Chapter 172 Cooperating with the Investigation

After Sedes finished his instructions, he winked at the church. The church nodded calmly and said to William with a smile: "Hi, William, long time no see, I didn't expect to see you here."

"I didn't expect to see you here either." William happily shook hands with the church and said: "I left without saying goodbye to you last time in Montenegro. I regretted it for many days. I'm glad to see you again."

"Me too." The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and the church returned to the topic and asked: "Can you tell me why you are here? I don't think you will be interested in this cocktail party."

"Haha, you are wrong, the church, I am very interested in this cocktail party," and then he nodded at Abigail not far away.

Following William's gesture, the church looked at Abigail, who was in tears not far away, and asked with understanding: "That girl?"

William nodded.

The church looked at William strangely and teased: "Don't you have a girlfriend? That model, what's her name, William, your behavior is very shameless."

"NO, Abi is my new subordinate. I plan to ask her to be my assistant in antique acquisition and the curator of my private museum," William said in a hurry.

Church and Sedes looked at each other, feeling disgusted by William's shamelessness. They looked at William with contempt and said nothing, as if only an idiot would believe you.

"God, Abi is really not my girlfriend. She has a deep research on the cultural relics of the Great Celestial Empire, and I am a little obsessed with Celestial Empire antiques, so I hired her with a monthly salary of 50,000 US dollars."

After hearing this, Sedes immediately ordered his men around him to question Abigail to see if what William said was true.

After giving the order, Sedes said to William: "I need your cooperation, Mr. Devonshire, you are now restricted from leaving the country, please hand over your passport."

"Passport?" William said unexpectedly: "Sorry, I have the power of foreign affairs. If you want me to hand over my passport, go and talk to the head of foreign affairs in England. And gentlemen, if it is a formal inquiry now, I need to wait for my lawyer to arrive."

Before he finished speaking, Sedes and Church's faces had turned black. William smiled and said, "Of course, I will cooperate with you, but as an ally or friend at that time. If I am a suspect, I have the right to ask for a lawyer to be present."

Sedes and Church's faces improved when they heard that William was not completely shirking the responsibility. They only wanted to find the lost Declaration of Independence now, and they didn't want to care about anything else.

After Church and Sedes said something, Sedes thought for a moment and said to William, "Okay, Mr. Devonshire, thank you for cooperating with our investigation. During this period, you can't leave my sight, understand?"

"No problem, but I need to say hello to the people of England's foreign affairs, so that you don't deny it in the future."

"Okay, but before your suspicion is cleared, you are restricted from leaving the country. Are there any other questions?"

William shook his head, took out his usual mobile phone and gestured to the two. Sedes waved his hand, ignored William's protest and confiscated his mobile phone directly, and asked his men to check who William talked to.

Fortunately, this phone is for his normal life. William has always kept other secret phones in the storage space. He would change the card or throw it away after each use.

In this era, you don’t need to register to buy a mobile phone card. If you have money, you can buy as many cards as you want, so William often buys several mobile phones and more than a dozen mobile phone cards.

Sedes took out his mobile phone and got the number from his subordinates. He called the English Foreign Affairs Embassy and talked to the foreign affairs director on the phone to explain William’s affairs to the foreign affairs director.

After that, he gave the phone to William. The English foreign affairs director explained his power and the confidentiality to William on the phone, and specifically told William that he would send someone to ask the Secret Service for authorization to protect William’s rights.

After that, the two made an appointment to meet each other in London to play golf, and chatted enthusiastically for more than ten minutes.

Looking at Sedes and the church beside William, they cursed that rich people are troublesome. However, when they thought that the foreign affairs directors sent to other countries by their own country were all rich people or assistants before the general manager took office, they felt a little bored.

William hung up the phone with a smile, "Okay, ask whatever you want to ask, I will tell you as long as I can."

Sedes was very helpless. He didn't like to meet rich and prestigious people like William the most.

"Tell me about the treasure thief. How did you find out that he stole the Declaration of Independence, and how did you take back the fake declaration?"

William talked to the two people about how he knew Abigail, how he met Ben Gates at Barrow Point and found a clue pointing to the Declaration of Independence. Because it involved the Declaration of Independence, William had to give up looking for the treasure

How he met Ben Gates again in Washington and persuaded him to give up looking for the treasure, and how he and Abigail took back the copy in the end.

These are all clues that can be easily found. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the subordinates that Sedes had just ordered come over and whispered in Sedes' ear.

Sedes listened and compared it with what William had just said. Although he was not safe and assured about William, he was relieved in his heart. Now that Ben Gaz is found, the Declaration of Independence can be recovered.

As long as William, the rich man, is not involved, Sedes is still very confident that he can catch Ben Gaz within three days.

Sedes took William and Church into the monitoring room of the archives. The screen was playing a video of Ben Gates being stopped by the salesperson and paying with a credit card to buy two copies of the declaration. This explained where the replica William and Abigail got back.

The Secret Service had checked the list of the souvenir shop, and the replica was the one sold at night.

No mistake, one song, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

Then the screen turned to several hidden cameras at the side door of the archives, one of which captured the whole process of William and Abigail taking back the replica.

Seeing this video made William's heart jump suddenly, and some sweat broke out on his back, but he didn't dare to make any extra movements, because Church had been following him all the time, staring at him from time to time.

After watching it with gritted teeth, William breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the camera was blocked by Riley's car when changing the declaration. Even more fortunately, he fell to the ground immediately after being hit by the car and blocked the real declaration.

Then he put the declaration into the storage space. The video only showed him lying on the ground for a few seconds and then standing up to pat the dust off his hands and clothes.

This action further proves that William has never come into contact with any true or false declarations. The look in Sedes' eyes when he looked at him was no longer as sharp as before.

Only Church, who knew William very well, was a little confused. He knew William's skills.

William was frightened by Ben Gaz's pretentious waving of his arms and retreated repeatedly. This made Church doubt whether William knew that the real declaration was in the car when Ben Gaz and Abigail were entangled.

Thinking of this, Church hurriedly said to the security guard: "Play the video again."

Sedes was delighted to hear this and asked: "Church, what did you find?"