After his wife left, Li Chu folded the quilt and put it in the closet.
I sat down behind my desk, thinking about what to do.
It's been a while since I checked in, let me check in now.
"bite……"
The unchanging notification sound is monotonous, boring, and tedious, yet it's irresistible.
After the sound stopped, Li Chu leaned back in his chair and focused his mind on the warehouse in his mind.
"Holy crap, what's going on?"
As soon as he came in, he couldn't help but swear.
A large box appeared in the open space of the warehouse, slightly smaller than the box that contained the documents last time.
There were other things on the ground around them.
Li Chu felt weak all over, as if he couldn't even sit still in the chair and wanted to slide under the table.
Is this some kind of joke?
Involuntarily, I thought of the heart-pounding feeling I had when the documents were handed out last time.
He suddenly realized that he no longer had the energy to even curse.
With no interest in looking at anything else, I took a deep breath and slowly opened the box.
The moment the box lid was opened, Li Chu felt as if his eyes were almost blinded by the light.
What does a whole box of gold bars mean?
He was certain that, not counting the weight of the box, he couldn't lift those gold bars himself.
How many are there exactly?
Why is the system giving out so many gold bars this time?
He didn't bother counting how much there was, because no matter how much there was, there was no way he could take it out to exchange for money now.
After exiting the warehouse, Li Chu opened the system interface in his mind, wanting to see if the system had any prompts.
Everything remained the same; the aloof system displayed nothing.
Left with no other choice, he went back into the warehouse, closed the box, and used his mind to move it aside.
Now all that was left on the ground was a pile of scattered items.
After everything was sorted out, only the two books in front of me remained.
Both books are language skills books, one is for German and the other is for Portuguese.
He doesn't even know why a traditional Chinese medicine doctor like himself is learning so many foreign languages.
Spreading Traditional Chinese Medicine culture abroad?
What a joke! He never even considered living abroad, and given his current status, it's impossible for him to leave the country.
Who cares? Since I've been given the opportunity, I'll learn it. It's always good to have more skills.
I put the skill book into the warehouse first. I can't learn it now. I'll do it when I go to bed tonight.
At the same time, in the family compound of the West Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Sijiu City, Director Liu was directing his men to dig something in the backyard from the first floor of the family building.
“Director Liu, it’s obvious that something was buried here before, but there’s nothing there now.”
Director Liu walked over, glanced at the area, and asked, "Have you finished checking everything else?"
At this moment, another person replied, "Director, we've finished investigating. According to him, it was only buried a little over a foot deep, but we've dug more than two feet deep."
"Damn it," Director Liu cursed under his breath.
"What kind of time is this to be lying to us? Does he have a death wish?" someone muttered to themselves.
Director Liu squatted down and looked at the spot where something had obviously been buried before.
"Let's dig a little deeper here and see."
Without a word, the people next to him picked up their shovels and started digging again.
But if you dig any deeper, the soil becomes much harder than it was above.
Seeing that the group had spent a lot of time digging but hadn't dug much down, Director Liu stood up and waved his hand.
"Alright, stop digging. Let's call it a day and go back to interrogate that kid."
Once seated in the jeep, Director Liu remained silent with a dark expression.
The oppressive atmosphere inside the car made everyone afraid to speak, a far cry from the cheerful and talkative atmosphere they had when they arrived.
A man in the back row thought for a moment, then, risking criticism, spoke up: "Director, could it be that they have accomplices who, upon learning that these two guys had been arrested, came to move the items?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than the driver retorted, "Impossible. Our people have been keeping watch for the past few months. Everyone who enters and leaves this compound has been thoroughly investigated, and there's nothing suspicious about anyone."
Even assuming the items were stolen, how could he have taken them out? According to the guy who was arrested, that box weighed nearly 300 pounds; it wasn't something he could easily carry away.
These words left the person in the back row speechless.
Yes, putting everything else aside, just the weight alone is enough for one or two people to move it.
Another person in the back row spoke up, "Could it be that those two guys deliberately lied to us, and there weren't actually that many of those things?"
"But what good would it do him to lie to us? It's all so obvious. They're not going to come out anyway. They've been holding out for so long just to fool us?"
The people in the car fell silent again.
Director Liu felt like he'd heard the driver's words somewhere before, so he asked, "Xiao Wang, what did you say at the end?"
"Huh?" The driver was taken aback by Director Liu's sudden question and didn't know what to say for a moment.
The person in the back row spoke up for him: "Director, what Xiao Wang just said was that the box, along with its contents, weighs nearly 300 pounds, and it's not something that can be easily moved."
Director Liu nodded without speaking, but leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and remained silent.
But in my mind, I kept wondering where I had heard this before.
Back at the bureau, Director Liu instructed a few of them to continue interrogating the two men, while he returned to his office alone.
I poured myself a glass of water, my mind replaying what the driver had just said.
As he walked to his desk with his cup in hand, he accidentally bumped into it, and that one bump sparked a brilliant idea in his mind.
He remembered hearing this phrase before; in fact, it wasn't that he had heard the phrase before, but rather that he had encountered the same situation.
It's that case from two years ago, the huge pile of documents that inexplicably appeared in the central government's files.
The difference is that the pile of documents appeared suddenly back then, while this one disappeared suddenly. What they have in common is that they both weigh several hundred kilograms.
No, the stuff last time was heavier than this time. If something that heavy could be smuggled into the heavily guarded central area without anyone noticing, wouldn't it be even easier to take the stuff here this time?
But the question is, how exactly did he get it?
Just like the driver Xiao Wang said, there have been people watching this place the whole time. Could that person really fly?
The moment the thought crossed his mind, Director Liu wanted to slap himself. He was a staunch revolutionary fighter; how could he be thinking such nonsense?
So the question is, how exactly did the thing disappear?
It seems necessary to resubmit those previously sealed investigation reports for review.
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