Chapter 1160: Bigger Trouble

Bigger Trouble

When Dai Wen looked at the photos of Director Roland from two different periods, he knew he had found the right direction.

He put the remaining money in his hand directly on the table. "Only you and God know about this."

The priest looked at the stack of money covetously. Adding the previous ones Dai Wen put on the table, there should be seven or eight hundred dollars.

He nodded, his face full of compassionate smiles. "Yes, only I and he know!" His finger pointed upward. Dai Wen looked up and saw the suffering statue that was watching everyone in this room with the same compassionate face, and a faint smile gradually appeared on his face.

He didn't know what irony was, but now, he had such a feeling.

After coming out of the church, he made a call to Lans. "That woman is Roland's former wife, and those two children might be his sons."

"I learned from the relationships around that woman that she is not married, and she is not living with anyone now."

Lans was a bit surprised, but felt... it was a matter of course.

The Federation doesn't have things like marriage certificates, still adopting the "common law marriage system," to put it more simply and directly, it doesn't need to be registered at government departments.

It only needs the witness and blessing of family members or community neighbors or friends, and complete the wedding ceremony in the church, and it can be recognized as each other's marriage.

And they have a certain right of inheritance to each other's property.

Although Director Roland's marriage didn't have the witness and blessing of family and neighbors, they did complete the wedding ceremony in the church, and both sides acknowledged the marital relationship, so they are husband and wife to each other.

"I know. You don't need to come back for this period of time. There should be a need for you soon."

"Pay attention to the whereabouts of these people, keep a close eye on them."

After Lans put down the phone, he dialed the phone number of a gold-medal reporter in New Jincheng, a gold-medal reporter of the "Federal Post."

The "Post" has an extraordinary and important status in the Federation like the "Federal Daily," and the content published in this newspaper will not only be seen by readers of the entire Federation but also easily trigger the focus of public opinion.

This is the important influence of national paper media.

This reporter was introduced by Tom. After Lans met him, he became his friend. After all, he is a person who is good at making friends.

"I hope I didn't disturb your rest." After the phone was connected, Lans smiled and said some words without substantial content first.

This is paving the way for entering the topic later, and there will be a progression of emotions.

It's actually not very good to talk about official business directly during private time. The emotions will be very stiff. The correct way is to chat about other things first.

The reporter on the opposite side couldn't help but laugh and say, "I can answer your phone so quickly, which means I definitely didn't rest."

"Alright, Mr. Lans, we all know that you calling me definitely isn't planning to ask how I've been recently, or invite me to go out and collect wind."

"Let me say it more directly, what can I do for you?"

Lans couldn't help laughing loudly. "You are too direct, making my opening remarks look a bit awkward!"

The reporter friend was very sincere. "That's just a waste of time. Our time is very precious!"

As a gold-medal reporter, maintaining his influence in the newspaper is very important.

The Federation is a highly commercialized country. To put it simply, every column of every newspaper will have an advertising window belonging to the column itself.

This is also why some more famous newspapers have three or five small advertisements on every page, rather than concentrating all advertisements in one place like some newspapers.

Because people who are willing to advertise value the influence of a certain columnist themselves. For example, there is a well-known film critic's column in the "Movie Newspaper." He basically doesn't advertise, but he will write film reviews.

Those production companies will spend thousands of dollars to invite him to participate in internal viewing, and invite him to write a film review article with a tendency.

If this kind of transaction is placed in those well-known columns, then at the end of the article, a small piece of advertisement the size of a palm will appear, with a very strong targeted advertisement inside.

The income of these advertisements is 10% to 30% for the newspaper office, and the rest is for the columnist himself.

So for these gold-medal reporters who have their own columns, how to find news that can constantly increase their influence and write sensational articles, and get the Gold Newspaper Award, is the whole of their lives.

Rest?

There is nothing to rest. After they earn enough money, there will be opportunities to rest slowly. Working hard when they can work is the status quo of the federal elite class.

Those who lie on the sofa as soon as they get home are always just the bottom of society.

So the reporter friend doesn't mind Lans calling him during private time at all, because he knows that if Lans can't provide him with an explosive news, he will definitely bring him a large sum of money.

Whether it's advertising or writing a gun article, it costs money!

As long as he spends money, he is God. Who can hate God?

After the two laughed a few times, Lans explained the reason for calling him. "I have a very interesting piece of news here, and I hope it can be published in the newspaper, but I don't know if it's suitable."

