Then let them offer their loyalty!

"Minister, Section Chief Qiu is here."

Qiu Tu's gaze fell on Jia Shu.

Jia Shu was dressed in casual clothes, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses perched on his nose. Behind the lenses, his eyes were long and narrow, with a smiling expression.

If you hadn't seen his twisted side, you'd probably think he was just an ordinary hypocrite at first glance...

"Greetings, Minister!" Qiu Tu saluted while inwardly cursing.

Seeing this, Jia Shu smiled insincerely and gestured with his hand, "It's just a few of us, no need for so much formality."

When he smiled, his narrow eyes immediately narrowed into slits, giving off a hypocritical, half-smiling impression.

Qiu Tu said solemnly, "This is the rule, sir. I'm afraid I cannot comply."

Jia Shu didn't argue any further. He waved to the detective. After the detective left, he asked with a smile, "Detective Qiu arrived very quickly."

He glanced at his watch. "You said 18 minutes, but you arrived in just 15."

Qiu Tu said, "I just left home, turned around and drove straight to the office. I didn't waste any time on the way."

Jia Shu nodded with a half-smile, then asked as if curious, "Are you planning to have a get-together with friends tonight?"

Qiu Tu: "Yes."

Jia Shu, "Which friend?"

Qiu Tu: "Wang Tai. He just passed the Special Operations Department's agent assessment the day before yesterday. Let's celebrate for him."

Jia Shu: "Where?"

Qiu Tu, "A small restaurant at No. 29 Nanfang Street".

Jia Shu: "Who are they?"

Qiu Tu, well, "a few friends of mine who grew up with Atai."

Jia Shu looked Qiu Tu up and down twice, and seeing that he couldn't find any flaws, he asked again, "Did you receive a phone call on the way?"

Qiu Tu, "Yes!"

Jia Shu, "Whose?"

Qiu Tu: "The first call was from Atai, asking where I was. I told him I had some urgent business to attend to and couldn't go."

"The last few were calls from Master Qin."

Jia Shu said "Oh," and an interested expression appeared on his face. "Fourth Master Qin? What did you talk about?"

Qiu Tu glanced at Jia Shu and said without changing his expression, "He cursed me. He said I took his clues and then betrayed him."

"He said he would definitely not let me go."

"I hung up on him several times, but he kept calling back."

"Finally, I answered the phone again and cursed at him a few times."

"Do you need me to learn what he said to me and what I said to him?"

Jia Shu's smile became incredibly bright. "No need. We're just chatting casually."

"I did disrupt your plans for tonight, so I'm just checking in on you."

After saying that, he acted as if he were just having a casual chat, reached into a drawer, took out a file, and tossed it to Qiu Tu.

"This is your mission tonight. We just captured a female captain who had infiltrated the New Territories Chamber of Commerce."

"Work overtime to review it. See if you can find a breakthrough."

Qiu Tu took the file, looking down at it as he asked, "What methods can be used?"

Jia Shu leaned back in his chair, looking at Qiu Tu with a half-smile, and teased, "Section Chief Qiu, you even know how to interrogate people?"

Qiu Tu looked up at him, smiled, and said, "I don't understand."

"But I know how to kill."

Jia Shu's smile was almost overflowing. He looked at Qiu Tu with great interest, his narrow eyes squinting. "No bottom line. The Political Department has no shortage of death quotas."

Qiu Tu saluted, "Yes!"

After assigning the tasks, Jia Shu waved his hand and said, "Alright, go ahead and get busy."

Qiu Tu nodded, then turned and left the office.

After Qiu Tu left the office, Jia Shu's office gradually returned to silence.

Jia Shu sat quietly in the chair for a while before reaching out and picking up a document with the cover flipped over from the table.

Opening the file, one can clearly see Qiu Tu's call log from the past ten minutes.

When the New Territories City was first established, the Information Section of the Exploration Department was not well-equipped and could only record call logs after monitoring.

Therefore, all he had were the outgoing and incoming calls from Qiu Tu's communicator after he had called Qiu Tu.

The document clearly records that the first call was from Atai to Qiu Tu, and the call lasted for more than ten seconds.

Immediately afterwards, Master Qin called Qiu Tu, and the call lasted for about ten seconds.

After that, Master Qin made three more calls, but they went unanswered.

Finally, Master Qin made the call for the fourth time, and Qiu Tu answered. The two talked for about twenty seconds.

This perfectly matches everything Qiu Tu just said.

"Interesting...this is interesting..."

Jia Shu's smile grew increasingly broad, his pupils slightly red, as if filled with the desire of someone who had encountered prey...

......

After leaving Jia Shu's office with the case file, Qiu Tu did not let his guard down, but carried out the tasks assigned to him by Jia Shu step by step.

He turned and went to the interrogation room.

As soon as I arrived at the entrance to the interrogation room, I could hear several people laughing and talking inside the brightly lit room.

The girl asked curiously, "Sister Liu, tell me quickly, what's going on between you and Section Chief Liu next door?"

A mature woman's voice: "Hehehe~, we're nothing. We're just ordinary friends."

