59. The Plan of Skrull Vanguard Team One

"Second-floor office area... not here."
"Break room... not here."
"Men's restroom... not here."
"Women's... let's go in and take a look."
Su Yu found an empty spot to activate [Invisibility] and forcefully barged inside.

Two minutes later, Su Yu stepped out: "Not here either."
However, Su Yu was undeterred and continued searching the building.
...

Passing through the office areas of various departments, Su Yu's gaze swept quickly over everyone, lingering for just a split second, his pace remaining brisk.
Quite a few female employees in the company lit up when they saw Su Yu:
"Huh? Who is this colleague? I've never seen him before."
"Isn't that Su Yu from the sales department? Why is he here?"
"Could he have been transferred to our department?"
"Hey, you must be Su Yu, right? What brings you here?"
Some female employees stood up to greet him.

Yet Su Yu didn't slow his pace at all, his gaze flashing briefly over their faces before he walked away quickly without looking back.
These female employees were left feeling snubbed, and quite a few grew resentful inwardly:
"Ugh! What a blind fool."
"He didn't even spare me a glance—serves you right for being single!"
Of course, these thoughts remained purely internal and were never spoken aloud.
As for the male employees in each office area, everyone was as busy as a dog, and no one had the time to pay attention to Su Yu.
...

By the time Su Yu reached the fourth floor, however, a small incident occurred.
After all, Su Yu's [Invisibility] had a cooldown. Before it had fully reset, he was pressed for time and barged into the women's restroom, leading to an accident.
"You pervert! Don't you see this is the women's restroom?"
A furious middle-aged auntie drove him out toward the hallway.
"I'm sorry, ma'am," Su Yu apologized hastily. "I was just momentarily confused and walked into the wrong place."
"Walked into the wrong place?" The middle-aged auntie looked entirely unconvinced. "I watched you from the inner stall for over a minute. What kind of person walks into the wrong restroom and doesn't leave for a whole minute? Speak! What is your real purpose?"
"Uh, well, actually, it's like this." Su Yu had a flash of inspiration. "Our department manager, Wang Chongyang, sent me here. If you don't believe me, you can ask him!"

"Wang Chongyang?" The middle-aged auntie still remained skeptical. "Isn't he the sales manager? Why would he send you to the women's restroom?"
"He's about to be transferred down to the subsidiary property management company, and Old Wang told me to come and inspect where the wall cracks are all over the building. I'm just following orders against my will!" Su Yu smiled flatteringly.
"So that's how it is." The middle-aged auntie believed him somewhat. "Don't let this happen again!"
"Understood, understood." Su Yu fled in a flurry.
...

He continued searching floor by floor.
Finally, in the Information Department's office area on the ninth floor, Su Yu found his target.
It was a slender and very timid-looking girl, plain in appearance and wearing glasses. At that moment, she was staring intently at a computer screen, clacking away rapidly on the keyboard.
"I've finally found you!" A smile crept onto the corner of Su Yu's mouth as he sensed the lingering trace of spiritual energy coming from her.

Su Yu stepped forward and, wrapping his arms around her neck from behind as if treating a first love, asked softly, "Did you miss me?"
His actions instantly drew the attention of many people nearby.
Most of the Information Department consisted of men, with only a small fraction being women.
When these women saw this scene, they immediately gathered together in excitement to gossip:
"I never expected Xiao Yuan to already have a boyfriend!"
"And her boyfriend is so handsome!"
"I'm so jealous! I hope I can find such a handsome boyfriend someday too."
They stood nearby discussing it.

Yet the girl known as "Xiao Yuan" wore an expression of sheer astonishment, completely caught off guard:
*That's not right! When I disguised myself as this girl, I copied her memories, and she doesn't have a boyfriend!*
This was precisely the female Skrull warrior sent out on a mission, and Su Yu's sudden action had completely disrupted her entire plan.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something.
Right at that moment, fluent, standard Skrull sounded beside her ear:
"I am the Inspector from the 026th Supervisory Group of the Vanguard Force. I have detected that you left the spiritual energy spring without authorization, and I demand an explanation!"

Su Yu was capable of speaking some Skrull.
Driven by survival pressures in his past life, many people had learned a bit of the Skrull language from anti-government organizations.
Furthermore, Su Yu used only common vocabulary, making his pronunciation accurate and extremely fluent.
The female Skrull warrior, however, was frozen stiff with shock.
She had only just been dispatched on her mission—how had the Supervisory Group arrived so quickly?
The Supervisory Group hung like a sword of Damocles over every vanguard unit; even commanders dared not defy their will.

And she never even entertained the possibility that Su Yu might be a Blue Star human, hurriedly explaining: "Lord Inspector, the situation is like this..."
Without concealing anything, the female Skrull warrior whispered the reasons behind her being sent out on this mission.
Su Yu did not interrupt, listening patiently the entire time.
The female warrior spoke for roughly three minutes.
It wasn't until she finished that Su Yu finally understood what was truly going on.
...

The origin of the matter traced back to the Yunlu Mountain spring.
The output volume of the Yunlu Mountain spring fell short of the standard, lacking sufficient energy, which had terribly distressed the commander and deputy commander of the First Vanguard Force.
Insufficient energy meant they would fail to complete the tasks assigned by superiors on time, resulting in severe punishment.
Although this was caused by objective factors, according to military discipline, their punishment would still be heavy, even carrying the possibility of dismissal!
The male commander of the vanguard unit, preferring to play it safe, intended to do nothing.
His female deputy commander, however, disagreed.
She believed they should find a way to remedy the situation, using merit to offset the punishment.
Consequently, she devised two plans:

Plan One: Overdraw the energy within the spring to give birth to one Tier-1 ghost and eighteen Tier-0 ghosts.
These ghosts would control buses and strike multiple bus stations simultaneously to achieve a major feat.
Plan Two: Send two subordinates to infiltrate Muyun Corporation to acquire two crucial items—Muyun Corporation's algorithms and user data.
Muyun Corporation, where Su Yu worked, was a leading internet platform enterprise.
Normally, the corporation used its algorithms to squeeze delivery riders, forcing them to run red lights, occasionally promoting its affiliated Putian-series hospitals, and competing with vegetable market vendors for business.
However, the company's algorithms were genuinely formidable and top-tier within the industry!
Once the Skrulls obtained the algorithm, they could use it to analyze the capabilities of Huaxia's tech companies;
Once they acquired the massive user data, they could also deduce a vast amount of useful information.
If these two Skrull warriors successfully completed the mission, the vanguard unit would have achieved a major accomplishment, sufficient to let their merits offset their faults.

As for leaving the spiritual energy spring violating the game rules established by the Singer, the deputy commander felt there was no need for worry.
After all, the great upheaval had only begun three days ago; Blue Star humans' ordinary monitoring methods were ineffective against them, and effective surveillance means had yet to be developed. This plan would not be detected by Blue Star humans.
And things had unfolded exactly as she anticipated—the two warriors had smoothly infiltrated the interior of Muyun Corporation.