The Guest: Book 3

by Yufeng Zhuang

Chapter 22

  The crime investigation

  The assassination attempt in the gymnasium was buried down successfully by the federal government. In the first day of the New Year, if the scandal which the military participated in assassinating the civilian broke out, then from the President to the Defense Minister, from the FBI director to the governor of the Coastal state, all of them wouldn’t be able to have a good New Year.

  Although they knew it clearly that the assassination target was not the real civilian, but in the phone the cold tone of that lady, let them know clearly, the federal government must really investigate this matter, rather than like those countless political events in the history, found a scapegoat casually… but the government still needed to hide the truth of this matter to the public, because in the final year of the term of office government, had been unable to bear more storms.

  Fortunately, that lady allowed the government silently, even used the influence of her family, and helped the government sealed the mouths of most media. On the TV news for that evening and the second day, and every big authoritative newspaper or electronic newspaper, all didn’t have the report about the assassination event happened in the gymnasium of the Coastal university town. On the contrary, on the entertainment and life column, they especially described the spectacular success of Miss Jane Sue’s first concert.

  The government most doesn’t want to face media reporters, all lost their voices collectively. On the one hand, they was influenced by all kinds of pressure; on the other hand, it’s also because they smelt keenly some kind of breath in the Federation. They were waiting, watching whether the government would give some kind of explain to the media and the public.

  However, some of the left late people, once in the blizzard outside of the gymnasium, witnessed a black mecha broke the wall, and rushed on the northeast direction highway…

  These people couldn’t erase their memories, they couldn’t read any answer on the newspaper doubtfully, then they could only let these memories became some rumors spread on the network message board, and the shock titles on those extremely mediocre gossip tabloid newspaper.

  The same day when the assassination happened, the investigation work of the federal power department had already been carried out extremely urgently. Because the executives of every department and every bureau, all received the personal phone call from either the President Office or some heavyweight senators of the Management Committee. The huge state apparatus of the federal government began to run, in the shortest possible time, from that named Randy pilot, they checked a lot of things out.

  A federal combat hero, the four pieces Purple Star Medal winner, how come he would become a very shameful assassin? This needed the history critics and the litterateurs to play their thoughts. The investigators of the federal government didn’t put their focus on this aspect, but checked to the Capital District directly.

  The trial started rapidly at the same evening, no extort confessions by torture, no electric shock cruel torture, but only the bright lights, the ubiquitous monitoring equipments, and those cold like metal inquisitors and registrars.

  The interrogation didn’t have any result. Those returned from the front line, paid their youth and sweat for the Federation officers, just looked at those officials in front of them indifferently, their eyes were full of anger and disdains. Those who believed they had been insulted officers, even began to shout abuse.

  The standoff lasted for half the night, the interrogation aspect gathered these officers together, that responsible for leading the investigating this assassination Four Section director of the FBI, looked coldly at these proud and fearless officers in front of him, he silenced for a moment and then said, “as the federal soldiers, you have the reasonable way to express your will… no one wouldn’t respect what you have paid for the Federation. But as the soldiers, you should obey the law more.”

  “Some of you have already known, perhaps some of you still don’t know. But what I want to say is, the Charter Bureau has already put this Coastal gymnasium event, marked as… the first sequence event.”

  “You should know it very clearly how to deal with the first sequence event.” this FBI senior official narrowed his eyes, the cold gaze was rising gradually, “don’t try to cover up, or quibble for your crime! That would only let your family suffer more shame!”

  These officer were detained back to the training center by the armed to the teeth military police, only their identities had already become the crime suspects, but no longer the having the bright future federal pillars.

  Just after these people left the temporary trial place, an official came to the side of the director of the Section Four, he lowered his voice and said, “it’s marked as the third sequence event by the central control computer of the Charter Bureau… moreover, even it’s the first sequence event, it still doesn’t have any help for this case.”

  “The old or small ancestors of the Charter Bureau know how to play the mystery the most.” the director of the Section Four slightly lowered his head and said, “how could these officers know about the things about the event sequence. I just give them some more time to think about it, and have the fear.”

  The earlier morning of the day after, perhaps they had the infinite fear to the splendor of the First Charter in instinct, or perhaps those officers had the clearer acquaintance for the majesty of the law. Anyhow, the tactic of this FBI senior official apparently worked.

