pjbooks Chapter 288 He's not a bodyguard!
Chapter 288 He's not a bodyguard!
Tianji Security.
He's been busy with the manufacture of the Vermilion Bird in the laboratory on the third basement level lately, and hasn't visited the company's floors above ground for a long time.
Qin Xiao reported last week that a new batch of security personnel had been recruited and the training system was being updated, so it would be a good time to go and inspect them.
Bringing a little tagalong wouldn't be a bad idea.
Anyway, the above-ground part is just a normal security company, there's nothing to keep secret.
"Okay, I'll show you around my company."
Nie Xiaorou's eyes lit up: "You also have a company?"
"Security company."
"Wow, is it the kind with lots of bodyguards? That's so cool!"
Seeing how excited she was, almost jumping off her chair, Zhang Yan suddenly understood why Nie Qingcheng had said, "Don't spoil her."
This girl is so easy to please; she'll be happy for half a day just by giving her anything.
……
Tianji Security Headquarters
As soon as Zhang Yan parked his car in the underground garage, a burly man stood at the elevator entrance.
Qin Xiao.
He received a call from Zhang Yan saying he was coming over, so he rushed back from the training ground.
But when he saw the girl in the pink hoodie bouncing around next to Zhang Yan, he was clearly stunned for a moment.
"You're not..."
"I came here for a holiday."
Zhang Yan spoke up.
Qin Xiao understood instantly, and his expression immediately switched to professional mode: "Hello, Miss Nie."
Nie Xiaorou looked up at Qin Xiao's angular face and nearly 1.9-meter-tall stature, then whispered to Zhang Yan, "Brother-in-law, you've got the eldest young master of the Qin family as your bodyguard!"
"He's not a bodyguard, he's the company manager."
"Oh." Nie Xiaorou nodded.
Zhang Yan ignored her.
The elevator went straight to the third floor, and Qin Xiao led the way.
The ground floor of Tianji Security has five floors. The first floor is a reception hall and client negotiation room, the second floor is an administrative office area, the third floor is a monitoring center and intelligence analysis room, the fourth floor is a small training ground, and the fifth floor is an equipment storage and rest area.
Nie Xiaorou acted as if she had entered a grand garden, looking around curiously at every place she visited.
The monitoring center on the third floor left her speechless—the entire wall was covered with screens, with hundreds of images switching simultaneously, including city street scenes, commercial areas, and port terminals, with data streams constantly scrolling below the screens.
"This is amazing! It's exactly like in the movie!"
Zhang Yan stood behind her, his gaze sweeping over the screens.
He noted that several key monitoring nodes in the Jinghai urban area were operating normally, and the abnormal energy source screening program that Qin Xiao had previously set up was still running in the background, with no new alarms in the past week.
good thing.
This indicates that the pollution network in Jinghai has been largely cleaned up.
bad thing.
This means that Xu has gathered all his power back into his body and is accumulating it in a place where he cannot see it for the time being.
"Brother-in-law?"
Nie Xiaorou tugged at his sleeve from the side.
"What are you thinking about?"
"It's nothing."
Zhang Yan withdrew his gaze.
"Come on, let me show you the fourth floor."
On the fourth floor training ground, six team members dressed in black training uniforms were conducting combat sparring.
Nie Xiaorou pressed her face against the glass of the observation window, watching intently.
"They are amazing."
Zhang Yan glanced at it and frowned.
Two of them had obvious defensive weaknesses; their reaction speed would have been far from sufficient to handle a real threat.
He turned to look at Qin Xiao.
Qin Xiao immediately understood: "I'll practice more later."
Zhang Yan nodded without saying anything more.
Nie Xiaorou watched the training ground for twenty minutes before Zhang Yan reluctantly dragged her away.
She kept chattering on and on her way downstairs.
"Brother-in-law, your company is amazing! It's way more sophisticated than those security companies you see on TV."
How many security companies have you looked into?
I saw it on TV.
"That doesn't count."
"Anyway, it's really amazing!"
Nie Xiaorou ran ahead of him, turned around and walked backwards with her hands behind her back.
"Brother-in-law, are there still many amazing things you haven't shown me?"
Looking into her bright eyes, Zhang Yan thought of the mechs and weapons on the third underground level that were enough to rewrite the nature of warfare.
"no."
"That's a lie."
Nie Xiaorou pouted.
"You forgot that thing you showed me at the old house last time?"
She was referring to the machine that Zhang Yan had taken her to see in the warehouse at the Nie family's old house, a machine that had "shocked her to the point of stopping her breath."
Zhang Yan certainly remembered.
"That's that one, this is this one, don't ask around."
Nie Xiaorou snorted, but didn't ask any further questions.
Although this girl is lively, she is usually quite obedient when faced with the lines drawn by Zhang Yan.
Back in the lobby, Zhang Yan sent Nie Qingcheng a message: "The tour is over. Time to take her back to the villa."
Nie Qingcheng replied instantly: "Did she cause you any trouble?"
"fine."
"That's good. I'll bring a cake home tonight; this girl loves sweets."
Zhang Yan put away his phone and glanced at Nie Xiaorou, who was taking a selfie in front of a potted plant in the lobby.
"I'm gone."
"Where to?"
"Go home, your sister is bringing a cake home tonight."
Nie Xiaorou jumped up instantly.
"What kind of cake? Strawberry?"
Zhang Yan didn't answer and walked straight to the garage.
Behind him came the sound of Nie Xiaorou running and jumping to catch up, along with her incessant chatter.
He suddenly realized that the feeling of being chased wasn't so bad after all.
The car drove out of the underground parking garage of the Tianji Security Building and merged into the evening traffic of Jinghai City.
Zhang Yan had one hand on the steering wheel, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Nie Xiaorou in the passenger seat taking pictures of the street scene outside the window with her phone, humming a pop song that was out of tune.
My phone vibrated.
An encrypted message sent by Qin Xiao.
"Boss, the monitoring system just detected a set of abnormal data."
"At berth No. 3 of Jinghai Port, a cargo ship registered in Panama docked this afternoon. The manifest declared industrial equipment, but the pupil reflex comparison results of the crew members showed that three of them exceeded the standard."
Zhang Yan typed with one hand: "Level Confirmed".
"Initial assessment: Class C, but quantity is uncertain; signal jamming exists in the cargo hold."
Zhang Yan's thumb hovered above the screen.
Nie Xiaorou in the passenger seat was still humming a song, completely unaware of what was happening.
He glanced at her, then turned his phone over and placed it face down on his lap.
"Continue to monitor, but don't alert them. Wait for my instructions."
After sending the message, he calmly turned the steering wheel and drove into the gate of the villa area.
The evening breeze blew in through the half-open car window, making Nie Xiaorou's ponytail all messy.
Unbeknownst to her, in the lower left corner of the photo she took of the harbor sunset, a rusty cargo ship was quietly moored at berth number 3.
Deep inside its cargo hold, something was breathing slowly in the darkness.