"Tell me about it?" The sound of a lighter came from the receiver, as well as the sound of inhaling, very clearly, the reporter friend had already entered the working state.

Lans could even imagine him holding a pen now, writing and drawing on a piece of paper!

"It's like this, do you know this person Roland?"

"Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation."

The reporter friend said in a slightly raised tone, "Of course, I don't know much about other places, but in New Jincheng, in Jinzhou, no one can not know him!"

"He has been focused on by public opinion during this period, and the last time you said that what..."

He stopped immediately when he said this, as if he had fallen into a dead cycle of memories, and crashed directly.

Lans reminded him, "Carnival?"

"Ah, yes, yes, the carnival of public opinion, everyone participated in it, took out all his past, your way of doing this can be said to have opened a new track."

"No one has done this before. Almost everyone participated, making him have no meaning at all."

"If you have read the newspapers during this period, you will know that they even found out about his wife's abortion, and some people attacked his residence."

These things are indeed relatively "hot" in Jinzhou. There has never been such a public opinion focus that everyone can participate in before, and some bored people spontaneously participated in it.

They look for some clues about Director Roland, and then publish them, attracting people's attention and gaining influence.

This makes some people addicted to it, because this feast of public opinion has changed their lives.

They turned from ordinary workers, office workers, into social activists.

They don't need to work in factories or offices every day, just dress themselves like a person, and then walk to the street or places where they have influence to express their views and opinions.

Some people will give them money, especially now that it is the election period, and the campaign team is willing to spend a little money to strengthen the publicity of the election, letting them blow the value and significance of the candidate to the Federation on the street.

Among them, some people might become people with real influence, plus the continuous promotion and popularization of television media, perhaps this is really a track that can survive and become a celebrity.

But Lans doesn't know much about this aspect, he just pulled up the curtain of the "Great Navigation," and he doesn't pay much attention to the rest.

So he didn't continue to answer this question, but asked a very interesting question. "Which wife of his are you talking about?"

The reporter friend answered almost instinctively, "Of course it's that..." He stopped again, as if he was thinking about what the hell he was answering.

After a few seconds, he figured out what he was answering, and immediately realized that this was definitely a news with a lot of gimmicks.

It doesn't necessarily have any huge influence and important political value, but it can trigger the re-participation of social public opinion, and he who reveals the more mysterious veil will become the key person leading a new round of public opinion focus!

What is this?

This is another kind of influence performance. As long as the authenticity of the news itself is no problem, it will become another medal on the chest of this reporter friend.

He is very interested now!

"He has other wives?"

Lans laughed twice again. "Not only has a wife, but also two children."

"You just said he let his current wife have an abortion?"

"Do you think there will be any connection here, for example... the purpose of abortion is to protect the two children of his other wife. After all, if the child they give birth to now, it is obviously more reasonable to inherit than the other two."

"Wang Defa!" The reporter friend couldn't help exclaiming. "This is definitely a serious moral fault, Mr. Lans. This news... is very interesting, and it relates to the affairs of senior federal employees. Can you give me more detailed content?"

"I think my readers will like this news!"

"Of course, this is the purpose of me calling you!"

Lans said while the reporter friend recorded. He is very excited now, because Director Roland has always been a positive figure.

Although there are some accusations against him now, and even hearings to let him explain why he chose to let the federal police sit idly by when he knew that gangs were going to attack innocent federal citizens, instead of stopping it in advance.

He has indeed been very uncomfortable this month, with troubles constantly coming to his door, and no good solution, only able to bite the bullet and deal with it.

Fortunately, his response can be considered to solve these problems. These problems are troublesome, but not fatal.

Abortion problem?

He found a reason, saying that when his wife was examined, she was injured and ate some hormone-like drugs. It was the doctor's suggestion that they give up the child, otherwise there was a high probability that the child would be a deformity.

This period is the high-speed development period of radioactive substances. Although people haven't fully figured out the inevitable relationship between radioactive substances and deformities, there have indeed appeared many deformed children in society, as well as disabled people who have been irradiated by radioactive substances and have genetic mutations.

Giving birth to a deformed child is indeed something a mother cannot accept. The abortion problem is considered to have been talked away by him.

As for why he sat idly by and watched Lans being attacked?

He also found a reason for his behavior, that is, he couldn't be sure that this was illegal and criminal before the illegal and criminal act happened. Perhaps these people just wanted to talk to Lans?

