Hidden moth

Chapter 24 The Bed Exploded
After Manager Yang and Xiao Hu left, Fatty Huang asked anxiously, "Boss E, is what you just said true?"

Gao Xue'e smiled: "The principles are all true, and the facts - can also be true!"

Huang Xiaopang: "What do you mean it could be true? Does our company really want to sign a cooperation agreement with Zhima Apartment? Find everyone's rental contracts and re-sign them at the agreed price?"

Gao Xue'e asked in return: "Isn't it possible?"

Huang Xiaopang slapped his thigh and said, "That's great!"

He Kao interrupted, "Boss E, this is what you just thought of, right?"

Gao Xue'e admitted, "It's true I just thought of it, but it's certainly feasible. This isn't my responsibility. If I were to raise this with the administration, they might think I'm overstepping my authority and causing trouble for them... He Kao, what do you think we should do?"

He Kao: "You are not in charge of these businesses, and you don't rent a house in Zhima Apartment. If you go directly to the administration to raise this issue, it will seem like you are just talking to gain favors while letting the administration do the work.

I think we could start by posting a thread on the company intranet, counting how many people live in Zhima Apartment, soliciting feedback, and then collectively recommending that the company sign a partnership agreement with Zhima Apartment. With this foundation laid, everyone can then approach the administration.

Including their own people in the administrative department, there must be people living here. The vice president transferred from the group headquarters, the one named Liu, is said to be living in Zhima Apartment. There should be other department leaders as well..."

Huang Xiaopang: "Leave it to me. I'll post it and then encourage everyone to share it in the employee group. I know many of my colleagues who live in Sesame Apartment, so let them share it first!"
Mr. E, who compiled the data you just mentioned, the 300 and 500 figures?"

Gao Xue'e laughed again: "That was just something I said casually. No one has ever counted this data, so this matter can be regarded as administrative negligence of the company. We should have talked to Sesame Apartment a long time ago.

But I'm not without basis. There are over 30 people in our department, and seven of them rent apartments in Sesame Apartments. Proportionately speaking, that's a lot."

Tengxin is a super-large group. At the headquarters of the Qiyuan branch, there are more than 500 direct employees working in the headquarters building alone. Together with local branches such as subsidiaries, there are nearly 2,000 employees in Qiyuan alone.

So the data Gao Xue'e just reported seems to be made up, but it cannot be said to be completely without basis.

He Kao asked again, "The Bada Group project you mentioned is the E-Life Apartment, is it true?"

Gao Xue'e: "Of course it's true. If they knew about this, they would be eager to come to our office to sign a cooperation agreement. But that place is a bit far after all. It's more than three kilometers away from the company, which takes more than half an hour to walk, and the surrounding facilities are not as convenient as here.

Cycling requires crossing several main roads, some of which lack bike lanes, making it unsafe. Sunny days are fine, but rainy and snowy days make it difficult to get a bike. Buses are also very crowded during rush hour.

I think, as long as the price isn't too far off, it's more comfortable to live in Sesame Apartment. It's just a short walk to work. I heard they're opening in three months. If you really want to live there, I'd recommend waiting six months. It's all newly renovated, so the formaldehyde needs to dissipate.

Huang Xiaopang: "Of course it's better to continue living here. No one wants to move all the time. Ms. E, if we sign an agreement, how much discount can we get on the rent?"

Gao Xue'e: "I'm not sure about that. According to our company's practice, I can probably get a 40% discount."

In fact, Gao Xue'e only came to comfort He Kao today and had never thought about this beforehand.

Manager Yang of the Zhima Apartment Sales Office also followed the leader's instructions to appease He Kao. If he had simply done so, nothing would have happened. However, he took it upon himself to coerce He Kao into changing his words, which ultimately put him in Gao Xue'e's crosshairs.

When did Gao Xue'e become so approachable, proactive in helping her employees, and even talk to Huang Xiaopang like that? She came all the way here today because He Kao and Huang Xiaopang had saved her in the swimming pool.

When had these two guys ever saved Gao Xue'e? It was the last time the department was doing team building at the Bada Club, and that was the day Qian Guran stole the beast claw pendant by switching it with something else.

Gao Xue'e was swimming peacefully in the pool that day, but suddenly she felt as if the water had lost its buoyancy. No matter how hard she flailed her arms and legs, it was all in vain...

Fortunately, Huang Xiaopang immediately realized that something was wrong with her and came over like a piece of boiled tofu. He Kao, who was competing with Huang Xiaopang, also came over. The two of them held her arms on the left and right and almost dragged her ashore.

Huang Xiaopang was so excited that he almost gave Gao Xue'e artificial respiration, but luckily He Kao pulled him away. Gao Xue'e was neither unconscious nor holding her breath, she just choked a few times and was a little frightened, so there was no need for emergency treatment.

At that time, Qian was busy stealing things and missed the whole process.

