CHAPTER 19: AN ORDINARY EVENING

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"What will we do now?" asked James
"Let, us first reach home" responded X
It was already 6 p.m. when they reached home, the Sun already set, and the lights had been turned on, X parked the car in his garage and joined Jack and James in the restroom.
"X, I see you have a habit of not washing your face after a long journey," said Jack
"And, I see you have a habit of pointing out every single thing whether it is related to the scene or not, and I know you also have this habit of not washing your face and I knew it from the first day when you entered my house, you didn't wash your face and after such a long day if a person does not wash his face it is clear that it is his habit not to, " said X with a sign of satisfaction on his face
"Haha! LOL!" said James
"Stop laughing James, and X, I clearly remember I washed my face the very first day when I came to your house, I remember how untidy your washroom was! I know you did not do anything to get this information but simply James told you, right James?" said Jack turning to James
James just nodded. "By the way Jack, did you notice the shampoos in my bathroom?"
"Yes all of them were expensive, I also found one empty, and another had a little left in it," said Jack
"One empty, wait! What? All my shampoo bottles' skins are opaque which means you opened them, you used my shampoo, without my permission. Is that why I found that bottle empty," asked X
"Yup, and that proves you used shampoo last evening, and that also proved you took my words personally, right?" said Jack laughing, and James also started laughing.
"Let's check the pen drive," said X looking at James with a glare
"Okay?"
X brought his laptop and inserted the pen drive in it and the result shocked them.
The first things they got were regular folders.
"Should we ignore the regular folders?" said James
"No, they might have intentionally named it wrong," said X
They opened a folder named Summary of 2021 and they got a chart like this:

             

       "The unit must be in dollars, right?" asked James"Yup" said X

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"The unit must be in dollars, right?" asked James
"Yup" said X

Then next chart: Summary of 2022
                                     

Then next chart: Summary of 2022                                     

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"What you think of it, Jack?" asked X
"What do they mean by 'E.S'?" asked Jack
"Extra supplies?" guessed James
"And why do you think so?" asked X
James wanted to say but Jack started, "I think James is wrong, and after all remember what Alex told us? He said that now the three gems will reunite, by whatever we saw in the coal mine, we know it is a big gang and still, it is, they may have other businesses too." said Jack
"Maybe, but I think he's right they may supply extra coal to the upper gang, Shadow Syndicate," said X
"But Jack told me that Alex told you that Shadow Syndicate is a drug gang," said James
"Hmm... let's go back Alex told us that-"
"Ok. I will tell you, but remember, we are a part of a greater org. You two- can never stop us. Now that I am gone, the 3 gems will re-unite" said X
"That implies that Alex was against the other two gangs, then it is possible that the drug gang may have extended the business, right?" said Jack
"Yes, that is possible?" said X
"But where their base can be?" asked James
"If we look at their transport budget, it has increased a lot the previous year, maybe they have started supplying them this year only." deduced X
"Then it must be far away," said Jack
They searched throughout the info for three hours but did not get anything."

However, they got a file where the damage bar was much higher than everything else, it didn't have the name of the year but it was quite evident that it was the file of the year when the 'SAPPHIRE INCIDENT' took place.
RING!!RING!!
"Your phone is ringing Jack," said X
Jack rejected the call, RING!!RING!!, Jack rejected the call again. RING!!RING!!, "Maybe you should-"
"I know"
"Hello?","Put the phone on speaker?" said a loud voice
X with his sharp ears signalled Jack to put it.
Jack did as X said.
"Siberia is not bad place you know?" said a voice
"Why are you telling it to us?" asked Jack
"Visit it! Simple, isn't it? Bye!" said the voice
"WAIT! HELLO?"
 All three of them understood their next destination would be Siberia.

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