Chapter 361

Taking a break by making an excuse?

Upon hearing Li Ang's suggestion, the female officer's heart stirred slightly. Her instinct was to agree, because never mind a few hours, even being able to sleep for one more hour right now was a luxury.

However, just at this moment, a loud bang was heard nearby. The male officer who was "pecking at rice" not far away knocked his head into his own tray. If it hadn't been for his companion pulling him, he probably would have fallen directly to the ground.

"Forget it..."

After glancing at that unlucky colleague, the female officer couldn't help but sigh gloomily and said with a look of resignation:

"Everyone is working hard. If I slack off by myself, I really feel bad about it... and I've been promoted fast enough these past two years. There are already many people in the bureau who think I rely on my background, and I don't want them to gossip about me anymore."

"Alright then."

After giving the female officer a look of slight admiration, Li Ang, unable to help, could only continue to bury his head in his food. Meanwhile, after scooping a spoonful of mashed potatoes, the female officer seemed to suddenly remember something and asked with concern:

"By the way, the time before last you asked me for a warrant, saying you wanted to take a few people to carry out a relatively dangerous mission and wanted to borrow some things from the Secret Investigation Bureau's spare parts warehouse. Have you returned those things yet?"

Those things... although Senior Peoni returned to the bureau yesterday, those IDs and uniforms should still be in the hands of the rebels...

"Not yet..."

Li Ang, knowing what he had done with those things, said with slightly shifty eyes:

"What's wrong? Does your bureau check the spare parts warehouse?"

"Usually no."

The female officer shook her head and said:

"The management of the spare parts warehouse is very loose. It's possible they don't look at it for years. When I was helping with the reconciliation yesterday, I even discovered that those few warehouse keepers were stealing from the warehouse. They had actually been secretly selling some non-taboo items since three years ago."

Li Ang, who had been tested by all kinds of situations, had a very steady voice. The female officer, who was burying her head in her food, didn't notice anything unusual and just complained to Li Ang like she was chatting about daily life:

"Do you know? Many people in our bureau basically don't manage things. If no one had attacked the airship tower, those two rats could have easily gotten away with it. Those guys who only have catching people on their minds wouldn't have discovered the problem with the spare parts warehouse at all.

But now everyone is working overtime like crazy, and all kinds of supplies are being consumed too severely, so the things in the spare parts warehouse have all been used. They discovered the quantity was off by too much, so they took the opportunity to do an inventory these past two days, and I was even transferred to help out.

Not long after I handed in the report this morning, those two warehouse keepers who were secretly selling supplies were caught. So if you're done with those things on your end, it's best to return them, write down the reason for borrowing them, and fill out a registration or something.

Although those two warehouse keepers stole and sold a huge pile of things over the past three years and cooked the books quite a bit, they aren't missing the little bit you took, but it's best to confirm the quantity. Otherwise, it looks like I'm helping you steal supplies from the bureau."

"Oh..."

It's still impossible to return them, impossible for the rest of my life. When passing through the checkpoints, the numbers on those access IDs were all recorded. If I really returned them, that would be the end of it, wouldn't it?

After finishing the food on his tray in a few bites, picking up the soup bowl from the female officer's tray and taking a large gulp to force the accumulated food down his throat, Li Ang hurriedly said goodbye:

"Um... I have a mission today, so I'll be going first!"

"That's my soup! And you... sigh, forget it, go, go!"

Being in such a hurry even when eating, it seems the work Li Ang does at the Cleanup Bureau isn't very easy either...

After watching Li Ang leave in a rush, and then looking at her colleagues snoring on the backs of their chairs not far away, the female officer sighed with empathy, quickly finished the pudding on her tray, collected her and Li Ang's trays to the cleaning area, left the cafeteria, and walked quickly back toward the Secret Investigation Bureau.

"Yisha! Come with me quickly!"

Just as she entered the lobby on the first floor of the Secret Investigation Bureau, a middle-aged female police officer she knew well trotted over, her face full of joy:

"Go to the small conference room on the third floor! The bureau just had a major discovery!"

A major discovery?!

Doesn't that mean there's a possibility of catching the culprit, finding the items lost by the Kingdom of Kewangguo, and then we won't have to work hellish overtime anymore?

Upon hearing her colleague's words, the female officer's expression brightened. She rushed into the stairwell like a mother leopard, took the stairs two steps at a time, and headed straight for the small conference room with the "Temporary Command Post" sign hanging on the corner.

"Everyone! I have three exciting pieces of good news!"

The middle-aged man speaking on the podium saw the female officer rushing back with a joyful face, nodded kindly at her, and continued to speak with high spirits:

"Over the past few days, I led the team to complete the investigation and visits to all seven groups of checkpoints at the airship tower, involving a total of 2,300 guards, and obtained a list of all personnel who passed through the checkpoints that day.

