The Investigation Division, whose full name is "Federal Sentinel and Guide Special Case Investigation Division", is an independent agency directly under the jurisdiction of successive presidents.
Zhu Tianyi has been the chief of the investigation department for seven years. He is a close confidant promoted by President Harrison during his term. He is ruthless and ruthless, and many criminals are terrified by him. The black spider's web controls the target, and he can't escape.
He had been keeping an eye on Yu Ran and suspected that Yu Ran was involved in the deaths of several officials at the B73 base.
Later, after the case on Planet B73 was closed, the two met only once at a dinner party in Gemini.
Because Yu Ran's disguise was impeccable, Zhu Tianyi did not link the theft of the Sentinel Academy's data to Yu Ran. As Xiong Kai, the younger brother of the deputy chief of the Investigation Department, took the initiative to leave the Falcon Special Operations Team, the Investigation Department's investigation of Yu Ran had long been terminated.
He suddenly came to the house in person today, and Yu Ran always felt that something was fishy.
Lu Zexuan asked, "Is Section Chief Zhu already downstairs?"
The guard said, "Yes, he is waiting for you in the lobby on the first floor. He is accompanied by two deputy section chiefs."
Those two A guides are here too? Yu Ran was getting more and more confused, and Lu Zexuan simply said, "Since you're here, please come in."
The guard went out to call for help. A moment later, Zhu Tianyi came to the office with two of his capable subordinates - Deputy Section Chief Qi An, whose spiritual form was the queen bee, and Senior Interrogator Kellogg, whose spiritual form was a colorful butterfly.
Lu Zexuan took the initiative to stand up and shake hands with him: "Chief Zhu, long time no see."
Zhu Tianyi had an indifferent expression, and his sharp eyes swept across the office, finally stopping on Yu Ran.
His black spider unknowingly crawled along the ceiling to Yu Ran's back. Yu Ran was stared at by the spider, pretending to be terrified and hid behind Lu Zexuan. Lu Zexuan immediately protected Yu Ran.
Zhu Tianyi said calmly: "General Lu and Guide Yu really have a deep relationship. Do you have to bring him with you to work every day?"
Lu Zexuan raised his eyebrows and said in a cold tone: "This is my personal matter. Why does Section Chief Zhu want to investigate even such a thing?"
Zhu Tianyi shrugged and changed the subject: "Rong Yingying, do you two know each other?"
Yu Ran trembled and said, "Of course I know her. She is my cousin... What happened to her?"
Zhu Tianyi said: "Missing."
There was a hint of surprise in Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran's eyes.
Zhu Tianyi took out a document and said, "This is a summons from the Investigation Department. Please come back with me and assist in the investigation."
Lu Zexuan's face darkened: "Chief Zhu, are you here to arrest someone today?"
Zhu Tianyi said, "Rong Yingying only saw you two before she disappeared, so I'll take you two back to take a statement. This is in accordance with regulations."
Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran looked at each other. Yu Ran nodded and said, "Go ahead. I also want to know why my sister suddenly disappeared."
Zhu Tianyi made a "please" gesture, and Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran followed them and left.
After all, this is the office building of the Falcon Legion on the capital star. When the legion commander was taken away, many soldiers immediately surrounded him. The sentinels showed no signs of concealing their anger, and Zhu Tianyi's Black Spider did not give in either. For a while, the atmosphere was tense.
Lu Zexuan waved his hand and said, "Everyone go away. Ranran and I will go to the investigation department to take a statement and will be back soon."
Everyone looked at each other, then reluctantly made way for them.
The investigation department's car was parked downstairs. The two followed Zhu Tianyi into the car and sat together in the back seat.
Yu Ran's face turned pale, his eyes were red, and he pretended to be very sad. Lu Zexuan gently held his hand and comforted him: "Don't worry, when we saw my sister that day, she was still fine. Section Chief Zhu will definitely find out the truth."
The office building of the Investigation Department is located in the core area of the Capital Star. It has hundreds of staff members, including talents in different fields such as information collection, medical identification, mental interrogation, on-site survey, trace investigation, etc.
Most of the officers here graduated from the criminal investigation majors of military and police academies and are very good at finding clues.
Although Zhu Tianyi did not specifically investigate Yu Ran again, he never relaxed his vigilance. As long as Yu Ran returned to the capital planet, his informants would immediately report Yu Ran's whereabouts to him. Therefore, Rong Yingying, the "cousin" who often went to see Yu Ran, appeared in Zhu Tianyi's sight.
Yu Ran was not surprised that Section Chief Zhu knew about Rong Yingying's existence. However, why did Rong Yingying suddenly disappear? This was intriguing.
***
Ten minutes later, the car drove to the investigation department, and Zhu Tianyi took the two to the interrogation room to take statements.
This was Yu Ran's first time in the interrogation room of the Investigation Department. It was very similar to the small dark room where Ricklog violently interrogated him in his memory. The surrounding walls were hung with strange instruments. In the dark room, there was only a beam of light shining on Yu Ran, giving people strong psychological pressure.
