Chapter 40

Charles had an extraordinary ability with photos and videos. His first reaction was to glance at the date below the photo. He remarked, "It's been ten months since then!" He calculated the days and speculated, "According to the date on the photo, Brian knew Lawrence liked women's clothing a long time ago."

Alexander added, "When we first went to Lawrence's supermarket to take their statements, Brian didn't say that."

Brian's personality had left quite an impression on them. They had a particularly vivid memory of him from the day they took his statement:

Alexander said, "I clearly remember Brian telling us that Lawrence just liked to bring women's clothing to work, but he never said he had seen Lawrence wearing them. And ten months ago, there wasn't a single victim."

However, the tragic incidents had only started happening in the past six months.

Zoey downloaded all the photos related to Lawrence onto the desktop. She began clicking through them one by one.

When she reached the third photo, she felt a pair of cold hands cover her eyes.

At the same time, Dennis and Charles cursed in her ear, "What a pervert! Fuck!"

Zoey's eyes were covered, and she couldn't see anything.

She was very curious about what they were cursing at.

Zoey instinctively tried to push the hands away from her eyes, but she couldn't move them.

Alexander's voice came from beside her, "You can't look at this."

Zoey was speechless. "I'm solving a case!"

Alexander said, "Even if you're solving a case, you can't look at this. One more photo won't solve the case."

Zoey fell silent. Could someone control Alexander?

Dennis and Charles looked at the photo and agreed that Alexander was right. They both tried to comfort her, "Yeah, Zoey, listen to Alexander. One photo won't solve the case. If you want to know something, let Alexander describe it to you later."

Alexander twitched his mouth. Who could tell him how to describe this?

To prevent Zoey from seeing it, Dennis quickly clicked back to the normal photo interface and exchanged a glance with Alexander.

Alexander then released his hands from Zoey's eyes.

Zoey stared at Alexander and questioned, "Alexander, you're delaying my investigation!"

Alexander took a deep breath, "To avoid delaying your investigation, should I describe it to you?"

There were only a few of them in the office. Dennis and Charles both supported Alexander's behaviour before. This meant that the content of the photo was definitely not something good.

Zoey compromised and stopped trying to look at it, but she still wanted to know what the photos were. Could they be nude photos of Lawrence?

Seeing Zoey's eager expression, Alexander took a deep breath and tried to describe it as tactfully as possible, "It's about two people of the same gender doing some indescribable things."

Zoey looked at Alexander's stammering and guessed what he meant, asking, "A video of two men having sex?"

Alexander nodded. "Yes."

Zoey asked again, "Lawrence and Brian?"

Alexander nodded again. "Yes."

At this moment, Zoey was genuinely grateful to Alexander for covering her eyes, so she didn't have to see Brian naked!

She wasn't interested at all! Both Lawrence and Brian were so disgusting that just the thought of seeing them having sex would keep her up at night!

She didn't argue with Alexander about what he had done to her.

Alexander lightly coughed, trying to ease the awkward atmosphere.

He simply shifted the topic back to the case. "I still don't understand. Lawrence just has a nude photo in Brian's hands. It's not enough to cover for Brian, right? He's not afraid of death, so what is he afraid of? And since we've caught Brian, can't Lawrence use the stuff on the USB drive to clear his name? What exactly is Lawrence afraid of?"

Zoey couldn't figure out the logic either and asked, "Could it be that Lawrence is not only a pervert but also mentally ill?"

When they caught him before, didn't he say so himself? No mentally normal person would do such things. Lawrence wasn't married, so even if this got exposed, he could just move to another city and he didn't need to fear Brian. This clearly couldn't be used by Brian to control Lawrence.

The case hit a dead end again, and the whole team sighed in unison. What was the connection between them?

"So frustrating!" Dennis scratched his head in frustration. "Should I just go beat up Lawrence and force him to talk?"

No one agreed with him; it was clearly a bad idea.

The atmosphere became awkward again. Dennis saw his teammates deep in thought and remained silent.

At this moment, Charles suddenly remembered something. "I think I saw a similar plot in a TV show I forgot!"

Dennis immediately looked at him, waiting for him to continue.

Charles quickly returned to his desk, rummaging through it, and found a smartphone and an evidence bag. As he turned on the phone, he said, "This is what Dennis and I found. How could I forget about this!"

As he said, he turned on the phone in the evidence bag.

Charles continued, "This was in an employee's locker at the supermarket. One of the employees' slots was taken over by Brian. When we went there, the employee was complaining to a colleague about this. We wanted to know what was inside, and it turned out to be this. We originally planned to take a look, but then we heard you found the USB drive and completely forgot about it."

Dennis couldn't understand their thoughts. He just wanted to know what kind of plot it was! Who wrote such a perverted TV show?

"It's locked. Looks like we got excited for nothing." Charles put the phone back in the evidence bag and said to Dennis, "The plot was about the perpetrator putting the leverage in a scheduled email. If the person being threatened didn't comply, it would be sent immediately."

"Oh, so this phone must have some big secrets?" Dennis's eyes lit up as he looked at the phone in Charles's hand.

Unfortunately, they didn't have the password. The quickest way was to ask Brian.

Thinking about Brian's indifferent attitude during interrogation, would he admit it? He was probably trying to stall for time.

Alexander suggested, "We better send it to the tech department immediately!"

"On it!" Charles excitedly left the team with the phone.

Of the remaining three, two were happy; one was worried.

Zoey sighed deeply, "Honestly, I don't have high hopes for this phone suddenly appearing."