The Master’s Mask Unveiled Again
Chapter 709 - Chapter 709 Chapter 708 Director Qi Takes the Blame Again

Chapter 709: Chapter 708: Director Qi Takes the Blame Again Chapter 709: Chapter 708: Director Qi Takes the Blame Again Hearing Lu Mian’s unexpected remark, everyone’s gaze curiously shifted between the two people.

The girl on the ground had finally decided to speak, and despite being in a disheveled state, she managed a smile.

“Yeah, who would’ve thought,” she said.

Indeed, no one had expected that.

Lu Mian’s expression was complex.

Xiao Qimo squeezed her hand again, “You know each other?”

Lu Mian felt that Xiao Qimo might not remember the girl’s face well and explained, “She’s Lucy, the female member of Team 1515.

We’ve competed against each other in CTF at Yangfan Hotel before.”

After Lu Mian had said this, Xiao Qimo seemed to recall.

He didn’t remember which girl she was talking about, but if she mentioned a particular incident, that would bring clarity to him.

Xiao Qimo’s expression instantly became playful, his memory thread pulled back to the team’s private PK match earlier that year.

Back then, Yun Sang’s professional career was at stake, and the competition was fierce.

Team 1515 had only brought Lucy, who went head-to-head against the Shadow Hunting Team.

“Doesn’t quite seem like it,” Xiao Qimo remarked, slightly bewildered.

Lu Mian chuckled, “The contrast is quite big.

She looked like a very cute girl back then, and she was very strong.”

Lu Mian had never imagined that she would encounter Lucy in such a place and under these circumstances.

Lucy smiled, her facial features evidently round and charming, with large eyes that looked pure and harmless.

It was precisely that “lolita” face that had once confounded the young men of the Shadow Hunting Team, almost leading them to defeat without a fight.

At that time, nobody expected the little lolita to have such a high level of CTF skills.

It took Lu Mian half a minute to digest this news.

Daine and Wa Zhiqi were especially curious, “Miss Lu, you know her?

Who is she?”

“We met once before.”

Back then, during their PK, Lu Mian fought for Yun Sang’s career, and at no point did she imagine that she was a lab person.

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Lu Mian paused, casually resting her hands on her knees, cool and arrogant.

Even her squatting posture exuded the demeanour of a boss.

The team members intuitively gave her some space, regardless of whether Lu Mian was standing or squatting, her aura remained equally powerful.

Lu Mian leaned in slightly, her eyes intently focusing on Lucy as she quickly unraveled the information she had gathered in this period.

“Did you recognize me back then?” she referred to the identity of the victim Lu Mian.

Lucy was a lab person, so she likely could have obtained her information.

Lucy shook her head: “I didn’t recognize you, I didn’t have your information at that time.”

After she finished speaking, she struggled to get up from the ground and sat down, scanning everyone with a look of resigned calmness in her eyes.

When her gaze fell on Wa Zhiqi, Lucy smiled, “Sir, are your wounds doing better?”

“It really was you,” Wa Zhiqi said, touching his chest.

Initially, when he had been investigating in Jinjing, someone shot him and he got injured.

He remembered the silhouette of that person, a girl.

Thin and petite.

Lu Mian looked at Wa Zhiqi, as if confirming further.

“Miss Lu, I can confirm it was her, exactly the same build,” Wa Zhiqi stated with certainty.

Lu Mian began to reconstruct the entire incident in her mind.

The team’s PK back then might have been a coincidence, but after the international police issued Warrant Number Thirteen, it likely wasn’t.

Back then, Huan Yan of Team 1515 bet with Yun Sang on who would find Number Thirteen first.

On the surface, it was Huan Yan in conflict with the Shadow Hunting Team, but in reality, it was Lucy seizing the opportunity to search for Number Thirteen.

Later, when the Shadow Hunting Team’s server was attacked, she, Director Qimo, and Yun Sang operated together to trace the attacker’s IP address.

The location was the training site of Team 1515.

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Afterward, Captain Wang got injured, and everyone arrived at the office,

everything seemed reasonable and traceable.

But Lu Mian had an intuition that something wasn’t quite right, as if a well-hidden adversary had suddenly become foolish and offered up an easy win.

Lucy kept her gaze on the crowd and paused when she saw Xiao Qimo.

Most people didn’t dare to look Xiao Qimo in the eye, probably because Lucy thought she didn’t have much time left, she became bold.

“This Mr.

Xiao…

Qimo,” she said with a smile, “didn’t you have a solo run-in with me at Qiushui Farm in Luoxia Town?”

“So, it was you that time,” Xiao Qimo said coldly, pushing up his gold-rimmed glasses.

When he and Lu Mian went to the farm to check on Netherman, there indeed had been an issue with the farm’s network.

The reason he said “too” was that his line of thinking was mostly aligned with Lu Mian’s.

They had just dissected the entire event and made many deductions.

However, it wasn’t him who had confronted her back then, it was Lu Mian.

At that time, they had already been searching for this powerful hacker and had set their sights on H, one of the top three hackers.

So, this Lucy is H?

Xiao Qimo tentatively put a question mark on that.

Recalling the details back then, Lucy revealed a charming and cute smile, but she looked somewhat disheveled.

“Oh right, the one who first confronted me wasn’t you.

I checked the identity of that noob, Sun Kai, right.

Someone of his level is really not qualified to fight me.”

“Sun…

Sun Kai?” Sun Hui suddenly jolted, exclaiming out loud.

Quite abruptly.

Everyone looked at him, puzzled, even Lucy glanced at Sun Hui with some curiosity.

Scratching a few sparse hairs on his head, Sun Hui sheepishly said, “That noob, is my younger brother…”

He slowly looked towards Lu Mian and Xiao Qimo and continued with embarrassment, “At that time, my brother was bragging about encountering Number Thirteen, and I even scorned him for it.”

Turns out, his brother had indeed encountered the real deal.

“…” Lu Mian pursed her lips, what a mess of connections!

Having said that by Lucy, Lu Mian suddenly felt this adorable girl didn’t seem strange at all.

On the surface, they had only met once, but in reality, they had had many encounters in the shadows.

Now, with her explanation, many things that weren’t clear before were connected.

“Why were you checking on Director Qimo?” asked Lu Mian.

Lucy tilted her head, her appearance still very cute.

This made Lu Mian suddenly think of Gu Jingyi, who always wore two ponytails and looked pretty and adorable.

They were both from the lab, and each one seemed to follow this style, it seemed that the big boss had a penchant for the lolita style.

Suddenly feeling a chill, Lu Mian’s mind flashed with something.

Lucy’s explanation was simple and clear, “Because we suspected that he is Number Thirteen!”

It was because of this suspicion that they had confronted each other multiple times.

Lu Mian’s mouth fell open slightly: Uh…

Director Qimo has been wronged.

Daine, Wa Zhiqi, including Sun Hui, all turned their eyes towards Xiao Qimo.

Xiao Qimo pushed up his glasses again.

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But…

you can assume I am.

Sun Hui glanced towards Lu Mian and, as Guardian Angel, felt this misunderstanding was good as it protected the real Number Thirteen.

“So are you, or are you not H?” Sun Hui asked anxiously.

Lu Mian’s eyes darkened.

Crouching on the ground, she casually picked up a small stone and flipped it between her fingers, nonchalantly fixating on every microexpression of Lucy’s.

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