Chapter 22 Section 22

I thought I was used to Kuramo's sharp tongue, but I still can't forget the shock at that time.How could he say that?How could he lie so nonchalantly?I really want to cut his brain open and see what's inside. For him, it was a trivial matter to deal with complaining guests in moderation.At the time, he should have been able to avoid responsibility by pretending we didn't know, but he didn't. "There was a small incident before, but the company's attitude towards it made me feel very suspicious." Cangchi began to talk with a serious face. "Just to have a look, I want to see with my own eyes what a gold nugget looks like in a movie or a TV show."

The young lady who came instead of the ranch grandfather stared at Kuramochi with interest.Kuramochi is undoubtedly a genius in terms of quickly grasping the other party's emotions. "So I asked a lot of people where the gold is kept." "The results of it?" Kuramochi shook his head, spreading his hands pretendingly like an actor. "No one told me explicitly, but instead they yelled at me, saying that a salesman doesn't need to know." This is the first time I've heard of it.Before that, I had never thought about any gold custody site. She frowned. "Isn't that weird? Since it's selling gold, the gold should be stored somewhere, right? The gold bought by the ranch grandfather should also be stored somewhere, right?"

"It should be." Kuramo tilted his head. "Anyway, since I'm also suspicious, I'll try to investigate. I have to be careful not to be caught by the company, though, so it might take a while." "I'm sorry to trouble you. According to the current situation, the old man can't sleep well at night." "I will as soon as possible. As soon as I find anything, I will contact you." Cang Mo took out the notepad. "Speaking of which, I haven't asked your honorable name yet." After being told by Kuramochi, she realized that she hadn't introduced herself yet, showing an expression of suddenly remembering.

"Sorry, my last name is Uehara." "Miss Uehara. That, is that correct?" Kuramochi wrote "Uehara" on the notepad. "right." "Can you tell me your name and phone number by the way." Urged by Kuramochi, he revealed his name as Uehara Yukiko and his phone number.I remembered that the ranch grandpa called her "Yuki" before. "Can the contract be terminated?" "I think it would be weird if we couldn't cancel the contract. After all, we all tell our clients that they can cancel at any time... right?" Kuramochi asked for my permission.I nodded in response, and found that his choice of words became humble and polite at some point.

After saying goodbye to Yukiko Uehara, Kuramochi and I decided to go back to the company.As I waited for the elevator, I asked him, "How do you say that?" "What kind of words?" He looked up at the elevator's floor indicator light. "You think the company is suspicious. You never said that before, did you?" "It's useless to talk about it. We can only do the job well." The elevator went to the first floor, but luckily we were the only passengers. "Don't you know that the company has problems and still go to solicit customers? And you still use that dirty method." I don't care if he will get angry, but he pressed the button on the fifth floor with a smile on his face.

"There is no distinction between clean and dirty means of making money. Think back to what Mr. Yamashita told you at the beginning, don't waste extra energy thinking, all you should think about is how to sell gold...you forget Yet?" "So, why did you say that to him today? Do you really want to investigate? Or are you just talking about the scene to get over the difficulties just now?" "Why are you so angry?" Cang Chi was stunned. "Haha, you're in love with her. No wonder, beauty." "You are right? Say something irresponsible, trying to make her like you."

Kuramochi smiled and shrugged slightly. As soon as I got back to the company, he asked me to "wait here", and I didn't know where to go.I waited for him in the shared office as he had been told.I didn't see any other salesman.Employees in charge of foreign affairs have nothing to do even if they stay in the company.The only exception is Miss Kurosawa who is in charge of disguising others. Kuramochi came back soon. "Come with me and show you something nice." "what?" "You'll know when you come with me." He smiled secretly. He boarded the elevator again and pressed the button for the sixth floor.I've never been to the sixth floor.

"The sixth floor is also a thing business, don't you know?" I nod.On the first floor of the building there is a panel explaining each floor, but the part on the sixth floor is blank. Walking out of the elevator, there is a cubicle in the empty corridor. There is a small iron door in the cubicle. The lock on the door looks solid, and there is a computer-like keyboard installed on the lock. "It seems that the security is quite strict." I said what I thought in my heart. "Do you think so?" "Don't you think so?" "No, you're right in thinking that. The locks are made to look that way."

Cangchi held a large bunch of keys in his hand, and there were several keys on it.It seems that he just went to get it.He inserted one of the keys into the keyhole, and pressed several numbers on the keyboard. After a "beep", it felt as if something "clicked" to open it. Cang Mo held the doorknob and turned it vigorously, and the door opened with a slight rolling sound. "come in." "is it okay?" "Ok." I walked through a somewhat narrow entrance, darkened only by soft red lights.If you look closely, there is something like an iron fence in front of you.There are also doors on the iron fence.

