Shadow Empire

Chapter 505: Choice is important and pressure
"This is the Jingang City Police Department command radio station. I repeat, this is the Jingang City Police Department command radio station. Now I will notify you of the following situation."

"Ten minutes ago, the Kodak Club in the Starlight District was robbed. The robbers were wearing hoods and could not provide facial features."

"They are all wearing grey uniforms, similar to those worn by a factory worker. They are marching from east to west along the... road. All patrol vehicles in the city are requested to mobilize immediately to search for information about the robbers."

"The robbers' convoy consisted of five vehicles, including..."

Two patrol officers downtown ate hot dogs and chips while listening to dispatch messages on the radio.

For Jingang City, there are four places that need to be patrolled at night.

Downtown, Priscilla, Starlight, and the Bay Area.

There are a large number of high-end shops and office buildings in the city center, and many company offices are located here.

As for the other three districts, they all have their own reasons for needing stable public security.

In order to ensure the public security in these four districts, the City Police Department announced that police cars will patrol 24 hours a day.

Of course, this is just an explanation released by the police department. In reality, there won’t really be police cars patrolling 24 hours a day, even now.

The patrol officer bought a large bag of food from a late-night fast food restaurant, then found a spacious alley to park the police car in, hiding in the dark.

Then they would chat and enjoy a midnight snack.

If it’s too fast, they will choose to sleep for a while after eating supper, just for a while!
After all, they still have to patrol.

This situation is very common and no one accuses the police officers of not working hard enough. After all, their legal income is only about 40 yuan.

No one will work hard for forty dollars, and no one will stay up all night for forty dollars.

Both policemen were a little overweight; the night shift was very nutritious, and they couldn't help but start a discussion while listening to the broadcast on the police radio.

"I remember that the Kodak Club is owned by the Kodak family. How dare someone rob their casino?"

"It sounds like something that would have happened in the last century!"

The police driver took small bites of the bread on both sides of the hot dog. He had a habit of eating the parts he didn't like first, leaving the part he liked the most.

The bread part is what he dislikes the most, but hot dogs, he loves them!
The police officer sitting in the passenger seat curled his lips and said, "It should be the work of the Lance family."

His partner turned to look at him, "Why do you say that?"

The officer in the passenger seat shrugged, "Everyone says so. They have a grudge!"

The driver police officer disagreed with this point of view. "The five major families have become four major families. Maybe it was done by their own people. The Lance family rose very quickly, but didn't you notice?"

"They don't just randomly start trouble!"

He had almost bitten off the bread around the hot dog, leaving only the hot dog and the thick sauce on it!
Next is the moment he is most looking forward to!
He would stuff the entire intestine into his mouth, fill his mouth, and then chew it hard!
This way, you can feel the wonderful touch of the hot dog being cut and squeezed in your mouth every time you chew it. At the same time, the gravy and sauce mixed together are so delicious that it can make you forget all your worries!
Just as he was about to put the hot dog into his mouth, he suddenly stopped because he saw a convoy of five cars similar to the ones described on the radio passing by quickly on the road in front of them.

His favorite hot dog accidentally rolled down his crotch, and he reacted quickly, with his hand on the alarm control switch.

But at the same time, his partner put his hand on his and slowly shook his head.

The two looked at each other in the darkness, and the faint light allowed them to see each other's eyes.

Confusion, rejection, warning, understanding, relief, calmness...

These complex emotions can be expressed without the need for any poor language description.

The officer in the passenger seat let go of his hand and said, "Your hot dog fell out."

The police officer in the cab also released his hand from the alarm switch. He looked down at the hot dog on his crotch. He had fantasized about it before, that it would be this thick, this big, and this long.

He was silent for a while, then picked it up, put it in his mouth and chewed it hard.

"We didn't do anything wrong, we just don't want to get in trouble!"

What followed was silence except for the sound of chewing.

About two minutes later, the police officer in the cab swallowed all the food in his mouth and said softly, "I'm sorry, I almost... hurt us."

Two patrolmen, armed only with defensive revolvers, faced the thugs who dared to rob the Kodak family...

Perhaps the moment the alarm sounded, their lives began to count down!
Although the police officer in the cab was activated by a sense of justice for a moment and wanted to chase after him, fortunately his partner saved him and saved each other's families.

His partner patted him on the shoulder and shared his onion rings. "It's okay, we're partners!"

“Here, try my honey mustard onion rings.”

