- Chapter 7 -

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Three days later
Chief Sinth came to sign at the office early in the morning. But when he arrived, he found Run and two other police officers standing there waiting.
"Ah, Run. Why didn't you give me a call that you're coming? Have you been waiting long?"
"Well, because I know that you would come on time. Why would I call you? It's a waste of money."
"What's the matter, so you have to bring the police here in this early morning?"
"I already know the person who poisoned the wild animals and I also got an arrest warrant."

Lieutenant Run said while showing his friend the arrest warrant envelope.
"So who is it?"
"It's Mr. Cherd. One of the people of Mhay, the Sub-district headman.
"The sub-district headman?"
In front of the Sub-district headman's house, a police car and a car from the Chodchasi Forest Ranger Unit rushed in and parked. Chief Sinth, Run, police officer, and forest rangers walked into the house in unison.
"Oh, chief Sinth and Run. It is honored to having you all come to my house by yourself. But why bring so many people here?"
Mhay, the influential person of this province, greeted him. While stepping out of the house with his subordinates flanking left and right. Followed by Mack, his son. He followed him outside to see the other person. The officer's stopped walking and all of them stood facing each other, fearlessly.
"I'm sorry for disturbing you without prior notice."
"It's okay, Run. We are all friendly people, isn't it, Chief Sinth?"
Chief Sinth smiled at the corner of his
mouth calmly, but didn't answer. While Mhay, although he still didn't know the purpose of the officers' coming, still had kindness and talked like nothing had happened.
"We came here to pick up Mr. Cherd. Can you please call him over?"
Run continued to speak in a low voice.
"You're here to pick him up? Why? What did he do wrong?"
"Poisoning wild animals, took the parts of their bodies to sell, and there are still many retroactive offenses."
Chief Sinth explained the mistake that Mr. Cherd had done to Mhay, it caused the Sub-district headman's face to pale but still take the bull by the horns.
"I think there must be some misunderstanding. Cherd has served me for a long time. There is no way he'll do such a thing."
"In this case, the officers have witnesses and evidence, he can't slip out of our hands. If the headman is still protecting your people, you might also be in trouble."
The Sub-district headman's face was broken, but his heart began to rage. He still kept his head down, nodding, and ordering his subordinates to bring Mr. Cherd here.

Less than five minutes, the same underlings led Mr. Cherd in, two policemen immediately handcuffed him.
"Please, help me, headman. I won't go with them, it's not my fault. Why you police came and arrest me? What evidence do you have?"
"There is evidence for sure. Officers found a bottle of pesticide that you sprayed on the forest forage. It's the same as the one you bought in the agrochemical store in town, both the barcode and the copy of the receipt. And there's also a picture from the CCTV during the time you bought it. Do not try to struggle, Mr. Ched."
After lieutenant Run finished speaking. The man was stunned and pretend to be angry but turned to see the fierce eyes of the Sub-district headman.
"Why are you doing this, Cherd? Wasn't I raising you good enough? That you have been greedy for breaking the law like this."
"Headman!"
Cherd's face was broken that suddenly the Sub-district headman made such an expression. But when he saw the man wink one of his eyes, he understood immediately. While chief Sinth and lieutenant Run looked at each other pitifully in the act of Mhay.
"You need to play along with them first.
Then I will bail you out."
The sub-district headman whispered in
Cherd's ear before the officer dragged him to the police car. Then turn around, continue to talk to the staff.
"I'm sorry for not training my people, it was so bad that this kind of thing happened. From now on, if the officer wants me to help with anything. You can always tell me, I'd be happy to."
"Thank you very much. The errands are over, we've to go first."
When Run said goodbye, the officers then walked back to their cars and drove away. As soon as the officer's car passed the fence. The Sub-district headman's face immediately turned into a vengeful.
"Dad, why did you let them take Mr. Cherd so easily?"
Mack asked his father suspiciously as they walked back into the house.
"Who let it leave evidence behind and lead the authorities to itself? Glad I was not involving with it. Cherd, you stupid dumb fucked."
"So what are you going to do next, dad? I'm so despised with chief Sinth that my heart about to explode."
"I hate him as much as you. He has only
become the cheif of the unit, not even a year yet. I lost hundreds of millions of income because of him. Also, the value of the thing, when it brought The Royal Thai Police to attack our army in the forest a week ago."
Mhay said, he clenched his fist, wanting to kill chief Sinth.
"He did us so much, why did you still let him hang around like this?"
"If I can kill it, I would have done it a long time ago. If the boss doesn't tell me not to mess with it. I wouldn't let it cause us such calamity."
"I don't understand at all. Why wouldn't even the boss want to mess with it?" "I bet he wouldn't want to have a
problem with his father's clan. His father is the Director-General, his grandfather was a minister, and his older brother is a high-rank soldier. Also all of his relatives, they're all big and large. Three years ago, he was shot with a single wound. His father and his brother came together to destroy the mountain, destroying our drug production base. If it dies, there won't be even our bones are left."
"Hey, can't we really do anything, Dad?"

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