Early on Wednesday morning, Xu Xinghe rejected Ling Changfeng's proposal to send him to work, and after a long absence, he changed into his royal blue Phantom s-86 and drove himself to work at Ark.

When he landed in the parking lot, he deliberately chose an inconspicuous corner to stop, then got out of the car wearing a black sun hat, and walked quickly into the office building without looking sideways.

Even though he has behaved as low-key as possible and doesn't want to attract attention, from the moment he entered the elevator, he could still feel all kinds of gazes around him falling on him one after another.

When stepping into the hall of the Ministry of Science and Technology on the 36th floor, the hall was quiet for a moment.

As Xu Xinghe walked straight across the hall and into his office, the people began to whisper again.

"Why is Team Leader Xu here?"

"Didn't I tell you that he's not pregnant? Of course he came to work if he wasn't pregnant."

"Then why did you ask for leave yesterday? He was full-time last year and didn't ask for a day off!"

"Sick leave, how normal is it for people to get sick?"

"But... Judging from the way Leader Xu just walked with wind, it doesn't look like he is sick."

As soon as Xu Xinghe entered the office, he didn't have time to take off his coat, and there was a squeaking sound behind him——

"Leader!!"

"Team leader, you're here!"

Ajia and Ryan rushed into the office one after the other.

Xu Xinghe's temple jumped up suddenly, put his coat on the hanger, and then pointed to the door, without turning his head: "Go out."

"I don't!" Ajia moved closer and looked at Xu Xinghe with two big eyes, "How are you feeling now? Is it better?"

"I..." Xu Xinghe originally wanted to say "I have nothing to do", but after thinking about it, the matter of asking for sick leave yesterday can't be explained, so he vaguely said: "It's much better."

Ryan on the side asked: "What's wrong with you, team leader? Didn't you always have a tough body before? Why did you suddenly get sick?"

Xu Xinghe didn't know how to explain for a while to shut their curious and questioning mouths, so he pretended to be irritable and said, "What's wrong with being sick? Haven't seen anyone sick? What should you do now!"

Then, as if he suddenly thought of something, his black eyes squinted: "How was your investigation work yesterday?"

"..."

"..."

"Do this!!"

The two left in despair, and Xu Xinghe's office finally became quiet. He sat down on the large office chair, poured a cup of coffee, and began to deal with the work that was piled up yesterday.

At 10:15 in the morning, the pre-ordered alarm rang.

Only then did Xu Xinghe remember that it was time to report to Boss Liang.

Liang Shilei, the head of the technology department of Ark, is 67 years old this year. He is a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science of Capital University. He is nicknamed President Liang and Boss Liang by people in their department.

Since Xu Xinghe entered the ark, he has received a lot of care and appreciation from Liang Shilei.

At the beginning of this year, Liang Shilei defied all disapproval and promoted Xu Xinghe to be the leader of the sixth group. Therefore, Xu Xinghe also has both gratitude and respect for him.

Because of this, when he thought of Ling Changfeng hanging up the phone yesterday morning, his whole body felt bad.

After struggling for a while, he finally had to get up from his position and walked towards Mr. Liang's office with the documents in his arms.

Taking a deep breath, he knocked on the door.

"Please come in." Boss Liang's voice came from inside.

Although he is nearly seventy years old, Mr. Liang still looks energetic, but at this moment, he is sitting behind his desk and looks at Xu Xinghe with a complicated expression.

"Are you feeling better?" Liang Shilei asked.

Xu Xinghe touched his nose and nodded, "I'm fine."

Mr. Liang was silent for a while, and said, "I have no intention to inquire about your personal affairs, but from the perspective of personnel transfer and work arrangement, I still want to ask... Xinghe, are you planning to conceive in the near future?"

Xu Xinghe was stunned: "Huh?"

He was stunned for a while before stammering, "No, no, of course not! Why do you think so?"

Mr. Liang said with kind eyes: "First of all, let me explain that I have no objection to your pregnancy by asking this question. On the contrary, if you..."

"There is no if!" Xu Xinghe was a rare time when he directly planned the words of his boss. In Mr. Liang's stunned eyes, the tip of his ear was slightly red and repeated: "There is no if, I can't be pregnant."

He and Ling Changfeng have never been married at all, only a ghost can be conceived!

But this kind of thing that obviously violates the rules of the master, he is not easy to say clearly, he can only make a righteous statement in front of Mr. Liang: "I am currently focusing on work, and I have no other plans for the time being."

Mr. Liang glanced at Xu Xinghe earnestly and said warmly: "Young people, you can't just have work in your mind. And this matter... This kind of thing is usually not something that you can control..."

Xu Xinghe: "..."

He never imagined that Mr. Liang, who was always concise and neat in his actions, would have such a nagging day.

Pulled him to chat about things, and chatted for a long time before finally getting to the point and starting the work report.

When he finally came out of Mr. Liang's office, it was already half past eleven, half an hour later than expected.

