Chapter 780: Chatting, camping
5:30 pm, Washington, D.C., "Insomnia Building", office area of the Special Investigation Team.
After reading Thomas’s interrogation record, Winslow, Chenelle, Lacey, Mona and Michelle all had ugly expressions.
The other party's behavior of buying a murderer to kill the whole family for the sake of having an illegitimate child is really too bad and despised.
Mona cursed a few words in a low voice, turned to look at Luo An, and found that Luo An was facing away from several people, with his arms folded in front of his chest, and he was concentrating on watching the TV at the front of the office area.
Mona walked to Luo An, looked at the TV and asked with some doubts:
“Luo An, what are you looking at?”
Luo An picked up a cup of coffee and handed it to Mona. He also picked up a cup of coffee and took a sip, smiling:
“I am watching the breeze and sunshine before a storm.”
The [Polonium 210 Case] is over, and the time has officially entered January 2007.
At this time, what was playing on TV was financial news that many people didn’t like to watch.
The female reporter on TV said that New Century Financial, the second largest subprime mortgage company in the federal government, is suspected of having a business crisis or operating crisis recently.
“We are talking about Thomas and his illegitimate son.”
“Do you want to short this company’s stock?”
Luo An shook his head, took the folder and said:
“Mr. Clement has sent other agents to handle this matter, so we don’t need to intervene.”
The company's senior managers denied the matter to the outside world, claiming that the company's business was normal and operating profits were still considerable. However, many senior managers began to quietly sell the company's shares...
“As long as we handle it well, the case in our hands will be fine.”
After watching the news on TV for a while, Mona didn’t understand what Luo An meant and asked:
Luo An shook the folder and said:
“This case seems to be one case, but in fact it is several cases connected together.
“I had this thought, but I forgot about it.”
The murder of "Blue-Eyed Roy", the case of the CIA director sending agents to kill him, the poisoning case of Veranis, the kidnapping of the head of the nuclear laboratory and the case of conspiracy..."
New Century Financial Corporation declared bankruptcy in April 2007, and it is now January, about three months away.
In addition, there is also the "Information Leaked by the Office of Integrity and Rules" incident.
"What are you talking about?"
Luo An shook his head helplessly. These cases all need to be filed separately.
"What did Mr. Clement say? Do you want our special investigation team to arrest the illegitimate child?"
The subprime mortgage crisis is the prelude to the financial crisis. The decline in the housing market is the prelude to the subprime mortgage crisis. The declaration of bankruptcy by New Century Financial Corporation is the whistle that the federal housing market has begun to decline.
With this information flashing through his mind quickly, Luo An smiled and patted the confused Mona on the shoulder, then walked towards Lacey and others and asked:
Lacie shook the folder in her hand, and asked without concealing the unhappiness in her eyes:
Thomas' case from earlier years was handed over by Mr. Clement to other investigation teams for handling. In fact, it was to share some pressure with Luo An's special investigation team.
Chenelle frowned:
“Then let’s…”
Mona is an expert in computer knowledge and technology, but her knowledge in finance can only be said to know basic words.
Luo An put down the coffee cup and shook his head.
"no problem."
Michelle raised her hand and gave Luo An an OK sign, indicating that she could just leave this aspect to her.
“Don’t worry, we have plenty of time.”
Luo An smiled and briefly explained a few words. Seeing that it was almost time to get off work, he changed the subject and asked:
“Everyone, do you have any thoughts on how many days you can rest after handling this case?”
"No."
All the detectives shook their heads together. They were used to taking a few days off after handling a case, either resting with their families, reading, sleeping, or going to nightclubs to have fun.
Seeing that no one had any ideas, Luo An thought for a while and said:
“How about we go camping together someday?” “Camping?”
Lacie's eyes lit up instantly when she heard this word, and she quickly raised her hand and asked:
“…”xN
Everyone looked at Lacey with speechless faces. Winslow complained:
“Where do you get your family from?”
Lacie put her hands on her hips, glanced at Winslow, and said:
“Aren’t girlfriends considered family members?”
The detectives had black lines all over their heads. Luo An rubbed his temples and asked helplessly:
“Who is your girlfriend? The girl with long red hair named Susan?”
“First of all, the girl’s name is Lily, not Susan. You misremembered their names.”
Lacey shook her finger seriously and introduced:
“Second, the Lily you are talking about is my girlfriend two months ago. My girlfriend this month is Sophia, a college student who came to Washington, D.C., for an internship in a government department.”
…SIX.”
Roan twitched the corner of his mouth and gave Lacey a thumbs up. Then he chose to ignore the question she asked again, looked at the other people and asked:
“What about you? Do you have time?”
"I'm OK."
Winslow spread his hands, smiled, and said:
“Lanita resigned from the company where she originally worked. She hasn’t had much to do recently, and we just happened to go out for a picnic together.”
“We have no problem either.”
Chenelle and Michelle have always been alone, and they had nothing to do during the holidays. They looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
“OK.”
Luo An smiled, pushed away Lacey who was still asking if he could bring his girlfriend to participate, and asked:
“Do you have any suggestions for camping spots?”
“I know a good place!”
Mona raised her hand, and just as she started speaking, Luo An added:
“By the way, try not to choose places that are off the beaten path...and try not to choose lakeside huts.”
The reason for not choosing an inaccessible place was for safety reasons. Winslow’s son is not yet a big boy this year.
As for not choosing the lake house... mainly because the name sounds unlucky.
Mona rolled her eyes. She found her laptop, tapped the keyboard a few times to bring up a very beautiful photo, and said:
“How about we go to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming? It’s one of the best places in the Commonwealth to camp!”
Chenelle and Michelle nodded:
“I think it’s okay.”
Winslow also raised an OK gesture:
"I'm OK."
Luo An finally looked at Lacey. Lacey frowned slightly and said:
“Yellowstone National Park… I remember camping there seemed like you had to fight for spots.”
"Indeed it is."
Mona typed on the keyboard a few times to call up the relevant information, then showed the screen to everyone and said with a smile:
“But the places are on a first-come, first-served basis, so I think it’s no problem for us.”
Lacie laughed when she heard this:
“OK, then I’m fine.”
Luo An picked up the coffee and drank it in one gulp, and said with a smile:
“Then everyone, please prepare in the next few days, we will set off together in four days.”
“No problem!” xN
There was endless laughter in the office area, and the laughter lasted for a while until it was time to get off work. Everyone left the building in their own cars and started to go home to rest.
Roan and Mona returned to the villa and first called the service company that cleaned the villa. After the service staff finished cleaning the villa that had been unoccupied for the past few days, they started making dinner together.
After dinner, they took a short break and went upstairs to wash up and prepare to go to bed. Because they were too tired these past few days, Mona was not in the mood to play games, so she lay on the bed and quickly fell asleep.
Luo An was not in a hurry to sleep. He closed his eyes and opened the light blue page.
(End of this chapter)