Shadow Empire

Chapter 864 Seventy-two Hours

"We haven't assigned him a room for tonight yet. Should we target him?" Director Blue whispered to Lance on the phone.

Mr. Walter is still in the interrogation room, and he means to ask Lance whether he should be placed in those multi-person rooms.

The cells in the police station are actually not like the cells in prisons. There are only two or four beds in each room. Here it is just a big room. There are some benches welded to the walls against the walls, and there is a toilet in the corner to prevent the people inside from urinating or defecating anywhere.

There are single cells, which are relatively small, but you can lie down and stretch out.

But most of them are multi-person rooms. If you are lucky, there will be seven or eight people together. If you are unlucky, there will be more than ten or twenty people squeezed together.

Most of these thugs who were arrested were not guilty of crimes such as fighting. If no one prosecutes them, neither the police nor the courts are willing to waste time and government resources to deal with these small matters.

Maybe in the eyes of ordinary people, dealing with these things is free of cost, but in fact it is also a job.

As long as there is work, there will be issues of labor costs.

It is not cost-effective to use hundreds or thousands of manpower costs to handle a case that may cost only tens of dollars.

Although no one is willing to calculate what is happening in this country in this way, this is how a capitalistic society works; everything has a price.

Since these people were not old enough to be put in jail, they were kept in the police station for 72 hours and then released.

Over time, the thugs on the street were no longer so afraid of staying for three days for free, and some of them even created opportunities to be arrested when they got into trouble outside, or did not want to get into trouble, and then came in to hide.

These gangsters who often come in are very familiar with the police in the police station. Sometimes when the police want to deal a tough job on certain people, they will arrange for those people to enter these multi-person rooms.

There was no need to say it directly, just some tacit glances or small gestures, and these thugs would find ways to cause trouble for them within three days, and then beat them up every day.

If you get beaten here, it will be in vain.

If Mr. Walter is put in a multi-person cell, he will not be able to sleep well tonight at least.

Lance thought about it for a while and rejected the proposal. "It's not necessary. The case he's involved in has already made it impossible for him to recover. But we can't let him go so easily."

"Let him pay for the single room, and you can divide the money among yourselves."

Chief Blue immediately smiled, "Okay, I know what to do."

Soon Mr. Walter was taken out of the interrogation room. He knew that he might have to stay here for a while.

The police officer who was in charge of sending him to the cell said to him softly, "Do you want to live in a single room or with other people?"

Mr. Walter was stunned for a moment, then he said, "I want a single room!"

The policeman nodded. Instead of taking him over immediately, he stopped and lowered his head slightly, but his eyes were fixed on Mr. Walter. “They all say you are a big shot.”

When Mr. Walter heard this, he knew that he was being blackmailed. He wanted to laugh, but he knew that now was not the time for him to express his thoughts.

He had heard of some of the rules in the police station, but in the past he just listened to them as a topic that could provide some entertainment when he was bored.

Now this knowledge helps him.

"How much do you want?"

"If it were someone else, I would charge them fifty dollars a day."

"But if you are a big shot, and you don't have 200 yuan a day, I can only send you to a multi-person cell."

Mr. Walter himself was a little dumbfounded when he saw the policeman blackmailing him so blatantly.

However, he soon realized that this might not be surprising, because this was Lance's territory, and they knew that he and Lance were at odds, so they blackmailed him unscrupulously.

He didn't hesitate for too long and nodded in agreement, "It's a very reasonable price, but I can't pay you now."

The police officer led him to the single room and said, "Your lawyer will come tomorrow and you can ask him to pay for you."

"By the way, you have to live here for at least half a month."

Half a month, that's three thousand dollars. When Mr. Walter heard this number, even though he didn't take three thousand dollars seriously, he was still shocked by the greed of this little policeman.

It took him a while to react, "Aren't you afraid?"

The policeman smiled meaningfully, and then said something he had heard before, but he never understood the point -

"This is Jingang City!"

Without waiting for him to say anything else, the police stopped outside the cell and opened the door. "Okay, you can go in."

Then he closed the iron door and turned to leave.

Looking at the space of only about five square meters, Mr. Walter sighed deeply.

"Fuck Fuck!"

The news soon spread back to the Labor Federation, and the Labor Federation also attached great importance to this matter. After all, as the rotating vice president, Mr. Walter now represents the face of the Labor Federation.

The rotating vice president of the Labor Federation rotates on a two-plus-three basis. If he obtains recognition of his work by the Labor Federation during the first two-year rotation period.

If more than half of the people in the vote think that the vice president can continue to do his job, then he can continue to serve for three years.

