Chapter 1796 The Stone Statue in the Warehouse
If the imperial currency reform fails, the one million gold banknotes that Professor Moriarty helped Joann hold on behalf of Joan, and the gold banknotes that Mr. Professor himself and Mrs. Josephine made a big bet on, will eventually become a pile of rubbish. Too hard waste paper.
As the holder of a large amount of money, Qiao An does not want the mining area theft to be exposed even if it is only out of personal interests, and has sufficient motivation to participate in the investigation of the case, arrest the thieves, and completely eliminate a major hidden danger.
"Mr. Hodge, I roughly understand the cause and effect of the matter. If you trust me, let me take charge of the investigation of the theft of the coarse crystal." Joan took the initiative to take on the drudgery.
"Dr. Vader, I will leave this matter to you. If you need anything, just ask. All the colleagues in the mining area and I will fully cooperate."
A smile rarely appeared on Mr. Hodge's cloudy face.
"Of course, we can't let your hard work be in vain! If you can crack the case and recover the stolen goods before the news leaks out, the company will pay you a due commission, ten thousand duga or one pound of magic crystal, You can choose! How about it, Dr. Vader, you don’t think I’m too stingy, do you?”
Facing Mr. President's earnest eyes, Joan rubbed his hands, and almost couldn't help but want to whistle.
Wow~~~ Ten thousand Gold Durga? !
Look at this... ouch, it's embarrassing!
Brother Klein is really right, Mr. Hodge is too open-minded!
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After bidding farewell to Mr. Hodge, Joan followed Klein to Warehouse No. 5 where the gang of thieves last appeared.
Gray Bird, Gumoduo, and Scholz had already been waiting here in advance. After everyone met, Gray Bird unlocked the door and led everyone into the warehouse.
"Dr. Vader, the mining area is divided into ten divisions, each division operates independently, and each division is assigned a warehouse."
"Warehouse No. 5 has been in the state it was at the time of the incident. Last night when I led someone to break into the door, it was the same as it is now." Gray Bird said softly.
Qiao An nodded knowingly. The crime scene is well preserved, which is indeed more conducive to collecting clues.
There are a total of 4 large safes made of steel plates in the warehouse. The fronts are numbered 1-4 with bright red paint. Each safe can hold a ton of coarse crystals.
Normally, when a safe—for example, No. 1 cabinet—is filled with coarse crystals, it will be escorted to a surface factory for refining, and the empty cabinet will not be sent back until the armed escort team returns.
It takes three to four days for a round trip from the abyss mining area to the refinery at the port. During this period, the mine continued to work, and the coarse crystals extracted from the ore were stored in the spare safe. Therefore, the four safes rarely appeared in the warehouse at the same time. It was a coincidence for Joan today.
"In warehouses No. 3 and No. 8 that were stolen before, there was only one safe with coarse crystals at the time of the incident, but the other three empty cabinets were also opened. It can be seen that the thief could not see through the one-inch thick steel plate. Whether there are coarse crystals installed or not, we can only smash them all to try our luck." Klein introduced to Joan.
Qiao An was reminded by him to carefully observe the four safes in the No. 8 warehouse, and all of them were pried open.
In addition to the combination lock made by the skillful dwarves, the safe is also blessed with a "secret lock". It is not easy for thieves to open these two locks in succession. Judging from the method of picking the locks, Joan suspects that at least one of the thieves is good at the 2-ring "knocking lock". Strike" arcane spellcaster.
Joan walked to No. 1 safe, opened the door and looked inside, and there was a faint magical light flashing in the empty cabinet.
"Is there a 'magic alarm' installed in the safe?" Joan turned back and asked Gray Bird.
The blind lady nodded and replied with a frown: "It stands to reason that even if the thief can successfully unlock the two cabinet locks, the magic alarm will be triggered the moment the cabinet door is opened. No alarm was triggered when Warehouse No. 5 and Warehouse No. 5 were stolen."
"This shows that the thieves have learned their lesson, and their stealing techniques have become more and more proficient." Joan guessed.
"Fortunately, the four cabinets in Warehouse No. 8 were all empty last night. Otherwise, it's hard to guarantee that they won't be snatched by thieves again." Gray Bird sighed, "If that's the case, I'm afraid I've already been fired."
Joan heard the worry in her words, wanted to comfort her but didn't know what to say, so she simply kept silent and focused on observing the crime scene. Compared with verbal comfort, solving the theft as soon as possible can really help Gray Bird and her security team get out of the embarrassing situation.
None of the four safes left any traces of blood that could be used by Joan, so he decided to change to a more realistic direction of investigation, and asked Gray Bird: "Where is the petrified security guard?"
"Here, Dr. Vader, please follow me."
Gray Bird took Joan to the corner of the warehouse, and sure enough, there was a stone statue standing quietly, with his left hand pointing forward, his right hand holding the knife handle tightly, his face froze with anger.
When Qiao An saw the posture and expression of the stone statue, it was not difficult to imagine how the stone-blind barbarian warrior was anxious to stop the thief from stealing when he was surprised that the thief had sneaked into the warehouse. Unfortunately, he was turned into a stone statue before he could draw his sword.
Joan extracted 4 "Sid Mana" to cast "Break Barrier", raised his hand and patted on the back of the stone statue, a soft magic power was injected into the opponent's body, and the blue-gray rock body quickly transformed into a flesh and blood body .
The stone-blind barbarian warrior seemed to wake up from a dream, and roared sharply as soon as he regained his vitality, and suddenly pulled out his saber.
"Garu, calm down!" Gray Bird scolded.
The warrior named Garu was stunned for a moment, then quickly sheathed his knife, and bowed to Gray Bird with shame on his face.
Gray Bird waved his hands angrily, and said to him, "How much do you know about the group of thieves who broke into the warehouse last night?"
"Sister, I can't tell you the specific appearance of the thieves. I can only confirm that there are a total of nine members of this thieves gang—at least nine people broke into the warehouse."
Joan frowned slightly, feeling a little depressed. The "witness" Jia Lu was born blind. Although his hearing and sense of smell were well developed, he couldn't discern details such as skin color and appearance, so he probably wouldn't be able to provide many valuable clues.
With a sense of luck, Joan asked Garu: "Can you describe in detail the impression that group of thieves left on you."
The young stone-blind barbarian warrior lowered his head and pondered for a while, then replied: "The nine thieves who broke into the warehouse were all short in stature, and none of them was taller than four feet."
"Well, this is pretty good news." Scholz shrugged. "If brother Jialu's feeling is credible, it can at least show that there are no compatriots from our dwarves in the thieves gang."
The average adult dwarf is about four and a half feet tall, with few being under four feet.
Klein glared at Scholz angrily, signaling him to stop interrupting and concentrate on listening to Garou's testimony.