Chapter 115 A wave of fat in the safe
"General, have you found anything?" Zhu Yunshen came to Fu Zongchen's office and asked. Ren Cangsong sighed and said, "There are no clues. Everyone seems to be fine."
Zhu Yunshen hesitated and said, "The Chairman has ordered that they must be released by tomorrow afternoon at the latest."
"I understand." Ren Cangsong rubbed his eyebrows. He had never felt so difficult before.
There were almost no clues, weapons, ballistic trajectories, suspects, or even a way forward.
Zhu Yunshen hesitated for a moment and talked about his gains in the afternoon.
"They told you, and they told me, that it's possible to change the trajectory of a bullet, or even make it pass through obstacles out of thin air." Ren Cangsong said helplessly, "But people like that are extremely rare. There aren't many in the Itlan civilization."
"Oh, there's one more thing." Zhu Yunshen added, "Li Ming's father was once a member of the Privy Council's deacon, Han Ce, who was part of the assassination organization 'Xiaolong'."
"Fu Zongchen has a team called 'Jin' that is wiping out the 'Xiaolong'. His father was killed by Jin."
Hmm? Ren Cangsong suddenly raised his head, his eyes sharp: "Why didn't you say so earlier!"
Zhu Yunshen smiled bitterly, "You don't really doubt Li Ming, do you?"
"It's definitely not him who did it." Ren Cangsong shook his head: "Maybe he provided some help."
"Jin's commander-in-chief has died while saving Li Ming." Zhu Yunshen thought about this and felt it was nonsense.
Ren Cangsong didn't expect there to be so many things involved. After carefully studying them, he frowned slightly and said, "This Wang Yan was probably killed by Li Ming."
"That's right, but Fu Zongchen has already accepted this conclusion, and the body has not been found." Zhu Yunshen nodded: "In theory, it can be considered revenge."
"That Xiaolong..." Ren Cangsong asked again.
"It's unlikely to be them. They have been hunted for five or six years and have organized counterattacks before, with heavy casualties." Zhu Yunshen shook his head.
"It's broken again?" Ren Cangsong felt inexplicably annoyed.
The man who killed Fu Zongchen might be laughing wildly now as he looks at their miserable state.
"You don't have to worry. The other party's target is only Fu Zongchen." Zhu Yunshen comforted him. Ren Cangsong cursed in a low voice and handed him a cigar from the table.
"Try it, Li Ming left it for me."
Zhu Yunshen frowned, then took the cigarette without hesitation, lit it, and blew out a puff of smoke. He looked around the office and sighed slightly:
"I didn't expect Fu Zongchen to die so suddenly. I'm still a little dazed."
"Have you searched this room?" Zhu Yunshen asked.
"Not yet. Now is not the time to care about this. No matter how many things Fu Zongchen left behind, it has nothing to do with us." Ren Cangsong said with a slight warning.
"I understand." Zhu Yunshen nodded, his eyes fixed on the armored cabin on the wall. "But, what should we do with this thing?"
Seeing this armored cabin, Ren Cangsong also had a headache. "We can only send it back. I wonder how Prince Baijan will react when he finds out about this."
"What a pity! All the grand plans and ambitions have come to nothing." Zhu Yunshen walked to the armored cabin.
Bang! Bang!
He reached out and patted the side of the armored cabin, feeling emotional. A few hours ago, Fu Zongchen had just taken office as a committee member and received a gift from Prince Baijan. How glorious it was.
But that bullet ended everything. As one of the witnesses, Zhu Yunshen still felt a lingering fear.
However, before he could stop sighing, he felt something strange inexplicably. His face was slightly serious as he looked up and down at the armored cabin. Somehow, the feeling, the sound, and the touch were not right.
Not only him, Ren Cangsong also noticed this. The two looked at each other and both had a bad premonition.
Zhu Yunshen tried to pat it again, and even shook it, only to hear a "bang" and something fell down.
Zhu Yunshen picked up the metal block from the ground, his expression becoming more solemn. Ren Cangsong turned the armored cabin around, and his expression suddenly changed.
There was a small dark hole on it.
Ren Cangsong had already sensed something, so he grabbed the small hole with both hands and suddenly exerted force. With an unpleasant creaking sound, the entire metal armored cabin was torn apart from the center.
But inside, there was nothing.
"Where's the thing!?" Zhu Yunshen was horrified and felt his scalp tingling. It seemed that something was lurking in the shadows around him, waiting for an opportunity to strike. He was completely shrouded in cold.
