After successfully pulling off the heist, the group of thieves killed a key figure, completely cutting off the trail of the case.
The police officers all turned their gaze toward Xu Mo.
They were out of ideas and had no choice but to place their hopes on Xu Mo, hoping he might have some new insights.
Realizing everyone was looking at him, Xu Mo couldn't help but rub his face.
"Why are you all just staring at me? Come on, think of something yourselves! Can't you all rely on me?"
However, Xu Mo didn't complain. Instead, he reviewed all the clues they had gathered so far and continued to ponder.
What they knew for certain was that the thieves who had emptied the insurance company's vault were not a single person but a gang. There was no doubt about that; one person couldn't have pulled this off.
The thieves had split into two groups, working in tandem.
One person infiltrated the insurance company and tampered with the power supply room, burning the wires and damaging the generator, causing the entire company to lose power for a considerable period.
During the blackout, the insurance company's surveillance systems failed, and the power-operated vault door and layers of security checks also ceased to function. The company's employees were unable to enter the vault in time to stop the thieves from emptying it.
The main group of the thieves took advantage of the power outage to breach the vault's walls and ransacked the contents inside.
To be on the safe side, they even killed the member of the gang who had infiltrated the insurance company's power supply room.
It was because this person was killed that the police's investigation trail was completely cut off. The deceased was the only member of the thieves' gang that the police had discovered so far. With his death, the difficulty of solving the case increased significantly, and the police had completely lost the chance to track down the other members of the gang.
Working from the inside and outside, and then silencing the insider... The plan was very thorough. The thieves had directly severed the trail of clues, and Xu Mo felt that this case was quite tricky.
"So, any thoughts?" Han Fei asked.
"No..." Xu Mo shook his head and answered honestly.
"Maybe we should focus on the murder scene and the surveillance around the insurance company. There might be some clues there," Li Chen suggested.
"That could work..." Han Fei pondered. "Let's try it, even if it's a long shot."
Although Li Chen's method wasn't great, it was the only option they had at the moment.
However, Han Fei didn't hold much hope for Li Chen's suggestion.
These thieves were clearly well-prepared and highly professional, and they were also ruthless. To cover their tracks, they were even willing to kill their own accomplices.
These were professionals. If they had gone to such lengths to cover their tracks, it meant they had planned everything meticulously before the heist. They wouldn't have left any traces at the murder scene or in the surrounding surveillance.
In Han Fei's opinion, focusing on the murder scene and the surrounding surveillance would likely yield no useful findings.
While the police officers sealed off the scene and carefully examined the clues left at the murder site, Xu Mo continued to think about whether there was anything else unreasonable about the case.
He had a feeling that he was missing something very crucial... There must be something else that didn't add up!
He decided to return to the insurance company for another look.
Xu Mo pulled back the police tape, left the alley, and returned to the insurance company.
At that moment, several insurance company employees were discussing the recent theft.
"Do you guys know how much the stuff stolen from the vault is worth in total?"
"I don't know, but I guess at least a hundred million yuan, right?"
"A hundred million? You're underestimating it. Let me tell you... I overheard the manager calling the police when it happened. The total value of everything in our company's vault is close to a billion yuan!"
"Holy crap! A billion yuan?! If all that's gone, won't our boss have to pay a fortune in compensation?"
"Why are you worrying about whether he'll go bankrupt? We're just employees. This has nothing to do with us."
"Well, I still feel bad for our boss. Those thieves are really scumbags."
"You're such an idiot. Did a donkey kick your brain? Feeling sorry for a capitalist? You're really something!"
“Forget it, why are we even talking about this? I wonder if the police officers can get back the stolen stuff. If they can't, we'll probably be out of a job soon...”
"I doubt it. What can those cops do? They can't even interrogate properly. I bet this case will just be swept under the rug eventually."
"Ugh, don't jinx it. I don't want to lose my job."
"You're not seriously expecting them to get back the stolen stuff, are you? Let me tell you, it's impossible! If the police really could get back the stolen stuff... I'd chop my head off and let you use it as a soccer ball!"
"..."
Although Xu Mo was some distance away from the employees, his hearing was extremely sharp, and he had heard their entire conversation clearly.
"The boss of the insurance company..." Xu Mo muttered to himself.
He suddenly realized what that unreasonable point he had overlooked was.
The most unreasonable thing about this case was that the insurance company's boss had never shown up!
The insurance company had been robbed, and all the client belongings stored in the vault had been stolen.
The total value of the stolen items was close to a billion yuan.
That was an astronomical figure, even for a successful businessman. A billion yuan was definitely not a small amount.
If the stolen items couldn't be recovered, the insurance company's boss would have to bear the losses, which would require him to pay compensation. And the amount he would have to pay might not just be a billion yuan; it could be even more.
Wasn't the boss anxious or afraid?
If he was, why hadn't he come to check on the situation, even just to inquire about the progress of the investigation?
He hadn't shown up, as if he didn't care about the matter at all. This was highly suspicious.
Xu Mo's mind suddenly came up with a bold conjecture.
He immediately went to find the manager.
"Where's your boss now?"
"Ah? My boss..." The manager was taken aback. "I... I don't know."
"You don't know? Didn't you tell him about the company being robbed?"
The manager nodded. "I told him, right after it happened, I called him."
"And what was his reaction?" Xu Mo asked, staring at the manager.
"He cursed at me a few times and then hung up."
"Did he say he was coming to the company?"
"No."
"And he didn't even tell you to call the police!?"
"No..." From Xu Mo's questions, the manager could sense where Xu Mo was going with this. He looked at Xu Mo in confusion. "Officer, are you suspecting our boss...?"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
