My Perfect Female CEO

The matter of Niu Ben thus came to an end.

Within the action team, they had lost a powerful partner. No one knew where Niu Ben had gone. According to the rumor Li Tong had let out, Niu Ben had gone to carry out a secret mission, which was why he’d been reassigned out of the action team.

This was Niu Ben’s own request, and they could only fulfill it.

Niu Ben didn’t want those who had known him for so long to all see his true face and then lose the last bit of goodwill toward him—if that happened, he would be truly pathetic.

With that in mind, he did everything he could to hold on to the last shred of dignity, so he wouldn’t end up as a complete outcast with no one on his side.

The fact that he didn’t end up with everyone shouting for his blood already made Niu Ben very satisfied.

As for Niu Ben’s eventual fate, there was no need to say more.

Ye Fan, Zhang Lu, and Li Tong were discussing the direction of their next move.

"Based on the intel Niu Ben provided, we now have a clear grasp of the enemy situation. Just as Niu Ben said, we still don’t know whether there are more problems inside the action team. So how should we proceed?"

Looking troubled, Li Tong said, "If we want to make sure the action team’s operations don’t leak, we have to ensure the team is absolutely clean. From what we can see right now, trying to root out this problem is going to be extremely difficult."

"Niu Ben’s line of suspicion isn’t without merit. We should stay sufficiently alert. At this point, we can only pin things down to two possible answers: one, there’s nothing wrong with the action team and Niu Ben’s suspicions are groundless; two, there’s a mole hidden in the team who’s even deeper than Niu Ben was." Zhang Lu paused slightly as she spoke, then said seriously, "If it’s the first answer, then we can rest easy. But if it’s the second, we need to be on our guard a hundredfold."

Ye Fan looked at the deeply worried Zhang Lu and Li Tong and said calmly, "Things aren’t as bad as you’re imagining. This deeply buried mole, if they really exist, carries a very unusual responsibility. Under normal circumstances, they won’t expose themselves on their own. If they do get exposed, it’ll definitely be tied to some major event."

"If Niu Ben was just Field Mouse’s stand-in, and the real Field Mouse is still among us, then we wait and watch. As long as Field Mouse is active, there will eventually be an opening."

"Once Field Mouse slips, it’ll be up to us to drag this mole out."

"After what happened with Niu Ben, I’m sure this Field Mouse has already vaguely guessed Niu Ben’s outcome. You could say we’ve startled the snake by beating the grass."

"Looked at that way, Field Mouse will burrow even deeper and won’t reveal any flaws easily."

"So what we need to do now is not throw ourselves into confusion, but proceed step by step. There’s no need to live in constant terror."

"Nor do we need to be excessively cautious just because there’s still a traitor around us."

Ye Fan spoke with indifference, and after hearing him out, Li Tong and Zhang Lu gradually regained their composure.

Since the mole within the action team was hard to root out, they could only attack from other angles.

Inside the research institute, the enemy had left far, far too many exposed flaws behind.

Ye Fan and the others had plenty of chances to move in.

Now, if they shifted their focus from the action team to the research institute, there would be many promising avenues to work with.

"According to what we agreed on earlier—once we drag out the mole, we hit the research institute on all fronts—this timing can be considered mature enough." Zhang Lu said with a heroic edge, "Although we can’t guarantee absolute airtightness on the inside, we can only take it one step at a time."

"Once we’re fully prepared, we can head to the research institute." Ye Fan issued the new operation order.