Chapter 459 It starts again
At around nine o'clock, the three people responsible for patrolling the office building walked to the front of the building with flashlights. After registering the time and the names of the patrol officers with their colleagues on duty downstairs, they turned on the flashlights and walked into the building.

Starting from the first floor, the three people would push each office door in turn. After confirming that everything was correct, they would move up and repeat this action all the way to the fifth floor, day after day, year after year.

The three of them were chatting casually while checking. After finishing the inspection, they went downstairs and walked out of the office building, greeted the sentry at the door, chatted for a few more words, and then walked to the duty room on the side of the gate laughing.

If nothing goes wrong for a long time, everyone will become lax, even the leaders.

As soon as the people inside the inspection building left, the three mobile sentries in the yard also came over, stood in front of the office building and chatted with the two people on guard for a few words before leaving.

After they left, one of the two people on guard took out a cigarette from his pocket and threw one to the other. After they lit it, the two men left their seats and walked to the flowerbed in front of the building, chatting and smoking.

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped up from the outside of the west courtyard wall about seven or eight meters away on the west side of the office building.

Because there was barbed wire installed on the wall, the black shadow rushed to the top of the wall, held the wall with one hand, and took out a pair of pliers from his waist with the other hand. With a strong force, he cut the barbed wire installed on the wall.

There were three wires in total, and the black shadow only cut the bottom one.

After cutting it, the black shadow put the pliers in his hand back to his waist, then lay on the top of the wall, carefully rubbed in from the cut place, turned over and landed on the roadside flower bed inside the wall.

After coming in, the black shadow did not stop, and walked out of the flower bed quietly and came to the first-floor corridor window on the west side of the office building.

The windows here were sealed with steel bars. After the black shadow came here, he turned his head to look both sides, took out a larger pipe pliers from the yellow schoolbag he was carrying, and began to cut the steel bars that sealed the windows with gritted teeth.

After more than ten minutes, the black shadow finally cut one steel bar. He used the pipe pliers in his hand to bend the severed steel bar, revealing a small hole. Judging from the width of the black shadow's shoulders, it would be impossible for him to get in through this hole.

The black shadow didn't seem to want to get in from here. After bending the steel rod, he struggled to bend it back again.

But it is not so easy to restore a steel bar as thick as a thumb after it has been bent by relying on manual strength.

The black shadow struggled for a long time before he managed to bend the steel bar back together, but it was impossible to straighten it completely, and it was still slightly warped.

In the dim light of the street lamp, the black shadow glanced at the watch on his wrist and found that the time was almost the same as expected. He hurriedly put the pipe wrench in his hand into his bag, and ran back to the place where he had just climbed in. Taking advantage of the small gap, he hurriedly climbed out and didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he landed.

The black shadow looked back at the place where he had climbed out, raised his hand to pat the dust on his body when he climbed over the wall, raised his foot and walked forward, and disappeared into the night in a short while.

Just as the black shadow climbed over the wall, one of the two sentries in front of the office building stood up.

"Guangming, I'm going to the bathroom."

"Go quickly!" Another sentry was reading an unknown newspaper with relish under the street light in front of the office building. Upon hearing this, he replied without even raising his head.

The sentry who was going to the toilet walked into the dark office building, turned right, and went into the first room with a door curtain on the right.

This is the men's bathroom on the first floor. The second room forward is the women's bathroom.

After turning into the bathroom, he raised his left hand and touched the wall twice. With a click, the light bulb in the bathroom came on.

After taking care of his personal hygiene, he washed his hands under the faucet, then turned off the light bulb and walked out of the bathroom.

The light flickered on and off, and he felt the corridor became even darker.

I turned around and looked at the windows at both ends of the corridor. Through the windows, I could vaguely see the dim street lights outside.

After looking back and forth, he turned left and walked out of the office building again, but he didn't notice that there was a person standing between the door and the door curtain of an office not far from the bathroom.

After watching the sentry walk out, the man tiptoed out from behind the door curtain, walked quickly to the stairs and went to the second floor, without making any sound the whole time.

The man on guard had no idea that when he came out of the bathroom, there was another person hiding behind the door curtain less than five meters away from him.

……

Another half hour passed and it was already ten o'clock in the evening.

At this time, the movie in the cinema had already ended, and the cadres, employees and family members of the Steel Research Institute who had watched the movie had all dispersed and returned home. The cinema, which had been bustling for half a day, finally became quiet again. Except for the Beijing Iron and Steel General Plant a little further away which still seemed brightly lit, there were almost no people on the street.

Seeing that the time was almost up, the three people who went to patrol the office building came out of the duty room with flashlights, ready to start their third patrol after nightfall.

Just like before, the three of them walked towards the office building while chatting and laughing. There were street lights on the road in the yard, so there was no need to use flashlights. Because important information was stored in the office building, as long as they did not work overtime, in order to avoid fire caused by wiring problems, the security department's on-duty personnel would pull out the main circuit breaker in the office building after get off work, and push it back on before work the next morning.

