I was just telling a story, why is the whole internet urging me to turn myself in?

Chapter 98 This streamer is too ruthless, forcing his protectors to flip the table.

8 PM, Jiangzhou CBD, 68th floor of the Global Financial Center.

The special explosion-proof glass on the exterior facade was all installed by the afternoon.

This carbon nanotube composite layer, with its dark golden luster, filters out the dazzling neon lights from the outside, making them appear faint and dim.

"The ten million was well spent. With this thickness, even a Barrett would break its teeth."

Shen Feng muttered to himself, then steadily pressed the start button.

The screen lit up, and a massive influx of viewers flooded into the live stream.

The number of online users in the upper right corner skyrocketed, breaking through five million in the blink of an eye, and is still soaring at an alarming rate.

Shen Feng took a sip of goji berry water from his thermos, cleared his throat, and his announcer-like voice echoed in the office: "Good evening, everyone."

Yesterday we finished discussing the shadows that walked together in the darkness in "White Night Walking". Today, I'm going to tell you a new story. The name of this story is "The Silent Truth".

He placed the thermos on the table, leaned forward slightly, and got straight to the point.

"The story begins in a crowded subway station."

"On a hot summer day, a middle-aged man wearing glasses struggled toward the security scanner, dragging a huge black suitcase. He was covered in sweat and looked flustered, not even noticing the suspicious stains seeping from the edge of the suitcase."

"The security officer stopped him and asked him to put the box on the conveyor belt. The man refused and even tried to force his way through. Security guards quickly surrounded him. At this tense moment, the man suddenly pulled a remote control from his pocket and shouted menacingly, 'There are dangerous explosives in the box!'"

"Special police rushed to the scene and evacuated hundreds of people. Bomb disposal experts, wearing heavy bomb suits, carefully opened the heavy box. As it turned out, there were no explosives inside, only a curled-up male corpse."

Shen Feng paused for a moment, his eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at the rapidly scrolling comments on the screen.

"Don't you think this murderer is stupid? Why did he choose to dump the body in the subway station with the highest passenger flow and the strictest security checks? He practically walked into a trap."

"But if I told you that the man dragging the suitcase is named Zhang Chao, and that he's the top criminal defense lawyer in the area, well-versed in the relevant laws, and possesses extremely strong psychological resilience and counter-investigation capabilities, would you still think this is just a foolish crime of passion and body disposal?"

The live chat exploded instantly.

"Holy crap! A top lawyer caught red-handed disposing of a body?! What kind of incredible plot twist is this?!"

"There's definitely a conspiracy! How could someone who knows the law make such a basic and outrageous mistake!"

"The Grandmaster is at it again! This must be hinting at something! Could it be another case involving the Jiangzhou Defense Bureau?"

"High-energy warning ahead! Everyone stand up! Grab your stools and listen to the master's lecture!"

Shen Feng's voice grew increasingly low and subdued: "After Zhang Chao was arrested, he confessed to the crime of murder and disposing of the body. Witness testimony, physical evidence, and confessions formed an extremely perfect chain of evidence. This case was on the verge of becoming an impeccable ironclad case."

"But in reality, this seemingly flawed scene was a shocking conspiracy planned for countless days and nights! Zhang Chao wasn't there to dispose of the body at all; he was there to turn himself in! He used this most extreme and sensational method to force the police and all the public media to keep a close eye on the deceased inside the box!"

"Because the deceased was originally a promising young investigator. He sacrificed seven years of his youth, career, reputation, and family to solve a long-standing cold case, and even lost his life in the end, but still could not bring the mastermind behind the scenes to justice."

"What Zhang Chao is dragging along is not just a body, but a truth that has been covered up for seven whole years!"

The number of viewers in the live stream skyrocketed within just fifteen minutes, breaking the 18 million mark!

The popularity notification sounds in the background almost formed a symphony, making Shen Feng overjoyed inside, but on the surface he still maintained that unfathomable and aloof demeanor.

Just then, Xiaoyu from the tech lab suddenly jumped up from his gaming chair and slammed his hands across the keyboard, leaving a trail of afterimages.

"Master! They're panicking!" Xiao Yu's voice trembled with excitement as he stared at the frantically flashing red warning box on the secondary screen. "That shadow lurking in the provincial capital node has gone to desperate measures! He's illegally stolen high-level access to the internal network and is attempting to block and clean up our live stream across all frequencies!"

Shen Feng's heart skipped a beat.