After a busy morning, it was time for lunch.

Xu Xinghe returned to his office, took out the bento that he brought with him, put on the tablecloth, and started today's lunch.

Halfway through the meal, there was a knock on the office door.

Xu Xinghe was stunned for a moment, then raised his head with a feeling: "Please come in."

The door was pushed open, and it was Gu Nai who came in.

"Good noon." The young man wearing a light blue plaid shirt entered with a smile on his face, his dark brown eyes behind the lens quietly surveyed Xu Xinghe, and then he said softly: "Xu Xinghe Why did the team leader eat so late today? Why don't I come back later so that I won't disturb you for lunch."

"No, I'm almost done eating." Xu Xinghe said so, but the chopsticks didn't stop. He continued to clean up the mess and raised his hand to Gu Nai: "Sit down, why are you here?"

Gu Nai sat down opposite him and asked, "How's Team Leader Xu doing?"

This morning, countless people have asked Xu Xinghe this question, and he answered while eating, "It's okay."

Gu Nai chuckled and said, "I heard that Team Leader Xu was on sick leave, so I stopped by to visit. What's wrong with Team Leader Xu suddenly?"

Xu Xinghe: "..."

He was at a loss for words, and then casually said: "I have a fever, it's not a big deal, I'm already coming to work."

Gu Nai nodded: "That's good, do you have any medicine?"

"No, I usually don't take medicine for minor illnesses, just get some sleep."

"Well, if you have a cold, pay attention to drink plenty of water and rest." Gu Nai said, glancing at Xu Xinghe's bento, "Don't eat too greasy, it's easy to indigestion."

Xu Xinghe: "..."

Hearing Gu Nai taking such care, he always felt a little awkward.

Gu Nai's behavior might not be enough to ask for warmth, but if it's just the concern among colleagues, it's a bit too warm.

It wasn't long before the two knew each other, and they told him to drink more water and rest...how strange.

Xu Xinghe was silent for a while, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and wiped his mouth.

But before he could say anything, Gu Nai, who had been watching him all the time, suddenly laughed, and stood up first: "Okay, I'll just drop by to see Team Leader Xu, there's been a lot of work in the three groups recently, so I'll do it first. I'm back, see you next time."

Xu Xinghe was stunned for a while, and he couldn't say anything more, so he stood up and sent him off: "Walk slowly."

"By the way." Gu Nai suddenly turned around and said when he walked to the door, "Team Conrad mentioned this morning that the three recent Thunder Engine development projects may require the assistance of six teams, and he should go to Mr. Liang in the afternoon to say. of."

"Oh, did you encounter any problems with the development of the Thunder Engine?" Xu Xinghe had also heard a little about this big project that the three groups were responsible for recently.

Gu Nai shrugged: "There are no major problems, there are many small problems, mainly because the Lanton Star government plans to update their city brain system before the end of the year, so the research and development of a new generation of Thunder Engine is imminent, and the three groups have been working overtime recently. I'm still too busy to do this. But Mr. Liang has spoken, as long as the operation can be completed before the deadline, we will be specially granted three days off."

Xu Xinghe nodded: "That's not a loss, I'll wait for the official notice from President Liang."

In the afternoon, the sixth group received a notice and asked them to assist the third group to complete the development of the Thunder Engine.

A large number of new jobs came down all of a sudden, making Xu Xinghe feel excited because of hard work while he was busy for a long time.

It just so happened that Ling Changfeng had something to do today, and he sent an email in advance and said that he would not come back.

So after Xu Xinghe went home, he took a shower and fell asleep, and the day went by.

Early the next morning, when he stepped into the office building again, he inadvertently met several colleagues' eyes, and he always felt that some people's eyes on him had changed again.

Become a little inexplicably subtle.

Xu Xinghe walked into his office inexplicably.

While pouring coffee, Ajia walked in diligently, and when she saw Xu Xinghe, she hesitated.

Xu Xinghe poured the coffee, leaned back on the seat, looked at Ajia and asked, "What's the matter?"

Ajia struggled again and again, but still whispered: "Team leader, there is a trivial and ridiculous little thing, I don't know if I should let you know... I'm afraid it will affect your mood, and I'm afraid of things if you don't say it. ferment."

Xu Xinghe took a sip of coffee, then raised his head and said, "Tell me about it."

Ajia deliberately said, "On our internal Xingzhou forum, a post suddenly appeared last night, saying that you and the three new groups of intern... got quite close."

Xingzhou Forum is an anonymous forum for employees within Ark. Originally, the anonymous system was established so that everyone could speak freely and freely report unreasonable phenomena in the department or problems in work. However, over time, some unscrupulous people inevitably emerged. Gossip post.

Team Leader Xu was at a loss after hearing this: "What? That intern from the third group? Just kidding, I haven't seen him before."

"Uh..." Ajia's expression was a little embarrassed after hearing him say that, "Team leader, although I know there must be no problem between you, it was the 24k pure sb poster who spread rumors...but you should have seen him before. ."