The toilet on the first floor is specially connected to the street light to make it convenient for the staff on duty to use the toilet.

After walking to the front of the building and completing the registration, the three of them entered the office building one by one, turning on their flashlights at the same time.

The first man raised his flashlight and shone it on the east side of the office building: "As usual, you two go to the east, and I go to the west."

"Okay," the two people responded in unison, and turned right. There were offices on both sides of the corridor. Each of them was responsible for one side. They lifted the door curtain, pushed the office door, and confirmed that there was no problem before going to the next one.

In order to save trouble, the man patrolling the west side did not lift the door curtain. Instead, he pushed the door curtain together with his hands, pushed hard twice, and then pushed the next one.

Because there were two people checking the east side, the process was very fast. By the time they finished checking the east office and walked back to the stairs, the person on the west had only finished half of the check.

There was no urging for the two men. One of them said he was going to the bathroom, and the other followed him into the bathroom.

When the two were flushing the toilet, a shout suddenly came from outside.

"Something happened, go call the section chief."

The two people who were peeing were startled, and they didn't know whether they had finished peeing or not. Anyway, they both walked out with their pants held up.

After the two men came out, they looked to the west and saw that the man in charge of checking the west was standing at the west end of the corridor, shining a flashlight through the window to look at something.

Before they could say anything, a guard on duty in front of the office building ran in.

At this time, the man standing at the west end shouted, "Guangming, is Guangming coming in?"

"I'm here." The sentry who ran in responded.

"Please turn on the electricity first. The protective net of this window has been cut open."

"What???"

When these words were spoken, both the sentry who had just run in and the two people in charge of checking the east side were startled.

"Don't be stunned. One of you goes to call the section chief, and the other one shines the flashlight diagonally on the ground to see if you can find any suspicious footprints."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

One of them responded, turned around and ran outside, while the other one squatted down and looked at the ground carefully with a flashlight.

The man named Guangming who was on guard at the door had already walked to the entrance, opened the distribution box, and pushed up a switch that had been pulled down.

The moment it was pushed up, the corridor lights in the building lit up, but because the wattage of the bulbs was not high, the light was very dim, but it was better than the pitch black just now.

At this time, another sentry walked to the front of the staircase and asked softly, "What's wrong, Guangming?"

"The protective net of the window at the top of the west corridor has been cut open."

"What?" The man outside had the same reaction and seemed extremely surprised.

"Don't be surprised. Team Leader Yao said that. He wouldn't joke about such a thing. Did you hear any noise just now?"

The man named Guangming looked a little depressed. The two of them were responsible for standing guard in front of the office building. Now the protective nets on the windows in the building had been cut open, but they knew nothing. If nothing was lost, it would be fine. But if something was lost, well...

Then this time we are in big trouble.

The two of them were on duty outside and did not dare to leave their posts and go in casually. They were also observing the footprints on the ground inside.

"No, I didn't hear any noise for half a day." Another person shook his head and his face turned ugly.

"Let's go, we'll go out first." Guangming raised his hand and gently pushed the shoulder of his partner, indicating that they should wait outside.

After the two walked out of the staircase, they saw the leader on duty tonight, Section Chief Sun from their Steel Research Institute's Security Department, who happened to be running towards this side from the road on the east side of the office building.

As soon as he turned around, Section Chief Sun seemed to have seen something and hurriedly stopped and shouted to the north: "You guys, check the barbed wire on the wall separately to see if there is any damage."

It turned out that he saw the mobile sentry in the courtyard. As soon as he finished shouting, he heard several responses from afar.

Hearing the response from the other side, Section Chief Sun quickly ran towards the office building again, followed by two people. One was the person who had just called him, and the other was one of the sentries at the gate. Now that the gate was locked, there was only one person left.

"Guangming, Zhao Yi, what's going on?"

After running a few more steps forward, Section Chief Sun raised his voice and asked loudly at the two sentries in front of the office building.

The two people being questioned moved their mouths for a long time but couldn't utter a word, while Section Chief Sun had already run up to them, panting. He glared at the two of them fiercely and walked quickly into the building.

"Old Yao, Old Yao, what's going on?"

"Chief, one of the steel bars on this window has been cut off."

"Okay, I'll go outside and take a look. Old Yao, just stay there and don't move." After entering the corridor, Section Chief Sun saw a subordinate lying there and carefully using a flashlight to observe footprints on the ground. He didn't go over there, but just stood here and took a look, and immediately said.

"Yes"

"You two follow me." Section Chief Sun waved his hand, turned around and ran out of the staircase again, running towards the west side of the office building.

As soon as he ran to the road on the west side of the office building, he saw several holly trees leaning against the flower bed diagonally opposite to the right. His heart skipped a beat and he looked up at the wall behind the flower bed.

Because it was dark, he couldn't see clearly whether there was any problem with the barbed wire on the wall. Just as he was about to turn around and ask the two people following him if they had a flashlight, one of them also noticed the problem with the flower bed and turned on the flashlight to shine it on the top of the wall.