The two men quickly immersed themselves in the delicious food and seemed to have forgotten that just a short while ago, a wanted convoy passed by them in such a swagger!
This kind of thing actually happened more than once. Those who were asked by the police to do patrol in the middle of the night were basically marginal figures in each branch.

They often do the most tiring and dirty work, but their income is not very high.

Some people may have a sense of justice, but this sense of justice may not stand up in the face of death.

The convoy returned to the Imperial District safely. After getting off the car, Lance and his companions transferred the stolen money and gold bricks, and then asked someone to destroy the vehicles.

The five drivers drove directly to Angel Lake. There was no place better than Angel Lake to destroy evidence and make things disappear.

No one wants to touch Angel Lake, because no one can be sure whether what they salvage are the evidences they are looking for, or the oil drums that have become a big trouble!
After hiding the money and gold bars, Lance and the others returned to the villa.

More than twenty minutes later, a large number of police cars surrounded Lance's villa. Hunter directly called on the police under his command instead of those in the Imperial District.

The candidate for the director of the Imperial Branch has been decided, but he has not yet taken office.

This branch and the port branch have been completely controlled by Lance. Changing the branch chiefs will not be able to snatch them back from Lance, so the new chiefs of these two branches have not taken office at all, but are waiting.

Wait until Lance is caught and sentenced.

Only after the Lance family is wiped out can they get what they want.

Hunter knew that if he mobilized the police from these two police stations, the first thing they would do was to call Lance to tip him off, so he used his own people this time.

A large number of police officers surrounded Lance's villa. These people not only carried pistols, but also many rifles.

They were afraid that if Lance opened fire, they would be in big trouble with only a pistol!

In fact, for Hunter and the police officers here, the best situation now is that Lance is not here!
His absence will make him more suspicious, and we will have more opportunities and reasons to investigate him.

Chief Hunter stood beside his exclusive police car and shouted with a loud speaker, "Listen, everyone inside, we are the federal police, and now we need you to cooperate with us in investigating a robbery case..."

Soon all the lights in the villa came on, and then Lance's voice came from the wired intercom at the door of the villa -

"You're going to be in trouble if you can't give me an explanation."

Hunter breathed a sigh of relief. Being able to communicate at least meant that the conflict would not escalate quickly and become unmanageable.

"Where were you just now?"

Lance's slightly tired voice came from the intercom speaker, "Of course I'm in my fucking bed, where else do you think I am?"

Hunter was choked by this sentence. In fact, he knew before he came here that there was no point in coming here because they had no evidence.

If Lance was a minor character, then the frame-up would be just that.

He had done similar things before for the masters in the Bay Area, framing people.

He used chemicals to knock out a very opinionated idiot, and then faked a murder scene, which not only solved the problem of frame-up, but also cleaned up a body that came out of the Bay Area.

Then the unlucky guy couldn't refute it. All the evidence pointed to him killing a girl for money and sex. Although some of the evidence was reluctant, it was pushed by someone after all. He talked to the framed person alone.

If the other party pleads guilty, he can ask the judge for a light sentence and be released in five or six years.

If the framed person always believes that he is innocent, he will most likely be hanged.

Finally, he signed a confession and was sent to prison for twenty years.

plead?

Reduce sentence?

No, for such a heinous case, a severe sentence would not be enough to appease the public anger!

Eventually the man died in a fight in prison, and people soon forgot about him and the case...

The reason why he could do this was because that person was just a middle-class person, an ordinary person in front of the Bay Area.

He has no capital to resist, but Lance is different. He can resist, and his resistance will be very strong.

Therefore, there is no need to frame him. As long as there is no evidence, even if he is caught and taken to the police station, he will be released soon!

However, this had nothing to do with him. Bendy just wanted him to take Lance to the police station within twenty-four hours, or even longer.

He came back to his senses from his trance and looked at Lance, "Someone said they saw you outside. You drove a modified vehicle and robbed the Kodak Club's safe."

Lance's impatient voice came from the intercom, "Go talk to my fucking lawyer!"

Hunter didn't care, "We need to take you back to investigate."

"Wait for my lawyer to come!" Lance ended the call directly. Hunter took a look at the armed man looming in the villa and finally chose to give up breaking into the house.

Territorial law was implemented in the federation two centuries ago. Its core content is if someone forcibly enters your private property without your consent.

Then, in order to protect your personal life and property safety, you have the legal right to use weapons to expel or kill intruders, and you do not need to be held responsible for it.

The passage of this bill is related to the social environment at the time.

Fugitive slaves, slave-catchers, wanted criminals, thieves, robbers, robbers...

Too many bad guys!
So the federal government passed this bill, making the cost of invasion very high, which played a very important role in maintaining social order at the time.