"What is it for here?" I asked. "Storage room." Kuramo replied. "There are hundreds of kinds of customers, and some of them think it's okay to buy gold even if they don't use strong measures. However, such people will be very interested in the company, and some even want to see how the company keeps gold. In this case, if you don't Let them see that such people will be very interested in the company, and some even want to see how the company keeps the gold. In this case, if they are not allowed to see, the big fish who have finally surfed the Internet will run away. In this case, we will bring them here. Usually when we bring guests to visit, the company will send guards to stand by the gate just now." After finishing speaking, Kuramochi sneered. "Of course, that's just asking the part-time students to pretend to be guards."

"Is the gold kept here?" I pointed to the iron fence.There is only one long corridor opposite, with a door on the left and right of the corridor. "Sir," Kuramochi suddenly made a high-pitched voice. "All the gold you purchased is kept in the front vault, guarded by guards 24 hours a day, and as you can see, there are two doors on this passage. If you didn't enter the password into the computer for the door just now, it is absolutely safe. If you can’t open it, the entrance and exit of the iron fence are also equipped with special locks. In addition, there are monitors monitoring the whole process from your location to the safe inside. There are also infrared monitoring equipment inside the iron fence. If any suspicious person dares to take a step beyond the threshold, the alarm device will be activated immediately. I can tell you with confidence that our company's security measures are absolutely foolproof." After finishing a series of gesticulating words, Kuramochi glared at me White Fang. "The person in charge of showing the guests around is a girl wearing a guide uniform, usually called a female guide. I heard that she is also a work-study student invited by the company." I looked around and found a monitor in the corner, but I couldn't confirm its function. "That's the only explanation, can the guests accept it?" "Well, ordinary customers won't accept it." Cang Chi walked into the iron fence, took out the key chain, and inserted the other key into the keyhole. After a click, the lock opened. "What kind of special method is that lock?" "God knows. The company didn't tell me anything. Come in." He opened the door. When I was about to go in through that door, I remembered what he said just now, and retracted my feet. "What about the infrared monitoring equipment? If we step in, it will activate the alarm device?" Hearing what I said, Kuramochi straightened his back and began to speak in the same tone as the guide just now. "I have already contacted the guard room just now and turned off the switch of the monitoring equipment. Therefore, even if you enter, the siren will not sound. Please rest assured." I felt like I was being played by him like a monkey, but I stepped in anyway, and nothing happened.I stared at the wall carefully, how could there be any infrared surveillance equipment?It is simply inexplicable! "Usually," Cang Chi said. "Everyone's feet will be covered with infrared rays. Once the infrared rays touch an obstacle, it will be regarded as a suspicious intrusion, and the alarm device will be activated." "First of all, the siren will go off, all the doors you just passed will be automatically closed, the fence of the stairs will fall, and the elevator will not be able to be used. In other words, the intruder will be locked here. Of course the guards will come quickly, and at the same time , the security system will also contact the local police.” "Stop talking in that weird accent!" "Do you have any other questions?" "I know about the surveillance equipment and alarms, the point is where is the gold? No, before that I want to ask you..." I stared at Kuramochi and said, "Why are you the only one who knows about these things? Or is it just me who doesn't know ?” Kuramo frowned slightly, scratched his head, with an expression of not knowing how to explain it. "It's not just you who don't know, but only some salesmen who know. After all, if you don't know this place, once the customer asks to see the storage room, it will be a headache. So far, no one between me and the customers in charge of you has raised this question. So I didn't get a chance to tell you either. That's how it is." "Sounds like you can't take the initiative to tell people about it." Kuramochi stared at me seriously, then nodded. "That's right. The company wants to keep it as secret as possible. It's a matter of course, right? It's dangerous if a salesman tells everyone about the vault after he quits his job." "Does the company only tell trusted salespeople?" "Perhaps your statement is correct." "That is to say, the company trusts warehouse holdings." "Probably." Kuramo took out the bunch of keys from his pocket again. "Don't you want to see gold?" "You...you lied to Yukiko Uehara, right? Didn't you say you didn't know where the gold was kept? Why didn't you tell her about it?" "If I tell her, I guess she'll say she wants to see it?" "Of course." "I do not like that." Before I could ask why, Kuramochi inserted the key into the lock on the wall.That door also appeared to be made of metal.As soon as he opened the door, he turned to me and said, "Come on, just look at it. This is what you want to see." I looked in through the door and couldn't help but gasp. Although it was dim inside, mountains of gold nuggets and bars floated in the darkness under the faint light.If you look carefully, there is a glass curtain in front of you, and the gold can be seen but not touched.On the other side of the mountain of gold, there is a silver