167: Unified caliber

At the Municipal Bureau, Liang Yuzhu and a group of officers brought the employees from the base back with them.

Naturally, news of this commotion also reached Director Zhang's ears.

Just as Liang Yuzhu was about to enter the interrogation room with the four employees, Director Zhang rushed over from his home in a flurry.

His hair was a mess, and seeing Liang Yuzhu leading such a large group, he stopped her and asked:

"Miss Liang, what's going on?"

Liang Yuzhu paused for a moment and concisely explained to Director Zhang:

"Reporting to Director Zhang, these are internal employees of Norman Pharmaceuticals. Based on the information provided by Yuan, I led a team and found their hiding place."

"Currently, we preliminary suspect they are the group that released the black scale disease in the City."

Liang Yuzhu gave a brief explanation and then continued leading the team toward the interrogation room.

Meanwhile, Director Zhang stood there with a pleasantly surprised expression, muttering to himself:

"They caught them? And it was information provided by Yuan?"

"Sss... Hurry up! See what you can pry out of their mouths..."

However, Director Zhang's words hadn't even finished, and there was no need for his reminder.

Liang Yuzhu had already entered the interrogation room with her people.

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"We are fully aware of everything you've done."

"The only thing you can do now is confess honestly and strive for a positive showing."

Inside the interrogation room, Liang Yuzhu spoke with a serious expression.

She was full of imposing presence, and her gaze was aggressive.

However, the employee sitting opposite Liang Yuzhu clearly had some panic on his face.

Yet, he continued to play dumb, saying as if he didn't understand:

"Officer, what are you talking about? I don't quite seem to understand what you mean..."

Liang Yuzhu snorted coldly and pulled out two photos.

The content on them showed the backs of several people in hazmat suits in the corner of the frame, captured from some surveillance footage.

The other photo showed those infected employees who were trapped behind the iron gates.

"Still pretending, are we? This surveillance footage shows someone releasing a virus. Doesn't this outfit look familiar to you?"

"Also, you should know all these employees. How did they contract black scale disease? And why were they being held in secret?"

Following Liang Yuzhu's persistent questioning, the hidden clues behind the matter were being drawn out.

Nevertheless, despite the panic on the employee's face, he responded mechanically:

"Officer, the hazmat suits in this surveillance can be bought online..."

"We are indeed employees of Norman Pharmaceuticals, but the reason there are so many infected is that we were accidentally infected by virus samples due to improper operation while the company was developing a specific medicine."

"Furthermore, the company knows the current situation is special and that isolation wards in the hospital are tight. To avoid causing trouble for society, we chose internal self-isolation."

After the employee finished speaking almost mechanically, he looked up at Liang Yuzhu with an innocent gaze.

"Officer... that's everything I know. There shouldn't be any problem with that, right?"

As the employee's voice fell, a loud 'Bang!' came from the table!

It even startled the officer who was taking the interrogation notes.

Liang Yuzhu's eyes were sharp, and she stood up with her hands braced against the table.

She was still breathing heavily, trying to calm her emotions.

This sudden outburst was also to test the other party's reaction.

Liang Yuzhu saw that when she slammed the table and stood up, the employee sitting opposite her still had a panicked expression, with a hint of innocence revealed on his face.

Seeing this scene, Liang Yuzhu understood in her heart.

These employees were clearly not easy to deal with; they could actually answer so fluently during the interrogation process.

Although his expressions and movements looked incredibly flustered, the answers he gave were clearly airtight.

Moreover, Liang Yuzhu vaguely felt that the answers provided by the other party were quite formulaic.

It was as if they had been memorized in advance, with every sentence designed beforehand.

This also caused a bad premonition to rise in Liang Yuzhu's heart...

What was the situation in the other interrogation rooms?

"Liang Team..." The door to the interrogation room was knocked open, and Vice Captain Zhao Hu called out with a heavy voice.

He seemed to be signaling for Liang Yuzhu to come out first.

Seeing this, Liang Yuzhu already guessed something and followed Zhao Hu out.

"Liang Team, I just took a look at the surveillance for all the rooms."

"Their answers are all quite similar, some are even word-for-word identical."

"It seems they thought of their story long ago to deal with us."

As Zhao Hu finished speaking, Liang Yuzhu also furrowed her brows.

After a brief silence, Zhao Hu continued to ask:

"What should we do now? Should we stall for more time and try to break their psychological defenses?"

Upon hearing this, Liang Yuzhu felt that these people were already well-prepared.

If they couldn't produce more targeted evidence, it would be very difficult to break their psychological defenses.

At this moment, Liang Yuzhu couldn't help but recall a certain person.

