fog city detective

Chapter 256 Kidnapping suspicion ([-])

Liang Xi looked towards the corridor, not far away was Jack's office.Liang Xi imagined: Jack came out of the office, holding the car keys.Jessica put the snacks back in the drawer, stepped forward to play coquettishly, and went outside to play.Brother Jack would definitely say yes.

Thinking about Jessica's movements, Liang Xi stood up, stepped forward to speak, and then returned to his position.Take the bag, take the coat.The temperature is low recently, there is heating in the company, but not outside.Liang Xi took a few steps and pushed away Jessica's office. It was a very clean and simple office, with nothing in it except basic office supplies.

Liang Xi looked at the coat rack by the door in surprise, on which was a lady's coat.It's not a suit. A suit is worn at work, and you have to add clothes when you go out, let alone the suburbs.If someone wants to mess with Jessica, women's coats must be the first choice, and it is easy to hide a locator.

In other words, Jessica walked straight away, wearing a suit and walking straight away.Looking at the people in the open office, they are all suits and shirts.Then trousers or work skirt.They are relatively close-fitting and not suitable for hiding locators.In other words, the inner ghost did not put the locator on Jessica.The same is true for the whole thing. Jack took the initiative to go out, and Jessica went out together by chance.

From this point, we can know that the gangster's goal is Jack, not Jessica.Jessica is a bonus product.

Liang Xi habitually picked up the books on the bookshelf, glanced at them and put them back. They were relatively advanced economics and management, and he was not interested in such books.He didn't intend to be governed, nor did he intend to govern others.Browsing the bookshelves, Liang Xi sighed that the desperate rich second generation worked harder than anyone else.From the perspective of the books, each book should have been carefully read, some books contain manuscripts, and some books have personal annotations.

Jeff's assistant knocked on the door: "Mr. Liang, I got the surveillance."

Liang Xi walked over and took the tablet computer handed to him by his assistant. The assistant clicked on a folder on it. There were several videos in it, which were captured by five cameras before and after Jack and Jessica left the sub-level. Videos, including elevator videos and underground parking videos.

Hate watching videos, but gotta watch them.Liang Xi asked, "Can I go to Jack's office to watch the video?"

The assistant's order was to cooperate unconditionally. Although she didn't know the identity of Liang Xi, or the kidnapping of the Jack brothers and sisters, judging from Jeff's hasty departure, she knew that something serious must have happened.The assistant immediately said: "No problem, this way please."

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Jack's office and Jessica's office are like two worlds.There are two piles of folders on Jack's desk, and pens, staplers, calculators and other supplies are scattered on the desk.

The assistant explained that a bunch of folders were specially given to Jack for review by Jeff. Jack had to read the contents of these folders carefully, and Jeff had to take an oral exam at dinner time.The other pile of documents is the work assigned by Jack to Jeff, which is mainly the report of the account executive who responds to customer complaints. The report explains why the customer complained, where the problem occurred, and how to solve the problem.Jack reviews supervisor reports and takes every complaint report seriously, even the lowest level of consumer complaints.

Liang Xi opened and read a report, which was a complaint from a dealer conveyed by the manufacturer.A batch of Bluetooth headsets produced by Mercury Group generally have the problem of low sound.After testing the matter, the supervisor confirmed that the complaint was true and credible. The supervisor spent two weeks on site looking for the problem at the factory in other places, and finally found the reason, which was a problem with the raw materials.The factory was rushing to work, and the raw materials were not in place due to objective reasons. The supervisor used a substitute under the advice of the technician, resulting in quality problems with the earphones.

The account executive He called the meeting and arranged the work.His team apologized to each customer and gave them free headphones, along with a small gift worth around £[-].And promise to send every user a new headset with guaranteed quality within seven days.

The most powerful thing is that I still have to write this report, and the supervisor explained the situation very specifically.Specific problems, specific solutions, and customer feedback after problem resolution.The report signed Jack's name at the end, indicating that Jack agreed with the handling.

Liang Xi observed that the assistant standing on the side hesitated to speak, and said: "This is the first time I have come into contact with the company's executives, and I am very curious about their work and life." Liang Xi is not in a hurry to watch the surveillance video.

The assistant nodded: "Then I'll go out first, and call me directly if you need anything."

Liang Xi asked: "If I don't call you, can I go shopping at will?"

The assistant replied, "Yes, of course. You will not have any obstacles in this building."

