Chapter 432: Catching the Traitor
Since she was temporarily cleared of suspicion, Flora has been living a semi-imprisoned life. Although she still goes to get off work and gets off work in Investigation Bureau 7 as usual, there are always people sent by the Alliance following her. They call it assistance, but in fact it is another form of surveillance.
For example, now, even when she was watching the video of her mother being kidnapped, the two henchmen were still waiting outside the office.
Flora pressed the replay button, and the video in front of her was replayed. In the video, Flora's mother, Luisa, was lying on a bed, in a coma. A masked man sat on a chair beside the bed and spoke to the camera in a mechanically processed voice: "You must come in person, otherwise you will never see your mother again."
Flora clenched her fists tightly and gritted her teeth. Her family was her weak spot and no one could hurt her family!
"Have you contacted your family?" asked Sylvie who was sitting next to him.
"I've contacted them, and they said they suddenly couldn't find mom." Flora said in a deep voice.
When the Osborn family was mentioned, Flora's anger burned uncontrollably. No matter how she thought about it, this matter seemed outrageous.
My mother never left the Osborn family and was kept in the small wooden house in the garden like a prisoner. But even so, they still let my mother be taken away. They couldn't even take care of such a grown-up person. Can those people in the family really be considered aristocrats?
And that man, that man couldn’t protect his own son, and now he can’t even protect his own wife. Is that guy... still a man!
Although Sylvie noticed Flora's emotions, she completely ignored them. Instead, she analyzed the situation to her from a professional perspective.
“That’s a pretty bad situation, which means this video is different from Su Ming’s crime video, and this video is genuine.
If I'm not mistaken, the other party should be coming for Su Ming's information, because apart from knowing Su Ming's current whereabouts, you have no special value... Of course, maybe you can also use it to threaten Su Ming.
So, are you going?"
"Of course I'm going!" Flora said firmly.
Sylvie glanced at Flora and reminded her, "If you want to go, you have to leave the island. If you leave the island, you will die. They won't let you die. The meeting place will probably be on another island connected to the Black Gate. Do you plan to go alone?"
Flora was silent.
Although the video showed her going alone, it still felt dangerous to go alone. It was like walking into a trap, which made Flora feel very nervous.
"Minister, can you help me?" Flora asked shamelessly.
"I can help you, but it depends on what kind of people they are and where the specific location is. But I personally suggest that if the terrain conditions are not met, it is better for you to go alone. They come to us at this time, and it is most likely related to the Mysterious Eye. If they are from the Mysterious Eye, it would be very easy to send someone we can't see to patrol nearby. It is easy to be exposed if we bring more people." Sylvie said.
After that, she paused, and then continued: "And it doesn't hurt to just tell them where Su Ming is. Xiao Ming can handle it. Of all the people, he has the best chance of winning against the Mysterious Eye."
"Then...what if they don't return my mother to me?" Flora asked.
Sylvie tilted her head to glance at her, sighed, and reached out to rub Flora's head: "Forget it, I'll go with you."
"Really?" Flora looked surprised.
If the minister accompanied her to pick up her mother, the probability of getting her mother back would be much greater. After all, the minister is so strong and experienced. If the minister goes with her, she would not end up in a situation where she finds herself trapped.
Sylvie stood up and called Liu Lingshan.
"Deputy Chief, I will not be involved in today's matter. Flora's mother has been kidnapped, and I have to go along... um... I understand."
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Liu Lingshan hung up the phone with Sylvie and turned to a scruffy middle-aged man in a white coat and said, "Director, Flora's mother has been kidnapped, and Sylvie has to help her deal with it so she can't come. Shall we start now?"
Wei Donglai nodded: "Then let's just do it the two of us. There's no need to wait for him. Let's get started right away."
Liu Lingshan nodded slightly. She turned around and walked up a few steps. Suddenly, she stopped and turned around and said, "Why don't I go up alone? It would be very dangerous for you to go up with me. If the members of the Mysterious Eye are among them, you might encounter an accident."
"This kind of thing will not happen. Whether a murder will happen depends on the motive, not whether the murder can be committed. From various angles, there is no benefit at all even if they kill me. It would be better to kill someone else than to kill me. In the eyes of other branches, I am just a weirdo who spends all public funds on eliminating weirdness. You are the only one who takes me seriously." Wei Donglai said lightly.
