Chapter 45: Officers
Seeing three policen walking ahead, Philip quickly buried his head in his notes. He wanted to remain invisible as no matter what the policen were planning to do would cause so chaos and he was afraid of being implicated. After all, he was currently considered a spy from the Engineering Departnt.
The students passing by also noticed them and quickly gathered around to gossip.
However, to Philip's surprise, the policen stopped in front of him. No, it was more like they stopped at the door beside him.
His heart raced as he had assud they were there for him, causing him to imagine different scenarios. He quickly realized they were likely there for the dean and hurriedly walked away to join the onlookers on the corner.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
The leading police officer knocked on the door. Shortly, the door slowly creaked open and Sid's head popped out from inside.
Seeing these n wearing blue uniforms, Sid's eyes widened for a mont before asking,
"What can I help you, esteed officers?" While Sid carefully asked them, his body subconsciously hid the ss inside the room.
"Is Ronald Evans here?" asked the leading policeman nad Loid. The tone of his voice was plain and without fluctuation.
"Yes, he's here. Why are you asking this officer?" Sid answered while he turned his head back to look at Ronald's perplexed face.
This ti, Loid had noticed that Sid was seemingly hiding sothing in the room. However, while he was aware of it, he did not call him out. Instead, he inford his main intention of coming here.
"Mr. Ronald Evans is to be called out to the station for questioning." He then took the docunt from his colleague,
"We have the arrest warrant for illegal possession of firearms to the said person."
Hearing this, the onlookers around gasped in disbelief, surprise was evident on their faces.
They know the heavy punishnt accompanied by the said cri and rarely see soone who possessed them.
All of them, including their whole ancestry, haven't even seen a real gun in their life! This arrest was all new to them and could not help but be scared. But more than being scared was the curiosity over the unknown.
The onlookers murmured loudly and more and more students and professors gathered around to gossip.
Noticing the sudden attention of people around, Sid's face darkened as he quickly looked behind him.
Ronald had also heard their proclamation and could not help but scowl. He quickly went out and faced Loid.
"Excuse , officer. I have never seen a gun in my entire life, much more possessed them. This also included my whole family and ancestors. So I don't really know what you are talking about..."
Ronald stopped as if rembering sothing and continued,
"Are you perhaps referring to the gunshot that was heard yesterday evening in my abode? We have already filed a complaint to the station and were deed innocent of it. We don't know those who trespassed on our property nor we are related to them."
What he said was the truth. The family also knew how grave the punishnt was for it and didn't consider possessing them nor involving in their sale.
"Yes, we have received the report about last night but our coming here isn't for that." Loid tersely acknowledged his plea and nodded to the officer beside him.
The accompanying officer imdiately took a docunt from his pocket and delivered it to Loid. Shortly, Loid skimd through it and passed it to Ronald and said,
"This morning, we have received a new report that you've been burying firearms in your yards. Before we ca here, we investigated the matter, dug your yard, and found out that the report was indeed true."
Loid's forehead wrinkled for a mont before continuing, "And we didn't just find a single gun but boxes of firearms hidden underneath your garden."
"So, we invite you to the station for questioning. Of course, your other mbers of the family are included in this as well."
When Loid said this, the onlookers around gasped in chorus once again. They quickly looked at Professor Evans and his secretary with intense scrutiny.
Ronald was also stunned by this. He didn't know about them being buried in his yard!
However, while his face showed an obvious surprise and confusion, deep inside, he was panicking.
He recalled that their family, particularly the deceased Stephen, had previously been involved in a murder that involved firearms.
In the past, he had a suspicion that it ca from Stephen. After all, that child was abnormal. Furthermore, the child traveled secretly to the south alone and coincidentally died tragically.
This made him think about whether Stephen had a way of getting firearms without other people noticing. That was also the reason why he imdiately manipulated the news into sothing favorable to them.
This was an instinct of a businessman and also of a father. However, what he initially thought of as re speculation turned out into a reality!
Ronald had always known that Stephen was unique and not acting at his age but he never outwardly showed it. He had lived for so many years and had so gist that the world appeared to be not as normal as it looked.
Then, His initial confusion turned into support once he accidentally found out that the nobles he looked up to were also not normal. This was also the reason why he just let the child be involved in their business despite his young age. He wanted to test whether Stephen was their ticket to aristocracy.
However, what he thought was a ticket to success turned into a big misfortune.
Hearing the police officer's notion, he had finally confird his suspicion. Stephen did possess the gun in the locomotive incident last week. Moreover, the source where he got it from is just right before their eyes. No, it is right under their eyes. Their garden!
Ronald froze. He was frightened but he quickly replied the whole truth to the group of officers.
"Officer, our family really didn't know about them. You might not know this but we have just moved into that estate five to six years ago. We don't know who buried them there."
However, upon seeing the stern gazes of Loid and his accompanying colleague, he sighed sorrowfully. He knew that even if he explained and proved his innocence, he had no choice but to co with them to the station.
He glanced at the crowd around and could not help but be disturbed. Whatever the decision with this investigation, whether he was indeed innocent or not, would greatly affect his reputation. Perhaps in the future, he might be suspended as dean and his family business might suffer from this.
Ronald and his secretary Sid followed the n under the hot scrutiny around, including Philip wearing a stupefied facial expression.
How could Philip not be surprised? This was totally aligned with whatever plan he initially had. This made him think whether he was sleepwalking last night and perford everything as planned.
Seeing the crowd slowly but loudly dispersing, Philip quickly made it to the Engineering building for his next class. While he was walking, he created nurous causes for the coincidence.
'Of course, the sleepwalking thing is absurd and impossible. So... that leads us to Emile, the magician. Is he perhaps helping revenge?'
Philip quickly crossed that out.
'Why would he help him after all that he had done to him last night? But wait what if he is not helping but helping himself? After all from his facial expression, he has a great fear of guns. This also happened to Loen who was killed by Steve.'
'Did he report it to his superior upon knowing that it was Steve who shot Loen and possibly the original possessor of the firearm? Yes, this speculation cannot be denied.'
While Philip felt he had found the possible reason for such coincidence, he didn't stop thinking of a new one. Shortly, he ca up with a new feasible hypothesis.
"Perhaps, it might be from Evans' enemies, particularly from the business side. They might have used the noise last night to attack them. Yes. this plan has been ticulously planned for a long ti. After all, the policeman said it wasn't just a single gun that was found underneath but multiple crates."
Philip stopped and his eyes widened upon thinking of another reason.
'It could also be from Conrad! He had finally inford his mother about their circumstances and her employer, the Semion family, helped them out. But based on what Conrad had said, he needed five days to arrive at their fief... and he had just left yesterday morning.'
Philip shook his head in frustration. There were a lot of possibilities and he had no way of knowing the exact cause.
He could only throw it into the back of his head and headed to his next class where he had to learn about math again.
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