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At this point, Qiu Tu glanced at Chen Feng and said, "Yesterday, Detective Chen Feng obtained the relevant evidence based on the clues and physical evidence provided by the suspect."

"So, as long as we finish taking the last suspect's statement today, the whole case will be successfully concluded."

"Everyone, let's work hard today."

"Once the case is closed tomorrow, we'll give everyone a few days of paid leave!"

"Yay! ヾ(??▽?)ノ" Upon hearing Qiu Tu's words, Song Qing, the master of reverse curling, was the first to jump up and cheer in support.

The other agents also laughed and agreed.

Nobody dislikes taking a vacation. If people could get paid without going to work, probably 99% of them would choose to stay home and rest.

Thus, after boosting morale, Qiu Tu led his confidants in a grand procession to the detention room of the Political Department on the 9th floor.

Because Wang Xi and Jia Wei both possess cataclysmic powers, and the Security Department lacks an area to detain such prisoners, they can only be temporarily held in the Political Department's detention room.

However, when they arrived at the political department's detention room, something strange happened—Javi was nowhere to be found.

"What on earth is going on?! Where are our prisoners?!"

Qiu Tu now has a strong and well-equipped force, so when he discovered that Jia Wei was not in his guard cell, Cao Dabiao didn't even need to show his face. He went directly to the detective in charge of the guard cell with his badge and questioned him.

Faced with Cao Dabiao's questioning, the detective's face was filled with embarrassment and difficulty.

He glanced at the dozens of agents standing behind Qiu Tu, then at Qiu Tu himself, who was surrounded by admirers, and his face showed great hesitation.

After a moment, he sighed deeply, then walked past Cao Dabiao and jogged to Qiu Tu, whispering, "Sir... I can tell you where the prisoner is. But... you absolutely mustn't say it was me who told you."

Hearing the agent say that, Qiu Tu's face lit up with a smile. He reached out and hooked his arm around the agent's neck. "I remember your name is Wang Dawei, right?"

“When I came to release Section Chief Bai, you were the one who opened the door for me.”

Upon hearing Qiu Tu accurately call out his name, Wang Dawei was immediately overjoyed.

Seeing this, Qiu Tu smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm a man of my word. Since I promised not to tell anyone, I definitely won't."

"So, tell me, what exactly happened?"

Upon hearing Qiu Tu's words, Wang Dawei's face finally showed no more hesitation. He gritted his teeth, stamped his foot, and whispered to Qiu Tu, "Sir, actually... someone wants to steal your credit."

Upon hearing Wang Dawei's words, Qiu Tu exclaimed "Oh?", his eyes flashing as he guessed who it was. "Section Chief Zheng? Oh, no... I should say Director Zheng?"

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Seeing that Qiu Tu had guessed who was stealing the credit, Wang Dawei's eyes showed a hint of surprise, and then he quickly nodded.

After nodding, he cautiously said, "Sir, actually, after the promotion appointment came down this morning, Vice Minister Zheng brought people to the detention room."

"He used his position as deputy head of the police department as a reason to try to take the prisoner away."

"At the time, I didn't really want to agree. After all... the rules of the Political Department are that whoever arrests the person is also responsible for interrogating them."

"You arrested this person, so you should be the one to deal with him."

"But he said that as the new deputy director who succeeded Director Qin, he was also under the jurisdiction of Deputy Director Qin."

"Besides a few police stations, the most important case under Vice Minister Qin's jurisdiction is the [August 8.16th pharmacy robbery].

"Therefore, he has the authority to take over and investigate this case."

At this point, Wang Dawei said with a look of disdain, "Although he spoke with great righteousness, we all know that he just came to steal the credit!"

"The pharmacy robbery was such a big case, you must have made a lot of contributions. You've brought all the suspects back, and the case is almost completely solved."

"But then he suddenly interfered and launched a surprise interrogation, which was really unethical."

Wang Dawei paused, then said with an awkward smile, "But... he does have the authority, and... he's our boss."

"So we didn't dare to refuse, so we had no choice but to open the door for him and take the prisoner away."

