Good Cop Bad Cop

Kara's high-heeled foot bounced against the floor a few times. She found it rather amusing.

Since they had deployed so many officers to bring him in and had even used some methods on him right away, it clearly meant the police already had sufficient evidence, with a great deal of it pointing directly at him.

Based on experience, they could already determine that Slade was the murderer. If they did not need to obtain a confession for the prosecutor before going to court and complete the formalities, there would have been no need for this interrogation at all.

"Where were you at around ten last night?"

"I... I should have been at the newspaper office, working on an article. Right, there are security cameras at the office, and the company system's backend must have records of my activity."

Su Ming looked up, seeing hope.

But Kara merely looked at him with a faint, ambiguous smile and gently shook her head. "Mr. Wilson, if the police had verified your alibi, do you think we would still have issued an arrest warrant?"

"What does that mean?"

"You should be the one telling me. Whether it was the footage, the company computer backend, or your own computer, we checked everything. There is nothing proving that you were at the Daily Planet at that time!"

"How is that possible?!"

"This is our investigation report. The Daily Planet's internal cameras were all destroyed yesterday, and all footage was wiped. Before nine that evening, the server showed that your computer had entered sleep mode. It was not awakened again at the backend workstation until after eleven. You uploaded your article after eleven-thirty."

"I don't know anything about that."

"Mm. Let's assume you were at the newspaper office the whole time. Between eight and eleven-thirty, you wrote