bestfiction Chapter 579 Sand Sea 5
Chapter 579 Sand Sea 5
Chapter 579 Sand Sea 5
Wang Meng instinctively wanted to retaliate, but upon realizing Wang Zhao's identity, he instantly suppressed the urge and could only glare hatefully at Li Chu, who was still unconscious.
Now that things have come to this, if I were to be charged with assaulting a police officer, the situation would become even more uncontrollable.
The hospital and the police station are not far apart. Upon hearing that something had happened here, the station immediately sent several more police officers over to quickly control the scene and then search the surrounding area to see if there were any suspicious persons.
Wang Zhao quickly handed Wang Meng over to his colleagues who had arrived and reported the situation to his superiors. Only then did he state his speculation: "This person has been arrested on the spot, but we still cannot contact the victim's father, Li Yiming. Based on what this person said to the victim earlier, I reasonably speculate that they kidnapped Li Yiming."
“This group first had the hospital doctor take the victim away from the hospital, and when that failed, they sent this person to forcibly take the victim away. Now that they have failed again, they are likely to try other ways to contact the victim. I request that the bureau send a few people to the hospital to take turns protecting the victim’s safety.”
Li Chu, who should have been unconscious, smiled slightly upon hearing this, but the smile was fleeting and went unnoticed by those around him.
After transmigrating, Li Cu quickly analyzed the current situation. Upon discovering that he could not contact the original owner's father and realizing that a problem might be brewing, he immediately contacted the Public Security Bureau and found Officer Wang Zhao, who was in charge of the case.
Unexpectedly, things turned out so coincidentally that before the two had even exchanged a few words on the phone, Liang Wan arrived at the ward and, thinking herself clever, tried to lure him out of the hospital, only to be overheard by Wang Zhao.
After Liang Wan was taken away by the police, Wang Zhao finished taking Li Cu's statement and prepared to investigate Shen Qiong first, since Shen Qiong had given Li Cu that box.
Just as Wang Zhao drove away, Li Cu spotted Wang Meng heading straight for him. So, as Wang Meng entered the ward, Li Cu dialed Wang Zhao's number again.
After listening to Wang Zhao's account of the incident, he immediately turned his car around and returned, while requesting support from his superiors.
The fact that Li Cu was attacked without warning was already strange enough, but unexpectedly, a new twist occurred today.
To date, this case involves stabbing, threats and intimidation, kidnapping and coercion, and it is also a gang crime.
The situation escalated rapidly, drawing serious attention from the Public Security Bureau.
"Investigate! Investigate thoroughly! I want to see just how many demons and monsters are still hiding in broad daylight!" Director Liu of the Public Security Bureau roared, slamming his fist on the table with a deafening roar.
He then immediately arranged for interrogators to interrogate Wang Meng and Liang Wan, who had been brought back, while he himself was directly present to supervise the interrogation and kept a close eye on the situation inside the interrogation room.
Unfortunately, as a loyal follower of Wu Xie, Wang Meng had the backbone not to mention Wu Xie's name once, and tried very hard to take all the blame upon himself.
Seeing that he remained uncooperative, the police had to start from other aspects, and as a result, they followed the clues and found his workplace - Wushanju.
Upon further investigation, it was discovered that the owner of Wushanju was named Wu Xie.
Upon further investigation, hmm?
This Wu family is quite something; they actually wield considerable influence in both Hangzhou and Changsha.
As the situation became increasingly complicated and the nature of the matter became so egregious, the leadership team of the bureau held a meeting and decided to establish a special task force, of which Wang Zhao was naturally included.
Soon, a special task force composed of elite police officers drawn from various departments held its first meeting regarding the case.
Since Wang Zhao was the one who initially took charge of the case, he stepped forward to explain the details of the case and the current progress in solving it.
So, the police officers began to explore the case from different angles based on the information they had.
They have conducted an analysis and investigation of everyone currently involved in the case.
No matter how you analyze it, Li Cu is just an ordinary student repeating a grade.
Prior to this, Li Cu had never had any contact with Wu Xie, Wang Meng, Huang Yan, or anyone else, nor had he ever had any conflicts with them.
In short, no matter how you investigate, it turns out that Wu Xie and his group had ulterior motives, while Li Chu was just an innocent and unfortunate child suffering.
One hot-tempered police officer said directly, "The victim is just an ordinary high school student who is not yet an adult. He has never had any contact or grudges with them. He was just walking on the street when Wu Xie and his gang used such vicious methods to seriously injure him, causing him great physical and psychological trauma."
Not content with the state they've created for the victim, they now intend to take him away. To avoid suspicion, they even kidnapped the victim's father instead of his attending physician, and then used a stun gun to subdue the already severely injured victim. This behavior is utterly depraved. In my opinion, calling them "inhuman" is entirely appropriate.
Some police officers disagreed, saying, "That's not how it works. We've only found out that Wu Xie is Wang Meng's boss, but that doesn't necessarily mean that this matter is related to Wu Xie."
The policeman snorted coldly: "I just checked here, and on the surface, there seems to be nothing wrong with the Wu family's business. However, after carefully comparing their company's employee data, it was found that some people in their company would be injured, disappear, or even die inexplicably. But the Wu family is very generous to these people, giving them a large sum of compensation, so the families of these people usually don't pursue the matter."
