Colonel Benson and Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey arrived late by car.
And Joseph and Adel were standing and smoking in front of the two corpses that had been covered with white cloth.
"General Joseph." Benson and Jeffrey got out of the car and greeted Joseph, "Have you captured the members of the Equality Society?"
"No. The street lights here haven't been repaired yet. They are so elusive that they can't catch anyone." Joseph shook his head and stamped out the cigar he was about to smoke. "Is there anything unusual over there?"
"No, everything is normal." Jeffrey said.
Joseph looked at Benson and Jeffrey glanced at him: "If we can't come up with effective countermeasures, such assassination activities will continue to occur with extremely high frequency. Do you have any good ideas?"
"Uh..." Benson and Jeffrey looked at each other, "We don't have any good countermeasures at the moment."
"They just assassinated me yesterday, and now they are attacking my subordinates. Before they find a way to deal with it, you should also protect yourselves and strengthen your security forces." Joseph reminded him pretending to be kind.
"Don't worry. After General Pisel's incident, we immediately expanded the security guard." Benson, in turn, pretended to care about Joseph, "On the contrary, you will be watched by them at all times now, so you must take care of yourself."
"Well." Joseph said expressionlessly, "Tonight you are going to have to work hard tonight. We will conduct a citywide search to try to trace their traces. Otherwise, we will do nothing if something like this happens, and it will be difficult to explain to the superiors."
"Okay, then we'll each be responsible for the east, north, and west districts, respectively."
Joseph nodded slightly: "I will ask Lieutenant Colonel Brian to lead the cavalry regiment to support you at any time."
"Then let's go first."
"Um."
After watching the two people leave in the car again, Adel walked past and said, "They should have seen Fulin."
"How are you sure?" Joseph asked.
"Aren't they responsible for different areas? It stands to reason that Jeffrey would be the first to arrive, but they came together, which means that the two of them have been together before. The only thing they can do by staying together at this point is to communicate with each other.
Meet Fulin." Adel analyzed.
"That makes sense." Joseph stopped thinking about it and said, "Just wait for the results tomorrow."
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in the car
"Do you think it's too late now?" Although the soldier driving the car was a close confidant, Jeffrey still didn't say it clearly.
"You mean to go back again?" Benson understood what Jeffrey meant.
"right."
Benson shook his head, feeling helpless to Jeffrey who was dazzled by the benefits offered by Fulin after just one meeting: "He has probably gone back, and it would be difficult and risky to make an appointment so late.
And there is no need to rush into this kind of thing. We can just wait until the situation stabilizes before creating opportunities to get in touch.”
Jeffrey forcibly suppressed his ambition: "Do you have any ideas?"
"You mean cooperation intention?"
"Yes."
"Time was too tight just now, and I haven't had time to discuss it in depth, so I don't know yet." Benson is not in a hurry to make a decision. The contact has only just begun. He may not be able to win something bigger in the future.
"If this was the deal we negotiated, would you accept it?"
Benson glanced at Jeffrey: "At least it seems that you are planning to accept it."
"I will accept it." Jeffrey said without reservation.
"I believe he saw your fanaticism, but you were too reckless. The other party was salivating just after revealing part of his chips, and couldn't help but agree to all the other party's requests. You have to remember that they need us more now, so we
The upper limit of the benefits that can be obtained is still very high, and it will not be just this in any case." Benson
"You're right, they are the ones who are really worried. No matter how bad we are, we can only maintain the status quo." Jeffrey felt that what Benson said was very reasonable, and the benefits they could gain should be greater.
"To be on the safe side, let's communicate through letters. When the time is right, it won't be too late to meet again."
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
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In front of Fulin Mansion
The captain of the guard and Lawrence rushed back before Fulin.
The guards left behind knew the seriousness of the matter and were closely monitoring the mansion.
"Captain, what should we do?" Lawrence asked the captain of the guard, "Should we arrest Speaker Fulin directly later, or should we pretend that nothing happened and give him a chance to go back?"
"You, do you have any good ideas?" The captain of the guard was so nervous that he was trembling.
This matter involves too much.
