"Before you start, how about taking the cloth out of his mouth?" Ying Ci suggested carefully.
The man disguised as a server immediately shot him a tearfully grateful look.
An angel! This had to be an angel God had sent to save him!
"Oh, all right." Ye Xunzhi pulled the cloth from his mouth. "Mostly because this guy kept spouting nonsense about me being a devil. I've heard it so much my ears are growing calluses."
So there were definitely other victims before me, right? Right?!
His face smeared with tears, the server dared not waste another word and sobbed miserably:
"I'll talk! I'll tell you everything, okay? I'm an investigator the Luo Faction sent to this charity gala. The organization suspected you'd secretly exchange intelligence during the event, so they sent me to investigate."
Ying Ci's gaze sharpened. "Then how did you get the intelligence?"
Surely he hadn't noticed something off about Meiwada and followed him.
"A-an information broker approached me." Had the investigator known he would end up like this, he would have regretted it bitterly.
"He told me there was a USB drive above the partition in the men's restroom on the top floor. He gave me some money to secretly move it to private room 09 and said I'd get another payment afterward."
The investigator sniffled.
"I honestly didn't think that much about it. I figured it was something I could do along the way, so why not earn some extra money? But when I got there, took it, and looked, wasn't it exactly the information I was looking for? Then I got knocked out."
So that's it. It looks like they originally intended to find an ordinary server to move the item.
*But they never expected the random server they picked wouldn't be an ordinary