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Chapter 189 No Turning Back
This deceptive act dispelled the last shred of doubt in Tian Hao's heart.

Wang Youcai's claim of poisoning is very likely a lie, intended to force the police to quickly recall Jin Ping'an to the branch.

Tian Hao shifted the question from whether Hu Yingshao was present to inquiring about the location of his imprisonment: "You said you escaped from Hu Yingshao, so where were you imprisoned?"

"I don't know, Officer Tian. I ran away late last night when the guards weren't looking."

After being tortured by them for two days, I was running away almost entirely on my survival instinct, and I had no energy to observe my surroundings.

The place where I'm imprisoned is very dark. Last night, I was simply running towards the light, and without realizing it, I ended up at the garbage dump.

Wang Youcai gave a very vague account of how he escaped.

Tian Hao finally understood that continuing to argue with Wang Youcai on this issue would be pointless, and he would only answer what he wanted to say.

Wang Youcai and Hu Yingshao are cut from the same cloth; they both use so-called self-surrender to expose each other's dirty secrets.

But it doesn't matter, dogs fighting each other will only result in a lot of mess.

The more dirt is revealed, the more investigative methods are available.

So Tian Hao decisively changed the direction of his inquiry, following Wang Youcai's lead: "Then tell me why Hu Yingshao imprisoned you? What is your relationship with him?"

Sure enough, Wang Youcai perked up immediately upon hearing the question.

He began to recount his rise to wealth and the role Hu Yingshao played in it.

Wang Youcai was different from Tao Jun. Tao Jun's abilities were average, and he relied entirely on his status as a veteran to get by.

Wang Youcai was far more shrewd than Tao Jun. When talking about Hu Yingshao, he talked about everything from eating, drinking, gambling and whoring.

They can easily pull out dirt on people like those involved in money laundering and illegal transactions.

"Is there any evidence?"

Tian Hao patiently wrote down these things.

Wang Youcai forced a strange smile onto his bruised face: "Officer Tian, ​​if that old fox were so easily caught, he wouldn't be Hu Yingshao."

The reason Wang Youcai knew so much about the aforementioned scandals was because he was working with Hu Yingshao, and he wanted to leave Hu Yingshao with dirt on him in front of him.

It's not that simple.

However, this information, for which no evidence could be presented, was also of great help to Tian Hao.

Having done so many bad things, it's impossible to be thorough in every aspect and clean everything up completely.

Even if you, Hu Yingshao, are incredibly capable, you can still erase all information related to yourself.

Surely not everyone who has engaged in underhanded dealings is as cautious as Hu Yingshao?

After finishing his statement, Tian Hao planned to ask the next question.

But Wang Youcai suddenly pursed his lips and his face turned red.

"What's wrong with you?" Shi Hongfang asked.

"I need to go to the restroom."

Wang Youcai replied, "These past two days I've been eating nothing but leftovers and drinking leftover wine from other people's bottles, so I have a bit of an upset stomach."

Shi Hongfang frowned subconsciously, but he still agreed: "Okay."

After saying that, he instructed Jiang Kaiji, who was standing at the door, to come in and help Wang Youcai to the restroom.

Firstly, Wang Youcai was seriously injured and needed support, and secondly, there was also an element of surveillance involved.

After Wang Youcai left, the three people in the interrogation room began to discuss quietly.

"Isn't this just like Hu Yingshao last time? They said a lot, but couldn't produce any evidence. I think they're just shirking responsibility!"

Jin Pingan muttered to himself.

Tian Hao shook his head: "It's different. Hu Yingshao was simply shirking responsibility, while Wang Youcai is dragging himself down with him. He's planning to take Hu Yingshao down with him."

"What's the use? He can't produce any evidence."

Jin Ping'an had no hope for this.

“We can start with people who are related to Hu Yingshao. Someone will leave transaction records, and that will be the time for us to bring down Hu Yingshao.”

Tian Hao explained patiently.

Jin Ping'an still had a long face: "Hu Yingshao is definitely also destroying evidence of his crimes. Can we catch up?"

"Don't worry about that."

Shi Hongfang, who had been observing the situation, suddenly spoke up: "I have some evidence of Hu Yingshao's crimes."

Shi Hongfang took out his spare phone, unlocked the folder, and pushed it in front of the two of them.

Unlike Tian Hao, who seemed puzzled, Jin Ping'an immediately picked up his phone and started looking at it.

"This is……"

Shi Hongfang explained, "You don't need to worry about us not having a reason to arrest Hu Yingshao, given the video of him in the club and the meeting record between him and the 'money shop' owner."

"Holy crap! Captain Shi, where did you get this thing?"

After watching the video, Tian Hao couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

The owner of that underground bank, while not a deep-sea shark, was still quite a big fish—at least a big enough fish to be cooked.

