Gao Wu: I inherited the evil organization in the game

Chapter 647 The Vanished Corpse Awakens
After Hou Wendong finished speaking, he paused and then explained:

"After all, you must have heard about the discipline of the police force, Congressman."

In fact, it wasn't just the two captains tonight; many other officers couldn't be reached by phone and were unable to return to their posts in time to respond to calls.

A large portion of these cases are probably due to people sleeping too soundly and having their phones on silent. They'll likely reappear automatically when it's light.

Before he could finish speaking, Wang Xinfa interrupted him without any room for argument:
"Find the person, immediately, right now."

Hou Wendong's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately bowed and replied:

"Understood, I'll arrange it right away. By the way, Feng Muren has arrived. I've asked him to wait in the corridor. Would the councilor like to see him?"

Wang Xinfa's gaze casually swept over Li Hanyu, who did not rush to explain, but simply responded with a gentle and calm smile.

Feng Mu was Qian Huan's confidant and, more importantly, her most trusted loyal dog. Even if she didn't say it, Wang Xinfa certainly knew it.

Given the magnitude of what happened tonight, it's perfectly reasonable for her to summon her loyal hound to protect her; no further explanation is needed.

Wang Xinfa didn't ask any more questions, even though he didn't think that if something really happened, what use would a mere prison guard be?

In Wang Xinfa's eyes, apart from the warden who could barely be considered an official, everyone below the warden, regardless of whether they were prison section chiefs or district chiefs, was equal.

They were just prison guards, let alone Feng Mu, that incongruous Minister of Internal Affairs.

Wang Xinfa's voice was as cold as ice:
"I'm disappearing. Go down and tell him (Feng Mu) to bring Feng Ju to me!"

Hou Wendong instantly understood the deeper meaning behind Wang Xinfa's order. If Li Xiang were to encounter problems, the importance of the other captain in the police station would naturally rise at this critical juncture.

He hurriedly accepted the order:
"Understood, don't worry, Congressman, I will handle it."

Wang Xinfa seemed to realize he had said too much, so he picked up his teacup to moisten his slightly dry throat. Setting down the teacup, he noticed Hou Wendong still standing respectfully with his hands at his sides, a barely perceptible hint of impatience on his brow.

"Do you have anything else to report?"

Hou Wendong's expression turned somewhat strange. He glanced at Li Hanyu before lowering his voice and saying:

"Councilor, President Lu, Madam, regarding the condition of the body at the scene, there are some... unusual circumstances."

The three of them were stunned for a moment, their gazes simultaneously focusing on Hou Wendong's face. Li Hanyu, in particular, felt slightly uneasy because of Hou Wendong's gaze just now.

Hou Wendong organized his thoughts and reported:
"Several bodies were carried out at the entrance of Emerald Garden. I personally confirmed that they were all security guards from the villa area. I also carefully examined the bodies carried out from the special envoy's villa, and their identities were confirmed to be those of the maids who served in the villa."

Wang Xinfa frowned slightly. He didn't care whether the security guards or maids died or not. The deaths of such insignificant people were just numbers and didn't deserve to offend his ears.

Lu Chenjia listened intently, his intuition telling him that Hou Wendong's elaborate setup must be for a twist. Li Hanyu's heart was in her throat, and she strained her ears, afraid of missing a single word.

Sure enough, Hou Wendong took a deep breath and said:
"However, after questioning the police officers responsible for collecting and recording the bodies at the scene and verifying the number of bodies, I discovered that... the police did not find any bodies under the streetlights."

Instead, they only found a pool of black blood at that location, so there were actually two missing bodies at the scene.

As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of the three people in the room changed simultaneously.

Li Hanyu was so shocked that she stood up and exclaimed:
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"
Right at the entrance, under that streetlamp! There were clearly two corpses lying there, one... one headless, the other dressed as a night watchman.

I saw it with my own eyes… no, it was my bodyguards. They saw it even through the crack in the door. There's no mistake!

The bodyguard's statement to the police station was naturally false; he claimed to know nothing. However, when facing his true masters, Wang Xinfa and Lu Chenjia, he could not lie and answered all their questions without reservation.

Lu Chenjia and Wang Xinfa naturally wouldn't suspect the bodyguards they had sent to Li Hanyu's side. Even if they suspected Li Hanyu, they wouldn't suspect the bodyguards.

