Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 254 Black Hand
Regarding the case of Feng Hesong's gang secretly filming in hotels, the criminal investigation phase has basically ended here.

Yu Zhengwei personally thanked the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Baimiao Police Station, and Longquan Police Station for their assistance with the case. He also took some money from the station's slush fund and treated the police officers who had worked so hard to help to lunch as a way of expressing his gratitude.

Of course, the staff at Zhanghe Police Station had neither the right nor the time to enjoy a meal. Even after the criminal investigation phase was over, there was still a lot of work to be done, including subsequent interrogations, prosecutorial intervention, and case closure records.

However, these things are all normal work procedures for the Zhanghe Police Station, so there is not much pressure.

The group didn't care about a cheap meal at a run-down restaurant; they'd much rather the police station give them a day off. Even an extra day off in lieu of a meal would be a hundred times better than this worthless meal.

The municipal government was somewhat slow to learn about the events of that day. After all, it wasn't part of the same system as the judicial system.
Furthermore, from the very beginning of the incident, Nie Guoqiang consciously suppressed the news, so when they learned that the Discipline Inspection Commission had been mobilized and even begun an internal investigation, all public officials were terrified.

Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing. For public officials, the sword of Damocles is a topic that will always serve as a constant reminder.

And so what if they're unhappy?
Yu Zhengwei was happy to teach these guys who always blocked the police station's subsidies and the auxiliary police officers' salaries and benefits a lesson.

That afternoon, Yu Zhengwei mercifully announced that all police officers would leave work on time, and those who hadn't finished their work could make it up the next day. This unbelievable statement immediately caused a stir of excited exclamations in the police station.

"This is absolutely unprecedented!"

Zhu Jun chuckled, glancing sideways at Jiang Yiyi as he packed his things. Seeing that Jiang Yiyi was still slowly and methodically organizing the documents, he couldn't help but feel anxious from head to toe, even down to his hair.

"Hey Zhu, wanna go sing karaoke after get off work?"

Zhang Ke deliberately moved closer to Zhu Jun.

"roll!"

Zhu Jun uttered a single word without any politeness, and he understood perfectly well what Zhang Ke, that bastard, meant.
"hey-hey……"

Zhang Ke smiled and went to find Sun Chang at the kennel.

On the other side, Li Yiduo had also packed his things early. Without even giving his colleagues a chance to tease him, he was the first to leave the police station and drove directly to the apartment complex where Li Siyu rented.

Nie Guoqiang showed a rare smile upon seeing this.

Being able to internally absorb all the female police officers and significantly reduce the number of single men in the police station is undoubtedly a good thing, thanks to the arrangements he painstakingly made in secret.

On the other hand, Lingo didn't go anywhere.

Staying up all night was quite tiring for him, and now that everything was finally over, he felt completely exhausted. He felt extremely drained and had the urge to fall asleep on the cat tree at any moment.

But unfortunately, Lin Ge couldn't sleep soundly at all.

As soon as Lin Ge returned, the mother tortoiseshell caught the scent of a strange cat on him and immediately began to howl at him relentlessly from under the cat tree. Lin Ge had no interest in explaining, so the mother tortoiseshell howled even more stubbornly, determined to defeat the unfaithful man.

"That's probably not what they meant, right? Maybe, just that they felt I was being unfair by not playing with it?"

Lin Ge nervously deciphered the mother hawksbill turtle's cries, and while watching curiously approach his mother, the Snowclaw Tiger-Striped was slapped over by the angry mother hawksbill turtle with one claw.

"Woo..."

Completely bewildered, the snowclaw tiger took off running, looking up at Lin Ge from afar and complaining, as if blaming Lin Ge for not handling family issues properly.

"What the hell am I supposed to do!"

Lin Ge rolled his eyes.

Looking further afield, the little tortoiseshell cat is disciplining the naughty tabby kitten. This little guy's personality is becoming more and more like its mother's; despite not being the eldest daughter in the family, it always manages to bully the two male cats until they can't hold their heads up.

"The male's vigor is waning, and the female is dominating while the male is declining!"

Zhang Ke, who was passing by, shook his head with schadenfreude.

However, before Lin Ge could teach him a lesson, when he saw Sun Chang struggling to carry a bucket of water over, he had already rushed over to take the bucket from him, and even bent down slightly to make their eyes level so that Sun Chang could talk as they walked.

"Damn it!"

Lin Ge was speechless. How dare this guy say he was losing his virility?
Looking at the female hawksbill turtle again, Lin Ge had an even bigger headache.

Zhang Ke served Sun Chang, and the two of them prepared dog food for Bei Bei, changed the dog bowl to clean water, and brushed its fur while Bei Bei was eating. Finally, they cleaned up Lin Ge's cat shelter before leaving together in the night.

Soon it got dark, and apart from the police officers on duty, most of the lights at Zhanghe Police Station were turned off, which was unusual for them.

But to Lin Ge's surprise, the office lights of Yu Zhengwei, Nie Guoqiang, and Zheng Mingxing were still on. They all had families and should have been home by now, so why weren't they back? What happened? Did their wives leave the door open for them?

Lin Ge, annoyed by the mother hawksbill turtle's harassment, decided to go check on the three guys over there and also avoid the mad cat.

Upon arriving at the office area, Lin Ge felt somewhat out of place.

It was the first time he had ever seen a police station corridor so dark, and the first time he had ever seen all the office doors tightly shut, with only faint reflected light inside. The eerily quiet environment even made him feel somewhat uncomfortable, as if he had entered another place.

Arriving at the door of Nie Guoqiang's office, Lin Ge jumped up and pulled the doorknob with practiced ease, only to find that although the office lights were on, no one was inside.

