"How many staff are there?"
[THIRTY-SEVEN FULL-TIME. TWELVE PART-TIME. FORTY-NINE TOTAL.]
Forty-nine people. Any one of them could be the rat. But if it was about funds and payroll, that narrowed it down. Someone with access to accounts. Someone with authority.
"Who has access to the money?"
[THAT IS FOR YOU TO DISCOVER. I CAN ONLY GIVE CLUES, NOT ANSWERS.]
Right. Of course.
"Give me the clues then."
[THE RAT HAS BEEN HERE LONGER THAN MOST. THEY ARE TRUSTED. THEY HAVE KEYS. THEY HAVE CODES. AND THEY HAVE BEEN STEALING RIGHT UNDER EVERYONE'S NOSES.]
Lin Yue leaned against the wall, pretending to admire a painting while her mind worked. To find a rat, you had to lure it out with what it liked. If it was stealing funds, then money was its weakness.
She needed to set a trap.
"Where would someone go to steal funds? Where is the money kept?"
