Although Raymond retrieved his belongings as soon as he left Reims' cell and made a phone call to alert Rutte, he was still a step too late...... At this time, the person who answered the phone was no longer Rutte, but Police Chief Powell.

Powell told Wray that just a dozen minutes earlier, Rutte had been found dead in his bathroom while brushing his teeth.

At this time, the police force and FCPS personnel were already investigating the scene, and in fact, the mobile phone that Powell was holding in his hand at this moment had been packed in the evidence bag.

Raymond was arraigned and immediately rushed to the scene of the crime.

When he arrived, Carmen happened to have arrived; Carmen was not very surprised by Rutte's death, because in her eyes, when Rutte came up with the idea of "fake live broadcast", one foot was already in the coffin.

By questioning Powell, the two men had a rough idea of the murder's modus operandi: Rutte's electric toothbrush contained a set of machine blades that, once triggered, would eject in all directions; It's not very powerful, anyway, as long as it's triggered in the mouth, it can just shatter the brain and tear the throat down.

So why didn't the blade in this toothbrush start early or late, but it started today? Later, after FCPS parsed the chips inside, I realized that the trigger mechanism of this set of blades lies in the duration.

To put it simply, this toothbrush is no different from a normal electric toothbrush when you first start using it, but the blades pop out when it accumulates vibrations for more than an hour.

Further investigation revealed that the toothbrush had been purchased by Rutte's wife at a large supermarket on the morning of May 1, the day Lance was arrested, because Rutte's original toothbrush had broken the night before.

They then went to check the surveillance footage, and it turned out that on the morning of May 1, Lance also showed up at the supermarket, and at that time he had not yet bombed the statue in front of the Hague court, and he was dressed very ordinarily, so he looked like a passerby.

When Rutte's wife came to the parking lot alone with two full paper bags after shopping, and just as she was worried about how to open the car door with the keys (the full paper bags are easy to fall down when they are put down, and then the contents will fall out), a "good Samaritan", that is, Lance, took the initiative to help her hold one of the bags, and Rutte's wife did not think much about it, and after thanking the stranger for his efforts, the two parted.

Unbeknownst to her, Lance took advantage of those seconds to rebag the toothbrush she had just bought.

So, on the night of May 1, Rutte brushed his teeth for the first time with this toothbrush...... two minutes and fifty-five seconds; After that, he brushed his teeth once in the morning and once in the evening, and each time he used it for about three minutes.

By the evening of May 11, including the one that led to his death, Rutte had brushed his teeth twenty-one times, and these twenty-one times had just enough to cause the toothbrush to vibrate for more than sixty minutes, and then trigger the blade.

And this raises another question - why did Lance complete the "delayed killing" of Rutte a few hours before his arrest?

Could he have predicted the prophets and predicted what would happen in the future? He can not only calculate that the court will use "fake live broadcast" to deal with himself, but also calculate that "the idea of fake live broadcast must have been proposed by Rutte"? What's even more terrifying is ...... He even knew that Rutte's toothbrush was broken? Also know when and where Rutte's wife will go shopping?

So what was the purpose of his move to turn back in court? If the murder had already been arranged, why did he use his "prosthetic eye" to identify the target and inform his companions of its characteristics?

It is almost impossible for others to figure out this kind of problem, but Carmen is clear and clear when he thinks about it; When she learned some of the above information during her investigation, she immediately realized...... Instead of asking his companion to "be sure of who to kill" in court, Lance asked his companion to "be sure not to kill the wrong person".

From this point of view, it is likely that Lance gave not only one to Rutte, but to many people, for something like a "blade toothbrush...... When his accomplices learned that the target was Rutte, they did not do anything to Rutte, but went to recover or delay other devices that could kill people.

In other words, no one in the entire judicial community of The Hague is safe today.

However, this reasoning is a later story, and at present, the scene has not been investigated, the investigation has not yet begun, and several people have no clue.

"What the hell do you mean......" Raymond looked at Rutte in the body bag from afar, and couldn't help but bow his head and mutter.

At this time, there are two questions that bother him: first, what exactly are L, I, K, and O; Second, what exactly the code words that Lance gave him not long ago meant.

"Is there any puzzle you can share with us?" Carmen heard Ray's muttering and asked.

Powell also stood aside, looking at Raymond with expectant eyes; The local police chief has a good relationship with Rutte, so the eagerness to solve the case is understandable.

So Raymond quickly recounted the two problems that had plagued him.

Powell didn't have a clue, but Carmen immediately snorted coldly and continued: "L, I, K, O are LOPACT-KINETIC-OPERATIONS...... He's shown us the exact form of Rutte's death. ”

When Raymond heard this, he immediately looked surprised and said, "You already know the meaning of this abbreviation?" ”

"I've always known that, but it's a pity that you didn't come to ask me until now." Carmen's implication was that "if you had asked earlier, we might have had a chance to save Rutte's life." ”

Raymond was speechless for a moment, and after a few seconds, he turned to ask, "What about ...... 22040927, and Green again? ”

…………

"22040927" is a date at first glance, and "Green" as a surname is also relatively common.

