan City’s servers, already having burnt out two units, are constantly malfunctioning, it will surely be subjected to intense investigation.

At that time, they will definitely grab this temp worker first thing.

They’d rather mistakenly kill three thousand than let one go.

The Northern Fox Organization isn’t some charity.

They’re all about profit and will dare to do anything.

So,

having strutted my stuff, should I not run now?

Wait to be violently attacked tomorrow?

…

After Wu Jie left, the foreign devil was confused for a moment.

The temp worker has gone; who should carry the can for this?

That technical supervisor is completely inflexible, utterly devoid of adaptability.

Once the head office investigates, Director Li will definitely spill everything truthfully.

So then…

Isn’t that directly taking the rap?

Fuck!

“Hold it right there!”

The foreign devil suddenly yelled out loud and rushed out after him in a hurry.

Wu Jie turned a deaf ear and kept walking forward with his bag on his back.

The foreign devil quickened his pace and caught up in two strides.

He grabbed Wu Jie’s shoulder without saying a word and dragged him into the nearby break room.

“What are you planning to do?

Force a confession out of me?”

Wu Jie asked coldly.

He glanced around out of the corner of his eye, readying himself to forcefully break through if necessary.

But…

After the foreign devil scanned the surroundings, his expression instantly changed.

His previous raging anger turned into a pleasant smile, even carrying a hint of laughter.

“Don’t worry, I won’t hit you!

I just want to discuss something with you!”

The tone of the foreign devil’s speech softened significantly, and his voice grew lower and lower.

Looking at his shifty eyes, he’s definitely not up to any good!

Wu Jie hummed lightly and, shrugging off the foreign devil’s hand that was as big as a fan, entered the break room first.

This foreign devil was pretty decisive too, pulling out his wallet and flicking a stack of gold bills.

All in thousand-yuan denominations, a thick stack, quite a lot.

“There are at least twenty thousand Gold Coins here.

Just admit that you’re new to the job, not familiar with the equipment, and inadvertently caused the damage, and the money’s yours!”

Wu Jie chuckled lightly, “You think I’m a fool?

Take your twenty thousand Gold Coins, then compensate you three million Gold Coins?”

The foreign devil gritted his teeth and frowned, glancing back behind him.

“Are you dumb?

How could I make you pay?

You’re a temp hired on short notice without a labor contract, Director Li failed to perform his supervisory duty, it’s his fault…”

Wu Jie listened for a while, and it became clear to him.

This foreign devil obviously had issues working with that technical Director Li!

Because of the foreign devil’s unreasonable commands, the equipment was forced to power up without testing, leading to server damage.

For him, this was definitely a stain that would affect his future promotions.

And inside the server room, Wu Jie had already stated firmly that he wouldn’t shoulder this blame.

So…

who would?

Of course ‘negligent’ Director Li!

Damn!

Didn’t expect this burly foreign devil to have such a shrewd mind.

But…

This kind of trickery, in front of me, the King of Tricksters, is simply child’s play!

“Although I don’t know exactly what your firm does, I can tell that the equipment being damaged and going offline has a big impact on your business!”

Wu Jie teased with a half-smile.

The foreign devil snorted with a half-smile, “No shit!

Our firm makes several billion a day…

Ah, but you wouldn’t understand!”

Realizing he had almost let something slip, the foreign devil quickly changed the subject.

“How about I give you all my cash?”

Saying this, the foreign devil took out all his money.

A quick count revealed that together with some gold notes, there were more than forty thousand Gold Coins.

For a temp, it was definitely a considerable sum.

Get paid even after doing something bad.

Wu Jie thought that this ‘venturing into the tiger’s lair’ was pretty damn good!

Taking the money, Wu Jie pointed outside the firm.

The foreign devil indeed thought the same, and the two of them quickly left the office and went to the fire escape stairs, where there were no cameras and no risk of drawing attention.

As expected!

The foreign devil took out a voice recorder and even a piece of paper.

Damnit!

He even had the dialogue written out in advance.

Turns out he had been prepared to ‘coerce and bribe’ already.

Having taken the money, Wu Jie of course cooperated fully and repeated everything with the foreign devil as rehearsed.

After turning off the voice recorder, the foreign devil turned around to leave.

“Wait a minute!”

Wu Jie stopped him, seriously reminding him:

“Having the recording isn’t enough, you need to go back and destroy the surveillance footage in the server room.

Otherwise, if it’s investigated later, you’re sure to be held responsible too!”

The foreign devil slightly furrowed his brow, “That’s right!

All three of us were there at the time, and I was the one who gave the order…

So how do we destroy it?”

Wu Jie smiled and said, “It’s simple!

When you get back, open the rack and count from the top down to the third black flat box!”

“There’s a small button on the back, just press it lightly!

Remember, after pressing it, close the rack immediately and leave quickly!”

“Got it, it’s to make it restart and record over, right?” the foreign devil asked with a smile.

Wu Jie paused slightly and grinned, “Uh…

right, that’s the idea!

Hurry up and go!”

Pushing open the fire door, the foreign devil took a few steps, then suddenly turned back, looking puzzledly at Wu Jie waiting for the elevator.

“I don’t read much, don’t fool me!”

“How could I?

I’m just a temp, after taking your money, I’ll never see you again, why would I deceive you?”

Wu Jie waved and smiled, entering the elevator with calm composure.

Thinking it over, the foreign devil felt more convinced and stealthily went to do as instructed.

Focused only on self-preservation, he had no idea what would happen once that button was pressed…