Chapter 360: Tragedy
Chapter 360: Tragedy
"It's a little more indeed..."
After looking at the pile of plates that Leon had piled up like a mountain, the female police officer nodded speechlessly. Then, while eating the food on Leon's plate, she leaned her head over and said in a low voice mysteriously:
"Leon, the Secret Investigation Bureau has already completed its investigation of the uproarious incident a while ago. It should have been done by the radical rebels!"
Some time ago?
"The Marquis of Jinjuan who committed suicide by jumping into the lake?"
"Move forward!"
If we go further...
Leon's heart moved slightly when he heard this, and then he tried to say:
"You mean..."
"Of course it was the boarding tower that burned down! Didn't you read the newspaper?"
"..."
"You really didn't see it!"
After looking at Leon in disbelief, the female police officer couldn’t help but complain:
"Although your work is not quite the same as ours, you are still a member of the Police Department. You can forget about other newspapers, but you should at least subscribe to the Police Special, right?"
"..."
It’s not a question of whether to order it or not, but I was the one who burned the boarding tower. Even the artificial intelligence inside the airship is now gathering dust in my mirror world.
And this actually involves you. After all, the fake IDs and fake uniforms I used to lead people through the defense line were all from the unregistered inventory of the police department that you asked for...
"Forget it, if you didn't watch it, then don't watch it."
Not knowing that she was also an accomplice in the attack on the boarding tower, the female police officer shook her head and gave up explaining the importance of newspapers to Leon. She decided to just give him a copy when she ordered newspapers in the future, and then said solemnly:
"If you don't know about the boarding tower, just know that it was burned down, and a very valuable special airship was lost along with it.
After the Kingdom of Korok learned the news, they were extremely angry and directly put pressure on the kingdom through the ambassador, demanding a result within two months. Even if they couldn't identify the criminal, at least they had to find the lost core parts of the airship. "
"So... this job was thrown on you?"
"if not?"
She scooped up a large spoonful of rice pudding and put it into her mouth. After chewing it a few times in anger, the policewoman, who looked quite haggard, said helplessly:
"If you want to find criminals and search for things, why don't you ask the police from our police department? Why do you ask those parasites from the Ministry of Finance?"
"Leon, do you know? After Ambassador Korok sent a formal note stating that if there is no result within a month, some economic exchanges will be cut off and the airship transportation routes will be temporarily blocked, all the high-level officials in the capital became anxious!
The princess, the prime minister, the defense minister, the foreign minister, the finance minister... a large number of high-level officials have been exerting pressure in turn in the past few days. Except for the princess who offered to help, the rest of them were more harsh than each other. In just a few days, the Minister of Public Security's hair turned white with worry...
Don't just listen to me, eat quickly or it will get cold!"
"oh oh!"
Leon forked a piece of fried codfish and put it into his mouth. After chewing it twice without any taste, he frowned and thought deeply: "No wonder there are so few police officers coming to eat recently, and they are all like you, as if they haven't slept well for several days. Were they all sent out?"
"That's right!"
After forking a piece of apple pie from Leon's plate, the policewoman said with a gloomy face:
"Especially our Secret Investigation Bureau. We are the ones who have been following up on the rebels, so we get scolded the most. The new director who just took office is scolded by the Minister of Public Security every day. He comes back with spit on his face and scolds us... Look, look over there!"
As the policewoman spoke, she pointed at the two people to the side with her fork. Leon followed her movement and found a policeman with darker dark circles under his eyes than Isa. He was sitting at the dining table with a hunched back, digging mashed potatoes with a spoon with lifeless eyes, and his head nodding from time to time.
To be honest, looking at the way he ate like a chicken pecking at rice, Leon doubted whether he knew where the spoon was. It felt like he might stick the spoon into his nose at any time.
"He was on duty in our bureau's field team yesterday. He just came back from his inspection this morning. After he finishes his meal, he has to go back to attend a meeting..."
After looking at the exhausted colleague with sympathy, the female police officer said with fear in her eyes:
"He was on his third round of patrols, so it was much easier for him. We, the first round of patrols, didn't sleep for more than 70 hours and traveled across most of the capital. We felt like we were dying when we came back...
I'm really impressed! Those rebels are crazy! Why not kill the chancellor of finance? Even raiding the palace is fine! Why did they have to attack the boarding tower?
Honestly, I would rather they continue to find ways to assassinate my father like before, than to work overtime like this... More than 70 hours! I don't know how I managed to hold on! "
"..."
Ah, this... I'm sorry, when I attacked the boarding tower, I really didn't know that this would be the consequence...
"That... Issa..."
Looking at the female police officer who was chewing fish bones with resentment on her face and was about to curse the "rebels" at any time, Li Ang, the mastermind behind the boat boarding tower incident and the culprit who caused the entire police department to work overtime, couldn't help but say with a guilty conscience:
"You haven't told me yet what you want me to do for you."
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot..."
After spitting out the fish bones in an unladylike manner, the female police officer raised her head and looked at Leon with hope in her eyes and said:
"Do you have anything in the Cleanup Bureau that's particularly good at finding people? Or... someone who's particularly good at finding things?
Although there is still more than a month before the maximum deadline of the Korok Kingdom's notification, I will go to participate in the fourth round of inspections tomorrow. If I can't find it, I will have to participate in eight or nine rounds of inspections or even more... Woo..."
After swallowing a mouthful of beef stew, the policewoman pleaded with tears in her eyes, not knowing whether it was because of the heat or because of the foreseeable hellish overtime work in the next two months:
“Please, Leon, can you help me? Even if we can’t find the criminals who attacked the boarding tower, it would be fine if we can get back the things lost by the Kingdom of Korok! If this continues, I’m afraid I really can’t hold on…”
"..."
I would like to help you, but the problem is that the criminals who attacked the boarding tower are sitting in front of you eating, and the thing that the Kingdom of Korok wants is in my cufflinks... I can't just arrest myself and hand myself over to you, can I?
"I'm sorry, I can't help you with this..."
After apologizing to Isa who was affected in his heart, Leon knew that no matter how hard she tried, there would be no results, so he tentatively suggested:
"How about this, I'll go get a note from our director, saying there's a special situation and we need someone to help with the investigation, and then you can take the note and ask for leave, and take a nap in my office for a few hours to rest?"
(End of this chapter)