71: Dali Gym goes bankrupt, office workers find old amber at bargain prices
Chen Kai immediately held his breath and focused, checking today's Intermediate Intelligence.
【Today's Intermediate Intelligence has refreshed: The Dali Chuqi Miracle Fitness Gym has gone bust and fled. Members are currently engaging in a zero-dollar shopping spree. Hidden in the gap between the boss chair in the manager's office and the floor is an old amber bracelet. Because the owner of the Dali Chuqi Miracle Fitness Gym was in such a rush to pack up the office before fleeing, it was left behind. You can intercept it before the other members on their zero-dollar shopping spree find it by tomorrow at 11:00 AM. Suggested selling price: 40,000 Yuan.】
After reading this intelligence, Chen Kai was stunned for a moment.
"Didn't they swear up and down that they wouldn't run away? How could they have run off less than half a month after I signed up for a membership?"
He couldn't help but find it a bit funny. So that was why the receptionist had received news of them fleeing yesterday; no wonder they had already called Lalamove over.
Fortunately, he only signed up for a monthly card, so he didn't feel bad about them running away.
However, he hadn't expected that an old amber bracelet could be worth so much.
It looked like the owner had been in such a rush to pack up and flee last night that he didn't even have time to pick up the bracelet after it fell.
He scrolled through TikTok for a while longer, set an alarm—he had to get up early tomorrow—and then drifted into a deep sleep.
...
Early the next morning, Chen Kai was woken up by his alarm. He sat on the edge of the bed and lit a cigarette as usual. He checked the time; it was already 8:30 AM, and it would take until 10:00 AM to reach the Office Building.
He was running out of time, so he quickly changed his clothes, went downstairs, got on his Electric Scooter, and headed toward the Office Building.
He rode at full speed, and in just over an hour, Chen Kai parked his vehicle downstairs at the Office Building.
He pulled out the key and looked up suddenly, only to find quite a few "instant muscle men" wearing tank tops lining up in front of the elevators downstairs in the Office Building.
Chen Kai's heart tightened. Does this mean everyone knows the Dali Chuqi Miracle Fitness Gym has gone bust?
However, these people shouldn't be able to intercept his item. The people coming down from the elevators were all smiling happily, carrying Dumbbells and various pieces of fitness equipment.
Their eyes held only a passion for fitness, not an obsession with money.
Chen Kai hurried over and quickly queued up in front of the elevators to wait.
But after waiting for five or six minutes, both elevators remained stuck on the floor where the Dali Chuqi Miracle Fitness Gym was located and wouldn't come down.
He looked ahead and realized he definitely wouldn't make this trip, and he had no idea when the next elevator would come down.
Thinking this, Chen Kai gritted his teeth, rolled up his sleeves, ran to the emergency stairs on the side, and climbed up the stairs two or three steps at a time.
Upon reaching the floor, Chen Kai raised his hand to wipe the bead-sized sweat from his forehead. He supported himself on his knees to catch his breath for half a minute and glanced at the elevator, which was still stuck on this floor.
He then realized that a big guy was holding the elevator door open with his hand while others were moving things out of the Gym.
Treadmills, Dumbbells, Barbell plates... anything they could see was being carried away like a swarm of locusts.
"What a damn good deal. Paid five hundred for the card and already made back over a thousand! Got to train for free and even stole so much equipment!"
"What do you mean 'stole'? Can you talk properly? This stuff was just left on the floor with nobody wanting it; this is called 'scoring'!"
"Oh, right, right, right!"
Watching this group of people still moving things, Chen Kai finally breathed a sigh of relief. It was a good thing he had climbed the stairs; otherwise, these people really would have emptied the place!
He quickly walked inside and, just like the big guys who were moving things, placed his membership card on the Counter.
He pretended to look around and discovered that these big guys were all moving things from the Barbell area.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Chen Kai snuck toward the manager's office next to the lockers.
He took a look at the office door and, to his surprise, it wasn't locked.
It was left slightly ajar.
Chen Kai looked around, and while the big guys were all off taking things to the elevator, he quickly opened the office door and slipped inside.
As soon as he walked into the office, Chen Kai slowly closed the door and was stunned.
"What the hell... why is there nothing here?"
Chen Kai was a bit bewildered. The entire office only had a wooden computer desk that looked very cheap, and a boss chair behind it.
In the corner of the room, there was a locked safe. Other than that, there was nothing else—it was even more spartan than a bare room.
He looked up at the room again, and after confirming that the surveillance wires had been cut, he started to search.
He first checked the first drawer of the computer desk and found nothing.
There were three one-yuan coins in the second drawer, which he picked up and put in his pocket without hesitation.
He then turned and pushed the heavy boss chair back a distance.
"Huh? Why is there nothing on the floor?"
When he pushed the boss chair away, there was only dust and a few strands of hair on the floor; other than that, there was nothing.
"What the hell? Don't tell me it was intercepted by someone else who got here before me?"
Chen Kai scratched his head in confusion.
He slowly walked to the back of the boss chair, but there was nothing on the black leather boss chair.
He thought for a moment, slowly squatted down, firmly grasped the base of the boss chair with both hands, and lifted it with force.
The boss chair was lifted at an angle, and only then did Chen Kai see the base of the boss chair through that gap.
The old amber bracelet was stuck on the caster of the base! And the string of the old amber bracelet had been tangled by the caster!
"Damn, I can't get this out in a short while."
Chen Kai cursed. If he wanted to take it off, he would have to use force!
He would have to break the string, but the old amber beads would definitely scatter all over the floor.
Just as he was about to act, he heard faint footsteps coming from outside the door.
"Damn, big brother! The elevator is almost overloaded! Is there anything smaller to move!"
"Nothing left. Those Dumbbells look average, I don't really want them. How about we go down once first?"
"No way! If we go down, those people will definitely come up and fight us for it. Let's hurry and move the valuable stuff away."
"Hiss... we definitely can't touch the lockers. How about we go check the manager's office?"
"Sure! Maybe there's some big loot in the manager's office! Let's go!"
Hearing the cheers from outside the door, Chen Kai's heart tightened.
If he violently removed the old amber bracelet right now, the beads would scatter everywhere, and losing even one would mean losing thousands of yuan.
He gritted his teeth, simply walked behind the boss chair, hugged the backrest, and flipped the boss chair over so the side with the wheels faced him. If the wheels were on the ground, and it fell on the way, it would be ruined.
Just as he picked it up and adjusted the direction, two muscular men pushed open the door to the manager's office.
The two men were stunned to see Chen Kai and asked somewhat guiltily.
"Are you the owner?"
"No, I'm a member here. Damn it, I just signed up for a card a few days ago and they've already run off. Damn."
Chen Kai froze for a moment, then immediately put on an act of having a mental breakdown.
"Ah? Brother, I actually feel a bit sorry for you!"
A muscular man wearing a white tank top showed an expression of sympathy.
"But... if you aren't moving fitness equipment, why did you come to his office to move a chair?"