Ita Era

Chapter 202: Skipping Work
Mimi was still faceless, which Ding Shi was used to. He said, "Mimi, I have something to discuss with the boss."

"what's up?"

Ding Shidao: "Some questions about the aftereffects of happiness."

"Huh?" Mimi didn't understand, but still picked up the phone: "Boss, Ding Shi wants to see you... Okay."

Mimi hung up the phone: "Go inside by yourself. What would you like to drink?"

Ding Shi said, "Deduct the non-standard."

Inside the boss's office, Ding Shi sat on the right side of the desk, a cup of coffee in front of him. His personal assistant, Xiao He, sat next to him behind a screen.

The boss put down his pen and asked, "What is it?" His expression was indifferent, revealing nothing of his mood.

Ding Shi said, "I would like to ask the boss a few personal questions."

When the boss looked at Ding, he hesitated for a moment and asked, "Now?"

Ding Shi looked at Xiao He, and the boss waved his hand to indicate that it was nothing, saying, "Go ahead and ask."

Ding Shi said, "Suppose, suppose I am Bai Yuan."

The boss nodded and continued.

Ding Shi said, "I'll try every possible way to squeeze as much money as possible out of you."

The boss pondered for a moment and said, "Xiao He, go buy me a Shrimp Coffee."

Xiao He responded and left, leaving only the two of them in the office. Ding Shi's coffee still hadn't arrived.

The boss stood up, leaning her buttocks against the table again. This time, however, she crossed her arms, indicating she remained wary: "Why did you ask that question?"

Ding Shizhen said sincerely, "Boss, you are very beautiful and a very nice person. I will not harm you."

"Hehe." The boss reached for a cigarette, lit it, and stared at Ding Shi for a moment before asking, "You actually want to ask about the company's financial situation, right?"

Ding Shi said, "I care more about you than the company." Ugh... how awful. It turns out it wasn't that he couldn't be a jerk, he was just too lazy to be one with his dozens of ex-girlfriends. They're so pitiful; he couldn't even be bothered to lie to them.

The boss paused, scrutinizing Ding Shi: "What exactly do you want?"

Ding Shi said, "Boss, I won't harm you."

The boss turned his head to look out the window, and after a while, he turned back to look at Ding Shi: "The situation is worse than you think. The house I live in now has been mortgaged. Although the company has no debt, my personal debt exceeds 20 million. And my personal assets are no more than 1 million, including the 500,000 car I use to maintain appearances."

Ding Shi nodded and asked, "Your husband passed away two years ago, and that's when you started in debt, right?"

The boss frowned and grabbed Ding Shi's chin: "Who exactly are you?"

Ding Shi took the boss's hand down and held it in his palm, taking advantage of him. The hand felt even better than a young girl's. The boss tried to break free, but he used very little force.

Ding Shi continued, "After your husband passed away, did you drastically reduce your two daughters' daily expenses?"

The boss finally withdrew her hand, her face flushed, and turned her head to the side, saying, "Yes." After being stained with glaze, she gave up thinking about Ding Shi's identity and his purpose.

Ding Shi said, "But your daughter is unaware of the difficulties your family is currently facing."

The boss nodded.

Ding Shi said, "It's not that you don't want to talk, it's that you can't. Are you trying to balance the books? Are you trying to cover up the hole left by your husband's crimes?"

The boss remained silent for a long time before saying, "He committed suicide. The tax officials had already come to our door when he did. After discussions, they agreed to reduce or waive the fines and part of the taxes due. After all, I'm not the company owner, so I can refuse to pay. I kept borrowing money and mortgaged my house and other properties to take out loans. Through installment payments, I've already paid off the taxes due. Now, only my personal debts remain."

The boss looked at Ding Shi: "I'll tell you the answer you want to know, but can you tell me the answer I want?"

Ding Shi nodded and said, "I'll marry you next week."

The boss was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "That's not the answer I want."

Ding Shi comforted him, saying, "You deserve better." I am that better one.

Ding Shi figured out Bai Yuan's situation.

After her father's death, Bai Yuan's living conditions began to decline, and she could no longer be a spoiled princess.

Bai Yuan's boyfriend, Lin Yuan, gradually distanced himself from her and met Ding's stepmother.

The two chatted privately and likely came to the conclusion that the father was killed by the boss, and the boss was going to take all the assets to find Bai Yuan a young stepfather.

After all, Lin Yuan had also found a stepmother, so they started to collude. On one hand, Lin Yuan was digging money out of Ding's stepmother, and on the other hand, Bai Yuan was trying to get evidence to blackmail the boss.

Bai Yuan's approach to Ding Shi was a win-win situation.

First Bird: Ding Shi is the type the boss likes, and Ding Shi can help Bai Yuan obtain evidence of the boss's crimes.

The second goal: to control Ding Shi and thus help Lin Yuan gain favor with Ding's stepmother.