  No one surrendered, no one confessed who actually organized this assassination, that belongs to the First Military Region black mecha, through what channel to the hands of that major Randy, and that group sent to the gymnasium military squad, received the order from which aspect.

  Seven officer committed suicide in their rooms, no one could be rescued back.

  They expressed their fear to the First Charter and the law with this kind of simple way, to protect their superiors and those ideals which they were willing to exchange with their lives.

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  A dinner party was held for the President and the Nebula Price winners. After the dinner, it’s a routine dancing party. But obviously, those elderly scholars didn’t have the desire to dance, they were just courtesy but reserved to watch that pair dancing partners on the dancing field, the applause kept sounding constantly, and everything seemed so lively and peacefully.

  Mr. Segal Hoove would end his second term this year, it seemed like that he was still somewhat really reluctant to part with the mansion party. The all around had the sincere smile on the face people, watched the dancing slowly President and the first lady, but they gave him the disdain comments in their hearts.

  This President no doubt was the most couldn’t leave any mark President in the federal history, because during his terms, he didn’t have any particular deeds to be talked about, his temperament is cowardice and rough, totally didn’t have the style he had in the army in those years. If said that the voters were misled by the illusion knitted by the media ten years ago, then what about five years ago?

  But President Segal no doubt was also the luckiest President in the federal history, in his ten years presidency, there were no any event could cause the process of impeachment happened. The war between the Federation and the Empire, had already ended when he was elected; the anti-government army in the four states surrounding the mountains, anyway, have already existed for that many years in the abdomen of the Federation, nobody could blame him that he didn’t have the ability to solve this problem.

  “I have to say, the President Segal at least is cautious enough, and actually this is also a kind of excellent quality.”

  An age not that old handsome official, stared silently at the Mr. President who he had already accompanied for five years, he gave a different comment in his heart. And then, his face had the slight change, he walked out of the crowd, and came to a quiet corridor on the west end of the official mansion.

  This named Bouguer official was the deputy director
of the President Office, he would be responsible for processing a lot of routine works. Thus even in such a wonderful party like this, his cell phone would still keep unimpeded. But felt the special vibration mode of the cell phone in his pocket, he knew who made this phone call, therefore, his expression would be so dignified.

  “The thing happened in the early morning, you should have already heard about it.” a lady’s calm voice came from the other side of the phone.

  “Yes, madam.” Bouguer lowered his voice, had the smile on his face and motioned to the office staff who walked by the front of him.

  “I don’t want such things happen again, because I don’t want my son very not easy to survive, but at the end become the hatred target of the whole federal military.” the lady’s voice was calm but not allow to be resisted on the other side of the phone.

  “No one expected that those officers would choose this way.” Bouguer silenced for a moment, then he said, “I am afraid that with the deepening of the investigation, there would be more people choose to commit suicide or… be suicide.”

  “The investigation must be carried through to the end, I want those real murderers, to pay the price for such a shameless assassination like this… I don’t want to be the backseat driver to the government work, but I just want to say, this event still have enough clues can be grasped, please don’t put your eyes only on those officers of the Second Military Region, I’m as a federal citizen, as the mother of the victim, I somewhat couldn’t accept this kind of practice.”

  Bouguer hung up the phone and fell in the meditation. He knew clearly what lady Tai this phone call meaning was, in such circumstance, only he could point the fingers to the government work personally. And according to the returned news from the investigation team, it seemed like that the direction of the investigation, really would touch those make the government unrest aspects.”

  He is a government official, but he is the transactional official, but no one knows, actually he is the official who was developed by the Tai family.

  Also late at night in the same day, Charlie Tai received his mother’s phone call, knew about the investigation which the federal government had for this crime, after they shifted the direction, they had already got close to the core area. But when he heard the name of that senior official, the as calm as him, still couldn’t help to be in a daze for a moment.

  Woke up by the phone call, woke up from the nightmare, Charlie Tai couldn’t go to sleep again. He put in the pajamas, by the side of the orange desk lamp, sat in the sofa and silenced for a long time, and he somewhat missed those deep-fried dough pies and soybean milk in those nights.

  The soonest still needed to wait until the dawn, then he could through that omnipotent central control computer of the Charter Bureau, confirmed whether Sheilor was still alive or not by the chip signal.