Holy crap! These thugs hiding in the shadows actually dared to openly flip the table?!

"Can you hold on?" Shen Feng asked in a low voice.

Xiao Yu sneered and slammed his finger down on the Enter key: "Who do you think you are! I've already rented three commercial communication satellites overseas for multi-route backup relays, and even added a quantum encryption spoofing protocol!"

"They want to use the stolen access to block us? I'll just package the data stream, bypass the backbone, and tunnel it in from the external network! I'll give this rat in the gutter a devastating blow!"

The red alert on the screen disappeared instantly, and the live stream remained incredibly smooth without any lag.

"Done! The other side's terminals are probably about to burst from all the junk data I injected!" Xiaoyu snapped his fingers triumphantly. "Master, please continue! Even if the King of Heaven himself came, he couldn't cut off our signal today!"

Jiangzhou Defense Headquarters, underground command center.

Shen Feng's live stream was playing simultaneously on a huge LED screen.

The defense officers on duty didn't even have time to eat their late-night snacks, their eyes glued to the screen.

Qin Zheng stood beside the command post, holding an unlit cigarette in his hand.

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"He's deconstructing Zhang Chao's criminal psychology." Qin Zheng turned to look at Lao Han from the technical department next to him. "But in reality, he's showing us an extreme mode of retaliation."

Old Han wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Director Qin, we just detected a very subtle abnormal traffic. The other party used a very advanced disguise node to try to forcibly cut off Shen Feng's live broadcast signal. But Shen Feng's technical team's defense is extremely strong, and they managed to push the attack back."

Qin Zheng crumpled the cigarette and threw it into the trash can: "That's normal. Shen Feng's story touched a nerve with the mastermind behind it all. Zhang Chao went to great lengths to create a sensation in order to uncover the truth. Isn't Shen Feng doing the same thing now?"

"He's using the attention of over 20 million netizens to force that 'big fish' hiding in the shadows to throw itself into disarray!"

"Tao Zhiyuan has been silenced, and the trail has gone cold. Shen Feng is using a calculated strategy to send us a signal: since the enemy has cut off all conventional investigation routes in the shadows, let's muddy the waters completely!"

"When all the spotlights are on him, that self-proclaimed all-powerful figure," in order to cover up the truth, will inevitably make another move. As long as he dares to move, he will definitely reveal a flaw!"

Meanwhile, a chain budget hotel near Jianguo Road.

Su Qing sat on a stool with a thin laptop in front of her, the screen showing Shen Feng's live stream.

This morning, she took the high-speed train to the provincial capital.

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Just thinking about what happened on the high-speed train made Su Qing press her throbbing temples in pain.

Those were definitely the three most "socially dead" hours she had ever experienced in her life!

The two burly Russian men under Shen Feng, codenamed Grizzly Bear and Jackal, brazenly bought seats on either side of her!

The second-class seats were already cramped, and with these two incredibly broad-shouldered giants sitting there, they were like two walls of flesh, squeezing this 1.7-meter-tall policewoman between them, making it impossible for her to even lift her arms!

When she angrily questioned them about their presence, Grizzly surprisingly spoke fluent Mandarin, grinning broadly and saying, "Boss Shen gave us a bonus, so we came to the provincial capital—for tourism. Yes, tourism, to see the sights. China's high-speed rail is so fast, so great."

What kind of travel is this?! What kind of bodyguards wear stab-proof vests and carry bulging backpacks on vacation?!

The surrounding passengers were giving her strange looks, some even secretly taking out their phones, thinking it was some kind of international debt collection scene!

Su Qing knew perfectly well that this was definitely sent by that bastard Shen Feng to monitor—or rather, protect—her.

Although she was constantly watched by two burly men who looked like bears, creating a strong sense of oppression, and even when she went to the toilet, the two of them would stand guard on either side of the door, she had to admit that having these two human beasts by her side did make her feel much more at ease as she ventured into this murky water alone.

But after the two got off the high-speed train, they quickly disappeared into the crowd, as if they really were going on vacation.

Su Qing shook her head, forcing herself to get those two strange people out of her mind; now all her energy was focused on the case.

On the screen, Shen Feng's deep voice continued: "Zhang Chao transported the body in a suitcase and chose to expose it in a public place like a subway station. This was not only to create social impact, but also to use public attention to protect key clues from being silently destroyed by the dark forces behind the scenes."

Upon hearing the words "suitcase," a sudden thought flashed through Su Qing's mind.