He's been under the tax bureau's scrutiny for quite some time now.

With just this video, the police could arrest Hu Yingshao immediately.

Shi Hongfang smiled slightly: "Of course I have my own channels. As the team leader, I can't just watch you guys work hard while I do nothing all day, can I?"

"Then what's the point of the interrogation? Just go and arrest Hu Yingshao!"

Jin Ping'an shouted excitedly.

Shi Hongfang pressed down on Jin Ping'an's shoulder: "This is our trump card. If we use this video as evidence to arrest him, Hu Yingshao will at most be convicted of an economic crime. With a good lawyer, he can be released in a few years at most."

What about the victims who died directly or indirectly at his hands? Even the death penalty would be too lenient on him.

Shi Hongfang's words calmed Jin Ping'an down.

With this video as a guarantee, it was like giving the people in the detachment a sense of reassurance. At least they had a way to deal with Hu Yingshao instead of being led astray by him.

………………

In the bathroom.

After saying "Call me when you're done," Jiang Kaiji went to stand guard at the bathroom door.

He has no interest in watching other people defecate.

As soon as the cubicle door closed, Wang Youcai's dejected demeanor vanished, and his eyes, which had been listless and unfocused, became sharp and determined.

He half-squatted down and reached into his buttocks, forcefully pulling out a miniature pistol wrapped in a soft membrane from inside the cavity.

The mini pistol was not loaded with a magazine for fear of accidental discharge.

Despite the excruciating pain, Wang Youcai tore off the safety film, took a folded piece of paper from the magazine compartment of the mini pistol, and stuffed it into his left pocket.

The magazine of the mini pistol is very small, about half the size of an adult's thumb.

Wang Youcai was worried that if he put the magazine in his buttocks, he might not be able to get it out or it might be squeezed out by the pistol, so he cut a gash in his thigh and stuffed the magazine into the flesh of his thigh.

The surgical sutures used to close wounds are absorbable catgut.

He took a deep breath, placed his hands on either side of his thighs, and forcefully pried them apart.

With the sound of the sutures snapping, the excruciating pain of the tearing wound crept up his spinal cord. This sudden, intense pain almost made him cry out.

Wang Youcai put his left arm in his mouth and bit it with his teeth, then used his right hand to pry the magazine out of the flesh.

The magazine was also covered with a thin layer of soft membrane, but during the process of prying it out, a trace of blood was accidentally stained on it.

Wang Youcai held the magazine and wiped it with the inside of his clothes.

Only after wiping it clean was the mini pistol attached.

He put the gun in his right pocket and sat on the toilet for a while.

As the pain subsided slightly, he called out Jiang Kaiji's name.

………………

When Wang Youcai returned to the interrogation room, everything proceeded as usual.

The police had already conducted a body search on him when he first surrendered.

No one doubted what he had just done.

After Wang Youcai settled into his chair, Tian Hao picked up his pen and spoke again: "Since you are Hu Yingshao's henchman, what exactly is the reason that he imprisoned and tortured you?"

"reason?"

Wang Youcai raised his right eyebrow and lowered his left eyebrow, making a strange expression with one eye bigger than the other, as if he had heard something very funny.

"You've all been investigating that matter yourselves, so why are you asking me why?"

We've been investigating...

Tian Hao pondered for a few seconds, then quickly realized that Wang Youcai was referring to the kidnapping case: "Just because of this?"

Jin Ping'an felt somewhat uncomfortable hearing what Tian Hao said.

For the victims, life is only once, and for them, there is nothing worse than this.

However, Jin Ping'an was also well aware that the other things he had done with Wang Youcai and Hu Yingshao were far more serious than what the victims had experienced.

One is individual victimization, and the other is disruption of social order, which indirectly leads to more people being victimized.

From the perspective of an order maintainer, the former can only be considered as a mere formality to the latter.

Wang Youcai glanced at Jin Ping'an sitting between the two: "That's right, he abandoned me because of the kidnapping case."

Wang Youcai did not intend to reveal his speculations or the deeper reasons behind them.

Because it's meaningless. Wang Youde is still in Song Jie's hands. He has no choice but to follow the pre-written script and continue this storyline.

At least, Wang Youde is still alive.

"What was your purpose in collecting dirt on Hu Yingshao before?"

Tian Hao shook his aching arm: "As the Black Glove, why did you become enemies with Hu Yingshao?"

"Purpose? To turn against each other? Officer Tian, ​​I just want to protect myself."

Wang Youcai had no idea how many times he had mocked the three people opposite him: "At first, I really thought I had gotten lucky and gained the favor of the upper class."

I did indeed feel grateful and respectful towards Hu Yingshao, until he took me to negotiate with people from the black market.

Wang Youcai paused at this point, as if gathering his emotions.

