181: Chapter 181 The Fate of Lei Zhenzi (Lei Zhen's youngest son)

"Zhang Lili..."

Wang Xiaoqian forced a hoarse sound from her throat; that woman was her best friend, Zhang Lili.

"You bitch! I treated you like a sister, and you went behind my back to climb into his bed!"

She suddenly raised her head, her eyes bloodshot. "I warned Lei Dong long ago—I don't care what you do with wild women outside, but you are forbidden from touching anyone around me!"

"You bastard!"

Captain Xiao Zhan sat behind the desk, his expression unmoving. He watched the woman who had been blinded by betrayal.

"Wang Xiaoqian, your good friend left the country a month ago."

Captain Xiao Zhan pulled the photo back.

"The economic crime investigation department of the Provincial Public Security Department has investigated. The funds in the accounts of your Jiangnan Shengyuan Investment Company were operated through false trade and transferred to Hong Kong. Then, they were transferred overseas in batches by underground banks in Hong Kong."

He crossed his hands and placed them on the desk.

"Do you think everything is fine once you get the money out? Capital flow always leaves traces. There are indeed experts in Hong Kong, and we haven't intercepted all the funds yet. However, as long as it is a capital pool transferred out of the country, it is only a matter of time before it is tracked."

Captain Xiao Zhan looked directly into her eyes.

"The motherland's current extradition and asset recovery system is not what it was ten years ago. It is no longer an extraterritorial zone where people like you can abscond with money and remain at large."

The capital chain was locked, and her best friend had betrayed her and taken the money.

Wang Xiaoqian slumped in her chair, teetering on the edge.

Captain Xiao Zhan did not give her a chance to breathe.

He pulled a second photo from the compartment of his briefcase and pushed it forward.

The girl in the photo looked seven or eight parts similar to Wang Xiaoqian in her features, but she wore no makeup, revealing a clean, youthful vitality.

And right now, in the photo, she was being held in Lei Dong's arms, locked in a passionate kiss.

The moment she saw this photo, Wang Xiaoqian froze completely.

Her red, swollen eyes bulged, her gaze glued to the photo paper.

Only two seconds passed before a shrill, piercing scream tore from the depths of her chest.

"I want to kill you! You bastard Lei, I will kill you!"

Like a completely enraged beast, she tried to pounce and bite the photo.

The two female police officers responsible for guarding her reacted extremely quickly, pressing her shoulders from left and right, pinning her firmly to the wooden chair.

"How could you do this to Manman... How dare you!"

Wang Xiaoqian's hair was disheveled, her face covered in tears and snot, and she struggled and roared under the female officers' suppression.

"She is my sister! She is only nineteen! She is my only relative in this world!"

"I went to work in those dirty places! I accompanied those old men who could be my father! I was willing to be a mistress who couldn't see the light for you, Lei Dong, wasn't it just to earn money to let her study cleanly!"

She tilted her head back, roaring at the ceiling, her voice shrill and distorted.

"Lei Dong! You swore you wouldn't touch her!"

Captain Xiao Zhan leaned back in his chair, quietly watching Wang Xiaoqian's breakdown.

After handling cases for many years, he knew too well that when a person's last bit of hope is shattered, the desire for revenge becomes terrifyingly strong.

After five or six minutes of commotion, Wang Xiaoqian was exhausted.

She slumped in the chair like a pile of mud, gasping for breath, the madness in her eyes fading into a deathly, resentful glare.

"I will tell you everything."

Wang Xiaoqian swallowed a mouthful of blood-tinged saliva.

"But Lei Dong is very guarded. I don't have access to where the company's core capital operations and ledgers are hidden. I know limited information."

She lifted her eyelids, her gaze cold.

"However, I have heard a thing or two about the dirty things in his master's, Secretary Lei Zhen's, family."

Captain Xiao Zhan picked up his pen and uncapped it.

"Tell me in detail."

"Last winter." Wang Xiaoqian stared at the tabletop. "Once, Lei Dong came back dead drunk from entertaining outside. When I was cleaning up his vomit, he mumbled and let it slip. It was a private matter regarding Secretary Lei Zhen's son, Lei Zhenzi."

She paused, sorting through her remaining memories.

"Lei Zhenzi went to a college reunion. Back in college, he had always wanted to pursue a girl in his class named Lin Wan. That girl knew what kind of person Lei Zhenzi was and refused him. Later, Lei Zhenzi found a new target and forgot about it."

"But at that reunion, Lei Zhenzi saw Lin Wan on the list and got evil thoughts. He bribed a female classmate of Lin Wan's and did something to Lin Wan's drink. After the gathering broke up, the female classmate took Lin Wan to a pre-booked room, and Lei Zhenzi defiled her."

Captain Xiao Zhan's pen paused.

"And then?"

"Lin Wan had a strong personality after waking up. She didn't give in and went directly to the High-Tech Zone Branch of the Jingjiang City Public Security Bureau to report the crime. She even kept bodily fluid evidence."

Wang Xiaoqian sneered.

"But she didn't know who she was offending. Once the branch investigated the suspect's identity, they poked the situation directly to the Municipal Public Security Bureau."

"To protect his son, Secretary Lei Zhen had Lei Dong set up a meeting. At 'Chunfeng Pavilion' private restaurant in Jingjiang City, he set up a big table. He invited the bureau chief of that branch, the captain of the criminal investigation team, and several relevant heads. Money, power, coercion, and inducement were all used, and they forcefully suppressed this rape case into a 'dispute between boyfriend and girlfriend after drinking,' and the case was closed."

