Chapter 1581: Accidental Friendly Fire

Deng En watched the Chief of Police vigilantly; he did not dare accept this money.

"If the Chief of Police has no other business, please head back. Everyone is quite busy, and I hear you have been up to something lately, so you shouldn't have any spare time."

The Chief of Police did not leave; he smiled sheepishly and said, "I came this time because there is a matter I would like to ask for your help with."

Deng En was taken aback, but he immediately guessed what the Chief of Police had come to him for.

Two major events had occurred recently: one was that the French Bank had been robbed, and the whereabouts of both the robbers and the stolen loot were currently unknown.

The other event was that, on the same day, the Zhian-suo had been robbed, resulting in the loss of a large quantity of guns and Bullet.

These two incidents directly caused the French government's prestige in America to drop to its lowest point, and the French Zhian-suo was widely reported on due to its incompetent performance in these two matters.

Now, the entire French Colonial Zone had been made aware of it.

Currently, this was the thing giving the Chief of Police the biggest headache.

Thinking of this, Deng En wore a smile; he smelled a business opportunity: "Mr. Chief of Police, if you wish to conduct business, we have a complete fee schedule."

The Chief of Police raised an eyebrow.

He had originally intended to seek help directly, but it now appeared that Deng En would not give him that opportunity.

Thinking of this.

The Chief of Police gave a bitter smile; he had already prepared himself mentally to be fleeced.

Compared to losing a bit of money, losing his official position and his life—the former seemed worth it no matter how one looked at it.

Moreover, the expenses for solving the case could be demanded from Richard later; if Richard didn't pay, there would always be someone else to foot the bill for him.

"I know, and I understand your fee schedule here, but the matter that needs to be entrusted is of great importance and requires me to speak with you in person."

Deng En smiled, feeling even more certain of his own conjectures.

"No problem."

Only then did the Chief of Police say: "I want you to help me find two groups of robbers; they respectively..."

Deng En nodded after listening.

His brow furrowed tightly as he looked at the Chief of Police and asked: "We cannot guarantee whether we can catch the criminals in this matter."

"Regarding the clues for these two cases, we only have a tiny bit more than you do."

Upon hearing this news, the Chief of Police was first dejected, but upon hearing that they had clues in their hands, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes once more.

There was a chance.

"Good, but you only have three days," the Chief of Police said solemnly.

"Three days!" Deng En's voice rose several notches.

He instantly didn't want to be involved in this matter; three days was too much, and they had no Method to handle it at all.

"Do you have any idea how big these two cases are? Judging from the robbers' actions, it is obvious they came prepared. You give me three days to solve it—Chief of Police, do you think that is realistic?"

The Chief of Police straightened his expression: "Three days, only three days."

The Chief of Police naturally knew the time was too tight, but there was no Method; Richard only gave him three days, and if he could not find these criminals within those three days.

He would be finished.

Deng En spread his hands, completely unwilling to deal with this matter.

He even wanted to explicitly express his refusal, but the Chief of Police added: "Brother Deng En, this matter is something only your Armis Agency can accomplish."

"If you cannot do it, then I only have three days left to be a police chief."

"Although I can do nothing about the Armis Agency, Brother Deng En, I do not want to go alone."

Deng En's expression stiffened, and a chill rose in his eyes; this was a naked threat.

But facing such a threat, Deng En had no Method at all.

Although he was the main person in charge of the Armis Agency in the French Colonial Zone, and the only one at that.

The Chief of Police held natural power over them.

As long as

The Chief of Police wanted to take action against him, three days would be enough for a desperate Chief of Police to bring him down.

Thinking of this, Deng En sighed.

"Fine, I can help you investigate, but I do not guarantee that I will be able to find anything in three days."

The Chief of Police nodded: "That is acceptable."

With Deng En's guarantee, the Chief of Police temporarily set his mind at ease.

Even if the criminals were not caught later, with the participation of the Armis Agency, he could push all the blame onto them then.

Deng En immediately set to work investigating; he dispatched all his private detectives to participate in this matter.

He had to race against time; this matter was truly too urgent.

With most of the detectives from Armis participating, the matter soon had leads.

From this point, one could see just how unpopular the French Zhian-suo was in this regard.

Their carpet-style search had not yielded a single clue.

The Armis Detective Agency was able to obtain sufficient clues just by investigating.

Deng En looked at the clues and discovered that this group of criminals all had a significant characteristic.

That was that their movements were extremely swift, and their tactics were well-trained; judging from the results, these two robberies seemed to have been premeditated for a long time.

They had made very sufficient plans.

Previously, ordinary robbers would ride fast horses and leave quickly after the robbery.

Or they would blow open walls in the middle of the night to steal all the valuables stored inside.

But this group of people was extremely cautious; they had calculated the time long ago, and in the normal course of their actions, if no one had actually seen them come or seen the things they had stolen.

I am afraid no one would have even felt that they had existed.

Facing this matter, Deng En fell into deep thought.

……

Meanwhile, inside the Small Tavern.

Qin Zhangfeng was training his troops as usual.

At this moment, he did not yet know that someone was investigating them, nor did he need to know.

Dragon Flame had already established a massive information network within the French Colonial Zone.

As soon as there was the slightest movement, Qin Zhangfeng would be able to know.

The fact that there was nothing yet proved they were in no danger at all, so Qin Zhangfeng continued to train his troops.

Regarding the next plan, Qin Zhangfeng selected another Zhian-suo for the Indian, a Zhian-suo that was even smaller in scale.

However, it contained the largest number of firearms.

The defensive force inside was also the strongest.

This was because it was less than three kilometers away from Richard's castle.

This robbery could be seen as a demonstration to intimidate Richard.

To force them to refrain from making decisions unfavorable to himself.

To confuse the opponent, so that the Indian uprising could achieve greater success.

At this time, Wan Shang walked in, looked at Qin Zhangfeng, and said, "General, I have received the latest news: the French Chief of Zhian-suo has commissioned the Armis Agency to investigate you."

Hearing this news, Qin Zhangfeng could not help but find it somewhat amusing.

The Armis Agency was Dragon Flame's intelligence organization in France.

"Using our own intelligence organization to investigate us..." Wan Shang found it funny just thinking about it.

However, they had not told them the news about robbing the Zhian-suo and the Bank, lest they accidentally harm friendly forces……