976: Chapter 89: The Feast of the Wolves 5 – Black Satan, Enters the Fray 976: Chapter 89: The Feast of the Wolves 5 – Black Satan, Enters the Fray “Jia, you also know clearly the identity of those who made promises to you.
Their leader can no longer control the LAPD.
The so-called promise to get you out is just a lie they fabricated.
Now Sheriff Lake is personally following your case, and he takes it very seriously.”
Senior Police Supervisor Burns stood outside the interrogation room, separated by one-way glass, holding a cup of coffee and calmly observing the activity inside.
He had seen plenty of wealthy suspects like Accountant Jia before.
Many rich people always think their money can buy everything, but they forget that Arica is full of people with money.
Most so-called wealthy individuals can, at best, create headaches for the prosecution during the trial phase, using lawyers to challenge the judge and prosecutor’s patience.
Beyond that, there isn’t much they can do.
Isn’t it just two lousy bucks?
This is Arica, where there are many rich people.
Does the LAPD cater to every single rich person?
But Burns understood that Lao Jia was no ordinary individual.
His business had caught the Great Commander’s attention, was protected by Gru, and was also connected to the Governor of California.
The problem was enormous.
Solely within the police system, his case had already triggered a power struggle between the faction of the forr sheriff and the newly appointed one brought in from outside.
As soone who had already picked a side, Burns needed to extract a ‘favorable’ statent from Lao Jia for Lake, in order to intimidate people like Jax.
Yes, just intimidation.
Making a move was sothing Lake dared not do, and neither did Burns.
Lake had already consolidated financial power, and now he wanted a steady shift of the power base, moving it into his own hands.
“I don’t understand what you’re saying.
My lawyer is on their way!”
Lao Jia didn’t know how many tis he had repeated this sentence.
His lawyer had already co multiple tis, but the lawyer was also an outsider in this matter.
The key was not the LAPD.
Within this power struggle, the LAPD’s internal disputes represented the smallest slice of interests.
Greater pressures stemd from the evolving power structure within California.
Seeing that Lao Jia still wouldn’t speak, Burns downed the bitter coffee in one gulp and calmly spoke into the intercom.
“Tell him that our cells are already full.
He might have to share a temporary holding cell with other suspects.”
Inside the interrogation room, Lao Jia recalled the experience of being stabbed.
He had already been stabbed two days in a row.
The attitudes of these officers were crystal clear: if he still didn’t cooperate today, tonight he would once again be “loved” by the big Black man.
Within Burns’ sphere of authority, this was the extent of what he could do.
Going further would risk setting himself on fire.
Lao Jia laughed silently, saying nothing further.
He was waiting.
He didn’t believe he was disposable, nor was he willing to turn himself into a pawn to be abandoned.
Crushing the paper coffee cup into a ball out of frustration, Burns cursed under his breath in exasperation.
His subordinates escorted Lao Jia back to the holding cell, while Burns hurried off to report the latest updates to Sheriff Lake.
“Still not talking?”
Amid the current complex situation, Lake was under significant pressure.
He hoped to gain so dirt on the underground forces from Lao Jia to secure more leverage in the power struggle.
However, under the overarching demand from his superior Gasetti for overall stability, Lake’s little sches had turned into vulnerabilities for himself.
“Mr.
Lake, it’s not all that bad.
Soone else has talked.”
Burns handed over a statent with a hint of bitterness, unsure what state of mind Lake would be in after reading it.
The anxious Sheriff Lake failed to notice the bitter expression on his subordinate’s face as he grabbed the statent with excitent.
But the more he read, the stranger his expression beca.
After a long while, after reading the statent twice, Lake looked up and nervously asked,
“Are you sure he’s ntally stable?”
Sun Zhounye’s ntal state was certainly stable.
He didn’t have Lao Jia’s ntal fortitude, so becoming the breakthrough point was a natural outco.
However, this breakthrough was absolutely not the kind that Lake had been hoping for.
“Very stable.
I’ve seen too many criminals and suspects in my ti.
My experience tells —he’s perfectly normal.”
Burns added in a low voice.
“If you don’t like this statent, I can make it disappear.”
To these two senior officials within the police system, organizations like Freemasonry were more terrifying than anything.
If Freemasonry was really as extraordinary as those outrageous stories described, then their current investigation would appear beyond idiotic.
Who willingly throws themselves into the fire?
Lake hesitated.
He now had four options.
Believe the statent, suppress the matter, and follow his boss Gasetti’s intention to aim for ‘unity’—perhaps Gasetti already knew everything and that’s why he was calling for ‘unity’?
Believe the statent and escalate it to Gasetti.
Disbelieve the statent but terminate the investigation, letting this ssy matter roll back into NITA’s court.
Disbelieve the statent and continue the investigation, becoming a lone warrior jumping into the fray—sothing no sensible person would choose.
“Cease interrogations for now and wait for my instructions.
Understood?”
Lake chose the second option.
If Freemasonry didn’t exist, reporting to Gasetti would undoubtedly be a safe move.
If Freemasonry did exist, then Gasetti might already be part of that network of interests.
In that case, I, Sheriff Lake of the LAPD, also want a seat at the table.
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“Impossible!”
At the mayor’s office, Gasetti slamd down Sun Zhounye’s statent in disbelief.
“Are you crazy, or is he crazy?
Why would you believe such fabricated nonsense?
Arica has no deep…
…layers?”
Gasetti’s soul connected with his mind, and in an instant, he thought of many things.
The BEC incident implicated a staggering number of people.
The Great Commander had explicitly demanded an investigation.
Niusen and Temir were both feigning ignorance, while Gru’s lackeys were incessantly conspiring and scheming.
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