Chapter 93 (2/2)

There was also a lounge in the office with a large double bed, a leather sofa, a wine cabinet and a large three-door refrigerator.

Qin Xiang went to the bedside table and opened its drawer to find a lot of women’s items - stockings, lace bras, thongs and boxes of condoms. He snorted quietly, “Damn, that bastard really knows how to enjoy himself.”

From what they could see, this lounge was obviously where Huang Yi-Hu and his secretary did ‘battle’. A person like him couldn’t do without games like this.

Qin Xiang continued his search for something useful while Xia Lei just stood in the doorway and watched.

“Hey, come help,” said Qin Xiang, “Look for evidence of bribery. This was your idea so can you not just stand around?”

“You’re in charge of this area. I’ll take care of the office.” So saying, he vacated the doorway of the lounge and went into the office.

He had actually used his eye and surveyed the entire lounge when Qin Xiang was checking the items in the bedside table. He had not discovered any secret books or a hidden USB stick.

In the office, Xia Lei rested a little and called forth the power of his eye once more. His gaze swept slowly over the office and its walls and soon stopped on Huang Yi-Hu’s desk.

There was a wooden cabinet under the desk and in that wooden cabinet was a safe embedded in the floor.

The safe was about one metre into the concrete floor and was very solid; It had a turntable lock on top of electronic code lock.

Xia Lei looked at the safe, his eye like an impact drill, and he saw the contents of the safe after a few seconds.

The safe had a leather-bound notebook, a portable hard drive, some American dollars, some Euros and over ten bullion bars. There were also some papers like documents, records, certificates and the like.

“Found it!” Xia Lei said in excitement.

It didn’t seem right for Huang Yi-Hu to put these important things in his office but once one thought more about his identity, it made sense because of his crafty nature. He was from the underworld and had many enemies. He changed residences frequently and couldn’t take all these with him. Putting them in his most important office and into the most advanced safe where it couldn’t be unlocked without his double passwords was a good idea since who else could open his safe? Who could move a safe embedded in concrete if one were unable to unlock it? This safe looked like it weighed at least a thousand pounds!

Qin Xiang walked out of the lounge at this moment and said gloomily, “I didn’t find anything. It was full of gross stuff.”

Xia Lei didn’t say anything. He walked to the desk and pulled the door of the wooden cabinet open.

Qin Xiang saw the safe and was shocked. He paused half a beat before saying, “Fuck! This is an imported Dottling safe from Germany. Even my Master can’t open this!”

“Your Master?” Xia Lei asked while squatting in front of the safe.

Qin Xiang squatted by Xia Lei’s side, “You won’t know even if I told you and he won’t let me tell anyone either. Don’t ask. I advise you to give up. This safe needs two codes - one for the turntable lock and one for the electronic code lock. You know how much one of these things cost? 3,500,000! Huang Yi-Hu must have put his most important things in here, but…” He punched the floor and said angrily, “Huang Yi-Hu’s secret is right before us but he can only stare at his safe!”

“You’re a professional in this line. Can’t you open it?” said Xia Lei.

Qin Xiang shook his head, “Would I tell you to give up if I could open it?”

Xia Lei was silent, then he said, “Let me try.”

“You?” Qin Xiang stared blankly.

Xia Lei reached over with his hand.

Qin Xiang grabbed Xia Lei’s hand, “Stop joking around. How can you open it when I can’t? Let’s go. Don’t do anything to alert him of our presence. Let’s find another way.”

“Do you enter the code on the electronic lock first or the turntable?” said Xia Lei.

Qin Xiang smiled wryly, “Why are you so stubborn? Fine… the electronic lock is first.”

Xia Lei stared at the numerical keypad. The keypad slowly magnified in his left eye and increased in detail, so much so that even the dust particles on it were visible. He saw not only dust particles not visible to the naked eye but fingerprints. Fingers had sweat glands and left sweat marks on whatever they touched - it was unavoidable.

Xia Lei soon eliminated three numbers which had no traces of sweat and was left with ‘9, 7, 3, 2, 1, 5’ - six numbers.

The code was a combination of these six numbers but there were too many permutations. He could enter combinations one by one all night and not get anything right.

However, Xia Lei had his own way of solving this problem.

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