Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

What should I do?

The huge office was deathly silent, with only the ticking of the clock on the wall and Chen Jianguo's heavy, irregular breathing.

The word "run" flashed through Chen Jianguo's mind for only half a second before he instantly dismissed it.

It's the 1980s now! Outside this city, you need a letter of introduction everywhere, and there are checkpoints all along the way.

As a high-ranking municipal leader, once he loses the protection of the system, he's no better than a vagrant if he runs away. As soon as the public security system issues a notice for assistance, he'll be caught and killed in the wilderness or at the train station within three days.

There was nowhere to escape.

Chen Jianguo's eyes, initially empty and shocked, gradually darkened, eventually transforming into an extremely sinister aura of death.

He couldn't run away, much less sit and wait to die.

Since there is no way to retreat, we have no choice but to fight our way out!

As long as Old Scar dies, yes, as long as Old Scar becomes a corpse that can't speak, all those messy accounts and murder cases at the Red Star Factory will become completely unverifiable!

Even if Li Yuanchao and Zhou Changhe know exactly what's going on, and even if the provincial party committee has serious suspicions about him, without the most irrefutable evidence, no one can easily bring down a deeply entrenched top leader of the municipal party committee!

At worst, I can relinquish all my power early, or take a disciplinary action for negligence, and retire early by holding a sinecure in the National People's Congress or the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference! As long as I survive, as long as I don't end up in jail or get shot, this game isn't completely over!

Thinking of this, the panic in Chen Jianguo's eyes completely disappeared, replaced by an extremely sinister, desperate glint.

"Little Li."

Chen Jianguo suddenly spoke, his voice unusually calm, so calm that it sent chills down one's spine.

Startled, Xiao Li looked up with a mournful face and cried out, "Secretary Chen..."

Chen Jianguo slowly sat up straight, opened a drawer, took out a sticky note with only a string of numbers, and pushed it to the edge of the table: "Go downstairs right now, go to the security room in the underground parking garage, and lock the door. Use that internal line that doesn't go through the switchboard to call Wu Jianming, the deputy captain of the Municipal Public Security Bureau's Criminal Investigation Brigade."

Watching Xiao Li's trembling hand take the note, Chen Jianguo's eyes were as cold as a snake. He squeezed out the order through clenched teeth, word by word: "Tell him exactly what you said: 'An army is raised for a thousand days to be used for one.' I still have the death sentence order for his younger brother's murder case in the safe. Now, it's time for him to pay with his life."

Xiao Li's hand trembled suddenly, and the light note almost slipped through his fingers.

He didn't turn around immediately, but his legs went weak and he knelt down on the carpet with a thud.

As the top secretary of the municipal party committee, he usually dared to bully others and take bribes, but now he is openly ordering police officers to kill a key witness! The nature of the situation has escalated several times in an instant. Crossing this red line means an irredeemable death sentence.

"Secretary Chen..."

Xiao Li's face was streaked with tears, snot and cold sweat mingling together. His voice trembled as if he had been soaking in an ice cave. "This...this is murder right under the noses of the police! The nature of this is too heinous. If Wu Jianming fails, or if the matter is exposed, this is a capital offense! The province and the central government will definitely investigate thoroughly! Can...can we think of another way, or could you call the senior leaders in the province again..."

"fart!"

Chen Jianguo slammed his hand heavily on the solid wood table, staring intently at Xiao Li on the ground like a man-eating beast. A hoarse growl escaped his throat: "If Old Scar walks into the city police interrogation room alive, in less than half an hour, this building will be packed with police cars arresting us! Who do you think you can get away with this now? You think that if I fall, all the dirty money you've collected and the messes you've settled for me over the years will be wiped clean? When the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken. If Old Scar doesn't die today, we'll both be lining up for the execution ground tomorrow!"

On their way to the execution ground.

These three words were like three cold steel nails, driven hard into Xiao Li's skull.

Li, who was still trembling, suddenly had his pupils dilate, and his desperate survival instinct instantly overwhelmed his habitual fear of power.

He stared intently at the boss in front of him, who had completely gone mad. Only one thought remained in his mind: the ship was about to sink, and if he didn't jump out of the car, he would be shot along with this madman!