He took out his cigarette box, flicked out a cigarette, and was about to light it when he saw a No Smoking sign hanging on the wall opposite him.
So he was stunned for a moment, turned around calmly, pretending not to see it, then lit a cigarette and took a puff in ecstasy.
"Please restrain yourself a bit, or your reputation will deteriorate."
"It's okay, no one saw it. No one should be idle enough to check the surveillance when they smell cigarettes. Just finish smoking this cigarette and go upstairs." Wei Donglai said casually.
A few minutes later, Wei Donglai put out his cigarette and followed Liu Ling into the elevator. Coincidentally, there were several other high-ranking officials of the Seven Gods Alliance in the elevator. When they walked into the elevator and saw Wei Donglai and Liu Lingshan, they were stunned for a moment, then tapped their chins lightly as a greeting.
Wei Donglai's position in the Seven Gods Alliance is as special as Liu Lingshan's. The special thing about Liu Lingshan is that she has lived too long and has made a lot of contributions to the alliance since the beginning of the alliance. So although Liu Lingshan's nominal position is not high now, her power is not small.
As for Wei Donglai, the director of the Seventh Investigation Bureau, there are many people at the same level as him in the entire official system of the Seven Gods Alliance. He is considered an upper-middle level manager, but Liu Lingshan is particularly optimistic about him. This gives this seemingly ordinary cadre an extra layer of special filter.
At first, everyone felt that Wei Donglai had great potential, so much so that Liu Lingshan was optimistic about him.
But after so many years, Wei Donglai's performance in fighting monsters is outstanding, and his other assessment indicators are quite ordinary. This makes senior officials in the alliance look at Wei Donglai in a more "different light".
"I heard that Director Wei has something important to discuss?" Huang Hengtao asked.
Huang Hengtao’s position in the Seven Gods Alliance is Minister of Public Security, and he is also a colleague who has a very good relationship with Wei Donglai in private.
Of course, on the surface, the two of them were just dealing with each other on business matters, and outsiders had no idea that they had a close personal relationship.
"Well, I have something to say." Wei Donglai said indifferently.
This time he applied to convene a meeting of all the senior leaders of the Seven Gods Alliance. The content of the meeting was kept completely confidential. So far, only Liu Lingshan, him, Xi Xiwei, Zhang Tianxiao and other relevant personnel knew about it. No one else knew about it.
Under normal circumstances, such a meeting would be absolutely impossible to hold.
This is like a company's middle management suddenly sends a request to the board of directors, requesting all directors, CEO, CFO and other top managers to hold a meeting, saying that there are important matters concerning the company's interests to discuss.
Then the director asked politely, "Do you have anything important to say? Please tell me first."
But the employee replied: "It's confidential, but it's very important. All shareholders and the chairman must be present."
This outrageous situation could not happen in an ordinary company, and certainly not in the Seven Gods Alliance, unless... unless there are exceptions.
The exception is Liu Lingshan. Although Liu Lingshan does not hold a high position now, if her current position is transferred to an ordinary company, she will be a gold medal salesperson and chief technology officer , who alone accounts for 10% of the company's orders and profits, and is an old hero who has saved the company from bankruptcy several times.
With the help of this old hero speaking for the crazy young manager, the young manager finally got what he wanted and successfully got all the chairmen and shareholders to take out their precious time to come and listen to him fart.
And just now, after the chairman and shareholders arrived, this insignificant manager smoked a cigarette in the company's non-smoking area.
"Why do I seem to smell smoke?" Song Hui, director of the First Bureau of the Investigation Bureau, sniffed his nose, looking confused.
"It's you, Minister Huang. Smoking is prohibited in the alliance headquarters." Wei Donglai glanced sideways and looked at Huang Hengtao with a contemptuous expression.
Huang Hengtao was stunned and thought to himself, how dare you frame me? The smoke from your mouth was clearly blowing onto my face.
"It's obviously you who's smoking, I can smell it!"
"Why do I smell the smoke coming from your side?"
