Chapter 79 - Investigation (6)

28 December, Central Police Station, City K

When he re-entered the room, John confirmed how long before the additional two members would arrive, before saying "Gentleman, we need to start two lots of tracking. Firstly, we need to follow the vehicles leaving the scene through CCTV footage until we cannot locate them anymore, so we can give the military a direction for planning the rescue. Secondly, we need to backtrack, to confirm my view that Lexi Yao, not Colonel Rong was the target. Warrant Officer Wang, as the General trusts you, feel free to get involved as it will quicken up the process."

However, before anything could be said Warrant Officer Wang's secure phone rang. As he pulled it out, he immediately noticed the number and said, "Major Hung is calling," before answering the phone. "Major Hung, how can I help you?"

"Get Colonel Rong immediately. You collected General Man from the hospital, and I want to know what is happening, as I need to talk to him about something urgently."

"Major Hung, Colonel Rong's brother is unwell, and the Colonel needed to speak to the General privately. At this point in time the Colonel cannot be disturbed, and the General is on his way back to the base with the assistance of Police Liaison Nang."

"Do not argue with me Warrant Officer, I have given you an order, and if you do not hand this call to the Colonel within thirty seconds you will be on report."

"Major, I have my orders from Colonel Rong and General Man. The Colonel cannot be disturbed, as he needs to focus on his brother. He will be on base Monday, which is officially his first day on base."

"You are on report. Those orders are illegal, I am on duty, and I will see you removed from your position. You know my position, as long as my order is legal, it must be followed otherwise you are on report."

"Major I will not argue with you, but if you let me know what the issue is, I will try and interrupt the Colonel and see if he will call you back." John Nang, listening to the conversation realised that Matthew's adjunct had a backbone. In the past, when he had worked for Matthew's two most recent predecessors, he figured that he simply passed the time.

"Not going to happen Warrant Officer, you do not have clearance."

"Sir, as the Colonel's adjunct, I have top level clearance with special projects, the same as you Major. Now your options are you can tell me what you need me to pass on to the Colonel, or alternatively the General should not be far from being back at the hospital so you can speak to him about the matter."

"Do not tell me what to do, that is something else I will be adding to the charges you will face."

"Major, no disrespect …"

"You damn well have disrespected me through the whole conversation."

"Major as I was about to say, all I just did was give you options, nothing more nothing less, taking into account my orders from the Colonel and the General."

After a few seconds pause, Major Hung sharply said "Fine, tell the colonel he needs to call that police liaison officer, who the colonel knows that I view as totally incompetent and should be replaced, that we have some minimal actionable intelligence about the kidnapping of a member of a leading business family by a criminal group. The information says that it is going to happen in three or four days. However, and tell him this, we have some other information from confidential military sources that I am attempting to sanitise to protect those sources so that we can hand it on, but that is taking time."

"I will pass that on sir. Do you want me also to contact General Man, or will you do that yourself?"

"Just tell the Colonel, he needs to deal with it, I cannot deal with the Police Liaison I do not trust, and this is beyond the General to deal with. Have the Colonel call me once he has done that."

"I will pass it on, but I do not know if the Colonel will be able to call you back…" All that could be heard was that ending of the call.

John Nang, turned to Warrant Office Wang, "Do not worry Warrant Officer, the Major hates me as of my background, as much as he will quickly hate the Colonel for having the same background. He views that I am playing at serving the public unlike him who is a person that has risen through his own efforts. Totally the wrong impression, I earned my position. However, he knows more than he is telling either you or would have told the Colonel, but has given enough information to protect himself and his team."

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