The Delivery Man Who Absconded with the Goods

The location of Li Zhaoqiang's Satellite Phone was quickly pinpointed by the intelligence department.

The signal is constantly moving.

Upon receiving the news, Lu Mou immediately dispatched people to search for the location.

At that moment, he still held onto a sliver of hope.

What if Li Zhaoqiang, which is why he always carried a Satellite Phone, hoping to use location tracking to send a message to Headquarters?

Before long, his anxiety completely died.

The search party retrieved a Satellite Phone from a river.

The phone was tied to a toy boat and drifted with the current, which is why the signal was always moving.

Holding the retrieved phone, Lu Mou was ashen.

But he quickly realized that Li Zhaoqiang might not have done these things of his own volition, and might have been controlled by someone!

A few days ago, weren't the people in charge of managing the Supernatural weapons arsenal taken into custody and randomly set off a Ghost Fire Bomb?

Therefore, it cannot be concluded at this time that Li Zhaoqiang; he most likely encountered unforeseen circumstances.

But then again, who would actually take the risk to do something like that?

The mastermind behind this is truly audacious to offend Headquarters and Hu Jiu at the same time!

Lu Mou tried his best to exonerate Li Zhaoqiang, not because he had a particularly close relationship with Li Zhaoqiang.

He just wanted to take on less responsibility.

The intelligence department's investigation results couldn't be kept secret, and Lu didn't intend to hide them either, so he directly notified Zhang Hongwen.

"People are missing? Resources are missing too? Is this your answer to me!" Zhang Hongwen seemed extremely angry.

"Is the suspect Li Zhaoqiang alive or dead? What was his motive for doing this? Have you investigated all of this?"

"Was there any CCTV footage near the last place he disappeared from? Have you checked the footage? I refuse to believe that a living person can simply vanish without a trace!"

Faced with a barrage of accusations, Lu Mou was furious, but he knew he was in the wrong and didn't have the confidence to argue with Zhang Hongwen.

"The instructions to check the surveillance footage have been given; we just need to wait patiently."

Lu Mou's voice sounded somewhat stiff.

When Fu Youhua and Shen Jiliang were around, he had no say at all. Now that they're both gone, he still can't compare to the newcomers.

Zhang Hongwen snorted coldly, "I understand. Remember to let me know immediately if there's any progress!"

After ending the call, Lu Mou scratched his head in frustration and immediately ordered his secretary, "Bring me all of Li Zhaoqiang's information!"

The secretary, with a serious expression, pulled up Li Zhaoqiang's file.

Lu Mou read it carefully once.

The file contains almost every detail about Li Zhaoqiang, including records of his training at Headquarters and the various tasks he performed.

Every employee at Headquarters has a file like this; it's confidential information, and ordinary people have no right to view it.

According to the records, Li Zhaoqiang was a long-time employee of Headquarters, and there was absolutely no reason for him to defect.

The more I looked at the file, the more normal it seemed. There were no problems whatsoever. Li Zhaoqiang didn't even have any bad habits. He appeared to be a promising young man.

Unconvinced, Lu Mou watched it again from beginning to end.

Given Li Zhaoqiang's status, he would occasionally interact with Ghost Tamers. What if he had been bewitched by one of Ghost Tamer?

The office was quiet, with only the soft tapping of Lu Mou's fingers on the desk. The current situation was complicated, and they could only wait for the investigation and intelligence departments to finish their review of the surveillance footage.

The investigation went very smoothly, and the intelligence department has retrieved recent surveillance footage of Li Zhaoqiang.

The last time he was seen was near a river.

The phone was tied to a toy boat and thrown into the river, but the person disappeared.

Professional analysts immediately pointed out Li Zhaoqiang's problem: why did he inexplicably come to the riverbank?

If it's just a holiday to relax, then it's fine, but deliberately going near a river during a mission is really unusual!

The act of tying a cell phone to a toy boat is even more unusual!

Subsequently, the intelligence agency investigated all the surveillance areas near the river, continuing their search for further clues.

It is now clear that Li Zhaoqiang has fled, but the reasons for his escape still need to be investigated further, whether he was actively tempted or passively threatened and controlled.

Many staff members responsible for analyzing the surveillance footage were whispering among themselves in the monitoring room.

After all the surveillance footage was retrieved, a database search was quickly conducted based on Li Zhaoqiang's facial features, and one particular frame was identified.

That was after Li Zhaoqiang lost his phone, at a street corner, when he met an indistinct figure.

The man took out a long robe and handed it to Li Zhaoqiang.

Strangely enough, after Li Zhaoqiang put on the robe, his image on the surveillance camera was blurred as if it were pixelated, and he could no longer be seen clearly.

Clearly, this is due to Supernatural influences.

Immediately afterwards, the two blurry figures quickly left the spot.

Throughout this process, the supplies that were originally intended for Hu Jiu were kept by Li Zhaoqiang.

Seeing this, everyone realized that Li Zhaoqiang likely betrayed them voluntarily.

He seems to have colluded with the Ghost Tamer robe could interfere with surveillance and probably also conceal his whereabouts.

Li Zhaoqiang could no longer be found in other surveillance footage.

The intelligence department immediately sent all the available surveillance footage to Lu Mou.

After Lu Mou obtained the video footage, his heart sank.

He simply couldn't understand why Li Zhaoqiang would betray Headquarters and collude with outsiders.

Are the benefits at Headquarters not good?

There are countless options with high salaries, permanent positions, and abundant benefits within the system!

Everyone else was fighting tooth and nail to get in, but Li Zhaoqiang actually ran away!

Li Zhaoqiang currently missing, and finding him is as difficult as climbing to the sky!

After all, according to the surveillance footage, Li Zhaoqiang seemed to be using Supernatural Item to make him difficult to capture on camera. Who knows if he might change his appearance?

Unable to find Li Zhaoqiang for the time being, Lu Mou felt a terrible headache coming on. He would definitely have to take responsibility for the loss of resources.

The key point is that the resources were indeed a lot, so much so that it hurt to think about them.

Aside from the fact that losing the Longevity Potion isn't a big deal, the other newly produced Supernatural products, as well as the Supernatural Items that the Eternal Night Organization compensated us with, are all strategic-level resources!

This kind of thing can't be pinned on temporary workers or interns and simply brushed off.

Lu Mou held a small meeting with a few of his trusted confidants.

The intelligence department would naturally send a copy of Li Zhaoqiang's video footage to Zhang Hongwen.

Zhang Hongwen seemed shocked by the defection and escape of Li Zhaoqiang, a member of the Resources Department.

So he quickly issued the order, giving a long and detailed speech, the core message of which was just one sentence: investigate and recover those resources as soon as possible!

That was all.