[11:46] [Police station? Meeting Room】

“…… Damn it...... Stubborn! I'm the director! ”

"With all due respect, at this level of meeting, each participant has one veto."

"Now that privilege is canceled!"

"You don't have that right. Or are you going to exercise his powers in place of the missing Speaker? ”

"Woo! Nothing more than a search officer! ”

In the conference room, there was a heated debate...... No, a fierce quarrel is unfolding.

After a visit to the toilet, Officer Dudley became unusually stubborn. Unswervingly deny the strategy of the top management to hand over Qiyabao's safety.

As a result, the meeting reached an impasse.

The rules of the Crossbell Police Department, the more high-level meetings there are, the more demanding they are. At this level that can decide the life and death of Cross Bell, everyone present has a veto.

This provision may seem to delay the meeting, but in fact, it is entirely up to the top to decide who is required to attend such a meeting. The imperialists, or republicans, in the police station, can easily assemble a team to attend the meeting. If all the people present are in a unified faction, then the veto mentioned above does not matter.

This is meant to be a face-saving project.

But now, now that Crossbell was attacked, most of the police officers were killed or wounded, and the top brass hid in the prison and trembled, and did not dare to come out until Joachim offered to negotiate. In this way, they will naturally not be respected, and as a result, this meeting, except for a few people at the level of director, are all police officers who survived the battle. Dudley is a high-ranking investigator and Sergei is a battlefield commander, and the combination of the two makes the top brass nerve-wracking.

"You'd better think clearly! If a decision is not made in a hurry, then the people of Crossbell will be in dire straits! We're the police! Can you watch this happen? ”

The director said sternly, as if he really wanted to dedicate his life to Cross Bell, but combined with his previous behavior of hiding in prison during the mafia attack, it was really admirable.

Dudley was even more explicit in his disgust.

Dare you say it, aren't you high-level police officers the ones who make civilians suffer a lot on weekdays?

But Dudley didn't say it.

To make such a statement at such a time will only reduce your prestige. Now it's time to stall as long as you can.

"Wait, I don't know, but if we hand over that little girl, will they really let us go?"

Sergei suddenly interjected, he dragged the bottom with one hand, and the whole person was as soft and unmotivated as a roasted wax statue.

"Of course! Didn't they say so themselves? ”

"Well, that's right. Actually, Director, I haven't been able to bear it, but I'm actually the Emperor of the Erebonian Empire! ”

Sergei had a mocking smile on his face, and he saw the director slap the table with all his might, his face was bruised, and his skin was so red that he wondered if the carrot had become a sperm.

"Fart!"

"Oh? We know each other so well, you don't believe what I say, why do you believe what the terrorist said? ”

"Of course, he's ......"

The angry director immediately stopped the topic, he was from the imperial faction, and when he heard Sergei joking in the name of the emperor, he was so angry that he almost told the truth.

In fact, the upper echelons of the police department seem to be inextricably linked with him.

Sergei vaguely conveyed this message to Dudley, and the bespectacled investigator immediately understood, nodded and said, "Director, I will indict you now." On the grounds of embezzlement and bribery and collusion with lawbreakers. ”

"What?!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"What a joke!"

"This is not the issue at all!"

Sure enough, everyone at the director level blew up and hurriedly accused Dudley of being wrong.

"It doesn't matter if it's an issue or not. The important thing is ......"

Dudley pushed his glasses with a smile on his lips.

“…… If I, as a Senior Investigator, file an indictment against you, the Director's authority will be suspended until everything is clear. Today's meeting is meaningless. ”

"Presumptuous! Come on, drag him out for me! ”

"Director, if you are innocent, then there will be a meeting of the briefing and criticism of me. Before you do that, think carefully about how to clear your name. ”

Dudley shook off the sentence and strode away.

Seriously, report to the chief of police, it's impossible. Because he is a person from the Imperial faction, if he really wants to report him, the people from the Imperial faction will definitely help him conceal the evidence, and under many obstacles, even if the search department investigates with all its might, it will not be of much help, and he will pay himself in.

But today, Dudley had no choice but to do that.

The time limit given by Joachim is 22:00. Hand over that child, Dudley wouldn't do that. No compromise with terrorists. What's more, the pride of the police and the investigator did not allow him to do so. Then, the only way left is to capture Joachim. If you want to arrest someone, the necessary condition is to know where he is. It's almost 12 o'clock, and there are still 10 hours left, and we have to find a way, no matter what, to solve everything in these 10 hours.

So, in any case, this lengthy meeting cannot be allowed to continue.

If you file a report yourself, then at least three days, because of the judicial process, it is impossible to start the trial. Instead of three days, ten hours is enough.

This inefficient work attitude is exactly what the police chief himself has taken the lead in.

Moreover, it is not a day or two that the high-level of the police department is unhappy. It should be said that the conscientious policemen hate this corrupt high-level. Maybe in three days, he will be fired from the police department's top brass. However, now, I am just doing what a search officer, a police officer should do.

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【12：00】

"Dudley Searcher!"

As soon as he came out, everyone waiting at the door of the conference room gathered around. It seems that they are all waiting for the outcome of the meeting.

"Hmph, the meeting will be held again in three days. Until then, you support section decide to act for yourself. You're a special case anyway, aren't you? ”

It sounded prickly, but Dudley didn't mean to mock them.

There seem to be a few more people waiting, except for Lloyd Randy Elletio, there seem to be two more faces: Yu Tatsumi and Noelle? Shika. Dudley glanced at You, and finally said nothing, and left silently.

Joachim kept his promise, saying that he would not move the people, but he really did not move.

Although there are controlled mafias and garrisons all over the city, as long as they don't leave the city, they stand in the streets and alleys like decorations.

Although there were attacks in the city, the only ones who actually received the attacks were the support department building, the police station, the guerrilla association, and the town hall. The functions of the town are barely functioning.

Dudley walked out of the tattered police station and looked up at the blue sky.

No matter what happened on the ground, it was so clean.

Dudley suddenly wanted to smoke. I touched my pocket, but I only touched my own police badge.