He couldn't arrest them all before these people committed crimes, otherwise that would be another wrong thing.

There are also some other problems, some seemingly plausible problems dug out by people in society, some of which are obviously nonsense, for example, some people say he is a gay.

Although everyone knows this is unlikely to be true, he must also explain it clearly. Sometimes hearings like this are not to let a person explain clearly whether he is innocent, but to make people embarrassed.

After seven o'clock in the evening, Director Roland dragged his tired body back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has been very tired recently.

The double fatigue of spirit and body is different from before.

He was also very tired before, but only physically, while mentally he could feel a kind of pleasure, because he was constantly moving toward his goal, even if he hadn't touched his goal yet, this kind of advancement itself was a satisfying thing.

But it's different now. He is marking time, and there are endless troubles coming to his door.

Lans is harder to deal with than imagined.

Mr. Porter has already called him, telling him to stop for a while. Now it is the critical moment of the election, and the election results will be out soon, one week before the Saint Nong Festival.

That is to say, in half a month, the election results will be out. Now various states have begun to put in polling stations, and are ready to enter the voting link at any time.

Director Roland, who returned to the office, found Ike Supervisor (the second senior agent supervisor who leaned over to Lans) in his office. After he came in, he took the initiative to close the door and let Ike Supervisor sit down. "I have been very busy during this period and didn't go to the hospital to see you."

In the medical record, Ike Supervisor was seriously injured and has only recovered some after treatment now.

Even now, some suture marks can be seen on Ike Supervisor's face, head, and neck. The doctor said this was a scratch caused by the grenade explosion.

He was lucky. The shrapnel didn't hit his head, letting him survive, but the situation of many other agents was not very good.

Director Roland also arranged for people to go to the scene, but the scene had already been cleaned up.

Not to mention that not a single witness could be found at the motel, the motel owner and employees insisted that no explosion occurred, no firefight occurred, and nothing happened.

As for why they had to redecorate the two rooms, it was purely because guests smoked in the rooms and caused a fire. They had to redecorate these two rooms for the sake of aesthetics.

Even the people arranged by Director Roland also got the fire alarm record from the fire department. The relevant firefighters also unanimously stated that they did go to the scene to fight the fire that day, and the fire was very big, but fortunately they prepared a lot of water and extinguished the fire in time.

As for the firefight, explosion, etc., they didn't see it at all, let alone those corpses.

In other words, those federal agents who died at the scene just evaporated like this, and he couldn't even find any evidence to prove that they were dead, and that this matter had anything to do with Lans!

Plus the hearings during this period, he couldn't handle these things, so he dragged it until now.

Today the hearing is officially over. Those people told him that he barely passed, but he should be careful not to let similar things happen again in the future.

So he had time to talk to Ike Supervisor about these things.

"I feel sorry for you and our brothers, because I wrongly estimated the ferocity of Lans and his group, letting you suffer some bitterness, and some brothers I don't even know where they went until now."

Ike Supervisor sighed. "We all made the same mistake on this issue, underestimated them, and overestimated ourselves."

This is his sincere words. He actually didn't think at the beginning that Lans and the Lans family would make them unable to confront like this. He thought it was at most difficult to handle, but it could always be handled.

As a result, Lans was not handled by them, but he was handled first.

What's more fatal is the video in Lans's hand, the video of him killing a large number of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents with his own hands, these are things that can kill him.

He has completely bowed his head, and it is very likely that he will not be able to lift it for the rest of his life.

Director Roland also sighed. "Has the family side been arranged?"

Ike Supervisor nodded. "Super-standard pension, and I also promised them that if they encounter trouble, we will do our best to help them solve it."

"Is anyone making trouble?" Director Roland asked again. He is most afraid of people making trouble now. Everything is best to happen after Mr. Porter becomes president and successfully transitions to the "Porter government."

At that time, the special power in President Porter's hands can solve many troubles for him, and dealing with people like Lans will be slightly easier.

So his requirement is that he can give more money and more promises, but he must not let them make trouble.

Originally, the death pension of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was 22,000 dollars. He asked Ike Supervisor to pay the pension according to 30,000 dollars per person when he went, and then gave many other promises, even if someone in their family is willing to replace the position to work in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, this side will also accept it.

The purpose is to stabilize first, until the new government operates fully early next year.

Ike hesitated, but finally nodded. "Basically, it's all done."

"Basically?" Director Roland captured that keyword.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1161 =====