Hou Wendong naturally understood the reasoning behind it, but he didn't know what had happened in between; he simply reported the facts as they were.

"The lady and her bodyguards would never lie, so that's where the problem lies."

The current situation is that two bodies are missing from the scene, and the police have no idea of ​​their existence. In other words, the police have no idea that a night watchman died at Emerald Garden tonight.

Hou Wendong finished adding his points in one go and gave his final conclusion:

"The police are just assuming that some thugs attacked the special envoy's villa and then the special envoy disappeared."

Li Hanyu opened her mouth wide, but couldn't utter a single word.

Her mind was in complete chaos, like a ball of yarn that had been frantically scratched by a cat, with countless clues, fears, and questions tangled together, leaving her with no clue whatsoever.

Another accident?!

What do you mean the body is missing?!

Where are my two huge corpses?!
Just recently, the bodyguards had witnessed, through a crack in the door, the two gruesome corpses under the streetlight.

How could they have vanished from the police station's records in the blink of an eye, leaving only a pool of black blood of unknown origin?

Was this accident a blessing or a curse for her?
Lu Chenjia had already lowered his head, his gaze fixed on the tea leaves floating in the teacup in his hand. His face was expressionless, like a bottomless ancient well, and no one could tell what he was thinking.

Wang Xinfa's expression was uncertain. After a long while, he asked Hou Wendong:

"What do you think?"

Hou Wendong had clearly thought things through carefully before giving his report, and he spoke cautiously:
"Based on the premise that the lady and the bodyguard would not lie, then there should indeed have been two corpses lying under the streetlight at that time: a headless corpse and a night watchman."

The headless corpse is definitely dead, but that Night Watchman…

Hou Wendong recounted the bodyguards' description of the night watchman falling to the ground, and continued:
"The bodyguards were inside the villa at the time, separated by a crack in the door, and the light was dim. Given the urgency of the situation, they only saw him fall down and instinctively assumed he was dead as well."

But actually, that Night's Watchman might not have been truly dead at the time!

After spending some time with Li Xiang, Hou Wendong actually learned some reasoning skills:

"After the bodyguards closed the door, the night watchman probably came back to life and then carried the body next to him away."

Upon hearing this, Wang Xinfa turned his gaze to Li Hanyu, who nodded repeatedly in agreement as if waking from a dream.

"Yes, yes, Secretary Hou's analysis makes a lot of sense, that should be... that should be it!"

It's all my fault! It's all my fault. I was too scared and too cautious at the time. I didn't let the bodyguards rush out to check and confirm, and then I closed the door, so I probably missed this scene..."

Wang Xinfa waved his hand, interrupting Li Hanyu's self-blame, as pursuing this matter at this moment was pointless.

If he were here and witnessed thugs rushing into the special envoy's villa, killing everyone outside, then calling their accomplices to kill the watchman and escape, he would have to be extremely cautious.

Yes, from Li Hanyu's perspective at the time, they wouldn't have thought that the sounds of fierce fighting coming from the special envoy's villa were from criminals who had mistakenly broken in while in a panic.

They would only assume that the perpetrators were bad guys who were after the special envoy's villa.

Apart from the Night's Watchmen, everyone who appeared before and after them—whether they saw them or not, whether they were clear or not—was considered part of the same group.

They were all utterly depraved and vicious.

(ps: The view through the door is limited, and you can't see the villa next door.)

Therefore, the bodyguards inside the door faced a "blank" environment with only sound for a long time, but this did not prevent them from mentally simulating the intense battle outside through the sounds.
As for whether the perpetrator has a terrorist background, that's hard to say.

Since they dared to kill the Night's Watch and even stormed into the special envoy's villa, slaughtering all the maids inside, you can imagine what that means.

In this situation, would you rush out to help?

Whether they save them or not, they might end up getting burned.

Although the current situation isn't necessarily much better.

After stating his speculation, Hou Wendong added extremely cautiously, leaving himself ample room for maneuver:

"Member, this is merely my personal speculation, an inference based on limited information. There is currently no direct evidence to support this speculation, so it may not be correct."

He paused briefly, then offered another possibility, though it sounded even more far-fetched:
"There is another possibility: that someone else stole the two bodies without anyone noticing before the police arrived."

