I am a super cop

Chapter 2885 This is a guilty conscience
Gu Chen and his companions finally figured out the reason behind the incident in the mine. It turned out that it was all for that investment, so the management started to use any means necessary.

But the deceased had indeed been to the bottom of the mine, and his identity was an external investigator from the investment department of the original group.

The reason why he entered the mining area wearing work clothes was probably to conceal his presence so that he could secretly investigate the real situation in the mining area.

But these workers clearly knew that this person had been here, but they hid the fact for the sake of investment.

This made Officer Wang a little unhappy, and he sighed and said, "Does anyone know where this person went in the end? When was the last time you saw him?"

"Uh……"

This question made everyone present seem a little confused. They looked at each other, and seemed to be unable to put it into words.

Officer Wang asked again, "When was the last time you saw him? Don't you know this either?"

"We only saw him once," said the tall and thin worker.

The fat worker quickly agreed: "He only came down once, and we all saw him here. Later, after he left, we never saw him again."

"Didn't the leader inform us that no matter who it was, we should just say we hadn't seen it? This is all we know."

"Okay." Feeling that these people really didn't seem to be joking, Gu Chen asked some other details, then looked at Zhao Qing and said:
"Secretary Zhao, let's go."

"Go to the top of the mine?" Zhao Qing said.

Gu Chen nodded silently and said without hesitation: "Go and communicate with those people in the investment department of Yuan Group. After all, this person is their external employee."

"This person's disappearance is more or less related to them. No matter what, we need to communicate and investigate."

"I understand." After figuring out what Gu Chen meant, Zhao Qing nodded silently, then turned and walked towards the pickup truck.

Seeing this, Gu Chen and his companions followed behind and got on the pickup truck one after another.

Everyone continued along the spiral road they had come from, heading all the way to the top of the mine.

This time, it took everyone 40 minutes to finally return to the previous mobile house location.

Afterwards, everyone drove the vehicle directly to the office area, which was the mobile house.

At this moment, two high-end business cars were already parked at the office door, and one of the drivers was sitting there smoking leisurely.

Seeing this, Gu Chen walked straight over.

The driver in a suit and tie immediately recognized Gu Chen and greeted him: "Isn't this Director Gu? Hello, Director Gu."

"Are you from the investment department of Yuan Group?" Gu Chen walked over and asked.

"Yes, that's right. We are from the investment department and we are here to inspect the project today."

"Where is your leader?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Our leader? Our leader went to the mining area for inspection." The driver replied quickly.

Gu Chen shook his fingers and reminded them, "Let your leaders come over. I have something to ask them, and I asked them to come over."

Hearing what Gu Chen said, the driver immediately sighed, then quickly took out his cell phone and started calling his leader.

Soon, the communication ended, the driver quickly hung up the phone, got out of the car and gave Gu Chen a cigarette.

After being rejected by Gu Chen, the driver smiled and said, "Director Gu, it turned out that you were the one who called our leader over for inspection. I was wondering why the leader wanted to come here for inspection today."

"Do you know this person?" Officer Wang took out his cell phone and showed the photo of the deceased.

The driver squinted and shook his head: "I don't know him, I've never seen him."

"Your leader in charge of this investment may have seen it." Officer Wang also sighed softly, feeling a little helpless.

It can be seen that the police's expressions are very serious. The driver naturally knows that this matter is unusual.

In addition, all the main project leaders were sent here for on-site inspections, and it was obvious that the matter was serious.

As the driver of the Yuan Group's investment department, he was naturally a person who was good at observing people's words and expressions, and he naturally knew that this trip to the mine was not that simple.

Not long after, the bald man and Xu Gong, along with a group of men and women in suits, came over from the open-pit mine.

When they saw Gu Chen's team, the group of men and women in suits quickened their pace and hurried over.

"Hello, are you Director Gu?" One of the middle-aged men with a square face quickly greeted Gu Chen.

"I'm Gu Chen from the Furong Branch, who are you?"

"Oh, I'm Xu Gang from the investment department of Yuan Group, and I'm also the main person in charge of this investment project. You can call me Lao Xu."

"So you are the one pushing this project forward, right?" Gu Chen asked.

"Uh, yes." After hesitating for a moment, Xu Gang nodded in agreement.

"Then come with me, I have something to ask you." After Gu Chen finished speaking, he motioned Xu Gang to go into the police car with him to talk in detail.

Xu Gang seemed a little nervous at this moment. After looking at his colleagues, he tugged at his tie and then walked towards the police car.

Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang, Yuan Shasha and others also gathered around the police car.

Others wanted to get closer, but were stopped by Officer Wang, who asked them to keep a certain distance.

The atmosphere on the scene suddenly became a little tense.

Xu Gang, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, was also very nervous at the moment. He looked at Gu Chen in front of him and asked:
"Director Gu, it was you who asked us to come here for a field trip this time, right?"

"That's right." Facing Xu Gang's question, Gu Chen also told the truth: "I asked your leader to send your team here."

After he finished speaking, Gu Chen showed the photo of the deceased and asked, "Do you know this person?"

"Uh……"

After taking a look at the person in the photo, Xu Gang nodded silently and said without hesitation, "I know him."

"Who is he?" asked Lu Weiwei on the side.

"Well, it's our investigator, an external investigator," said Xu Gang.

"Can you be more specific?" asked Officer Wang.

"Oh, he is a non-staff member. He is not considered a formal employee of our company, but if we need to investigate, we can delegate him to investigate in his personal capacity."

"Because many of our investments require us to understand the specific conditions of the projects on the ground, it is inevitable that there will be some exaggeration if we only rely on the partners' stories."

"So at this time, the independent investigator can provide us with a very objective evaluation."

"In this way, our investment projects will be more reliable." "Then how does this person usually report to you? How many times has he reported?" Yuan Shasha asked.

