Chapter 88 - Tracking the path of the Devil (1)

28 December, Central Police Station, City K

Just after 6pm, having been collected by Warrant Officer Wang, General Man entered the investigation room for a updated meeting. John Nang, knew that he was exhausted, only being able to gather snatches of sleep, since he had started this investigation.

Escorting the General into his office, shutting the door behind them, John's secure mobile rang, and he answered it placing it on speaker phone.

"Police Liaison Officer Nang …"

"Just to interrupt you General Man is in my office with me."

"Thank you for letting us know. Given our conversation three hours ago, what can you tell us?"

"Major, I want to recap everything, so that we are all understanding the situation. Since it became obvious that Colonel Rong was missing we have been through so much CCTV footage to backtracking to find out matters. Going back to basics. Last night a group of family and friends gathered at Club TJ's, owned by Jax Corp. The reasons that was given for this was the celebration of an engagement and welcoming back Lexi Yao, who had permanently returned after being overseas for years."

"Of the group that gathered, I knew Matthew Rong would be present, because he directly told him, and having spoken to his brother Phillip, the only other people who knew that he would be present from the group were Phillip himself and Chester Yao. Speaking to his villa staff, other than the head of the staff, Adam Yang, none of them knew he was back until he arrived at the villa around 5pm yesterday. Before you say anything, Adam Yang has been employed by the Rong family for at least thirty years, and he opted when there was a split in the family with Matthew joined the military to be the butler for his household. He is totally loyal to Matthew. While it may seem self-serving, no civilian is likely to have been able to say anything that would have gotten to the Devil about his location. Unless it was leaked by someone in the military who is disloyal to the country, Matthew was not the target."

"Taking that logic, it has to be that Lexi Yao was being targeted for kidnapping, and Matthew was simply with her when it happened. If you want a wrong place wrong time argument. We tackled the CCTV footage two ways. I will leave the more simply part to later. Backtracking movements from the kidnapping site, the car that the Devil was in, followed Lexi's car from Club TJ's. Chester Yao, made sure I was given access to all CCTV footage from Club TJ's, which showed the Devil, followed Lexi to the Club and watched the club from outside until she came out."

"He had also followed her to the club and throughout the day. Yes a few times we lost him, but he was found back following Lexi. That makes my team certain that she was the target, not Matthew. Adding to that to the kidnapping of her son Dominic six months ago, our conclusion is that she was being targeted for kidnapping."

"Now I know this, given my personal connection to the Yao Family. I am Dominic's godfather, and kept talking to Andrew, Chester and Lexi Yao about not paying the ransom that was being demanded. We all know that paying the kidnappers ransom leads to more attacks on the family. However, Chester received footage, that showed Dominic being forced to watch as women were being s*xually assaulted and murdered in front of him, and he immediately paid the ransom."

"As Dominic's godfather I do not blame him, but as a police officer I knew the consequences. Of course, once the ransom was paid, Dominic was quickly returned, and he has been undergoing counselling since then to deal with what happened. That was part of the reason Lexi finally returned to the country. The other reason was related to her business. Lexi, in addition to being the Jax Corp heiress, owns the upcoming fashion brand LY, which she has relocated here."

Over the phone, came the question "You have had the intelligence provided by Major Hung's team, how does that fit with what you have found?"

"The only thing that they had correct was a civilian was kidnapping, the balance was a pack of lies. I suspect if we went back over the CCTV footage we can find for the last week or so, we will find the Devil, or someone tied to him following Lexi. This has been planned for a while, it was simply the right time for him to strike. But we have not done that at the moment, as it did not seem to be of a priority."

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