Wang Xinfa took a sip of tea. Although Hou Wendong added other possibilities, he was already seven or eight parts convinced of the theory that "the night watchman was not dead and dragged away the body."

This seems to be the most logical and best explanation for the current situation.

However, this answer itself has brought even more perplexing questions.

Who was that night watchman? How did he survive? Why did he take the headless corpse with him, and who was that headless corpse?

I really don't understand. This kind of thing should be left to a detective.

Wang Xinfa put down his teacup and frowned as he looked at Hou Wendong:
"Go outside immediately and personally oversee the police station. Use all available technology and manpower to search for the special envoy's whereabouts."

And Li Xiang, any progress, big or small, at any time, must be reported directly to me immediately, understand?

Hou Wendong immediately straightened up and solemnly replied:

"Yes, Congressman! I'll take care of it right away!"

He then turned to Li Hanyu and respectfully asked for instructions:
"Madam, if you don't have any urgent matters to attend to, could you please have Feng Mu assist me with some things?"

Li Hanyu naturally couldn't refuse Hou Wendong's reasonable request here, so she smiled and agreed:
"Alright, Secretary Hou, please make the arrangements."

Just then, hurried footsteps suddenly came from the doorway.

Doctors from the medical team, dressed in white coats, rushed in in a panic, their foreheads covered in fine beads of sweat, their glasses perched crookedly on their noses.

Hou Wendong's face darkened, and he immediately reprimanded him sternly:

"What are you doing? Don't you have any rules? How dare you barge in like this?"

Wang Xinfa looked at the doctor with a slightly gloomy expression, while Lu Chenjia turned her body away.

Li Hanyu's heart skipped a beat, but she pretended to be blank on the surface, though her brows furrowed unconsciously.

The doctor trembled, his face turning deathly pale, his lips quivering, and he stammered, startled by Hou Wendong's stern shout and Wang Xinfa's icy gaze:
"Madam, it's Qian Huan, he..."

He stammered for a long time, as if the news was too shocking to be uttered smoothly.

Li Hanyu suddenly stood up, her voice rising abruptly, carrying an unnatural sharpness, completely different from her usual elegant and composed demeanor:

"What happened to Qian Huan? Tell me quickly!"

The doctor finally took a deep breath, and with all his might, almost shouted it out:
"A miracle! Madam! It's a miracle! Qian Huan... he's awake!!!"

Li Hanyu seemed unable to believe her ears, and stood there stunned for two seconds.

The next second, she didn't care about anything else and pushed the doctor who was blocking her way away with such force that the doctor, who was caught off guard, stumbled and almost fell.

Without looking back, Li Hanyu sprinted downstairs in her high heels.

Lu Chenjia's expression froze. He had just thought that Qian Huan was finally about to die, and he was already calculating the possible chain reaction that Qian Huan's death might bring.

To my utter surprise—she actually... woke up?!

Why did I have to wake up at this very moment, tonight, of all times?
The special envoy outside was nowhere to be found, neither alive nor dead, but Qian Huan inside happened to wake up at this critical juncture?

His brain was working at lightning speed:
Qian Huan and the special envoy... logically speaking, they should have nothing in common and no direct connection. But the timing is really coincidental.

The disappearance of the special envoy, the loss of contact with Li Xiang, the disappearance of the Night Watchman's body, Qian Huan's awakening... these events may be related, or they may be connected, but they all seem to have come together at once.

Now, the next step is to sort out and handle all these matters one by one. Tsk tsk tsk, this is not easy.

Lu Chenjia suddenly turned to look at Wang Xinfa, who remained seated on the sofa, staring back at her expressionlessly.

His face was calm and expressionless, even appearing somewhat wooden.

But Lu Chenjia knew that Councilor Wang's heart must be just as unsettled as hers at this moment.

No, Councilor Wang must be even more unsettled than I am, because Qian Huan is nominally Councilor Wang's "good son".

Lu Chenjia didn't really want Qian Huan to wake up, as it disrupted his original plans. However, looking at Wang Xinfa's expressionless face, he seemed less annoyed.

He grinned and congratulated Wang Xinfa:
"Congressman, congratulations! Your son has woken up. Let's go see him."

Wang Xinfa's movements as he stood up were slightly stiff, and he said with a forced smile:
"Thank you, this is some rare good news tonight. Let's go see my... lucky son."

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(End of this chapter)