Xu Xinghe frowned: "Why do you say that?"

Ajia opened the Xingzhou Forum, clicked on the post floating on the homepage, and said bravely, "There are photos."

When the photo is opened, it is a picture of two big heads coming together.

The two were at the desk, not knowing what they were discussing, and their heads were almost pressed together. At first glance, they seemed to be intimate.

Xu Xinghe was stunned, staring at another young man in a plaid shirt in disbelief.

The voice was a little dry: "He-"

He pointed to Gu Nai in the photo, "Is that the three groups of new interns?"

"Yeah." Ajia nodded, "His name is Gu Nai, and he is the legendary relationship."

Xu Xinghe: "..."

He put down the coffee and said blankly, "This is a photo of me going to the three groups yesterday afternoon. I was discussing with them about i/o acceleration."

It's ridiculous to say that, even if there is a small meeting between colleagues, there are always whispers, let alone discussing issues attentively, and getting close is called "intimate contact"?

Xu Xinghe glanced at the content of the poster's remarks, and grabbed such a scene to go online. In his words, there was a lot of meaning that he had put a green hat on Ling Changfeng.

He scrolled down, and the post contained not only the photos of him and Gu Nai talking yesterday afternoon, but also the photos of the two people meeting in a convenience store. Depicted in a similar fashion.

"Who filmed this? Pay so much attention to his father and me." Xu Xinghe clicked his tongue, then scrolled down and replied

3rd Floor: [What can you tell from these two pictures? The landlord is really afraid that the world will not be in chaos]

4th Floor: [Impossible, who would dare to pry the corner of Marshal Ling? Even if the intern is a related household, the relationship is still bigger than Marshal Ling.]

6th Floor: [Yes, isn't it that Marshal Ling and Team Leader Xu have a good relationship? Yesterday, I personally helped to ask for leave.]

7th Floor: [But I heard that the intern once applied to change to the sixth group, and then I don't know why it didn't change again]

13th Floor: [Will it be true? Instead of going to a large group like three groups, go to six groups? ? ]

15th Floor: [Speaking of which, I seem to have seen Gu Nai walking out of Team Leader Xu's office that day...]

18th floor: [eat melon eat melon]

When Xu Xinghe saw this, his fingertips froze. Gu Nai has also applied for a group change?

27th Floor: [It seems that our team leader Xu is not only capable of technology, but also mental and means]

35th floor: [Although... no one found out that the landlord was taking pictures secretly? ? ]

36th floor: [Yes, the landlord is really scary, I hope I don't have such colleagues around me]

50th floor: [It's all gone, what's there to discuss about this kind of chasing after the wind? ]

Floor 58: [Please, what's wrong with colleagues getting together to discuss an issue? ? This was filmed and framed on the forum? Does the owner have any mental illness? Or just being lazy? In addition, have you forgotten that photography is not allowed inside the ark! I reported this post! Do it yourself! ]

Xu Xinghe took a cursory glance, and there were some posts in the post who complained about him and scolded the landlord for being uneasy and kind, and some who took the opportunity to be sarcastic and sarcastic, lest the world would not be in chaos.

Xu Xinghe chuckled, raised his head and asked Ajia, "Is this you on the 58th floor?"

Ajia leaned over to take a look: "This should be Ruian, the one who scolds the landlord for reading pictures and writing is me!"

Xu Xinghe: "..."

He glanced at Ajia's posting time and raised his eyebrows: "At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, why are you scolding people on the forum if you don't sleep?"

A Jia said angrily: "Because some people are just hateful! I'm sure you wouldn't dare to put one in front of you, so I know they're talking nonsense on anonymous forums."

Saying that, he raised his head and glanced at Xu Xinghe with a calm face: "Team leader, aren't you angry?"

"What's the use of being angry." Xu Xinghe rubbed his chin, looked at the picture in the post thoughtfully, then raised his hand and patted Ajia's head, got up and said, "You go to work, I'll go look for it. Mr. Liang."

It's not time to go to work yet, but Mr. Liang always came early. When Xu Xinghe knocked on the door, he was sitting at the table, frowning at his smartphone.

Seeing Xu Xinghe coming to him at this time, he couldn't help being surprised. He closed the screen and said, "Xinghe, what's the matter?"

Xu Xinghe stood in front of Mr. Liang's desk and asked straight to the point, "Mr. Liang, isn't the development of the Thunder Engine an S-class secret project?"

Liang Shilei nodded: "Of course, you didn't just sign the confidentiality agreement yesterday, what's wrong?"

Team Leader Xu went straight to the topic: "I was secretly photographed yesterday afternoon when the three groups were discussing the core performance of iops. At that time, there were classified materials on the table, and the person who secretly photographed was suspected of leaking secrets at the first level." After a pause, he said calmly. : "It is recommended to investigate the relevant responsibilities."

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