Xia Zhining stole a glance at his shirt, which was wrinkled by the snake crawling on it, and whispered, "Mr. Gu, I'm sorry... Maybe the water tank used in the investigation was not closed tightly..."

"I'm angry and I don't forgive you." Gu Huaiye suddenly interrupted in a low voice.

Xia Zhining was stunned.

Huh? According to this boss's style, shouldn't he have said, "No problem, it's just a suit"?

"Then...what do I need to do to calm you down?"

After all, it was his own employees who did something bad to Gu Huaiye.

Xia Zhining pinched the corner of her clothes, like a little animal feeling guilty about having done something wrong.

Gu Huaiye raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "Promise me one condition."

"What conditions?" Xia Zhining asked doubtfully.

"I haven't decided yet." Gu Huaiye adjusted his cuffs slowly and said, "Put them on first."

Xia Zhining puffed her cheeks: "...Okay."

I always feel like something is not right.

How could a battlefield medic like Gu Huaiye, who had come through gunfire and hail of bullets, be scared by a snake, and how could he fulfill one of his conditions so easily?

Xia Zhining reacted immediately and wanted to argue with him, but Gu Huaiye had already leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and fallen asleep.

Xia Zhining glanced at the dark blue under his eyes and shut up awkwardly.

*

The next morning.

Xia family villa.

The light in the study was on all night, until ten in the morning.

Xia Zheng was so angry that he couldn't sleep, and he stayed up all night in front of the computer reading relevant information about tonight's case.

He still had to piece together the complete case information.

After reading the entire context of the case, Xia Zheng realized how serious this seemingly ordinary drowning case of an elderly man was.

If the underwater shipwreck tomb is large in scale and several of the discovered cultural relics can be rated as first-class cultural relics, it would not be a problem to be awarded a second-class merit and receive provincial commendation.

"Underwater shipwreck tomb..." Xia Zheng looked at the information about underwater tombs on the computer screen. "Shipwreck burial was a particularly popular burial method during the Western Han Dynasty..."

A cold light flashed across Xia Zheng's eyes. He quickly opened his phone's address book and made a call.

"Hello? Aunt Yun, are you still collecting antiques lately?"

Xia Zheng perked up and said politely, "It's like this. I'm investigating a case. I wonder if you have any channels to help me check if there have been any artifacts from the Western Zhou Dynasty unearthed in the water recently... the kind unearthed from underwater..."

After hearing what was said on the other end of the phone, the dejection on Xia Zheng's face disappeared, and a hint of joy flashed across his face. "Is that so? Then thank you very much, please contact me as soon as you have any news."

After hanging up the phone, Xia Zheng took a sip of coffee, and his fingers holding the coffee trembled with excitement.

"Ji Shuyun, Ji Shuyun... Thanks to you for letting a big fish escape..."

Xia Zheng curved his lips and said, "Now you're going to take my bait."

With the support of a wealthy family like the Xia family, Xia Zheng has a natural advantage in handling cases.

For major cases, he can mobilize thousands of hired professionals to review surveillance footage, conduct investigations and conduct interviews. This scale of manpower investment is difficult for even the police department to achieve.

More crucially, he was able to draw on resources unavailable to ordinary people: he accessed global port surveillance through his family's shipping company, had his lab prioritize physical evidence testing, and used multinational corporate databases for facial comparison...

It takes others three days to get bank statements according to the procedures, but he can get it done with just one phone call.

Xia Zheng didn't care about it. As long as he could solve the case and catch the criminal, he didn't mind being accused of cheating.

After all, some doors can only be opened with the Xia family's keys.