boyutpedia Chapter 66 I Want to See Agent Luo Qiu
Chapter 66 I Want to See Agent Luo Qiu
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While the exhibition hall was bustling with activity, a door on the second floor was quietly opened.
Inside the door, someone peeked out, glanced around the corridor to make sure there was no one there, and then started running downstairs.
"I need to see Detective Law Chau."
The person running down the stairs said this to the patrolling detectives guarding the stairwell.
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"Mr. Edmund."
In the small room previously used for questioning, Luo Qiu was still sitting in his previous spot, and Edmund sat down opposite him.
Actually, Luo Qiu was not surprised by Edmund's sudden arrival.
The other party was clearly a timid person, and during the previous questioning, Luo Qiu could sense that the other party was hiding something.
At this moment, he only hoped that the other party hadn't hidden much. If the other party really knew the whole story of Derek's death and knew a lot about the jewelry, he would be in a difficult situation.
"Is there any clue you want to share, Mr. Edmund? Please feel free to speak your mind."
Following procedure, Luo Qiu maintained a patient expression, while Smith beside him nodded, pen in hand.
Seeing this scene, Edmund swallowed hard, his courage growing.
"Actually, what I'm going to talk about happened a week ago, it's related to Derek, but I don't know..."
"That day after get off work, Derek suddenly invited me to a restaurant on Oak Street, where a meal would cost at least 20 kroner. To be honest, before that, Derek and I weren't particularly close, but that day he said he'd treat me..."
"When we got there, he ordered a ton of food, and we started eating. After we finished, he did pay the bill, which I remember was 62.5 kroner. Then, just when I thought that was the end of it, he pulled me aside and said he had something to ask of me."
"Oh, what is it?" Luo Qiu perked up upon hearing this.
"He said that the alarms in our pavilion have been going off too frequently lately. They go off twice an hour, and each patrol takes fifteen minutes, which is too much trouble. He advised me to patrol alone from now on and even asked me to put pressure on Kaspian with him."
"I said at the time, this won't work. Even if Caspian agrees, Mr. Carter won't. But then he said that Mr. Carter wouldn't care about these things and that I should just follow his lead."
"I had a bad feeling about that. I felt like Derek was going to do something bad, but he told me not to worry about it and that he'd give me a thousand kronor after the mission was over..."
"That's what he said? Hmm... Mr. Edmund, the matter of one thousand rank is not your problem, please continue."
"Later, after I got to work that day, Derek and I said those things to Caspian. I felt like he figured something out. Caspian is educated; he knows more than I do, and he's definitely thinking more than I do. And in the days that followed, when it was my turn to rest, I always noticed Caspian following Derek. That's why they argued."
"Derek was definitely killed by Caspian. Caspian must have known something Derek had done, so he poisoned him. Around 5 a.m. last night, Caspian went on patrol, and that's when I noticed something was wrong with Derek. Later, Caspian even spilled coffee on Derek to check on his condition..."
"Mr. Edmund, Mr. Edmund...please calm down."
Luo Qiu waved his hand, quickly suppressing Edmund's emotions.
The other party is already quite loud; if they raise their voice any louder, the people upstairs might hear them, and that would be bad. Besides, what follows is just Edmund's imagination and has no real meaning.
For Luo Qiu, the only thing he could be certain of from this conversation was that Derek had indeed participated in the operation. This also confirmed his previous suspicions.
"Mr. Edmund, let's stop here for now. I will investigate what you've said thoroughly. You can get a good night's sleep until the results are in."
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"You didn't write down what you just said, did you?"
After Edmund left, the first thing Roche did was review Smith's notes to make sure he hadn't recorded anything "redundant" before he sat down again.
He was right; having patrolled together, Edmund did indeed know something. It wasn't in vain that he had separated everyone into individual rooms, giving them space to let their imaginations run wild.
But at this point, Edmund's value was gone. He wasn't a clever person and couldn't hide much; Luo Qiu felt that what he had just witnessed was the limit of his understanding.
So, if that's the case for him, what about Caspian?
At that moment, in a room on the second floor, Caspian was quietly listening to the sounds outside.
To the left of his room was the room of his supervisor, Mr. Carter, and to the right was a staircase leading to the first floor.
Edmund had passed by his room earlier, going downstairs quietly, but he had heard it. Just now, he had also heard Edmund walking back to his room through the hallway.
But now, there was no sound coming from outside the room. And there was no sound coming from Mr. Carter's room either.
Kaspian became anxious.
He did have certain actions before today, but not only against Derek, but also against Mr. Carter.
He always felt that Mr. Carter and Derek had some secrets that no one else knew, and he wanted to know and understand them.
But now that Edmund has gone downstairs, Mr. Carter is completely unmoved?
According to his original plan, this shouldn't be the case; of the group, Mr. Carter should be the most nervous. With Derek dead, and the FBI deploying so many people to investigate, new evidence could be discovered at any moment…
Wait, could it be that Edmund also discussed something with Carter?
Kaspian couldn't help but let his mind wander.
First of all, Edmund is a fool, and everyone can see that. He saw right away when Derek tricked him into doing something. Being so easily fooled, it's no big deal if Mr. Carter manages to scare him with a few words.
Think about how Edmund took that strange step back before Derek died, and it just so happened to touch my arm...
So, it couldn't be Edmund who spoke ill of him, could it? What if Edmund and Mr. Carter insist that he killed Derek?
Thinking about this, Kaspian couldn't stay still any longer.
After pacing back and forth in the room twice, thinking about what was about to happen, he gritted his teeth and quietly opened the door.
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At that moment, there was no one in the hallway, and his room was the closest to the stairs.
Leaning out, carefully closing the door, Kaspian immediately ran downstairs.
"I need to see Inspector Law. I have a lead to share about Derek's death."
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