Chapter 557



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When Nora heard this, she countered with a question of her own, “Why not?”

Damon didn’t believe her at first. “How can that be! Captain Johnson has already invited Q to join the team many times, but Q hasn’t responded at all. Besides, since you’re so cold and aloof, Ruth said your status among the Smiths wasn’t very high, so maybe you can’t assign duties to Q. Therefore, she told us not to give you any trouble….. Therefore, it’s impossible for Q to have fixed it!”

Wasn’t her status high among the Smiths? Couldn’t she get Q to do something for her?

Nora looked at Ruth again.

Ruth stood where she was uneasy and immediately said, “Damon, those are just my private speculations. Don’t put it so bluntly.”

She felt really embarrassed.

In reality, Damon had not initially resented Nora the day before. It was under Ruth’s intentional guidance that he had gradually become brainwashed and felt that working for the special department was an honor and that it was every citizen’s duty to serve the special department.

This had led him to resent Nora. He had told her, “I’m going to talk to her tomorrow. Even someone like you, who has just returned from overseas, is dedicated to country and country. As a young woman of the Smiths, she comes from an even better family background than you and enjoys an even higher social status, so why doesn’t she have a sense of responsibility?”

His words had upset Ruth.

Your next story begins at galnovels . com She sighed and replied, “Everyone has their own difficulties. Interpersonal relationships among the wealthy are also complex. Some don’t have any jobs in their families. Even if they say they come from rich families, they just seem a little more glamorous on the surface, that’s all. Who knows what it’s like internally…”

Damon had understood right away what she meant. He said, “You mean Nora’s status among the Smiths isn’t high enough? But isn’t she the only daughter of the previous head of the Smiths? The current head of the family is the nephew of the previous head, you know.”

Ruth smiled and looked at him. “There you have it. The current head of the family is the nephew of the previous head. That means they’re not actual siblings…”

Damon immediately felt that he had understood something. He nodded and said, “Now I get it.”

That was how the conversation had drifted now.

After Ruth made that ambiguous statement, Damon continued. “At first, I had thought you must be very embarrassing at home, so I didn’t ask for your help anymore. Nor have I ever forced you to make any contributions to the special department. But for you to make things difficult for Ruth when you haven’t even done anything for the department? You’re conceited! Does it bother you that I got Y to help her?”

As she listened to him prattle on, Nora looked down and continued to use her phone, ignoring him.

She had always been a person who preferred to let her actions speak for themselves.

Meanwhile, Damon was still complaining. “I’ve always liked Q and Y, the two of them are every programmer’s idols. I also think Q is a patriotic person, it’s just that you’ve never wanted to convey our messages to him, that’s all! It doesn’t matter that you don’t introduce him to the team, but how can you still be jealous of other people?”

He was very loud.

Nora got even angrier. She hit the Enter key on her phone.

Then, she raised her head.

Next to her, Ruth had already slowly opened her mouth. She said, “Say no more, Damon. Everyone has their own way of life, we shouldn’t impose our standards on others. Being strict with ourselves and being lenient with others is the best quality to have.”

He spoke patiently and used his words methodically to guide everyone’s thoughts. In addition, his voice was sweet and pleasant, and he even had two dimples on his face when he smiled.

This made everyone around her find Ruth even more approachable.

The contrast between the two women was simply too strong.

At that moment, Johnson and Morris also approached.

Seeing the group there, Johnson frowned and asked, “What are you all gathered here for, to waste time?”

“No…” Damon walked over and quickly explained what had happened.

Ruth was quick to try to get Nora off the hook. She said, “Captain Johnson, Captain Ford, don’t reprimand Miss Smith. She must have her own difficulties too…”

Johnson sneered, his eyes sweeping past Nora. He looked at Morris and said, “Morris, even though you are now acting director, I still have a better eye for people than you do! Even the person you chose to bring special talents into the department is so irresponsible. In this regard, you still have a lot to learn from me!”.

Then, he looked at Ruth and Nora. “Skills and so on are secondary to the people specially recruited into the special department. What matters most, ultimately, is still one’s character. After all, this is a special department!”

Morris frowned. He wasn’t quite convinced.

Earlier, thanks to Nora getting a hacker to help them, they had managed to identify the hotel where Trueman was staying.

Later, only when it became known that Q worked for the Smiths did everyone speculate that Q was the hacker Nora had targeted. Nora might seem like a cold person all the time, but when she thought about how she had fought people at the martial arts tournament and the boxing champion one on one after Quentin was harmed….

He was a loyal person who stood up for his friends and family.

If she really hadn’t helped, then there could only be one reason why-Damon had upset her.

But…to help or not was an individual’s own decision in the first place.

Morris lowered his head and said, “I don’t think we should talk about moral superiority to blame others.”

