Zhou Lin - Chapter 192 Chapter of the Judge (End)

Starting from the night of May 13, Raymond had not slept well for a week.

He wasn’t worried that he would be killed by a blade popping out of a pillow or other daily necessities, but he was simply feeling heavy and under great pressure.

This will not happen when a person believes that what he is doing is right and that his career is meaningful.

All stress will be transformed into a certain sense of accomplishment after completing some staged tasks, and people’s mood will also be relieved at these nodes.

However, when a person discovers that what he is doing is useless, meaningless, or even wrong, doubts about himself will make him miserable, and the accumulated pressure will have nowhere to vent until the person’s cognition, bottom line, or Until a mental breakdown.

Raymond is at this stage now.

Since the 13th, Lance would give him a new piece of information every day, each piece of information involving a child who disappeared from the Internet Center and a case related to Raymond.

Different from the Green Case, the cases he later gave were all controversial cases involving behind-the-scenes dealings that Raymond handled five years after he learned to compromise.

The outcome of each of these cases is directly related to Raymond, because he played a leading role in those cases, rather than in the almost inevitable defeat like in the Green case. A situation where choices are made passively under the premise.

At that time, Raymond was in the midst of a rapid career rise. He was young and full of energy. His high evaluations and legal fees were increasing at an exaggerated rate. It was only now that he became a successful businessman. Later, he discovered that… at that time, he no longer cared about the thoughts of the person involved.

When he was still a student, Raymond felt that studying law could help people. But after becoming a famous lawyer, people became the least important factor in a case for him.

After he takes over a case, he can immediately use his own set of logic to calculate the approximate outcome of the case and the optimal solution using only the existing evidence and information.

In some cases where he is sure to win, he can pursue them fiercely and strive for greater benefits; in other cases where the evidence is insufficient and prosecution/defense is difficult, he will find loopholes, lead public opinion, and negotiate deals…

These solutions may be correct, because Raymond is really good. His calculations almost never fail. All the promises he made to the parties and the results he predicted came true.

However, he has completely ignored the feelings and choices of those people. He has turned the trials related to other people’s lives into formulas and procedures, and regarded them as his own court practice lessons.

And he firmly believed that his decision and approach were right, until… now.

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May 21, one o’clock in the afternoon.

Raymond came to Lance’s cell again. This was almost his daily routine for the past half month.

After sitting down, he said nothing.

You seem very tired. Lance said jokingly, looking at Raymond, whose eyes were bloodshot and his face had lost weight.

What’s the message today? Raymond didn’t answer his question and just asked feebly.

Ha… Lance smiled, Do you think that once all those brats are found, I won’t have much leverage on hand, and you won’t have to get information from me anymore?

Or… Raymond continued in a low voice, When you put all the misfortunes and tragedies caused by me in front of me, this matter will also come to an end, right?

Oh? Lance asked, Does this mean you don’t care anymore?

Yes! I just don’t care! The next second, Raymond suddenly became furious. He raised his voice and shouted, I am just a litigator! A scumbag who lives a peaceful life through self-persuasion and sophistry! How about that? He said Standing up, veins popped out on his forehead, he stared at his bloodshot eyes, pointed at Lance and said, You know! People like me will continue to live like this! And become a federal justice! And you… are not far from death!

Lance looked at Raymond quietly. After he finished yelling and sat down exhausted, Lance slowly said: It seems that you are under a lot of pressure… He paused and spoke. Then he said, This is a good thing. It just shows that you still have a conscience.

Stop talking nonsense, what’s the message today… Raymond adjusted his breathing and asked the question again, because he really didn’t want to talk to Lance anymore.

Although Raymond still doesn’t know much about Lance, there is only one thing he is sure of – the more he talks to him, the closer he is to being driven crazy.

Today’s information does not require you to interpret it. You just need to ‘comply with it.’ Lance replied after a few seconds.

Hmph…what if I refuse? Will I die from brushing my teeth too? Raymond responded unceremoniously.

Haha… That won’t happen. Lance replied, But you will lose an opportunity to ‘regain your original intention.’

Ha! Raymond also laughed, What are you doing? Engaging in pyramid schemes? Or do you think our conversation is similar to a mutual aid meeting for drug addicts?

