Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

In the cold interrogation room, the high-wattage incandescent light was so bright that it was hard to open one's eyes.

Liu Haizhong slumped in the interrogation chair, looking like a stinking lump of mud.

The heavy steel handcuffs on his wrists dug deep into his flesh, oozing glaring blood.

His face had been swollen like a pig's head by the angry workers.

But what drove him to despair even more than the physical pain was the strange power still raging wildly in his mind.

The "Truth Shield" is still valid.

Faced with Zhou Jianguo's eagle eyes that seemed to see right through one's soul, Liu Haizhong simply couldn't control his mouth.

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!"

Liu Haizhong was snotting and crying, his face covered in a mixture of snot, tears, and blood.

"I not only took a thousand yen from that Japanese woman!"

"I used to steal scrap steel from the factory and sell it!"

"I secretly kept half of the high-grade copper wire that Deputy Factory Director Li had withheld, and exchanged it for grain coupons and meat coupons!"

As he wailed, he spilled out all the dirty tricks and despicable things he had done over the years, like beans pouring from a bamboo tube.

Zhou Jianguo sat at the interrogation table, his face ashen, his teeth grinding together.

He never dreamed that this Second Uncle, who usually acted pretentious and spouted grand theories in the courtyard, would turn out to be like this.

He was such a greedy, vicious, and national traitor who would betray his country for power!

"Liu Haizhong, you truly deserved to die!"

Zhou Jianguo slammed his hand on the table, making the air in the interrogation room seem to freeze.

"Your crimes have seriously endangered national security!"

"Get ready to face the people's judgment!"

Zhou Jianguo didn't give this disgusting scumbag another second.

He strode out of the interrogation room and worked through the night to compile Liu Haizhong's confession and the details of the capture of the enemy agent into an urgent report.

The report was submitted directly to the top leadership via the military region's special security bureau's dedicated line.

Because the case is serious and involves the safety of personnel under state protection.

The authorities attached great importance to this matter and handled it as a special case, holding a trial overnight.

Less than 24 hours.

That is, the evening of the next day.

A judgment stamped with the bright red national emblem was like a death warrant from the Grim Reaper.

They were posted directly outside the main gate of the Hongxing Courtyard and on every bulletin board in the steel rolling mill!

The Intermediate People's Court, the Liu family.

Auntie Er was sitting in front of the cold stove and pot, wiping away tears with a sorrowful expression.

After Liu Guangtian went to jail, Liu Haizhong was arrested as well, and the family felt like the sky had fallen.

Just then, Yan Bugui stumbled in, carrying a copied copy of the judgment.

"Sister-in-law Liu! Something...something terrible has happened!"

Yan Bugui's face turned deathly pale. He didn't even bother to adjust his gold-rimmed glasses, and his voice trembled like an erhu being torn apart in the cold wind.

"Old Liu...he's been sentenced!"

Aunt Er suddenly stood up, her heart leaping into her throat, and grabbed Yan Bugui's arm.

"What sentence was handed down?! Does it mean he can just go to a labor camp for a few years and then come back?"

Yan Bugui swallowed hard, looking at his second aunt's hopeful eyes, and couldn't bear to utter that cruel word.

But he gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and read aloud the contents of the report.

"Liu Haizhong, as a state worker, is corrupt in thought and has engaged in embezzlement and bribery!"

"Furthermore, at a critical time, they colluded with foreign spies in an attempt to steal top-secret national military blueprints, endangering the lives of state security personnel!"

"Multiple offenses will be punished concurrently!"

Yan Bugui took a deep breath, his voice trembling with fear.

"Sentenced to...death!"

"Execution suspended for two years! Deprivation of political rights for life!"

boom!

These words were like several heavy bombs, detonating directly in Aunt Er's mind!

"Death... Death penalty?!"

The second aunt's eyes suddenly rolled upwards.

Her body, already weakened by fear, instantly felt like a tattered sack with its bones removed.

With a "thump".

He collapsed stiffly onto the cold brick floor, completely unconscious.

"Oh my God! Someone come quick! Auntie is dying!"

Yan Bugui was so frightened that he retreated repeatedly, shouting at the top of his lungs in the yard.

The neighbors who heard the commotion gathered around.

After they heard the news that Liu Haizhong had been sentenced to "death with a two-year reprieve".

The entire courtyard fell into an unprecedented deathly silence.

Everyone turned their attention to the tightly closed door of the east wing in the front yard.

If they had previously harbored a sliver of jealousy and resentment towards Zhang Huaimin, then...

Now, all that remains is a deep, ingrained fear and awe.

Xu Damao was forced to clean toilets for the rest of his life.

With one member crippled and the other missing, the Jia family fell into complete ruin.

Now, even Liu Haizhong, who always dreams of becoming an official and is usually the most arrogant, is being targeted.

Because he offended this living ancestor, he lost his life!

This is hardly a five-year-old prodigy!

This is simply a god of death that you can't mess with or offend!

"From now on, if anyone in this courtyard dares to show the slightest disrespect to the east wing..."

Grandma Wang clutched her chest and whispered to her neighbors, still shaken.

"I'll be the first to object! That's practically suicide!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

The way they looked at the east wing was as if they were looking at a god.

In a corner of the Intermediate Court.

Yi Zhonghai, like a ghost, stood behind his half-open door and witnessed everything.

He looked at his second aunt, who was lying on the ground, and listened to the verdict read out by Yan Bugui.

A chill that rose from the depths of his soul instantly froze him completely.

Death sentence with reprieve!

That's a capital offense!

Yi Zhonghai recalled how he almost colluded with Liu Haizhong in his attempt to seize power.

If he hadn't hesitated then, if he had also participated in the ransacking of the house...

So now, is Yi Zhonghai the only one kneeling in a death row cell?!

Yi Zhonghai was trembling violently.

His old eyes, which had been filled with scheming for years, were now filled with extreme terror.

"Bang!"

He slammed the wooden door shut, bolted it tightly, and even moved a heavy octagonal table to prop it up behind the door.

It was as if only in this way could he gain a sliver of illusory security.

Yi Zhonghai slumped on the kang (a heated brick bed), covering his face, his body trembling like a leaf.

he knows.

From now on, he will only be able to eke out a living like a rat in a sewer in this courtyard house.

It can no longer stir up any trouble.

At this time.

A foreign-related hotel located a few kilometers away from the courtyard house.

Inside the presidential suite.

Paul Smith was sitting in front of that huge radio terminal.

He had already received news of Lucy's arrest.

The honey trap failed, and the accomplice was caught.

But he did not give up.

His deep-set blue eyes gleamed with a mad and desperate glint.

"Since I can't get close to you physically..."

Paul gritted his teeth, his fingers flying across the keys of an early vacuum tube cipher machine that had just been smuggled into the country and represented the most advanced technology in the West at the time.

"Then I'll do it online!"

"Zhang Huaimin, I'm going to make you watch with your own eyes how I completely destroy the research data you're so proud of!"

Paul sneered and pressed the red Enter key to connect the command.

He is preparing to launch an unprecedented "high-tech hacking intrusion" into the mainframe of the top-secret scientific research institute!