Because the procurement of parts took a bit more time than expected,
Hunter ended up busy until nearly five o'clock the next morning before finally finishing Charlie's modification commission.
After receiving the eight thousand us dollars in payment, he didn't waste words with Charlie.
He quickly mounted his predecessor's old motorcycle and returned to his residence.
Then, after taking a shower, Hunter didn't even bother to make himself breakfast.
Having not closed his eyes for over forty hours, he fell into a dreamland soon after lying on the bed.
However, what Hunter didn't know was that
while he was entering his dreams, after a full day of searching,
Steve, who had confirmed that his two safes containing almost his entire net worth were missing, had completely fallen into a frenzy.
*Smash!*
A Cloisonné Vase from the East was violently thrown by the angry Steve, smashing onto the ancient floor of his villa.
That floor was old building material he had previously spent a huge sum of money to buy from a contractor.
It was said to come from an ancient monastery in Old Europe with a history of over a thousand years.
Inside the villa, there was no shortage of Eastern and Western artworks that looked very aged.
However, to put it bluntly, Steve was just a nouveau riche trying to appear cultured.
Just like the Cloisonné Vase he had just angrily smashed to pieces, it was merely an artwork of modern craftsmanship.
Moreover, looking at the patterns—
it wasn't even a product from the Xia Country, but a product made in Japan.
But these 'treasures' that Steve didn't understand before but regarded as precious—
now, with the loss of those two safes that held almost the vast majority of his net worth,
were being used by the angry Steve as tools to vent his fire, being thrown and smashed everywhere.
"Useless!"
"You're all useless!"
"So many people!"
"Such tight security!"
"You come and tell me that a few people could climb up from that cliff and then sneak into my villa."
"But two safes, things weighing several tons."
"How did they take the things away?"
"Come on, tell me!"
Steve had now fallen into a state of madness!
Ever since he was jolted awake by a sudden palpitation in the early hours of yesterday morning...
Shortly after, the traps he had set around the two safes were also triggered.
In less than a minute, Steve had rushed from the second floor down to the first floor of the villa.
As a result, although he saw a 'thief' who was tightly wrapped and whose face could not be clearly seen,
and that thief immediately fled in a panic after Steve came downstairs,
the two safes that disappeared along with the thief had no news to this day.
Steve had also driven in pursuit of that thief for a period of time last night.
However, before he even reached the bottom of the mountain,
he realized that the thief fleeing in a panic on a motorcycle was likely just bait from the theft team that had targeted him.
Steve immediately turned the car around and returned to the villa.
In the following thirty-plus hours, they searched almost every inch inside and outside the villa.
They even conducted a rigorous search, digging three feet into the ground in some areas of the nearby mountains that did not belong to Steve.
But until now, let alone finding the two heavy safes that had mysteriously vanished,
Steve and his men—aside from the discovery on the fifty-meter-high cliff behind his villa—
found man-made climbing bolts and a rappelling rope for a quick escape.
They found no other traces of human activity.
Seeing that more than a day had already passed!
There wasn't a single clue at the villa!
The two motorcyclists Steve sent out to capture the thief alive were also easily shaken off by the opponent's superb driving skills on the highway.
No clues were found, and even now, concerning what held the majority of his wealth—
the two safes, which together with the gold bars inside weighed over four tons—
how they had mysteriously disappeared from right under his nose,
Steve, who still hadn't figured it out, was now completely enraged.
His eyes were bloodshot, and his distorted face was full of ferocity.
He looked at the trusted subordinates around him, each recruited at the cost of hundreds of thousands of us dollars per year.
At this moment, if he didn't still need to use them, Steve would have wanted to pick up an AK directly.
Then he would aim the gun at these useless fools and spray them frantically, killing all these good-for-nothings.
The group of subordinates looked at each other, none of them daring to speak.
They were outlaws recruited by Steve with high salaries. Although they had only followed Steve for over a year, they had received many benefits.
So unless they truly couldn't survive anymore, everyone could still accept being cursed at a few times.
"Boss, we have already carefully checked everything around the villa."
"We can be certain that, aside from the cliff side, there are no traces of outsiders' activities."
After hesitating for a while, a minor leader couldn't help but answer.
*Bang!*
In the next moment, he regretted it.
Another porcelain jar was smashed toward him.
Fortunately, he dodged at the critical moment and wasn't hit by the jar.
"Useless! Then you tell me, how did they steal my safes?"
"This!"
The minor leader indeed couldn't answer. Seeing Steve looking at him with a gaze that seemed ready to devour him,
he swallowed hard and then hesitantly replied, "Boss, could it be that they also bought another house near your villa?"
"And took advantage of the chaos last night to move them over there?"
This was clearly an answer meant to fool Steve, because they had searched and checked seriously all day yesterday.
There wasn't a single trace of heavy objects being moved, and they had even checked the traffic records of nearby vehicles.
But the two heavy safes, which had been so difficult to move in originally, seemed to have vanished into thin air.
But Steve was now beyond furious.
Along with it, his mind was no longer as sharp as before under the influence of rage.
Hearing this, he immediately said through gritted teeth, "A few of you, go and investigate the villas nearby. See which ones were traded in the last few months..."
"No, traded within the last year."
"I want to see it as soon as possible!"
"Yes!"
Another minor leader, unwilling to stay here and be scolded, immediately stepped forward, took the task, and left with a few men.
Just as he left, a flurry of footsteps was heard.
Soon after, one of Steve's subordinates rushed in with a look of joy on his face.
"Boss, we investigated all the surveillance at the nearby intersections."
"We found it! We found a suspicious target!"
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