vault. "Your gold is kept in the vault inside. What is in front of you is only a part of the gold owned by our company." Kuramochi said behind me. "It's spectacular. There really is gold." Before that, I suspected that the company had no gold at all, and now I can't help but be surprised by the sight in front of me. "Come on, please. Please look closer. These are genuine gold." "Didn't I tell you to stop speaking in that weird way?" I leaned close to the front of the glass curtain, the light was very weak, but the gold gave off a dazzling light, which made me blink frequently and admire again and again. However, while I admired it, I felt something was wrong.That feeling became stronger and stronger, and even began to feel that something was wrong.There was a doubt in my mind that I couldn't let go of. It wasn't long before I discovered what was causing my doubts.I looked back at Kuramochi. "Why are the two of us able to come in here alone? I don't think the company trusts you that much." Kuramochi didn't answer, and looked away from me. "For example," I went on. "We can also break this glass now and take away the gold inside. Of course, if we do that, we may be arrested immediately. However, the company is too careless to let the two of us enter here alone. ? Even the alarms went off." "There's no need to break the glass." He held out the keychain in front of me. "There is also a key to get in here." My body leans back slightly. "And that bunch of keys? It's too easy to borrow, right? It should be more complicated procedures, isn't it?" "I took this bunch of keys from Mr. Yamashita's desk without authorization." "Mr. Yamashita is responsible for managing the keys? Even so, the management procedures are too loose, right?" "it's okay." "why?" Kuramo held the key chain and made a jingling sound as he approached the glass curtain.He tapped lightly on the glass surface with the end of a key. "This glass is bulletproof with a thickness of up to two centimeters. It is a product recommended by the US FBI. Even if it is fired from a distance of one meter with a pistol, there will be no cracks..." Kuramochi snorted coldly when he said this . "What kind of bulletproof glass is two centimeters thick. If it is, how can it make such a cheap sound?" After speaking, he knocked a few more times. "Isn't it?" "Of course not." He slowly turned to me. "I said Tajima, I didn't lie! The reason why I imitated the tour guide was to tell you how the company explained to the guests, but I didn't say that these contents are all true." "Is it all... fake?" "Fake, fake, all are deceptive. The locks of those doors, as long as there is a thief with a little skill, can be opened in less than a minute. Not only is there no infrared monitoring equipment, there is no alarm device, and even the guards There is no chamber. Speaking of this glass, it is just ordinary glass, as you said, it can be broken at will." "Is the company going to use this thing to keep gold? At least, is it gold?" I pointed to the inside of the glass curtain. Kuramochi folded his arms while listening to gold nuggets and bars. "That's right. If you collect all the gold in it, it might be as small as the tip of your little finger." For a moment, I couldn't understand what he meant.Still, as I stared at the gold in the glass curtain, I knew what he meant. "Is it fake...?" I moaned softly. "I'm afraid so. After making a gold pattern with corrugated paper or Styrofoam, and then pasting it with gold leaf... probably that kind of thing. How can the real gold nugget be placed in such a place? It's just to convince visitors It’s just a shabby prop. It’s used to fool three-year-olds, no, old men and old women. These people already have presbyopia, and the company didn’t forget to dim the lights.” "So the vault is empty, too?" "I even wonder if it's a real vault. Maybe it's just plywood with aluminum sheets or something, and then processed to look like a vault. The partition wall in the hallway looks like a real thing , and this room, if you really want to dismantle it, it can be done in a few hours. This is designed to annihilate the evidence just in case." "Does everyone know about this?" "God knows, I've never mentioned it to anyone. What I'm saying now, no one told me, it's all my own deduction." "No one told you, but you saw through it was a trick?" He smiled wryly after hearing my words. "People who don't see through have problems with their brains, right? As long as you pay attention to it, there are many flaws here. The best example is this pile of gold. Tajima, do you remember the specific gravity of gold?" "What is the specific gravity...?" Since graduating from high engineering, I have never used the word specific gravity, and suddenly I can't remember what it means. "About twenty. In other words, the same volume is twenty times as heavy as water, and there are twenty kilograms in a size of ten centimeters. In this way, the gold displayed here alone is one ton. Adding this is only a part, In addition to the gold in the vault, how many tons? Of course, the weight of the vault must also be added. Then, do you think the design of this building is enough to bear such a weight? This is an ordinary commercial building Building! It's not surprising that the floor will be pierced and the beams will be twisted." After he said this, I realized that he was right.However, I contradicted his words to hide my ignorance. "I think, since the safe is going to be placed, the company naturally made a heavy-duty design." "What do you think is downstairs? Our office! An empty office with few beams! If you want to make equipment that can withstand these weights, the floors below are generally unusable. Anyway. , There is no such construction record in the company.” I was silent.What Kuramochi said is not wrong at all. "You