The young man's voice said, "Huh? Impossible! I see you two exchanging glances every day, how could nothing have happened?"

The girl said, "Yes, yes, I heard Liu Ke feeding you in the conference room the other day when I was on duty. You said it was too big and you couldn't eat it."

"You little brat, do you want to die?! I'll teach you to talk nonsense, I'll teach you to talk nonsense!"

"Giggle."

Qiu Tu listened from outside, feeling a part of his body stiffen...

Sure enough, there's never a shortage of news about Tao Se in the office...

Thinking this, he coughed and knocked on the door.

Upon hearing the knock on the door, the noise from inside immediately stopped.

Seeing this, Qiu Tu pushed open the door and stepped inside.

In the afternoon, Jia Shu brought Qiu Tu to the interrogation room, where he had already met with everyone.

So upon seeing Qiu Tu, the three men and two women present immediately stood up with varying expressions, shouting in a chaotic cacophony, "Good morning, Section Chief!" "Good morning, Section Chief Qiu!" "Good morning, Sir!" "Sir!"

........

Meanwhile, in Jia Shu's office.

"Ring ring ring." The landline on the table suddenly rang.

Jia Shu, who had been lost in thought in his chair, snapped out of it, glanced at the caller ID, and immediately answered the phone.

"Chief, is there any news?"

Yan Chen's deep, hoarse voice came through the receiver, "Hmm... Ji Chen just reported that Qin Laosi has escaped, and his wife and children were moved away long ago."

"Qin Shuman has also disappeared."

"The agents and maids protecting her were knocked unconscious and thrown into a warehouse. But because the fire was small, no one was injured."

"The fire has now been extinguished. Ji Chen conducted a brief inspection and found that the fires started in the Qin family's secluded courtyards."

"It seems that Qin Laosi is leaving room for the Qin family and us."

"He was most likely forced into it."

Upon hearing Yan Chen's analysis, Jia Shu's eyes flickered slightly, and he fell into quiet contemplation.

After a moment, he asked, "Chief, do you have anyone you suspect?"

Yan Chen didn't answer directly, but instead asked a question in a low voice, "Has Qiu Tu returned to the Investigation Department?"

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Jia Shu grunted in agreement, then reported, "After I called him, he arrived at the office in less than 15 minutes."

"On the way, he received six phone calls. Five of them were from Master Qin."

Yan Chen exclaimed "Oh?", clearly intrigued. "How did he explain it?"

Jia Shu said with a smile, "His explanation was perfect."

"They said that Master Qin called him to scold him. To scold him for betraying Master Qin."

"He couldn't take the scolding anymore, so he hung up the phone, but Master Qin continued to call and scold him."

"Finally, he couldn't take it anymore and started arguing with Master Qin, which finally stopped Master Qin from harassing him."

"The cause and effect of the several phone calls were explained clearly and very reasonably."

Yan Chen smiled, a rare occurrence. His laugh was like that of a night owl, a chilling "ho ho ho" that sent shivers down one's spine.

After laughing, he asked, "Do you believe it?"

Jia Shu was grinning from ear to ear, "I don't believe him for a second."

"How can there be so many coincidences in this world? And how come he happened to encounter them all?"

Yan Chen hummed in agreement, slowly calming his emotions. Then he gave a low order, "Let's investigate in this direction."

"Let's see what this little kid is up to, causing such a big commotion..."

"Yes!" Jia Shu replied respectfully.

After hanging up the phone, Jia Shu sat quietly in his office for a while. After sorting through all the information, he picked up the landline on his desk and dialed a number.

A moment later, the communication was connected, and Jia Shu smiled and said, "It's our turn."

After saying that, he hung up the phone, got up, put on a coat, and left the office, heading downstairs...

Walking down the dark corridor, for some reason, the scene from half an hour ago involuntarily surfaced in Jia Shu's mind.

At that time, Yan Chen told him that the Qin family's house was on fire and that Master Qin had fled.

His idea at the time was to have the political department get involved as soon as possible and begin investigating the matter.

After all, for such a crucial matter, every minute of delay could mean the mastermind could destroy even more clues and evidence.

However, Yan Chen insisted that Qin Heng return to the Qin family first, and that he would only intervene after actively requesting support from the Investigation Bureau.

His reasons are mainly three.

Firstly, Qin Heng had only recently come to his side, so he needed to give Qin Heng and the Qin family enough face.

Secondly, people don't cherish things they get for free; they only cherish things they work hard to obtain.

Third, the New Territories City was newly established, and the various factions were all makeshift organizations, doing things very carelessly. Even if they were given some time to cover up their tracks, the Special Branch could easily investigate and find out the truth.

Both of them are right in their perspectives; one is from a crime-solving perspective, and the other is from a political perspective.

Therefore, Jia Shu ultimately followed Yan Chen's arrangement.

But now, as they prepared to begin the investigation, for some reason, Jia Shu felt that because of the half-hour delay, the whole matter seemed to have undergone some changes...

But what can happen in just half an hour?

They even kept Qiu Tu, the prime suspect, inside the police station...