With a bang, the door of the interrogation room was suddenly pushed open, and a middle-aged man dressed like a lawyer walked in directly, shouted, and said, "Everyone, if you don't mind, I hope you don't continue to interrogate my client." ”

"Your client?" Jordan looked surprised, he knew that the client in this lawyer's mouth was himself, but he didn't remember that he had ever hired this lawyer, and he didn't even know him, so who was he?

"Mr. Norris, I'm Bill Morton." After Morton introduced himself, he whispered to Norris: "From now on, please don't say anything to anyone without me, I have been hired as your lawyer." ”

"Hmm!" Although Norris was a little suspicious, he nodded slightly, the appearance of the lawyer finally cleared his drowsy mind, and under the conclusive evidence and strong pressure of the police, he almost confessed completely, and even threw away the last bit of bargaining capital.

Seeing the appearance of the lawyer, Jordan Norris finally became smart again, he no longer planned to speak, as long as the name was still in his hands, he was sure to reach a plea agreement with the prosecution, and even acquittal.

Jordan Norris's thoughts were all written on his face, and no one could hide it, Ling Xiao shook his head slightly, this is already a dead man.

"Who hired you?" Beckett couldn't help but ask with resentment.

"We're done here." Bill Morton wasn't even interested in answering Beckett's question.

This is the end of the interrogation, without Jordan Norris's confession, this case can only end here, as for the rest of the matter, the prosecutor's office will soon send someone to take over, as for what will happen next, it is none of their business.

"Looks like our mayor can catch his breath!" Back at Beckett's apartment, it was not early, and the French dinner was naturally gone, and the two of them bought some pizza and beer casually, which would be counted as dinner.

"But Laura Cambridge is dead," Beckett said with reluctance written on his face, and he took a hard bite into the pizza in his hand.

Ling Xiao knew that Laura's failure to catch her murderer was only one of the reasons for her displeasure, and the real problem was that she didn't have time to conduct a more in-depth investigation of Mayor James, and if she was responsible, she would have been able to find more evidence back then.

"At the very least, Norris will be prosecuted for aiding in murder, which is already good, take your time and have a chance." After eating the last piece of pizza, Ling Xiao raised the wine bottle in his hand and touched it lightly with Beckett.

Beckett let out a white sound, raised the wine bottle and greeted it, and soon, the two of them threw down the wine glasses in their hands.

The next morning, when Beckett woke up, Ling Xiao beside her had long since disappeared, and she didn't even know how the other party left last night, and she felt a little melancholy for a while.

At this moment, the door was suddenly opened, and when Beckett looked up, it was Ling Xiao who came in, holding the hamburger and coffee he had already bought, and a newspaper under his arm, and suddenly, a smile bloomed on Beckett's face.

"Catherine, do you know what's going on?" Ling Xiao didn't wait to put down the things in his hand, and he was already shouting.

"What's wrong, Ling?" Beckett lifted the thin quilt on his body and sat up directly, his smooth and charming upper body bloomed in front of Ling Xiao's eyes, and Ling Xiao's unusual expression showed that something very unsimple had happened.

"Mayor James has announced that he has given up his campaign!" Ling Xiao stuffed the newspaper in his hand into Beckett's hand, sat opposite her, and said while admiring the beautiful scenery in front of him: "All the charges against Mayor James have been dropped, but he announced that he will not run for election at this time, which means that his political life will end in the position of mayor of Los Angeles." Four years later, even if he chooses to run again, he will not have any chance when he is older. ”

"There's a problem here!" Beckett didn't have any happy look on his face, but frowned tightly: "James didn't need to do this at all, it was obvious that someone else had pinched his handle, pinched the handle that made him have to give up running for president." ”

"Not bad." Ling Xiao laughed, the reason why he was in such a hurry to come back was because he guessed this reason, he shook his head slightly, and said: "Although we didn't completely knock James down this time, we directly cut off his way up, Catherine, this is also a big victory!" ”

"yes!" Beckett squinted his eyes and whispered: "As long as we follow the line of Jordan Norris and Bill Morton, then we can find out who has the handle that James has to withdraw from the presidential race, and this time we no longer need hard evidence." ”

"You can't check it, but Catherine, you can't expose yourself, and you can't expose what you found during the presidential campaign." Ling Xiao shook her hand and said in a deep voice: "Once this happens, the enemy you are facing is not James alone, and the person who forced him to withdraw from the presidential race, the result is likely to outweigh the losses." ”

"I know." Beckett took a deep breath, she was far more awake than ever.

Robert Wellington James is already a little older, and he will be the mayor of Los Angeles for two more years at most, and the power under his command who announced his withdrawal from the election will gradually decline, and many people who used to have the same heart with him will slowly drift away, and with him about to step down, many things will slowly be exposed, and when the mayor is re-elected, his power will decline to the limit, and at that time, it is time for Beckett to take revenge.

She wouldn't wait for him to leave office, that would be too cheap for him, and she would arrest him when he thought he was safest.

Beckett's affairs came to an end for the time being, and Ling Xiao returned to his usual life, and he made rapid progress as he concentrated on his cultivation.

With the blessing of Thor and the Storm Girl's bloodline ability, Ling Xiao entered the realm at great speed in the comprehension of the Thunder Method, and in less than half a year, the Thunder Heart Method had been cultivated to the Great Perfection, and this night, Ling Xiao was beginning to break through the Innate Middle Realm.

In half a year, Ling Xiao completely mastered his own cultivation, and his foundation was very stable, and the two innate true qi in his body, one blue and one purple, showed a spiral, constantly intertwined with entanglements, from the innate true seed to the top of the head Baihui, and then to the lower body yin, the cycle was endless, back and forth.

Suddenly, a void thunder sounded in the underworld, and the next moment, the true qi in Ling Xiao's body seemed to have collided with some invisible barrier, and in an instant, it began to run rapidly at a speed ten times faster than before. The two true qi, one blue and one purple, which were originally entangled, gradually merged together under the urging of the wind and thunder Fa, forming a jade-white true element, which ran rapidly in the meridians in the body, and the heaven and earth vitality in the outside world couldn't help but be absorbed.

Ling Xiao slowly opened his eyes, there was no joy in his eyes for a breakthrough in cultivation, but he frowned, it seemed that it was already necessary to find a place to practice again, although it was imminent, but the spiritual energy provided by the spiritual spring under his feet had gradually failed to keep up with the growth of his cultivation.

He actually explored the west coast of California, but what he could really use was the spiritual spring under his feet.

In fact, there are several good places for spiritual energy to gather in San Francisco, but they have all been occupied by people, and the spiritual places have gradually been destroyed. If he wants to find another more suitable place, it will take Ling Xiao a lot of time, even with his current cultivation, don't think about it if he doesn't have a year and a half.

Although he successfully broke through to the innate middle realm this time, it was not a problem, although he suppressed the growth of cultivation, but the strength of his physical body still could not keep up with the growth of cultivation, this time he was able to break through smoothly, he had actually been borrowing the bloodline power from Thor.

Perhaps because of the long-term use of Thor's hammer, Thor's physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary Asgardians, and even contains a trace of thunder and lightning power in his bloodline, which gives Ling Xiao an additional bonus when practicing the Thunder Shock Heart Method.

Even if he started to practice the Wind and Thunder Fa now, the effect of Thor's bloodline power was still quite useful, and he was even subtly transforming his physical body.

(End of chapter)