"Check what he's been up to this year and everyone who's had contact with him recently," a leader issued the order.
"Yes, sir," several policemen in charge of this immediately set out to investigate.
In the visitation room, Li Kai chatted casually with his wife. His expression grew increasingly abnormal.
Finally, he stood up first and said to the police officer standing nearby, "I'd like to leave now."
Li Kai left, ignoring the desperate and pleading look in the woman's eyes behind him. Their daughter on the other side of the glass had already burst into tears.
She wailed, "Daddy, where are you going? Mommy, why are they taking my daddy away?"
Unable to bear it after all, Li Kai stopped when he reached the door and glanced back.
He saw that the man who hadn't spoken before was now holding his daughter, and his wife was slowly following behind them.
Watching their figures disappear, the man then stepped in.
Perhaps they had found a breakthrough, for those people didn't interrogate him anymore. Even though he didn't say a word all night, Li Kai couldn't fall asleep in his small cubicle.
With his eyes wide open, he stared silently at the ceiling. The sunlight outside couldn't reach in, making the room extremely dim.
I don't know how much time had passed when a powerful voice rang out from outside, "Time for lunch!"
Someone opened his door, motioned in a direction, and said, "Go and have your meal!"
As the saying goes, man cannot live on air alone. He followed and walked towards the canteen. There were fetters on his hands and feet.
There were many prison guards standing in the canteen, in neat rows. He uncomfortably carried his plate and found a place to sit down.
A commotion came from outside, and many more people came in.
"Excuse me, move aside. This is our spot," a voice sounded above Li Kai's head.
He looked up and saw a fierce face. The man was wearing a prisoner's uniform, with a menacing look on his face. There were many followers behind him.
The fat man in the middle seemed to be the most powerful one.
Li Kai stood still and looked around. He said calmly, "There are many empty seats. I got here first."
"So you're not leaving, huh?" Those people sneered, "Looks like you're a newbie. You don't even recognize Brother Long."
Li Kai didn't say a word. He ignored them and continued eating the food on his plate.
"Eat? What's there to eat?" The man suddenly slapped the plate, knocking it to the ground. The food inside spilled out.
The loud noise caught everyone's attention. People nearby instinctively looked at the monitoring prison guards, but it seemed as if they hadn't heard a thing and remained motionless.
It seemed that as long as there was no major trouble, the prison guards wouldn't interfere.
Li Kai quickly came to this conclusion in his mind.
He looked at the man who had knocked his plate over. With a wave of his hand, the man's plate also fell to the ground. The atmosphere suddenly turned tense.
The men looked at each other in disbelief, as if they couldn't believe that this newbie would dare to offend them.
"Do I need to teach you a lesson?" The leader pointed at Li Kai and said.
Li Kai didn't back down. Instead, he stared intently at the man's outstretched hand. Before the man could finish speaking, he punched him directly.
He had done real manual labor before, so this punch carried quite a bit of force.
The so - called "Brother Long" instantly had a black eye. He covered his eye and wailed, "Come on, guys! Get him!"
The others were initially a bit hesitant, but relying on their large numbers, they exchanged glances and rushed forward together. Li Kai wasn't afraid at all and fought back.
The prison guards also noticed that things were getting out of hand. Some informed their superiors, while others tried to break up the fight.
It was a complete mess.
Just then, a prison guard took out a gun and fired it into the air.
"Bang!" Everyone fell silent.
At this moment, Li Kai was still fighting with Brother Long. He felt something was wrong, and Brother Long also realized the situation. Fear flashed across his face.
Li Kai grabbed Brother Long's hand and, while everyone was quiet, stabbed a knife straight into his own heart.
There was a gasp. Everyone looked over and saw a man lying in a pool of blood in front of Brother Long. It was the newbie who had just had a conflict with Brother Long.
Brother Long still held the knife in his hand.
Did Brother Long kill him?
This question quickly spread among everyone present.
When the superiors rushed over, they saw this scene. The panicked and scared people stood still on the spot.
They pushed through the crowd and walked to the middle. Someone squatted down, checked for breath, and shook his head, "He's not breathing."
Brother Long finally panicked and fell to the ground, muttering, "It wasn't me, it wasn't me."
"Take him away," someone ordered. Brother Long was escorted away by two police officers.
Seeing their leader being taken away, several followers quickly left, afraid of getting involved.
Huo Cheng received the news while at the company.
"Dead?" He was a bit surprised.
The person on the phone also paused for a moment. This was indeed their responsibility. No matter what the truth was, since the person died in their police station, it meant that the truth about the crime the deceased had committed might never be found.
The person told Huo Cheng everything that had happened that day.
"Okay, I see," Huo Cheng hung up the phone and lowered his eyes, lost in thought.
Since their argument that night, Jiang Lihao had completely lost hope in his father. He blocked his father's number and disappeared.
The two of them even moved out that very night. Since they had decided to completely cut off ties, they made sure that their family couldn't find out anything about them.
"Nowhere to be found," the person reporting hung his head in shame and didn't dare to say another word.
In front of him was General Manager Jiang. Although he wasn't angry, his expression said it all.
He never thought that his son would be so infatuated with a woman that he would even break with his family.
This was something he would never allow.
He tapped on the table and said firmly, "If you can't find him, then start with that woman."
"Yes, sir."
The person waiting on the side quickly left.
Yang Qian was submitting her resignation application at this time. The process went smoothly, but since she was in a hurry, she promised to treat those who had worked with her for a long time to a meal when she had time.
She left in a hurry, leaving behind everything she couldn't carry. She only held a few small items in her hand and was about to hail a taxi.
A black sedan in front suddenly slowed down. Yang Qian, who hadn't paid much attention at first, suddenly felt something was wrong.
Her pupils dilated, and she turned around and ran.
Four or five men in black suits got out of the car and chased after her. The whole situation looked chaotic, but no one came to help.
"Oh no, oh no," Yang Qian muttered to herself and ran towards the crowded area without looking back.