"Rat with floral branches? What does that mean?" The Manager's face showed a hint of confusion.
Xu Mo tipped over the trash can, spilling the dead rat that had been electrocuted along with a pile of burnt wires. He pointed to the rat in the trash and explained, "A rat with floral branches is a type of pet rat that can be domesticated. You can think of it as a larger version of a hamster. They're easily available in the market."
Manager: "???"
People actually keep rats as pets!?
He couldn't comprehend it.
"Of course, that's not the main point. The main point is that the wiring malfunction wasn't accidental; it was intentional," Xu Mo continued.
Earlier, he had felt that the timing of the wiring malfunction was too coincidental, most likely caused by human intervention. Now, seeing the situation, it was clear that this was indeed the case. The fact that it was a pet rat like the rat with floral branches, rather than the typical rodents people imagine, strongly indicated that the situation was deliberate.
"Intentional wiring malfunction... so the generator was also sabotaged by someone?" Han Fei grasped the key point and perked up immediately, "This theft was an inside job!?"
Xu Mo's discovery had undoubtedly provided a breakthrough for the case that had left the officers feeling helpless. If the theft had been carried out with internal cooperation, then there was a way to investigate. At least it would be much easier than before.
Previously, they had been completely at a loss, knowing only that the thieves had drilled a hole in the wall to steal items from the vault. The surveillance was damaged, and footprints were covered by sewage, making it impossible to investigate.
But now, there was a lead!
As long as they could catch the person who collaborated with the thieves, they could follow the trail to uncover the identity of the thieves and solve the case.
In an instant, the officers were energized.
"Xu Mo is really amazing! He immediately saw the problem," one officer praised.
"You all should learn from Xu Mo. You're good for nothing," Han Fei scanned the officers.
Even though you didn't think of it either, Han Fei, why are you just lecturing us... Chen Ke thought to himself, though he dared not say it out loud, only muttering in his mind.
The three officers who had come to observe were also quite sharp. This legendary detective Xu Mo was indeed quick-witted and adept at discovering clues, living up to his reputation!
It wasn't that they couldn't think of the possibility that the wiring was deliberately damaged, but it took them some time to arrive at that conclusion, unlike Xu Mo, who reacted so quickly.
Investigating a case is all about speed. The faster you investigate, the more likely you are to catch the criminals off guard. If you're slow, the opportunity might be lost.
With the investigation direction clarified, the officers were all invigorated.
"Bring all the employees who have access to the power room," Han Fei directed at the Manager.
The latter immediately nodded, "Okay, please wait a moment."
With that, he left the power room.
During this time, Xu Mo crouched down to examine the burnt wires scattered from the overturned trash can.
Just finding a rat with floral branches and concluding that the wiring was deliberately damaged was a bit too hasty. After all, a rat with floral branches, if extremely hungry, might also chew on wires or use them to sharpen its teeth.
He wanted to find more compelling evidence to prove that the wiring was intentionally damaged.
After fiddling with the burnt wires, Xu Mo indeed made a discovery. He picked up a few sections of wires with obvious bite marks.
Interestingly, there were burnt food residues on the bitten sections of the wires, resembling crushed meat or sausage.
Seeing Xu Mo lift a few sections of wires from the burnt mess, everyone turned their gaze to him, their faces showing some confusion.
Xu Mo met their eyes, "Take a look, there are food residues on the bitten wires."
Hearing this, everyone crouched down to examine the wires.
As Xu Mo had said, it was not difficult to see some burnt food residues on the wires if one looked closely.
"No wonder the rat chewed on the wires... This was indeed done on purpose!" Li Chen exclaimed excitedly.
Xu Mo's discovery confirmed that their conclusion was correct.
This theft had indeed been meticulously planned, carried out through collaboration between the thieves and someone inside the company.
There were two possibilities.
First: The theft gang had infiltrated this insurance company.
Second: The theft gang had bribed an employee within the company who had access to the power room.
Either way, as long as they could identify the person who had infiltrated the company (or been bribed by the theft gang), the officers could follow the trail to uncover the identity of the theft gang!
Under Xu Mo's instruction, an officer took out a sealable bag and placed the burnt rat's body and the few sections of wires with distinct bite marks and food residues inside separately.
Shortly after.
The Manager returned to the power room with a group of employees.
"These are the police officers here to investigate the case. Please cooperate fully. This is related to the theft case, so don't hold anything back!" The Manager introduced, "Officers, these are all the employees in our company who have access to the power room."
The Manager had brought back a total of six employees.
The officers' eyes swept over the six individuals.
After glancing at the six, Xu Mo looked at the Manager, "Could we borrow one of your company's offices? We need to ask these employees a few questions."
"Of course, of course! No problem at all!" The Manager nodded vigorously, immediately agreeing to Xu Mo's request.
With that, he led the group to an empty office.
Interrogation was best done one-on-one.
The officers planned to question the six employees one by one.
In addition to interrogation, they also needed to check the surveillance footage of the power room, so they decided to proceed with both methods simultaneously.
Xu Mo took a few officers to start interrogating the six employees one by one, while Han Fei led another team, guided by the Manager, to the surveillance room to check the power room's footage.
"Chen Ke, you come with me to interrogate. The rest of you stay outside and keep an eye on things," Xu Mo said, taking Chen Ke and one of the employees into the office.
The remaining officers stayed in place, watching the other five employees who hadn't been called in, to prevent any trouble during Xu Mo's interrogation.
Inside the office.
Xu Mo began the questioning.
"Have you been in and out of the power room recently?"
"Yes, I have..." The employee being interrogated seemed a bit nervous.
"Don't be nervous, just relax. We're just here to ask you a few questions. Just answer what I ask," Xu Mo said, getting straight to the point to save time. He placed two sealable bags on the table, "Was this rat placed in the power room by you?"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