Ren Cangsong's face turned pale and he quickly recalled that everyone had entered this room this afternoon.
Only Li Ming had been alone there. No... he had nothing on him, and there was no place to hide such a large piece of armor.
"The period before I came was completely blank. Anyone could have a chance." Ren Cangsong's cheeks twitched. This was simply a naked provocation.
He was killed and his armor was stolen, and he was treated like nothing.
Treat the blue planet as nothing!
"After the armored cabin demonstration, everyone stayed in the hall and didn't go anywhere except for a few staff members." Zhu Yunshen quickly added relevant information:
"This is a high-end villa area. There are no blind spots in external surveillance. We can find out who has entered or left here with just a check." Zhu Yunshen reacted quickly.
"Call everyone out and check everything on them one by one!" Ren Cangsong suppressed his anger.
"But..." Zhu Yunshen hesitated. Doing so would be a bit too offensive.
When Fu Zongchen just died, they could understand why he had to stop everyone because of the urgency of the matter. But now...
"If anything happens, I will take responsibility!" Ren Cangsong said in a deep voice.
Having said that, they certainly wouldn't dare vent their anger on you, so I'd be the one to suffer.
Zhu Yunshen was helpless, but he didn't dare to refute in this situation and left in a hurry.
Everyone in the room was pulled out and became furious when they learned that every item they carried with them would be checked and even searched.
He shouted that he would fight to the death with Zhu Yunshen!
In the end, it was Ren Cangsong who came out to appease the people. After the final inspection, nothing was found.
Zhu Yunshen's surveillance investigation also yielded no results. They reviewed the nearby surveillance footage more than a dozen times but still did not find any suspicious clues.
If it’s not someone from the outside, then it’s someone from the inside.
But the people inside couldn't find anything either and were stuck in a dead end.
How could such a large armor disappear out of thin air!
"If you piss me off, I'll torture them all!" Ren Cangsong was already extremely anxious, roaring repeatedly: "The Itlan civilization doesn't have psychics. Let them come, let them come!"
"Calm down, you must calm down." Zhu Yunshen's eyelids twitched and he hurried to comfort her.
No one present was easy to deal with. Even Li Ming, who seemed to be from a common family, had a crazy teacher and an unbreakable golden body of public opinion.
Everyone has some dark little secrets in their hearts. If we really ask Islamic civilization to take action and send in psychics to check memories, the impact caused by this group of people will probably be more terrifying than Fu Zongchen's death.
Looking back at memories is not without cost. Memory loss and personality distortion are the mildest side effects.
More importantly, as one of the people on the scene, he will probably also be investigated.
Of course Ren Cangsong knew it was impossible, and he was just venting his anger.
He took a deep breath and said, "You stay here and watch. I'm going to go out and report to the chairmen and committee members in person."
Zhu Yunshen nodded. This place was surrounded by three layers of enemies inside and outside, and not even a fly could fly out.
…
"Gone?" In the room downstairs, Li Ming felt that Ren Cangsong had left the perception range, and the positioning coverage range was as much as one thousand meters.
Far surpassing Fu Zongchen's villa.
"What are they doing? Reporting? Or looking for someone?" Li Ming pondered. He had just pulled them out for inspection one by one, probably because Ren Cangsong had already discovered the empty armored cabin.
Looking at the other person's expression, Li Ming knew that he was very angry.
"Now is a good opportunity. Once we leave here, it will be troublesome to come in again." Li Ming thought about it and waited for more than ten minutes. There was no sign of Ren Cangsong coming back.
He no longer hesitated, stepped on the head of the bed, looked at the ceiling, and secretly estimated the location.
"The secret room should be behind Fu Zongchen's office, about three meters away..."
Turning on [Intelligent Assistance], Li Ming compared it bit by bit.
Finally, they circled a rough area, pried off a piece of the ceiling, and revealed the concrete and steel structure behind it.
Slightly hesitant, he moved now, as the traces left behind would be difficult to clean and would require taking certain risks.
"Fu Zongchen, you've been an official for so many years, please don't let me down."
He made up his mind, then took out the ion sword and slowly inserted it in. The concrete was cut neatly like a block of tofu.
Soon, Li Ming felt a blockage, "It should be the alloy part."
He turned it carefully, cut it into a square, and then held it steadily and pulled out the rectangular concrete block. Behind it was a silver-white alloy wall.
The hardness of this alloy wall is beyond imagination. The ion sword cannot cut it directly and needs to be ground slowly.
Li Ming stretched out his fingers and began to absorb, "cutting" a hole and jumping in, then his breathing stagnated slightly.
