A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 218: The Source of Prize Money in the Underground Arena
"I'm not sure yet. Let me ask again." The volunteer telepathist replied.

Level 3 "mind reading ability" is certainly far from being comparable to level 5 "psychological mastery". Without the help of other language skills, it is actually difficult to read effective information directly from the target's mind.

Therefore, as an "advisor" of the security force, this mind reader actually possesses questioning skills that are no less than those of a professional security guard.

Of course, there is no need to use these techniques when facing Saburo Shibata, who has completely given up resistance.

"So, you admit that you made a false police report, right?"

"That's right," Shibata Saburo nodded and confessed directly, "I did it all by myself. I have no accomplices. I just wanted to conceal the true whereabouts of the 100 million yen, so I chose this method."

"So, there was actually no money in the safe from the beginning, and the suitcase that the liquid metal robot took away was also empty?"

"Yes, that 100 million yen never existed in the first place."

"So, you embezzled public funds, and after you found you couldn't fill the gap, you came up with this method to try to get away with it?"

"……Yes."

"Where did the money go? Is there any possibility of recovering it?"

"It's impossible, it can't be recovered." Saburo Shibata shook his head.

"Like you just said, is it related to that underground arena?"

Shibata Saburo shook his head. "I won't tell you until we're in the prison at the Guard Corps Headquarters."

The telepathic reader came to the guard teacher and said in a low voice, "He is seeking self-protection. He believes that the only safe place is prison."

"It seems that the money is deeply involved." The security teacher thought about it and called for support from the headquarters to send the person to prison for protection without any risk.

The guard force has recently been focusing on investigating the underground arena, but has been unable to make any progress. Now that there is finally a breakthrough, of course they have to pay close attention to it.

Not only Gufa Meiwei, but also Lin Wuming and Hufeng Toumi became interested in this case.

They all knew about the "Underground Arena" case - it was the one that the SKILL OUT trio involved in yesterday.

Coincidentally, Hamazura Shiage and his team also planned to break into an ATM yesterday to get 100 million yen in cash to pay the bounty.

"Could it be that the entrance fee to that underground arena is 100 million yen?" Lin Wuming complained, "Why is everyone so fixated on this amount?"

The result is of course more than just 100 million. According to the subsequent investigation by the security forces, Saburo Shibata, the executive vice president of "Silver City Insurance Company", embezzled a total of more than 10 billion yuan of the company's funds!

To be precise, it cannot be considered "corruption", but more like a business failure.

Because according to the information provided by the insurance company, the more than 10 billion yen was paid out through normal compensation procedures.

They are an insurance company, and paying insurance compensation to customers is a normal business operation. Although the amount is a bit large, since it is a normal procedure, it did not attract the attention of other people in the company.

If this false alarm incident had not backfired, there was no telling when the Silver City Insurance Company would have discovered the corrupt insider, Saburo Shibata. In the interrogation room of the guard unit, Saburo Shibata confessed everything he knew.

It turned out that he was one of the partners of the underground arena - mainly responsible for providing the prize money for the competition...

The specific method is that the organizer of the competition will purchase life accident insurance for each participant before the competition.

Then, due to the extremely high mortality rate of the competition, there will often be only one competitor who survives to the end and becomes the final winner.

Therefore, the insurance compensation for all other deaths during the season will be the prize money that the winner can get...

"No wonder..." Gufa Meiwei seemed to be thinking about something, "What Shegu said does make some sense."

During the discussion yesterday, Jigu Tsuyoshi had briefly explained how the underground arena's 10 billion jackpot was composed. Aside from not being able to guess the source of the prize money was actually insurance compensation, everything else was identical to what Jigu Tsuyoshi had gathered.

"But..." Lin Wuming frowned and couldn't help but ask, "In this case, will the insurance company really compensate?"

It has been said that what they bought was "accident insurance". In the final analysis, participating in such a dangerous fighting competition is no different from seeking death. Lin Wuming doesn't think that a smart insurance company will allow others to take advantage of such a loophole.

Tiger Bee Toumi snorted coldly: "Isn't there another boss acting as an insider?"

That’s right, it was precisely because of the cooperation of Saburo Shibata, a senior internal figure, that the underground arena was able to “cheat insurance” so smoothly.

"Besides paying the winners prizes, underground arenas have other ways to make money," Shibata Saburo added. "For example, betting and lottery. Because the VIP audiences selected by underground arenas are all wealthy and powerful figures, the odds they support are large enough that the 10 billion bounty for the winner is just a small amount in comparison."

The reason why Saburo Shibata dared to act so recklessly without being discovered by the company was mainly because he always promptly replaced the money he had embezzled—the money he earned from gambling...

Therefore, even if there is an abnormal flow of funds on the company's financial development books, as long as the final amount matches, no one will interfere - after all, it is the company's senior management who made the changes, and they cannot be too serious about it.

But in the recently concluded season, Saburo Shibata was very unlucky and all his predictions came to nothing - an unfairly strong competitor suddenly emerged and broke all the original predictions - as a result, not only was the company's book funds unable to make up for the loss, but he himself suffered heavy losses, and even if he wanted to make a comeback, he had no capital.

So, he had to set his sights on the 100 million yen in the safe.

The 100 million yen in cash had already been taken away by Saburo Shibata last night, exchanged for an anonymous savings card, and then used to buy "admission tickets" to the underground arena - only those who purchased the admission tickets were eligible to watch the gladiatorial games and participate in the subsequent "prize-winning guessing game".

From this point of view, the information that Komaba Reidu and his team accidentally obtained cannot be considered wrong.

They really must have 100 million before they can get any further exposure to the underground arena.

"As a partner, I didn't need any entry tickets," Shibata Saburo said resentfully, "but since I can't continue providing them with prize money next season, those bastards just kicked me out like that!"

Because the losses incurred last season hadn't been remedied, Silver City Insurance had a deficit of 10 billion on its books. Although the procedures were complete and formal, they certainly wouldn't withstand scrutiny.

Although "Yincheng Insurance" is a large company, if it makes another huge compensation of 10 billion... even if he is the executive vice president, he will not be able to cover it up.

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