The meaning of this string of code words is directly related to Raymond himself - referring to a case he once handled.

That was about fifteen years ago, when Raymond was still a fledgling lawyer.

Although Raymond was a very good student in school, he came from a civilian family after all, and he had no background and connections to rely on, so after stepping into the workplace, everything had to start from scratch.

Like other young lawyers who have no qualifications, no money or power, he has two options:

The first is to go to those well-known big-name law firms as a trainee lawyer, doing tedious paperwork and slapping horses at the same time, waiting for someone to promote him to the position.

Second, go to the court to get a place as a public defense lawyer, and at the same time set up your own door, find a cheap place such as a garage as an office, and deal with the "hot potato" assigned by the court, while praying that you can soar to the sky with a big case that can cause a topic.

Raymond is not the kind of person who is willing to be subservient, his ambition and ambition are far more than just being a successful lawyer, and his self-confidence and ability are also very strong, so he naturally chose the second path.

As a result, not long after walking on that road, he received a very difficult case......

The facts of the case are actually very simple, a high school girl surnamed Green, because she was bullied and beaten at school, accidentally hit a girl who bullied her in the left ear in self-defense.

The bully girl's family is relatively wealthy, and there are many ways to fight this lawsuit; Green's family is very poor, with only a single mother, and she can't afford the lawyer's fees, so when Green, who is covered in bruises, is sent to the dock by a person who has nothing but ears, she can only rely on the lawyer assigned to her by the court...... That is, Raymond.

September 27, 2204, was the day of the first-instance verdict in that case.

Green was eventually sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for one year.

This result is obviously unfair, but in court, there is no need to talk about fairness, but about the law.

Legally speaking, this is the best result that Raymond can achieve, and it is also the first time he has used "compromise" in exchange for "victory".

Ray was no fool, and after the first trial, he knew that he could never win this lawsuit — because the whole court was trying to get him to lose.

Lei is not afraid of the so-called famous lawyer hired by the prosecution, and with his professional ability, the facts of the case itself, and a lot of very clear evidence, he is sure that he will not lose to anyone in the debate.

However, during that trial, the judge kept interrupting Lei's normal statements, and from time to time reminded and corrected the mistakes of the opposing lawyers. The capricious confessions and blatant lies of the prosecution and prosecution witnesses are constantly admitted, while Greene's truths are constantly denied and questioned; Lawyers for the prosecution can unscrupulously pressure, induce, mislead, and even insult Green, while Ray's questioning has been repeatedly stopped......

If Lei insists on holding on to such a lawsuit, Green may even be sentenced to a sentence of not less than three years but not more than ten years; In that case, the best years of her youth will be spent in prison.

Seeing this, Ray had a showdown with Green, and he clearly told Green that there would be no truth and fairness in this trial, that black and white had been reversed, that the result was doomed, and that all they could do now was stop loss; Then, he analyzed the pros and cons with Green, and hoped that the latter would reduce his sentence by pleading guilty.

After convincing Green, Raymond went to mediate with the prosecution lawyer and the judge in an attempt to reach a "three-way deal."

Thankfully, the prosecution lawyer also had a bit of a conscience, and he didn't want to kill them all, so he tried to persuade his clients and fooled them that he might not win if he didn't accept the deal......

In this way, Green, who admitted his "guilt", received the above verdict and did not appeal.

She was a sophomore in high school at the time, and she was suspended from school after the verdict came down, and she never went to school again; A year later, her probation period ended, and she was given a reduced sentence for good behavior during the probation period, and she did not have to go back to prison.

It was also in that year that she and her mother left the Netherlands, leaving the country and never returning.

As for the prosecution, they didn't take further revenge on Green afterwards, not that they didn't try, mainly because Green barely went out of the house in the year after the trial, and after a long time, the matter passed.

Both the judge and the prosecution lawyers received their fair share of the remuneration, and Raymond "grew" in the case, and his results were regarded by his peers in the judiciary as a model of "excellence" and "correctness."

All happy? Does Heavenly Reason Exist?

Nobody cares.

As with most of us, even anger is short-lived, sanity, and cost-conscious when we are spectators...... As long as it doesn't happen to us, we will soon forget about it.

Raymond forgot that if Lance hadn't reminded him of it, he might never have thought about the case again.

But when he really thought about it, with his state of mind at this moment, he couldn't help but have all kinds of emotions and thoughts that he didn't have at the beginning.

If I hadn't compromised back then and fought to the end, what would have been the result?

The best situation is that he can not only acquit Green, but also sue the other party for bullying, and by the way, sue the school for inaction, use public opinion to crush those wicked people, and finally let Green's mother and daughter leave with a huge amount of compensation.