Liang Xi smiled and nodded, this assistant is fine, well, it should be fine.As usual, don't make definite guesses.

Are there ghosts?There is a high probability that, as analyzed before, the kidnappers accurately grasped the itinerary of the Jack brothers and sisters without physical tracking.One way is drones, and one way is positioning systems.Considering that they are professional bodyguards, it is most likely that one of Jack's brothers and sisters was installed with a locator.Since Jessica went out with Jack by chance, and Jessica did not carry a jacket, there is a high probability that the locator is on Jack.

There are big and small locators, and the small ones are smaller than a grain of rice.However, due to battery life and other reasons, the small locator cannot continuously transmit signals. Usually, it transmits signals at intervals, and there may be deviations in grasping the timing of kidnapping.

Conclusion: There is a ghost, a ghost around Jack, a ghost who can approach Jack's personal belongings alone without suspicion.

Is the inner ghost a company or a family?
Donating to special schools is work, routine work.The mandate began on Monday with the approval of the board of directors.The CEO is Jeff, the president. Who will Jeff assign the job to?It might be Jack, it might be Muck.There are a dozen or more candidates.According to the news from Bobby, Jeff assigned the work to Jack yesterday afternoon, everything was ready, and Jack went to the finance department to collect the check this morning before he could leave.

According to Jack's assistant and housekeeper, Jack accompanied Jeff to a charity auction dinner yesterday, arrived home around ten o'clock in the evening, and went to bed soon.I drove out alone at [-]:[-] this morning and arrived at the company at [-]:[-].He went to the special school at nine o'clock, and did not leave the lower level during the period.

All the clothes and shoes I wore today have been changed, basically ruling out the possibility of being tampered with yesterday.One may be the inner ghost maid, who installed a tracker in the washed clothes or shoes, but Jack has the right to choose, the right to choose clothes and shoes, and may not necessarily change into clothes and shoes with a tracker.

There is a high probability that it was tampered with in the company, maybe a pen, a small gift, or a tie clip.

Liang Xi walked to the door of Jack's office and imitated Jack to enter the office. The first thing he did was to take off his coat, because the heating on the second floor was very strong.Then sit down... No, since Jack has an assistant, why are there so many files?It's understandable if it's in the afternoon, but it's too much to pile up after only an hour of work, isn't it?
Liang Xi walked out of the office, and everyone concentrated on their work, observing Liang Xi from the corner of their eyes.After scanning all the employees, Liang Xi sat down beside a man in his early 30s and asked, "Are you Jack's assistant?"

The man was startled and nodded: "Yes, my name is Mike. Who are you?"

Liang Xi picked up the black card ID on his chest and asked, "Why are there so many folders on Jack's desk? Didn't you help him deal with it?"

Mike replied, "You mean the blue folder?"

"Correct."

"Those are homework."

"Operation?"

"It's the homework that the president gave to Jack."

"Come with me." Liang Xi led Mike into Jack's office, picked up the complaint file he had seen before and asked, "What kind of homework is this? Hasn't it been signed? Should it be handed over to someone else by the assistant or the administrative secretary?" ?” Liang Xi didn’t know who to hand it back to, but he believed that signing the report meant the work was over.

Mike took the document and looked at it for a while, then said, "This document was returned by the president's office."

Liang Xi was puzzled: "Why?"

Mike struggled for a while, looked at the black card on Liang Xi's chest, and finally answered Liang Xi's question: "The president is very angry because he removed a page from this document, and Jack didn't even find out that there were not all the pages. Sign on it. This is not the first time that this kind of thing happened. The president found that Jack’s work was perfunctory. They are all assigned by the president, and these tasks are all handled or handled by the president, which we call homework.”

Liang Xi asked, "The result?"

Mike said: "It is undeniable that Jack is very business-minded and smart, but he lacks patience and perseverance, and lacks focus. The result is not satisfactory."

"Adequate means barely passable."

Mike smiled bitterly: "It's worse."

There was also a quarrel between the father and son. Jack thought that he had an assistant now and a personal assistant to handle the details in the future, so he didn't need to bear this responsibility.Jeff believes that there are reasons why documents that can reach the next level need to be reviewed by a special person.For example, this complaint report, if the top management does not pay attention to it, the grassroots managers will be perfunctory, and perfunctory will hurt the interests of consumers and dealers, and will hurt the interests of the group company over time.As an executive, even if it's a show, tell other people that you pay attention to all the documents that reach the sub-level, so that no one dares to perfuse you.