There was also a "hero" who jumped into the water from the edge of the pool as soon as Gao Xue'e got into trouble. With a graceful and agile figure, he swam over quickly to save her... But he was still a step too late, and nothing happened to him because Xiaopang and He Kao were faster.

That third party was Mr. Peng, the owner of Jinxing Media. Jinxing Media collaborated with Bada Group and its business units. They had planned the Bada Club's co-branded card program, and Mr. Peng had coordinated this team-building event. Given this premise, Gao Xue'e, upon hearing about He Kao's situation, naturally expressed concern. Unexpectedly, she encountered this situation today. She improvised brilliantly, earning heartfelt praise from the two employees present.

"Ms. E, you look so handsome today!" It was rare for Huang Xiaopang to speak to Gao Xue'e like this.

He Kao also gave a thumbs-up and praised: "Yes, so handsome, beautiful and cool!"

Gao Xue'e originally came to comfort people, but ended up receiving a wave of praise. She even secretly admired herself. When she said goodbye, the sound of her high heels was a little light, and she was in a very good mood.

There is an idiom in Dongguo that goes "Misfortunes never come alone." Manager Yang of the Sesame Apartment Sales Office was unlucky on Sunday, but it soon turned out that he would be even more unlucky on Monday!

Liang Kai didn't get a good rest the whole weekend and was inexplicably nervous.

He asked an insider and learned that the police had not taken any further action. They had only conducted a visit, investigation, and registration. There was nothing unusual about the people around him, so he felt relieved.

So he got up late on Monday and was still sleeping in around 8 o'clock when he was suddenly awakened. This was not only a spiritual reaction, but also a physical sensation, because there was a breeze blowing in his crotch.

Sleeping with the windows closed, how could there be a draft in the quilt? Because someone had appeared in the room, standing at the foot of the bed, reaching out and lifting the quilt from the bottom.

Liang Kai was confused, and his first reaction was to reach behind the pillow to feel for the gun hidden in the gap between the mattress and the headboard.

The visitor was masked and wearing the kind of noise-isolating headphones used at shooting ranges. He threw something into the quilt, between Liang Kai's legs. It looked like three small bamboo tubes tied together.

He immediately covered Liang Kai with the quilt again and lay down, hiding under the foot of the bed. Liang Kai had just touched the pistol and had not had time to kick off the quilt when a loud bang was heard from under the quilt...

Although the explosion occurred in the bed, which was cushioned by the quilt, mattress and human flesh, the noise was still quite loud in the closed room and could be heard by almost the entire building!

Someone next door was brushing his teeth in the bathroom. Suddenly, there was a loud noise and vibration, and the mirror in front of the washbasin was shaken down, almost scaring him to death... The closer the room is, the greater the disturbance.

Someone called the police, and the apartment building management and security also came, but everyone waited until the police arrived before opening the door. When they opened the door, they saw smoke filling the house and cracked window glass, which clearly indicated that something had exploded.

Looking again, there was no one on the bed, and even the sheets and quilt were gone. There was a scorch mark on the Simmons mattress, and a closer look revealed a lot of blood, mixed with something that looked like bamboo fiber.

What happened? Could someone have blown themselves up while playing with explosives in bed? How come the sheets and quilt were gone too? Based on experience, the police concluded that the scene must have been cleaned up.

The key issue is not only what happened, but more importantly, where did the person go. Fortunately, the surveillance camera on the floor had been repaired, and the police immediately checked the surveillance records, but the results were confusing.

The resident of the apartment is named Liang Kai. He has not come out since he went into the house after dinner yesterday, at least that's what the surveillance records show. The newly installed surveillance also shows no signs of tampering or malfunction.

This apartment is on the 19th floor, so it is unlikely that someone could have escaped through the window. How could a living person just disappear? Was he flushed down the toilet?

The police actually checked the toilet and conducted a series of other tests, including blood stains. They found that there were blood stains only on the mattress, which also ruled out the possibility that the body was dismembered and flushed down the sewer.

Something must have happened in the house. The police certainly did not believe that a person could disappear out of thin air. They just thought that he had somehow avoided surveillance and left.

Either he left on his own or he was taken hostage.

In the absence of other evidence, this was ultimately classified as a missing persons case. No one knew what happened in the house, but after a loud bang, the person disappeared, and the reason for the disappearance is unknown.

Many other things in the apartment were still there, including daily necessities such as wallet and keys, but one thing was missing, or the police did not find it, which was the mobile phone, which is indispensable for modern people's daily life.

In fact, there was something missing from the house, but the police didn't know about it. It was Liang Kai's pistol.

The perpetrator somehow took Liang Kai and the gun, which was undoubtedly a wise choice. If they had left these two items behind, it would have been a gun-related murder case, a particularly serious one!
Taking these two items away would make it a missing person case with major doubts, but no matter how major the doubts are, it is still just a missing person case, and the police's attention and investigation efforts are at least an order of magnitude smaller.

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(End of this chapter)