"It's unreasonable! Deputy Director Liu, please give us a fair judgement on who is smoking!" Huang Hengtao looked at Liu Lingshan.
Liu Lingshan touched his nose and said, "I have a cold, I can't smell it."
Good god! You actually caught a cold! This is too obvious to protect someone.
At the moment Huang Hengtao was stunned, the elevator door opened with a ding-dong, and Wei Donglai walked out of the elevator first, ending this meaningless quarrel.
The three of them walked through the long corridor and turned at the end and entered the conference room. The conference room was full with dozens of people already seated. In front of each person's table was their position and nameplate. Huang Hengtao and Ding Hui found their own seats and sat down, while Wei Donglai went straight to the podium.
He was the one who initiated today's non-topic meeting, so naturally he was the one to open it.
"Director Wei, we can start now." Wei Yansheng, who was sitting at the end of the long table, said.
Wei Dong looked at the old man with white hair and a straight back, nodded slightly, and then said: "This time I mainly want to explain the incident of the mysterious eye to everyone."
This was Wei Donglai’s first sentence.
There was some discussion among the people below in low voices, but no one looked surprised, and it was obvious that they had guessed it long ago.
"I suspect there is someone with the Mystic Eye among us."
This was Wei Donglai’s second sentence.
After saying that, he took out the honest recorder.
"This is the Honesty Recorder, a possession of the Seventh Bureau. It will detect any lies. I gathered everyone today to find the traitor of the Mysterious Eye hidden among us."
After this quarrel, there was a lot of discussion below. Some people said that they took time out of their busy schedules to come here, and that this kind of thing could be done at any time, or even done individually, and that there was no need to spend so much effort to gather everyone together.
Some people also think that they should find out the members of the Mysterious Eye hiding in the Seven Gods Alliance. After all, Wu Yixin’s exposure last time just proved that the alliance was being corrupted by this mysterious organization, and this mysterious organization did have an unusual and terrifying power.
Fortunately, everyone is a civilized person in high positions, and they don’t have too many objections to Wei Donglai’s practice of acting first and reporting later.
Of course, the fact that Liu Lingshan had been sitting nearby was also a reason. Liu Lingshan's presence meant that this time the fight would not stop just by finding the traitor, and there was a high possibility that a fight would break out later.
"Wait, I think... this is not very safe." said an alliance executive.
This statement expressed the thoughts of many people present, that this is indeed not very safe.
Although everyone present has superpowers, many of them do not have strong superpowers, and many others have research-type superpowers that are not suitable for combat.
Wei Donglai's move is equivalent to catching all the traitors hiding in the alliance. If those traitors are combat-type mutants with undetectable killing methods, then wouldn't everyone here be at the mercy of others?
"We should indeed move to another location. If everyone here is killed, the alliance will be paralyzed."
"At least to ensure the safety of most people."
"How about one-on-one? Can the Honesty Recorder indirectly determine whether a person is lying through recordings? If it is possible, then we can lock up the person being interrogated, inject him with a loss drug, and then interrogate him using the recorder."
Everyone put forward their opinions.
Their reactions were all within Wei Donglai's expectations, and this was exactly what Wei Donglai wanted to see.
In fact, you can look for a traitor at any time.
However, it is quite difficult to find the traitor in the right place and with the right method. This time, Wei Donglai’s main problem is to convince the people present to withdraw the wanted warrant for Su Ming.
"Everyone, please be patient and listen to me. I think we should cancel the wanted notice for Su Ming and recall him to the Seventh Bureau for investigation."
"Su Ming? Who is Su Ming?"
"Su Ming? Is he from the Investigation Bureau 7? I've never heard of him."
Everyone's reaction was very much in line with the image of a high-ranking politician. Although Su Ming had gained considerable fame on Dongyang Island and was recently wanted by the alliance, most people still didn't know Su Ming's name, because there were many people like Su Ming appearing every day, and these executives each had their own things to do.
"I know that our Ministry of Public Security has taken over the murderer who recorded eight videos," said Huang Hengtao.
He is one of the ministers of the Ministry of Public Security and he knows about Su Ming's affairs.
"Tell me in detail what happened?" The white-haired Wei Yansheng spoke in a deep voice, and the scene suddenly became quieter.
