Chapter 192 The Police Arrive!
The person who entered was none other than Wang Dachui.
He was carrying an exquisite mahogany tea tray in his hands, upon which sat several cups of steaming hot tea, and his round face was plastered with an enthusiastic smile.
"Distinguished leaders, distinguished Experts, you must be tired after talking for so long, right? Have some water, have some water."
As he spoke, Wang Dachui walked in with small, hurried steps, his eager demeanor making him look every bit like a diligent factory manager.
When Li Jiajun saw it was him, his heart skipped a beat.
A strong, ominous premonition instantly crawled up his spine, making his scalp tingle.
He knew this subordinate all too well.
He was not the type of person who could keep a secret, and his train of thought was bizarre; he often gave him a 'surprise' at the most critical moments.
What time was it now?
This was a critical moment of life and death!
He had managed to stabilize the situation with great difficulty, using the shields of 'ignorance is no crime' and 'civilian design'; as long as he insisted he was unaware, the matter would be over.
But if this guy came in and started blabbering, it would all be over.
'No, I have to make him shut up and get lost immediately,' Li Jiajun thought to himself.
Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that Liu Jianguo and the Experts hadn't spoken yet, he turned his back to the crowd and frantically made faces at Wang Dachui.
His left eyelid twitched wildly, his eyes darted desperately toward the door, and his mouth puckered to form the shape: 'Get out! Get out! Get out!'
The expression was ferocious.
What kind of person was Liu Jianguo?
He was a veteran of the military industry, an old fox who had spent his whole life dealing with all sorts of shrewd people.
When he saw Li Jiajun's behavior, although he couldn't see his front-facing expression, just by looking at his rigid back and the twitching muscles of his side profile, he knew exactly what the kid was doing.
Liu Jianguo's gaze passed over Li Jiajun and locked firmly onto Wang Dachui, who had just entered.
Just as Wang Dachui was about to put down the tea, he saw his boss's ferocious expression.
He was stunned.
'What… is wrong with the boss?' he wondered.
'Did he get sand in his eye?'
'No, looking at this frequency, he's sending me a signal!'
Wang Dachui's not-so-bright brain began to operate at high speed, attempting to decipher the meaning of his boss's Morse code-like expression.
'Squinting eyes… gesturing outward… is he telling me to leave?'
'Or is it…'
Just as Wang Dachui was brainstorming, trying to grasp his boss's intent.
Suddenly.
A steady, powerful sound of footsteps came from the doorway again.
Immediately afterward, two soldiers with live ammunition and upright postures walked in, expressionless.
And behind them followed two police officers in dark blue uniforms.
They were officers from the Baishui City Public Security Bureau.
As soon as these people appeared, the already subtle atmosphere instantly became even more heavy.
One of the soldiers leading the group walked quickly to Liu Jianguo, saluted, and reported in a loud voice:
"Report, Chief! These two local police comrades said there is an emergency and they need to come here to gather some clues. After verifying their identities, we brought them in."
Liu Jianguo nodded and looked at the two police officers.
However, before Liu Jianguo could ask what was going on.
Wang Dachui, standing to the side, froze the moment he saw those two police uniforms.
His pupils contracted violently, and his face turned pale with no trace of blood at a visible speed.
The tea tray in his hands was trembling slightly, and the tea cup lids made a clinking sound.
'Police…'
'The police are here!'
At this moment, the roar and threats from the Bearded Man armed leader on the phone echoed instantly in Wang Dachui's mind:
"I will call the police!"
"I will report you to the Eastern Country police! I'll say your Li Family Toy Factory took money without delivering goods and committed commercial fraud!"
'It's over.'
'It's all over.'
Wang Dachui felt his legs go weak, and the world began to spin.
'That Bearded Man really called the police!'
'The police have actually come to the door! And they were even escorted in by soldiers; this means the matter has blown up!'
Under such extreme fear and high pressure, Wang Dachui subconsciously looked at his boss.
Meanwhile, Li Jiajun was still there frantically winking at him.
This time, Wang Dachui understood.
Looking at his boss's anxious, twisted expression that seemed to be hinting at something, he instantly had a sudden, albeit incorrect, realization.
'The boss is… blaming me for not being proactive?'
'The boss is hinting to me that since things have reached this point, the truth can't be hidden; instead of being arrested by the police, it's better to confess voluntarily and strive for leniency?'
