FBI detective

Chapter 798: Aging of Monitoring Equipment
5:30 pm, special investigation team office area.

Winslow pushed open the door of the office area holding a cardboard box and shouted at the top of his voice:

"Everyone, dinner is here, it's time to eat!"

“Wow, we’re finally here.”

"Thank you for your hard work."

Lacey and Michelle quickly stood up, took the cardboard boxes from each other, and distributed the food together.

Looking around, Winslow found that Roan, Mona and Chenier were not there. He frowned and asked:
"Luo An is still interrogating there?"

Michelle distributed the food to each agent's workstation one by one. Lacey placed Roan's portion on a blank space aside, spread her hands, and said helplessly:
"No, Luo An went to the trace examination department. The ones interrogating the stone now are Mona and Chenier."

Winslow looked helpless. He picked up a burger, tore open the packaging, took a bite, and said as he ate:
"This seems to be the first time that our special investigation team has spent so much time interrogating a guy."

"Nothing has been asked yet."

Michelle sighed helplessly. As she brewed coffee, she said:
“I initially guessed that Tonaka was mute and couldn’t speak.

But after checking the surveillance videos of several supermarkets near his home, it was found that Tonaka would communicate with others after buying things, so…"

"So, it's clear that he just doesn't want to cooperate with us and doesn't want to answer our questions."

Lacey frowned, picked up a pack of chicken rolls and took a big bite, chewing hard with a crunching sound as if she was biting the flesh of the guy in the interrogation room, snorted coldly and whispered:

"I suggested a solution to Luo An before. The surveillance camera in our interrogation room has aged and is not working well today. We need to fix it for a few hours.

But Roan rejected my suggestion.”

Compared with other people in the investigation team, Lacey, who came from the intelligence department, was very good at "exploiting the rules" and did not pay much attention to or abide by some rules and regulations.

In her opinion, as long as the goal can be achieved, occasional aging of equipment lines is nothing at all, after all, mechanical equipment will always make mistakes.

After understanding the meaning behind Lacey's words, Michelle looked strange, and Winslow was frowning. Before the two could speak, Luo An's voice suddenly rang out behind the three of them:
"Aging equipment is useless, Lacey."

Winslow, Michelle, and Lacey turned around quickly. Luo An walked slowly to the empty workstation with a file bag, put down the file bag, picked up the food, and ate while saying:

"The biggest problem is Tonaka himself."

Chenier and Mona also left the interrogation room and walked towards the office area at this time. Lacey hurriedly asked:
"How was it? Did the guy speak?"

Chenier didn't say anything, picked up the food and started to fill her stomach. Mona pointed to the interrogation record book without a single word, and said helplessly:
"What do you think?"

Lacey sighed deeply. Winslow and Michelle were also helpless. Mona licked her dry lips, took a sip of the water, turned her head to look at Luo An, and asked:
"Luo An, what should we do next?"

"Continue the trial."

Luo An swallowed the food, and his expression was not as panicked as others.

Tonaka Hyde was indeed the first uncooperative guy Roan had met in all his time working in the FBI.

No matter whether the interrogators asked, discussed, threatened, or introduced the customs and practices in the prison, Tonaka, sitting on the chair, kept his head down, saying nothing and not even a hum.

Luo An also suffered a setback from Tonaka. "Emotional perception" can indeed judge whether other people's words are true or false, but the prerequisite is that the other party needs to speak, and Tonaka did not say a word.

"Continue the trial?"

Hearing Luo An's words, Winslow, Michelle, and Chenier were all surprised. Mona frowned slightly. Lacey was stunned for a moment, and a flash of understanding flashed in her eyes. She whispered:
“The surveillance equipment is getting old, right?”

“No need to age yet.”

Luo An glanced at Lacey, who had not forgotten her original intention, speechlessly. Without waiting for anyone to continue asking, Luo An first opened the file bag, distributed the contents to everyone, and said:
“This is what the Trace Examination Department found in the apartment.

The items included a computer, a cell phone, a half-burned inverted cross, and a number of other miscellaneous items. Although the cell phone and computer had been set on fire, their key parts were still intact and had been repaired by the trace inspection department.

Mona, Michelle, try to find some useful clues from them later."

"no problem."

Michelle and Mona nodded in unison. Winslow picked up the half-broken inverted cross, looked at it, and said:

"It seems that Tonaka, the missing Ashiya, and the dead Leshas are indeed from the same organization."

Chenier looked around and asked:
"I didn't find the wooden necklace. Was it burned in the fire?"

Luo An swallowed his food, wiped his hands with a napkin, and said:
"That's probably the case, so we don't know Tonaka's number for now."

There was another silence. The food was quickly finished. Luo An patted Lacey on the shoulder and said:
"Michelle and I will interrogate in the morning, Chenelle and Mona will interrogate in the afternoon, and you and I will do it in the evening so that the others can rest."

"OK."

Lacey nodded repeatedly. She also wanted to know how Luo An planned to open the stone mouth. She quickly picked up the blank interrogation record book and followed Luo An into the interrogation room.

Entering the interrogation room, Luo An asked Lacey to sit on the chair opposite the interrogation table, and he moved a chair to the side of the interrogation table, sat down next to Tonaka, and said with a smile:
"Good afternoon, no, good evening, Mr. Tonaka."

Tonaka didn't say anything, nor did he even raise his head. He just stared at the table legs quietly.

Luo An was not in a hurry. After Lacey was ready, he smiled and asked:

"Tonaka, have you ever lived a life?"

"?!"

Hearing this question, Lacey was stunned for a moment. Before she could guess what Luo An meant, she heard Luo An continue to ask:

"Tonaka, which hand did you use for the first time? Which hand are you most used to?"

"Tonaka, have you ever owed anyone money? How much?"

"Tonaka, have you ever been beaten? Have you ever thought about revenge?
"Tonaka..."

Luo An kept asking Tonaka questions for more than ten minutes. All the questions he asked had nothing to do with the case. They were basically trivial issues about Tonaka's physiology, psychology, and life.

While Lacey was taking careful notes, she seemed to have vaguely guessed what Luo An was thinking, but she wasn't quite sure.

Luo An didn't care about Lacey's guess. He stared at Tonaka and asked a lot of questions slowly. Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows and asked:

"Tonaka, you killed Lesas with your own hands, right?"

Tonaka still didn't speak. Lacey frowned when she saw this, feeling that Luo An's plan seemed to have failed.

Luo An raised his lips slightly:
"You are right. Very good. Then the second question is, Ashiya was also kidnapped by you that night, right?"

The interrogation room was very quiet. Tonaka still didn't speak. Lacey frowned even more tightly, while Luo An's mouth corners raised even more. After a few seconds of silence, he smiled and nodded:

"You admit that you did it that night. Very good. Now let's move on to the third question. You have killed Ashiya to silence her, right?"

The room was silent for a few seconds, and Luo An was suddenly a little surprised:

"No? So you gave her to someone else?"

Tonaka: “…”

Lacey: “?”

(End of this chapter)