Chapter 229 1.5 grams? This tea can make you an immortal!

Two military stun grenades simultaneously shattered the glass and landed precisely inside the house.

The blinding light and the deafening roar shattered all the surrounding glass.

The six people inside had no time to react; their minds went blank, and their ears were ringing.

The corrugated iron sheet on the roof was violently torn off.

Three dark figures descended from the sky, their tactical ropes drawing sharp lines in mid-air.

Zhou Weiguo kicked open the rickety iron door and rushed into the room with an assault rifle in hand.

The military boots made a piercing, clattering sound as they stepped on the broken glass and sheet metal scattered on the ground.

The entire assault was carried out smoothly and without any unnecessary movements.

Thirty seconds.

The battle is over.

The two men in raincoats were knocked to the ground by the butts of guns, their arms locked in a reverse joint lock, their faces pressed tightly against the dirty ground.

The four thugs were pinned to the muddy ground by the special forces soldiers, with hard gun barrels pressed directly against the back of their heads.

The beam of the powerful flashlight shone on Scarface's face, so bright that he couldn't open his eyes and could only writhe in pain.

Zhou Weiguo squatted down, picked up the half-finished cup of poisoned wine on the table, and poured it directly onto Scarface's head.

"Are you awake?"

Stimulated by the alcohol, Scarface coughed violently and struggled desperately.

"Who are you people?! We're just fighting, you don't need to bring in the army!"

Zhou Weiguo pulled out a tactical dagger from the outside of his thigh. The blade slid across the side of Scarface's neck, cutting through the skin and drawing blood.

"Who is the boss behind hiring you to kill people at the construction site in Luzhou?"

Scarface was still stubbornly holding on, gritting his teeth and refusing to give in.

"Nobody hired us; we were just drunk and causing trouble."

Zhou Weiguo stood up and glanced at the special forces soldiers next to him.

"Bring those two guys in raincoats over here."

The two assassins were dragged in front of Scarface, and the poison bottles they found were thrown on the ground.

"They're here to send you on your way. If you don't tell them, I'll hand you over to these two right now and then we'll leave."

Scarface looked at the poison bottle on the ground, then at the two assassins whose faces were deathly pale.

Having spent many years in the underworld, he naturally recognized the mannerisms of a professional assassin.

Their psychological defenses completely collapsed.

"I said! It's Lao Liu, the civil engineering subcontractor at the Tianhe Group construction site!"

Zhou Weiguo took out a miniature recording device, pressed the record button, and handed it to the scarred man's mouth.

"How much money did he give you?"

"They gave us 500,000 yuan in cash, along with our work badges, and told us to go to the construction site and beat people to death, to draw blood."

Scarface swallowed hard and confessed everything.

"Old Liu got drunk yesterday and started bragging to us, saying that if this matter is settled, his powerful backer will protect us."

"Who is his backer?"

"He said... he's a big shot from the Jingzhou Municipal Procuratorate, surnamed Xiao."

Zhou Weiguo turned off the recording equipment and stood up straight.

"Take them all away and escort them back to the Handong Military Region overnight."

Several military off-road vehicles tore through the night and sped away.

The underground operations room of the Handong Provincial Military Region.

Shen Zhong sat behind his large desk, toying with a brass bullet casing between his fingers.

An encrypted file sent back by Zhou Weiguo popped up on the screen.

The recording has finished playing.

The phrase, "A big shot at the Jingzhou Municipal Procuratorate, surnamed Xiao," echoed in the empty room.

Shen Zhong stood the spent cartridge case upright on the table, making a crisp clinking sound.

Gao Yuliang's hidden agenda has finally come to light.

Xiao Gangyu, Chief Prosecutor of Jingzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate.

In order to prove his loyalty to Sargentina, he was even willing to take on such dirty work as hiring a murderer and sabotaging a key provincial project.

Gao Yuliang played this move brilliantly.

Using Xiao Gangyu to sabotage Lüzhou's project would both give Sha Ruijin an explanation and put Yi Xuexi in the spotlight.

If the project is halted, He Xia's political achievements will be damaged, investors will withdraw their funds, and the entire economic layout of Handong will be disrupted.

But this move has now been intercepted by the military.

With this confession, plus the four wanted criminals and two hitmen,

Xiao Gangyu's defenses have been breached, leaving a fatal gap.

Shen Zhong pressed the red call button on the table.

"Weiguo, secure their statements. Put those thugs and assassins in separate cells in the military dungeon; no one is allowed to interrogate them."

"clear."

Shen Zhong cut off the communication, stood up, grabbed the black jacket from the back of the chair, and put it on.

The Xiao Gangyu lead is locked in; we can close the net at any time. We're just waiting for news from Qi Tongwei.

Suburbs of Jingzhou.

The exhaust fan was whirring, but it couldn't remove the lingering smell of cheap smoke from the entire room.

Li Dakang sat in a folding chair, a half-burnt cigarette between his fingers.

His eyes were bloodshot, his tie was half undone, and he looked exhausted from working non-stop.

On the hospital bed, Wang Dalu's chest was wrapped in thick gauze, and his face was pale.

Qi Tongwei, wearing a black jacket, pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the hospital bed.

"Secretary Shen asked me to investigate Yi Xuexi."

"I need solid, irrefutable dirt on them, the kind that can be devastating."

Qi Tongwei got straight to the point, tossing a stack of easy-to-learn resumes on the bedside table.

Li Dakang flicked the ash from his cigarette and stubbed it out in a disposable paper cup.

"Disaster."

"I know Yi Xuexi all too well."

"We worked with a team in Jinshan County. They were known for their hard work and intolerant of any wrongdoing."

"Sha Ruijin promoted him to Luzhou this time because he valued his reputation for being invulnerable to weapons."

Qi Tongwei took out a pack of cigarettes, pulled one out and put it in his mouth, but didn't light it.

"Every human being has weaknesses."

"He's been working in Jingzhou and Lincheng for so many years, he must have left some clues."

Wang Dalu, lying on his hospital bed, laboriously adjusted his position and leaned against the pillow.

"Director Qi, you may not believe it."

"Back in Jinshan County, Yi Xuexi's family was so poor that they couldn't even afford to fix the leaky roof."

"It was raining heavily outside, but it was drizzling inside his house, so he could only use basins to catch the water."

"His wife has to set up a street stall to sell sweet potatoes in order to supplement the family income."

"So many years have passed, but his incorruptible conduct is well-known in the officialdom of Handong."

Qi Tongwei took the cigarette out of his mouth and fiddled with it between his fingertips.

"honest?"

"There is no one in this world who is truly free from desires."

"The less cracked the egg, the deeper the filth inside is hidden."

"If Yi Xuexi were truly clean, would Sha Ruijin dare to use him as a tool?"

Li Dakang lit another cigarette and exhaled a thick cloud of smoke.

"He served as the Party Working Committee Secretary in the Luzhou Development Zone for so many years, and the projects under his supervision involved billions of yuan in funds."

"If you want to investigate, you can only start with the development zone."

"However, I must warn you, Yi Xuexi is meticulous in his work, and conventional methods simply cannot uncover anything about him."

Qi Tongwei stood up, rolled up the stack of files, and stuffed them into his jacket pocket.

If conventional methods can't detect it, then we'll use unconventional methods.

"He's been working in Luzhou for so many years; who wouldn't want a piece of the lucrative development zone?"

"As long as there is an exchange of benefits, there will always be traces left behind."

"I want to see what kind of tricks this old ox is hiding under his skin."