Shadow Empire

Chapter 790 A Friendly Way

Derek Hansen, the current director-general's junior, is very lucky.

He soon found a job at a law firm after graduating from college. After working as a criminal lawyer for several years, he passed the federal government's judicial examination at the invitation of his alumni and became a trainee prosecutor.

Because he himself was a top student who graduated from the Judicial Department of a university with alumni throughout the federal judicial community, he quickly passed two cases after taking office, proved his ability, and then became a formal prosecutor.

During his time as a prosecutor, he also worked on a lot of cases and sent some criminals to prison.

But he is not a rigid person, and he has used some controversial means to win in some cases.

It was precisely because of this that he was noticed by the current director of the FBI. After a conversation with him about "what is justice", he was transferred from the prosecutor's office to the FBI and entrusted with important tasks.

After this discussion, he chose Likale State as his main work direction.

He did not choose to go to the Maintenon branch, the capital of Likale State, but chose to come to Jingang City.

He had done some detailed investigations in the early stages and he was very clear that the biggest "hidden danger" in Likale State now was not the corrupt government workers or corrupt party members in Mantenon.

Instead, it is the "Lance Family" hidden in Jingang City, which controls the order of the entire Likalai State in a place that people cannot see.

If the problem of the Lance family is not solved, the "law and order" of Likalai State will never be solved.

If they can solve the problem of the Lans family, then Likalai State will be under their control.

Derek was well aware that this "freak" FBI was heading in a direction no one could imagine.

This is also the reason why he is willing to give up his job as a prosecutor and move into law enforcement. From a "politician", he became a "law enforcer". This is a kind of "decline", but as long as everything goes as he wants, isn't it an improvement?
This is not only his senior's problem, but also his own problem.

He sat on the sofa, crossed his legs, and looked at the five "newbies" in front of him.

His eyes lingered on the faces of these people one by one, and finally stopped on the last young man who looked very handsome.

"What kind of job do you think this is?"

"Easy, respectable, and glamorous?"

"Tell me what you think of your work."

he asks.

The five young men did not have any serious expressions on their faces; they were all smiling and did not feel nervous at all.

The young man on the far left smiled and said, "I think this is a just job. The purpose of our trip is to solve the largest local criminal organization."

"Catch their leader and bring him to justice!"

“People will applaud our actions and we will recognize the heroes of this city!”

Derek could tell when he said these words that there was not a single bit of "acting" in him; he really thought and considered it that way.

Maybe this is what young people are like, they think what they see is their world.

He will not discourage this kind of emotion. He was also a young man once. If he had not joined a law firm but went directly into the judicial system, he might have been the same as this young man.

Only after seeing those in power using money and power to trample on the laws of this world did he understand that passion has no meaning except to make oneself cold.

He looked at the second person, who was a little shy. "I just graduated a few years ago. I don't know much about these things, and I have never been involved in law enforcement work before."

"But I believe..." He glanced at Derek, "Under the director's leadership, we will be able to defeat evil."

Director Derek couldn't help laughing, and several people around him also laughed. Someone jokingly scolded, "You are just trying to please the director," but he just smiled and didn't refute.

What he said was really in his mind. What do these young people know about this kind of work? In the end, doesn't it still require the director to take the helm?

The one in the middle is a female agent, 26 years old, who graduated from college four years ago and works in the Procuratorate.

She has a sweet appearance, which is in line with the characteristics of the middle and upper classes in the Federation during this period. Generation after generation of improved hybrid genes has enabled the middle and upper classes to always obtain better genes to fill their own vacancies.

In the middle and high levels of the Federation, it is rare to see those with strange or very ugly looks, unless they come from a large family that prohibits marriage with outsiders - no one knows what the result of a close relative marriage will be.

The four guys were all peeking at her. Women are always the focus of attention.

"They all said what I wanted to say. In short, I will work hard to make myself worthy of this job."

The fourth person said something similar, and when it came to the last person, his face showed a kind of hatred that could be seen, "I will catch him and send him to the electric chair!"

Although he didn't say who "he" was, everyone here knew that man was the head of the Lance family, Lance White.

Chief Derek nodded. "That's all very well said."

He first affirmed their ideas, but then made a turn, "But you still don't understand our work very well."

"Our job is to bring criminals to justice while ensuring our own safety."

"I am different from those officials who encourage you to sacrifice yourself. I will not encourage you to achieve the victory of justice through self-sacrifice."

"What does it matter whether justice prevails or not, if a person dies?"

"When you sacrifice yourself, your world will forever remain at the moment when justice has not yet triumphed, and it will forever stop at that second."

