Chapter 741 Serial Theft Case 1
When the sun rises again from the east, countless cities and villages resume another day of hustle and bustle. After a night's rest, workers with different expressions gather from all directions and start a new day of hard work to support their families.
At around 7:30 in the morning, at the gate of Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., hundreds of workers coming to work were standing in front of the huge iron gate. Normally, the factory gate should have been opened at this time, and fully armed security personnel should have been standing on both sides of the gate with serious expressions, supervising the workers entering the factory to work.
But today, for some reason, the factory gate is still closed until now. More and more workers are gathering and starting to talk in low voices. However, due to the strict hierarchy of Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., they, the lowest-level workers, have no right to find out the truth. They can only stand outside the gate honestly, waiting for their superiors to arrive.
It was almost eight o'clock in the morning when a black Mitsubishi sedan honked its horn as it drove through the crowd and slowly stopped at the factory gate. At that time, thousands of workers from Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. had gathered there.
As soon as the car stopped, a short, fat man in a gray suit and half bald head got out of the car and asked with a gloomy face: "Baga, what's going on? Why hasn't the factory gate been opened yet?"
Some of the workers around recognized the identity of the bald fat man. It was Okamoto Jiro, the vice president of Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. and one of the company's main leaders.
A man in his thirties or forties nearby quickly answered respectfully, "President Okamoto, we have been here since a little after seven in the morning, but the factory gate has not been opened. We knocked on the door but got no response, so we can only wait here."
Okamoto Jiro's heart sank secretly. This had never happened before in Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., so he waved to a capable young man following behind him and said, "Ono-kun, please go in and see what's going on."
After the capable young man "Ha Yi" agreed, he walked to the gate. He first looked inside through the crack in the door, but found that there was no one at the gate and the door of the duty room was tightly closed.
So the capable young man did not hesitate any longer. He reached out and grabbed the icy cold iron gate. He stepped heavily on the concrete floor with his toes. Under the gaze of everyone, the capable young man had stood steadily on the two-and-a-half-meter-high iron gate, and then jumped lightly inside.
The capable young man quickly came to the door of the duty room. Through the glass on the door, he could clearly see that the four security guards on duty were slumped on the wooden chairs under them. They all looked pale and seemed to have lost their life long ago.
The capable young man did not open the door of the duty room, but turned around and walked quickly to the front door. Fortunately, the door was not locked. He pushed it open a gap with force, and then walked directly to Vice President Okamoto Jiro who was standing in front of him with a gloomy expression. Without waiting for the other party to ask, he leaned close to his ear and whispered in his ear what he had just seen.
Vice President Okamoto Jiro quickly shouted to the driver standing next to the car: "Ohara-kun, drive to the nearby police station and report to the police. Tell them that something happened at Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. and ask them to send someone over immediately."
The driver agreed, immediately got back into the car, started the car, and slowly backed out while honking the horn.
The workers around also heard what Vice President Okamoto Jiro said, and they began to discuss in low voices with nervous expressions. However, no one dared to enter the factory without Vice President Okamoto Jiro's permission. Everyone could only endure the biting cold wind and stand obediently in front of the gate.
In less than half an hour, two police jeeps followed the black Mitsubishi sedan and arrived at the gate of Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. At this time, the workers here had been driven to the side, and each worker looked here curiously.
When the policemen in the jeep came to Vice President Okamoto Ichiro, the deputy director who led the team greeted him respectfully: "Hello, President Okamoto, I am Deputy Director Yoshimura Ichiro."
Vice President Okamoto Jiro didn't have the heart to waste time talking to the other party. You have to know that in this city, their Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. is a leading large enterprise. Even the mayor and council members are extremely respectful when they see the top executives of Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. After all, it is large enterprises like Nishiyh Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. that provide "political donations" to these politicians and are the big funders of the politicians. Vice President Okamoto Jiro didn't even bother to pay attention to a small deputy chief of a police station.
A capable young man called Ono-kun walked up to Deputy Director Yoshimura Ichiro and told him his discovery in a few words.
After hearing this, Deputy Director Ichiro Yoshimura did not hesitate at all and quickly led his police officers to follow Ono into the gate.
A policeman in a white coat walked to the door of the duty room first, put on a pair of white gloves, and began to carefully check the door of the duty room.
After a while, the policeman stretched out his hand to pull the door, and reported to Deputy Director Yoshimura Ichiro who was following behind him: "The door has no signs of being pried or damaged."
As soon as the door was opened, several policemen smelled a strong smell of gas. The experienced Deputy Director Yoshimura Ichiro immediately had an idea in his mind: "Gas poisoning."
Because the weather on Honshu Island is cold every winter, with the lowest temperature even reaching minus 30 degrees Celsius, the people who live here all year round can only use coal stoves in their rooms to keep warm.
However, there is a huge safety hazard in using coal for heating. That is, if ventilation is not timely, gas poisoning, also known as carbon monoxide poisoning, will occur. Every year, there are dozens or even hundreds of cases of death from gas poisoning in the jurisdiction of their police station.
At this time, Deputy Chief Ichiro Yoshimura couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief. He was shocked when he received the report from the driver of Vice President Ichiro Okamoto of Nishiyh Heavy Industries, Ltd. You know, Nishiyh Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a big moneybag in the city. Not to mention a small deputy chief of the police station like himself, even the mayor was very respectful when facing the senior executives of Nishiyh Heavy Industries, Ltd.
If there really is a major case here, not to mention a small deputy director like me, I'm afraid even the mayor will have to be present in person to supervise the investigation.