Chapter 73 - Investigation (1)

28 December, Central Police Station, City K

John Nang sat in his office wondering what had happened in the last few hours. Yes, there had been rumours of a potential kidnapping of someone, but they were so vague that even his intelligence had even just yesterday dismissed them as too difficult to consider acting on. He was grateful that he had been able to contact his three most trusted subordinates in quickly. It was going to be an issue as the day progressed minimising those who came in, as the last thing anyone needed was for this to get out.

He stopped and though about what to do and realised that most of his subordinates that would be in today had not recently spent any time on general policing duties. Today he would assign them to that task and use the excuse that the matter they were dealing with here was highly sensitive that no one could enter or be involved unless he personally approved. He hated separating his team, but this was a case of the needs must.

Looking out, he noticed the three subordinates had all arrived and had gotten themselves a coffee while waiting for him to come out. He took a breath and exited his office, and headed over to the entry door, locking it and putting in place the other necessary security measures. He quickly picked up an internal telephone and advised the reception desk as to who they were expecting and as soon as they arrived, he was to be let know before ending the call.

He paused, turned and sat down with his subordinates. He was trusting them with the lives of his friends, and this would be hard because if anything happened to them, he would not know what to do. "Gentleman, I am sorry to have called you in however, we need to investigate an incident that would have happened sometime between 11:45pm and 1:30am"

"The head of the local special forces at the army base, Colonel Matthew Rong has apparently disappeared. He and I were at a gathering at Club TJ's, and he left with another friend a Miss Lexi Yao, the owner of the fashion brand LY, and one of the three heirs to the Yao fortune. Her brother Andrew Yao heads the family company Jax Corp and her brother Chester oversees Jax Corp's entertainment division. Colonel Rong is the brother of Phillip Rong the CEO of JL International. I have arranged for the CCTV footage from Club TJ's to be provided and as much along the most obvious route to track the vehicle to where it was found."

Before he could continue there was a knock on the door, and John called out "One moment." He walked over, and unsecured the door before opening it.

It was the desk officer he passed as he entered the station "Sir, I have a Warrant Officer Wang, from the Army on a secure line. He says that he has a message from a General Man."

That was a name all four men knew immediately. General Man was the officer in charge at the Army base. Something must be serious to have sent someone here to the police station, rather than a phone call. John snapped "Put it through immediately."

As soon as the phone rang, John answered it "Warrant Officer Wang here sir. I have just spoken to General Man at the base and am on my way back. He has given me an order and information I am to give to you personally but has requested that until I get there you speak to no one at the base."

"I will wait for you to get here Warrant Officer Wang. The desk officer will be given instructions to show you through to our office as soon as you arrive."

With that John ended the call, realising that General Man must have the concerns that he and Matthew had about Major Hung, for him to give such an order to Matthew's adjunct. HE turned back to the desk officer and said, "As soon as Warrant Officer Wang arrives, he and whoever is with him is to be immediately brought here. We will open the door for them to come in."

After re-securing the door, John paused and looked around. This was going to be difficult to handle, as it was dragging his personal life into his working life and had been something, he did everything to avoid in his policing career, as he wanted to be judged on his work, not because of who he was.

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