Jeff doesn't think the report is a big deal, but Jack's work attitude is the reason for Jeff's anger.Jeff believes that in order to establish his own prestige, he must start with a huge and complicated file.Tell everyone with practical actions: the president is very serious.The CEO's work attitude is contagious. When the CEO is casual and perfunctory, the employees will be casual and perfunctory.When the CEO is serious about his work, the employees will naturally become serious too.Because people are lazy by nature, if you can use 50% of your effort to satisfy the president, why spend 150% of your effort to satisfy the president?
Mike emphasized again that, except for the relatively complicated document work, Jack has a good business acumen and a sense of the market.The overseas investment survey report he submitted half a month ago was sent to the board of directors by Jeff for reading, and the directors spoke highly of the report.Among them, the views on energy in overseas markets have changed part of the company's strategic layout.

These documents were piled up like this on purpose by Jack, because after Jack finished processing a batch of documents, he would send another batch of documents.Just like a child who finishes his schoolwork, he still needs to do homework, and after that, there will be intensive homework assigned by his mother.It's all over, and there are art homework, calligraphy, piano, rope skipping and so on.

Under Mike's explanation, Jack's whole person has been concretized in Liang Xi's impression.This is a casual, informal, somewhat sloppy man.No wonder I like to drive by myself, in order to enjoy the rare sense of freedom brought by driving.

Mike asked, "Is something wrong?"

Liang Xi replied: "Jeff is not in good health, and he is preparing to draw up a new will."

"Oh?" This topic is too sensitive to ask myself.

Liang Xi said, "Tell me your opinion."

Mike hesitated: "Not good?"

Liang Xi replied: "Believe me, it is a good thing to say it, but it is definitely a bad thing not to say it."

Mike told Liang Xi that Jeff had three children, namely Jack, Jessica and Jamie.Jamie was born out of wedlock and started his own company, which is regarded as a branch of Mercury Group. Mercury Group holds 15% of Jamie's shares and is the second largest shareholder.Jamie doesn't ask about the group's affairs on a daily basis, and it's rare to see Jamie at the second level once a year.

Jack has a dispensable attitude towards Jamie. Their relationship is very ordinary. Mike guarantees that Jack doesn't hate Jamie, but the relationship is not good, just like passers-by.

Jessica is the one with the highest diploma and the least practical work experience among the three.Jessica's tutor during her postgraduate period was a famous European economics scholar, and she followed her tutor to hear and see a wide range of knowledge.Jessica is very serious and hardworking, but unfortunately she lacks work experience and has served as an empty vice president without specific responsibility.Jeff's favorite is Jessica, and his second favorite is Jamie. Jeff often goes downstairs to Jamie's company.Of course, Jeff is also very good to Jack, and the lower-level people know that Jack is their future boss.

The Jeff family is the largest shareholder of Mercury Group, holding 40% of the shares.But Jeff himself only has 15%, and the rest is held by Jack's aunt, Jack's grandmother, and Jack's uncle.But they all handed over the equity to Jeff to take care of.Considering the actual situation, whether Jeff is sincere or under pressure, Jack will definitely become the new president.

why?Let’s start with the predecessor of the Mercury Group again, so I won’t explain it here.Londoners list Clement as the first family, but no one will list the Mercury Group as the second family, most of them are chaebols.The main reason is that Mercury belongs to the newly promoted chaebol, and there are many conflicting interests within the family. There are no strict family rules, and no one has complete control.

Liang Xi asked, "Who has entered Jack's office this morning?"

Mike recalled: "The president's personal assistant came to inquire about the work situation. The supervisor of the administrative department and a female secretary of the administrative department, it is said that the female secretary privately teased Jack as a single high-quality man, and also said that she had worked with Jack. Some lace topics. Originally, the female secretary was about to be fired, but Jack asked the administration department to let it go, and the female secretary apologized to Jack in person, accompanied by her boss."

Mike said: "And there is me."

Liang Xi asked, "Where's Jamie or anyone else?"

Mike said: "I haven't seen Jamie at the sub-level today."

Liang Xi asked: "Jack's coat is hung on the coat rack at the door of the office?"

Mike nodded: "Yes."

After talking with Mike, Liang Xi couldn't find the core. It sounds like his previous inference was wrong. It seems unlikely that the few people who entered Jack's office installed locators on Jack's clothes.

(End of this chapter)