Xu Gang quickly replied: "In fact, he only replied to me once."

"Once?" Yuan Shasha frowned slightly, and said in disbelief:

"They sent them here to conduct an independent investigation, and they only responded once? What's going on?"

"Oh!" Facing Yuan Shasha's question, Xu Gang also grinned and said quickly:

"I have interviewed this person before, and we have worked together on other projects before."

"His greatest characteristic is his ability to independently investigate and complete various assessments."

"Of course, he has his own way, maybe he disguised his identity. Of course, we don't know this, and of course, it has nothing to do with us."

"We just need results, objective results, but he delivers every time."

At this point, Xu Gang also sighed and continued to explain: "Because he is a non-staff member, an external staff member, once his identity is discovered by the other party, we can't say that he was sent by us."

"Because this will affect cooperation, but we need such an independent investigator to conduct an assessment, so outsourcing is a good way."

"Our investment department will also provide high compensation, and they can earn enough salary and have a lot of freedom."

"But this person has only called me once since he went to the mine to conduct an independent investigation."

"What are the specific contents?" Yuan Shasha asked.

"That's it..." After hesitating for a moment, Xu Gang slowly said:

"Just to tell me that he has obtained the work clothes here, and then he is going to investigate the mining area. Once he has completed his assessment, he will tell me as soon as possible."

"But after this call, I never received a call from him again."

"Sometimes, I was afraid that if he failed, it would delay the progress of our project evaluation. After all, we can only enter the field investigation stage after he issues an independent investigation and evaluation report."

"This will effectively give us the upper hand in investment negotiations and give us a general understanding of the actual situation here."

"So what? This person hasn't contacted you again? And you haven't contacted him again?" Gu Chen asked.

"No." Xu Gang shook his head and said without hesitation: "I have contacted him."

"Because we haven't heard from him yet, this will affect the progress of our project."

"So I called him using a new number, but his phone kept showing as switched off."

Shaking his head, Xu Gang said helplessly: "I don't know how to solve this problem. After all, this guy just disappeared out of thin air."

"Normally, this situation is very abnormal, because we have worked with him many times and this has never happened before."

"But he didn't contact us for a long time. We felt that something must have happened to him. However, it was difficult for us to come over because without a detailed report on this place, it would not make much sense even if we conducted an on-site inspection and negotiation."

After taking a deep breath, Xu Gang continued to explain: "Didn't the higher-ups call us and ask us to come here today? So we had no choice but to come here."

"I just realized that it was Director Gu who asked us to come here."

"So where do you think this independent investigator will appear in the end?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Obviously." Xu Gang spread his hands and said without hesitation:

"I felt that he should still be near the mining area, but when I heard that this person had drowned in a nearby reservoir, I felt like my head was going to explode."

After taking a deep breath and trying to calm himself down, Xu Gang also held his head with both hands and sighed helplessly:
"I don't know why this happened. He was fine before, and we have worked together many times. But this time, he drowned in the reservoir."

"When I heard the news, I felt very heavy. I even wondered what had happened to him."

"So what do you think happened to him?" Officer Wang asked with a raised eyebrow.

Xu Gang suddenly shut up. He looked at his colleagues and the mine management staff outside the window, then turned his gaze to Gu Chen and the others and said:
"I had some doubts at the time. I suspected that his identity might have been discovered by the people in the mine, or that he had discovered some secrets of the mine, so he was caught by the people in the mine."

"Then they may have taught our independent investigator a lesson, and perhaps some unexpected action led to his accidental death, and then the body turned up in the reservoir."

"So you suspect that your independent investigator may have died in the mining area? Was it done by people in the mining area?" asked Officer Wang.

But Xu Gang waved his hand again: "Don't say that, this is just my guess."

"You can't talk about this kind of thing casually. I'm just making a rough guess. After all, we've encountered independent investigators suddenly disappearing before."

"It's because the work he does is more dangerous and requires him to get deeply involved in the projects we work on together."

"Of course, we don't care what means he uses to conduct the investigation, and it has nothing to do with us."

"But he had also pretended to be a staff member of the project and sneaked in to conduct an investigation. In the end, he was discovered and almost caught. He was also beaten."

"So based on past experience, I estimate that he will definitely be discovered by the people in the mining area when he comes to the mining area this time, especially such a large area."

"But after all, I think that there is nothing else in the mining area except ore, and the people here should not make things difficult for him."

"He is also very smart. He can always find a way to solve problems. There are many people in the mine, so it seems that no one will notice him. Moreover, he told me that he was wearing the mine's work clothes."

"Thinking about this matter, I should be able to rest easy. I'm just waiting for his independent investigation report."

At this point, Xu Gang also sighed and said helplessly:

"But who would have thought that he would die in the reservoir? I don't know what happened in the meantime. Why did it happen?"

"So what you mean is that you suspect it was done by the mine manager?" Yuan Shasha asked quickly after hearing this.

But Xu Gang also continued to express his position: "First of all, I would like to state that this is just my rough guess and cannot be confirmed."

"Secondly, our partners, the mine site, were not aware that we had sent independent investigators into the mine site."

"As to whether they did it, I'm not sure and it's hard to say."

"After all, sending independent investigators outside the company to conduct on-site investigations of projects is an unspoken rule of many large companies. Everyone does this."

"We just want to get first-hand information to increase our bargaining chips."

"Okay." After listening to Xu Gang's explanation, Gu Chen became more and more suspicious of the mining area management.

After all, what Xu Gang thought in his heart was also what Gu Chen thought in his heart.

If the workers in the mine have met the independent investigator, and the management of the mine has repeatedly concealed the facts and even asked people to fabricate lies.

Obviously, this is a manifestation of a guilty conscience.

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