Chapter 52 - 50 (2/2)

”Really? Then here you are! Give it to Chief Jin. It's a result of the findings within the tea,” like unloading a burden, the doctor easily gave the file to Zero.

Zero with no arguments received the file, ”Can I look into it?”

The doctor agreed easily, ȧssuming that the young man was a guest detective of the chief while the youth with eye glasses did not refused, too.

Because that was the privilege of having that badge of the chief detective of A.N.V.

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Research facility.

The captain shrugged as he responded with his lazy smile.

”Chief, you know that lending that badge means giving him an authority to barge at doings of our team and even to the dark society.”

A.N.V or Acta Non Verba, a name of their group that had more power to any existing entities within the continent, second to the royal family. They were not any common group of detectives as they handled the dark society as well, the dark society where all illegality was legal.

They were given by the Greatworld King power in order to manage the dark society, despite the Greatworld continent was known for their peaceful appearance with low crime rates, it was just in the surface as half of the citizens within the continent knew about the dark society and sometimes would involved themselves to it.

And Jin was known to be the ruler of the dark society, he established a mandatory rule that 'what happens inside, stays inside' meant that if there would be murder, it would only remained inside. Everyone should not talked about it outside. Break the rule and you would be either banned or killed.

That's the reason why the team of Jin was handling this case as it was somehow related to the dark society, it would be not good that a member of the society would be running on killing spree outside so Jin decided to put a stop on it and moreover, it involved the royal family. The chief detective had a hunched that the third princess' case was not a simple murder of the first prince of the Phoenix continent. It must be a ploy.

”It would be great to have another intelligent person participating,” Jin replied.

”To what, sir? The crime scene or the dark society?”

”Guess.” The vice captain rolled his eyes to perfunctory answer of the chief detective.

He cursed the person who disturbed his sleep as he looked at the blurry figure, when his vision cleared, he frowned at the annoying person that he saw.

It was Jin, a former classmate and a rival.

”What are you doing here?” There was hint of hostility on his voice as he looked at the smiling person.

That irritating smile that he wanted to punched off his smug face.

The rivalry was not only because of being always second to Jin in Intelligence Academy on the rankings but he disagreed to the dark society because it was not good to begin with. They had both opposing ideals and the king agreed to Jin's way as to make their continent better, they needed to establish a society that could be vented by the dark sides of the people. Even the Royal Advisor Kilius agreed to the idea.

Even though, Bai Zhou had a chance to leave this filthy monarchy and start anew on another continent but he didn't want to pretend blind while horrible things was happening infront of him. He has his own principles and this was his homeland.

If not for the establishment of that dark society, the Greatworld continent would be still the untainted and properous homeland he had known.

Jin did not speak as the vice captain took the lead to convey their reasons on why they were here, ”We will be taking the case of the third princess.”

A creased formed on Bai Zhou's forehead as he glared at the arrogant Pengfei, ”It would be good that you only stay on what case you only need to solve and not put your noses to unrelated ones.”

Jin cleared his throat and stated in a carefree manner like commenting on a good weather, ”Somehow both the cases of the princesses' deaths are related to the dark society.”

Bai Zhou immediately stood on his chair as he cursed infront of Jin, ”So is the dark society hitting your own foot now?” He mocked.

Jin did not say anything as he looked at the man infront of him with mirth on his eyes.