Ten years after the failed awakening, I became a god

Chapter 145 The Simple Truth

Others may not know, but Lan Yin knows that the reason why the Federation's spirit stones are so abundant is not because the Federation has many spirit veins, but because the Federation's spirit stones are all mass-produced by the Federal Research Institute.

The warehouse in the Federal Research Institute was filled with them.

It was just that it was not convenient for her to explain this reason to Wen Qingya and the others, so she brought the topic back to the beginning.

How exactly was Lan Pingping arrested?

Lan Pingping received the gazes of the three people and was about to start speaking slowly again.

At this time, Blue Baby raised her fist and said threateningly, "If you talk nonsense again this time, I will let you taste the taste of my fist."

Lan Pingping didn't look directly into Lan Baobao's eyes, but this time she finally told him the truth.

"At the time, Ji Chunlu approached me, saying he wanted to borrow money, but the assets in my account had been inexplicably withdrawn, so naturally I had no money to lend him. So I told him about this and told him I was going to the Investigation Bureau to sue the bank for arbitrarily deducting my assets.

After hearing this, Ji Chunlu explained that his situation was the same as mine. Neither the gold shop nor the bar was our private property. Ji Chunlu and I only shared the title of owner, while the actual ownership of the gold shop and bar belonged to someone else.

Ji Chunlu said that something big happened to him, so he had no other choice but to come to me to borrow money."

Three people: "What's the big deal?"

Lan Pingping pursed her dry lips. "As everyone knows, the most valuable item in a gold shop is gold, and the most valuable item in a bar is wine."

Blue Baby rolled his eyes: "Who doesn't know?"

Lan Pingping continued, "The crisis Ji Chunlu encountered this time was the theft of alcohol from his bar. However, I had no assets and naturally no extra federal currency to lend him, so I refused his offer. But I didn't expect that my gold shop would also be robbed the next day."

Lan Yin: "I know this. I even saw who stole it."

A beautiful woman with the innate body of a holy thief, but unfortunately she is now a corpse.

Lan Pingping nodded. "That's right. I know who stole it, and I also submitted the surveillance footage I secretly placed inside the store to the Investigation Bureau. But they rejected the case, saying the surveillance footage could be fabricated. Meanwhile, the store's finance department has once again deducted all the assets from my smart bracelet, claiming that I, as the owner of the gold shop, was incompetent and should handle the shop's bad debts."

Wen Qingya felt something was wrong when she heard this and asked, "Wait, who exactly is the finance manager of the gold shop? The other amount on your smart bracelet also says it was transferred by the finance manager, but aren't you the only one in your shop?"

Lan Pingping made an expression that no one could understand. "The finance department of a gold shop is like the robots inside the shop. The finance department of a bar is like the robots guarding the wine cellar."

robot?

The robot Lan Yin guarding the gold shop is understandable, but if the bar also has a robot guarding the wine cellar, then the wine in the wine cabinet in the thief saint's house...

Is this the legendary embezzlement?

Obviously, Wen Qingya also thought of this.

"I saw a room in the bar where you were taken. It wasn't a wine cellar or a sales counter, but it did have a wine cabinet filled with alcohol."

Lan Pingping nodded. "That's right. The gold that disappeared from my gold shop and the wine that disappeared from Ji Chunlu's bar were stolen by the owner of this room. Ji Chunlu and I both knew about it, but we couldn't do anything about it. We had no choice but to cooperate and make a deal with him."

"What deal?"

Looking at the three pairs of curious eyes, Lan Pingping continued slowly, "Everything is divided into purchase price and sales price. The items sold to customers every day in the gold shop and bar are the sales price, but the amount that the finance department deducted from our two 'bosses' assets due to book losses is the purchase price."

Blue Baby's comment: "I didn't expect your real boss to be so conscientious."

Lan Pingping continued, "Because gold shops and bars have huge profit margins, the selling price is generally about three times the purchase price. So when Ji Chunlu proposed an idea to me, I got so carried away that I actually agreed."

Lan Yin said, somewhat baffled, "The idea you're talking about is not to cooperate with this thief, letting him steal the things from your gold shop, and then he'll take 10% and you'll take 20%, which will just offset the 10% loss of the gold shop, and you can even keep an extra 10% for yourself, right?"

Lan Pingping's face flushed instantly. "Indeed. Actually, if you think about it carefully, this method is full of loopholes. The biggest loophole is that the thief could have just taken 30% for himself, so why would he give me 20%? But at the time, my mind was so foggy that I actually thought this was a great opportunity and couldn't wait to agree."

Blue Baby was angry at him for not fighting back: "It's just one word: stupid."

Wen Qingya took a closer look at Lan Pingping's face and said, "I think it's very likely that he was attacked by a spiritual entity."

Blue Baby: "Psychic? The Federation just stole something and they mobilized the psychic department. Is that really that serious?"

The psychiatric system is not something that can be found on the street.

Lan Yin pondered, "It could also be medication. There aren't any medications in the Empire that can achieve the same effects as psychiatric medications, but that doesn't mean there aren't any in the Federation."

She also saw with her own eyes that Lan Pingping drank the other person's glass of wine and fell down.

Wen Qingya nodded thoughtfully.

Blue Baby didn't refute it either.

Lan Pingping continued, "We're collaborating with this person because Ji Chunlu and I can't have any assets in federal currency in our accounts, otherwise they'll be automatically deducted. So the 20% he promised us was in spirit stones."

Lan Yin was a bit confused when she heard this and said, "So you chased them directly to their territory, asked them for your 20% of the spirit stones, and then got caught?"

Lan Pingping blushed and nodded. "I don't know what happened at the time, but it's kind of funny when I think about it now."

Wen Qingya looked at Lan Pingping and said, "You don't usually interact with people, so it's not surprising that you got caught. But Ji Chunlu also..."

Baby Blue muttered quietly, "Ji Chunlu isn't very smart to begin with, they're both the same."

Wen Qingya shook her head. "But when you went to Lan Beibei to borrow money that day, wasn't he with Ji Chunlu? Since Ji Chunlu was short of money and Lan Beibei had it, why did Ji Chunlu go to such great lengths to borrow money from Lan Pingping, someone he didn't know well, instead of asking Lan Beibei for money? And in that bar, only Lan Pingping was arrested, not Ji Chunlu."

Baby Lan covered his mouth in surprise and said, "Ji Chunlu also introduced this thief to Lan Pingping, but Lan Pingping got into trouble while Ji Chunlu was not hurt at all. Was this whole thing a trap set by Ji Chunlu for Lan Pingping?"

Lan Yin remained noncommittal. "What if this thief was sent by the real boss? That would be a surefire way to kill us."

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