His attitude was what Lance expected, so Lance ignored it and just continued: When you get out of here later, tell them that I didn’t give you any information today, but I proposed a deal—— ‘As long as they agree to give me a real global live broadcast and public trial, I will tell everything I know in one breath after the trial…including the information about the missing children, the intelligence of the Counter Cross, the secrets of various resistance organizations around the world, etc. , Confess everything. Just say, I will give them three days to think about it. I will not see any visitors during these three days. Come to me after three days after you have discussed the final result.

As for you…please take three days off on the grounds that you are too stressed and in poor health, and just stay at home and wait…

After listening to what he said, Raymond thought for a moment and then continued: So what you want me to do besides delivering the message is to take three days off?

Yes. Lance nodded.

Do you think I believe it’s really that simple? Raymond asked again.

Of course you won’t believe it, and even if you don’t believe it… Carmen won’t believe it even more. Lance said, showing another lewd smile, So, before you tell me to talk to you today, After telling her and the other fools what she said, she will definitely let you use the plan and do what I say, and then secretly monitor you… If nothing happens, in the next three days, even if you go to have sex Everything you do will be closely watched by at least three FCPS surveillance personnel. But that’s not important. What’s important is… whether you are dealing with me or Carmen, you still have only one way to choose, unless… you hide part of what I said today What I said to you.

I know what you are doing… You don’t have to think about it. Let me tell you, I won’t hide a word. Including your last few words to help me settle accounts, I will also talk to Moreno and the others. That’s clear. Raymond said, turning around, knocking on the cell door and calling to the guard.

After he left the cell, Lance collapsed on the bed leisurely, looked at the ceiling, and said to himself: There is no three hundred taels of silver here, so it’s just people like you…

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On May 22, Raymond began his three-day vacation.

For safety reasons, Raymond’s family, as well as the family members of several The Hague City bosses related to the case, had all been transferred to other counties as early as the day after the death of Branch Chief Rutte, so these few He was the only one in Raymond’s house that day.

Yesterday, after leaving Lance’s cell, Raymond did not tell others, Lance asked me to take the vacation. In fact, he concealed everything Lance said yesterday about giving himself a rest. , he only talked about the transaction, but in the end, he took three days off.

Even Raymond himself couldn’t explain why he did this. Maybe it was intuition, maybe reverse psychology, or maybe Lance gave him some psychological hints subtly during the conversation…

But in fact, from the results point of view, there is no difference, because Carmen still sent someone to monitor him.

For Carmen, even if she did not know the information that It was Lance who asked Raymond to take three days off, it did not prevent her from becoming suspicious of Raymond’s actions.

Carmen knew from the beginning that Raymond was an extremely crucial chess piece in this game. He seemed to be on the side of the Federation and had no possibility of betrayal. However, if he didn’t keep an eye on it, it would be difficult to say that Lance Will use him to do something.

In addition, Raymond’s mental state has indeed become unstable in the past week, which makes Carmen pay more attention to it.

Just like that, two and a half days passed and nothing happened.

Precisely because nothing happened, Carmen invited Raymond to the local FCPS branch.

If something happened during this period, Carmen would feel more at ease, but now, she is very uneasy… She feels that it is not that nothing happened, but that something happened, but she did not notice it.

So she gave Raymond a lie detector test…

Carmen knew Lance too well, so the first question she asked made her fall into a trap: Did you hide any information you got from Lance?

Raymond could only answer yes. After all, he was not a trained agent. He had no ability to fool a lie detector.

So, Carmen naturally asked him: What are you hiding?

Raymond could only tell the truth and concealing the three days of leave was what Lance asked him to do.

This answer passed the lie detector, but not Carmen.

For Carmen, there are two doubts here: First, people must have a purpose to lie. Why would Raymond lie about this innocuous matter? Secondly, is that all? impossible? Isn’t it necessary? Is he hiding something else? Now was that answer a smokescreen that Lance had taught him to use against polygraphs? Or is it that he already has the ability to fool the lie detector and can control the results at will?

Carmen fell into a logic loop. Too many assumptions and unverifiable possibilities made her reasoning ability a burden, and she completely lost her trust in Raymond.

And Raymond… As mentioned above, he himself couldn’t explain why he wanted to hide something like that. He was already under great pressure and struggled in front of the lie detector, and in the end he inevitably ended up getting angry and talking nonsense. The situation made all his confessions untrustworthy.