Captain Xiao Zhan quickly recorded the time, location, and involved agencies on the paper.

"Okay, I understand."

Captain Xiao Zhan closed his notebook.

He stood up and instructed the officer taking notes next to him: "Let her continue talking. Record all the details she knows about Lei Dong's interpersonal relationships and hiding places."

Captain Xiao Zhan pulled open the iron door and strode out of Interrogation Room No. 3.

Crossing the corridor, he pushed open the door to the main control observation room.

Director Qi Shan of the Provincial Public Security Department was standing in front of the one-way glass, looking at Lei Dong, who was still putting up a desperate resistance next door.

"Director." Captain Xiao Zhan walked to Director Qi Shan's side. "Wang Xiaoqian has confessed. Lei Dong once helped Lei Zhenzi handle an extremely heinous private matter."

Captain Xiao Zhan concisely recounted the process of Lin Wan being assaulted and the Jingjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau's grassroots branch being suspected of covering up and closing the case.

After hearing this, Director Qi Shan's bloodshot eyes suddenly became sharp.

As the head of a Provincial Public Security Department, having his subordinates corrupted and using public office for private gain was the scale he could least tolerate.

"I know."

Director Qi Shan's jaw tightened.

He turned around and gave Captain Xiao Zhan a death order.

"You arrange it personally. Tell Xiao Zhang from the Criminal Investigation Corps to take a few absolutely reliable people to the High-Tech Zone Branch's archives tomorrow morning and bring me all the original police reception records and forensic appraisal reports from that year."

"The most critical thing is to find that girl named Lin Wan immediately. Bring her out quietly, take her directly to Safe House No. 0, and assign special personnel to protect her twenty-four hours a day!"

Director Qi Shan's tone was extremely heavy.

"Remember, this matter is not allowed to pass through any hands of the Jingjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau. It must all be handled by the Provincial Public Security Department's directly affiliated criminal investigation team, understand?"

"Understood! I will go coordinate it now."

Captain Xiao Zhan received the order and left quickly.

Director Qi Shan raised his wrist to check his watch.

Two-fifteen in the morning.

The night was deep and heavy with dew, but he had no drowsiness at all.

He walked to his desk, picked up the encrypted phone that connected to an outside line, and dialed a string of numbers from memory.

The phone rang three times.

"Uncle Qi, is there good news?"

Zhu Wenhao's calm voice came clearly through the airwaves.

"I got it."

Director Qi Shan told Zhu Wenhao everything about the clues Wang Xiaoqian provided.

Zhu Wenhao listened quietly on the other end of the phone. After Director Qi Shan finished speaking, he did not show the excitement he had expected.

"Lei Zhenzi committed a serious crime, and the Jingjiang Branch covered it up. This is a good blade."

Zhu Wenhao analyzed in a steady tone.

"But Uncle Qi, Secretary Lei Zhen has managed the political and legal system for many years. For a suppressed rape case, they can completely find a few low-level branch leaders to take the fall. As for Lei Zhenzi, they can quibble over the characterization of 'insufficient evidence' or 'consensual.'"

Director Qi Shan's hand holding the phone tightened: "What do you mean?"

"I don't think things are that simple." Zhu Wenhao sat on the sofa in the Heishi Town dormitory, his gaze piercing through the night outside the window.

"When we investigate this case, we might as well change the entry point. We can investigate the specific means used by Lei Zhenzi when committing the crime."

Zhu Wenhao pointed out the key to breaking the situation.

"How was that girl drugged?"

Director Qi Shan's breath hitched.

"This kind of hallucinogen or drug targeting women is hard to get on the market. The channel that provided him with this kind of thing is very likely related to deeper contraband, or even illegal substances."

"If we can pry the source of the prohibited drugs from Lei Zhenzi or that accomplice female classmate, then it won't be a simple rape case. Involving prohibited substances is an absolute red line drawn by the state."

Zhu Wenhao pushed the lethality of this plot to the extreme.

"Once the evidence in this regard is implemented, let alone Secretary Lei Zhen being the Secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission, even if he has heaven-reaching abilities, he will absolutely not be able to protect his son. At that time, pulling out the radish will bring out the mud, and the Lei family's protective umbrella will only crumble in the face of the red line."

Director Qi Shan had floated in officialdom for half his life, and at this moment, he understood immediately upon Zhu Wenhao's prompting.

A rape case can be manipulated for settlement, but prohibited substances have absolutely no room for maneuver. This is to nail the Lei family to death.

"I understand. I will immediately have the Provincial Public Security Department adjust the investigation direction and focus on breaking through the source and traces of the drugs." Director Qi Shan replied in a deep voice.

"The water in the Jingjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau is too deep. Once this bottom line is touched, there is no guarantee that the people below will not leak the news." Zhu Wenhao added an insurance policy at the end. "Uncle Qi, when necessary, you can use police from other jurisdictions. The police force in Linjiang City, the people brought out by Police Chief Li Jianguo, can stand the test. They can be transferred to support at any time."

"Okay, I know how to handle this. You wait for my confirmation."

The call was disconnected.

Zhu Wenhao put his phone on the coffee table, no longer sleepy at all.

He stood up and stood with his hands behind his back in front of the window.

This was the first time since he came to Jiangnan Province that he had truly broken away from the protection of his elders and made his own voice heard on the provincial-level map as an independent chess player.

"Those who are good at chess plan the situation, those who are not good at chess plan the pieces." He whispered to himself.

The killing move in this big game of the Lei family had appeared.

Just waiting for dawn, this pool of stagnant water in Jiangnan Province would be completely boiling.