Chapter 1168: Report

After Supervisor Aike received a call in his office, he carried the paper with some content recorded in his hand and headed to Director Luo Lan's office.

After knocking on the door and being allowed to enter, he closed the door casually.

"What's wrong?", Director Luo Lan sat in the chair. Just now he also received a call, saying that a clue about that reporter had been found.

He hadn't had time to tell Mr. Maple Yuan and his son this good news yet, when Supervisor Aike walked over.

Perhaps feeling that the atmosphere in the investigation bureau had been a bit subtle recently, Luo Lan had been avoiding him as much as possible for some important things, so Supervisor Aike decided to "take the initiative."

He called Lans and explained the situation, and then Lans gave him an address.

"Found the news about that reporter."

Director Luo Lan frowned. He had just had a clue on his side, and Supervisor Aike had found the person?

He actually didn't quite believe it, so he said a bit deliberately, "Could it be a mistake?"

Supervisor Aike handed the document in his hand over. "I asked someone to check. In the past few years, that reporter bought multiple apartments in New Jincheng. These are the addresses and information of these apartments."

"Then I asked someone to check the water usage of these apartments recently, and one of the apartments had a change in the water meter."

Director Luo Lan's eyes changed subtly. He was a bit annoyed at this time. This was indeed a good investigation direction. He lowered his head and looked at the paper in his hand. There were several addresses on it, one of which was circled with several circles.

"Did you arrange for people to go?", he didn't return the paper to Supervisor Aike, but raised a question.

Supervisor Aike shook his head. "I came to find you the first time I knew this news."

Director Luo Lan stood up immediately. He bypassed the desktop and walked to Supervisor Aike's side, hugging his shoulders. "Very good, I will handle this matter personally, so there is no need for your people to do it."

"In addition, it is best not to let others know about this matter. I will notify various departments to suspend the investigation of this case."

"If you have rested enough recently, come back to work."

Director Luo Lan decided to give Supervisor Aike a chance to let him prove that he was no different from his former self.

Supervisor Aike breathed a sigh of relief. "No problem, I am ready at any time."

Director Luo Lan patted his shoulder. "Very good, go to work now, leave other things to me."

He watched Supervisor Aike leave his office and close the door, then locked the door, returned to the side of his chair, and dialed Mr. Maple Yuan's phone number. "We might have found that person."

Ten minutes later, Director Luo Lan took Mr. Maple Yuan's car and arrived downstairs at the apartment building. People from other vehicles in front and behind got out of the car quickly and entered the building quickly.

What they didn't notice was that at least two cameras across the road were aimed at them.

Director Luo Lan was a bit nervous at this time. This was a chance to regain the trust of the Maple Yuan family, and he had to seize this opportunity.

Accompanied by the people brought by Mr. Maple Yuan, they arrived outside the door of that "safe house," and everyone had already prepared for breaking the door.

This time they were playing the role of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. They put on gloves and turned off the safety of their handguns, and could shoot and kill the reporter at any time and place.

The plan for their action this time was to directly kill this reporter and cut off all the problems here.

As for how to kill him smoothly and legally?

If a dangerous person draws a gun and fights back against law enforcement officers, then it is justifiable for law enforcement officers to shoot and kill this person on the spot.

The slightly bald head stood by the door. He looked coldly at his subordinates beside him and used his fingers to make a countdown.

Accompanied by his last finger closing and making his hand into a fist, the door-breaking hammer was lifted by four people and slammed hard near the door lock.

The wooden door frame showed signs of cracking in an instant. Immediately after, the people who broke the door retreated, and others rushed into the room.

At this time, the reporter was still resting. He had been going out at night these past few days, only daring to go out for a turn in the middle of the night, and then doing some things he wanted to do.

He contacted several reporters and planned to talk to them, see if he could expose this matter, or contact some Social Party members to spread this matter.

Originally, he planned to meet again tonight and take out some substantive things, so he was sleeping now.

The moment the sound of the door being broken sounded, he opened his eyes, then put his hand under the pillow and took out the handgun.

But the speed of those intruders coming in was too fast, so fast that he didn't even have time to make any reaction before he saw a group of people rush in.

These people all raised the weapons in their hands and aimed at him, letting him slowly raise his hands, and the handgun in his hand also fell on the bed in front of him.

The slightly bald head walked to his front, grabbed his hair, stared at his face for a good while, and confirmed that the person hadn't been caught wrongly.

Then he took away the weapon on the bed, fiddled with it simply, and fired several shots toward the door.

It was these few shots that made the reporter realize that he highly likely wouldn't survive. He just prepared to say something, and the people around him pulled the trigger on him.

In an instant, at least 20 or 30 bullets shot into his body, and some screams came from outside the corridor, and there was even the sound of police sirens.

Looking at the reporter who was dead and couldn't be more dead, the bald head put the weapon in his hand back into his hand, faking the illusion that he fired first.

Now, everything became reasonable.

Soon the police rushed here, but were notified that the Federal Bureau of Investigation took over the case. Then the coroner took away the reporter's body, while the slightly bald head and they packed up everything in the house that could be taken away.

Who knows if there are those remaining evidence inside.

After a large amount of things were sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's car, the bald head came to the side of Director Luo Lan's car and explained the process that happened above to Mr. Maple Yuan in the passenger seat of the back row.

After confirming that there was no problem, Mr. Maple Yuan finally showed a satisfied smile.

And Director Luo Lan, who was sitting beside him, also showed a relaxed smile on his face.

