Chapter 74 - Investigation (2)

28 December, Central Police Station, City K

"Gentleman, since I contacted each of you, I have secured some CCTV footage on the path that Colonel Rong and Miss Yao would have travelled from Club TJ's to the location where the fire services located Miss Yao's car burnt out. Our first task is to secure every piece of CCTV footage on this route we can to determine exactly what happened." With that John went to a map and pointed out the route he knew Matthew and Lexi would have taken towards Matthew's villa.

"Before you ask, I rather than allowing this to become a military investigation which will, as we know end up in the hands of Major Hung, is to pursue this as a police investigation as the car targeted was Miss Yao's car, not Colonel Rong's vehicle. The argument we can run is that he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"To give you full disclosure Miss Yao and Colonel Rong are personal friends. I attended High School with Colonel Rong and Miss Yao's brother Andrew. Importantly you should know in addition to being personal friends, they are heirs to major businesses within the City. Miss Yao, to Jax Corp and Colonel Rong to JL International. Additionally, Miss Yao owns the fashion business LY. So as you can imagine, in addition to the impacts of a military officer being involved, the impacts on businesses will be significant."

"We need to determine what exactly happened as soon as possible, but to protect both the information will be kept between the four of us plus a couple of key people within the military until we have them. If it becomes obvious that Colonel Rong was the target then we will hand it over, but until then …"

"Sir, it is us doing the investigation."

"Absolutely. If, before we get to a conclusion on that, if we need to make disclosures about a member of the military being involved, we will indicate that it is an Army officer with a administrative role at the base, unless General Man advises we can disclose anything else. We will not reveal is position has head of the local special forces group, even to anyone else outside this room."

"Yes Sir" came three voices.

"We will work in two groups, one of you with me and we will view the footage to determine not only who was involved but start backtracking the situation. The other will secure the footage and start from Club TJ's."

With that they broke into two separate groups, and sat at opposite ends in the room, working through and securing footage. John Nang, and his assistant started working from the time the fire services arrived at Lexi's burnt out vehicle and moving backwards. As they arrived at the time in the footage where Lexi's car was set alight, there was several bodies visible in the shadows, but the flash as the car exploded highlighted faces.

Taking each face, they started working through the images in the various identification databases that they had access. The last face, however struck fear in John Nang as he saw it. He quickly called the other two officers over, and said "Is that who I think it is?"

All three subordinates looked at the face, and they quickly realised who John was referring to. "Are you kidding me? He was meant to be on the other side of the country," came the surprised response from one.

"Let us not jump to conclusions, we better make sure that the databases agree first."

With a nod from John, the face was immediately compared to the databases, and it did not take long for an alert response to come through. It confirmed what they had already suspected, the terrorist known as the Devil as involved. The situation was even more serious than they originally thought. The head of special forces at City K's army base in the hands of a known terrorist. Two extremely wealthy families had members abducted by a terrorist who was known for demanding money.

John paused and started to speak "Gentleman I think we have a major problem. We need …"

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