Enforcer Manual
Chapter 185: Guidance from the Dead_1

Chapter 185: Chapter 185: Guidance from the Dead_1

Lu Xiang admitted, she was indeed taken aback when Song Lan spoke.

The shock probably only fell second to the time when she saw the "Invincible Universe Through Heart Palm" on Song Lan’s phone.

But this time, her emotions were surprisingly different.

In a sense, this was a try for Song Lan, flirting was not his forte, hence the spirit of daring to try was admirable.

It’s just that he took too big a step in the beginning, lacking theoretical basis, not only did it not achieve the desired effect, it also left her, who had read through "A Love Tip Every Day" several times, at a loss for words.

Regrettably, the "Eat Dust, Losers" project was a failure.

Song Lan couldn’t turn back the clock five minutes earlier, so he had to pluck up the courage to comfort himself that the true hero dares to face a bleak life head-on.

Luckily, Lu Xiang did not continue the topic of "stealing hearts", the two tacitly maintained a silence, pretending that the wind had simply been too loud.

The two of them took some photos at the scene, selected some items that could barely indicate Eric’s identity, and then performed a cremation ceremony for him on the spot.

Watching the rotting corpse gradually swallowed by flames, Song Lan suddenly recalled the story of the bar owner.

On the road towards punishing criminals, not everyone would reach the end.

Deputy Captain Eric,

You left your investigation unfinished, let us continue it for you.

...

After returning to Sharp Cage Town and handing Eric’s keepsakes to the bar owner, the two didn’t linger in the small town. Song Lan simply couldn’t stand to see an elderly man in his sixties facing his keepsakes with tears streaming down his face.

This is why he disliked touching real cases.

Behind most brutal cases, one had to confront the relatives of the victims, and as law enforcers, they had to hand over the remnants, so mutilated that they were barely recognizable, to the relatives of the victims. This was also a great challenge for the law enforcers themselves. Working in this field for a long time, most would suffer from some psychological issues.

That night, after the capital city law enforcers got off work, Song Lan secretly entered the local law enforcement department alone, took out Eric’s own tablet and laptop.

The cracking job took most of the night, even when he knew the working principle of the imprint system and understood its loopholes, breaking the system was not easy. Lu Xiang had to bypass verification through the emergency channel reserved for cases where information had to be retrieved urgently upon a law enforcer’s death.

After that, she found an encrypted file in Eric’s laptop. She tried all the numbers related to Eric that she could think of, from his birthday to his father’s, his mother’s, and the bar owner’s birthdays, but all ended in failure. Finally, when the sky was turning white and Song Lan was yawning incessantly and mentioned Eric’s father’s memorial day, the locked file was finally opened.

There were a few screen captures from the video and a complete video file in the folder.

Lu Xiang and Song Lan exchanged glances, their efforts all night finally paid off.

Just as they predicted, Eric had kept a copy after being asked by his superiors to rewrite the surveillance footage of the day.

The location in the video was somewhere in the government department, recording the scene of Princess Lieyang’s father’s evacuation.

He boarded an armored floating car, with several armed helicopters parked beside the car, and the mercenaries with heavy-duty firepower and masked faces were responsible for the escort operation.

In addition to the former leader of the Twelfth Nation, a familiar face also appeared in the video.

The Minister of Internal Affairs.

Clearly, the Minister of Internal Affairs had not told Princess Lieyang the truth.

As for the reason he did not tell the truth, Eric had marked it out for them in form of screenshots.

The imprint of guns and roses was on the armed helicopter.

The mercenary leader who greeted the former leader into the car was accidentally captured revealing a half cross-shaped scar on the back of his neck due to a certain angle.

This perfectly explained why the Twelfth Nation suddenly became the largest partner for Barrosa’s genetic weapon.

The Third Law of Salted Fish was upheld once again.

The Minister of Internal Affairs’ active salting of Lieyang was probably not out of love for her.

"He needs a person of prestige to control the situation. The return of Princess Lieyang is the best choice, and he also happens to be her most trusted minister due to his support for her," Lu Xiang said, "His real partner is the Barrosa Group."

The reason for buying large amounts of CTEA-32 was also self-evident. By using relatively cheap CTEA-32 injections, a large number of biological weapons could be produced in a short time. Although these biological weapons have uncontrollable drawbacks, as long as they are intentionally released into the right area, they could achieve similar results.

For a country that had just withdrawn from the covenant and embarked on the road to independence, CTEA-32 was equivalent to armed forces.

And the person who currently controlled the armed forces was not Lieyang, but the Minister of Internal Affairs.

"However, this evidence is far from enough."

As a law enforcer, Lu Xiang values the evidence chain greatly. The video saved by Eric could, at most, prove that the Minister of Internal Affairs was hiding the fact that he knew about the former leader’s whereabouts. Even if Lieyang questioned him, he could push everything onto her father.

The massive purchase of CTEA-32 was information given to them by an intelligence dealer, without any substantial evidence.

Given their identities, they were ill-suited to investigate another country’s Minister on their turf.

"Let’s get him to expose himself."

Song Lan’s eyes were bloodshot, he had spent the whole night awake which left him quite worn out. "What do you think he’d do if he received an e-mail from Deputy Captain Eric at this time?"

Actually, the Minister of Internal Affairs had given an answer to this question a week ago.

Kill all witnesses.

He lured Deputy Captain Eric to a deserted desert and let his partners finish up for him.

If it wasn’t for their happenstance investigation into this case, everything he had done might have been buried in the sand.

After all, not all detectives can call the Death God Crab for help.

Lu Xiang immediately understood. She stopped shutting down the laptop, logged into Eric’s personal email. Thanks to their efforts, they didn’t have to guess the password this time since the account and password were saved on the computer.

She uploaded the video content and wrote an email in Eric’s name.

"I’ve got to get ready too," Song Lan yawned. As a regular sleeper, staying up all night was undoubtedly a great toll on him. But in this matter, his bloodshot eyes and lifeless expression due to lack of sleep made him better suited to the role of the ghost.

After carefully studying Eric’s habit of sending emails, Lu Xiang wrote this email in his style.

She turned her head and was startled by the scene in the room.

A face bandaged completely, only a pair of bloodshot eyes visible.

The Bandage Man!

The first thing that came to her mind was a serial killer and his infamous case, the suspect had his face completely covered in bandages.

Having been a law enforcer for so long, Lu Xiang was scared for the first time by a criminal.

"How about it? Do I look like a vengeful ghost with this getup?" A deep, hoarse question came from beneath the bandages.

"First of all, there’s no such thing as a ghost on this planet," Lu Xiang put a hand against her breast to calm herself, startled by Song Lan. "And could you warn me before dressing up like this?"