In the coffee shop in the distance, a professional camera captured all of this, but it highly likely wouldn't appear in the recent time. This is used to deal with the Maple Yuan family, not to deal with Director Luo Lan.

"You have the ability beyond my imagination, Luo Lan. This position of investigation bureau director, it seems only you can do it well."

"Then do your job well, don't let anyone feel disappointed in your ability again, do you understand what I mean?"

Director Luo Lan nodded in agreement. "I understand, I will definitely do my job well, ensuring that no one will be disappointed in me."

Then he was asked to leave the car, and the motorcade left here quickly.

Standing on the road watching the departing motorcade, Director Luo Lan sighed, but soon cheered up again.

He needs power.

If there is no power, he cannot deal with these people. Look at their arrogant appearance, even directly using the identity of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, openly and honestly eliminating a person who might be innocent.

But he had no way at all. It wasn't that he didn't want to do anything, but that he didn't have the ability to do anything at all.

This is still the Maple Yuan family. In the Federation, he is only 2% or 1%, and cannot be counted as the top 0.5%.

Even so, they were so arrogant, then those higher-level families, how arrogant have they become?

Kicking a stone on the roadside, he reached out and hailed a taxi, and soon left here too.

After Mr. Maple Yuan went back, he immediately told Mr. Maple Yuan about this matter. Mr. Maple Yuan was very satisfied with this. It was handled very quickly and wouldn't cause too much bad influence on his general election.

"Jeffrey's side...", his son asked softly.

Mr. Maple Yuan didn't think too much. "If Jeffrey is a smart person, he knows what he should do. And later, I will go find him to talk."

"Overthrowing me won't bring him any benefits, but if I take office, I can make deals with him in certain fields."

"You go and warn that bastard's friends, let them not fucking talk nonsense, and those who talk nonsense...", he didn't say what should be done, just looked straight at his son, and the latter understood and stood up.

"I know how to do it."

This matter, for Mr. Maple Yuan, seems to be the end of it. Next, he will play the "monarch" appearance that people expect at the Saint Agriculture Festival celebration.

Also in these few days, another reporter basically stripped Director Luo Lan's bottom line. He started the investigation from Director Luo Lan's family background and almost combed through his winning trajectory.

Before this guy became an excellent law enforcement officer, his life could indeed be called excellent, whether it was learning or other aspects, and even after becoming a law enforcement officer, he often could solve some cases that others couldn't solve.

However, after a headless case that hasn't been closed until now, his life trajectory seems to have undergone some changes.

And, he also investigated more things.

Now, he plans to organize these things a little, write them into a draft, and publish them in the newspaper.

Even the name he thought of—"Before the Hero and After the Hero"

A title name that looks full of conflict and opposition, and can attract people to continue reading.

This is a continuously published content, because there are so many things that it can't be written at once. He detailed Luo Lan's experience before becoming the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, and then sent the report to the editor-in-chief.

News that points directly to senior federal government employees like this must be reviewed.

In the federal news industry, there is also a political tendency review. Just like the positions and purposes of the articles in "Post" and "Daily" are opposite, maybe the content that "Post" agrees with will be strongly opposed when it reaches "Daily."

Ideological competition has always existed, and on this land of the Federation, there has never been true freedom.

Only illusory, impractical, freedom imagined by people.

After the editor-in-chief reviewed this report, he called people at a higher level, and finally this call and the content of the report entered the "Social Party Social Information Management Office."

This is a party institution, not a federal government institution, but an office within the Social Party.

Its main work is to review and approve these news messages when there are news messages that might trigger social public opinion attention, or to counter-attack news published by media with opposing positions.

In short, it is an office that looks like it doesn't have much actual power, but it can also be considered very important.

The office's review speed was very fast, and it immediately gave the editor-in-chief the content allowed to pass. The editor-in-chief directly arranged this report on the second page and also checked some subsequent content of the reporter.

Early the next morning, the newsboys got their own newspapers from the newspaper head. While the newspaper head distributed these newspapers to them, he told them the important news on these newspapers.

Some children are not old, they don't go to school, and they don't recognize those words, so they can only quickly remember the news headlines read by the newspaper head, and then shout while selling newspapers on the street.

Using child labor in the Federation is not an illegal thing, and many orphanages or families with multiple children throw these children onto the street to work when they are still very small, earning money for the family.

Once someone reported such news, there was a couple who kept giving birth to children, totaling more than ten children. They sent these children to work in some factories at a price of about 25 per month.

In this way, they could fall down more than 100 after removing the nutrition and so on that the children needed to maintain.

Such parents, orphanages, orphanages, many.

With the sky beginning to brighten, and it is about to enter winter, and the temperature difference between morning and evening begins to increase, the New Jincheng city needs to wait until 7 o'clock for the sky to gradually brighten.

Those newsboys have already started running on the street to sell the newspapers in their backpacks to pedestrians. Accompanied by the shouting of these newsboys, those interested in news will stop, take out 10 cents and hand it over, and then take away a newspaper.

After people finish reading the front-page headline, they will soon notice the news on the second page. They will be curious about the title and the content.

Just like Director Luo Lan at this time, he had a good sleep last night. When he got up this morning, his wife had already prepared breakfast and also placed several newspapers on the table.

When he sat at the table and picked up one of the newspapers, after reading the news about Mr. Maple Yuan attending the Saint Agriculture Festival celebration in Jincheng, he turned to the second page, and the expression of the whole person froze...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1169 =====