In the morning, the underground warehouse of the city library welcomed its guests again.
The professor looked like a mountain of meat as usual. When Ai Qing arrived, he seemed to be reading something interesting as he laughed from time to time.
"You're early." When he saw Ai Qing, he closed his book. "You didn't sleep? It seems like the warehouse incident last night was really troublesome. I thought you would come in the afternoon. "
"There are a lot of trivial matters."
Ai Qing, who hadn't slept all night, looked pale, but her expression was still calm. "It's better to solve it as soon as possible."
"Coffee? Tea? "
"Coffee, double sugar, no milk."
"What a coincidence. I just got some good beans yesterday." The professor happily took out his tools. After a while, the aroma of coffee came from the drip pot.
Soon, a cup of coffee was placed in front of Ai Qing.
"Please enjoy."
After Ai Qing finished the coffee, her face seemed to look better. After putting down the cup, which was still stained with sugar, she let out a long breath and tried to cheer herself up.
She waited for the results of the investigation.
Soon, a thick stack of documents was placed on the table.
"The things you asked me to investigate are all here."
The professor clapped his hands and arranged the copies of the contracts and the complicated documents in front of her. "Since twelve years ago, Qi Wen has already had some relationship with the Savior Society. The two sides have cooperated to a certain extent, but they have always maintained some boundaries.
Unfortunately, there is no direct decisive evidence.
But … as far as I know, the one who has been working with Qi Wen all these years, no, the one who supports him, should be the Yin family, right? "
As he spoke, he placed a thick file in front of Ai Qing and asked curiously, "Are you going to put righteousness before family this time?"
"Which country are you talking about?"
Ai Qing rubbed her forehead in annoyance. "Back then, Qi Wen relied on being the Yin family's agent to save up the capital. From the beginning to the end, he was just a dog. Now, he is an old dog with an ambition that can't be controlled. Even if he dies, the Yin family won't lose a single strand of hair. What's more, would a guy like Qi Wen leave any evidence behind? "
The professor shrugged and didn't say anything else.
In the silence, there was only the sound of pages flipping.
After giving up on the aimless search for the Savior Society's movement over the years and turning to the connection between Qi Wen and the Savior Society, the professor's efficiency increased many times over.
In just one day, they had obtained a large number of clues through various channels. After combining all the paper records of Xin Hai City in the underground library over the years, this thick stack of records was formed.
Putting aside the large number of property rights changes, the transformation and changes of the industries under Qi Wen in the past two years, as well as the special channel of Tomorrow News, even the various projects that Qi Wen secretly operated were dug out.
However, even Ai Qing couldn't believe the results of the investigation.
"He wants to monopolize the shipping routes and supplies at the border of Penghu?"
Ai Qing was amused by the results of the investigation. "He is in charge of the transportation of goods and materials at the border of the sea? What makes him worthy? "
"So far, it seems that he spent a large amount of money to lobby and guarantee, and he has already obtained the right to bid." The professor threw a macaron into his mouth and chewed. "If there is someone behind him, it might not be impossible."
Ai Qing understood. "You mean the Yin family?"
The professor shrugged slightly. "I only know that he has been running to Jinling very frequently these days."
She had to admit that the professor's guess was very reasonable.
The benefits of monopolizing the shipping routes at the border were definitely not just money, the hidden benefits behind it were also shockingly huge. Imagine, in a border that was isolated overseas, all the ascendants had to rely on themselves to travel and explore …
If the Qi family could really bring such huge benefits to the Yin family, then the old man might not care about Qi Wen's alienation over the years. Rather, after the two sides let go of their previous grudges, the cooperation between the two sides would become even closer.
And Qi Wen also fought for the initiative in this process. He was no longer an agent and a white glove that relied on someone else's charity, but a crucial collaborator that completed the transformation from a chess piece to a chess player.
Things were different now.
The more important it was at this juncture, the more she couldn't mess things up. If she wanted to use the Savior Society to investigate Qi Wen, that old dog might do something.
However, the next content of the file made her frown.
Smuggling.
Smuggling had never been a big deal, or rather, from a certain perspective, this gray industry was spread all over the world. Otherwise, where did the cheap and authentic goods in the country come from?
However, the information hinted at by the next record made her expression turn serious.
"Can you be sure?"
"Of course not." The professor shrugged. "No one would reveal this kind of thing. No, everyone who knew the details has already been buried. How can we find any concrete evidence?"