"No...no..."

Xiao Li shook his head frantically, scrambling backward on all fours, his voice distorted with extreme terror: "Secretary Chen, I can't make this call! At most, I'm just accused of bribery, I might only be in jail for a few years! But if I get involved in a murder case, that's a death sentence! I have a wife and children at home, I can't..."

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Li suddenly scrambled up from the carpet and rushed toward the office door.

All he wants now is to escape, to get away from this madman. Even going downstairs to turn himself in to the Discipline Inspection Commission would be better than staying here and waiting to die!

"You fucking stop right there!"

Seeing that this last dog was actually trying to bite the person who jumped out of the car, Chen Jianguo's eyes instantly flashed with murderous intent.

He leaped up from the boss's chair, grabbed the heavy brass paperweight from the table, and pounced on it like a rabid, hungry wolf.

The instant Xiao Li's fingers touched the doorknob, Chen Jianguo grabbed him tightly by the back of his collar and yanked him backward. Xiao Li lost his balance and fell heavily onto the carpet.

Before Xiao Li could even struggle to his feet, Chen Jianguo pounced on him, panting heavily, pressing his knee firmly against Xiao Li's chest, and raising the brass paperweight high, pressing it against Xiao Li's nose.

"Jump out of the moving vehicle? You're thinking of jumping out now?!"

Chen Jianguo's eyes were so red they were almost bleeding, and he spat on Xiao Li's pale face. His voice was like that of a demon from hell, "Too late! You took so much dirty money. Every single one of those orders Wang Biao gave for doing dirty work, wasn't it you who personally carried them out?!"

You're covered in shit! You think Li Yuanchao will let you off the hook if you turn yourself in? Dream on!

Seeing Xiao Li's pupils contract violently due to extreme fear, Chen Jianguo gritted his teeth and pressed the brass paperweight in his hand down another half inch, the cold metal pressing firmly against Xiao Li's forehead.

"Think about your wife again! What does she wear every day? Every few days she changes into those Dacron dresses smuggled from Guangzhou, paired with high-heeled shoes! Every time she goes out, she wears a gleaming Shanghai brand stainless steel watch on her wrist and a thick gold necklace around her neck! Even the face cream she uses is a high-end product brought back from Hong Kong by someone!"

Chen Jianguo, panting heavily, his face contorted with rage, spoke with venomous words: "And those little brats of yours! They eat lavish meals at home, drink imported malted milk powder, and have piles of ten-yuan notes in their pockets! They walk around like they own the place at school, even the principal treats them like royalty! That 21-inch Panasonic color TV in your house, that double-door Hitachi refrigerator—weren't they all bought with bribes from those below?!"

"You only make a pittance a month? Forty-five yuan! Do you think you can afford all those foreign goods and support your family's lavish lifestyle with just forty-five yuan?!"

Chen Jianguo suddenly grabbed Xiao Li's collar and pulled it up hard, causing Xiao Li's face to turn purple instantly, his eyes almost bulging out, and he could only let out desperate gasps.

"This money is all fucking dirty money! It's all the money you earned by covering up Wang Biao's debts and doing favors for Old Scar! If it weren't for me covering for you from above and keeping those people in the Discipline Inspection Commission firmly in check, do you think you'd still be alive today?!"

Chen Jianguo roared, his face contorted with rage, his eyes filled with the madness of someone driven to desperation: "The letters accusing you of corruption and abuse of power have been piling up on the provincial discipline inspection commission's desk, enough to fill three whole sacks! If I hadn't taken the blame for you and thrown all those letters into the fire to burn, you would have been taken away by the commission, skinned alive, and executed eight hundred times over! Would you still be here today pretending to be so virtuous?!"

"After I make this call, Old Scar dies, we live, and your wife and kids will still be wearing foreign clothes and living the high life! If you dare to say a word against it today, I won't even wait for the disciplinary committee to come to our door. I'll smash your head right now and then accuse you of being exposed for embezzlement and committing suicide out of fear of punishment! Your whole family will have to carry the stigma of being the family of an embezzler for the rest of their lives and beg on the streets! You choose!"