"Old Nie, aren't you thinking a bit too far ahead?" Just as I came out, I suddenly heard Yu Zhengwei's voice from the other end. His voice was very serious and even deep, and I could tell that his expression was not good.

"But for me, it's not impossible."

Zheng Mingxing's voice followed.

"Yes! Better safe than sorry..."

Nie Guoqiang actually sighed, which was quite rare for Lin Ge.

Moreover, the content of their conversation gave Lin Ge a strangely serious yet mysterious feeling. It was as if these three guys were plotting something, and they had even deliberately cleared out everyone in the institute.

Lin Ge became increasingly curious, ignoring the warning that curiosity killed the cat, and sneaked up to the door of Yu Zhengwei's office.

"No matter what, your worries are too far-fetched. I never expected that you, Lao Nie, would connect all these cases that have happened recently. I think this kind of reasoning is very logically flawed, isn't it?"

Yu Zhengwei's tone was somewhat bitter, as if he found it difficult to accept Nie Guoqiang's judgment.

"But if we don't consider it this way, there's no way to explain why so many crimes that have never happened before have suddenly appeared in Zhang City."

Nie Guoqiang's tone remained calm as he spoke slowly, "From the very beginning of this drug case, I've been wondering. Even if the Zhanghe River is indeed difficult to monitor, and our small city and police station don't have as many personnel or the advanced technology of big cities, small cities also mean that drug consumption is not as high as on the front lines. Don't they still have to bear the risks of transportation?"
Add to that the cat-fighting gambling case that was investigated concurrently with the drug case… Although the cases are closed, only the two cases themselves are closed; there are definitely still criminals who have escaped justice. Then came the Long Xiaojun case, where he, as a member of a theft gang, killed Fan Yong. Was the motive really money?

Yu Zhengwei and Zheng Mingxing both fell silent, while Lin Ge's expression outside the door also changed.

To be honest, Nie Guoqiang's deduction has no evidence at all; it's just piling up all the cases together and then imagining a apex for them.

Is it possible to tell the truth? Yes!
Is it impossible? It seems that it really is impossible.

"And then you're planning to add the Zhu Wentao spy case, the Zhao Liang shooting case, and today's hidden camera footage, and the extortion of public officials? Heh... Now that you mention it, I get the feeling that there's an extremely large criminal gang hiding behind our Zhang City?"

Yu Zhengwei couldn't help but laugh.

"What if it really does exist?"

Nie Guoqiang had no intention of joking, or rather, he had asked Yu Zhengwei to clear out the office specifically to discuss this matter, so he didn't treat today's meeting as a joke.

"It has been confirmed that Zhu Wentao is a foreign spy."

Nie Guoqiang paused for a moment, then continued, "But this time, was Feng Hesong's behavior truly his own idea? I still feel that a normal person, even a criminal, shouldn't have the guts to do something this big. It's normal to look for dirt on officials, but his methods seem to be aimed at wiping out all the corrupt public officials in Zhangzhou City. If he has no one backing him, where do you think his audacity comes from?"

"Do you perhaps think that Feng Hesong is also a walking 500,000?"

Zheng Mingxing chuckled, not quite agreeing with Nie Guoqiang's assessment. As police officers, what kind of criminals hadn't they seen? They'd encountered criminals a hundred times more ruthless than Feng Hesong; why was he the one being identified as the mastermind behind it all?

"Zhu Jun could not find any purchase records for the seventeen cameras by Feng Hesong. His accomplices also did not have the ability to possess so much cash."

Nie Guoqiang's words left Zheng Mingxing and Yu Zhengwei stunned.

"The camera wasn't bought by Feng Hesong? I thought it would be a simple matter for him, as a photographer, to purchase such a camera..."

Zheng Mingxing hesitated for a moment.

It's not that I've agreed with Nie Guoqiang's speculation about a powerful figure behind Zhangzhou City, but rather that I never expected Feng Hesong to actually have someone backing him. In other words, this seemingly closed case has unexpectedly taken another turn?
"Old Nie, we need more evidence."

Yu Zhengwei spoke in a deep voice, tapping his fingers on the table, "Whether it's the mastermind behind it or the follow-up to the case, there must be a reason why the other party did this. As you just said, the inspection of other hotels did not find any other hidden cameras."

"Therefore, I think there must be something wrong with this Best Hotel. Why was it Feng Hesong's target? And why was it the only one? Even putting aside the conspiracy theory, I think Feng Hesong has a secret he hasn't revealed yet."

Nie Guoqiang shrugged.

"Feng Hesong knew that certain people would choose the Best Hotel to do certain things. So he only needed to wait and wait to achieve his goal."

Zheng Mingxing spoke slowly, offering his own speculation: "He may not have anything to do with the so-called mastermind, but he must know something we don't yet know. Whether it's the source of the cameras... or the secrets of the hotel."

"I think Instructor Zheng's deduction is quite reasonable. The idea of ​​a mastermind behind the scenes is still hard to accept, Lao Nie."

Yu Zhengwei made his choice with a smile.

Nie Guoqiang didn't care, and only said in a low voice, "It doesn't matter! Anyway, once Feng Hesong's secret is exposed, it will become obvious whether there is a mastermind behind it. But... Lao Yu, how about we don't notify the Municipal Bureau about this yet? Let me interrogate Feng Hesong first, and then we'll talk about it?"

"You are suspicious..."

Yu Zhengwei hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

"As the saying goes, it's better to be safe than sorry."

Nie Guoqiang didn't hide anything from Yu Zhengwei and Zheng Mingxing, calmly saying, "Even if I was just overthinking things in the end, it still eliminated a major hidden danger for Zhang City. As for the Municipal Bureau... cough! Mimi, stop hiding!"

(End of this chapter)