Hou Liangping arrested a hawkish general, and his father-in-law panicked

Gao Yuliang suddenly stopped, turned around, walked quickly to the desk, and picked up the red confidential phone.

His fingers hovered over the dial for a moment, and his well-maintained hand was shaking uncontrollably.

He took a deep breath, but it felt like what he inhaled into his chest was not air, but a cold, thick fog with a smell of rust, which choked his lungs and hurt.

The call was connected, and a few dull beeps came from the receiver.

Every sound was a question to his heart.

At the same time, a black Audi with a police license plate was speeding on the highway to Handong like an arrow from a bow.

The shrill sirens broke the afternoon tranquility, and vehicles along the way avoided the car.

In the back seat, Qi Tongwei closed his eyes and rested, but his brows were still furrowed.

Zhao Yuanchao was attacked and disappeared in Handong. This case was like a huge rock, weighing heavily on his heart.

Sha Ruijin and Li Dakang were both watching closely. If he wasn't careful, he, the Public Security Bureau Chief, would be the first to be pushed out to take the blame.

He must go to Handong in person to control the situation.

At this moment, the encrypted phone in his pocket vibrated rapidly.

Qi Tongwei suddenly opened his eyes, and his heart skipped a beat when he saw the caller ID.

It was his teacher, Gao Yuliang.

At this critical moment, the teacher calling me with this phone would definitely not be an ordinary greeting.

He waved to the driver and guard in the front row, "Raise the soundproofing panel."

"Yes, Director."

The black soundproof panel slowly rose, isolating the back seat into an enclosed space.

Qi Tongwei answered the phone and tried his best to sound calm and steady: "Hello, teacher."

On the other end of the phone, Gao Yuliang's voice was extremely low, squeezed out from the depths of his throat, with an unprecedented hoarseness and solemnity.

"teacher……"

"How serious is the situation? How widespread is it?"

"It's hard to say now,"

"Handong and Jingzhou have only discovered sporadic cases, but since they have appeared, it means that the goods have already come in. You know better than me how quickly this thing spreads."

Yes, he knows.

That kind of thing is a plague. Once there is the first case, it means that the virus has already spread quietly among the population.

"Where's the source?"

Qi Tongwei's tone sharpened. He forced himself to calm down and think like a real police officer. "Where did the goods come from? Who brought them in?"

This question is the key among the keys.

As long as we can control the source, there is still room for recovery.

However, Gao Yuliang on the other end of the phone suddenly fell silent.

This silence frightened Qi Tongwei more than any previous bad news.

A full five or six seconds passed, five or six seconds that felt as long as a century.

Qi Tongwei could even hear the teacher's increasingly heavy breathing coming from the receiver. He was under tremendous pressure.

"Tong Wei..."

Gao Yuliang finally spoke again, but his voice had changed. It was no longer simply solemn, but carried a tone that was almost a warning, cold and resolute.

"There are some things that I can't say now."

"Just remember, from now on, be careful about everything. Not only be careful about the people around you, but also be careful... of those hands you can't see."

After saying that, without waiting for Qi Tongwei to ask another word, the phone was hung up with a "click".

The only sound in the receiver was "beep...beep...beep..."

The busy tone, one after another, was cold and mechanical, like a death knell, striking heavily on Qi Tongwei's heart.

He held the phone stiffly, maintaining the posture of talking, and was completely stunned.

What is called……

Something that can't be said now?

What is called……

Beware of those invisible hands?

The teacher is scared!

What is he afraid of?

What on earth is that thing that you don’t even dare to mention on a confidential phone call?

A terrible thought, a flash of black lightning, instantly split the fog in Qi Tongwei's mind.

The influx of this thing is definitely not accidental!

Could it be that this incident and the attack on Zhao Yuanchao are exactly the same thing?

Or are they different links in the same conspiracy?

To be able to spread such a large network in Handong without anyone noticing, and quietly deliver this "good news" that could destroy everything to Handong and Jingzhou...

How much energy is required behind this?

This is definitely not something an ordinary drug trafficking group can do!

Qi Tongwei suddenly realized that his teacher, the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee who had been operating in Handong's political arena for many years, was shrewd and calculating, and remained calm even in the face of a crisis, was probably just a chess piece on the chessboard at this moment.

A chess piece that has no control over its own actions and may even be abandoned at any time.

What about yourself?

What does this so-called Public Security Bureau Chief, his most proud student, mean to him?

Qi Tongwei slowly put down his phone; the cold, hard shell hurt his palm.

He raised his head and looked through the car window at the gray sky outside. For the first time, his eyes revealed real, deep-seated fear.

He found that he was rushing towards a huge net that had been woven long ago, and behind this net was a huge conspiracy that was a hundred times more terrifying than Zhao Yuanchao's disappearance case itself.

Inside the car, there was dead silence.

He almost suffocated.

Handong, Jingzhou...

In two places, two poisoned steel needles were inserted into the seemingly calm lake in Handong.

Gao Yuliang’s warning – “Be careful of the hands you can’t see” – was more like a spell, echoing over and over in his mind.

The teacher is afraid.

This deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, who is so powerful in Handong's political arena and remains calm even when faced with a disaster, is actually afraid!

His heavy breathing on the phone was not a disguise, but a genuine fear.

A power that even Gao Yuliang feels fear...

How terrible would that be?

The teacher was reminding him and also protecting himself.

This chess game is so big that even a deputy secretary of the provincial party committee like him may become a discarded pawn. What is he, the director of the Public Security Department, in any way?

No, we can’t sit still and wait for death!

Qi Tongwei took a deep breath and took out another black mobile phone with no markings from the storage compartment.

No more than three people know about this phone.

With trembling fingers, he dialed a number that he knew by heart.

The call was answered almost instantly.

"Director."

A low and capable voice came.

"listen,"

Qi Tongwei's voice was extremely low, crawling close to the ground, but every word carried an unquestionable command. "Immediately, immediately, block all news about the new 'good news' appearing in Handong and Jingzhou. Briefings and oral reports of any level, all of them, suppress them! Anyone who dares to leak a single word, you know the consequences."

He paused, then added, "Investigate! Investigate thoroughly! The source of the goods, the channels, the first case... no clues should be left unturned! Mobilize every man we can, even if we have to scrape three feet off the ground to uncover the source!"

"Yes!"

Qi Tongwei leaned back in his chair.

Now, the most important thing is to find Zhao Yuanchao!

Chapter 9 Deadline

When everyone is busy.

Ji Changming really couldn't sleep.

The next morning, he left the Handong Provincial Procuratorate and went to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

He always felt that Hou Liangping and Chen Hai were doing something without telling him.

The car stopped in front of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Director Chen Hai was already waiting on the steps, looking anxious.

When he saw Ji Changming's car, he hurried over and forced a smile on his face that was uglier than crying.

Ji Changming pushed open the car door and walked straight past Hou Liangping. He didn't exist.

He walked up to Chen Hai, stopped, but his eyes passed over Chen Hai's shoulder and looked at the depressing office building behind him.

"Chen Hai."