Handong: Sha Li wants political achievements? I'll shut down the entire province.

Lu Yike threw the dented beer can out the window with a loud "clang".

She pulled the black leather jacket off the hanger, quickly put it on, and zipped it all the way up.

Since the men have all chickened out, then she, the suspended section chief, will do something outrageous.

Half an hour later, at the entrance of a secluded alley in the north of Jingzhou City.

A nearly new Volkswagen Jetta without police license plates was parked under a streetlamp, its exhaust pipe sputtering white steam.

Lu Yike opened the passenger door and plopped down inside, bringing with her a gust of cold wind.

Lin Huahua sat in the driver's seat, rubbing the steering wheel hard with both hands, her eyes revealing a deep sense of guilt.

Two male police officers, Xiao Zhou and Da Li, who were usually closest to Lu Yike, were also squeezed in the back row, neither of them wearing uniforms.

"Director Lu, are you really going?" Lin Huahua swallowed hard. "We haven't even gotten a search warrant yet; that's against the rules."

"Rules are for living people!" Lu Yike turned her head and glared at her fiercely.

"Yan Qingfeng and his cronies are practically shitting on the necks of the provincial party committee compound, and you're still talking to me about rules?"

She slammed her fingers heavily on the windshield: "Drive! Even if something terrible happens, I, Lu Yike, will handle it all!"

Lin Huahua couldn't persuade this old lady otherwise, so she could only grit her teeth and step on the gas.

The Jetta, like a wild boar with its temper flaring, plunged headlong into the desolate night of Jingzhou.

The streets were deserted, as logistics had been suspended and the once bustling late-night food stalls were all closed.

Lu Yike stared at the desolate street scene outside the window, her teeth grinding together.

She felt that Hou Liangping was too weak and gave up after failing to uncover anything in the accounts, which was a disgrace to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Ji Changming was even more cunning; when he encountered a tough opponent, he would feign a heart attack and get admitted to a special ward.

To deal with a vixen like Hua Linglong who manipulates online trolls, you have to destroy her lair directly.

Once you storm into the data center and unplug the server hard drive, the manipulative code and transaction records will be irrefutable proof!

With irrefutable evidence, what does it matter if she acts first and reports later? Sha Ruijin will still have to award her a first-class merit.

Fifteen minutes later, in the core area of ​​Jingzhou CBD.

The Lingxiao Media branch building was still brightly lit, its glass curtain wall gleaming with a faint blue light in the night.

The Jetta braked suddenly at the roadside, and the tires scraped against the asphalt, emitting a pungent smell of burning.

"Grab your weapons and get off with me!"

Lu Yike pushed open the car door, pulled a black canvas evidence bag from the back seat, and strode forward.

Lin Huahua and Xiao Zhou exchanged glances and could only grit their teeth and follow behind.

The lobby on the first floor is spacious and bright, with a polished marble floor that reflects images.

Lu Yike walked to the huge automatic glass door. The door was unlocked. The sensor beeped and the door slid open to both sides.

She had been holding back her strength, intending to kick the glass to pieces, but she missed and nearly strained her back.

"What are you doing!"

Behind the reception desk, two security guards in smart uniforms were smiling at them, without even drawing their batons.

Lu Yike steadied herself and slammed a certificate onto the marble table.

"Provincial High Procuratorate Anti-Corruption Bureau! We have received a report from the public that your company is suspected of illegal online profit-making!"

She put on a stern face and displayed the same imposing manner she used when interrogating corrupt officials.

"We are legally seizing all hard drives in the data center. All personnel must remain where they are and are not allowed to use their phones!"

Based on Lu Yike's experience, these security guards should have panicked at this point, either trying to stop them or secretly tipping them off.

But the two security guards didn't panic at all. Instead, they looked at each other and gave each other professional smiles.

The tall security guard opened a drawer and took out a black master access card.

"You've worked hard investigating this case, sir, still running around outside in the middle of the night."

He walked around the front desk, went to the elevator, swiped his card, pressed the button for the top floor, and thoughtfully blocked the elevator door.

"The data center is on the 36th floor. The elevator is ready for you. Please come in."

Lu Yike was stunned, and all the harsh words she had prepared got stuck in her throat.

Lin Huahua gripped Lu Yike's clothes tightly, her voice low and chilling.

"Director Lu, something's not right. Why are these people being more enthusiastic than if they were treating us to dinner?"

"What are you afraid of! This is just being deliberately mysterious, a sign of a guilty conscience!"

Lu Yike shook off Lin Huahua's hand and strode into the sedan chair.

Even if it's a den of dragons and tigers inside, I'll drag out two real tigers today!

The elevator ascended, and the only sound inside the car was the faint hum of the mechanical operation.

With a crisp "ding," we arrived at the thirty-sixth floor.

The elevator doors slowly opened to both sides, revealing a long corridor covered with a thick cashmere carpet.

At the end of the corridor, a huge frosted glass double door was half-open, and a blinding white light shone through the crack.

The sign above the door reads four large, gold-plated characters: Core Data Control Center.

"Xiao Zhou, Da Li, you two block the safety exits at both ends of the corridor."

Lu Yike lowered his voice to give instructions, and pulled out a pair of shiny handcuffs from his waist.

"Lin Huahua and I will enter through the main entrance. Once inside, we must immediately cut off the main power supply. We absolutely cannot allow them to transfer the data!"

The officers nodded, their palms clenched so tightly they were sweating.

Lu Yike took a deep breath and suddenly accelerated her run-up.

She raised her right foot, clad in a Doc Martens boot, aimed it at the half-open frosted glass door, and kicked it hard.

"Bang!"

The double doors were kicked against the wall with tremendous force, making a deafening noise.

"Don't move! Take your hands off the keyboard!"

Lu Yike, holding the handcuffs, charged into the hall like a mother leopard descending from the mountain.

She had expected to be greeted by dozens of programmers frantically typing away on their keyboards.

It would be rows of computer screens frantically deleting data from online trolls.

But the sight before her made her feet freeze on the carpet, her pupils instantly shrinking to the size of pinpoints.

The hall, spanning several hundred square meters, was brightly lit, as bright as day.

There wasn't a single computer, nor a single programmer.

In the large space, more than thirty men and women in suits stood neatly in rows.

They all had their hair neatly combed and held thick legal codes in their hands.

The most terrifying thing was that almost everyone had a high-definition camera with a flashing red light mounted on their shoulder.

More than thirty dark cameras, like rows of silent gun barrels, were all aimed at Lu Yike, who was still in the posture of kicking the door.

"Snap! Snap!"

The blinding flashes of light created a blinding white blur in Lu Yike's vision.

Lin Huahua rushed in, and when she saw the scene inside, her legs went weak, and she almost knelt on the carpet.

"What... what's this for?" Xiao Zhou's hand, holding the evidence collection bag, trembled as if he were having a seizure.

The crowd parted to both sides like Moses parting the Sea.

A woman in a silver-gray haute couture suit, her high heels clicking crisply, slowly emerged from the depths of the crowd.

Lin Yubing pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, a perfect mockery curling at the corner of his mouth.

She held a blue-covered copy of the Criminal Law in one hand and gently patted the palm of her other hand.

She stopped less than three meters away from Lu Yike.

"Director Lu, coming to kick down the door in the middle of the night without wearing a uniform, your entrance is truly unique."

Lin Yubing pushed up his glasses and pointed to the rows of flashing red lights around him.

"Thirty-eight 4K high-definition cameras are currently undergoing real-time cloud backup across the entire network. I wonder how much those of you without a search warrant know about the crime of illegally entering a commercially sensitive location?"