The third tactic: to find evidence of Ding Shi's crimes, or to fabricate evidence of Ding Shi's crimes, so that after Ding Shi wins the case, he can then extract money from Ding Shi.

The question now is, why did they kill people? And why did Ding Shi help dispose of the bodies?

After figuring out what he wanted to know, Ding the scumbag stood up and said goodbye: "I'm leaving now. Remember, next week, as long as I'm still alive, I'll come to marry you next week."

"Wait a minute." The boss called out to Ding Shi, "Actually, I can pay off all my debts within six months."

Ding Shi smiled gently and affectionately touched his boss's face: "I'm going back to work. If possible, ask your supervisor to treat me better." He kissed the corner of his mouth lightly, then turned and left.

The boss watched as the office door closed, then sat back down in his seat with a serious expression, still bearing a hint of shyness from when Ding Shi teased him.

After a long while, the boss picked up the landline and dialed the logistics department supervisor, saying, "Ding Shi from your department has performed well; we can consider promoting him to your deputy."

System notification: Supervisor's favorability rating is 80.

Ding Shi immediately regretted it: "If only you had said so earlier, I would have flirted with you sooner."

As for the account book that Bai Yuan wanted, it didn't exist, so Ding Shi couldn't get it at all.

However, as the actual person in charge of Yixia Company, Ding Shi was in charge of the company's books and knew how to create a fake ledger. After all, Bai Yuan wanted an electronic ledger, which was easy to obtain. He didn't believe she could verify all the information in the ledger in just a few days.

Even if Bai Yuan knew the ledger was fake, so what? There was nothing she could do, because the other party had evidence that they had buried the body themselves.

From the Q&A session with the management bureau, Ding Shi learned that he had not committed murder, so he had better find the killer.

When Ding Shi asked his supervisor for work again, the supervisor smiled, though it looked worse than crying.

Main pipe: "Xiao Ding, you need to remember to balance work and rest. You've done an excellent job today, so you should also give other employees a chance to shine."

Ding asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

Main message: "It means you've finished your work for today and don't need to work overtime. You can do whatever you want."

"No, bro," Ding Shi hurriedly said, "I love my job, I love my job so much, I just want to die on the job."

The supervisor patted Ding Shi on the shoulder: "Ding, stay calm. I know you're the best employee in our department, but health is the most important thing. Your job right now is to rest, have some tea, read the newspaper, and maybe chat with the girls in the administration department." Ding Shi: "I..."

The main piper said, "That's all, I have other things to do."

Watching his supervisor flee in disarray, Ding Shi cursed inwardly: "Damn it! This damn system is unpredictable!"

But perhaps it's a good thing; I can go back to my rented apartment and try to find the murderer.

It's possible that there are no new leads to provide, hence the lack of work... Wait, what about my own Q&A?

Ding Shi sends an email to the Cloning Administration, requesting answers to questions. While waiting for a reply, Ding Shi creates a new document and begins falsifying accounts.

After falsifying accounts for half a year, Ding Shi received an email from the Cloning Administration: "We will ask you questions at a random time."

Okay, Ding replied to the email, giving the other party his phone number and indicating that he might not be in the office, and that they could call him or email him if they had any questions.

When Ding went to the restroom and was about to skip work to go to his apartment, he received a call on his cell phone from an unknown number.

"Hey."

"Mr. Ding? Is this Mr. Ding Shi?" a female voice asked.

"I'm."

Female voice: "Hello, I am the manager of Shenxia Private Detective Agency. You can call me Xiaoyue."

Ding Shi: "Hello."

Xiaoyue: "You previously commissioned our company to investigate certain incidents, and we assigned a detective named Xiaori to contact you."

Ding Shi: "That's right."

Xiaoyue asked, "When was the last time you contacted Xiaori?"

Ding Shi asked, "What happened yesterday?"

Xiaoyue said, "Xiaori has been out of contact for more than seven days. Are you sure Xiaori contacted you yesterday?"

Ding Shi was startled. He remembered the body he had buried and said, "That's right. Let me check the number, 138XX..."

Xiaoyue exclaimed in surprise, "That's right, it's Xiaori's phone number, but we can't get through to him no matter what we do."

Ding Shi said, "I also tried to contact him this morning, but I couldn't get through."

Xiaoyue asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Ding, what matter have you asked Xiaori to investigate for you?"

Ding Shi remembered that the detective said yesterday that he had asked him to investigate the woman who offered herself to him.

According to Xiaoyue, the private investigator had gone missing seven days ago and couldn't possibly have called her; the information he provided was likely false. Therefore, Ding Shi genuinely had no idea why he had hired Xiao Ri for this purpose.

Ding Shi, of course, could not admit it, so he said, "It is a very private matter. Perhaps Xiao Ri is investigating undercover. I will try to contact Xiao Ri."

Xiaoyue said, "Do we still need to infiltrate him? He didn't report it. Anyway, okay, contact me if you have any information."