It was exactly that Homeless person, Xiao Long, whom Yuan had asked her to find before.

If they could find him, he should be able to serve as a witness to identify the people who released the virus.

While Liang Yuzhu was deep in thought, Director Zhang's head popped out from the meeting room on the other side of the hallway.

"Miss Liang! Get everyone over here for a meeting!"

...

Inside the meeting room, the officers organized the current clues.

As well as the situation obtained after the interrogations just now.

After a series of comparisons, they found that the stories of these employees were indeed identical.

And each one was as stubborn as if they had swallowed a lead weight, sticking firmly to their respective stories.

Seeing that the case was not progressing as smoothly as imagined, and that catching these internal employees hadn't yielded any useful information,

Director Zhang saw that the atmosphere was somewhat oppressive and immediately spoke up to comfort them:

"Comrades, there's no need to be discouraged. This operation can still be fully affirmed."

"At least we've brought this group under control first, which can be considered a good start."

Next, Director Zhang also took out several documents and distributed them to everyone.

Liang Yuzhu took the document and found that it was actually the approval procedures used by Norman Pharmaceuticals for the development of the specific medicine.

"These are documents I requested from the Pharmaceutical Department, which contain some of the research and development procedures for Norman Pharmaceuticals."

Director Zhang gave a brief explanation to the officers according to the contents of the documents.

"As it stands, their medicine manufacturing process followed legal procedures, and no materials are missing."

"It seems everything is legal and compliant, but the only thing worth noting is the timing."

Following Director Zhang's voice, the officers also discovered the secret within.

The research and development progress for this specific medicine for black scale disease was truly too fast.

In fact, from the discovery of black scale disease cases to the initiation of the research project, it took less than half a month.

There had never been such a fast development precedent since ancient times, which was indeed suspicious.

However, looking at the stamps and legal procedures provided on the documents,

The officers couldn't help but feel that it was somewhat tricky, and they all said:

"Currently, the only suspicious point is that their research progress is too fast."

"But this isn't evidence that can be used..."

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"Right now, we can only use this point to have reason to suspect that they were secretly developing the specific medicine in advance."

For a time, the meeting room fell into an oppressive discussion.

Meanwhile, Director Zhang was also paying attention to Liang Yuzhu's reaction.

He discovered that at this moment, Liang Yuzhu was fiddling with her phone and typing.

It looked as if she wasn't focusing on the meeting but was slacking off instead.

But Director Zhang didn't interfere; he had already guessed what Liang Yuzhu was doing.

And just as Director Zhang thought, Liang Yuzhu was currently sending messages to Yuan.

Based on previous experiences, Liang Yuzhu already had trust in Yuan.

Not to mention that being able to catch these employees this time was also inseparable from Yuan's contribution.

It could now be confirmed that they were on the same side.

Thus, she first gave a very brief account of the current interrogation situation to Yuan.

"Yuan, the situation we've encountered is somewhat tricky."

"All the employees we caught have a unified statement. They must have undergone interrogation training beforehand and designed their stories long ago."

At this time, Su Yue had already returned home under the cover of night.

...

Su Yue pulled out his key to open the entrance door and watched as a blade of grass wedged in the door crack fell rustling down.

That was a mark he made by picking a blade of grass from the lawn in the yard and wedging it in the door crack when he left.

Clearly, no one had come out of the house after he left.

It seemed that Lin Jia upstairs was still fast asleep and hadn't discovered that he had ever left.

Returning to the intelligence room and changing out of his disguise, Su Yue only then received Liang Yuzhu's message.

Seeing the text content sent by Liang Yuzhu, it was clear that the interrogation was not going smoothly and that those employees had prepared their stories in advance.

After a simple analysis of the current situation, the most important thing was still to obtain tangible evidence.

After thinking for a moment, Su Yue asked:

"Since they could develop black scale disease and specific medicines, there must be a laboratory behind them. Have you scouted out any suspicious locations?"

After the message was sent, he quickly received a response from Liang Yuzhu:

"No, no matter what we ask, they only have that one set of vague stories, as if they're afraid that saying one more word will give them away."

Seeing Liang Yuzhu's reply, Su Yue was silent for a moment, and an idea gradually formed in his mind.

Just as Liang Yuzhu thought that Yuan was also somewhat at a loss, Su Yue gave a response:

"I actually have an idea that might be able to lure the snake out of its hole."

Upon seeing this message, Liang Yuzhu was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly asked: "What is it?"

As the string of text sent by Yuan entered her eyes, Liang Yuzhu couldn't help but nod.

"The laboratory we're looking for is the place where they research black scale disease and manufacture specific medicines."

"As a secret of Norman Pharmaceuticals, it must be hidden very deep, like trying to fish out a single fish from a murky pond."

