Chapter 2042: Unable to Find Any Clues

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“Our goods! The goods are gone!” the truck driver shouted agitatedly.

“What nonsense are you talking about! Are you still drunk and groggy!” Tan Shi questioned.

“No, boss! Everythings gone! There are holes in the trucks and all the goods inside are gone!” the truck driver said.

Tan Shi was so shocked that he scrambled down the stairs. There were more than 10 trucks outside and they had all been emptied. A few trucks were even smashed up!

The truck drivers were all very angry. They had never seen such a thing in their many years of delivering goods. This was their livelihood! The trucks were now smashed up! How were they going to support their families!

“My truck! Oh no, my truck!”

“How am 1 going to explain this to my wife when I get back!”

“Boss Tan! You have to repair the trucks for all of us! If not for your delivery order, our trucks would not have been smashed up!”

The noisy chatter gave Tan Shi a headache. He roared at the crowd, “Shut up, all of you! What’s the use of yelling at me! Am I the one who did this? My goods are gone too! You should go and look for the person who damaged your trucks! Don’t come and bother me!”

Tan Shi went back into the inn and grabbed the boss who was hiding in the corner. He asked, “Did you hear anything last night? Do you know where those two men have gone?”

The boss was so frightened that his legs had already gone weak. He said fearfully, “Boss! We really didn’t see anything! Last night, all of you went back to your rooms in a drunken stupor. Some of your guys didn’t want to go back to the rooms and just slept downstairs. I really didn’t notice anyone leaving!’

“Then don’t you even know whether there was any activity outside?” Tan Shi roared.

“l really didn’t hear anything!” the boss said.

It was a really strange thing. There were a lot of goods. Even if someone had stolen them, it would have needed a lot of effort. The trucks were so smashed up that the process should have been very noisy. How could everything have been carried out so quietly?

The goods were gone, the two men had disappeared and there was no money. Tan Shi stood rooted to the spot, not knowing what to do. How was he going to answer to Huang Quan when he got back! If Huang Quan found out about this, Huang Quan would skin him alive!

“Call the police! Call the police! Call the police immediately!” Tan Shi shouted hysterically as he fell and sat down on the ground.

The police from the nearest station arrived at the inn very quickly. Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of goods had gone missing overnight. Furthermore, more than 10 large trucks had suffered varying degrees of damage. This was a big case, so the police station attached great importance to it and mobilized half of their manpower to take part in the investigation.

After careful checks and investigation, the police did not find anything suspicious. There were no traces of other vehicles passing by and the holes in these trucks were relatively regular-shaped. There were no footprints or any traces of goods being dragged on the ground.

“Are you sure that the things were stolen?” the police officer asked as he looked at Tan Shi.

“Yes! I’m sure! Stolen by two people! One of them is Li Xin! The other is Liu Guang! The two of them stole all the goods!” Tan Shi said.

There were many villages in the vicinity. If a big truck had passed by at night, it would have made a lot of noise and the villagers would have heard it. However, when the police officers who went to the villages to investigate returned to the scene, they all reported that the villagers said they did not hear anything.

It was impossible for two people to move so much goods overnight without anyone noticing. Even if they called all the villagers in the vicinity to come and help, it would still take them one whole day to move all the goods!

All the signs indicated that nothing had happened last night. That meant that Tan Shi and the others were putting on a show! They were lying to the police!

“Are you sure that your goods were lost here?” the police officer asked with a frown.

“Yes!” Tan Shi said.

“Maybe you should think about it again. We feel that the goods are already lost before you get here,” the police officer said tactfully.

No matter how Tan Shi explained the situation, the police did not believe what he said. It was not just the police. No one who heard this story would believe him.

Tan Shi was so agitated that he fainted. Seeing this, the police left the scene. They did not want to continue to get involved with this group of people.

The drivers went back to the factory with Tan Shi back and demanded an explanation.. After all, their trucks were damaged, so someone must bear the responsibility!