"What's going on? Are the parcel lockers damaged?"
Xu Yong heard the news and looked surprised.
"All eighteen parcel lockers in the second-year male dormitory area are damaged."
"I just checked the first-year dormitory area, and they're also broken. We can't store any parcels!"
"Old Xu, all the parcel lockers are broken. Could someone be targeting us?"
The part-time delivery students asked suspiciously after explaining the situation.
"Don't rush, let me check the backend first!"
Xu Yong frowned and walked to the innermost compartment of the shop. He looked at Liao Chang, who was playing games, and asked, "Old Liao, the parcel lockers are all broken and can't store parcels. Can you check if it's a system error?"
"No, the backend system the boss made has an alarm function. If the system has an error, it will automatically alert."
"Listen to me, you should still check!"
Liao Chang opened the independent computer connected to the server and pointed to the running system, saying, "See, everything is green. The system is fine.
It's highly likely the parcel lockers are broken!"
After speaking, the two who were looking at the computer suddenly stopped.
All thirty-six parcel lockers were damaged and could not store parcels...
This was malicious damage!
"It seems someone is already envious of the Beehive Station project!"
Xu Yong muttered and said, "Let's split up. You take people to the first-year dormitory area to check, and I'll go to the second-year dormitory area!"
"Okay!"
After giving instructions, Xu Yong and Liao Chang split up and led their teams back to the school.
...
Second-year dormitory area.
When Xu Yong and his team arrived, they had already contacted a student from the School of Electrical Engineering to help check the circuits.
When he arrived, he opened the main power box for the parcel lockers, and the student who was helping picked up his tools and began to check carefully.
After a comprehensive inspection, there were no problems with the parcel locker circuits.
The damaged parts were actually the parcel retrieval boxes.
Someone had tampered with the boxes, damaging the door locks with some unknown method.
The repairman who came said, "Old Xu, the keyholes weren't blocked by anything, but someone poured chemical agents into them, damaging the door locks!
Wow, the smell was masked too, very professional!"
"Damn it, who is so heartless!"
Xu Yong couldn't help but curse and ask.
He called Liao Chang again, and it was the same: the door locks were damaged by chemical agents.
Finally, after discussion, they could only ask the delivery students to work harder and contact the recipients downstairs.
They also asked them to inform the students picking up parcels that the parcel lockers needed repair and might be unusable for a while.
After making arrangements, Xu Yong immediately contacted the manufacturer of the parcel lockers and asked them to send someone for repairs.
After clarifying everything, he met up with Liao Chang and they went directly to the school security department.
When they informed the security department about the damaged parcel lockers, the head of the department immediately reported it to his superiors.
The cost of one parcel locker was 14,000 yuan, and thirty-six parcel lockers amounted to 504,000 yuan.
This was close to a million yuan, so the head of the security department did not dare to neglect and reported the entire incident to the school.
In fact, the amount involved was not that large, but Xu Yong deliberately exaggerated it.
It wasn't that the entire locker was damaged; only the locks of the retrieval boxes needed to be replaced.
Because they had an agreement with the manufacturer, they did not need to pay for repairs and only needed to pay the cost of the locks.
Xu Yong exaggerated the amount to nearly a million Dragon Country currency, of course, to attract the attention of the school.
As expected, after the head of the security department reported it, the school committee leader in charge of campus safety, Teacher Xu Mingxin, rushed to the security department with his team.
Upon learning the full story, Xu Mingxin did not immediately call the police.
After all, this was an incident that occurred within the school. If they called the police, it would not only escalate the matter but also damage the school's reputation.
After Teacher Xu understood the situation, he first went to the monitoring room to check the surveillance footage.
Since the Beehive Station had just started operating today, and it would have taken time to damage the box locks, it must have been done at night.
Therefore, Xu Mingxin directly ordered the surveillance footage from last night to be retrieved.
However, when they tried to retrieve it, they found that there was no surveillance footage from last night.
The reason was that the monitoring room had a power outage last night.
Even more absurdly, no one in the monitoring room noticed the power outage for a full hour.
Xu Mingxin's face immediately turned cold, and he looked at the head of the security department, who was over sixty years old: "Uncle Wang, what is your security department doing? A power outage for an hour, and no one noticed?
Hurry up and find the person responsible for monitoring last night!"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Wang Shuo, with graying hair, immediately went out to contact someone.
After making the call, he hurried back and said, "Teacher Xu, the person responsible for monitoring last night left by train this morning, and their phone is also unreachable. We can't contact them at all."
Hearing this, Xu Yong and Liao Chang's hearts sank.
The damage to the parcel lockers was premeditated.
Now that the incident had just occurred, the person responsible for monitoring had already fled, making it difficult to find out who was behind it.
Xu Mingxin, as a school committee leader, also understood that it was a premeditated act.
The amount involved was close to a million Dragon Country currency. If he could not find the perpetrator and give these two students an explanation, it would be a serious dereliction of duty in his position.
A minor penalty would be demotion, and a more severe penalty would be complete dismissal.
The atmosphere in the monitoring room became tense.
Xu Yong frowned and walked forward, saying, "Teacher Xu, why don't we call the police?
After all, the damaged funds are also several hundred thousand. The police will definitely take it seriously!"
Call the police?
If I call the police, my position will be completely lost!
Xu Mingxin coughed and said sternly, "If we call the police, this matter will immediately become a scandal for our school.
With the college entrance examination approaching, it might even affect our enrollment rate.
Xiao Xu, if you trust the teacher, please don't call the police. I will lead the investigation and give you an explanation."
"But..."
Xu Yong wanted to refuse, but seeing Teacher Xu's attitude, he finally nodded and left it to him to handle.
Now Xu Yong was no longer a novice just entering society. When he was an acting assistant manager, he had already learned how to observe people's expressions and understand human relationships.
"Alright, you two go back and wait for news. I need to discuss the investigation plan with the security department!"
"Thank you, Teacher Xu!"
"It's my duty!"
As soon as Liao Chang and Xu Yong left the monitoring room, the door was closed.
"Old Xu, do you think Teacher Xu can really find anyone?"
"The person has already run away. If we don't call the police to arrest them, what do you think?"
"But how will they give us an explanation?"
Xu Yong, who had learned to smoke, took a deep drag from his lit cigarette and said, "They'll definitely compensate us at the price! We're both poor students, what else can they give us as an explanation!"
Indeed, as he said, Xu Mingxin in the monitoring room was already preparing to compensate at the price and resolve the matter quietly.
Liao Chang sighed and frowned, "Why don't we call the boss? See if he has any way to find the person who damaged the cabinets."
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