She abruptly pulled open her tactical backpack and pulled out a thick work notebook. This notebook contained records of various old cases she had investigated over the years.

She flipped through the pages quickly, making a rustling sound.

found it!

Five years ago, in the provincial capital. The timeframe was exactly two months after Sun Minghui died in the line of duty during a drug bust on the border.

A black rolling suitcase was pulled out of an abandoned reservoir on the outskirts of the provincial capital.

The box contained a female corpse.

The deceased was identified as an insider who had previously worked at an entertainment venue.

The case was initially taken over by the provincial authorities, but because the clues had been completely erased, the investigation made no progress for several months and eventually became a cold case.

The insider had repeatedly filed formal complaints with the police, alleging that large-scale transactions of contraband were taking place at the club.

The person in charge of receiving her report was Sun Minghui, who was working in the provincial capital at the time!

Sun Minghui died in the line of duty.

The whistleblower's body was found stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in the ocean.

Sun Minghui's family subsequently received a huge sum of money from unknown sources and quickly left the country.

However, Sun Minghui's confidential internal email account was taken over by a lurking "shadow" and even used five years later to direct a series of murders in Jiangzhou across cities!

All of this forms a perfect yet bloody closed loop!

Su Qing looked at Shen Feng on the screen, her heart filled with turmoil.

He even knows about the case of the suitcase being thrown away in the provincial capital five years ago?!

Therefore, "The Silent Truth" is not a story that was randomly selected at all!

He was using this method to force the guilty "Mr. Shadow" hiding in the shadows to reveal his true colors!

"This pervert—" Su Qing gritted her teeth and rapidly typed on the keyboard, sending a message to Xiao Li from the Jiangzhou Special Case Team.

[Xiao Li, please retrieve all the electronic archives for the five-year-old case involving the suitcase near the provincial capital's moat! Especially the deceased's prior reports and communication records!]

Xiao Li's reply popped up quickly: [Captain Su, the core case files have very high access levels; I'll have to go through several roundabout ways. Please be extremely careful in the provincial capital; I have a feeling this matter is very complicated.]

Su Qing closed her laptop, stood up, walked to the window, pulled back a corner of the curtain, and looked into the darkness across the street.

At No. 118 Jianguo Road, the building resembles a lurking beast in the night.

Unbeknownst to Su Qing, right across the street from the budget hotel where she was staying, there was an inconspicuous black van with fake license plates parked on the side of the road.

Inside the carriage, a grizzly bear and a jackal were crammed into a narrow seat.

Given their size, the bread truck looked like a child's toy car; they couldn't even stretch out their legs.

Grizzly was holding a high-powered night vision telescope, with the lens pointed directly at the window of Su Qing's room.

"The landlady isn't asleep yet," Grizzly muttered in Russian, putting down his binoculars and taking a bite of a starchy sausage next to him.

The jackal nodded in deep agreement: "It must be the boss's wife. Think about it, the boss is so rich, what kind of beautiful woman can't he find? Why would he go to such lengths, even sending the two of us out, just to protect a policewoman? What else could this be but true love?"

Grizzly swallowed the sausage, stroked his stubble, and shivered. "The boss's got a hard time figuring things out. But we'd better keep a close eye on the boss's wife; if she loses even a single hair, we'll be filling the sea."

Jackal tucked the stun baton back into its tactical sling, sighed, and said, "It's so frustrating. We're a top-tier PMC, and now we're stuck with this piece of junk. The boss said if we use the real thing, he'll dock ten years' pay. If anyone dares touch a hair on the boss's wife's head, I'll use this baton to turn them into medium-rare roast pigs, and then send them to the boss as a dowry!"

As the two were chatting, the car radio suddenly emitted a slight hissing sound.

This is the encrypted communication frequency band that Xu Zhengyang provided for them.

"Grizzly bear, jackal, report on target status." Xu Zhengyang's calm voice came through the radio.

Grizzly pressed the call button: "Don't worry, Lao Xu, the boss's wife is in the room, she's perfectly safe. I've already blocked the several suspicious surveillance cameras around here with a jammer."

Xu Zhengyang on the other end of the radio was clearly taken aback by the title "boss lady," and after a two-second silence, he said helplessly, "—Don't call her that, or the boss will dock your pay. Stay alert; the fox in the provincial capital may have already noticed that she's investigating old cases. If necessary, take coercive measures to evacuate her; her safety is the highest priority."

"Understood! Hurrah! We'll protect the proprietress to the death!" the two said in unison.

Xu Zhengyang: 6

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