Johnson immediately rebuked him. “What do you mean by disregarding moral superiority? You young people make up all kinds of reasoning and use a myriad of different terms. In our time, all we had was passion for the department. If everyone just stood idly by every time something happened, how grim society would become!”.

He did not hold back at all when he reprimanded Morris and did not show the respect he should have for the acting director.

He was deliberately demeaning Morris in front of everyone.

He wanted everyone to know that even though Morris was the acting director of the special department, he had the final say on seniority.

His words caused Morris to frown.

It didn’t matter if he was being reprimanded, but if Nora was the one being reprimanded?

He was about to say something when someone from the IT department suddenly ran up and yelled, “Damon, Damon! This is terrible!”

Damon was taken aback. Everyone turned in unison and asked, “What’s wrong?”.

The man gasped and replied, “Our network was hacked again just now. The other party sent us a message.”

Damon asked, “What did he say?”.

“I’m Q, not Y.”

Damon: “???”

All: “???”

Stunned by the news, they all looked at Nora, only to see her standing calmly…. If she told them that she had asked Q for help, their group would definitely still be complaining. Therefore, she had decided that she would just use her actions to prove it.

She didn’t explain much, but Brenda stepped forward and said, “Now I get it! You’re the one who got Q to help, Nora.”

Everyone looked at her in unison. Brenda explained, “When we were tracking Trueman the other time, Damon wasn’t skilled enough to do it. It was the hacker Nora called who pinpointed the hotel as his location! That hacker must have been Q. right? The person who fixed the network glitch for us for free last night was also Q.”

The entire hallway went silent.

Damon’s eyes widened and he looked at Nora in surprise. “Was it really you who helped us?”.

Then he turned to Ruth in confusion. “But didn’t you say you were the one who got Y to help us?”

Ruth clenched her fists.

She hadn’t expected things to turn this way.

However, she had already thought this might happen when she falsely claimed credit, so she managed to remain calm and composed. She even looked surprised and said, “But Y said he was going to help! Wasn’t it Y who did it?”

After speaking, she deliberately pulled out her phone and glanced at it. “I’ll ask him.”

He reached to the side and sent a message.

Brenda, however, launched straight into taunting mode. She said, “Oh, is it still necessary to ask? What is this, are you already starting to steal other people’s credit when you just got into the special department?”

Then, he pretended to reprimand Nora. “And you too, Nora! Why are you such a fool? In the future, remember to leave your name after doing good deeds, understand?

Those who understand you know that, although you look like a cold person, you are actually very kind deep down. It’s obvious that you did the IT department a big favor last night, and yet you had to suffer all these ridiculous accusations after coming to the office today! It’s too much.”

His every word was like a knife stabbing straight at all the people who had just condemned Nora.

They were all honest men. Knowing they had misunderstood her, some of them immediately apologized. “I’m sorry, Nora! We really didn’t know…”

“Yes. But what happened? Ruth took credit just like that. So we misunderstood…”

“However, why did Ruth falsely claim credit for herself?”

While everyone was talking about it, Ruth came back. With a guilty look on her face, she immediately said, “Sorry, everyone! It was a misunderstanding on my part! After all this time, it turns out it was a misunderstanding!”.

After speaking, he handed his phone to Damon.

On the screen was his chat history with Y on Messenger.

Ruth: “Weren’t you the one who helped us fix the network crash last night?

Y: “No. When I infiltrated the system after agreeing to help, I discovered that the bug had already been fixed, but I forgot to tell you.”

Ruth sighed and said, “And he’s always been unsociable and eccentric, rarely speaking. He didn’t inform me of it. Also, by the time I got to the office today, Damon said the glitch had been fixed, so I assumed it had been Y…. Ms. Smith, I formally apologize for what I just said! Anyway, you should say something if it happens again next time, although The department is full of men, so your thoughts are all very straightforward. They won’t understand you if you don’t say anything.”

Tsk.

Now she was accusing Nora of not being direct enough.

Nora looked at her and asked, “Are you very familiar with Y?”.

And to think she even had him on her Messenger!

Even she didn’t have Y as a contact on Messenger – the chat window in the Hacker Alliance was her only way to contact Y!

Ruth was too presumptuous!

The rest, however, felt enlightened. “I knew it, it was just a misunderstanding!”

Elsewhere, Brenda, who had already emerged from the crowd, stared at Ruth.

At that moment, her phone suddenly rang.

She looked down and saw a message from Justin: [Have you asked her, why is Nora ignoring me?]

Brenda pulled out her phone and sent Justin an audio message, “It’s all your fault, Justin. If I were Nora, I’d be very angry too. A person named Ruth, who recently joined the department, said she’s a friend of Y’s and embarrassed Nora! Quick, go ask her why she has such a friend.”

Justin: “?”

To think that’s why Nora was angry! In that case, I’d have to explain things properly to the audience!

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