Because the day was just dawn, I was woken up by Elizabeth Olsen's kiss of love, and after Martin's morning workout, he came to the company relatively early.

The front desk Alice has come to the company and opened the door.

Martin nodded at her and went upstairs with Bruce.

The elevator quickly reached the fourth floor, and Martin entered the elevator room, and his nose smelled a faint smell: "What strange smell?" Lao Bu, do you smell it? ”

Bruce sniffled vigorously: "Someone with smelly feet took off his shoes in the elevator last night?" ”

Martin turned out of the elevator and came to the office door, and was about to open the door when his eyes caught sight of the brass handle, and his hand was immediately retracted.

He noticed that the keyhole of the handle was stained with some oil.

If you look closely, there are faint scratches near the keyhole.

Martin subconsciously stepped back and said to Bruce, who came with him, "The situation is not quite right. ”

Without saying a word, Bruce pulled out two pistols, handed one of them to Martin, and then came to the door with the marble wall panel.

He only glanced at it and said, "The lock is new, there can't be such traces, it has been opened by someone with a non-matching key." ”

Martin clenched his pistol in both hands, alerted Bruce behind his back, and said, "Let's go down first, or Jessica opened the door." ”

In his office, Jessica also has the key, and Jessica cleans up the daily cleaning.

Bruce reminded, "Go back the way you came." ”

If someone has trespassed, try not to destroy the traces.

The two of them, one in front and one in the back, retreated to the elevator.

Martin had taken a closer look at the ground, and there was no sign of it other than his and Bruce's footprints.

The two took the elevator downstairs again.

Coming out of the elevator, Jessica and Emily were about to go upstairs when they saw Martin and Bruce with guns, and they were stunned for a while.

Boss, what game is this playing? Guns in the company?

Jessica asked, "Boss, where are you?" ”

Martin got out of the elevator and asked, "I wasn't there yesterday, but someone came into my office?" ”

Jessica shook her head, "No." ”

Emily was sure: "No one went up to the fourth floor yesterday except for cleaning." ”

Jessica asked, "Boss, what's going on?" ”

Bruce put away his pistol: "The company may have entered the burglars." ”

Martin saw Alice coming over curiously, blocked the pistol with his body, and said, "Alice, you go to the door, stop the other employees, and don't let people in for the time being." ”

He said to Bruce again, "Call the police." ”

Bruce took out his mobile phone to call the police, and several people entered the first floor in a row, and even the diligent Alice simply cleaned it.

Martin looked around, came to the door, first looked at the lock, then lowered the security door to take a look, called Alice to ask a few words, but found nothing.

Bruce and Jessica went to check the surveillance and found that the surveillance was not working properly, the hard drive was violently removed, and the backup power supply was destroyed.

Outside the door, two patrol officers quickly rushed over.

They just maintain order and remind everyone to protect the scene.

After another ten minutes, a detective from the police detective bureau arrived here with manpower and professional technicians.

The staff is scattered to ask about the relevant situation, and they are very polite and careful in what they say and do.

Detective Geralt was well aware of Martin's relationship with the Director, and came over to shake Martin's hand and ask him about what he had discovered.

Martin spoke carefully and asked Bruce to take him to the monitoring room.

Geralt immediately made a phone call, summoned more people, and asked people to go to the neighborhood to inquire and check on the situation.

It took so long that Martin simply gave most of the company's employees time off, leaving only managers such as Jessica and Emily.

Geralt came over and invited Martin upstairs.

"We found some traces left, but they were few and the intruders were very careful." Coming out of the elevator, he said as he walked: "They should have worn shoe covers, gloves, no fingerprints, and no clear footprints." “

Coming to the door of Martin's office, he pointed to the lock: "At least one of them is a master lockpicker, and he has not only opened this door, but also opened your safe." ”

Martin remembers it well: "There didn't seem to be any valuables in the safe in the office. ”

Geralt said, "See if there's anything missing." ”

Martin looked around the office and found nothing missing, and went over to the safe where several technicians had gathered.

The safe was empty, and only two scripts were lying there.

Geralt asked, "Is there anything missing?" ”

Martin shook his head, squatted down to check the script, and found that the script seemed to have traces of turning, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

He replied to Geralt's words first: "I didn't lose anything, I didn't put anything else in this safe except for two documents." ”

Geralt asked, "Nothing stolen?" ”

Martin said to Bruce, "Check out the other places next to each other. ”

It didn't take long for Bruce to come over and say, "I didn't lose anything, except for your office, the other rooms haven't been touched." ”

Martin roughly understood that the burglars were not stealing property at all, and that the target was likely to be the safe.

