Gangster heir? Please call me a legitimate entrepreneur.

The director's office is on the second floor of the municipal bureau building.

The old wall-mounted air conditioner was blowing out cold air, and the louvered fan blades were making a creaking noise.

Li Jianguo slammed his buttocks onto the office chair, the hinge emitting a sharp groan.

He roughly ripped off his navy blue tie, crumpled it up, and threw it on the table.

"Lennancial torture! It was absolutely inhumane and brutal gangster-style torture!"

Li Jianguo grabbed the chipped enamel mug and gulped down more than half of the cooled, high-quality tea.

A few tea leaves stuck to the corner of his mouth.

His eyes were red as he slammed his fist on the table and roared.

"I've dealt with that black panther before! He's like a rock in a latrine—stinky and hard!"

Captain Gu stood across from the desk.

His bloodshot eyes blinked twice, and he subconsciously reached out to touch the scar on the back of his head.

As my fingertips rubbed against the raised skin, a tingling sensation ran down my scalp.

"Chief, I saw Black Panther's smile when he opened the car door today... it was quite radiant, he didn't look like he'd been tortured. Even his teeth looked whiter."

"You don't know anything!"

Li Jianguo slammed his hand on the case file, causing the pen on the table to roll to the ground.

"That's called psychological destruction! First, sever the tendons in your hands and feet, then use pliers to pull out your fingernails!"

He was panting heavily, his chest heaving violently.

"That brat Su Ye pretends to be so refined on the surface, but his methods of scheming against people are even more ruthless than his father, Su Sihai!"

Li Jianguo opened the drawer and rummaged around for a long time before finally finding a shrunken Hongmei cigarette box.

Frustrated, I slammed it into the wastebasket.

"Go! Get me all the surveillance footage from around the shipyard in the east of the city!"

He pointed at Captain Gu's nose, "Black Panther issued the challenge three days ago, he must have been crippled at the shipyard! As long as we find the video footage, we can pin Su Ye down on charges of intentional assault!"

"It's adjusted, adjusted."

Captain Gu swallowed hard and quickly pulled a black USB drive from his pocket.

The metal connector was still damp with body heat and sweat.

"Zhou Ming just sent it back. He said it was a battle damage assessment video taken by the Sihai Security Department itself."

Li Jianguo's eyelids twitched violently.

"Release! Release it immediately!"

Team Leader Gu quickly went around behind the desk and plugged the USB drive into the old desktop computer.

Click the mouse to open a video file titled "Legal Education Team Building Record".

The screen flickered, and the image unfolded.

That was an abandoned underground arena at the shipyard.

The dim, high-wattage searchlights cast a stark white light on the octagonal cage.

There was no sound in the video, and the image quality was somewhat rough, but the faces were clearly visible.

The black panther was shirtless.

His massive pectoral muscles and bulging veins on his arms, along with the dense array of knife scars, made him look particularly ferocious.

He stood in the center of the octagonal cage, his hands tightly bound with yellowed ropes.

Like a mad dog, it barked wildly at the door.

Li Jianguo unconsciously moved forward a little.

His breathing became heavy, and his hands were on the table, his knuckles turning white.

"They're here, the gangland shootout is about to begin. Keep a close eye on Su Ye to see if he's carrying a controlled knife!"

The video progress bar moved forward by about ten seconds.

"Bang!"

The heavy iron gate was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

The sea breeze swept a few pieces of waste paper into the frame.

Su Ye stepped in.

He was wearing a dark gray, fitted trench coat, the hem of which fluttered in the wind.

The gold-rimmed glasses reflected a cold light.

He did not take off his clothes or wrap himself in bandages.

He held the perpetually chipped silver stainless steel thermos in his right hand.

They strolled leisurely, as if they were visiting their own backyard.

"Pretending! Still pretending!" Li Jianguo gritted his teeth. "Let's see how he pulls out a knife later."

Followed by.

Li Jianguo and Captain Gu's eyes were glued to the computer screen at the same time.

His mouth opened wider and wider.

Behind Su Ye, no tattooed henchmen wielding machetes and steel pipes rushed out.

A series of heavy, synchronized footsteps shook the screen.

More than a hundred burly men wearing black stab-proof vests rushed in.

A dark mass.

The first thirty people held up their hands tightly to their waists, high-transparency polymer riot shields.

"Whoosh!"

Thirty shields crashed onto the concrete ground simultaneously, forming an impenetrable steel wall.

The security personnel behind them weren't carrying machetes at all.

They're all fucking police-issue non-lethal restraint forks!

