Chapter 168 The Money Vanished
[Oh! This guy must be mistaken. Shouldn't he ask Uncle Hat to check the security footage for something like this?]
[Yes, with the internet so developed now, there are cameras everywhere. Should we still find a live streamer for this kind of thing?]
"Give me the money? Is it your money or the customer's money? Tell me specifically what happened? Can't Uncle Hat solve this?"
"Host, I'm completely confused about this whole thing. Let me tell you about what's happened to me these past two days, and I hope you can give me some advice. I really don't know what to do."
According to Wang Botao, he is a bank teller who joined the company last March!
In just over six months, I got along quite well with all my colleagues.
He's always the first to rush to help his colleagues whenever they need assistance or to cover for them during shifts.
This is what a beginner should do, and of course, some people envy him.
He had a beautiful girlfriend named Pang Qianqian. Whenever Qianqian had a day off while he was at work, she would prepare meals for him and bring them over.
Over time, Qianqian became familiar with several of her colleagues at the company.
His colleagues all praised him for having a girlfriend who was exceptionally gentle and kind, and the two had never had any conflicts.
But gradually he noticed a strange light in the eyes of Zong Lun, the lobby manager.
Looking at his girlfriend, he was surprisingly domineering, and more than anything, he wanted to possess her.
For safety reasons, Wang Botao told his girlfriend to stop delivering food.
After all, her job as a nurse was very demanding, so she was surprised that her girlfriend readily agreed.
Of course, these are all digressions. The most important thing is that something went wrong with his work two days ago.
A couple came to deposit money, carrying a bag of urea. They were the honest kind from the countryside, dressed in tattered clothes.
Wrinkles covered his eyes, and his hands had incredibly large joints, the result of years of hard work; his fingers were deformed.
There were three staff members at the counter at the time. Seeing the two men's shabby appearance, the lobby manager Zong Lun pointed at them and told them to go and deposit money.
Seeing that they had a lot of money, Wang Baitao indirectly learned that it came from the sale of their farmland, their old house, and their three old oxen, and some of it was even borrowed money.
The total amount was 800,000 yuan. The purpose of saving this money was because their daughter fell ill in another city. In order to save her, the family tried every possible means to raise this much money.
The money was deposited into his account.
He thought it was a very ordinary thing, but the next day, as soon as he arrived at the company, finished cleaning, and was about to sit at the counter, he was surprised to find that...
The couple arrived, and as soon as they entered the hall, they began to cry and shout.
"The money is gone, the money is gone."
The lobby manager quickly came over to inquire about the specific reason. It turned out that after depositing the money into the card yesterday, the hospital there needed the money early this morning.
When my daughter went to pay the bill, the bank card linked to her account couldn't process the payment at all; upon checking, she found that there were only 3 cents left in the account.
The 800,000 yuan was withdrawn by someone using a credit card at 3 a.m.
"Don't worry, this is a considerable sum. Let's call the police first and have Uncle Hat investigate."
Everyone in the company knows that these two deposited such a large sum of money yesterday.
If money suddenly disappears in the middle of the night and is taken by someone, and there's a card involved, then it's highly likely that the card was taken from these two people.
The police arrived quickly.
After listening to the couple's request, they began to retrieve the bank's surveillance footage.
Everyone stared nervously at the monitoring room, but Wang Botao was still unaware of the seriousness of the situation.
The surveillance footage was quickly retrieved, showing a man's figure appearing at the ATM at 2:58 a.m.
He skillfully entered the password and transferred the money. When he saw the man's face, Wang Botao staggered back two steps.
How could it be him?
How could I possibly transfer that money? The key is that I only have two bank cards on me, and there has never been a record of that money being transferred in.
How could it be himself? He doesn't sleepwalk.
"Wang Botao, you're crying 'stop thief!' The evidence is irrefutable. What explanation do you have now?"
"I...this isn't me!"
Uncle Hat stared intently at the camera. The camera was being pulled up in real time and hadn't been edited. The man in the video looked exactly like the teller. How could it be fake?
"Wang Botao, right? What were you doing at this time last night? If you say the man in that shot isn't you, please give us evidence that you weren't here."
Yesterday, on his way home from get off work, Wang Botao ran into Xiao Shan, a high school classmate he hadn't seen in a long time. The two had some barbecue and drinks, and then went to Xiao Shan's place.
They talked for a long time until late into the night before finally resting.
“I was with my best friend last night, and he can vouch for me.”
Wang Botao made a call, and Xiaoshan answered quickly.
"Xiao Shan, didn't we have barbecue and drinks together last night, and then go to your place? We left together this morning?"
"Yeah, is something wrong?"
"I stayed with you all night, didn't I? I didn't go out at all?"
Xiao Shan over there seemed to hesitate for a moment.
"Yeah, but you know I'm a really heavy sleeper, not even a few cows could wake me. We both go to bed at 1 a.m., and I don't wake up until 7 a.m. As for whether I went out for a massage or something in the middle of the night, I don't know. Okay, I'm still busy here, I'll hang up now."
"Xiao..."
The call ended, and his words were ambiguous, so they cannot be used as evidence.
"It really wasn't me. Could it be someone impersonating me? Uncle Hat, could you continue following that person's route to see who they are and what they're up to?"
"Since that's the case, you haven't cleared your name either. Everyone here today is a suspect, not just you, but also all the staff here. You are the prime suspect, in particular. We will send professional technicians to retrieve surveillance footage along the way to see if that person is really you."
Fortunately, Uncle Hat didn't completely believe the surveillance footage and arrested him directly, but Wang Botao was innocent.
"Host, I'm alone in the locker room now. What should I do? What if all the evidence points to me as the person in question? I'm completely finished. I didn't transfer that money at all. I only have a little over three thousand yuan in my bank account. I just logged into my mobile banking again, and there's no record of that money being transferred."
I think I understood what the young man was saying. He realized he'd been set up, but I wonder who wanted to harm him?
[But the face in that shot is definitely this boy's face, so what do you say? Is there someone else who looks exactly like him? Ask the guy if there's a twin brother or sister?]
"I'm an only child, and in all my years, I've never seen anyone who looks so much like me. It's unbelievable! Could it be that I was sleepwalking last night after getting drunk? But where did the money go?"
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