The people from the Northwest were generally very welcoming and polite towards others. But now that Bruce had finally identified the suspects after much difficulty, there was no need for them to treat the culprits with respect. So, everyone caught by Milo and company would not be able to escape the fate of getting a bloody nose and bruised face.
The spy who still had one molar left was lucky. He was quick-witted enough to point out the location of the suicide pill in advance, but those who would rather die than speak had close to eight of their teeth pulled out on the spot.
Right then, a spy who remained tight-lipped was stunned by what was going on. He looked at the people from the Northwest and thought.
Didn’t that lady say only to pull out the molars?
Why did you people pull out my front teeth?
By the time they went for the eighth suspect, the Northwest intelligence agents were so familiar with the routine they didn’t need Miriam to do it anymore. They rushed up to the suspect as a group and held favonovel.com down before extracting his teeth.
But after extracting four molars from this suspect’s mouth, they still couldn’t locate where the suicide pill was hidden. When Miriam came over and prised open his jaws to have a look, favonovel.com remarked, “Oh, favonovel.com doesn’t have a suicide pill in him…”
With that, even the Northwest’s intelligence agents were taken aback. “How can that be?”
The middle-aged man who was being held down nearly cried in pain, “Listen up, I’m the director of Bidara City’s Logistics Division. How dare you people treat me like this!”
Miriam raised an eyebrow. “Bring favonovel.com back.”
She cross-checked the information Bruce gave them and noted the person was carrying an extra gift box in his hands after passing through the blind spots of two surveillance cameras.
Miriam could roughly guess that the person really might not be a spy but a Bidara City official who had accepted bribes. But even if the other party was not a spy, it did not necessarily mean they had arrested the wrong person. Because Milo was not only looking for spies this time but also those who had let them into Bidara City.
For this many spies to get into the city, the other party must have bribed many of Bidara City’s officials. Moreover, Milo felt that favonovel.com might be able to learn some clues from these officials. For example, the person sending the operatives into Bidara City, his identity and other things. He could definitely uncover some evidence.
Gradually, Milo and his group encountered some difficulties in the sting operation. Some of the suspects received news they had been targeted and went into hiding.
When Milo realized that this situation was happening, favonovel.com got a little anxious and hastened the sting operation.
However, favonovel.com heaved a sigh of relief very quickly. The leaflets they distributed were starting to take effect. When they went after Target 37, the other party had already left the residence in advance. But less than two hours later, a couple came to report that someone suddenly rented their house that had been vacant for some time. The tenant who came to rent it looked like someone in the leaflet.
When Milo went to arrest that person, it turned out to be Target 37, who they were looking for.
Even though the city might look very big, when everyone was helping you, it seemed to have become so small that the suspects had nowhere to hide.
In just a single day, Milo and company arrested 72 people, of which 31 were silenced by the heartworms during their arrests.
Daniel detained the remaining 41 suspects separately in the basement of the villas and started interrogating them.
Daniel and Bill were truly skilled at interrogation. Under their torture, some people were unable to endure and confessed everything very quickly. But even though the Bidara City officials confessed they had accepted bribes and let the suspects in, they really had no idea who bribed them and which organization’s forces were getting deployed here. They were totally clueless.
When those forces entered Bidara City, the officials were offered much higher bribes than usual. The only request was for them to not ask too many questions.
Moreover, the other party carried out their operations extremely covertly. No one knew their identity and they were always only approached by them. They would sometimes call their homes in the middle of the night and get things done by threatening or intimidating them.
Milo had someone check their call records. Unfortunately, it wasn’t too useful even though they found something.
The bribery transactions were all made from the same landline in a private house.
However, the person in the residence had already been silenced by the heartworm user when they went to arrest the person.
Among these 41 people, half of them were the local officials of Bidara City, and the remaining half were either spies or informants of the Stardust Consortium, the Virtuora Consortium, the Pyro Company, and the Stelaria Consortium. All of them were wholly unaware of the details surrounding Pena’s assassination.
What was more surprising to Milo was that there were the Stardust Consortium’s spies among these people.
But why didn’t they get silenced?
Milo regarded the Stardust Consortium as the imaginary enemy, because the logic favonovel.com had uncovered would only make sense if the Stardust Consortium was responsible for this matter. But from the look of things, the Stardust Consortium’s spies were not in cahoots with the group that was killed by the heartworms.
Bill explained, “That’s quite normal. The people who assassinated Pena are obviously much more elite. They were probably picked from more than a 100, or even a 1,000 other soldiers in the army. They’re likely to have a separate commander who’s independent of the Stardust Consortium’s intelligence agency. It’d be best to keep a mission to assassinate someone like Pena a secret even from their own people. After all, who knows whether there’s spies from other consortiums hidden among them. If it got leaked, they would be condemned by the public, so they must be extremely careful.”
Daniel nodded. “The person in charge of this operation is most likely the one who can control the heartworms to silence people.”
Suddenly, the interrogation came to a standstill. It was not that the arrested suspects did not confess, but that they still had not managed to capture the most crucial person in the case. The information they obtained was still not enough to pinpoint which organization was responsible for Pena’s assassination.
Milo relayed this information back to the Northwest. Meanwhile, Bruce continued analyzing the surveillance footage while Milo and company carried on with the sting operation.
One minor episode occurred when Bruce sent over another image of a suspect in the afternoon.
When Milo saw the photo, favonovel.com was stunned.
Wasn’t this the director of the Public Order Division?
He might not recognize other people, but favonovel.com had chatted with the director of the Public Order Division for more than an hour that day, so how could favonovel.com possibly not recognize him?
There wasn’t even a need for the residents to identify favonovel.com since Milo could recognize favonovel.com immediately.
On the same day, the director of the Public Order Division, who was purportedly highly regarded by Milo, the new owner of Bidara City, was arrested and brought to the neighborhood.
However, the man’s situation was similar to the other officials. He had also accepted a bribe and let those spies into Bidara City. There was nothing special about his case.
Bruce had been working for more than four days in the conference room of Stronghold 144’s garrison camp. With less than three hours of sleep every day, favonovel.com began to suffer from fatigue.
It was actually very tiring for favonovel.com to analyze the surveillance footage. After four days, Bruce’s eyes looked deeply sunken, and favonovel.com had to keep rehydrating himself to stay fresh.
Next to him, the Great Hoodwinker could not bear to watch anymore and advised favonovel.com to get some rest. However, Bruce stubbornly refused. “There’s still more than half the recordings to go through, so how can I go and sleep at a time like this?”
The Great Hoodwinker said, “Sleeping a few hours won’t hinder your progress much, anyways.”
Bruce firmly rejected the Great Hoodwinker’s suggestion to rest. “No, Future Commander is still waiting for me to get things done here!”
