Once, I wanted to be a good person

Hearing Little Fatty's words, Fang Ze couldn't help but glance at him and asked, "What happened?"

Little Fatty explained, "Here's what happened. Today, when you led the team to capture Qianfeng, Commissioner Hua Jian left the Security Bureau. He said he had fieldwork to do."

"But after he left, he didn't do any fieldwork. Instead, he went in circles, headed who knows where."

"The person tailing him almost got dizzy from all the circling. But eventually, they managed to keep up."

"Just then, suddenly, a person wearing a pig mask and holding a pig slaughtering knife appeared and then attacked him."

"He barely had any strength to resist and was knocked out and taken away."

As he said this, he seemed a bit annoyed, "The person tailing him wanted to continue following, but the attacker was so quick while carrying Hua Jian that he soon lost sight of them."

Listening to Little Fatty's description, Fang Ze's face revealed a thoughtful expression.

He activated the Void Eye to check Hua Jian's location.

These past few days, to ensure that even if Hua Jian fled, he could still track Hua Jian's whereabouts, he had secretly marked Hua Jian with the "Marking Spear". Now it came in handy.

Fortunately, Hua Jian's current location was not more than 20 kilometers away from Fang Ze.

So before long, Fang Ze had pinpointed Hua Jian's location with the Void Eye.

Just at a glance, Fang Ze had a pretty good idea. It was indeed the contact person from the Rejuvenation Society who abducted Hua Jian: the owner of the steamed bun shop.

Fang Ze couldn't help but smile. It seemed the Rejuvenation Society couldn't hold back after all.

With this, his plan to investigate + silence + frame could proceed.

Thinking this, he came back to his senses, and couldn't help but pat the still upset Little Fatty on the shoulder, saying, "No worries. This is not your fault."

"If that masked person let you follow him, that would be the real problem."

Saying this, Fang Ze reached into his pocket and pulled out several 200 Lini bills, then slapped them into Little Fatty's hands. Read new chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

Little Fatty hurriedly tried to decline in a fluster.

Fang Ze, however, held his hand and said, "It's not for you."

"It's for those friends of yours."

Fang Ze said, "I've heard from Nan Yi that they are ordinary people who came from Miaohua City to work in Emerald City."

"They abandoned their jobs to secretly tail someone for our mission, which is already tough on their livelihood."

"This money, share it among them, consider it compensation for their loss."

"As for you guys..."

At that, Fang Ze smiled and continued,

"You are my subordinates. I'm not going to give you money."

"I'm only going to give you a future!"

Bolstered by the prestige of Fang Ze leading them to capture suspects that afternoon, the envious looks from the numerous Reserve Commissioners at the training center, and Fang Ze's sincere words, Little Fatty immediately gripped the money tightly and nodded vigorously, "We'll work hard, Commissioner Fang Ze!"

Fang Ze smiled and patted Little Fatty's shoulder, saying, "Go on then."

Little Fatty nodded again and then ran down the stairs with the sound of "thud thud thud", holding the money.

Little Lily and Bai Zhi, standing aside, did not hear the conversation between the two, but they still saw the exchange of gestures.

So, when Fang Ze returned, Bai Zhi gave him a deep look and suddenly said, "You have more... personal charm than me."

Fang Ze glanced at her and teased, "I never thought you were giving a compliment with that."

Bai Zhi: #!

Seeing Bai Zhi rolling up her sleeves, Fang Ze hurriedly changed the subject, bringing up the recent incident. "The Rejuvenation Society has made a move."

Hearing Fang Ze's words, Bai Zhi indeed stopped what she was doing, and knowing the whole plan, she couldn't help but give Fang Ze a look and asked, "They took Hua Jian away?"

Fang Ze nodded.

Then he turned around, his gaze sweeping over the surveillance cameras in the hallway, and then asked, "These cameras are functional, right?"

"Can they serve as our alibi?"

Bai Zhi gave him a look and then said, "Of course..."

"However..."

She paused for a moment, "There are so many strange Awakening abilities out there. Clone-type abilities are a very common type of Awakening Ability."

"So... actually, an alibi isn't all that useful."

Fang Ze was startled for a moment and felt... that made sense.

He couldn't help but ask, "Then aside from disregarding alibis, how did you usually narrow down suspects in previous cases?"

"Purely through lie detection artifacts and tough screening?"

Bai Zhi spread her hands and said, "Not really."

"Actually, lie detection artifacts have quite a few limitations. They can't lie detect Awakeners with too strong powers, and there are many counteracting tools."

"Besides... if the person being lie-detected is under hypnosis or had their memory altered, it's still impossible to get to the truth."

Fang Ze paused, "Then what did you rely on to solve cases before?"

Bai Zhi smiled, not answering directly, but instead said, "So now you understand why everyone was so shocked when you solved two major cases, and why I treasure you so much?"

Fang Ze: ....

In that instant, Fang Ze truly realized.

So the Security Bureau used to rely on luck or bet that the other party didn't have any weird Awakening abilities to solve cases?

The solving rate is probably enough to make Gotham blush, right?

Suddenly, Fang Ze felt sad for the people of this world...

Perhaps seeing Fang Ze being too pessimistic, Bai Zhi finally explained a bit to him.

Because of the numerous strange abilities in this world, the case closure rate is indeed not high. However... the Security Bureau still does do a lot.