Chapter 11: Anomaly

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"Huh?" Lance looked puzzled when he heard Carmen's question, "What judge?" ”

"The judge of the Mt. Xuduro." Carmen answered.

Lance thought for a moment: "You're telling me about the ancient mythology of Dragon County......"

Carmen interrupted, "I'm talking about an online murder show that has been on the dark web for months. ”

When Lance heard this, his expression changed: "Uh...... You mean that the host wore a Peking Opera mask and tortured and killed others......"

"Answer my original question." Carmen said coldly.

"Of course not!" Lance spread his hands and said, "What are you thinking?" Although I do know about the show and have watched it once or twice, I don't have anything to do with them. ”

"How do you prove it?" Carmen was unrelenting.

"Proof?" Lance furrowed half of his eyebrows, "My agent sister, you've been in law school longer than me, haven't you?" Hear for yourself what this is saying? Not to mention that I am not a judge at all, even if I am ...... Even if you get enough evidence to arrest me and send me to court, the trial should be 'you to prove that I am the judge', not 'I will prove that I am not the judge'...... 'I am not guilty', my sister. ”

"I'm not talking to you about the law right now, and I'm not here to do business." "I'm asking you in a private capacity. ”

"Private identity?" Lance read and paused, "What identity?" He leaned back in his chair, tilted his head, looked into Carmen's eyes, and said, "Are we acquainted?" ”

As they spoke, the clerk happened to bring their coffee, and the conversation between the two was interrupted for a while.

After the clerk left, they looked at each other in silence for a few seconds.

Then Carmen spoke, "If we weren't acquainted, I wouldn't have come alone to talk to you." She said, picking up the sugar packet on the table, tearing it off, "I'm going to take a group of people and handcuff you right in front of that locker, and then use a process that you won't find on any federal public documents...... Ask you how many people in the eighteen generations of your ancestors have hidden their private money. ”

"Hah! Hehe......" Lance laughed dryly, "So we are acquaintances in your opinion?" Do you and other acquaintances also have no contact with each other all year round? ”

"The reason why I didn't contact you, I just said it ten minutes ago...... Because you're a scumbag. Carmen replied calmly, "But that doesn't change the fact that we knew each other very well; In addition, everyone's habits of dealing with interpersonal relationships are different, and if it is not necessary, even if it is a family member, I will not be in touch all year round, and it makes no sense for you to use your own set of standards to measure my scale. ”

"Oh." Lance nodded, and said in a sarcastic tone, "My set of 'standards that happen to be in line with the vast majority of people' is 'unreasonable', and your kind of behavior is 'reasonable', right?" ”

"Look, it's starting again." Carmen said, "This kind of debate about each other's ideas was a common occurrence when we were students, wasn't it? Did you get back a little bit of an acquaintance? ”

"It's like at this moment you bypass a question that is not good for you, and then ask me a question with a point of view?" Lance Road.

"Do you really want to continue? Don't forget, I win every time. Carmen said, picking up her sweetened coffee and taking a leisurely sip.

"Cut ......," Lance said, "That's what I let you ......"

Like most men who lose to women, he utters this classic quibble in a futile tone.

"Alright, Lance......" Carmen didn't want to waste any more time, she brought the conversation back to the right track, "with your intellect, you must have guessed what the fact that 'I can find you at the exact time and place' means, and I can tell you definitively that the FCPS surveillance network and my own authority...... It's all far above your estimates.

"So, I suggest that we talk like smart people and don't make this complicated and ugly......

"If you understand what I mean, prove to me at once, that you ...... Not a judge. ”

Before she could finish her sentence, Lance's face changed.

After speaking, Lance licked his lips, scratched the messy hair on the top of his head, and continued, "Then what can I do?" Otherwise...... You can use your intelligence network to check my whereabouts in the past few months, that 'Xudu Luoshan' show is only available on the fifteenth day of the first month, isn't it? You just need to find some surveillance footage of me appearing in public while they are live, and that can be used as my alibi? ”

"I've already looked for it." Unexpectedly, Carmen immediately replied, "No." ”

"Huh?" Lance wondered, "No, I go out almost every day." ”

"I know, I've checked that." "However, in the last few months, you've been in public almost every day, and every fifteenth day of the new year, you've disappeared—there's no trace of you in all the surveillance footage we can find." ”

"Did the subordinates who helped you watch the video miss it?" Lance asked assumingly.

"We use a highly intelligent facial recognition system that is globally connected...... Manually retrieving footage and identifying it is something that only a police officer can do, and FCPS can't work in that inefficient way. Carmen replied.

"Isn't that right...... That's not normal, is it? Lance said, "Even if I don't go out for a few days every month, I can't just catch up with the fifteenth day of the new year, right?" ”

"Yes, it's an anomaly." Carmen continued, still in the same tone as she had everything under control, "I have three assumptions about this......"

She took another sip of coffee and said, "First, you are the judge, so on the fifteenth day of the new year, because you are busy committing crimes, you naturally have no time to appear in public." ”

"Second, you're not a judge, but someone guessed that I was going to list you as a suspect, so they somehow deleted all the footage you left behind in the past few months to blame you."

"Third, you are a judge, and you know very well that regardless of whether there is a surveillance record or not, your 'alibi' is not established, because the 'judge' in the live broadcast wears a mask and uses a voice changer, and no one can prove that it is the same person who appears in front of the camera every time; You can have someone else preside over the trial in your place in certain episodes, and you can deliberately show your face under a public probe while the live broadcast is going on.

"You know that kind of proof doesn't work, and you know that sooner or later I'm going to investigate you and even confront you face to face, so you decided to play a trick up on me...... For example, when I asked you to prove yourself, I deliberately mentioned the surveillance video to me, but at the same time added some obvious anomalies to that part of the evidence that were not in your favor. So...... Considering the ability of the 'judge' to be a criminal, I am bound to make the second assumption mentioned above. ”

"Huh......" Lance heard this, revealing an expression that was already speechless to the other party, "According to what you say, I can't wash it by jumping into the Danube, or you might as well arrest me and torture me to extract a confession." ”

"You gave up so easily?" Carmen said, "Can I think you've admitted ......?"

"Does it matter if I admit it or not?" Lance interrupted, "Two of your three assumptions already have 'you're going to come and check me out' as a precondition, right?" Rather, I would like to ask, what was the basis for your initial suspicions before you launched an actual investigation into me? ”

"I can't believe I need to repeat this three times in a short period of time......," Carmen said, "because you're a scumbag." She teased the bangs on the side of her eye, "And the most intelligent scum I know......" She stirred the cup of coffee with a small spoon, "whether it's intuition or prejudice...... When I accepted the judge's case, the first suspect that popped into my mind was you; Before accessing your file, my thought was that no matter what means you used, in short, if you were now successful and living a good life, then you would not be very suspicious; But the reality is ...... You...... James Lance, one of the smartest people on the planet, became a thug who lived in a cheap apartment and lived by stealing chickens and dogs...... That's the real anomaly for me. ”

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