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On the morning of May 25, after a night of hard work, Raymond walked out of the FCPS Netherlands branch base with a tired look on his face, carrying his suit and tie.

Although Carmen no longer believes him, he is still the chief federal prosecutor after all and has actively cooperated with the FCPS investigation. Just because he did not speak clearly about an insignificant matter, it is impossible to convict him of anything. So they had no choice but to let him go.

Of course, the surveillance on him will continue, and he has made this clear to himself.

However, the agents responsible for escorting him home, including Carmen, ignored one thing – from the evening of May 24th to the morning of the 25th, when Raymond was invited to drink tea at the FCPS branch At that time, the surveillance of his home was interrupted.

Although the surveillance equipment was still on, no one was watching the screen during that time.

Suppose, that night, one or a few well-prepared people came to Raymond’s villa, which was deserted, and quietly installed some covert signal blocking and transceiver devices around the villa where no one was monitoring it. What are the consequences?

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At two o’clock that afternoon.

Raymond finished his meal and took a shower, and was about to go to the bedroom to catch up on his sleep.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the bedroom, he saw someone else sitting on the sofa chair where he usually sat.

Hello, Mr. Fox. He was a white man who looked to be in his early thirties. Although he was dressed casually, you could still see the muscle outline and strong body shape on his body.

What? There are so many cameras installed, and you still want to send someone in the house to watch me directly? Raymond’s first reaction was – this person must be an FCPS agent. Because the entire villa, including the toilet, is under the surveillance of others, there is no blind spot. If an irrelevant person comes in at this moment, the agents watching outside will have already swarmed in and arrested the person.

However, when faced with his question, the other party’s answer was…

The people who are monitoring you are currently watching the surveillance video of you taking a bath in a loop. The man responded unhurriedly, When we finish talking, they can see in the video that you walked out of the bathroom a minute ago, Come to this bedroom clip; of course, what they will see next is not the scene of me sitting here chatting with you, they will only see you walking into the bedroom, lying down on the bed and falling asleep…

And after I leave, as long as you really go to sleep, our screen replacement system will automatically find a suitable editing point to pick up the real-time video of you sleeping, and no one will find out that I have been here.

Upon hearing this, Raymond’s expression changed drastically. He quickly realized that the person in front of him was definitely not joking, and he roughly guessed the other person’s identity and position.

Are you Lance’s accomplice? This was Raymond’s first guess.

I don’t dare to be… I, Herr Schneider, am just an errand boy at best. Today’s Herr is completely different from the clerk who lived in Berlin. He has changed both physically and psychologically. Than, But you…Mr. Fox, you are different, you are a big shot, you are important.

You don’t need to tell me, everyone knows that I am the chief prosecutor of the federal government. Raymond replied coldly, while using his peripheral vision to confirm the escape route, and considering whether he could escape from the person in front of him in time. Escaped within the attack range and was successfully rescued.

But that’s not the reason why you are important. Hull knew Raymond’s plan, but he did not reveal it. He just continued, In the past half month, through Mr. Lance, you should have learned that the so-called Federation Prosecutors are nothing more than a group of slaves living under a corrupt system…

Day after day, you collect a bunch of evidence that is probably impossible to obtain, and then go to a place full of hypocrisy and corruption to talk nonsense to a group of arrogant hypocrites in suits, and at the same time, you have to please a dozen A fool who thinks he is important but actually is nothing (——Judge Volume Chapter 13).

Are people like this really important?

Raymond paused and stared at Hull for a few seconds: Then… why am I important?

Hull smiled: Because you have the ability to do better, not as a federal prosecutor, but in another capacity…

You can abandon those things that you no longer believe in and pursue justice outside of the system.

“You can try those who are ignored or cannot be controlled by federal laws, and punish those who are already protected by the system, or who are ignored and left alone because they do not threaten the system itself…

You can become a new institution above and beyond the set of standards you know.

At this moment, Raymond only felt that his heart was beating violently. A strong sense of excitement, accompanied by fear and a trace of expectation, was urging his blood to flow. He continued the other person’s words and murmured: Just Like… a ‘judge’ from a fairy tale?

Yes. Hel nodded and responded solemnly, That’s… the judge.