Chapter 1502 - 1500: A Fortunate Mishap

Chapter 1502: Chapter 1500: A Fortunate Mishap

For the chairman of the People’s Party, everything is rapidly "spiraling out of control".

He thought these people would stand by him and fight against the Independent Party together, but now it seems, he made things seem too simple.

Perhaps leaving would be better, at least he could enjoy a peaceful retirement.

The money he gathered over the years is enough for him to comfortably spend the last moments of his life.

Just as he was considering whether to leave, a special investigation team was established at the Lemar National Police Bureau to investigate the assassination of the former Grand President.

In the entire team, except for the team leader, who is the director of the Lemar Police Station, and some ordinary members who are Lemarians, the rest are from the Federation.

These people are either from the FBI or the Security Committee, and in terms of solving cases, they are all experts.

After the Grand President had finished his busy schedule, he was slightly idle and began to take up the investigation of this matter, even stating on TV that he would get to the bottom of it.

Whoever did this deeply hurt the feelings of the Lemar people, as well as hurt the country.

No matter who he is or which country he belongs to, he must pay for his actions!

The Grand President’s stance has largely won over the goodwill of some former President’s supporters.

There are rumors in the market that the Grand President was the mastermind behind the assassination of the former President, but such brainless rumors are hardly believed.

The reason is simple, the current Grand President holds massive orders in his hands, with these orders, people would cast their votes for him.

Moreover, the Grand President was already in the process of impeachment, and it wouldn’t be long before he lost his presidential powers, so there was no need to pay such a heavy price for a certain failure!

Yes, assassinating others is a price.

Because the assassin knows about this, a possible intermediary knows about this, and the mastermind himself knows about it.

The more people who know, the more unstable and uncertain the factors are!

The price is far more severe than letting a soon-to-fail president go down, potentially affecting the Grand President for life!

Therefore, people did not easily believe these; in fact, they were more inclined to think it might have been the Federation people or Peng Jieao people who did it.

Previously, the Grand President had never mentioned wanting to clear up this case, and everyone stayed silent, after all, now that there are orders, life is better, no need... to dwell on these small things.

But the Grand President speaking for himself further cleared him of suspicion.

The daily work progress of the entire investigation team will be directly published in the "Vanguard Newspaper", and it is said some details would be published in "Vanguard" magazine.

Yes, Lynch’s newspaper and magazine company, if colonizing Nagariel was a direct and brutal colonization.

Then the attitude towards Lemar is gentle and not easily noticed colonization.

Just like a few years ago, Lynch said to Mr. Truman, when people from other countries watch our movies, sing our songs, read our books, it is hard not to agree with our views.

It’s hard not to agree with our values, moral views, and worldview!

When a person who has the same thinking mode as us can thoroughly understand what we say, can comprehend every action we take, from the heart agree more that they are a Federate more than recognizing themselves as a native of some other country.

Then is he still who he was?

No, he is a Federate, a Federate mentally!

As long as you give them a stage, give them an opportunity, they can showcase the most Federate side of themselves!

The invasion of culture is so unruffled, but compared to military elimination of people’s bodies, cultural invasion eliminates people’s souls!

The newspaper and magazine companies are just one of them; some cinemas being built and the laying of TV signal networks are key.

By then, people will become just like Federates, tired from a day’s work, then return home to lie on their sofa, enjoying the happiest time of the day.

Unknowingly being invaded by Federal culture deep into the marrow of their brains!

This is also the core of the entire plan.

Since the newspaper and magazine companies are easy to establish, these two institutions are the first to spread out.

The progress of the case pulls at the hearts of many people, of course, there is also some curiosity; people want to know who exactly, and how were these things accomplished.

The first issue of the column had the shooting scene; the columnist also introduced the characteristics and origin of the rifle——export product, gun number erased, and could not be traced back in records anymore.

Besides, there are some witness testimonies; these testimonies actually don’t have much value, as they are very trivial and blurry.

Not even anyone who could accurately describe what the assassin looked like or what clothes he wore.