On the one hand, there was the surveillance and blockade ordered by Francois and the Guards Corps, and on the other hand, there was the secret meeting between the Speaker of the Parliament and the two regiment commanders. Such a big thing fell on him, a small guard captain, and he would be greeted if he handled it slightly carelessly.
It's a catastrophe.
"I think this matter needs to be considered in the long run." Lawrence suggested, "First pretend that the defense is lax, let him think that we have not discovered him, and let him in."
"Tell me carefully." The captain of the guard hurriedly asked Lawrence why he did this.
"It's too late now. It will take some time to report it to the superiors, then convey it to the President, verify it, and deal with it. If we arrest Speaker Fulin now, once this matter is reported to the two independent editors,
The commander knew that the situation was likely to get out of control."
"You mean to report while stabilizing the situation and giving the higher ups more time to deal with the problem?"
"That's right, Speaker Fulin met with two regimental commanders who hold military power. This matter is really too big. If they are torn apart now, there will be no time for the higher-ups to make arrangements." Lawrence nodded.
The captain of the guard put his hands on his hips and looked around: "It makes sense, it makes sense, just do it."
"Then you go and report it, and they and I will pretend to be asleep and let Speaker Fulin sneak into the mansion again."
"Okay, I'll leave this to you." The captain of the guard rushed to one side and hurried back before he was ten meters away. "Wait a minute, there's another question. How do we explain that servant?
If we catch him, won't Fulin know that we have discovered it?"
"I don't think so." Lawrence reassured the uneasy captain of the guard. "The reason why he sent that servant out was because he considered that we would catch him. So if we catch him, it does not mean that we know about Speaker Fulin and the two
I met the regiment commander."
"The problem is that if we arrest the servant, we will definitely want an explanation from him, right? How could we be so easily persuaded by the servant's reason for buying medicine? No matter what, we have to take him to see Fulin."
Gut
"Let's discuss this matter when you come back. Anyway, we still have time in the evening," Lawrence said.
The captain of the guard did not intend to do this. He directly pushed the matter onto Lawrence: "Come on, he will be back soon. Then you will be responsible for bringing people in to inquire about the situation."
"I?"
"You can do it. You have such a flexible mind, you will definitely be able to handle this trouble." The captain of the guard was prepared for Lawrence to successfully complete his claim for credit, and to absolve himself of responsibility if Lawrence mishandled the situation.
"Then leave it to me." Lawrence saw that the captain of the guard wanted to transfer the risk.
"I'm leaving." The captain of the guard patted Lawrence on the shoulder and left quickly.
Lawrence did not dare to waste time, so he immediately called all the nearby guards over to pretend to smoke and chat, and asked the two guards who had just escorted the servant back to take the servant away and wait for half an hour before returning.
For the next half hour, Lawrence ordered no one to leave, chatting all the time, deliberately not staring at the secret door of the mansion.
10:57 p.m.
The two guards calculated the time and escorted the servant back again.
Lawrence estimated that Speaker Fulin had entered the mansion through the secret door while they were not prepared, and was quietly watching them in the mansion, so he started to act: "What is going on?"
"What's going on?" The two guards looked puzzled.
"Who is he?" Lawrence didn't have time to teach so many people to work together to create an illusion, so he could only control the situation and promote the plan by constantly asking questions.
"He is the servant of Speaker Fulin, you are not——"
"A servant of Speaker Flynn?" Lawrence interrupted his companion, stared at the servant fiercely and asked loudly, "What are you doing here?!"
"I, I came out to buy medicine..." The servant still insisted on the reason for buying medicine.
Lawrence repeated the previous conversation of interrogating the servant, then asked two companions to escort the servant aside, and led the other guards to the door of Fulin Mansion, knocking on the door and calling for someone.
Soon, the old housekeeper came out and opened the door: "It's so late, what can I do?"
"Is Speaker Flynn here?" Lawrence asked.
"Mr. Fulin is resting in the bedroom." The old housekeeper replied looking at the large group of people.
Lawrence looked at the layout of the mansion through the door: "Please tell Speaker Fulin that we caught his servant who went out without permission during the curfew, and we need to see him now."
