Enforcer Manual
Chapter 86: Shadow_1

Chapter 86: Chapter 86: Shadow_1

The news of a team of criminals breaking into the conference venue quickly spread. Although the process was somewhat unbelievable, the senators still gave high praise to Lu Xiang’s on-site command.

The afternoon meeting proceeded as usual, but the on-site security personnel were in a state of high tension. During the conference, Captain Doug pulled out all the footage from the morning onwards, having the ’rat’ sit in front of the screen to compare them one by one.

For Song Lan, the only good news might be that once their colleagues realized that Dorago-Safron had infiltrated the conference, they had no time for snacks and drinks. The number of patrol officers tripled and the remaining officers all went to the hotel next door to the venue.

This was where the senators stayed during the entire convention. They had to compare the identities of the hotel duty staff one by one to ensure that no one was being impersonated.

Two cleaners, who were severely injured, were taken to a nearby hospital by a team assigned by Captain Doug.

In order to help his colleagues work better, Song Lan temporarily closed the snack booth. Until Dorago-Safron was found, he could go on indefinite leave.

He spent the whole afternoon in the command centre, seemingly always on the frontline, but in reality, he did nothing. He just admired the bloodshot eyes of the ’rat’, trying to pick out the assassin who had infiltrated the conference from the surveillance videos.

Of course, they could not find Dorago’s figure from the surveillance video, because the real assassin was at this moment..

"Found him!"

The ’rat’ exclaimed joyfully, startling Song Lan, and everyone else in the command centre. Captain Doug was the first to approach and freeze the video.

Song Lan had to admit, Mr. ’rat’ was probably the only criminal who had managed to startle him in this period. He also hurriedly approached.

Theoretically, it shouldn’t have been possible. The wide trench coat concealed his physical features, and he had even worn inside height-enhancing shoes when he went to see the ’rat’.

In other words, even if the ’rat’ could see through everything and identify the person, it should be a burly man similar in stature to Captain Doug.

Seeing the frozen screen, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The scene in the video was clearly taken from the neighboring hotel, and looked like the staff passage of the changing area, a place he had not been to since entering the conference venue that day.

Therefore, no matter who the ’rat’ identified, it could not be him.

Based on Song Lan’s analysis, it was likely that the ’rat’ had hallucinated from staring at the screen all afternoon searching for a non-existent person, mistaking an innocent passerby as Dorago.

However, when Captain Doug rewound the video by a few seconds, Song Lan was surprised to see Dorago’s figure from a position close to the surveillance blind spot. When Doug froze the screen again, the fleeting shadow on the screen became even clearer.

Black trench coat, smiling mask used at the ball.

This figure only existed for less than two seconds in the video, seemingly captured when the other party was not paying attention.

The fact proved that the ’rat’ did not hallucinate, Dorago-Safron indeed appeared in the video.

For a moment, many possibilities sprang up in Song Lan’s mind.

His first thought was that could it be that the subdued Mr. Killer had awakened and decided to return to the battlefield?

But then he dismissed the thought, because even if Mr. Killer had woken up, his prosthetic eye was currently stored in his bedroom safe.

So, the answer seemed to only leave the High Prosecutor Dominas.

The two hidden informants among the cleaners and the morning parade crowd at the front door all proved there had been contact with Dominas before the ’rat’ took action. This matter was, from the start, Dominas taking advantage of this crime boss who fantasized about worldwide fame.

Then, the figure appearing on the screen would probably be part of Dominas’s setup.

Captain Doug also immediately made the judgement. He ordered a special action group to stay put and watch the ’rat’. Doug himself then led a team straight to the hotel.

Dorago-Safron had infiltrated the hotel. Everything was as Lu Xiang had deduced, using the diversion created by the ’rat’ and his team to cover his tracks. The goal was to strike after nightfall when all the senators had checked into the hotel.

Within fifteen minutes, Captain Doug, who was conducting a search of the entire changing room floor, found the doorman’s body, almost unrecognizable after being tightly squeezed into a closet, along with the clothes Dorago had changed out of.

They immediately locked down the hotel and searched every floor, but they couldn’t find any sign of Dorago anymore.

It was as if the subject had evaporated into thin air.

The hotel staff census-style search was also nearing its end. The hotel manager gathered all the staff, each one went through a thorough comparison, nothing abnormal was found.

Doug knew he couldn’t let his guard down. For a professional killer, there were too many places in a hotel where he could hide.

Even before they retrieved the video, Dorago might have anticipated this and left the hotel.

Song Lan, sitting in the command centre, was also lost in thought.

He always believed that Dominas had other motives for inciting the ’rat’. Discrediting the Law Enforcers department was just a bonus. The figure of Dorago, who should not have appeared in the surveillance video, also confirmed this.

He didn’t know the identity of the imposter yet, but Dominas and the ’rat’, who had taken up the life of crime halfway, were different. As the new leader of the Inspection Department, the surveillance of the conference and the hotel were all known to him. Even if he did arrange someone to impersonate Dorago-Safron, he wouldn’t be careless enough to get caught on the hotel surveillance video.

Unless...

From the beginning, he wanted people to see this surveillance video.

The figure in the video only appeared for less than two seconds near the blind spot. Even if Lu Xiang saw this video, her first assumption would be that Dorago had infiltrated the hotel with the intention of assassinating some senator under cover of night.

After all, she didn’t know that their good friend Mr. Killer was at this moment resting eternally at the bottom of the suburban lake.

That is to say...

Dominas’s target, from the very beginning, was Lu Xiang.

As long as Lu Xiang saw this video, she would follow the ’clues’ purposely designed by the other party and fall into their trap step by step.

"Chief, Chief!"

The tablet that was incessantly vibrating in front of him eventually snapped Song Lan out of his thoughts.

Valerian’s eyes were filled with tension and care, and new text soon appeared on the tablet:

"You’re bleeding from your hand, are you okay?"

She was referring to Song Lan’s thumb.

Song Lan glanced down at the wound on his thumb, realizing this seemed to be a bad habit.

"It’s okay."

He smiled faintly at her and said, "I was a bit nervous just now, but I’m fine now."

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