"To make them expose themselves, we must make the fish swim—that is, make them panic and lose their footing..."

Su Yue was only halfway through when Liang Yuzhu already grasped the intention.

Combining it with the current situation, since they wanted to find the laboratory, they had to make the laboratory restart.

And what way was there now to make Norman Pharmaceuticals restart the laboratory?

Perhaps they could only start with the black scale disease itself...

Liang Yuzhu grasped Su Yue's intention and continued following his line of thought:

"You mean, we can have the hospital release news saying that a variant of the black scale disease has appeared?"

"Norman Pharmaceuticals relies on selling specific medicines to rake in money. We can also use this point and say that for the variant of black scale disease, the existing specific medicines are completely useless!"

"That way, Norman Pharmaceuticals will definitely find a way to activate their lab to start research!"

Su Yue looked at Liang Yuzhu's message and smiled faintly.

As expected of a Criminal Investigation Team captain, her thinking was quite flexible. He then reminded her:

"You can find someone trustworthy to pose as a patient with the variant black scale disease, and it's best if this person has some connection with someone who is already ill; the credibility will be higher."

...

Following the online exchange between Su Yue and Liang Yuzhu, Liang Yuzhu directly stood up in the meeting room.

This sudden move caused the officers in the room to be momentarily stunned.

Director Zhang's gaze also fell on Liang Yuzhu, and he saw her looking excited as she told him about the plan just now.

"Director Zhang, we have an idea!"

After repeating the conversation she just had with Yuan, Director Zhang fell into thought.

He also clearly noticed the "we" in Liang Yuzhu's words and knew this plan was also thought up by Yuan.

It had to be said that the feasibility was very high and it was worth a try.

"Hmm, Norman Pharmaceuticals is currently at its peak because of this specific medicine. Doing this can also give them a bit of a wake-up call."

"Until we have a definite target for action, proceed according to this plan. Go and make the arrangements."

"Yes!" Having received Director Zhang's approval, Liang Yuzhu began to make preparations.

She looked through the documents on the table and pulled out the list of confirmed patients from the hospital at that time, wanting to see who would be suitable for this plan.

After looking through it carefully, the identities of these confirmed patients were relatively ordinary.

And what Liang Yuzhu needed was someone trustworthy.

"Supermarket owner, pharmacy pharmacist..." Liang Yuzhu muttered, when suddenly a thought flashed through her mind.

That's right, besides these people in the records, among those confirmed at that time, wasn't there also a supervisor from her best friend Lan Zijun's company!

...

Following the plan designed by Yuan, Liang Yuzhu locked her gaze onto the Market Department supervisor.

After some investigation, Liang Yuzhu found that all the requirements of this supervisor were very suitable.

First of all, he had appeared in the news, had used Norman Pharmaceuticals' specific medicine, and had praised its efficacy in front of the camera.

As one of the first batch of exposed patients, his credibility was clearly higher.

Secondly, as a supervisor of a certain department within her best friend Lan Zijun's company, he naturally had to listen to Lan Zijun's orders, making him much easier to control.

Liang Yuzhu locked onto the target and first called her best friend to explain the situation.

And Lan Zijun also appeared somewhat surprised after hearing this bold plan.

"This method... it's possible..."

"However, Xu Supervisor from the Market Department said he has already recovered and is applying to come back to work. I've already agreed."

Hearing this response from Lan Zijun, Liang Yuzhu was indeed stunned.

"His black scale disease is cured? Did he use Norman Pharmaceuticals' specific medicine?"

Lan Zijun responded: "No."

"According to him, he got a new type of specific medicine from Norman Pharmaceuticals, and now his symptoms have almost disappeared."

Hearing these words from Lan Zijun, Liang Yuzhu instead had an idea.

It seemed Norman Pharmaceuticals indeed had a backup plan, and they could just happen to use this supervisor who had used two kinds of medicine to make the other party panic.

After she expressed her intention, Lan Zijun naturally expressed her support.

"Alright then, I'll notify him right now that he doesn't need to come back."

"Let him continue to stay in the hospital and wait for your arrangements."

...

At the same time, Xu Supervisor of the Market Department was joyfully packing his luggage.

While humming a little tune, he thought about how he hadn't returned to the company for a long time and didn't know if anyone had tried to take his position.

In the hospital, he always couldn't help but let his imagination run wild, which was why he spent a large amount of money to buy experimental drugs from Norman Pharmaceuticals' internal personnel.

Now, he could finally return to the company to take charge of the Market Department.

"Ring ring ring..." At this time, Xu Supervisor's phone rang, and the caller was none other than Lan Zijun.

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