When Tang Feng and Katarina began to search the room, Xiao Chen stood in front of Zhang Hong's body in silence.
There was one thing he hadn't told anyone else. Before Zhang Hong died, he received a call from Zhang Hong's soul: "Please let me become your soul servant. I don't want to die, I can submit to you. Save me."
However, Xiao Chen's answer was: "I don't care."
Zhang Hong said anxiously: "After I become a spirit servant, I will admit all my sins and get you out of trouble, including the trouble that killed me during the interrogation today. Saving me is helping yourself, so quickly make me your spirit servant!"
"You don't deserve it." Xiao Chen immediately cut off the connection between him and Zhang Hong.
Evelin came over and said, “You look terrible.”
"Nothing, I just made a decision that was not very satisfying. I had the chance to spare his life, and I also had the chance to make him my spirit servant, but both times, I chose 'no'. In fact, I knew that if I kept him as my spirit servant, he would basically be at my mercy and would no longer pose any threat to me, but I still chose to let him die.
I remember two days ago, you told me about another person's request. However, I think I still chose the more cruel path. "Xiao Chen frowned and said, "I was just thinking about what made me go further and further on this path."
"You have too many things to shoulder, don't make things difficult for yourself." Tang Feng said. He took off the storage ring on Zhang Hong's hand, held it in his hand again and analyzed the entry restriction on it.
"Can you open it? The restrictions set by Zhang Hong are still a bit difficult for me." He handed the ring to Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen used his mental power to feel the ring, and then roughly understood the principle of the restriction. It took him less than five minutes to unlock it.
Tang Feng took the ring and checked it out. "There are quite a few gold and silver coins, all of which are the Empire's golden eagles and silver feathers. This should be considered as evidence that the Empire funded or bribed him. There is nothing else related to the Empire. Zhang Hong is really cautious and didn't leave any other clues."
Catalina said: "There is nothing related to the Empire in the room. Fortunately, we secretly recorded the whole process."
Tang Feng said: "Do you think recording it is a good thing? In this video, it can be seen that we did not give him a chance, but directly let him be killed by the space rift, which may not be a problem."
He walked to Zhang Hong's body and carefully searched his blood-soaked pockets. Then he said, "Remember, all of you, everything that happened today was ordered by me. If anyone investigates it later, blame me. I asked you to help capture Zhang Hong because he was very powerful. I asked you to kill him if he tried to escape. I asked you not to give him any chance. You all should follow my instructions and keep your story straight. Do you understand?"
Before Xiao Chen and the others could answer, they found that the door had been knocked open from the outside. Jiang Yitian walked in with a few people from the Intelligence Bureau and looked at everyone in the room with a smile: "Say one thing? What do you want to say?"
He walked to the "bloody man" Zhang Hong on the ground, squatted down and examined his body: "What a tragic death. Tang Feng, what happened? Why didn't you inform me of this operation? And let Zhang Hong, an important suspect, die here?"
"I found evidence that Zhang Hong is a traitor." Tang Feng took out the stack of papers with evidence again and handed it to Jiang Yitian. "The situation is urgent. Zhang Hong might try to escape, so we took action right after we got the evidence. We wanted to control him and then notify you and Team Leader Bai. But we didn't expect Zhang Hong to escape by force and the teleportation magic failed, and then he became like this."
"Oh, I see." Jiang Yitian took the evidence, flipped through it a few times, and looked back at Xiao Chen. "It's one thing that Zhang Hong has problems, but why would my subject of investigation participate in this operation with you?"
Tang Feng explained: "Zhang Hong is a high-level mage. It is difficult for Katarina and I to subdue him. So we asked these three high-level mage to help."
"Why? I am also a high-level mage. You don't trust me? Or do you not trust the people in our intelligence department?" Jiang Yitian asked aggressively, "It's good that you caught Zhang Hong as a traitor. But the way you acted is very problematic. How do you know there is only one traitor? How do you know that no one will use his death to cover up something? How do you know that these helpers you found have no connection with the dead person? Could it be another suspect?"
Tang Feng said: "I do things based on evidence, not guesswork or nonsense!"
"Is it based on the evidence that is pushed onto you and that is a unified story?" Jiang Yitian smiled coldly.
"you!"
"I have been here more than once, Zhang Hong, and I left some small things here before." Jiang Yitian took out a small black round block from Zhang Hong's pen holder. There was a delicate magic circle engraved on it, but there was no magic fluctuation. "The biggest advantage of the magic world is that we can find a new way to copy the technological products we had in the previous world, including eavesdropping devices. I heard every word you said after entering the room. I even heard Xiao Chen admit that he had the opportunity to prevent Zhang Hong from dying, but he still chose to let him die.
Therefore, I am now going to arrest Xiao Chen on suspicion of murder, and Tang Feng on suspicion of dereliction of duty. Of course, if you think these charges are not enough, I can also throw out charges such as intentional injury and leaking confidential information.
Do you have anything else to defend yourself?"
"Jiang Yitian! Don't go too far! I know what bad things are going on in your mind! Do you know what Xiao Chen represents?"
"I am doing my job impartially, why should I care about him?" Jiang Yitian said disdainfully.
Tang Feng pointed at the intelligence department members behind him and said, "You are all from the Operations Bureau. Think about what you should do!"
"Tang Feng, by the way, just before we came in, I had dismissed you because you were involved in a major case. You can't even trust your own subordinates, so why should they trust you?"
Seeing that those people were silent, Tang Feng knew their choice. These people were originally arranged by Jiang Yitian, so he was not surprised by their behavior.
Jiang Yitian said again: "Xiao Chen, do you have anything else to say? Or do you want to use magic to resist? Escape? I admit that I am not your opponent. If you want to run, I don't have the ability to deal with you like you dealt with Zhang Hong."
Xiao Chen glanced at him and asked, "If I go with you, do I need to wear handcuffs?"
"Brother Xiao!"
"Xiao Chen! Jiang Yitian, you have to understand that you are challenging the dark elves..."
Xiao Chen waved to Catalina and Evelin, stopping them from talking, and walked to Jiang Yitian: “Start your performance.”
Jiang Yitian snorted coldly: "There are still some issues that have not been explained clearly to you guys. You are not allowed to leave Suero these days. As for Xiao Chen and Tang Feng, you should just follow me back to Hewan New City!" (To be continued)