vI'm a cornerstone, I'm here to kidnap the robin

Two days later, Osvaldo, the head of the marketing department, returned to his office in high spirits after a business trip. Immediately, the alarm of theft spread throughout the marketing department.

Seeing that the safe that was supposed to contain the official seal was empty, and remembering Diamond's half-smile when he just returned to Pierpoint, the youngest substitute on the board looked at the spider doll left in the safe with anger in his eyes.

He guessed who was behind it, and even guessed who instructed it, but... he had no evidence.

"Diamond...Stone...You better hope your little bastards don't fall into my hands."

Volume 3: What to do if you get caught cooking the books

"While the Market Development Department was triumphantly applying pressure to the Strategic Investment Department, they were completely oblivious to the fact that a conspiracy had quietly unfolded. With Topa and Gold Dust's cover, Jeramy had unnoticedly stolen Osvaldo's official seal. Now, they were happily preparing their own spoils, ready to make the Market Development Department's bills dance... That's it."

In the Strategic Investment Department, Jeramy once again stood on his chair and recited with passion his glorious record against Topaz Gold.

In the past, Topa would have asked Zhang Zhang to knock him off the chair on the pretext of dirtying the seat, but now no one stopped him.

After all, we finally got the official seal of the market development department, and everyone is very busy.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, stamp the newly printed bad check now before anyone notices it, and fill in the amount later."

Sha Jin sneaked back to the office of the three-person team. After entering, he carefully leaned against the crack of the door and looked outside for a few times. After confirming that no one was following him, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

He took out a stack of blank checks from under his bulging cloak. The ink on them even retained the residual warmth of the printer. Sha Jin breathed a sigh of relief with lingering fear.

"Luckily, I'm familiar with the logistics department. They heard that the accountant knocked over the ink bottle and stained the checkbook, so they didn't suspect anything... How come you only got so little?"

Throwing the blank check on Topa's desk, Sha Jin looked at his colleague's work progress and raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Forget about stamping a bad check. The Strategic Investment Department hasn’t even finished stamping all the receipts that were blocked by the Marketing Development Department.

"You think I'm not in a hurry? One of you is entertaining yourselves while the other is trying to increase my workload. Hurry up and help me figure out a reason to divert these funds."

Although she got the official seal of the market development department, Topa did not get carried away. As a debt collector, she knew that it was not the time to sit back and relax.

She wanted to close her eyes and stamp the document to be done with it, but her logic told her that doing so would be tantamount to incriminating herself.

It is okay to cook the books, but at least you have to have a reason that will not be exposed if questioned.

"Let me see... to make up for the losses of Yalilo 6, let's say we recycle and destroy those old mechas from 800 years ago."

Sha Jin took a receipt and gave his reasons without blushing or beating his heart.

"I'll help out too... Regarding the losses in the Xianzhou Luofu Golden Man Lane project, I'll allocate some funds to let that young master open a Bronze Man Hall as a competitor. I can just say it's a bridgehead for entering the Xianzhou business in the future. No one will question it."

Jeremy also put away his playful thoughts, picked up the financial report about Xianzhou Luofu, and discussed plans with Shajin.

"Some time ago, someone complained about the lack of food in the cafeteria. Could we give the logistics department more funding and give everyone some meal allowances?"

"The Defense Department has also noticed that their armor and weapons are aging. It's time to be generous. Refurbish them? Or just replace them with new ones!"

"It just so happens that we're going to Pinocchio soon. We'd like to ask the Marketing Department to reimburse us for our expenses and allocate more funds to Ms. Jade's pawn shop..."

"Didn't Jimi always say the radio equipment in the live broadcast room was bad? Should we replace it with new equipment for the entire department?"

"The performance of each work group hasn't been very good recently, so I'll reluctantly help them balance their accounts..."

Neither Jeramy nor Shajin had ever thought of using the official seal of the Market Development Department to buy something for themselves. Not to mention that such behavior is tantamount to walking into a trap, they themselves are not people who are obsessed with money.

Rather than adding a few zeros to their own accounts, they are more concerned about how to inject big money into the market development department and benefit their colleagues in the strategic investment department at the same time.

Colleague friendship is one thing, but the most important thing is that if the truth comes out, they can drag the entire strategic investment department into the crisis with them.

This was probably the most harmonious scene in the history of the trio of Ms. Jade who were always making trouble. Everyone cooperated with each other and worked together to dig a deeper pit in the market development department.

Looking at Shajin and Jeramy who could always find reasons to spend money from various details, Topa, who was holding the official seal, twitched his eyes. The marketing development department was really unlucky to have offended these two.

However, this harmonious scene did not last long. The familiar sound of high heels hitting the ground reached the ears of Jeremy and others at the right time. The few people who were originally enthusiastic about cooking the accounts suddenly became like puppets that had lost their springs, and their movements froze in place.

"Ms. Emerald is back."

