Chapter 303
Heart ablaze with fury, Ye Tian walked faster and faster, but only a few steps later, he heard hurried footsteps ahead. Calmly, Ye Tian turned into another corridor. When he emerged from the basement, he didn’t return to the first floor as it was surely sealed off. He had observed during his escape with Ponytail that both ends of the corridor were blocked. Except for the main hall, there was no way out; he had to find an exit on the upper floors. He exited the elevator on the eighth floor, unable to go up or down, in a defensible retreat. It wasn’t as if anyone could suffocate him there. Moreover, in such corporate buildings, it’s usual for the management to favor placing their offices on the middle floors, adopting Laozi’s philosophy of acting through inaction—drawing attention if too high, and too depressing if too low. Ye Tian thought he might even be able to take a leader hostage and extort a few million.
The corridor was not long, at its end, he turned left into the stairs and descended. By the sixth floor, he could hear a cluster of footsteps below and soon footsteps from above as well. Ye Tian looked around, realizing that everything was being captured on camera. As a guard sneaking around the main building, wasn’t it obvious that he’d be caught?
"Bang! Bang!" Ye Tian walked from one end of the corridor to the other, smashing two cameras with his fists. Angered, he ripped out their wires as he looked at the dangling cables, a mischievous smile formed on his lips.
"What happened?"
Ponytail jumped up as the computer screen in front of her suddenly went black, and even the air conditioning light was off. Turning on the desk lamp, it wouldn’t light up.
The power was out.
She hastily went to the office where Mo Yan was propping his chin with both hands and frowning deeply, surrounded by heaps of files. However, she didn’t seem worried about work. Being her assistant, Ponytail knew Mo Yan’s character well. Despite her symbolic position at the National Energy Department promising a bright future, backed by an intricate family network, her potential was unfathomable.
"President Mo, the power is out."
Ponytail almost wanted to slap herself for stating the obvious. She quickly added, "The backup power will start soon, I’ll make a call..."
"No hurry."