The next day, the investigation team made some groundbreaking progress; they found approximately a quarter of an almost invisible shoeprint on the stairs.

The scene had been cleaned, but this shoeprint was left behind, an almost invisible shoeprint!

Subsequently, the investigation team expanded their investigation scope, started investigating surrounding the shoeprint, and temporarily pulled out sufficient police power to survey the surrounding ground.

In the end, they discovered a suspected footprint under the eaves of a back door of a residential house...

The investigation team’s progress reads like a seemingly dull yet actually fascinating detective novel, tightly gripping the hearts of Lemar people!

In fact, the column author himself is a little famous detective novel writer from the Federation.

He was invited to compile based on real cases, and for the sake of the payment, he did not refuse.

In these reports, the attention Lemar people paid to the case itself has exceeded that to the death of the President.

In other words, they no longer care about how the President died; they just want to know what new developments they can see tomorrow!

As is known, the Lemar Republic is a very small country; here, there are not many cobblers.

Because some people make their own leather shoes, this is also a necessary life skill in a poor and backward society.

They will use some materials to make shoes or boots for themselves; the ones with nice patterns on the soles are basically the work of the cobblers.

To sell their leather shoes more easily and at a higher price, having beautiful soles is inevitable!

Of course, not all shoes have shoe prints!

Such as the leather shoes attending formal events, like the ones used by the Gafura nobles for attending balls, the soles usually have no patterns.

Thus, every step they take on the ground would have a louder response!

However, to prevent them from falling, cobblers would nail anti-slip studs or anti-slip pads on the heels.

Only outdoor shoes need various anti-slip patterns.

And each kind of anti-slip pattern has a lineage.

Different cobblers will mark their works with distinctive family-identifying anti-slip patterns, so the investigation team soon found this cobbler, and they obtained a customer list from him.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, but soon the investigation met a new trouble, where they found the lead broke.

The reason is, the few customers they were tracking claimed their leather shoes were lost or stolen though the investigation team is still investigating these customers, but they already started trying to find a new direction.

Actually, the real problem was still that the investigation team was established too late, leaving many scenes and evidence almost completely destroyed.

But during the whole investigation process, some interesting things were found, as Lemar is a country consisting of many islands, so movement between islands requires taking a boat.

Movement between Lemar islands is...basically monopolized by each island’s shipping company.

The competition means among these shipping companies is actually quite simple: fighting black with black, playing hard.

If anyone dares to disrupt this business, they’ll find a way to sink the other’s boat, or sink both the people and boat into the water.

Over time, there is only one way to travel around the islands.

From the shipping company’s aspect, they obtained some information that a week before the Grand President was assassinated, a guy with a long box came to the Main Island by boat.

At that time, a crew member was curious and asked what it was, and the passenger said it was some kind of musical instrument, so the crew member lost interest.

Looking back now, this should be an important clue.

At least there is a suspect target now, and this suspect target can be tracked!

Meanwhile, the investigation team also discovered the person’s identity.

An official from the People’s Party, but his work is not on Lemar Republic’s Central Island.

Through investigating his work, there was no evidence proving he needed to come here, in other words, this trip was not within normal movement range.

Could this person be the criminal?

The investigation team did not immediately come to a conclusion but started investigating this guy more meticulously, such as by examining his accounts!

Previously, the Lemar National Bank was controlled by the government, which means it was controlled by the People’s Party themselves, but now it has been acquired by Lynch.

Lynch was very willing to cooperate with the investigation team’s inquiry and stated if the investigation team could find the culprit, he would be willing to offer a 100,000 Federation Sol reward to thank the investigation team.

Subsequently, while investigating the official’s account, they found significant abnormalities in his account flow!

Large sums of cash came in periodically, then flowed out to several accounts, eventually heading overseas!

This obviously problematic anomaly immediately caught the investigation team’s attention, and the newspapers quickly followed up.

Just when everyone thought this would become the key to solving the case, the investigated People’s Party official left behind a grievance-filled suicide note, then chose to commit suicide...

The situation seems to have become even more off track!