The fork tip crackled with a ghostly blue arc of electricity.

Some people even carried large-capacity pepper spray for self-defense on their waists.

At the very back of the group stood Lei Hu, his head gleaming with a shaved head, carrying a large red and white plastic megaphone.

The black panther in the picture was completely dumbfounded.

He stood frozen in mid-air, his fists bound with rope.

The arrogance and murderous intent on his face instantly froze, turning into a ridiculous expression that was even more unpleasant than swallowing a fly.

It's like an ancient swordsman preparing to fight to the death, suddenly seeing a Gatling gun pushed out from the opposite side.

"This...this is a gangland brawl within the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce?!"

Li Jianguo's voice cracked, and his finger trembled violently as he pointed at the screen.

"Where did they get their riot shields and steel forks?!"

Captain Gu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and stammered as he spoke.

"It was reported and filed. On the day the security department was established, Chen Suan legally purchased one hundred sets of non-lethal security equipment with the approval document from the Municipal Safety Supervision Bureau."

In the video.

The riot control formation advanced into the octagon like a rolling mill.

Black Panther tried to fight back, slamming his fist into the shield.

The next second, ten electrified steel forks pierced out from the gaps in the shield.

They tightly gripped his neck, waist, and wrists.

An electric current flashed.

Black Panther lay limp on the ground like a lump of mud, his face distorted by the shield.

Su Ye didn't lift a finger from beginning to end.

He even pulled up a folding chair and sat down.

He unscrewed the thermos, took a sip of water, and then pulled out a red-covered copy of the Criminal Law.

He began to slowly and methodically recite the legal provisions to the black leopard, which had been squeezed into a meat patty.

Li Jianguo slumped into a chair.

His head was buzzing, and his blood pressure spiked so high that his vision went black.

The tendons in his hand were not severed.

I don't have pliers to remove my nails.

There are only legally registered riot control equipment and legal provisions that are more torturous than Tang Sanzang chanting sutras.

What kind of intentional assault is this?!

"Chief... what if we use this video as evidence?"

Captain Gu swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty.

"The court will probably have to award Su Ye a certificate for 'Model of Assisting in Public Security Management.' Their actions were too standardized; even the angle of restraint conformed to the police academy's teaching materials."

Li Jianguo clutched his chest, gasping for breath.

"Delete it... Delete this lousy video!"

He angrily unplugged the USB drive and slammed it against the wall.

The plastic casing cracked open.

"He's using legal means to completely shatter the rules of the underworld! Who is he trying to humiliate?!"

Just then, the red secure landline on the table suddenly rang.

The shrill ringing of the bell echoed through the office.

Li Jianguo grabbed the microphone in frustration.

"Hey! Li Jianguo from the Municipal Bureau! Spit it out!"

A gasp came from the other end of the phone, as if someone was trying to suppress a stomachache.

"Ahem... Hello, Director Li. I am Chen Suan, the CFO of Sihai Group."

Chen Suan's dry, cold voice came through the receiver.

Li Jianguo froze, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the microphone.

"Why are you calling? Do you need to pay taxes again?!"

"Paying taxes is next month."

Chen Suan let out a sour burp.

"On behalf of the group, I would like to report to the Municipal Bureau that our 'Sihai Film and Television Media Co., Ltd.' has just completed its business registration with a registered capital of 500 million yuan."

"Next, we will invite foreign directors and teams to conduct large-scale location shooting for corporate promotional videos in multiple districts of Longhai City."

Chen Suan adjusted his glasses. "In order not to disrupt the lives of citizens or cause trouble for the police, we will hire one hundred of our own legal security personnel to maintain order with riot shields."

Li Jianguo's cerebral blood vessels throbbed violently.

A $500 million investment in the film industry? A foreign director?

They're even going to bring a hundred muscle-bound thugs with shields to block the streets and film a movie?!

"If you want to launder money, just say so!" Li Jianguo roared into the microphone.

"Director Li is joking. We are a legitimate company, and the Economic Investigation Department is welcome to check our accounts at any time. That's all for now, I have a stomachache, I'll hang up."

"Beep—beep—"

A dial tone came through the receiver.

Li Jianguo abruptly hung up the phone.

Captain Gu watched with trepidation and asked cautiously.

"Chief... do these roughnecks from Sihai even know how to make a movie?"

Li Jianguo stared intently at the blinding sunlight outside the window, his eyes red.

Whether you understand it or not is not important.

"The important thing is that once this $500 million fund is in circulation, those Hollywood devils become their best front men for money laundering!"