"So, according to you, isn't the Wu family a local family involved in organized crime?"
"I agree with that. Putting everything else aside, Wang Meng has been by Wu Xie's side for over ten years, and he only earns a few hundred yuan a month, sometimes not even that. Who would believe there's nothing fishy going on here?"
As the group started arguing, a burly middle-aged criminal police officer frowned deeply.
He stubbed out his cigarette in the potted green ivy on the table and said in a deep voice, "I think this case is not simple. I think we need to figure out why they are targeting Li Chu. Is it just because of that box? Could there be other reasons behind it? For example, Shen Qiong? Don't forget, she gave the box to the victim."
"According to the victim's confession, Huang Yan, who attacked him, went berserk after seeing that the contents of the box were missing. Ignoring his own serious injuries, he first hit the victim's head with a brick more than a dozen times. After the victim fell into a coma, he took a knife and carved strange patterns all over the victim's back."
"Xiao Li." The middle-aged detective called out to the young policeman behind him who was fiddling with a computer. The latter immediately put the pictures on the computer onto the projector.
The meeting room fell silent instantly.
Everyone looked up at the image on the big screen, and a chill instantly ran down their spines.
The boy's once smooth back in the picture has been covered with hundreds of cuts made with a knife.
Because the boy was very thin, at first glance it seemed that even his bones were exposed. He was covered in blood, and his open wounds looked terrifying.
Although they had heard about the case before they came, seeing it still gave them a huge shock.
The middle-aged detective who had spoken earlier, Zhang Wen, the leader of the special task force, slammed his fist on the table: "You all saw it, didn't you! Look how brutal this murderer is! The victim was a senior high school student who was hit with a brick more than a dozen times, and was tortured with a knife for four whole hours, with hundreds of cuts made on his back."
"The nature of this case is so heinous that it is outrageous. And the impact of this case is also enormous."
"Now many people are afraid to go out at night, and even high schools have canceled evening self-study sessions. People are panicking and everyone is in danger."
"Comrades, we must not let the situation deteriorate any further. We must pull ourselves together, go all out, and try to solve this case in the shortest possible time, bring all the criminals to justice, give an explanation to the victims, give an explanation to the leaders who support us, and give an explanation to all the people who are concerned about this case."
These words instantly stirred up the emotions of all the police officers in the office. Everyone stopped arguing and shouted at the top of their lungs, "Yes, sir!"
Seeing this, Zhang Wen nodded in satisfaction and began to let everyone continue discussing the case.
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Beijing is not a place anyone can come to. No matter how powerful you are, if you dare to cause trouble here, you will definitely be punished.
Just like no matter how cool the Nine Gates may seem to the members of the Nine Gates, from the perspective of the country, they are all a group of tomb raiders.
Based on the quantity and price of the cultural relics trafficked by the nine gatekeepers, each of them should be sentenced to ten years in prison.
Especially considering how many people died during their tomb raiding, if you count on your fingers, half of them should be executed.
So no matter how arrogant they are within their own circles, in their daily lives they have to be honest and upright, for fear of attracting the attention of the authorities if they are not careful.
Unfortunately, they didn't know that because of Wu Xie's Sand Sea Project, the authorities had already begun to pay attention to the Wu family.
If the Wu family comes to the surface, how far behind are the other families?
……
Wu Xie, who was planning his next move, was wondering why Wang Meng hadn't returned after a whole night.
Wang Meng has been with him for over ten years, and he is very reliable in both character and ability.
However, just in case, Wu Xie still left the place he had agreed to meet with Wang Meng.
Just as he started his car, four black cars stopped behind him.
Wu Xie felt something was off, so he glanced back in the rearview mirror.
The result was quite surprising.
The four cars stopped one after another. Before the cars had even come to a complete stop, the doors on both sides were forcefully opened from the inside, and twenty or thirty burly men jumped out.
Based on his years of professional experience and some common sense, Wu Xie immediately realized that these people were plainclothes police officers.
His intuition told him that the police were after him.
Wu Xie felt a little panicked, so he stepped on the gas, and the car shot off like an arrow.
No, is this right? Is this right?
He just asked Wang Meng to bring Li Chu over, so why are there so many police officers?
Did Li Cu call the police?
The thought of this possibility struck Wu Xie like a thunderbolt, leaving him completely stunned.
Good heavens!
Why isn't Li Chu playing by the rules?
Back then, how many ancient tombs did they destroy while traveling all over the country, and how many people died? Yet, none of them showed any sense of decency and called the police.
Wu Xie was so angry that he cursed under his breath, unwilling to let his ten-year-long plan, which had been painstakingly devised and failed seventeen times before, go to waste.
Most importantly, the Wang family has already taken the bait and has sent someone to replace Shen Qiong, delivering the box to Li Cu, thus attracting Huang Yan to carve words on Li Cu's back to test him.
As long as he brings Li Cu, the bait, to Gutongjing, the Wang family will definitely bring Li Cu to their base camp in order to read Wang Zanghai's memories.
As long as Li Cu can successfully send the signal, he can pinpoint the exact location of the Wang family immediately and then lead his men to completely eliminate them.
Everything was going according to his plan, so why is it like this now?
Wu Xie closed his eyes, a strong sense of resentment surging within him, his lips bleeding from being bitten so hard.