'That's it! The boss is saving me!'
'Actually, he knew everything all along?'
'He is telling me that if I want to save the factory's reputation and avoid being arrested as a fraudster, I must quickly admit my mistakes and explain the matter clearly!'
Having figured this out, Wang Dachui's eyes filled with hot tears, and he was deeply moved by his boss's well-intentioned efforts.
"Boss… I understand!"
Wang Dachui muttered to himself.
Then.
In the astonished eyes of everyone.
Clang!
He first put the tea tray in his hands heavily on the table beside him.
Immediately after.
Thump!
A muffled sound.
That two-hundred-catty, fat body knelt straight down on the floor, in front of Liu Jianguo and the group of Experts.
This kneeling was magnificent.
This kneeling stunned everyone.
Li Jiajun's eyes nearly popped out, and his mouth was open wide enough to fit a lightbulb.
'What the f***?'
'What are you doing?!'
'I told you to get lost, why the f*** are you kneeling to me?!'
Before Li Jiajun could react to cover his mouth.
Wang Dachui had already begun his confession with tears and snot, telling everything.
"Wuwuwu… Chief! Leaders! I am guilty!"
Wang Dachui had snot and tears running down his face, his voice shrill and full of remorse:
"I shouldn't have bragged! I shouldn't have been talking nonsense with that foreigner!"
"I really didn't know it would blow up so big!"
Liu Jianguo frowned, looking at the fat man kneeling on the ground, feeling faintly that a big secret was about to be unearthed.
He asked in a deep voice: "Explain yourself clearly. What foreigner? What did you do?"
Wang Dachui wiped away his tears, ignoring his boss's murderous gaze; he just wanted to confess for leniency now.
"It's just… it's just a while ago, a foreigner called and said he wanted to buy weapons."
"I thought it was a prank by a Netizen, so I… I just bragged, saying we were the largest private military factory in the Eastern Country and had whatever they wanted."
At this point, Wang Dachui looked up, his face full of innocence and terror:
"Who knew those people would take it seriously!"
"They… they didn't say a word, they just transferred the money to me!"
"Fifty million! A full fifty million ugly yuan!"
Upon hearing the number fifty million ugly yuan, the Experts present gasped, and Liu Jianguo's eyelids twitched violently twice.
Good grief.
Fifty million ugly yuan?
That's several hundred million RMB!
You're a toy factory, and you take an order for several hundred million?
"Where is the money?" Liu Jianguo asked.
Wang Dachui nearly cried upon hearing this; he said with a sobbing tone that he was a farmer's son, and the money was just sitting in the company account, "I didn't dare to touch a single cent of that money."
"I wanted to refund it!"
"But… but that Bearded Man wouldn't let me! He said he would call the police if I refunded it!"
"He also… he also threatened me with 'praise-killing'! He bought hot searches on the Social Media Platform to praise us, saying that if we didn't ship the goods, he would expose us as scammers and ruin our reputation!"
The more Wang Dachui spoke, the more aggrieved he felt, feeling like the unluckiest employee in the world.
"To maintain the factory's reputation, so the boss wouldn't be labeled a scammer, I… I had no choice!"
"I saw that our factory had just produced that Wangcai robot dog, so I thought I'd send those over to make up the numbers; after all, they said they wanted whatever we produced…"
"So… in the end… in the end, I sold those Wangcais to them."
At this point, the entire office was silent.
Everyone stared blankly at this fat man.
So…
So that robot dog army that was wreaking havoc on the international battlefield was actually leaked out this way?
Was it because of a bragging manager, an armed militant who didn't want a refund, and an absurd reputation-saving operation?
'What the f***…'
'This plot, even TV dramas wouldn't dare to film it like this!'
Li Jiajun was dumbfounded too.
F***, so this was caused by this idiot?
Immediately, his face turned pale.
It's over.
Damn, it's completely over.
Whatever 'ignorance is no crime' or 'civilian design'—in the face of this naked transaction confession, it all became a joke.
However, Wang Dachui felt it wasn't enough.
He felt he needed to add one more key detail to prove that the boss was actually kept in the dark.
Therefore, he turned his head, looked at the already hopeless Li Jiajun, then looked at Liu Jianguo, and emphasized one point, attempting a final rescue:
"Really! I did all of this!"
"The friend I mentioned to the boss earlier is actually that armed organization leader!"
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