Chapter 994: 0591 The Unlucky Newcomer

Huh?

After hurrying back to the first floor, looking at the thin woman wandering outside the duty room with a hesitant expression on her face, the administrator couldn't help but ask in confusion:

"Miss Lai La? Shouldn't you be helping in the kitchen at Doug Restaurant right now? Why are you back so early?"

"I... Sorry..."

Hearing the inquiry from behind, the woman, who was about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old and wearing an old velvet skirt, couldn't help but stiffen slightly. She turned her head back and said with an embarrassed face:

"I was just... fired by the boss over there..."

"..."

Fired again?

The administrator couldn't help but be stunned upon hearing this, then said with a helpless expression:

"Miss Lai La, if I remember correctly, this is already the third time you've been fired this week, right?"

"I'm sorry... but I really didn't mean to..."

Facing the kind person who had helped her introduce three jobs, but ended up messing them all up three times in a row, the thin woman, covered in coffee stains, couldn't help but lower her head and explain with shame:

"In the morning, when I was stewing borscht, the sour cream just happened to run out, so I wanted to go into the storage room to get a new jar. But just as I turned the doorknob, I saw the head chef and Jenny... that is, the waitress at the restaurant, were... were..."

"... were doing that kind of thing?"

"Mm..."

"..."

"And then... my job was gone..."

In the administrator's strange expression, the woman with delicate features covered her scalded arm and said bitterly:

"Although I was startled, I immediately promised them that I hadn't seen anything and wouldn't say anything. But in the afternoon, when Jenny was serving coffee to a guest, she still... accidentally bumped into me.

Although I helped steady her, a whole pot of freshly brewed hot coffee poured directly onto the guest's head. Then the head chef immediately rushed out from the back kitchen to scold me, saying that I... saying that I was clumsy in the back kitchen and that the ingredients I handled were always missing some. Doug the boss then drove me back..."

"Then you..."

"I was wronged..."

The thin woman said with red eyes:

"I cherish this job very much. For the past two days, I've been working more than ten hours every day, basically completing twice the work of others, and I haven't stolen any ingredients or anything like that. I just pack up some leftovers from the guests, which was agreed upon beforehand.

But... but the head chef came out to frame me, and others didn't dare to speak up for me. He... he was just retaliating against me for bumping into him and Jenny. I really didn't steal anything. Please believe me!"

"Lai La, don't be anxious first..."

Looking at the thin woman who was almost on the verge of a breakdown, the administrator comforted her gently, then said helplessly:

"I know what kind of person you are, otherwise I wouldn't have kept helping you introduce jobs. But... but why do you always run into these things?"

After recalling the thin woman's encounters over the past two weeks, the administrator said strangely:

"The job you had cooking at the engineering team previously was going well, but the waste paper you casually found to pad the soup pot was actually the foreman's fake price list;

The one before that was a hotel receptionist. When you were cleaning the room, your foot slipped, and you accidentally bumped into the next room, just in time to see the boss bribing the city councilor. This time, you bumped into the head chef and the waitress doing that kind of thing... You... isn't this a bit too coincidental?"

"I... I don't know what's going on either..."

The thin woman wiped her tears and said:

"Since I was a child, I have always been very unlucky. I always run into things that others don't want to be known. I ran into my stepmother and neighbor having an affair at home, ran into the principal taking bribes at the academy, and even when I was a maid at the Laien Manor, I could run into..."

"In... in short... I really didn't mean to, and I never dared to expose anyone. I didn't dare to say anything even when I was bullied and driven away. I just want to find a job to support myself and my younger brother, but... but why is it always... *sob*... why is it so hard to live well!"

"Sigh..."

Looking at the thin woman in front of him who was talking about her series of unlucky experiences and finally couldn't help but break down and cry, the administrator felt a bit heartbroken while being unable to laugh or cry.

"Cry, you'll feel better after crying it out."

Taking out her handkerchief and walking toward the thin woman, after treating the scalded arm for her, the administrator patted the thin woman's back and comforted her gently:

"These are indeed not your problems. Don't be anxious first. I'll think of a way to see if I can help you introduce another job... Don't worry, people won't always be this unlucky."

No, she will probably continue to be this "unlucky."

Standing in the stairwell on the second floor, after listening to the entire conversation between the administrator and this "Miss Lai La," Li Ang looked at the examination form in his hand and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

【Name: Lai La Roberts】

【Crime: Espionage, Leaking Kingdom Secrets】

【Penalty: Secret execution by hanging after capture and interrogation】

【File: Suspected ace spy who infiltrated from another country. Since six years ago, she has appeared multiple times on a series of important occasions, causing the loss of a large number of classified documents and evidence.

After investigating 29 locations, a total of 571 entry and exit personnel lists, and tracking for 19 months, the Secret Investigation Bureau finally locked onto this spy who was hidden very deeply, and found a small portion of lost classified documents and evidence in the apartment where she lived. The specific list is as follows:

The "Secret Market Price Control Document for Supplementary Grain" privately signed with the Kingdom of Aulesong, which was carefully folded and placed under a lame dining table;

The remnant of the "Seventeen-Item Joint Defense Agreement" signed with the Secret Envoy of the Duchy of Hessen, which was cut and disguised as a book protective cover, with the agreement text facing inward, and put on the outside of a "Children's Story Picture Book";

The ritual porcelain vase gifted by the former Duke Laien and the Kuke family when they privately allied to resist the royal family together, which is now chipped and damaged, and was placed on the windowsill of the apartment with a cluster of wild lilies that had lost some water...】

【Objection: After the file was investigated and verified by Acting Director Yisha Hill of the Secret Investigation Bureau, she questioned the espionage charge, reported it as a suspected 'Special Situation No. 3', and transferred it to the Cleaning Bureau of the Police Department for review】

【Cleaning Bureau Verification Opinion:...】

"..."

My verification opinion is... the policewoman judged correctly. This person indeed carries an anomalous object.

Looking at the long list of classified documents and evidence in the file, as well as the rather "everyday" handling results of these things, Li Ang's face couldn't help but reveal a strange expression similar to the administrator's.

Under normal circumstances, it is really unlikely that so many coincidences would occur. Therefore, this Miss Lai La should have an anomalous object of "bumping into secrets." The more others don't want things to be discovered, the easier it is for her to bump into them.

As for those classified documents that were taken away...

If he hadn't guessed wrong, she was probably living in poverty, so like him, she had developed the thrifty habit of reusing waste. Plus, she might be illiterate or not know many characters, which was why she had collected such a pile of deadly things.

For example, that ritual porcelain vase from the Laien family was probably broken by another maid or someone else by accident, then secretly thrown away. She, as a maid, saw it and picked it up, taking it home to use as a vase...

【Confirmed as an anomalous object holder】

After spreading the examination form on the stair railing and writing down the preliminary judgment with a charcoal pen, Li Ang frowned and fell into deep thought.

This Miss Lai La has an anomalous object, which is correct and fully meets the Bureau's recruitment standards. But the problem now is, is a person like her suitable for the job of a cleaner? ===== CHAPTER 995 =====