After the second term ends three years later, you can enter the cooling pool.

Mr. Walter is currently in his second term and has a lot of support within the labor union.

After the lawyer representative reported his current situation, the Labor Federation immediately held a meeting overnight and also connected with the lawyer representative.

"...My idea now is that you send a new team that does not belong to the same law firm as us, and we can discuss with each other. Maybe they have a new solution."

"Besides that, my personal opinion is that the Labor Federation should do a good job in public relations."

"I have always been pessimistic about this matter. Once he is found guilty and needs to go to jail, given the current practice of the federal mainstream media, they will definitely report it extensively."

"The Labor Federation will face some problems in the public's mind, which may be a heavy blow to the establishment of the Workers' Party!"

If people find out that the future top leader of the Workers' Party is actually a pervert who tries to violate a low-level waitress, they will not only be disappointed in Mr. Walter, but also in the entire Labor Federation!

The lawyer's words made the gentlemen in the conference room look unhappy. They had been cooperating with the lawyer's representative's law firm for a long time and knew the lawyer's representative very well. Otherwise, they would not have allowed him to go to Jingang City with Mr. Walter to deal with this crisis.

Since the other party has said this, it means there is a high probability that it cannot be salvaged.

"What if we now obtain the forgiveness of that...victim lady?"

Is it possible that this case could be a misunderstanding?
The lawyer's voice was as stable and neutral as ever, without too much personal emotion. "This is obviously a trap set by the Lance family. It will be difficult for us to break it unless we can convince the congressional forces behind Lance and put pressure on him from top to bottom."

"Otherwise, it is unlikely that the district court or the circuit court will support Mr. Walter's not guilty plea, and the Supreme Court is almost entirely controlled by Congress."

"Whether you want to resolve this through the courts or not, the only way is to go the high-level route."

After the other gentlemen communicated with each other for a while, another vice president on duty said, "Thank you for your advice. We will contact you if there is any news."

"You're welcome. This is what I should do."

"Also, I have a bill here that I have faxed back and I need you to deal with it." "I won't bother you any more. Good night, gentlemen."

After the call ended, the vice president on duty looked at the people around him and said, "Tell me what you think."

These are the top leaders of the Labor Union and also the top leaders of the Workers' Party. Of course, it is not ruled out that some people may not want to go to the Workers' Party and are willing to stay in the Labor Union.

But no matter what, the top executives are always the top executives.

"The lawyer just said that this is a trap, a trap that you can't get out of. Both the local court and the circuit court are influenced by the Lans family and will make an unfair judgment against us."

"You are all well aware of the situation in the Supreme Court. Congress will not show us goodwill. We have no way to deal with this issue."

Another senior member continued, "That means Walter's ending is difficult to change, and now we have another public relations crisis to deal with."

Someone asked, "Can we talk to Lance directly?"

"Our most important task now is to form a workers' party. His de-unionization in Jingang City will have a certain impact on us, but the impact will not be too great."

"But if Walter's incident comes out, it will more likely have a huge negative impact on us."

"We can give him Jingang City and even Likalai State in exchange for him releasing Walter."

This kind of case which is obviously a trap is very easy to solve. As long as the plaintiff, that is, the girl, comes forward to clarify that everything is just a misunderstanding, then the problem will be solved.

But it was obvious that the girl would not come forward, so we had to consider other methods.

Giving up a state to get through this crisis doesn't seem impossible, but... it's not the best option either.

After all, they have abandoned millions of working brothers in Likalai State, which is likely to create some internal conflicts and even divisions!

So they couldn't come up with a solution in a short time.

One of the senior executives hesitated to speak several times, and his situation was discovered by the rotating vice president, but he did not make it public.

After this impromptu meeting, he took this guy to his office alone.

Because not everyone is here tonight, there will be a meeting with more people tomorrow.

But before that, he wanted to hear what his colleague was thinking but didn't dare to say.

"I noticed that you stopped several times during the meeting when you wanted to speak. Do you have any good ideas?"

Seeing that the other party still seemed to be hesitant to speak, he took the initiative to appease him, "We are all for the Labor Federation and the Workers' Party. As long as your ideas are meaningful and valuable to our current problems, we will definitely adopt them."

"The Labor Federation is a fraternal organization. You shouldn't be so wary!"

The senior executive pursed his lips and said, "We can actually change our thinking and give up Walter directly."

"We were also deceived by his hypocritical side."

"We don't protect him. We believe in fair laws. Which organization doesn't have a few scumbags?"

"As long as our attitude is good enough and positive enough, the harder we suppress him, the less people will reject us."

