There had been no list when the items were donated, so it was impossible to tell whether they included a key. But if He Pu's key belonged to this person, and something happened to him, that possibility had to be taken into account... This person might not be the right target.
Xu Huo then visited several more Mining Group employees and finally got another relatively reliable lead. The keys had indeed originally been distributed as souvenirs, but not to people within the Mining Group. Instead, they had been given to important figures. Of course, the keys weren't the only items—there were other things made from ore, too.
Since the items had been gifts for specific people, the ore keys wouldn't all look nearly identical like they did now. Each one must have been specially made. It was hard to find the List at the Mining Group, so Xu Huo tracked down the company that had made gifts for the group. Its records contained the corresponding order. He discovered that three keys had been commissioned at the same time, and that the metal frames set into them bore special markings. In other words, each key had been earmarked for a particular person before it was made, rather than handed out at random afterward.
Xu Huo found the recipient of He Pu's key. It had been given directly to a director at the Game Government Base, along with a file on the director that included a description of his appearance.
As it happened, the man was one of the interviewers who had interviewed him earlier.
After leaving the gift company's control room, Xu Huo began to consider the risks.
He Pu had said that he had left the key for his heir, but that didn't mean whoever held it could simply take