don't have to be frustrated because you don't see this. Anyway, these devices are designed to deceive people, and it is only natural for you to be deceived. As long as you have seen it a few times, you will definitely find the contradictions, so Sooner or later you'll find out." I didn't speak.He tried to comfort me, but hurt my self-esteem even more. "When did you know these were lies?" "When?" Kuramochi tilted his head. "I've taken guests here a few times with senior staff. It was probably last fall. After that, I thought there was something wrong." "You know it's a lie, but you still sell gold?" After I finished speaking, I shook my head. "No, what you're selling is not gold, but 'gold receipts'. And you even brought me here to cheat people with you." My breathing became short of breath. Kuramo slid down against the wall, and finally sat down on the ground with his legs stretched forward. "I didn't intend to lie to anyone!" "Aren't you lying? You're obviously selling things that don't exist." "The only thing I can say for sure is that there is no real gold in this vault. Maybe the company has hidden the gold elsewhere. No one said that Toji Shoji didn't have gold. I thought it was weird, but I didn't Any evidence. Therefore, all I can do is follow the orders from above and do my job well. How can this be a lie?" "If you feel strange, just confirm it clearly? Just like when you saw through this vault as a lie." "Why do I have to do that? I'm just a salesman, not a policeman. Is there anything wrong with not knowing what you don't know?" "There will be more and more victims, won't we? We are creating victims!" "Why can you insist that they are victims? They just concluded a gold sale contract with the company." "However, the gold is not in the victim's hands. Even if they want to terminate the contract, the original money will not be returned. Isn't this the victim?" "I don't know. That's a matter between the company and the client." "We're part of the company too, aren't we?" However, Kuramochi shook his head. "It is true that the company employs us, but we are not part of the company. The company did not tell me that there is no gold in the company. If there is no gold in the company, then the victims are not only customers, but also us who sell things that do not exist. Victims. Even if there is a lawsuit, we will not be held accountable. After all, we know nothing." "Are we responsible for the contract?" "Why? The contract is only stamped with the seals of Toshishoji and the customer. Did you put your own seal on it? No? We are a third party that has nothing to do with the contract. Why don't you understand this matter?" "We were vaguely aware that the important deposits of those old people would be wiped out, so we still used strong tactics to get them to sign, didn't we? In the end, you still wanted to pose as a third party!" "Who said I was aware of such a thing? Didn't I say it several times from just now? I am only sure of one thing, and that is that there is no gold in this vault. I don't know anything else. I just Unknowingly, according to the template taught by the company, sell products to the elderly. You said that we used strong methods, but when did I do that kind of thing? Mr. Ishihara seems to have used something similar to a thief on an old woman who is hard of hearing But I have never done that kind of thing. Have you forgotten what happened to Mrs. Kawamoto at that time? At that time, I didn’t say anything to ask her to buy gold from us, she offered to buy it.” "You set the trap and made her have to buy it, didn't you?" "You asked me if I used strong means. Did I push the old lady Kawamoto into a desperate situation?" "So, what do you say about the triangle lottery? Didn't you let them draw a lottery that is sure to win, and then trick them into the company?" "That's a way of sales promotion. The company ordered me to bring them to the company regardless of the three thousand seven hundred and twenty-one. The contracts are not counted as our performance. Those contracts are all signed by Mr. Yamashita.” It's the first time I've heard of it, but that's irrelevant. "No matter how you deny it, cheating is always a fact, right? It's impossible for you not to realize that this is a strange company." When I said this, I suddenly found that my heart became extremely empty.I lowered my head and said, "However, I am also guilty. I didn't know anything at first, but I found out the truth halfway, but I couldn't make up my mind to resign. After all, I am the most important thing." "Anyone is the most important to oneself." When he said this, another anger rose in my heart.I looked up at Kuramochi.He was a little intimidated by my aura and shrunk his chin.He stood up from the ground and patted his butt. "As I said just now, even if it turns into a lawsuit, we have no reason to be held accountable. Because we are just a small screw in the company. It's just that we may be resented by others. You saw Miss Yukiko Uehara's Got a look? She literally saw us as enemies at first." "It's only natural that she would hate us." "I don't think so. Forget it, let's continue the topic just now," Kuramochi stood with his back to the deceptive merchandise. "Recently, more and more customers are complaining about the company. I heard that there are still people who plan to hire a lawyer to get the money back, but it seems that the top is hiding it from us. Ms. Uehara can also be said to be one of them?" "How can such a deceitful business last?" "That's right. It seems that the deceitful rumors are true. Dongxishangji is like a ship that is about to go silent. If we are the rats on the bottom of the ship, there is only one thing we can do now." Kuramochi lowered his voice and continued. : "It's almost time to abandon the ship and flee."