Shadow Empire

Chapter 78 Who did it?
Officer Lucard looked at the information about Kent in his hand and rubbed his temples with a headache.

Kent's brother is a senior official of the Camilla Gang. Relying on his brother's support, he has done a lot of bad things in the Empire District.

Casinos are places that are most likely to breed conflicts, and his hands and feet are indeed not clean. Here is a piece of information given by an informant. In recent years, Kent has been recruiting "skilled" dealers in Ovillis State.

As for why we need to recruit such people, everyone knows it.

Although his underground casino only has four or five tables, these four or five tables are very profitable every month.

In other words, everyone who lost money could be the perpetrator of this murder.

This does not include the possibility that other gangs may seek revenge and kill him to vent their anger because of his brother.

What Officer Lucard hates most are cases involving gang members. No one knows what the murderer's motive is. It often takes a lot of time, energy, and resources to investigate. There is also the possibility that the investigation will be suddenly stopped when the result is not far from the truth.

Jingang City, and even the underground world and political arena of the entire federation, are inextricably linked. Even in the entire federation's interest transfer network, the gangs occupy an important position, rather than simply "a place".

It's very troublesome and tricky, that's what Officer Lucard was thinking at this moment.

Just as he was thinking about how to find a way to solve the case, someone suddenly knocked on the door. It was a police officer from his team. "Sir, there's a man named Will who wants to see you. He says he's Kent's brother."

The police officer lowered his voice slightly, "It's Camilla's."

Lucard first showed a thoughtful look, which lasted only a few seconds, and then a smile appeared on his face. "Let him in."

He gathered up the papers on the table, put them in order and threw them into the file basket.

I have to say that Will gives people a very good first impression. He always makes people feel his gentle temperament, but only those who know him understand that it is only one side of his multiple personalities.

"Officer Lucar, I'm Kent's brother, and they said if I want to see him, I have to come to your place."

Officer Lucard took out a document to claim the body and stood up. "Yes, this is the process for claiming the body. Do you need to prepare yourself mentally?"

Will shook his head. "I've known him for thirty years. No matter what he becomes, it won't surprise me."

It was a very ordinary statement, but the emotions hidden in it made Officer Lucard somewhat silent.

"Come with me." He pushed the door open, explained a few things to the police officer, and then took Will to the morgue.

The morgue is behind the police station and it requires the use of cold storage.

The manufacturing level of the current cold storage is not that good and the noise is very loud. In order not to affect the work and rest of the police officers, there is a distance between them.

This gave them the opportunity to chat on the way.

"You are brothers." Officer Lucard asked casually.

Will pulled out a cigarette. "Want one?"

He did not refuse. Looking at the high-end cigarette in his hand, Officer Lucard had a faint smile on his face.

Will lit up a cigarette and said as he walked away, "We have a good relationship."

"Strictly speaking, our parents should be the first official immigrants from the empire."

"We were not even born yet, but they started doing business here." Seeing the confusion on Officer Lucard's face, he patiently explained, "Fur traders."

Officer Lucard showed an understanding expression. Whether it was the Federation, the Empire, or the upper class in other regions, there was a great demand for fur.

Wearing the fur of powerful animals on one's body is a practice similar to nature worship that has existed since the early days of human civilization.

At that time, the high priest or chief of the tribe would insert feathers on their heads and make hats out of tanned animal heads in the hope of obtaining powerful strength from nature.

These people still do this to this day, but they no longer desire the power of these animals. Instead, they use this method to show off their money.

Wealth is sometimes a manifestation of power. Officer Lucar once participated in a very special case. There was a very rare albino lion in the zoo in the neighboring state.

Pure white lions are rare in the world. A wealthy man wanted to turn this lion into a beautiful coat for himself, but the director of the zoo rejected the offer of three hundred thousand and said that this albino lion was "the wealth of all mankind" and would not be sold to a despicable capitalist.

Then the rich man simply offered to buy the lion's fur for 150,000 yuan. In less than two weeks, the lion was killed by the staff and transported out of the zoo.

Because the fur eventually pointed to Jingang City, he participated in this part of the investigation.

The fur business still has huge profit margins today, and he could imagine that Will's father should be a successful businessman, but he could also guess that something must have happened behind the scenes.

He didn't say anything, and Will continued, "We've always had a good relationship since we were born, because we are immigrants from the Empire. Even though we were born here, we were still often bullied, so we are very united."

"Later, unfortunately, my father encountered pirates because he traveled back and forth frequently, and then he disappeared."

"They don't acknowledge he's dead because that would allow the shareholders to empty the company before we inherit his shares."

"In the end, we didn't get a penny, but inherited a huge debt that didn't exist, and the bank also wanted to take away our house..."

He took a deep puff of his cigarette. That night, the father of the little jerk next door came to their house and offered to take them in, but their mother had to pay something for it.

The woman was reluctant to do so, and he tried to force his way into her secret garden, and the two boys ended up smashing the old bastard's head in with the sailing team's baseball bats.

Afterwards, their mother took all the charges, and a friend of his father represented them in the lawsuit for free. The court took into account the fact of "invasion of private territory" and, based on the principle of respecting the law, did not give her any substantial punishment and she was acquitted.

Later, a series of problems made her mentally unstable. She then began to abuse psychiatric drugs and eventually died of suicide a year later. At that time, only the two brothers were left in the world.

Listening to Will talking about these things that happened in the past, it was like he was telling Officer Lucard how good his relationship was with his brother, but it was also like he was telling himself that the last of his relatives had left him.

"I was hard on him sometimes, but I swear, I just didn't want him to do anything stupid and irreparable."

Will curled his lips, his eyes reddened again, "In the end, he still died."

Officer Lucard has brothers and sisters, but they have never experienced such a rough life. He cannot understand the heaviness and pain of this feeling and can only say a few words of comfort.

The rest of the journey was in silence. When the door of the morgue was opened, Officer Lucard took a look at him and only took him to the morgue after confirming that he was fine.

He pulled out a drawer from the freezer and there was Kent.

Will vomited when he saw his brother's skin was pale without any blood and so highly decayed that he was almost unrecognizable.

As a high-ranking gangster, he had tortured and killed more than one person and had seen dead bodies and rotting corpses, but he had never felt so uncomfortable!
He had violent nausea, retching, and vomiting.

The fishy and sour smell of the vomit made Officer Lucard take several steps back. He vomited for a long time before he took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth and stood up again.

At this moment his face looked almost the same as his brother's in the ice coffin, both were stupidly pale.

He endured the severe discomfort, not only the discomfort of seeing the highly decomposed corpse, but also the physiological reaction to the knowledge of the death of a loved one, and walked to the ice coffin.

Officer Lucard came over at this time, "Is this your brother?"

Will said nothing.

He waited a moment and asked again.

Will, who had just come to his senses at this time, nodded and said, "Sorry, this..." He covered his face and couldn't continue speaking. After cursing "Fuck", he punched the freezer.

There was a dent in the freezer from the hit he made, and there was some blood.

There was a bruise on his fist, and blood was flowing out, but he didn't care at all.

His voice suddenly became louder and more blunt, "Yes, yes, it was this bastard!" As soon as he finished speaking, he pursed his lips tightly and looked at Officer Lucard with a grim expression, "Who killed him?"

(End of this chapter)