Chapter 303 Nosebleeds and Layers of Reporting

In the chaos, Hou Liangping was hit hard in several places.

Especially when someone hit him on the nose with an elbow, blood gushed out instantly.

The chaotic scene didn't last long. With the arrival of the police, Cheng Du led more than a dozen officers into the room and quickly brought the situation under control.

"Director Hou, are you alright?"

Cheng Du stepped forward cautiously to inquire, while Hou Liangping breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that it was an old acquaintance.

"It's okay, you won't die."

After saying this, Liangping looked into the bedroom. Yi Tianci was lying on the ground covered in footprints. Besides the people lying haphazardly, the most important thing on the ground were the smashed camera and voice recorder.

"Fuck you!"

Hou Liangping was somewhat angry when he saw this scene, and looked coldly at the masked man leading the group.

"Who are you? How dare you so blatantly destroy evidence? Do you even respect the law?!"

Hou Liangping covered his nose and roared angrily, but the other party just rolled his eyes and acted like a tough nut to crack.

"What the hell! Arrogant? Let me tell you, you're finished, you're all finished. Destroying evidence, trespassing, burglary, assaulting a police officer, assaulting a public official, that's all the charges. No, there's also the charge of organizing a criminal gang!"

These charges combined mean you'll all get at least ten years in prison, especially you—life imprisonment, life imprisonment, do you understand?!

When they heard the sentence of ten years to life imprisonment, the dozen or so masked men who had been calm and unperturbed were dumbfounded. Had they really committed such a serious crime?

Seeing this, Hou Liangping was too lazy to explain anymore. This was the first time he had ever had his nose bleed like this. He refused to believe that he couldn't make these people pay the price with his connections!

After venting his anger, Hou Liangping entered the bedroom. Yi Tianci had already fainted, but he was still tightly clutching the main fragments of the camera and the recorder.

At 6:28 a.m., at the First People's Hospital of Jingzhou City, Hou Liangping, whose wound had already been bandaged, breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing that Yi Tianci had only suffered a few broken ribs. It was good that he was alright.

Just as Hou Liangping was about to leave the hospital and take the fragments back to the procuratorate for technical analysis and extraction, the phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was an unknown number.

Frowning, Hou Liangping answered the call.

"Hey, who are you!"

"Is this Director Hou?"

The voice was somewhat deep, clearly deliberately lowered.

"I'm Hou Liangping, what do you want?"

"Director Hou, who I am is unimportant. If you can dispose of those fragments you took, then name your terms!"

Hou Liangping was delighted to hear this. He could name his terms.

"You're Lee Sang-ri, right?"

Boom! Those words instantly silenced the other side.

Upon seeing this, Hou Liangping knew he had guessed correctly.

"Li Shangli, Secretary Li! Do you think I, Hou Liangping, would collude with you? What are your conditions? Can you afford them?"

Even if you could afford it, I wouldn't agree. Remember, my identity is the Director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Handong Provincial Procuratorate, not your business partner!

"Hou Liangping, are you sure you won't give me this face?"

"Face? What do you think you are! You'd better pray I don't find any evidence in the fragments, otherwise!"

"Hou Liangping..."

Li Shangli wanted to say something more, but Hou Liangping didn't give him any chance at all and hung up the phone directly!

An hour later, the Provincial Procuratorate.

In the prosecutor's office.

"Prosecutor Ji, that's how it is. I really didn't provoke them on purpose, they were just too arrogant. To challenge the law like this, they're even bolder than Zhao Ruilong!"

Ji Changming had a smile on his lips and a relatively calm expression.

"So, putting aside whether it was intentional or not, Li Shangli is Governor Jianjun's man, you must know that. I'll just ask you one question: do you regret it now?"

Hou Liangping paused for a moment.

"No regrets! Prosecutor Ji, you know I might not be a good person in my private life, but when it comes to work, I, Hou Liangping, would never stand against the law!"

Ji Changming rolled his eyes.

"Alright, alright, go and show your loyalty to Comrade Guoping. I'll be retiring in just over ten days, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, the next chief prosecutor of the procuratorate will be Lin Guoping."

Hou Liangping did not reply.

"Let's see if the technical department can extract the key evidence from the fragments first. Don't worry, Handong is not ruled by Governor Jianjun alone. Just listen to Li Shangli's threats; he's just a bully using someone else's power."

By the way, I'll report this to Secretary Chen for you. Secretary Chen won't tolerate any wrongdoing!

After Ji Changming finished speaking, Hou Liangping also breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was not afraid of Li Shangli, he would still try to avoid facing him.

Compared to Hou Liangping's relaxed demeanor, Li Shangli was extremely flustered. In the district party secretary's office, Li Shangli's forehead was covered in sweat; the operation had gone awry...

Taking a deep breath and exhaling the stale air, Li Shangli could only wait, hoping that the camera and voice recorder wouldn't be able to extract anything.

It was exactly 10:00 AM.

Chen Luo, who was handling work in Luzhou, received a call from Ji Changming. Ji Changming briefly explained the situation, including the conversation between Hou Liangping and Li Shangli.

"Comrade Changming, my opinion is very simple: no matter who is involved in this matter, whether it is Li Shangli or a comrade from the Provincial Party Committee, the law will always be clear and just, and no one will be allowed to be above the law."

"Only with conclusive evidence, regardless of who it is, will I report to the Provincial Party Committee and handle the matter according to law and regulations!"

The meaning of some of these statements is quite clear: they don't favor anyone and rely entirely on evidence.

Ji Changming was satisfied with the result. Now the most important thing was whether the technical department could extract useful evidence.

Time passed slowly, and that afternoon, the provincial procuratorate's technical department had the results.

The voice recorder is completely broken and cannot be restored, but there is still a video clip from the camera that can be recovered.

In the chief prosecutor's office, Ji Changming, Hou Liangping, Lin Guoping, and several technical staff members from the technical department were all holding their breath, their eyes fixed on the screen.

They were all speculating about what kind of evidence could have made Li Shangli so panicked that he even went so far as to send someone to his door to forcibly destroy it.

As soon as the video started playing, the group was shocked by the horrifying scene: a sea of ​​white...

The group looked extremely embarrassed, but they still managed to suppress the jarring discomfort, since who knew if there would be other evidence later?

In this way, they watched the entire hour and a half video frame by frame, but found no other useful evidence besides that particular scene.

Ji Changming was the first to sigh.

"This is a waste of time. This video doesn't prove anything. At most, it shows that Li Shangli and Mao Ya..."

Hou Liangping squinted and teased, "Inspector Ji, you can't say things like that."

Look at how weak Lee Sang-ri became in the end, plus the unnatural length and ferocity at the beginning.

It's obvious there's medication involved!