Hearing this man say this, the rotating vice president's expression did not change, but there were some waves in his heart.

This might be a solution. As long as they show the position of the labor union, they will never defend Walter just because he is one of their senior executives. Instead, they will turn around and defend the rights of the grassroots workers. This will definitely make the workers feel that they are a fair organization.

The rotating vice president's eyes lit up when he thought of this. "Your suggestion is very important. I will mention it to the president."

The guy who came up with this idea scratched his head and said, "Can you please not tell anyone that it was my suggestion?"

As the person who proposed to abandon Walter, even if he was promoted to a more important position, it would be difficult for him to form a relationship of mutual trust with others in a short period of time.

Who the hell wants to be friends with someone who's willing to give up on themselves at any time?

Do you think you can't die quickly enough?

This was also the reason why he hesitated to speak several times in the meeting. If he spoke out, he would only offend Mr. Walter, but at the same time it would also make him more distant from others.

The rotating vice president nodded and said, "I won't tell anyone about you..."

At the same time, Ponda's joint fleet was sailing on the waves of the East Ocean, and they were still three days away from Jingang City.

"The Attack on Golden Harbor" gave everyone some thoughts about this war, and also made the Dantra Navy consider whether the Federation would establish an observation mechanism in Alan to observe the nearby waters.

If they cannot strike hard at the Federation's homeland, it will be difficult to divert the Federation's attention away from the main battlefield on the Tanfit continent.

With the Federation's current control over the war situation, if they are allowed to act recklessly on the land battlefield, the Dentra Republic may not be their opponent.

The Federation’s war potential is too strong. A steady stream of troops are pushed to the front lines, away from the war’s homeland, frantically generating funds for the war.

From a side view, the sneak attack on Jingang was actually a result that there was no other way.

Dantra's naval plan is to completely cripple or even destroy Admiral Miles' navy, so that the other federal naval fleet will not be able to leave the federal waters at will, thus preventing coastal cities from being bombarded again.

You should know that Jinzhou is also a coastal area, and Xinjin City is right on the seaside!

The core of the Federation's politics, economy and culture is within the range of naval guns. Their fleet must protect Xinjin City. If Xinjin City is bombarded, the Federation will lose face.

In this way, only Dantra's navy will be able to move back and forth in the Eastern Ocean, whether it is approaching the federal coastal cities or allowing them to increase their defense capabilities on their home soil.

Or cutting off the transportation of materials between the Federation and the Tanfit Continent will both be of great help to the war!

Without the Federation's current blood transfusion and provision of various scarce supplies, it would be difficult for Slade to maintain his current morale!
Of course, more importantly, the Dantra people do not want the Federals to truly dominate the Slade Military Alliance. Even if Dantra is ultimately defeated, they hope that it is the Slade people who will accept their defeat, rather than the Federals who have already exposed their ambitions and greed!
The victory of the Slads may not hurt their foundation, but the Federals will definitely!

For the destiny of Dantra and the future of the people of Dantra, this is a just battle!
In the conference room of the command ship, the naval commander-in-chief who was in charge of the attack plan contacted the captains of each warship via radio.

"They said we will arrive at Jingang City in 72 hours, so this may be our last pre-war meeting before the war begins."

"This battle is related to whether we can regain the initiative in the next war, so everyone..." The commander-in-chief paused here. Although he did not make any sound and remained silent, he could feel a force spreading silently.

This put a lot of pressure on the captains, but it was not entirely pressure, but more of a trust, an encouragement, and a mobilization!
"The direction of the war and the fate of the country rest on our shoulders. Now is the time when we need to be mentally prepared to make sacrifices."

"If anyone doesn't move forward when he should, or doesn't move back when he should, I guarantee you won't even see the day when you're tried by a military court!"

"I am ready to sacrifice, and I hope you are too!"

He paused for a moment, and his tone softened a little. "Of course, this battle may not be lost. The federals don't know our battle plan, and they didn't expect that one of their movies would give us such great inspiration!"

The captains who were listening to the radio all chuckled, making war plans based on a Federation war movie sounded like a joke.

But it happened!
They themselves couldn't have imagined that this could happen, let alone the federal people.

"Once our plan succeeds, the Federation's navy and military will become a joke, and we will be the ones who created this joke!"

"Everyone, for the glory of Dantra, please bet everything and fight for Dantra!"

The fast-moving warships left white marks on the sea, which then quickly disappeared without a trace, as if no one had ever been here.

The commander-in-chief looked up at the clock on the combat command room. There were still seventy-one hours and fifteen minutes before entering the combat zone!
(End of this chapter)