"So, what we need to do is to protect our own lives and try to see the moment when justice prevails."

He smiled, changed his sitting position, and lit a cigarette. "This job is very dangerous. You need to be aware of this."

"Although we are law enforcers, we are no stronger than the gangs here. They dare to kill law enforcement officers and don't care at all whether you are an FBI agent or a Prohibition agent."

"So we must be careful in our investigation. We cannot reveal any loopholes. We cannot alert the other party before we have collected enough evidence!"

Seeing some unconvinced expressions on the faces of several young people, he couldn't help but smiled and shook his head, "If you dare to stand on the street and say this, you will investigate the Lance family and send Lance to the trial seat."

"Then in a few hours, Lance's people will show up where you live. They will give you a lot of money, or let you make your own requests."

"No matter what you ask for, as long as it's not outrageous, they will satisfy you."

"Money, sex, power, anything is fine."

"But if you resist corruption and refuse to join them and become part of their pyramid of power, then congratulations."

"Because the next time we met, I saw your black and white photos in the newspaper."

"This is Jingang City!"

He exhaled a puff of smoke. The situation in Jingang City was worse than other places!

Because there are many gangs in other places and there is competition and confrontation between the gangs, as long as the law enforcement agencies do not offend all of them, they can still establish some advantages.

But in Jingang City, everyone from the grassroots dock workers to the mayor and even many people in the state government are Lance's "friends".

They form a strong, electrified chain of interests.

If you accidentally touch it, you will get an electric shock.

Evidence is of no use to someone like Lance. He can let the gunman kill someone, and then the other person will lay down his weapon, kneel down, and confess his guilt.

In fact, the federal government has many legal provisions that favor criminals, and many of them can reduce the sentencing results for criminals.

And if it doesn’t work in this state, they can help you hold the court in another state.

Because federal and local laws vary, the strictest state requires the minimum age for repeated theft to be 20 years, while in relatively lenient states, theft only requires paying a fine and admitting guilt.

For these top criminal groups, they have plenty of ways to exonerate their people.

An unknown person was imprisoned for several years or even more than ten years, in exchange for the fall of a law enforcement officer, a rising star. This is the worst front-line law enforcement environment.

Director Derek was afraid that these young fools would make the worst mistake right from the start, so he introduced some dark sides that they had not been exposed to. What he said was very useful, at least the expressions of several people in front of him became panic and uneasy, and they felt scared.

Especially when Chief Derek told them that for someone as severe as Lance, killing was no longer a crime, they truly realized what Chief Derek wanted them to realize.

A kind of despair.

A kind of coldness bathed in the sun, and deep despair!

"So...what should we do now?"

The only girl was already very uneasy, and Chief Derek smiled a lot when he saw that his goal had been achieved.

"Don't be so uneasy. I tell you all this because I don't want you to think that those evil forces will be afraid of you and give in to you just because you play the role of law enforcers."

"In front of these top evil forces, we are actually no different from ordinary people. Our status is not enough for them to condone us and threaten them."

"So before the decisive force appears, it's better for us to be invisible."

"If someone finds you and says they want to be your friend, and gives you some money, or some other benefit, and asks you to cooperate with them."

"Don't refuse, you can even ask for more!"

He couldn't help laughing as he spoke. "Don't be afraid when you get the money. Write a report and deposit the money into the Bureau's account. It will be counted as the Bureau's additional expenses."

"If anything unexpected happens in the future, I will prove to you that you are all good kids."

Finally, the handsome young man couldn't help but ask, "Chief, if Lance wants to give you money to cooperate with him, will you accept the money?"

Chief Derek immediately asked back, "Why not?"

"If I don't accept it, am I telling Lance that he and I are not on the same page?"

"If I don't accept it, will he feel that I am a threat to him and start to guard against me, investigate me, or even plot to get rid of me?"

"My purpose here is to bring him to justice, and nothing can stop me until I do that."

"Even if someone misunderstands me, let them misunderstand!"

"When I stand in the witness stand and present evidence against him, all misunderstandings will be cleared up!"

"So kids, don't think about being a hero right away. All heroes are either for show or to make up for those who have died."

"There are no real living heroes!"

“Take care of yourself first, then think about work.”

This was one of the rare times Chief Derek spoke so much. He really didn't want these young alumni, whom he had high hopes for, to become the ones who died accidentally in a report because of their "naivety".

The more difficult the opponent is, the more you need to disguise yourself and be careful.

"There will be about a dozen or twenty colleagues transferred from other states in the future. I am not confident in employing the people here, so I applied for out-of-state personnel."

