Despite being incredibly wealthy, I want to be a prosecutor.

The next afternoon, Zhou Hong looked through the criminal case files sent by the Second Bureau. Some cases involved settlements, while others required court appearances, all of which required his signature.

Gao Tiejun personally delivered a thick stack of case files. In fact, there was no need to bother Gao Tiejun, the criminal police captain, with such a errand to deliver case files.

At this moment, Gao Tiejun sat at the prosecutor's desk, sizing up Zhou Hong, and suddenly asked, "Won't the thing you arrested alert the enemy?"

This morning, criminal police officers searched the house and detained "Lai".

The routine search in the morning had already yielded many surprising discoveries. In the afternoon, the technical department of the East Timor Police Headquarters also sent people to conduct technical investigations. Of course, although it is called the East Timor Police Headquarters, the main task at present is still carried out by international police officers and technical police.

Gao Tiejun understood, of course, that his friend was young and had a burning passion in his heart. While he seemed to be investigating other missing persons cases, he actually wanted to take down those five thugs from another angle.

However, this mentality could cause problems if it were noticed by righteous international legal professionals.

"He has a dominant personality; dealing with him first is the most effective approach." Zhou Hong smiled slightly as he signed his name with swift strokes of his pen.

Gao Tiejun nodded: "Okay, Brother Xu also said that if you need our help, just let us know."

"My two older brothers have already helped me so much!" Zhou Hong finished reviewing the last file and signed it, then stood up and said, "It's time to go see that guy!" He added, "Shall we go interrogate him together?"

The team assisting in the investigation of this case is the third group of the high-speed rail military criminal police team. With the supervising leader involved, there's no problem at all.

"Good!" Gao Tiejun immediately rubbed his fists excitedly and said viciously, "If he doesn't give a proper explanation, I'll kill him!"

……

The interrogation room used by the prosecutors is the Second Bureau Interrogation Room, which is also on the second floor.

Team Leader Du, who was originally waiting to go in with "Prosecutor Hong" to interrogate the criminals, immediately looked miserable when he saw his superiors coming over. Oh no, he wouldn't get a turn.

When Zhou Hong, Gao Tiejun, and a police officer acting as a recorder entered the interrogation room, "Lai," whose small eyes were darting around, suddenly froze, staring intently at Zhou Hong. After confirming that he hadn't mistaken Zhou Hong for someone else, he was completely bewildered and had no idea what was going on.

"Lai, do you know her?" Zhou Hong took out a photo of "Victim No. 1," the girl wearing the cheap necklace, whom Zhou Hong temporarily designated as "Victim No. 1."

As agreed with the high-speed rail team before they entered, Zhou Hong asked questions, the high-speed rail team observed, and they filled in any gaps or omissions.

Moreover, Gao Tiejun was very worried and talked to Zhou Hong for a long time about his interrogation experience.

"I don't know him!" Lai shook his head instinctively.

"Then why was this necklace found at your ex-girlfriend Emma's house? Emma confessed that you gave it to her!" Zhou Hong stared coldly at "Lai".

Gao Tiejun nodded in agreement, but the relevant departments could not actually confirm that the two were the same chain.

But Zhou Hong's words made Lai believe that the matter of Xiang Lian was confirmed.

I was just joking with this guy, saying that in a trial, if the opposing lawyer isn't present, you can just lie, cheat, and bluff as long as it's legal. You can do whatever you want to get the other side to talk.

Of course, now that we have a multinational judicial system, we need some tricks to avoid "leading testimony" under Western legal principles.

And this little brother of mine—oh, I can't call him a little brother anymore, he's my good friend—has already mastered the essence of it.

For example, his preemptive questioning made no mention of finding the victim's necklace at his girlfriend's house.

But when asked if he knew "Victim No. 1", he pointed to the photo, specifically the location of the necklace.

This immediately led Lai to believe that the fact that the necklace belonged to the deceased had been confirmed.

"I picked it up..." Lai subconsciously began to defend himself, which was also the most common lie.

"Where did you find it?" Zhou Hong immediately asked.

"I've long forgotten, it happened a few months ago. Oh, let me think, I think I picked it up from a trash can..." Lai tried hard to "recall".

"Which trash can?"

"Let me think, it seems like..." Lai pointed out the locations of several trash cans, "but I can't quite remember which one..."

"Then what about the bloodstains in your house?" Zhou Hong asked in rapid succession.

Lai panicked immediately, "I... I don't quite remember."

"Don't remember?!" Zhou Hong nodded and smiled triumphantly at the recorder beside him.