"Chief, look here."

When the flashlight was shone up, I saw that there should have been three iron wires on the wall behind the trampled holly, but now the bottom wire had been cut.

"Made!"

When Section Chief Sun saw the cut wire, he started cursing.

After scolding him, he turned around and said, "Xiaodong, go and call the director. Don't say anything on the phone. Just ask him to come over quickly."

"Yes"

"Give me the flashlight."

"okay"

After handing the flashlight to Section Chief Sun, Xiaodong ran towards the gate.

"Tianqi, go call the director, deputy director, and all the section chiefs and directors in the office building one by one. Don't tell them what they are doing. Just ask them to come over with their office keys."

"Yes"

Another person also took the order and left.

After making the arrangements, Section Chief Sun used the flashlight to look at the place where the wire was cut, then took a few steps forward and shone the flashlight on the ground, especially looking near the holly.

He did not enter the flower bed, but stood on the road and looked for a few seconds. Then he shone the flashlight on the road under his feet and walked towards the window carefully, fearing that he would accidentally destroy the possible footprints of the criminal on the ground.

After walking to the west side of the office, he stood three or four meters away from the window and shone the flashlight on the slightly raised steel bar.

"This is... just cutting off one strand?"

"Yes, Chief. I only cut one. I shook the others and they are all strong."

"How can someone squeeze through such a narrow gap?"

"It's hard to say. Women with narrow shoulders, or small stature, or some thinner women should be able to squeeze in, but it's a bit difficult."

Old Yao, who was standing inside, had just indicated the distance with his hand, so he answered immediately.

"Lao Yao, when did you last check?"

"I remember it was recorded in the registration book around nine o'clock."

"Almost nine o'clock?" Section Chief Sun looked down at the watch on his wrist. It was now ten ten.

That person must have been there before, and he should have had a full grasp of their patrol time. He might have been lying on the wall at that time, and saw the few people who had checked the building leave. Then he cut the wire, climbed in, and cut the steel bar.

If the tools are right...

Section Chief Sun estimated the time in his mind and thought that he should be able to cut the steel bar in about ten to twenty minutes. The reason why he was so slow even though he had the right tools was because that guy didn't dare to make any noise.

Let's say half an hour, then another twenty minutes to get into the building, steal what he wants, and then evacuate.

By the way, this guy managed to restore the steel rod when he evacuated, which means he had plenty of time.

It is very likely that when Lao Yao brought those two people over to check the building, the guy had just left here.

Looking at the time, Section Chief Sun analyzed in his mind.

What did that guy come in to steal?
Are they coming for the confidential room?

Thinking of this, Section Chief Sun raised his flashlight and looked up at the third floor. However, from where he was standing, he could only see the windows on the west side of the third floor, where there was also a steel bar protective net installed, which looked fine, but he could not see anything else.

He was very nervous at this moment. If that person really came for the confidential room, then this time there would be big trouble.

Do you want to give that person a call?
As soon as this thought came into his mind, he forced it out again and decided to wait for the leaders to come and let them decide.

"Old Yao, can you see fingerprints on that steel bar?"

Section Chief Sun knew that he couldn't escape this time. If he hadn't lost anything, or if the lost things were not important, then his responsibility would be less.

But if something really was lost in the confidential room, then he would probably be demoted to the bottom.

But no matter what, I'd better stand guard for the last shift. In case I find any clues that can help solve the case, I can atone for my sins.

"I can't see any fingerprints. I found a few white threads hanging under the steel bar. The perpetrator must have been wearing gloves."

"Fuck!" Section Chief Sun cursed in his heart.

"Section Chief..."

"Did you call the director?"

"The call went through, but the director wasn't at home. His wife said that after dinner, he went to play cards with Deputy Director Zhang of the Logistics Department. I..."

Xiaodong stopped talking halfway through his sentence.

Section Chief Sun was just about to say, "Why don't you call Deputy Director Zhang's home?", when he suddenly thought that something was wrong. Just now at 9:30, they were all standing at the gate, and the movie had just ended. He saw with his own eyes that Deputy Director Zhang of the Logistics Department came out of the cinema with his wife, and they said a few words when they walked to the gate of the institute.

No wonder Xiaodong stopped talking, it turned out that he realized that the director had lied to his wife.

Because Xiaodong was also at the gate at that time, and he also saw Deputy Director Zhang.

Whether they are talking about the director or Deputy Director Zhang of the Logistics Department, they are referring to the main plant. The rank of their Steel Research Institute is the same as that of the departments of the main plant.

The director lied to his wife, so where did he go?

Ok?
Section Chief Sun thought about it and thought he should know where the director had gone.

"Old Yao, you and that guy, come out, walk around quietly, and check the front of the building again. I'm going to find the director."

"it is good"

It is very likely that a very serious case has occurred now, and the security director of the head office must be present. Otherwise, if the head office leader comes over and he does not come, he will definitely be punished.

(End of this chapter)

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