Of course, the interrogation must be conducted separately.
Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran were locked up in separate rooms. Zhu Tianyi looked at the two guides beside him and said, "You two can interrogate one each."
Kroger took the initiative to say, "I interrogated Yu Ran before, and I was too rough at the time. I almost made him mentally collapsed. I'm worried that he has a psychological trauma from my butterfly... Sister An, I'll leave Yu Ran to you. I'll go interrogate Lu Zexuan."
Qi An said simply: "Okay, then I will go and interrogate Yu Ran."
Kellogg walked towards the room where Lu Zexuan was imprisoned, while Qi An and Zhu Tianyi went to question Yu Ran.
Zhu Tianyi asked: "On June 7, at noon, Rong Yingying went to look for you. Where did you go?"
Yu Ran clenched his fingers with a pale face and said, "I'm just going to eat. My parents are both dead, and I only have sister Yingying as a relative in the capital star. She often comes to see me and Zexuan, and we made an appointment to have lunch together that day."
Zhu Tianyi asked: "Which restaurant did you go to?"
Of course they didn't go to the restaurant that day, but were taken by Rong Yingying to meet the president.
Yu Ran said calmly, "We went to a garden restaurant in the suburbs."
Zhu Tianyi stared at Yu Ran and said coldly, "That day, I followed Rong Yingying personally, but she found me and threw me off. She is just an ordinary girl from a deserted planet. How could she have such a strong anti-reconnaissance awareness?"
When Yu Ran heard this, he suddenly understood.
It turned out that Zhu Tianyi personally followed Rong Yingying's car that day - perhaps this was the key to Rong Yingying's "disappearance". After all, Rong Yingying had been controlled, and the organization was worried that Zhu Tianyi would reveal his true identity if he arrested Rong Yingying for interrogation, so they simply killed Rong Yingying to prevent future troubles.
Yu Ran said, "Actually, it was Ze Xuan who discovered someone was following him, so he asked my sister to find a way to get rid of that person. By the way, Chief Zhu, why are you following my sister?"
Zhu Tianyi said calmly: "You just need to answer my questions, don't ask back."
Zhu Tianyi looked at the deputy section chief beside him: "Qi An, see if he is lying."
Qi An extended his mind tentacles and connected them to Yu Ran's forehead. Unlike Kroger's violent interrogation, Qi An's method was relatively gentle. The queen bee brought a large number of bees to invade Yu Ran's spiritual world. The search ability of the bee colony was quite terrifying. In a blink of an eye, they reached every corner of the spiritual picture. Unfortunately, she could only see one corner. Yu Ran had already prepared a mental illusion.
His spiritual world consisted of only a lake and a small forest beside it. The scene of him having dinner with Lu Zexuan and Rong Yingying in the Garden Restaurant appeared in his mental picture, but Yu Ran modified the time to pretend it was noon on June 7.
Qi An searched the spiritual world for a moment, then stepped out and said, "He didn't lie. They did have dinner at the Garden Restaurant that day, and Rong Yingying sent them back after dinner."
Zhu Tianyi touched his chin thoughtfully: "Has Rong Yingying contacted you in the past few days?"
Yu Ran shook his head: "I haven't contacted her. How could she suddenly disappear? Maybe she went home? Have you asked my aunt?"
Zhu Tianyi said: "We have looked everywhere, and your aunt doesn't know where she is."
The capital planet is so big that it is not easy to find someone, but the method used by the Investigation Department to find people is very simple. The identity information of all citizens of the Federation is bound to their bank cards. As long as Rong Yingying goes out to consume, shop, or take public transportation, she will always leave traces.
However, the girl seemed to have suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth.
After Zhu Tianyi lost her that day, he wanted to bring her back for questioning, but in the end, he couldn't find her anywhere.
At the same time, on Lu Zexuan's side, Kellogg brought a colleague Kane to interrogate Lu Zexuan together.
He extended his thought tentacles and connected to Lu Zexuan's brain - only to see that Lu Zexuan's mental picture was desolate, with cracked scorched earth everywhere, and the spiritual body White Eagle stood on the wasteland in a daze like a statue.
Kellogg saw this scene without changing his expression. He continued to interrogate the man while pretending to take notes.
Lu Zexuan kept looking at him expressionlessly, pretending to be a "puppet".
In his spiritual world, Kellogg saw a hint bubble left by Yu Ran, which contained information about Rong Yingying - in fact, this was the information that Yu Ran had just given to Lu Zexuan through spiritual connection, and the two must coordinate their statements.
A moment later, Zhu Tianyi came to the interrogation room, looked at Kellogg and asked, "What did General Lu say?"
Kellogg showed the transcript to Zhu Tianyi: "At 12:30 noon, they went to the Garden Restaurant for dinner. The three of them ordered six dishes and one soup and ate everything. At 1:30, the three left the restaurant. Rong Yingying dropped them off near the White Pagoda and drove away. They didn't contact each other again after that."
