"I can't be bothered to read that message. Just give me a report." Nie Yun suddenly leaned back, settling into a more comfortable position as he spoke with a relaxed expression.
Catherine froze, unsure what Nie Yun meant. But her covert observation mission had already failed, so she had little left to worry about.
"This message came directly from Chairman Kruze. Since it involves confidential information at the highest levels, his position makes it inappropriate for him to contact you personally, so he sent it through me instead. However, the message is highly classified and requires your personal biometric information to open. My clearance isn't sufficient to view its contents."
Clearly, the message contained secrets that even an observer was not permitted to know.
"My clearance? Heh! If I remember correctly... you already have it, don't you?" Nie Yun chuckled.
Catherine blinked. During an earlier bout of terminal laziness, Nie Yun had indeed casually authorized her to use his authentication credentials, as if it were a game. But she had never considered using them to exceed her own clearance...
"Sir, I cannot betray the family!" Believing Nie Yun was testing her loyalty, Catherine answered bluntly.
Cannot betray it? Not unwilling to betray it...
Then... whatever controls Catherine probably isn't something like psychological suggestion!
Nie Yun reached that conclusion, and the amusement in his eyes deepened. "Relax. Since I gave you my clearance, you have the right to use it. Now, I authorize you to read that message!"
Although she found Nie Yun's behavior utterly baffling, Catherine already felt that her future was bleak. She abandoned her reservations and chose to satisfy her curiosity, opening her personal terminal and going through a series of cumbersome authentication procedures to access the file.
After rapidly scanning the message, Catherine frowned in puzzlement.
"Sir,