258: Chapter 258: Silencing by Murder 258: Chapter 258: Silencing by Murder “So do you know what your higher-ups’ corporation does?” Ye Shikai asked.
“I’m not clear on that either, I’m only responsible for the construction part.
I have no access to the affairs above my level.” Chou Feng said, looking very anxious.
Ye Shikai nodded at Zhang Ting, suggesting that Chou Feng was probably telling the truth.
Ye, someone is looking for you outside.” At this moment, the door to the interrogation room was opened, and an officer walked in to inform them.
“Alright.” Ye Shikai and Zhang Ting went out, only to find that there was no situation at all.
“Liu, did someone come looking for me just now?” Zhang Ting asked a colleague at the front desk, feeling somewhat puzzled.
“No, Ting, no one came just now.”
“Damn, we’ve been duped.” Ye Shikai’s pupils shrank suddenly, and he quickly pulled Zhang Ting back to the interrogation room, to a scene they couldn’t believe.
Chou Feng was lying on the table, foaming at the mouth, eyes wide open, and his expression was grotesque, as if he had experienced a great shock.
Ye Shikai placed his finger in front of Chou Feng’s nose; the man was already dead.
A dozen minutes later, several officers moved Chou Feng’s body out, and Song Tian also arrived, giving everyone a severe scolding.
It was clear that the officer before was an imposter; nobody had noticed.
“Dammit, to dare make a move inside a police station.” Zhang Ting couldn’t help cursing out loud, feeling very guilty deep down, because after all, it was her responsibility to keep watch.
Ye Shikai, with a grave face, realized they had fallen for a diversionary tactic.
He had just checked the police station’s surveillance, which had all been disabled, including the one in the interrogation room.
This certainly was the work of that assassin.
Ye, how did Chou Feng die?” Tianjing, hearing the news, also rushed over immediately.
“He was silenced, I was careless.” Ye Shikai took a deep drag on his cigarette, unable to suppress his self-blame.
“Chou Feng must have known some secret that couldn’t be disclosed.”
“What do we do now, our lead is cut.”
“No, we head to Chengyang Group immediately, fortunately, this is still with us.” Ye Shikai slowly took out a pen from his collar.
It was a recording pen.
With the conversation they had just now, those from Chengyang Group definitely couldn’t distance themselves from involvement.
“Good, I’ll have Jing Xie lock down Chengyang Group right away.” With that, Tianjing immediately made a call to Jing Xie.
At the headquarters of Chengyang Group, which owns numerous subsidiaries, City Wind Building Materials Company was one of them.
What Ye Shikai hadn’t expected was that the Chairman of this group was a woman named Zhao Rou.
“Ladies and gentlemen officers, may I ask what brings you here to me?” Zhao Rou elegantly smoked a lady’s cigarette, saying indifferently with no trace of fear on her face.
“Miss Zhao, your City Wind Building Materials Company is suspected of passing off inferior materials as good quality ones, causing the Huatao Bridge incident, and now I have to arrest you,” Zhang Ting declared.
“You must be joking, little sister.
You should be looking for the company manager, why come to me?” Zhao Rou said dismissively.
“The manager of City Wind Building Materials, Chou Feng, accused it was the upper levels who made him do it.” Ye Shikai opened the recorder pen and played his conversation with Chou Feng, causing a stir among those present.
“What a joke, that’s clearly slander.
Can your police arrest someone just on this basis?” Zhao Rou, clearly not as nervous as expected, scoffed in disdain.
“You said he accused me, so where’s Chou Feng?”
is already dead.” Ye Shikai said coldly, his sharp eyes fixated on Zhao Rou.
“You want to arrest me based on the words of a dead man, believe me, I’ll sue you for defamation,” Zhao Rou rebuked loudly.
“Miss Zhao, don’t forget, City Wind Building Materials is under your group’s umbrella, and the illegal acts have been determined to be true.
Do you think the headquarters can escape involvement?” Ye Shikai firmly retorted, now convinced that Chou Feng had been silenced by these “higher-ups”.
When Zhao Rou heard of Chou Feng’s death, she showed no fear, as if she had already known beforehand, and she seemed to have anticipated Ye Shikai’s intentions, shutting down the conversation entirely.
“So what if that’s the case, the company’s reputation may suffer, but all these illegal actions were solely Chou Feng’s doing, why should you arrest me?” Zhao Rou remained unfazed, even looking quite confident in facing down Ye Shikai.
“You…” Zhang Ting started to speak but hesitated; now, they had neither testimonial nor physical evidence, and without evidence, if Zhao Rou simply refused to admit guilt, they had no way to touch her.
“Fine, then today, we will take our leave.” Ye Shikai, pulling the somewhat reluctant Zhang Ting, left the Chengyang Group.
Zhao Rou, standing in the high-rise building, watched them leave with a slow smile spreading across her lips, revealing a strange grin.
In the dead of night.
Zhao Rou sat in a luxury car, slowly driving into an industrial park.
Stepping out in a pair of black high heels, accompanied by four bodyguards, she walked straight into a building.
“Chairman Zhao, you’ve arrived.” A man in a hazmat suit approached her and talked respectfully.
“I’m going to change; take me to see the results,” Zhao Rou said coldly.
“Right this way, please.”
Zhao Rou arrived at a changing room and quickly donned a hazmat suit.
Led by the previous man, she made her way to a laboratory where he retrieved a syringe from a refrigeration unit, filled with a green liquid.
“How is the progress of the experiment?” Zhao Rou asked.
“Considering the last subject, there are still some flaws in the results,” the man whispered, afraid of upsetting the woman in front of him.
“After all this time, there are still flaws?” There was a hint of annoyance in Zhao Rou’s voice.
The man trembled, appearing very frightened of Zhao Rou.
“Sorry, Chairman Zhao, we’ll resolve it as quickly as we can,” the man quickly agreed.
“This HST project is very important to our Lord.
If you fail, do you know what the consequences would be?”
“Yes, yes, we promise to complete it swiftly,” the man said, getting so scared that he knelt before Zhao Rou with a “thud”.
“Good, then get on with it,” Zhao Rou hissed, and the man scurried out of the laboratory.
Suddenly, another man entered.
“Chairman Zhao,” the man said respectfully.
“Number Three, you executed the plan very well.
Are you certain Chou Feng didn’t reveal anything else?”
“Of course, he won’t get the chance to talk.” The man’s voice was low and seemed to obediently follow Zhao Rou’s instructions.
“Good, that waste Chou Feng nearly exposed everything.
Traitors like him deserve this fate.”