Lai noticed this and panicked. "Ah, let me think, let me think... It seems like the girl in the photo came to my house to use the toilet? She said she was on her period? Is that right? There's blood on the stains..."

Gao Tiejun was speechless, especially at his friend's sly smile, it was a stroke of genius, are you an actor?

The smile that proclaimed victory completely threw "Lai" into disarray.

In fact, the bloodstain test did not find any blood from "Victim No. 1".

Because "Victim No. 1" disappeared too early, several months ago, during which time Dili experienced a long period of sweltering heat and humidity, hemoglobin and its breakdown products (such as hematoporphyrin and iron porphyrin complex) would be damaged, making it difficult to extract useful information with current technology.

The test results just received from the technical department show that the bloodstains were indeed human, from three different women, but they cannot be matched with "Victim No. 1".

Although his friend, the prosecutor, didn't mention anything about finding "Victim No. 1's" bloodstains, it was precisely these words that led "Lai" to mistakenly believe that "Victim No. 1's" bloodstains had been found in his house.

While Gao Tiejun was pondering, Zhou Hong's questioning continued: "The victim went to your house, and to your girlfriend's place..."

"Yes, it's the necklace she left behind. I... I greedily kept it..."

Lai suddenly looked up, staring at Zhou Hong: "You, you lied to me, the diesel business was fake? Why did you lie to me, just to help with the case?!"

"No, I do deal in diesel. I just received a hundred tons of diesel and wanted to distribute some, but I didn't expect a friend to introduce me to a suspect." Zhou Hong shrugged. "So, whether you're guilty or not, our deal is off."

Zhou Hong felt that if someone like "Lai" thought that he was approaching him for the sake of solving a case, it would only make him more panicked.

In his simplistic understanding, if a high-ranking UN employee went to such lengths to deal with him, who else but him would die?

He has a dominant personality and enjoys manipulating people's minds, but only towards the petty thugs around him. His understanding of higher levels is actually quite limited.

"Confess properly! About her!" Zhou Hong pointed to the victim's photo.

"I...I need to find a lawyer..." Lai suddenly remembered the movies and TV shows she had watched.

"Sure, give me a lawyer's phone number and I'll contact him for you," Zhou Hong said with a smile.

"I...don't I have a free lawyer?" Lai said, struggling.

"Free lawyers? It's not that bad yet. You can only apply for legal aid after I decide to prosecute you, and whether you can get one depends on the situation." Zhou Hong shrugged. That's the reality in East Timor. Prosecutors are all on international aid. Legal aid lawyers? Where can you find them? Those few people who are just there to keep things going are extremely busy. To some extent, they even cooperate with prosecutors to persuade suspects to sign plea agreements. The faster the case is closed, the more cases they can take on, and the more government subsidies they can get.

Upon hearing Zhou Hong's words, Lai's face turned ashen.

"She got her period, and what happened? She went to your house, you single guy, to exchange sanitary napkins? Don't you think that's ridiculous?"

"Ah, I... I knew her before, we... we had a relationship..."

"You knew her before, who can prove that?"

"Dili, I know Dili! Oh, he's a good friend of mine named Dili!" Lai answered without hesitation.

Zhou Hong took a blank sheet of paper and handed it to him, then pushed a pen towards him, "Well then, write down the details yourself. I'll give you an hour."

Zhou Hong stood up, gave Gao Tiejun a wink, and the two of them walked out leisurely, with the police officer who had been recording also closing his notebook and following behind.

……

"You little rascal, you're really bad!" Gao Tiejun shook his head helplessly as he left the interrogation room.

Under the pressure of Zhou Hong's interrogation, this "Lai" unexpectedly connected the first victim with himself.

Based on this, the more fabricated the story, the more loopholes will appear.

In this way, prosecutor Zhou Hong could detain him for an even longer period of time.

In fact, although bloodstains from three women were found in Lai's house, it was very difficult to find out who these three women were.

Especially if they are not on the missing persons list, it is almost impossible to verify their whereabouts.

Therefore, what the prosecution needs most right now is time.

What's more, to everyone's delight, is that it also brought out another of the five thugs, namely Dili, the now-powerful henchman of the Black Ant gang.

Lai blurted out that he believed Dili was the most powerful and most likely to help him among his cronies.

"Du'er, wait until he finishes writing, then you can continue reviewing it." Zhou Hong patted Xiao Du on the shoulder.

What follows is a relentless barrage of attacks; who knows, there might even be a surprise.

"Don't worry, Prosecutor Hong, don't worry, boss!" Xiao Du gritted his teeth. "I specialize in training hawks!"