This was not a secret room; to be more precise, it was a safe, and he was in a corner.
The safe wasn't very big, only about four or five square meters, but the alloy cabinets on the wall were filled with rows and rows of various interstellar precious metals.
"Gold, purple crystal, Kasakul sand gold, gold platinum diamond crystal, wow..." Li Ming's eyes were burning.
Fu Zongchen's position as a steward of the Privy Council was not in vain.
He was in a hurry, so he immediately picked up a piece of interstellar precious metal and began to absorb it.
With anticipation and anxiety, Li Ming kept praying that Ren Cangsong would not come back so soon.
But fortunately, until five in the morning, there was no sign of Ren Cangsong returning.
And all the metal energy in the entire vault was completely devoured by him.
"Five hundred and twenty thousand points, that's a lot of money." Li Ming's throat moved. Together with the rest, the overall metal energy had exceeded the six hundred thousand mark.
He guessed that this should only be part of Fu Zongchen's assets.
He probably has more in his personal accounts, physical assets and investments, but he has no hope of getting his hands on them.
Without time to think carefully, the entire vault was basically emptied by him, leaving only some inconspicuous weapons, the control of which was a waste of metal energy.
Li Ming also took photos of some materials and pictures.
In order to ensure that no accidents occur, he chooses to snipe Fu Zongchen at close range, which involves certain risks.
But whether it was the armor or the safe, he didn't regret it. He would upgrade them heavily when he returned.
The only trouble is that the traces of his presence here cannot be erased.
Li Ming looked down at the hole. Even though he blocked it with alloy blocks, the traces were still very clear. If he looked carefully, he could easily lock onto the target.
However, this adventure is definitely worth it. Even if I get discovered, the worst that can happen is I can just pretend to be stupid.
There is no other evidence, and considering his current golden body, it is highly likely that there is nothing wrong with him.
"However, it's better not to be discovered." He thought, and his frown suddenly relaxed.
"If you want to hide subtle traces, of course you have to create bigger traces." He grinned, put on the [Thunder Burning Equipment Ball] to enhance his control over the fire element, and then stretched out his hand, and blazing flames gushed out in an instant.
The alloy used in the safe was very strong, but the cabinets used to store things were much less so. After more than ten minutes, they had turned into iron pulp.
Li Ming then filled the entire safe with holes of the same size, and did the same with the concrete behind it, and then sealed them with iron slurry, including the small hole he had made when he came in.
Some more concrete was dug from the side, crushed into powder, mixed with water, and applied to both sides of the concrete blocks. Finally, more concrete blocks were filled in and the ceiling was covered.
Apart from the slightly higher temperature in the room, almost nothing else could be seen.
Of course, he didn't expect to be able to erase all traces, as long as he could delay it long enough.
Ren Cangsong didn't come back until dawn. At seven o'clock in the morning, the officials started clamoring again and insisted on leaving.
For people like them, the longer they lose contact with the outside world, the more uneasy they feel.
"Fuck, did you feel it last night? It was inexplicably hot. I don't know what was going on." Qi Xing yelled as soon as he opened the door.
"I felt it. I was curious too." Li Ming was the second to agree.
"I didn't feel anything." Rosser shook his head. His room was a little further away.
Ren Cangsong never came back, and no one knew what happened.
Without Ren Cangsong's support, Zhu Yunshen could not withstand the questioning of these officials.
After holding on until nine o'clock, news finally came. Zhu Yunshen was shocked, breathed a sigh of relief, and forced a smile: "Everyone, you can leave now."
Unexpectedly, no one present moved. They looked at each other with subtle expressions.
Qi Zhan was the first to speak: "After leaving here, I don't want anyone to come after me because of Fu Zongchen's death."
"That's right." The others echoed.
"I can't guarantee that either." Zhu Yunshen said helplessly, "We have to find out the truth about Commissioner Fu's death."
"Since there's no guarantee, let's just stay here until the truth is revealed."
Zhu Yunshen asked them to leave, but they were no longer in a hurry. They each found a place to sit down and started chatting.
Qi Xing was dumbfounded.
What a bunch of bastards! Zhu Yunshen's brows twitched. They were all cunning people, yet they still wanted to get involved in the political arena of Blue Star.
After they get out, if someone uses today's incident to attack them, claiming that they participated in the assassination of Fu Zongchen, it will be a big trouble, and this kind of trouble must be prevented.
"What a bunch of old foxes," Li Ming said with a strange look in his eyes. "But, this seems to be a good idea."
(End of this chapter)
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