He approached Geralt and spoke roughly.

Geralt tells Martin to keep quiet for the time being, and leave it up to the professionals to investigate.

Soon, more information came together.

The distribution box connected to the building had been opened, and the hard drives and hidden spare disks for the surveillance cameras had all been lost, apparently taken away.

However, there is good news, some traces have been found on the back of the office building, and people seem to have climbed up to the fourth floor along the drain pipe, anti-theft nets and air conditioners, violently destroying the anti-theft nets of the security passage windows.

In addition, the surveillance of a nearby building photographed several figures, dressed in black, with black pants and black hoods.

But there is relatively little surveillance here, and the public surveillance leaves the avenue pitifully, so we can only wait for the police detective bureau to further search for other clues.

Geralt exchanged a few polite words to Martin and quickly led his men to evacuate.

In the office, Martin and Bruce were left.

The latter asked directly: "Are they coming for the script?" ”

Martin took out two scripts, put them on the table in front of him, looked at the cover and said: ""The Seventh Son" and "Transcendental Hacker", I thought these two scripts would be used, so I threw them into the safe, but I didn't expect to attract thieves ......"

Bruce asked, "Who knows?" ”

Martin said: "The company doesn't keep it a secret that I have seen a script that has been rejected and has no copyright, and many people know that I left two scripts. ”

The studio's office collaboration software database can be queried by regular employees.

Originally, this function was open, and employees were also encouraged to recommend scripts.

Bruce asked again, "Are you optimistic about these two scripts?" ”

"It's not." Martin said simply: "Magical epic, you know. ”

Bruce has heard Martin talk about it more than once, and all of the magical epic projects and characters are not accepted.

"What would they think if they came for the script and saw the script that I kept locked in the safe? ”

Bruce knows that Martin's reputation for good vision is particularly strong these days, and he says, "Contact the copyright owner immediately to get the copyright to get the script, and maybe invest a lot of money in the production." ”

"I don't know who did it, but since they stole from me, I'll help them with anything." Martin stood up and walked a few steps, picked up the phone and pressed a number: "Jesse, you and Emily come over." ”

Jessica and Emily quickly enter the office.

Martin handed them the script and said, "You go and contact the script writer or the copyright owner to talk about buying the script." ”

Jessica looked down, and if memory serves, Martin rejected both scripts last time.

Martin further advised: "Put on a posture that is inevitable, make a big noise, and the negotiations drag on a little longer, but don't really buy the rights to the script, understand?" ”

Emily continued, "We're creating a momentum that we have to win these two scripts? ”

Martin nodded: "That's right, let's do it now." ”

Jessica and Emily immediately went to contact the screenwriter, and the contact information was on the script.

When the office door closed, Bruce asked, "You want to find the culprit from this?" ”

Martin said: "If somebody spends a lot of money on these two scripts, will they be in the script library? They will inevitably invest in making a movie. ”

He came to the window and looked at the Disney studios opposite: "It doesn't really matter which thieves do it, the most important thing is which people or forces are hiding behind them." ”

Bruce sighed: "It's not that we want to make trouble, but there are too many rotten people in this circle, so many that if we don't do it, someone will come to mess with us." ”

Martin laughed: "I'm probably not as good as Tom Cruise in the eyes of many of the bigger forces in Hollywood. ”

Bruce understood what he meant: Tom Cruise has Scientology behind him, and he has thirty years of accumulation, and he is still almost hacked to the point that he can't turn over, but fortunately, the accumulated health bar is thick enough......

"We're going to be more secretive about buying projects in the future." Martin thought for a while and said, "I'll say hello to Harris when I go back, set up a leather bag company in Harris's name, and let Harris go talk to someone first." ”

He said to Bruce, "Although there are no important belongings on the company's side, the security needs to be upgraded." ”

Bruce replied, "I'll do it." ”

A morning passed in the midst of dealing with all this.

In the afternoon, Martin went to Century City and met with Clos, Nokia's marketing director, at WMA.

Nokia's two-year endorsement deal with Martin expires this month.

In the past two years, because smartphones and Android have not yet fully developed, coupled with Martin's appeal and the decline of old rival Motorola mobile phones, Nokia mobile phones still occupy an extremely considerable market share in North America.

Martin politely declined Nokia's invitation to renew his contract, even though Nokia offered an endorsement contract of $15 million a year.

Close couldn't understand Martin's choice at all: "We've worked together very successfully for the past two years, so why not continue it. ”

"It's about my privacy." Martin mumbled: "All I can say is sorry. ”

(End of chapter)