However, the report compiled by the professor clearly linked the large number of missing people in the surrounding countries over the years with the Qi family's smuggling routes.
In other words, Qi Wen might have been secretly smuggling a large number of people into Xin Hai.
But after all, people were alive. Even an idiot needed to eat, drink, and defecate every day. A living person appearing in a big city might not be conspicuous, but thousands of living people appearing in a small place like Xin Hai.
Even a ghost would know that something was wrong.
But the problem was, where were the people?
Where did they go?
Did they disappear after coming to Xin Hai?
No, if that was the case …
Thinking about the returned citizens after the Salvation Society and the mutants that they reared, Ai Qing had a guess of what happened to those people.
In any case, the place that they went to would not be some kind of paradise …
It looked like this was the basis of the cooperation between Qi Wen and the Salvation Society.
Qi Wen provided them with an endless supply of people for their living sacrifices and sacrifices, while the Purified People supported them in the dark under the guise of the Savior Society. Not only did they provide funds, they could even hand over some inconvenient tasks to them.
This was a complete replica of Qi Wen's gloves back in the Yin Family. It was just that his gloves were whiter than the others.
It looked like he had learned a lot.
Just as she was deep in thought, Ai Qing's expression changed slightly. After a long time, she closed the file.
"What else?"
"Hmm?" The professor looked confused.
"If that's the case, you must have something that you are waiting to sell, right?" Ai Qing looked at the professor calmly. "What else have you not taken out?"
The professor chuckled awkwardly.
"I still can't hide anything from you."
He took out a thin folder from under the table. He placed it on the table but did not hand it over. "Even though this information is not that important, I feel like it should be something that you should be concerned about. I promise, it is worth the price."
Ai Qing's expression was still cold. She was not in a hurry to promise the reward. She just looked at him quietly.
After a long time, the professor sighed helplessly and pushed the folder over. "You win, but this will cost you three times the original price."
Ai Qing shook her head. "I will only pay you twice the original price."
"Deal."
The professor nodded, and his expression turned bitter and sad.
Inside the folder was a stack of hospital records. There were medical records from the city, outside the city, and even foreign hospitals. There was also a detailed observation of the hospitalization process.
The time was eight years ago.
The location was Xin Hai.
Six managers, eleven company executives, and a few dozen employees were all hospitalized because of various accidents and unexplained high fevers. At the time, there were even many rumors about the plague. Many years later, there were still people who remembered the panic in the market.
But in the end, these were all small things that were not worth mentioning. These people were just ordinary people. There was nothing worth paying attention to.
The only thing they had in common was that they had worked for the Huai Group and Qi Wen's businesses to varying degrees.
And the time was the year that the Huai family officially declared bankruptcy.
After quietly reading the records in her hands, Ai Qing closed her eyes and let out a long sigh.
"Let me guess," she said softly.
"In the end, those people either became vegetative or were burned until they became retarded, right?"
The professor nodded.
"[Soulless Attraction]."
Ai Qing slowly opened her eyes. Her expression was gloomy.
Without a doubt, this was a vicious incident caused by a virus that had been mutated by hell. A virus that parasitized and infected a human's body was not a problem that could be solved by normal antibiotics.
When there were more than ten abnormal situations, the local inspector should have immediately reported it to the astronomy committee. However, wasn't there a need to pay attention to how the report was submitted?
Seriously and seriously reporting this as a vicious incident and casually mentioning a few abnormal situations in the corner of some records were two completely different results.
"To be able to settle this matter, that piece of trash must have received quite a bit of money." Ai Qing laughed coldly and tapped on the armrest. "It seems like sending him to the border was too kind …"
Through a vicious virus, they had cleaned up all the insiders, leaving no evidence behind.
And Qi Wen had officially swallowed the last of the Huai family's foundation. He had obtained a large number of businesses at a price that was close to plundering. He had completed a bloody capital accumulation and successfully established his own shipping company on the Huai family's corpse. He had gone from a penniless foreign merchant to a reputable tycoon in Xin Hai.
It could be said that he had spent a lot of money.
If there was no incitement from the Yin family behind this, where did he get the courage to act so recklessly?
The professor suddenly said, "But there is one thing that does not explain."
"I know what you want to ask."
Ai Qing could not help but laugh coldly.
It was nothing more than why he had spared Huai Shi's life after completely swallowing up the family's assets.
"Isn't this the most considerate thing about Qi Wen, this loyal dog?"
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