The information in Lu Zexuan's transcript was consistent with Yu Ran's, and the details also matched.
Zhu Tianyi glanced at Kellogg thoughtfully: "Have you personally checked General Lu's mental picture?"
Kellogg said: "I checked it, there is nothing suspicious."
Zhu Tianyi suddenly looked at the deputy section chief beside him and said, "Qi An, check again."
Kroger's face froze slightly. Qi An was about to extend his mind tentacles when he heard Lu Zexuan coldly say, "Chief Zhu, I'm not a criminal suspect. You let two A guides conduct mental interrogations on me continuously. Isn't this against the rules?"
Kellogg also said: "Chief, he is the head of the corps after all, you see..."
“… Forget it.” Zhu Tianyi waved his hand and said, “General Lu, I’m sorry, I was just in a hurry to solve the case, so I was abrupt just now.”
Lu Zexuan said, "It's okay. If there is any news from Rong Yingying, please inform me as soon as possible, Chief Zhu. My Ranran is very worried about his sister."
Zhu Tianyi said: "Of course."
Yu Ran came out from the interrogation room next door. He walked quickly to Lu Zexuan, his face pale, and his red eyes seemed to be filled with tears. Lu Zexuan gently hugged his shoulders and comforted him softly, "It's okay, sister will definitely find it, don't worry."
Yu Ran nodded: "Well... can we go back?"
Zhu Tianyi said: "I will send someone to take you two back."
***
General Lu and Yu Ran were taken away by the Investigation Department, and the Falcon Corps was in a panic. Fortunately, the two came back in less than an hour, and everyone was relieved - it seemed that the problem was not serious, and they just cooperated with the record.
After the two entered the office, Lu Zexuan locked the door and said in the spiritual world: "You guessed correctly, Kellogg is the undercover agent planted by the Dark Night Organization in the Investigation Department. He took the initiative to propose to interrogate me because my spiritual picture has been destroyed by you. This matter cannot be known to outsiders."
Yu Ran thought about it carefully, and suddenly said: "I have a very strange feeling. Zhu Tianyi suddenly took us to the Investigation Department for interrogation. I'm afraid... the interrogation is fake. He is using us to find the undercover in the Investigation Department?"
Lu Zexuan thought about it carefully and found that it did make sense.
Yu Ran said, "Zhu Tianyi has been keeping an eye on Rong Yingying for a long time. The people he sent to follow her the last few times were thrown off. This time, he simply followed her himself, but was also thrown off by Rong Yingying. Even a section chief like him can't handle the opponent's anti-reconnaissance capabilities. There must be a big boss behind the scenes helping her."
"Not long after he followed Rong Yingying, Rong Yingying disappeared. She was obviously silenced. Zhu Tianyi noticed that there was something wrong with the two of us, so he separated us on purpose and pretended to interrogate us. In fact, he was just trying to see how our colleagues in the Investigation Department would react."
Kellogg's reaction gave away his position.
Zhu Tianyi's real purpose was not to find out any information through Lu Yu and the others, nor to find the whereabouts of Rong Yingying.
Instead, we should find out the problematic traitors around us.
After Lu Zexuan sorted out his thoughts, he said, "Zhu Tianyi is from the Presidential Palace. If he is in league with the Dark Night Organization, there is no need for him to go to such great lengths to put on such a show for us. He has never given up on the investigation, but there are always people around him who are tripping him up, and his investigation has come to a standstill."
Yu Ran said: "So, the Presidential Palace has not been infiltrated by the Dark Night Organization? They haven't even dealt with Zhu Tianyi yet?"
Lu Zexuan nodded and said, "Zhu Tianyi has been the chief of the investigation department for seven years. He is a very cautious person. I heard that he even brings his own water from home. It seems that the undercover agent has not found an opportunity to strike yet."
Yu Ran touched his chin and said, "Chief Zhu summoned us suddenly today. Although we can find the undercover around us, it will alert the big man behind the scenes. He will be in great danger next. Kellogg may take action against him... I hope he can hold on for a while longer."
When he was a child, Yu Ran hated spiders the most. But later, he received the favor of the Spider Queen on Red Spider Star, and now he has met a friendly army whose spirit is a black spider. Although there was a mistake before, and Yu Ran was almost exposed at the Gemini Palace dinner, Yu Ran's attitude towards spiders has changed a lot.
Zhu Tianyi's abnormally cautious personality, which required him to bring his own water, actually slowed down the Dark Night Organization's plan.
They haven't dealt with Zhu Tianyi yet, and the Presidential Office behind Chief Zhu certainly hasn't been in cahoots with the Dark Night Organization. They have no choice but to either force President Harrison to step down and control the rival Sentinel to be the new president; or the killer whale and the mimic octopus will join forces to kill the real president and then imitate a fake Harrison to continue his re-election.
Currently, President Harrison has started his speech tour, and the Dark Night Organization is running out of time.
(End of this chapter)