Faced with the Military Intelligence Directorate lieutenant colonel's question, He Runxian froze for a full three seconds, then... actually laughed.
"Heh heh, I don't know either, Lieutenant Colonel. What are you trying to say?"
The young lieutenant colonel answered expressionlessly, "What do you mean, what am I trying to say? This is Hesheng territory. I don't know anything, so what could I say? How about I ask... why is this place so clean?"
I knew it! He Runxian smiled indifferently. "Hesheng has always paid attention to quality control. Not only are the production workshops clean, but so are the storage yards. Isn't that how a qualified enterprise should be?"
Then he shot the local official a complaining look. "The factory is currently only half-operational. The employees are idle anyway, so we organized them to do some cleaning and gave them an excuse to hand out benefits."
The official he looked at gave a bitter smile. "We've tried our best too, but military orders... aren't ours to decide."
The young lieutenant colonel curled his lip and said nothing more. He beckoned over a soldier and handed him the scales in his hand. The soldier promptly took out an evidence bag and put the scales inside.
He Runxian glanced at him, seemingly casually, but said nothing.
They searched all the way through. Other than lingering for a while in the storage yard, they did not spend much time anywhere else. Even in the underground warehouse, they only asked two questions.
Two large cold-storage facilities were operating. The lieutenant colonel asked, "What is this, an Energy Stone storage facility?"
"It is an Energy Stone storage facility," He Runxian nodded, admitting it openly.
"You have quite a few Energy Stones, and you're still running the cold storage," the lieutenant colonel remarked before asking, "Open