“At the time, we were sitting in the VIP room of Xuanlong KTV. He asked me if I wanted to live this kind of life forever. Of course, I answered yes. Who doesn’t want to be a rich person?”
After receiving my reply, Hu Yingshao, who had been chatting and laughing just a second ago, immediately had the guy who came to negotiate killed. Then, holding the bloodied blade, he handed the hilt of the knife to me.

Can you understand how I felt at that time?
I brought my younger brother to Qianhua City, just wanting to earn some money and live a stable life!

I didn't want to get involved, but the moment he handed me the knife, I knew I had no choice.

I knew very well that if I didn't take that knife, I wouldn't be able to leave the private room alive, so I gripped the hilt.

From that moment on, I completely shattered my illusions. Hu Yingshao was no benefactor; he was a devil. You would always pay a price for his help, whether you wanted to or not.

There's no such thing as a free lunch; if there is, it's likely poisoned.

Everyone knew this saying, but it wasn't until that night that Wang Youcai truly understood its meaning.

"Since then, no matter what I do, I always keep a close eye on Hu Yingshao, constantly collecting dirt on people from all walks of life to build connections, so that he wouldn't dare to make any rash moves against me."

I originally thought that Hu Yingshao's spy was my secretary, but I never expected that Tao Jun was actually Hu Yingshao's man from the very beginning.

You know, when Tao Jun was working with me, I didn't even know who Hu Yingshao was..."

"Wait a minute, why don't you just collect evidence of Hu Yingshao's crimes directly?"

Tian Hao interrupted Wang Youcai's recollection.

"Because we couldn't collect the data, Hu Yingshao didn't trust us."

Wang Youcai sneered, "Just as I don't trust him either, anything that could potentially affect him was done by an assassin named Thirteen."

For example, this time, even though I could get him as many women as he wanted, he deliberately chose to have his confidants kidnap passersby so that we wouldn't have a chance to catch him red-handed.

The evidence we have is at most something like money laundering, and even that he's willing to expose Tao Jun to get it from me.”

Wang Youcai's account reminded Jin Ping'an of Ai Liang's questions in the ward.

He stood up with a venting feeling and questioned, "You talk a good game, but can you guarantee that you will 100% resist these things?"
"Doesn't your conscience bother you when you do these things?"

"Conscience? What's the value of conscience? It's worthless."

Wang Youcai gave his answer without hesitation.

"They really are birds of a feather..."

Wang Youcai was interrupted by the two men and did not continue recounting his memories.

He dropped a bombshell: "I have important intelligence, evidence that Hu Yingshao committed murder."

This topic was so sensational that it instantly attracted the attention of everyone, both indoors and outdoors.

Wang Youcai leaned forward, putting both hands into his pockets at the same time, making a suspicious gesture.

Just as Tian Hao was about to tell Wang Youcai to take his hand out, he saw him stand up.

"What are you doing! Sit down right now..."

Before Tian Hao could finish speaking, Wang Youcai pulled out a mini pistol and aimed it at Jin Ping'an, who hadn't even had time to sit down yet.

boom!boom!
Two gunshots rang out one after the other.

Jin Pingan and Wang Youcai fell to the ground at the same time.

The first shot was fired by Wang Youcai, but the second shot was fired by Shi Hongfang.

Jin Ping'an clutched his chest in pain; the bulletproof vest saved his life because the mini pistol was relatively weak.

Wang Youcai, who had fallen to the ground, smiled. He glanced at Shi Hongfang, slowly raised his hand, and once again made a aiming gesture.

"Team Leader Shi! Don't shoot! I'm alright..."

boom! boom! boom!
It was too late; Shi Hongfang fired three shots, hitting Wang Youcai.

Tian Hao released Jin Ping'an and rushed to Wang Youcai's side, kicking away the mini pistol.

Blood began to seep from Wang Youcai's mouth, and he said in a slurred voice:

"Heh... Some people... don't understand... what morality is, what conscience is, they only think about rolling around in piles of money... thinking that with money... they can live a life of luxury, but in the end it's all for nothing..."

Tian Hao tore open his clothes, searching for the gunshot wound, and pressed the wound: "Liu Yuan! Quickly, get the infirmary staff here!"

Just as Tian Hao was desperately trying to stop Wang Youcai's bleeding, his face suddenly turned rosy, and he began to speak haltingly.

Wang Youcai reached into his pocket and grabbed Tian Hao's wrist with his left hand: "Tian Hao, you absolutely must bring Hu Yingshao down! Otherwise, I'll haunt you even as a ghost!"

Tian Hao was stunned for a moment.

Wang Youcai released his grip, the flush on his face quickly fading. He began to mutter incoherently, "Conscience... is worthless... conscience can't be bought with money... Mom... I've given Dezi a good life..."

Wang Youcai had already breathed his last before the medical staff arrived.

(End of this chapter)