At this point, Wang Dawei looked at Qiu Tu and said awkwardly, "Sir, we had no choice but to do this, please don't blame us."

In the workplace, one is often not in control of their own destiny.

Qiu Tu could understand this feeling, so he patted Wang Dawei twice and said, "Don't worry, this has nothing to do with you."

At this point, he added, "I should even thank you for providing us with such important intelligence."

After saying that, he looked Wang Dawei up and down again, and then said, "I think you're pretty good. I'll transfer you to my side when I have time."

Wang Dawei leaked the information to Qiu Tu in order to get in Qiu Tu's favor. Now that he had received the promise, he was overjoyed.

He quickly and excitedly saluted Qiu Tu, "Thank you, sir!"

Seeing this, Qiu Tu patted him on the shoulder again with a smile. Then he turned to his trusted subordinate and said, "Alright, it seems our newly appointed deputy minister is very interested in our case."

"Then let's go watch him interrogate someone."

After saying that, Qiu Tu took the lead and walked towards the interrogation room.

Even Ding Xiaoqi, the most ungrateful of Qiu Tu's confidants, has a loyalty level of 70.

So even knowing that they were going against their former/current superiors, they still followed Qiu Tu without hesitation, heading towards the interrogation section in a grand procession.

Seeing this, Wang Dawei looked on with envy: In chaotic times, who wouldn't want to be a member of a cohesive small group?

Not to mention him, many people throughout the Investigation Bureau actually wanted to join Qiu Tu's clique. They just never had the chance...

While Wang Dawei was feeling envious, Qiu Tu arrived at the interrogation room with his confidants.

On the way, Liu Fuping seized the opportunity to quietly approach Qiu Tu and whispered, "Zheng Tao is not a simple person."

"If it weren't for instructions from above, he wouldn't have been able to so openly steal your credit."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Tu smiled and said, "Definitely."

He pointed to the ceiling. "Without even thinking about it, it must be that person's instruction or hint."

"His move was indeed a good one."

"After all, the [August 8.16th pharmacy robbery] case is too big. If I lead the team to solve the case on my own, then both officially and personally, he should at least give me some praise."

"But now that Zheng Tao has been parachuted in to take over the case and independently interrogated the other half of the testimony, the credit has been completely distributed."

"Moreover, Zheng Tao is the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, and his rank is higher than mine. At that time, they can easily use subtle wording to write that Zheng Tao led us in solving this case."

"At that point, the credit for this case will no longer belong to us."

Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Liu Fuping nodded seriously and agreed, "That's true."

"Then... what do we do?"

Qiu Tu smiled. "What can we do? There's nothing we can do."

Perhaps noticing Liu Fuping's questioning gaze, Qiu Tu reminded her, "Yan Chen's plan is all based on... that Zheng Tao can really get involved in this case and actually get something out of him."

At this point, Qiu Tu smiled mysteriously, "But...can he really extract anything from him?"

Upon hearing Qiu Tu's words, Liu Fuping looked surprised, clearly not understanding where Qiu Tu's confidence came from.

It should be noted that if she was Jia Shu's prized student, then Zheng Tao was Jia Shu's direct disciple.

The interrogation skills passed down from Jia Shu made Zheng Tao arguably the most skilled interrogator in the interrogation class.

Once a prisoner was in his hands, none of them would remain silent.

Was Qiu Tu really confident that Jia Wei could withstand Zheng Tao's interrogation?

Moreover... if Jia Wei can really withstand Zheng Tao's interrogation, then wouldn't it be even more impossible for his group to get him to talk?

With this question in mind, Liu Fuping followed Qiu Tu and led a large group of people to the interrogation room.

Upon arriving at the interrogation room, after a brief inquiry, everyone learned about the interrogation room Zheng Tao was using that day.

So Qiu Tu once again led all his confidants straight to that interrogation room.

At this moment, the interrogation team and other agents from the political department, who had noticed something was wrong, saw Qiu Tu's "vengeful" aura and immediately knew that something big was about to happen.

So, one by one, they called their friends and followed, peeking around to see if a fight was really going to break out.

