Chapter 208 Hidden Story
"Minister Lin?" The engineer, carrying a steaming cup of coffee, walked towards the control room. Hearing footsteps behind him, he instinctively turned around and greeted him.
"Is Engineer Yu on duty today?" Lin Ying smiled, and the two chatted and laughed as they walked side by side toward the control room.
To allow the warden to monitor the progress of interrogations at any time, the control room is located on the floor below the warden's office.
"Don't even mention it," Engineer Yu complained. "We're almost at the final stage of the interrogation, and the warden wants us to keep a close eye on the interrogation plan at all times, making sure there are no mistakes at this crucial juncture."
Lin Ying shook the USB drive he was using to report data. "Same here. I'm also worried about the information on that hardened criminal's body every day."
"We were afraid that her physical condition would deteriorate during the interrogation."
When Engineer Yu saw Lin Ying sit down next to his workstation without asking, he was somewhat surprised. "Weren't you going to see the warden?"
“Go ahead,” Lin Ying said in a relaxed tone, “but I just messaged my assistant and he said the warden is out for dinner and not in his office.”
"I'm too lazy to go back. I'll just sit here for a while and wait. I won't make another trip."
Engineer Yu didn't think much of it, "Sure, I'm bored here on duty anyway."
Lin Ying chatted casually with Engineer Yu, his gaze inadvertently falling on the portable display screen beside him.
"Hey, how's the interrogation of the serious offender going?" Lin Ying asked casually.
"This time it went relatively smoothly," Engineer Yu said. "She was much more normal than with the previous plan."
Recalling the interrogation plan that nearly killed all the previous victims, Engineer Yu felt a pang of heartache. "This person only realizes they need to cooperate when they're about to die."
Lin Ying nodded in agreement, "We don't have any tough nuts to crack here."
The two chatted about this and that, when Lin Ying suddenly remembered that he still needed to see the warden, so he immediately called his assistant.
“Okay,” Lin Ying scratched his head, “I’ll come again tomorrow.”
Engineer Yu glanced at Lin Ying. "What, you came up empty-handed?"
Lin Ying pulled out a chair. "Don't even mention it. The warden had something come up and can't come."
After saying goodbye to Engineer Yu, Lin Ying left the control room with his hands in his pockets.
He kept the mini USB drive in his pocket firmly in his hand.
...
Looking at the decrypted emails on the screen in front of him, Lin Ying slumped into his chair.
[The repeat offender can only undergo one more interrogation. If this interrogation yields no results, all responsibility will be shifted onto Lin Ying, who has the best job replacement, to minimize the damage.]
The email included a short, blurry audio recording that could be vaguely identified as a call log from a certain day.
[My personal guess is that what Xin Que has... threatens the fundamental interests of the young master of the Huo family... so we absolutely cannot allow the Huo family to turn their attention to the entire prison...]
[It might be related to the Huo family's heir.]
After all, ever since he was rescued, the controversy surrounding the Huo family's succession has never ceased.
Lin Ying's hands trembled as he deleted the trace of the email from his communicator, but in his panic and anger, he didn't notice that the screen seemed to flicker.
"So, the previous email about my dereliction of duty was all preparation for this?"
Lin Ying gritted his teeth, his eyes blazing with fury.
After forcing himself to calm down, he walked to the outside of Xin Que's cage and looked at the monitoring equipment on her body.
The contents of the email were exactly the same as Xin Que's true situation.
The prisoner's spirit had been worn down repeatedly through repeated mental interrogations. To prevent her escape, the physical torture and control methods used on her were also the most advanced. For her, being able to endure this interrogation was already an achievement among prisoners.
If this interrogation yields no results, he will have to be buried with Xin Que.
Time is running out for him.
I must find a new way out for myself before the interrogation ends.
...
“Warden,” the assistant relayed the hidden surveillance footage to the warden, “Lin Ying has made another move.”
"First, he went to the control room during his shift, seemingly to chat with Engineer Yu, but there were signs that the engineer's account had been used while he was there."
"I asked Engineer Yu, and there's no work that requires using an engineer's account today."
The warden glanced at the usage records that were also retrieved. "He secretly used an engineer's account to decrypt emails?"
The assistant nodded. "But for some reason, he was using the prison's intranet when he operated it, so even if the emails were shredded, the data could be recovered."
"Perhaps it was his oversight?"
"Administrator," the warden said coldly, "restore all the operation records of Lin Ying's intranet account."
Okay, I'll process it for you right away.
The warden immediately saw a strange encrypted email.
This email uses private encryption. Would you like me to decrypt it for you?
The email content was quickly projected onto a floating screen in front of the warden.
Judging from the recipients, these are emails exchanged between Lin Ying and a high-ranking official.
The prison is suspicious of me, so this is the only way I can communicate with you.
Xin Que's body can only withstand one more interrogation at most. If she doesn't make it... we'll both be scapegoats pushed out of prison.
You don't really think the torture department can escape responsibility, do you?
[I was in charge of monitoring Xin Que's physical condition. It was you who tortured her until she was near death before throwing her into prison.]
Don't be naive. He can easily erase all traces and claim that we tortured Xin Que to the point of being unable to withstand the interrogation...
[Qu Huan, all the prison cares about is whether they can satisfy the Huo family. Our lives are worthless to them!]
It can be seen that the deceased head of the interrogation department and Lin Ying had a fierce argument.
Now we have no choice but to find another way out... Perhaps we could try to proactively expose the prison's unauthorized actions to the Huo family.
The email correspondence stopped the day before Qu Huan entered the interrogation plan.
The latest activity of Lin Ying's management account is that he is attempting to steal Qu Huan's management account, which has already been frozen.
The warden frowned.
Qu Huan had already died in the previous interrogation, so whether she colluded with Lin Ying or not is now impossible to prove.
The warden was unwilling to suspect Qu Huan.
Although Qu Huan was ruthless, she was a high-ranking official he had personally trained, and her loyalty to the prison was almost fanatical.
If she were truly colluding with Lin Ying, she wouldn't have chosen self-destruction to prevent Xin Que from escaping at the final moment of their confrontation.
It is also evident from the email communication process that Qu Huan has consistently refused Lin Ying's attempts to win him over.
"What did he do by stealing Qu Huan's account?" The warden couldn't understand Lin Ying's inexplicable actions.
But these doubts were immediately replaced by overwhelming anger at his subordinates' betrayal when he saw the data restored by the administrator.
[Based on all the reconstructed data, Lin Ying, the head of the regulatory department, is attempting to erase crucial information that led to Qu Huan's misleading behavior and ultimately his death.]
The cause of death of Warden Qu Huan, head of the torture department, has hidden details.
The convicted criminal Xin Que had neither mastered the body-transformation technology nor the ability to escape the interrogation plan!
It was Lin Ying who, after failing to win over Qu Huan, decided to kill him, directly misleading Qu Huan into making the wrong judgment about the situation.
As for how he interfered with Qu Huan's judgment during the interrogation...
Upon seeing the restored communication records between Lin Ying and the deceased and crippled prisoner number 56, the warden abruptly stood up, gripping the edge of the table tightly with both hands.
"What a brilliant plan!" the warden gritted his teeth. "They'll trick Cell No. 56, who's still assisting with the interrogation, into using Qu Huan's account to escape the interrogation, while actually causing her to die along with Qu Huan..."
This completely extinguished the last glimmer of hope that Qu Huan could escape the interrogation plan.
"Lin Ying...you're really good at hiding!!!"
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