Jeremy, who had the sharpest perception, was the first to make a judgment. He was led into the company door by Ms. Jade and was very familiar with the sound of high heels.

"Jerami, use your illusion to hide these bills."

Looking at the messy office with all kinds of stamped receipts flying everywhere, Sha Jin raised his eyebrows and had a premonition of impending disaster.

As a being blessed by the Mother Goddess Evigin, his intuition and luck have always been accurate.

"What about the official seal? It's made from a part of the Amber King's sacred body. Jeramy's illusion won't work on it."

Topa quickly stuffed the official seal into Shajin's hand. The treasure that he had been reluctant to let go of just now now felt like a hot potato.

"This was your idea. You guys figure it out. I'm the victim of the marketing department's harassment. This has nothing to do with me."

Without much hesitation, Topa quickly took herself off and walked out, completely different from the relaxed look she had when she was stamping the official seal just now. She didn't want to make the Jade Lady angry.

When he thought of Ms. Jade's angry look, the debt collector Huang Yu couldn't help but tremble. Even Zhang Zhang was so scared that he curled up and covered his eyes with his long ears.

"You're just killing me, huh? You're just like me, Topa."

Looking at the official seal that was forced into his hand, Sha Jin looked at himself and then at Jeremy who was using illusion to hide the bills. He struggled for half a second between "I'm a poor Taoist" and "My fellow Taoist" and finally reluctantly stuffed the official seal into Jeremy's hand.

Although Sha Jin is always the first to bet his life at the gambling table, he is not gambling now.

A game is only called a game if there is a chance of winning, but if he had to face the furious Ms. Jade who discovered that they had stolen the official seal... Sha Jin felt that he had no obligation to face an opponent he could not win at all.

"Jerami, you stole Osvaldo's official seal. You need to explain it to Ms. Emerald yourself."

"you……"

Jeremy stared in astonishment at the two people who had sold him out in an instant, then looked at the official seal in his hand. Just as he was about to find a reason to put the seal back into Topa's hand, a gentle voice came into his ears.

"Why, have you decided who will take the blame?"

The gentle yet kind voice sounded like the devil's whisper to the trio at that moment, and more like a death warrant from hell than an inquiry.

The three of them turned their heads stiffly, and a graceful figure exuding a mature temperament was standing by the door at some point, looking at them with a half-smile.

Looking at Jeramy and the others who had accomplished a great job in less than two days of her business trip, Feicui had a smile on her face but couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

Sometimes, it’s actually quite helpless to take care of these three funny guys alone.

Volume 4: Jadeite Loans

"I've been away for less than two days, and you've already stolen the official seal of the Marketing Department... Tell me, whose idea was this?"

In the elegantly decorated office, the purple-haired beauty leaned on the sofa next to the desk with her legs crossed, and the tips of her raised high heels reflected a sharp light under the light.

Looking at the three guys in front of him who looked like elementary school students caught cheating, a meaningful smile appeared on Feicui's face.

The white fingertips tapped the table slowly, and a purple poisonous snake slowly crawled out from the emerald cuffs. The crisp tapping sound seemed to knock on the hearts of the three people.

"The old rules are: leniency for those who confess, rewards for reporting, and the main offender's performance is like a bonus for everyone else."

Without any hesitation, Topa and Shajin simultaneously pointed their spearheads at Jeramy who was standing in the middle. The alliance that had just been united in digging a hole for the market development department instantly fell apart in front of Jade.

“It’s all his fault!”

This is not an unjust accusation. After all, the official seal was indeed stolen by Jeremy himself, so it is not difficult to identify him as the main culprit.

"Oh much..."

After being stabbed twice by a colleague who should have stood by him, Jeremy twitched his lips, thinking that he couldn't be the only one who was unlucky.

After all, stealing the official seal was not entirely his own credit. Topa and Shajin also did it. No one was clean.

"This isn't just my achievement. If it weren't for Toppa using himself as bait and Gold Dust's trick, I wouldn't have been able to pull it off so easily."

Looking at the three people who started to blame each other again and planned to cover up the matter by joking, Emerald tapped the top of the purple snake's head with her fingertips and sighed softly in her heart.

These three children are obviously capable of standing on their own, but once they get together, they become a bunch of funny guys who will immediately start to tear down the roof if the children are away for two days.

But unfortunately, Jade has no good way to cure them.

Except for Topa who is more straightforward and obedient, the other two are the ones who actively admit their mistakes and refuse to change.

For a moment, Ms. Jade, who had rarely failed in the global business world, felt like an old nanny worrying about her children.

"Okay, I'll take care of the matter of you stealing the official seal. Now it's time to get to work."

After speaking out to stop the three people's endless excuses, Feicui simply chose to skip the topic of stealing the official seal and started talking about work directly.

There is no other way. They are our own children. What else can we do except protect them? We can't really hand them over to the marketing development department. That is not the style of the strategic investment department.