"Mr. Fulin is resting, so don't bother him. I am the butler, leave this matter to me." The old butler planned to deal with the situation by himself.
"I reiterate, I want to see Speaker Flynn immediately." Lawrence said coldly.
"Isn't he just a little servant? Come in and talk." The old butler greeted Lawrence with a smile, asked Lawrence to go inside, and secretly took out a few gold-gram banknotes from a place where other guards could not see. "This matter
I know a little bit, he went out to buy medicine for his child, and I ask you to be accommodating..."
"You want to bribe me?" Lawrence took the banknotes.
"How can this be a bribe? You are on duty outside at night for the safety of the mansion. This is also Speaker Fulin's intention." The old butler felt that Lawrence was not so easy to fool, so he took out a few more cards.
Lawrence threw the banknotes in his hand on the ground before he handed over more money to him: "I will say it for the last time, I want to see Speaker Flynn immediately! Immediately! Otherwise we have the right to search the mansion.
!”
"This..." The old housekeeper was stunned.
The other guards' eyes widened when they saw the large handfuls of banknotes flying.
"What's wrong?" When the two sides were in a stalemate, the white-haired Fulin walked down the spiral staircase.
"Sir." The old housekeeper quickly bowed and saluted.
"Speaker Flynn." Lawrence followed and saluted.
"I heard the noise upstairs." Fulin passed the old housekeeper and stood in front of Lawrence, "Excuse me, what happened?"
"We caught a servant outside who sneaked out through the secret door of your mansion. He said he traveled privately during the curfew to buy medicine for his children. But I think it's not that simple, so I wanted to ask you about the situation."
Lawrence was acting face to face with Fulin, and he couldn't help but feel nervous, which made his facial expression slightly unnatural.
Fulin looked at the housekeeper with a gentle look, "Servant? Who?"
"Sir, this is Old Gale. His child was sick and there was no medicine at home, so he had no choice but to venture out." The housekeeper explained the situation to Fulin.
"Old Gale..." Fulin raised his head slightly and looked back, "His child is working as a chef in the mansion with him, right?"
"Yes, sir."
"I have the impression that he is a very well-behaved person. He probably didn't want to trouble me, so he secretly left on his own initiative." Fulin looked at Lawrence, "He probably didn't cause any big trouble, right?"
"No." Lawrence swallowed.
Fulin did not give Lawrence any sense of oppression and kept smiling as he spoke: "Although I didn't cause any trouble, I still caused you great inconvenience. As their master, I should come forward to resolve this matter. So, I will give you a solution today.
The guards who were on duty near my residence at night were paid one hundred gold grams each, both as an apology for this incident and as a reward for guarding my safety day and night."
"This is what we should do, you don't have to do this."
"We still have to have some." Fulin waved his hand, and the housekeeper immediately went to prepare all the money and handed it to Lawrence, "Then, can this matter be dropped just for my sake?"
"Of course, we are just doing a routine inspection." Lawrence handed the money to his companion behind him, "But it is still inevitable to conduct some interrogations on the captured servant to prevent him from deceiving you and doing some shameful things in the mansion.
matter."
"Understood. Of course, I also believe that he is innocent. Please let him back after the truth is revealed. After all, he has a sick son who needs to be taken care of. There is no need to be embarrassed." Fulin knew that he had no real power now, so he agreed with Lawrence.
After the interrogation, he let the servant come back without making any further demands.
"Don't worry, after the investigation, he will be released early tomorrow morning," Lawrence said.
Fulin nodded slightly, squinted his eyes and said, "It's getting late. If there's nothing else, I'll go back and rest first."
"As you please."
"That's right." Fulin emphasized before leaving, "The Parliament has been dissolved by His Excellency the President, so there is no need to call me Speaker."
"clear."
"Hunter, you take care of the rest." Fulin turned and went upstairs.
The old housekeeper said respectfully to Fulin's back: "Yes."
"Then we will continue to be on duty. If nothing happens tomorrow, we will let him back." Lawrence said hello to the housekeeper and left the mansion.
"Excuse me, everyone." The housekeeper slowly closed the door after Lawrence and the others left.