"Each of you will lead a team. Our initial investigation will not target the Lance family and Lance White, but other gangs, some old unsolved homicides and missing persons cases."

"We must investigate carefully, and seal the files once we have the results. Don't do it right away, and don't give them the impression that we are very aggressive."

"It's better for them to still think that we are just decorations, wandering around every day."

"I still say the same thing. Our target this time, the evil forces in this city, are more treacherous, more cunning, and more brutal than anything you have ever encountered or heard of!"

"Protect yourself first, and then seek justice. That's the only advice I can give you."

He took one last puff of his cigarette and stubbed it out in the ashtray. "Okay, go clean up the office. We'll go to the restaurant to eat tonight to celebrate your first day of work!"

They cleaned the entire investigation bureau inside and out, and it was almost time for dinner when they finished.

Chief Derek had heard that Anderson Restaurant's dishes were very famous in Jingang City, so he directly took the five young people to Anderson Restaurant for dinner.

The high-end Anderson Restaurant has always maintained its noble and low-key style. Dim lights and some plants or shapes separate each table and reserve privacy for each table of guests.

Chief Derek is not poor, he is not the kind of person who pursues pure justice, he has his own style, but even so, when he looks at these outrageous prices, he still feels that he is not really rich.

However, as the director, today was his first day at work, and he needed a sumptuous dinner to get these young people into the mood, so he could only reluctantly order a table of dishes.

The total amount is probably more than two hundred yuan.

Falk.

He has never eaten such expensive food. Is the consumption in Jingang City so outrageous?

After the waiter wrote down the menu, he seemed to remember something and asked, "Sir, would you like to bring over the wine you stored here last time?"

liqueur?
Several young men looked at Chief Derek, and Chief Derek knew what the waiter meant.

Because Lance and the stubborn old man Anderson are acquainted with each other, and his manager is indeed a smart man, the fact that Anderson's restaurant can sell alcoholic beverages almost semi-openly is no longer a secret.

Of course, they also have their own excuses to avoid risks.

Even when they encountered Prohibition agents with bad brains, they were only committing the lesser crime of drinking in public.

However, the restaurant will hire a lawyer to explain to the judge that this place is not a public place because of the obstructions around it.

Drinking your own stored alcohol in private does not violate the provisions and supplementary clauses of the constitutional amendment. It is not a fucking crime!
See, federal laws often have backdoors.

Chief Derek thought about teaching these young men a lesson, and he thought for a moment, "What whiskey did I store?"

The waiter raised his eyebrows and said, "You have a bottle of Silver Lion whiskey stored here. It's the one that cost four hundred dollars."

Mr. Derek's heart was bleeding. "Okay, give us one glass each."

The waiter then recorded the bill and turned away.

Several young people looked confused, and their questions seemed to be written all over their faces.

Didn’t they say… that alcohol is prohibited?

Director Derek shook his head. "You have to get used to this, because this is the real society, not what some people in this society want you to see."

Soon a sumptuous dinner and a glass of Silver Lion whiskey were served to each person. Silver Lion whiskey is just a mid-range whiskey. The factory price at Lans is one hundred and fifty yuan, and it is sold for three hundred to three hundred yuan in bars and four hundred yuan in restaurants, which is very reasonable.

In fact, there is also Bronze Lion Whiskey, which has a factory price of 90 yuan and can be sold for more than 200 yuan in bars.

As for the Golden Lion?

The factory price is now more than 200 yuan, and it is sold in bars on the market for about 600 yuan per bottle, and in restaurants for 750 yuan per bottle.

People were sipping whiskey, eating perfect dinners, and for the first time, they got a taste of a different, real society!

Everyone enjoyed the meal very much, and with the embellishment of drinks, everyone felt a little bit excited.

When people drink too much, they talk a lot of nonsense. The people in the restaurant were not disgusted by these drunk young people. Instead, they showed an expression of understanding.

When Chief Derek came to the door and took out his checkbook to pay, the manager smiled and said, "Chief Derek, someone has already paid for your dinner."

Chief Derek sobered up instantly. He frowned and looked back, but couldn't see anything.

Each table was hidden by the decorations and ornaments. He turned back and asked, "Can I know which table the guests are from?"

"Maybe it's my friend. I can go over and say hello to him."

He tried to find out who it was, but the manager said bluntly, "It's Mr. Lance..."

At this moment, the five young people all shuddered, and in an instant a chill ran down their buttocks to the top of their heads, and the girl even peed a little!
(End of this chapter)