Ding Shi said, "I'll go check out the places where he might be infiltrating. Do you have a picture of Xiao Ri? Send me one."

Xiaoyue said, "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, I received a photo; it was a picture of a very ordinary man.

Ding Shi opened the photo of his burial site on his phone, blurred out the body and himself, put the photo into the AI, and asked the AI ​​which part of the city this location was.

Note: AI has learning capabilities. When you upload a photo of a corpse, the AI's central processing unit will save it. In the future, if someone asks a certain question, the AI ​​might send the photo to that person.

The AI ​​suggested eight locations, all in the suburbs. Ding then provided two more photos showing rivers, and the AI ​​confirmed: the middle section of the Shishui River in the Jiangnan suburbs, with a road leading to an unnamed hillside. The unnamed hillside mainly grows watermelons, and it's currently early winter; aside from anglers, it's almost impossible for anyone to be there.

The AI ​​not only described the distribution of fish in the river section, but also suggested bait and fishing times.

Finally, the AI ​​provided a location, which could be used for navigation to the river.

Ding put away his phone and went downstairs. When he got to the first floor, he was about to go out through the gate when he saw his own photo on the screen, along with a line of red warning text: Are you sure you want to skip work?

Grass can't leave the office building.

Red alert message update: Skipping work will get you fired. If you're fired, how will you support your delicate wife? How will you pay the mortgage? How will you raise the future generations of our country? Will you do right by your future wife? Will you do right by your children? Will you do right by your country?
Are you sure you want to be a disloyal and unfilial traitor?
Faced with the dog system's kidnapping, Ding Shi had no choice but to contact the dog system.

The system states that working hours are from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Lunch break is from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. During these times, employees can only leave the office building during breaks and after get off work; otherwise, they will be fired. Being fired means the main mission has failed, and the employee enters a revival challenge.

What can I do? My supervisor won't give me any work, and he won't let me leave the office building.

Ding Shi answered his phone when his phone rang: "Hello."

"Hello, this is the Cloning Administration. We have a new question for you: Why does your stepmother hate you? This question is worth 3 points."

Oh dear, isn't this just giving away points? Ding Shi replied, "Because I drugged her with aphrodisiacs, I was detained for six months for assault."

Administration Bureau: "Incorrect answer, current score 0 points."

Ding Shi was cursing in his heart more often than usual today. How could this be wrong? The information Hong Yi had gathered was just like this: he had been imprisoned for six months for assault, and the reason for his imprisonment was that he had drugged his stepmother.

Oh no... I didn't read the question carefully. Why does your stepmother hate you?

So, you're saying you were wronged? Your stepmother drugged you to prevent your father from paying for your university education, to ruin you, and to seize the family fortune, and then framed you.

Damn it, I was just a high school graduate back then, how could I possibly outsmart such a cunning old fox?

Therefore, the reason why his stepmother hated him was simply because of his identity.

Ding Shi stopped walking; he was about to get to work.

Ding Shi contacted Bai Yuan, requesting the address of his stepmother, Zhao Ruyan. Back at the Kaixin Company office, Ding Shi took out his toolbox, searched for materials, and began crafting a bow and arrow and a dagger.

Looking at the rather impressive bow and arrow he had made, Ding Shi was momentarily bewildered. If he had killed his stepmother, wouldn't Lin Yuan have inherited all the inheritance?
Calm down, calm down. To maximize your own interests, either eliminate everyone and resurrect Ben yourself, or proceed step by step and seek justice through legal means.

From the current perspective, it seems that he has not violated any laws except for burying the body.

Realizing he had overlooked a clue, Ding Shi retrieved a writing tablet from the warehouse and created a relationship diagram centered on Bai Yuan and Lin Yuan. In this diagram, one person stood out conspicuously; in plain terms, they were unnecessary to exist.

Ding's stepmother and the boss were the targets of Bai Yuan and Lin Yuan's schemes, while she was merely a tool in their plot. They used the boss's goodwill towards her and her relationship with Ding's stepmother to achieve their goals step by step.

The person whose existence is unnecessary is Bai Yan. Bai Yan's existence is meaningless to them, so why is Bai Yan involved?
Because of her collaboration with Bai Yuan, Bai Yuan helped her get close to the boss, and Bai Yan accidentally stumbled upon it and fell in love with her.

Bai Yan was a completely accidental and unexpected addition to the cast, and her presence seemed pointless. The fact that he hired the detective Xiao Ri to investigate Bai Yan indicates that he didn't have a good impression of her, and there must be a reason for that.

Xiao Ri has been out of contact for several days, and his investigation target is Bai Yan. Someone is impersonating Xiao Ri and contacting him using his phone. This indicates that Bai Yan is highly suspicious.

However, although the voice of the person impersonating Xiao Ri was disguised, Ding Shi was certain that the other party was a man.

(End of this chapter)