Hou Liangping arrested a hawkish general, and his father-in-law panicked

All his roars and threats seemed so ridiculous in the face of the other party's bottomless calm.

Hou Liangping felt a tightness in his chest and an unprecedented feeling of powerlessness gripped him.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something harsher to save face, but a ball of hot cotton was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't spit out a word.

The interrogation room fell into dead silence.

Only the wall clock was ticking slowly, mocking this out-of-control interrogation with every second.

Chen Hai stood aside, a layer of cold sweat already seeping out of his back.

He looked at his childhood friend, then at the man who was as steady as a rock, and for the first time he had an absurd premonition: they might have hit an invisible iron plate.

This piece of iron was harder and colder than any other piece they had imagined.

In this suffocating silence, a sudden cell phone ringing sound sharply cut through the air.

The ringtone comes from Chen Hai.

Hou Liangping suddenly turned his head and stared at Chen Hai with bloodshot eyes. The ringing was also a provocation.

"Who is it?! Don't you know you're being interrogated?"

Chen Hai shuddered when he was yelled at, and frantically took out his cell phone from his pocket.

Two words were jumping on the screen: Dad.

It’s Chen Yanshi.

Chen Hai's heart sank suddenly.

The old man rarely calls him at this time unless there is something important.

He didn't dare to neglect it, and didn't care about Hou Liangping's anger. He waved at him and said in a low voice: "It's my dad. I'll go out and pick him up."

After saying that, he opened the heavy door of the interrogation room and walked out quickly.

The door closed with a click behind him, isolating the stagnant air inside.

The pale light in the corridor shone on Chen Hai's face. He leaned against the cold wall, took a deep breath, and then pressed the answer button.

"Hey, Dad."

"Xiao Hai."

Chen Yanshi's voice, aged yet still full of energy, came from the other end of the line. "Did I disturb you from working?"

"No, Dad, you say."

Chen Hai listened to his father's calm voice, and the irritability in his heart calmed down a little.

"Ah."

Chen Yanshi pondered for a moment, seemingly choosing his words. "I just wanted to remind you. Be more cautious and careful in everything you do recently."

Chen Hai's heart was lifted again.

He knew his father too well. If he didn't really feel something, he would never speak in such a serious tone.

"Dad, what happened?"

He gripped the phone tightly and unconsciously lowered his voice, fearing that there were invisible ears in the corridor.

"Handong is not peaceful right now."

Chen Yanshi's voice came through the receiver, with an imperceptible solemnity, "People from above are coming. I heard that they want to take real action against Handong and crack down on him severely."

Crackdown?

Chen Hai's pupils shrank.

As the director of the anti-corruption bureau, he knows very well the weight of these two words.

This means that there will be a top-down political storm that will sweep across the entire Handong officialdom.

"Who are the people up there?"

Chen Hai asked, his heart pounding.

"I don't know about that."

Chen Yanshi didn't answer directly. "I just heard it. You're in the middle of this situation, so you need to observe more, think more, and listen more. Don't be like a fool who rushes forward whenever someone tells you to, okay?"

"...I understand, Dad."

Chen Hai felt a chill on the back of his neck.

My father's words clearly had a hidden meaning.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds. Chen Yanshi seemed to think that the reminder alone was not enough, so he threw out an even more shocking piece of news.

"Xiao Hai, there's one more thing."

His voice lowered even more, "Xiao Jinzi told me."

Xiao Jinzi is what Chen Yanshi calls Sha Ruijin.

The source of my father's information is definitely not groundless.

Chen Hai's breathing stopped.

"Xiao Jinzi said that the 20th Army has already entered Handong."

"what?"

Chen Hai screamed out loud, then immediately covered his mouth and looked around in horror at the empty corridor.

The army enters a province?

This……

What is this for?

Martial law?

His mind buzzed and went blank.

"Keep your voice down!"

Chen Yanshi yelled on the phone, "Why are you panicking? The sky isn't falling!"

Chen Hai forced himself to stay calm, but the knuckles of his fingers holding the phone had turned white from the force.

"Dad, what the hell is going on? What is the 20th Army doing in Handong?"

"I heard that a few soldiers from the 20th Army lost contact in Handong."

Chen Yanshi's voice was filled with icy coldness. "Their commander personally came to Handong to look for him... but he also lost contact."

"..."

Chen Hai felt the chill running from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

He leaned against the wall, almost unable to stand.

The commander of a group army, in Handong Province...

Lost contact?

What is this concept?

This is no longer an ordinary case, this is a huge matter!

It is a political event that can blow up the sky!

Chen Yanshi's voice continued, every word hammering at Chen Hai's nerves. "Think about it, what's the rank of the commander of a fully staffed Class A group army? He brought his troops to his own territory to look for someone, and then disappeared himself. Tell me, how deep is the water in Handong?"

Chapter 24 The last three hours. Three hours later, the army entered Handong!

Chen Hai's brain completely crashed.

He was completely unable to connect what his father said with what he was doing now.

He only felt a fog in front of his eyes, and deep in the fog, there was a giant beast that he could not even imagine.

"dad……"

His voice was dry and hoarse, "I..."

"Okay, I'm just giving you a heads up."

Chen Yanshi interrupted him, "Remember, always leave a way out. Don't overdo things, and don't let others use you as a tool. You can decide for yourself."

After saying that, the phone was hung up.

There was a busy tone in the receiver, but Chen Hai remained in the posture of answering the phone, frozen in place without moving.

The cold air from the corridor penetrated into his bones.

20th Army...

Commander...

Lost contact...

A few words kept colliding in his mind, making him dizzy.

Chen Hai was thinking about completing the interrogation in the interrogation room first, and then going to help Handong find the commander.

No wonder Ji Changming was so flustered. With such a big thing happening, who could sit still?

Just when Hou Liangping and Chen Hai were still in the airtight interrogation room.

Several black Audi A6s, under the low-key escort of police cars, did not drive towards the provincial party committee compound or the provincial government, but turned directly into a road that ordinary vehicles would never dare to approach.

At the end of the road is a heavily guarded compound.

There was no fancy sign at the door, only a stone tablet engraved with "Jingzhou Armed Forces Headquarters" and sentries standing upright on both sides.

The convoy came to a slow stop.

The car door opened and Sha Ruijin, Gao Yuliang, Li Dakang and Qi Tongwei got out one after another.

Their expressions today no longer had the strategic planning they had in previous meetings. Instead, they were shrouded in a solemnity shrouded by invisible pressure.

The last person to get out of the middle car was a middle-aged man wearing a neat 07-style woodland camouflage training uniform.