So when Qiu Tu led his men to the interrogation room door, a large group of people were already following behind him.

This startled several of Zheng Tao's close associates who were on guard outside, causing them to tremble and nearly draw their guns.

Cao Dabiao, however, had sharp eyes. He darted forward and slapped him hard across the face!

"You guys are crazy!"

"Drawing a gun at the officer in the political department!"

"Are you planning a rebellion?!"

Hearing Cao Dabiao's loud shout, Zheng Tao's confidants snapped out of their daze and hurriedly saluted Qiu Tu, their faces pale, "Sir!"

Qiu Tu snorted coldly and walked past them expressionlessly.

They wanted to step forward and stop him, hoping to buy Zheng Tao some time.

However, at this moment, Qiu Tu's confidants, including Chen Feng, Ding Xiaoliu, Zhu Huoyan, and Li Xian, had already stepped forward and pushed them to the sides.

And so, Qiu Tu led his large group of men into Zheng Tao's interrogation room without any hindrance!

Qiu Tu kicked the door open, and what came into view was Jia Wei, who was tied to the interrogation table and was cursing Zheng Tao's ancestors.

Judging from Zheng Tao's ashen face, Jia Wei must have been cursing him for more than just a minute or two; most likely, he hadn't stopped talking since he was dragged into the interrogation room.

At that moment, Zheng Tao was also startled by the loud noise of the door slamming against the wall.

He slowly turned around, looking at the doorway with a gloomy expression.

Upon seeing Qiu Tu standing at the door with his men, his gloomy face grew even colder.

He shouted sternly, "Director Qiu! Why have you barged into my interrogation room!"

Qiu Tu dares to slap Yan Chen's face now, so why would he be afraid of Zheng Tao?

Back when he was Zheng Tao's subordinate, he was never afraid of Zheng Tao. Now that they are no longer in a superior-subordinate relationship, he is even less afraid.

So he retorted without hesitation, "Director Zheng, shouldn't I be asking you that? You interrogated the suspect we worked so hard to capture without my permission or the investigation team's permission. Don't you need to give us an explanation?"

Zheng Tao must have thought of his explanation beforehand, since he dared to do this. He said with a serious expression, "I have now taken office as the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau."

"The August 8.16th pharmacy robbery case is my main job! I interrogate the suspects and advance the case. What's wrong with that?"

At this moment, as Qiu Tu and Zheng Tao argued back and forth, the detectives watching outside had almost heard the whole story.

They exchanged a glance, both sensing a shocking revelation.

Those who can get into the Political Department are all elites of the Investigation Bureau, and they have seen all kinds of shady dealings.

So although Zheng Tao's words sounded high-sounding, everyone knew that his current behavior had crossed the line and that he was trying to steal credit.

Qiu Tu was a notoriously tough guy in the investigation department. How could he possibly hand over his credit to someone else?

One of the two is a newly appointed deputy minister, who has the support of higher-ups behind him.

Another is a rising star who has been promoted the fastest in recent months. Although he recently had a falling out with the higher-ups, he seems to have other tricks up his sleeve.

Therefore, when they are evenly matched, neither of them will back down!

This is going to be good.

While these agents were pondering their next move, Qiu Tu indeed did not back down.

He said without any politeness, "Fine. Since Director Zheng is bringing up the rules, then I'll use the rules to ask Director Zheng a question!"

"Have you left the Political Department now? And gone to the Security Department as its deputy director?"

Was the August 8.16th pharmacy robbery case an "assistance in investigation" request from the Public Security Bureau to the Special Branch?

"According to the regulations for assisting in investigations, shouldn't I, as the political minister who was asked to investigate the case, have full authority over the entire case during the investigation period?"

Qiu Tu paused for a moment, "Even if we take a step back and assume that your police department is now confident enough to investigate cases on its own..."

"Shouldn't they hand over the reins to me first before starting the investigation?!"

"How could they take away a prisoner so quietly and interrogate him without his consent?!"

At this point, Qiu Tu's eyes darkened, "Your behavior even makes me suspect... whether you're in cahoots with the criminals."