It has been applied till now, and Likalai State is the region that supports this law.

According to some previous cases, even the police cannot invade private property without legal authorization documents such as search warrants and arrest warrants, otherwise they may face counterattacks.

If it were ordinary people, Hunter guaranteed that they would never dare to shoot, because ordinary people could not bear the consequences of shooting, even if the law allowed them to do so.

But the guy in front of him was a member of Lance and the Lance family. He had a hunch that as long as he brought his men in, guns would be extended from many places and shoot him into a hornet's nest.

Then in the first half of this year there will be a discussion about whether the Territory Act is appropriate.

They stayed at the door for more than ten minutes before Lawyer Robben drove over.

The moment Hunter saw lawyer Robben, he knew that the next phase would be a quibble.

Lawyer Robben entered the villa and saw Lance who had changed his clothes. "Mr. Lance, can I know what happened?"

Lance told him, and after listening to Lance's story, Lawyer Robben fell silent.

He knew Lance was courageous, and he knew he was…very capable, but he hadn’t expected this case to be so big.

Although Lance claimed that these things had nothing to do with him and he had been sleeping in the villa, lawyer Robben's talent and instinct told him that it was Lance who did it.

But as a lawyer, what he needs now is to clear Lance of suspicion, for the sake of money and connections.

He had heard that the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Justice were involved in Lance's case in Xinjin City, and his connections in the Ministry of Justice had specially asked him about the situation here.

The better Lance's development is, the greater the benefit will be for him. He will only support it and not refuse it.

After thinking for a while, he said in a deep voice, "No matter who asks you, you must say this, and remember it backwards and forwards."

"They are likely to use some strategy to ask you questions repeatedly, in a different order, when you are tired."

"If you answer it wrong, it could have disastrous consequences!"

If a person repeats a question too many times when he is tired, he may let the cat out of the bag. It's like you keep telling yourself "1+1=3".

When you are extremely exhausted physically and mentally, some people keep asking you all kinds of math problems, and they are all familiar and correct math problems that you are familiar with.

比如说“1+2=3”之类的，他们有可能在你的意识已经开始被潜意识操控时，突然提出“1+1=？”这个问题。

If you don't react quickly, there's a good chance you'll blurt out the answer.

Lance glanced at Lawyer Robben and said, "I think there's something else behind your words."

Lawyer Robben smiled and said, "It's just a friendly reminder!"

Soon after they discussed how to deal with the situation, Lance and lawyer Robben went to the city police station together in Lance's car.

Being summoned is in compliance with federal judicial procedures. As long as someone says that the person who killed the robber is Lance, the judiciary supports Lance being summoned and interrogated.

Hiding and refusing to be subpoenaed makes no sense, as the federal judicial process is the most important core.

For safety, Lance rode in a bulletproof car and was accompanied by many people.

This was Lance's first time at the city police station, which looked more solemn than other precincts.

The huge police badge and the sign of "Jingang City Police Department" give people an inexplicable feeling of seriousness, as well as a slight sense of tension.

Lance and lawyer Robben were invited to the interrogation room. Several policemen came over and began to ask Lance various questions.

Attorney Robben's job is to find loopholes in these questions. After the police finish asking questions, he will analyze the questions and then tell Lance whether he can answer or not to avoid possible interrogation traps.

Hunter and Charlie were both in another room observing the situation here. As a half-interrogation expert, Hunter did not have any hope for the current situation.

"If we don't get rid of that lawyer, we'll never get the answers we want."

Charlie stood aside and just watched quietly, "If you can't get the answer, then you can't get the answer. Do you still expect him to confess in the police station?"

He shook his head as he spoke, "Anyone could plead guilty, but Lance would never plead guilty!"

While they were talking, a police officer knocked on the door. After Hunter said "Come in", the two turned and looked at the police officer at the door.

The police officer seemed a little... uneasy, or something. He licked his lips and said, "There are a lot of people outside."

Charlie frowned, "Is it a reporter?"

"Don't let them in. Have someone watch to see if our people come into contact with reporters. Some news is best not released yet..."

The police officer interrupted him, "Charlie...Sir, that's not the case. The people who came are from the Lance family."

"There are so many of them that they have surrounded the entrance of the police station."

Charlie and Hunter looked at each other and immediately went to a place where they could see the road outside.

Then they gasped.

There were at least dozens of cars parked outside, completely blocking the road in front of the police station. Countless people were standing in front of the headlights, giving people a very depressing feeling!
(End of this chapter)