When work was mentioned, the three people who were originally blaming each other immediately stopped playing around.

Although their jokes always make people wonder if their IQ is only that of a ten-year-old, they are, after all, the genuine Ten Stone Hearts and the aces of the Strategic Investment Department.

Jeremy doesn't count. Although his achievements and abilities are already sufficient, due to the particularity of corporate espionage, he has not yet established his own foundation.

"If nothing unexpected happens, it should be something about Pinocchio."

Thinking of the reason why Sha Jin had instigated them to steal the official seal, Jeremy immediately smiled knowingly.

Once a frontier prison used by the company to exile criminals, it joined the family after escaping the company's control, and with their support, it gradually became the star of the event it is today.

Since the former frontier has become the most famous resort in the world and is trying hard to get rid of the company's interference, Pinocchio has become a headache for Interstellar Peace Company.

To use the terminology within the Strategic Investment Department, this is a mess that cannot be settled no matter what.

However, the company's top management seems to be very obsessed with the recovery of Pinocchio, and even secretly promoted Pinocchio's war of independence, which is really confusing.

Logically speaking, as a former frontier prison, Pinocchio does not have any interests that are worth the company's insistence. The company has gone through countless business failures over the years, and there have been projects that are bigger than Pinocchio, but most of them were simply withdrawn and the losses were taken.

After all, the company is large and powerful, so it doesn't lack these little things.

Even if the company couldn't accept the release of the once exiled criminals, those people had almost all died in Pinocchio's war of independence. No matter how petty the company was, there was no need to chase after the dead and whip their corpses.

Unless, there is something in Pinocchio that the company is unwilling to give up at all costs.

"After nearly ten Amber Ages of persistence, what secrets does that event star hide? It really makes me curious."

"If you're curious, then take this opportunity to explore it, but right now, we have a meeting to attend."

Looking at the excited Jeramy, there was something strange in Jade's eyes.

"Meeting……"

Except for Jeramy who was still a little confused, Topa and Shajin looked at each other and saw understanding in each other's eyes.

Although everyone has a good relationship, some information is only circulated among the ten people of Shixin.

For example... recommending someone to become one of the Stone Heart Ten.

However, Jeremy, who was not one of the Ten Stone Hearts, was obviously unaware of this. He looked at the official seal in his hand, then at the Jadeite that Dayou had taken him there, and wondered in his heart whether the solution Ms. Jadeite mentioned was to take him to the Market Development Department to surrender himself.

"Attending the meeting? I have to do the behind-the-scenes work. You guys can go ahead and relax. I'll prepare the meeting minutes."

Jeremy silently took a few steps back. Having sensed that something was wrong, he quickly extricated himself from the so-called meeting. However, before he could leave the office, Topa and Shajin grabbed his arms from both sides.

"Don't even think about it. You are the protagonist of this meeting. Just face your fate."

"Don't worry, no matter what the outcome is, we are on your side."

The voices of Topa and Shajin reached Jeramy's ears from the left and right, but no matter how you looked at it, their tone sounded like they were luring prisoners to the execution ground, and it couldn't bring him any sense of security.

"You're not really planning on throwing me out to take the blame, are you? I've done great things for the company, I've shed blood for the Strategic Investment Department. I want to see Feicui! I want to see Feicui!"

Jeremy's wails reached the ears of Feicui, who was nearby, but Ms. Ci Yu, who was always kind to her own people, chose to stand by and watch Jeremy being dragged away by others.

Looking at Jeremy who was somewhat reluctant but not overly resistant, Jade quietly lowered the brim of her hat, hiding her meaningful gaze in the shadow of the brim.

If everything goes well, starting today, the Stone Heart Ten will have one more seat.

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Volume 5: Stoneheart Conference

As a business organization known throughout the universe, the Interstellar Peace Company naturally has several departments with their own responsibilities. The main business of the Strategic Investment Department is to maintain the smooth flow of funds in the company, provide assistance to allies when necessary, and collect corresponding benefits when appropriate.

In short, it is about lending money and collecting debts.

But this world is not at peace. In order to prevent the loaned money from becoming bad debt, the Strategic Investment Department also needs sufficient military support to ensure that the loaned money can be recovered safely.

Therefore, the organization of Shixin Ten came into being.

Each of these ten people has their own strengths and unique skills. Their fighting spirit and patience are amazing, and their hidden secret weapons can bring endless surprises to all customers who want bad debts.

Today, the organization, which has had only ten seats since its establishment, may welcome its eleventh member.

However, not everyone agrees with the proposal.

"There should be a limit to one's wishful thinking. I'm just a bug hiding in the shadows. How can a P40 secretary really dream of controlling the cornerstone?"

The white-haired man in the purple suit spoke in a low voice, looking at Jeremy with a questioning look.

Of course, he had heard of this Jadeite's secretary, and had even secretly competed with her a few times, but unfortunately he didn't gain any advantage.

However, this did not prevent him from questioning Jeremy.