Chapter 159: Chapter 159: Catching the rat
"How are you going to find out who's behind all these though? You have the exact person that did this right?"
Yueyue froze for a millisecond, but then handed the letter over to Xiaoyun.
"The letter included few names that has tie to it. All I need to do is to interrogate them."
As Xiaoyun followed behind Yueyue out of her office, Xiaoyun decided to ask another question.
"Are you sure that arresting the co-conspirator won't trigger them to start hiding? And it might cause a chain reaction of other corruption cases to start going dormant."
"There's nowhere to hide. Beside, I'm going to arrest most of them to interrogate. Also if they go dormant, they better stay dormant as long as we are operating." Yueyue dismissed Xiaoyun's concern.
"I guess... well I got nothing else to do, I'm gonna follow you on this case. Let me put on a mask first."
Xiaoyun made a face mask out of thin air and put it onto his face, then followed Yueyue out of the office.
After leaving the office, Yueyue walked all the way to the police station. Then walked passed all the work spaces into Li Zhen's office.
"I need your police officer." Yueyue asked as she walked straight into Li Zhen's office without knocking.
"What's wrong this time?" Li Zhen asked as he slowly looked up from reading some data.
"Li Zhen, I need at least two squad. This is a the biggest case I had gotten." Yueyue urgently demanded.
"No problem, I can lend you that. But you really should have your own agency to arrest people rather than relying on us." Li Zhen took out a piece of paper and started writing.
"I'm working on it, but they still haven't finish training yet. And there's isn't' much people joining." Yueyue replied as she accepted an authorization paper from Li Zhen.
"Perhaps you should lower your standard, I saw your recruiting poster and the requirement on it is way too demanding for it's wages." Li Zhen commented.
"Maybe, anyway thanks for the help." Yueyue turned around and left the office, with Xiaoyun followed right behind her.
Yueyue walked over to the break area of the police station and showed the piece of paper to the police seating there.
All of the police in the room immediately got up and followed Yueyue out of the police station, then to their police parking lot.
Before getting into the car, Yueyue explained to the police officer what they are planning to do. Then Yueyue and Xiaoyun got into one of the police cars.
Soon, the group arrived to the agricultural department.
Although it's called agricultural department, it didn't have the administrative building like Yuqi or Yueyue.
Rather it was more of a warehouse with an office room inside it. With massive stockpile of food on top of each other almost reaching all the way to the ceiling.
As Yueyue's squad walked inside the building, all of the workers stopped and watched them walked all the way to the front of the office.
Before going inside, Yueyue decided to knock on the door.
"Come in." A women's voice come from the inside.
"You'll can wait outside, I need to talk with her for a second." Yueyue signaled the police officer to stay back.
The police officers moved back as directly and waited. Meanwhile Xiaoyun followed Yueyue inside the office.
"Oh hey Yueyue... and who's this person?" Huayi got a little confused as she stared at Xiaoyun.
"It's me." Xiaoyun took off his mask to reveal himself.
"Oh hey, long time no see." Huayi waved toward Xiaoyun.
"Yeah, quite a long time now... how's the baby doing?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as Huayi's belly looked much smaller than last time he saw her with Yezi.
"She's doing fine. Thanks for asking. What bring you guys here today?" Huayi curiously asked.
"I can't tell you yet, but I need you to call the people on this list." Yueyue handed a piece of paper to Huayi.
"Um, sure." Huayi started calling over the phone one by one.
After twenty minute, all of the people finally arrived at the warehouse.
"Mrs.Huayi, what did you bring us here for?" One of the senior official asked.
"I don't know either, but Yueyue asked me to call you guys." Huayi replied.
"Who's Yueyue?" The senior official looked confused.
"I'm Yueyue, the new head of intelligence department. You'll are under an investigation by a report. This does not mean you are guilty, but we'll have to detain you until we can confirm it." Yueyue announced.
"What? You never told me this. This is way too many people out of the agricultural department." Huayi pushed back as she was completely caught off guard by Yueyue's announcement.
"Yeah, why are we getting arrest? We didn't do anything." One of the people in the crowd spoke up.
The rest of the room immediately burst into chattering as nobody could hear each other anymore.
Until Xiaoyun pulled out a gun and fired a blank shot.
"Everyone silent please." Xiaoyun yelled out.
Immediately, all the police officer rushed inside as they heard the gunshot.
"Everyone freeze! Who fire a shot?" One of the older police officer asked.
"It's my body guard. Can you guys help me arrest all of them?" Yueyue made a answer on the spot.
"Of course." The police started arresting the crowd here and putting them back in the police car.
"Sorry Huayi, but I have to do this. I will give you a explanation after this is all done. You can ask Yuqi for support." Yueyue bowed down a little as a apology.
"Fine... can't you not just tell me..." Huayi mumbled.
After the police officer loaded every single one of them into the car, they drove back all the way to the police station.
"Put them all in a separate prison cell." Yueyue asked.
"I don't think we can do that... all of the prison cell are absolutely fulled. You know, few weeks back." One of the police officer decided to speak up.
"Oh right, I almost forgot. Just put each one of them into each one of those cell. It will be done in like few hour." Yueyue gave her solution.
The officers followed Yueyue's instruction and put each of the people arrested into the cell holding the insurgents.
Yueyue first interrogated the first person on the list. With a few threatening words of banishment from the town and the possibility of being allow to keep their position, the first person they interrogated instantly admitted everything.
"Well that was easier than expected." Xiaoyun commented as the two put the person back into the prison cell for now.
"Most of them just got blind sighted by greed. People are just fence-sitter who's switches side if given the opportunity.... Beside, that person probably only know partially of how the this corruption ring work." Yueyue replied as they moved onto the next person.
After interrogating every single one of them, Yueyue let most of them go except ten of them.
"These ten... they are the core member of the operation." Yueyue commented.
"Yeah... they really snitched on each other..."
"Just like what I said earlier, bunch of fence-sitters. They only work together because there's profit to be made. They don't care if they throw each other under the bus if it mean they can get out of it...
Anyway none of them is getting away with this. Let's go arrest the real culprit behind this." Yueyue got up from her seat.
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When Xiaoyun and Yueyue with two police officer arrived at the agriculture department again, Huayi was gone.
"Where's Huayi?" Yueyue asked a person working in the office.
"She went to Yuqi to request help." The person replied.
"Do you know who these two people are?" Yuqi showed the name of the two suspect.
"Um, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure they are not from the agriculture department. I can go call Huayi if you want." The person suggested.
"No, it's fine. Thank you for you help." Yueyue turned around and left the agriculture department.
"Where do we go now?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.
"Back to the office, I have copy of the census from Yuqi. With their name we got now, we can just match it in the data on the computer." Yueyue replied as she got inside the car.
After driving for few minute, they arrived back in the Yueyue's office.
"Now let me just search it up in this computer." Yueyue types the name of the suspect that the interrogation gave.
"Huh, three people have the same name... One works at their own business and the other work at the military." Yueyue commented.
"Well let's go catch them before the sun sets." Xiaoyun mentioned as he looked over the window outside.
"Okay." Yueyue turned off the computer.