The first piece of good news is that after three days of tireless and arduous efforts by my colleagues in the investigation team, we have excluded 37 groups of personnel with normal itineraries and have roughly locked the target onto five suspicious groups!"

Only five groups left? That really is huge good news!

After hearing the announcement from the newly appointed director of the Secret Investigation Bureau, the female officer felt radiant for a moment, and the dark circles under her eyes faded quite a bit.

According to the bureau's current efficiency, never mind five groups, even if it were fifty groups, they could get to the bottom of it within a week! It can be said that the case of the rebels attacking the airship tower is not far from being solved!

Looking at the joyful expressions of the police officers off the stage, the middle-aged man on the stage nodded with satisfaction, then couldn't help but slightly curl the corners of his mouth, unable to hide his smile:

"As for the second piece of good news... after the inventory of the spare parts warehouse this morning, four of these five groups can also be basically excluded!"

"What?!!!"

"Doesn't that mean the target is already locked?"

"Mom! Finally don't have to work overtime!"

"Director is awesome!"

Looking at his subordinates who were first in an uproar and then cast looks of reverence toward him, the middle-aged man on the stage couldn't help but press his lips together firmly, wanting to maintain the reserve of a director.

But thinking of the huge credit for solving this matter and his own position that would surely rise, he couldn't hold it back in the end and announced with a beaming face:

"Yes! We have initially locked onto the target. Next, as long as we find that group of people, there is a high probability that the case will be closed directly!"

"Great!!!"

"As expected of the director!"

"Catch them! Catch them!"

"Quiet!"

The middle-aged man raised his hand to press down, suppressing the overly jubilant atmosphere. After looking at Yisha, who was also full of excitement off the stage, he remembered her father, the Minister of Defense, and kindly beckoned to her.

"Finally, besides the efforts of myself and the members of the investigation team, to be able to discover this good news, we must also thank one person..."

After the female officer went up to the podium in confusion, the middle-aged man smiled and said:

"When everyone was busy to the point of exhaustion and no one was willing to pay attention to other things, only Yisha was still conscientiously reconciling the accounts, finding most of the items missing from the spare parts warehouse!

I am ashamed to say that when she handed in the reconciliation results this morning, I even felt she was making a mountain out of a molehill, distracting herself to inventory some supplies no one cared about at such a critical moment.

But in the spirit of being serious and responsible, I still took a look at the report she submitted, and then I was incredibly shocked to discover that the numbers of the dozen or so missing police IDs were exactly the ones used by one of those five groups!"

After deliberately emphasizing his own seriousness and responsibility, as well as his caution and meticulousness in keeping suspicious numbers in mind at all times, the middle-aged man said with a joyful face:

"Although we had previously inquired about these numbers, after confirming they were already discarded police ID numbers, we treated them as high-quality fake IDs and focused on investigating suspicious figures who had contact with the seal, without continuing to dig deeper.

And thanks to Yisha's seriousness and meticulousness, we have now obtained new and important clues! Everyone, applaud!"

"Whoo!!"

"Yisha! Yisha!"

"If I work any more overtime, I'm really going to die... Yisha, you saved my life!"

"This... I just happened to do it, no need to be so exaggerated..."

Seeing the exceptionally grateful gazes of her colleagues, the female officer, who felt a little embarrassed, waved her hands repeatedly with a flushed face, unable to hide her joy, and then took the initiative to change the subject:

"Director, you just said there were three pieces of good news. What is the last piece of news?"

"The last piece of news is that we have locked onto part of the appearance of the key suspect!"

The middle-aged man smiled and said:

"According to the confession of those two warehouse keepers, although they didn't keep records, they vaguely remember that before the airship tower attack occurred, someone took a note from a member of the Secret Investigation Bureau and took away those IDs and some clothes.

Although the lights in the spare parts warehouse were a bit dim and that person's face seemed to be covered in mist, they didn't remember the face too well, and that note suddenly disappeared later, but it seems to have been a young man wearing a black old coat with a slightly thin build!

Next, as long as we find this person and ask where those things went, there is a high probability of capturing those people in one fell swoop! Now we are really only one step away from closing the case!"

"Great!"

"Case closed! Finally about to close the case!"

"Yisha! Yisha! The goddess who saved my life!"

Amidst the excited cheers of the secret police off the stage, the middle-aged man laughed and patted the female officer on the shoulder, praising her with appreciation:

"All of this is thanks to you!

If you hadn't been serious and meticulous enough, we, with our wrong investigation direction, would have needed at least another month to investigate to this point. By then, the culprit might have already run away!

Ahahaha, truly worthy of being that... um... amazing! Next time I see your father, I will definitely talk to him well about... um? What's wrong? Are you not happy?"

"Happy... very happy!"

Upon hearing the middle-aged man's question, the female officer, who had heard many familiar descriptions in the director's words just now, couldn't help but bite her little white teeth fiercely, then forced a smile with murderous intent in her eyes:

"I'm so happy I could burst!!!"