And the worst-case scenario...... He didn't think about it, because he didn't know what ten years in prison would turn Green into.

…………

May 12, 6 p.m.

In matters involving resistance groups, the investigation efficiency of the FCPS and the police is relatively high; In less than 24 hours, they had found Green's whereabouts, and following this clue, they once again succeeded in finding a young girl who disappeared from the online detention center half a year ago.

A few hours later, a written report was faxed to the Netherlands and placed on Raymond's desk. The content of the report is detailed, but this "detailed" ...... Not what Raymond wanted at the moment.

Fourteen years ago, Green, who had ended his probation sentence, followed his mother to Dragon County, according to an FCPS investigation.

As a single mother, Green's mother had a very hard life, and after a lawsuit, and a whole year of fearing retaliation, coupled with moving and traveling, the mother finally fell ill.

The family's savings were quickly spent, and Green wanted to go out to work to earn money, but she didn't even finish high school, and she had a criminal record, and no one wanted her to find a low-level job.

Lucky, and at the same time unlucky...... She is fairly beautiful (which is the main reason why she is bullied); So, the reality is like a lot of bloody plots, in order to save his mother, Green went to be the lover of a local official.

It is not accurate to say that it is a "lover", it should be called "a tool for giving birth to a child in the womb"; After a few years of marriage, his wife was found to be unable to have children, and divorce was impossible, but someone had to inherit the family business, so they came up with this idea as soon as the two families combined.

The following year, Green's mother died; Considering the medical technology of this universe and this era, there is no doubt that she was not properly cared for during her lifetime.

In the same year, Green gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix twins, and the official left the boy behind and threw her a sum of money to let her roll as far as the girl wanted, and not appear in front of him again.

Green returned the money, and begged the girl to be left behind, for she knew that she could not raise the child on her own, and she did not want to see the two children separated from each other from childhood; After her pleading, the official finally agreed.

In this way, more than ten years have passed.

Green's son was in that house to be windy and rainy, and her daughter was sent to the Internet Rehabilitation Center by her father and stepmother before graduating from middle school; Even after his disappearance, they didn't ask much.

On May 12, when the police followed the code given by Lance to find Green, they found that the missing girl was in Green's house, and it seemed that their mother and daughter had been living together for some time.

Although life is poor, for Green's daughter, it is at least better than in the original family, than in the Internet Rehabilitation Center...... Much better.

Sadly, after being found by the FCPS, the girl had to be sent back to her original home, as Green did not have custody of the minor; And the child's father, that is, the official back then, has now reached a higher position, even if he didn't want the custody of this daughter in the first place, but since everyone has found it, he still has to take his daughter back, otherwise it may expose a sex scandal and affect his career.

Of course...... All of the above is information at the FCPS level, and these contents are not completely open to the outside world, even to the police; Even Raymond, the "chief prosecutor", had to be viewed only after Carmen's nod of permission.

And Carmen did this with selfish motives.

Carmen knew that Lance was trying to use this information to provoke Raymond in order to advance some kind of layout, that is...... It's part of the "game".

For Carmen, what is the second most important thing in this universe is worth thinking about and debating, and it is difficult to determine or can change at any time.

But the first important thing is very clear, and that is - win or lose the game with Lance.

If you want to play, I'll accompany you.

It is necessary not only to afford to play, but also to win when it is played.

What Federation, what Resistance, what War, Able, Aliens, Death, Earth Explosion, Galactic Destruction...... In the face of the matter of "winning or losing with Reims", the priority must be put down.

If you give Carmen a choice like "losing to Lance can save the Federation for another hundred years", then she will definitely not hesitate to let the Federation die quickly and choose to win herself.

Carmen seems to be a good person in the traditional sense, an enforcer of justice, but in fact...... In her heart, it's not all what people see.

All in all, not to mention selling a chief prosecutor, even the entire federal justice system, in this "game", Carmen can be used as a bargaining chip.

…………

May 13, 10 a.m.

Once again, Raymond was in Lance's cell.

"I know what L, I, K, O means." Raymond sat down and said this.

"Oh." Lance replied casually, this riddle was originally used by him to amuse, and now that the riddle was revealed, he was no longer interested in it.

"Green's daughter has also been sent home by the police." Raymond said again.

"Huh......" Lance smiled, "'home'? What do you think...... Which side is her real 'home'? ”

"It's her business, and I'm not a roundworm in her belly, how can I know what she thinks?" Raymond replied.

"Then I'll change the question." Lance shrugged, "Do you think your compromise saved Grimm or ruined her?" ”

"She was doomed to ruin from the moment she stepped foot in the courtroom, it had nothing to do with my decision, I just did what I could to reduce the damage." Raymond replied coldly.

"Yo, your virtue of not caring about everything is quite a bit of my demeanor afterwards." Lance dug his nose and began to use foul language to make quips, "That's good...... This time, I'm going to find something that makes you unable to say, 'It has nothing to do with me,' for you to play." ”