“On my word, take him to the hospital, Old Liu, get someone to watch him.”
After a while, the ambulance came and Liu Hao got into the car, Baldy, who had been watching, hesitated, Zhao Zichen gave Baldy a look and the fake Baldy had to follow honestly into the car.
Watching them go away, Xia Gehuai asked, “When will we be able to unmask this fake baldy?”
“Wait, it’s not time yet. Moon Man Bow suspects that this person is Yun Dye, we can start investigating Yun Dye as a person first.”
Zhao Zichen let out a long sigh and walked to the side to make a phone call, listening to the conversation, he was asking someone to investigate Yun Dye.
“These papers must have recorded something crucial, we have to wait for the forensic section to come up with the results.” Zhao Zichen said.
“Then go find Old Wu now.” Xia Gehuai said.
Because there was nothing else for the three of us to do but this, and because we were worried in case this evidence was destroyed by someone halfway again, after we handed the evidence over to Lao Wu, the three of us kept an eye on the Forensic Section together to clean up the evidence.
But the evidence was not in a good state of preservation, with much of it corroded away by stomach acid, making it hard to see clearly.
But it didn’t matter if it was not clear, because as long as we could make out a rough idea, we would be able to recognise what was going on.
This is Ningcheng’s public security file.
The technician fixed a few sheets of archival paper in better condition on a glass plate for us to see.
“By the looks of it, these are the lists of officers from the Fengqi branch, and this one should be from Team Liu.”
I recognised another one too and said, “This one is Zhou Ran’s.”
“What’s with these files?” Old Wu asked, “What’s Old Ghost keeping these files for, is he trying to say these people are insiders?”
“No, Haozi is definitely white. Because Hozi almost got burned to death and they had Old Ghost trick Hozi into it, if Hozi was black then there would be no need to trick Hozi into it.”
“So it seems that this list should be the disposal list.” Zhao Zichen said.
He poked me with his elbow, “Old Zhang, what are you fuming about, what do you think?”
I looked at the list and said, “I’m thinking about a key issue.”
“What?”
“How the old devil got his hands on this list.”
Several of them looked at each other.
I said, “This is a confidential police list, no one should be able to get it except the police. Old Ghost only knows one policeman, Liu Hao, and Liu Hao couldn’t have given him this list, so who was it?”
I already had the answer in my mind, it was the owner of that button.
We all fell into silence because the answer was too scary, it was the mole who had given the list to the old ghost.
Maybe that person didn’t know the old ghost’s true identity and gave the list to the old ghost to pass on to their boss.
The Old Ghost recognised the man as a policeman at once. He was scared and wanted to tell Liu Hao about it, but he was worried that Liu Hao wouldn’t believe him and that, at the same time, he had hidden the list, probably to protect the policeman on it.
Then for whatever reason, the old ghost’s identity was discovered and we all know what happened after that.
But with just that little, there was no way we could be sure of anything and the case was at a dead end again.
I had a headache, and the wound in my chest had opened up again after all the running.
I don’t know which of the gods I’ve been offending lately, but I keep getting hurt.
Old Wu let out a long sigh: “What now? What can these lists tell us? It’s not even enough to take to convict, at best we know that we have a big head of black here.”
I thought about it, no, the man had just said that if this fell into our hands, they would be dead.
What power could it have with just these few pieces of paper?
“There’s one more thing, I don’t know if it’s what you’re looking for.”
Just as we were at a loss, the officer from the physical evidence section suddenly spoke up.
He brought a petri dish in front of us, and in the middle of it was a small chip, a phone card.
“This was also vomited out of his stomach, it’s badly corroded by stomach acid, I don’t know if it can still be repaired, it will take time.”
I was overjoyed, “This phone card must be the old ghost’s, it might have stored some important information, you must find a way to repair it.”
“I’ll definitely do my best, don’t worry.”
The investigation of the case had just gotten a small clue and immediately hit a dead end again, there was nothing we could do but wait.
When I remembered, I went to the side and made a phone call to confirm with Liu Hao again if Bureau Zhou really knew the identity of the old ghost.
This time Liu Hao gave me a similar answer to Team Wu, he admitted that it was a slip of the tongue last time and that Zhou only knew the identity of an informant existed, but he was the only one who knew the identity of the old ghost.
“Why are you asking this, what was in the physical evidence you searched for?”
“We’ll talk about it when you get back, you must make sure this baldy doesn’t leave your sight.”
“Good.” His voice paused for a moment before he answered me in a whisper, “Don’t worry, I’m keeping an eye on it.”
Liu Hao was the only one who knew the identity of the old ghost, which made it even more of a headache, seeing as how it could have been anyone.
Old Wu said, “It won’t happen overnight either, let’s wait for the results from the physical evidence section.”
That was all that could be done now, there was nothing to be done if we didn’t wait.
The strength of this gun trafficking gang far exceeded my imagination, not only could they collude with the jianghu, they could even collude with the black officials.
How terrifying is this kind of strength.
Originally I thought their main battlefield was in Tong City, but now it seems that our intelligence is too backward, they are probably operating at multiple points within Ning City, and are so concealed that it is difficult to catch them.
Suddenly, Zhao Zichen said in a low voice, “Not good. Since their people have already found the winery, that means Old Ghost’s wife and daughter are no longer of any use.”
My heart stuttered, they would be silenced.
“Quick, Old Wu, bring the men and save them!” I said.
Lao Wu also knew this couldn’t be delayed and immediately took a small team with him and we drove three cars out.
I jumped in and started calling Liu Hao, asking where he was.
“The hospital, ah, you told me to come to the hospital.”
“Is the man you arranged under the old ghost’s house still there?”
“Always, but nothing is moving.”
“You take Baldy right now, go to the old ghost’s house, and have your men go up there and take a look.”
“What’s going on?”
“Something may have happened to the old devil’s wife.”
At this time, Old Wu, who was driving, tsked, and I thought he had thought of something, so I looked at him.
Old Wu said, “No, I saw Yu Shen’s girlfriend, it seems she drove to the Fengqi branch office, probably to make trouble.”
I didn’t know Yu Shen’s girlfriend, so I ignored it. Soon the car arrived under the old ghost’s house and I saw the policeman Old Liu had sent sitting in front of the door, smoking with a sad face.
He saw us and stood up and shook his head at us.
