Qi Tongwei: Sign-in relationship started during student days

Chapter 796 The Benefits of Power

The chill of early spring wrapped in the smell of disinfectant condensed into a white mist under the fluorescent lights in the emergency room.

The doctor's movements holding the surgical scissors trembled slightly. With a light "click", the blood-soaked vest on Lao Huo's body was cut into two pieces and fell to the ground.

Seeing the scars, the doctor's Adam's apple rolled uncontrollably. The detectives formed a semicircle, their expressions instantly frozen.

On Lao Huo's exposed chest, new and old scars were like a hideous map, and the ribs were covered with charred lines left by electric shocks. The most shocking thing was the three crescent-shaped wound on the lower right abdomen, with a fresh crimson on the edge, which was clearly caused by being scratched by sharp objects for several days.

"These people deserve to die!" A young criminal police officer slammed his fist on the medical record cabinet, causing the metal drawers to rattle.

Lei Zi patted the young detective's shoulder, but turned his head away, his knuckles white from rubbing. Even though they were a group of detectives who had often beaten prisoners, they couldn't stand this kind of torture.

At most, they use their fists to beat criminals, but these beasts use every possible means to treat ordinary people. Are they still human?!

Wei Tao stood behind the crowd, his brows furrowed like a mountain peak. He took out a cigarette box and lit one.

Although smoking is prohibited in the hospital, he could no longer suppress the anger in his heart and had to vent it with the help of fireworks.

"Take photos and collect evidence!" Wei Tao suddenly raised his voice, shocking everyone back to their senses.

The young detective quickly set up the camera and the lens moved slowly across Lao Huo's body, with shutter clicks coming one after another.

Outside the window, the night is swallowing up the twilight at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Wei Tao glanced at his watch. 6:15. Time was running out. "Leizi, you and Xiaobo will stay here tonight. The rest of us will be working overtime with the team. Secretary Zuo is coming tomorrow. Let's prepare the materials tonight and try to catch these people in one fell swoop!"

"Yes!"

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After returning to the criminal police team, all the staff immediately plunged into the intense and orderly work, and Wei Tao also immersed himself in writing the case report.

However, the tragic sight of Sister Huang dying with her eyes open and the miserable sight of Lao Huo covered in scars, like waves of lingering haze, kept appearing in his mind, making it difficult for him to calm down.

Through visits and investigations during this period, many inquiries were directed at several major leading cadres in Hong Kong.

Although there is no direct evidence to confirm it at present, Wei Tao's intuition clearly tells him that extremely serious corruption problems have already arisen here.

Faced with political corruption, young Wei Tao felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness and confusion for the first time.

In the past, most of the cases he handled were those of extremely vicious criminals. Once he had key evidence, he could take quick action to arrest them.

However, the situation this time is completely different. He is facing a group of enemies lurking within. These people are not only in high positions and powerful, but also have strong anti-detection capabilities.

Even though he had evidence in his hands, he could not act rashly because of the other party's special identity and the limitations of his own authority.

Is this the benefit of power?

Fortunately, Zuo Ming, the secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, will arrive tomorrow and be entrusted with the important task of assisting the investigation team. By then, he will briefly possess far greater power than he currently possesses, and he will be able to legitimately investigate many people.

Thinking of this, he found a clean piece of paper and wrote down two names.

This is the result of his investigation during this period, and it is also the target of the next investigation after he gains power.

One is the director of Nancheng Police Station, and the other is Nie Hailong.

In such a short time, with his authority, he could only investigate this far.

Director of Nancheng Detention Center, the problem is obvious. The person was found in the other party’s detention center, and the other party has no way to defend himself, but it is difficult to charge him with too high a crime.

At most, he will be charged with dereliction of duty and illegal detention. Overall, if someone can help him, he will be released in a few years.

Think about ordinary people, it takes at least ten years to start, which is also one of the benefits of power.

Thinking of this, several questions arose in his mind.

First, why didn’t the director and the people behind him destroy the body?

Soft-hearted? Or fear of the law?

Wei Tao shook his head, impossible.

He dared to beat the victim to death and had no intention of letting him live.

And this time when he came down, he heard some rumors that someone wanted to define Lao Huo as a suspect in the murder of former deputy mayor Qiao Shan.

In other words, if there had not been this investigation, Lao Huo would have died without a doubt.

You will die sooner or later, so why not destroy the body?

Wei Tao really couldn't understand.

Then he wrote down this question on a piece of paper.

After stopping writing, Wei Tao thought of the second question.

Who put that mysterious letter into his room?

If it weren't for that letter, with just a few of them, they would never be able to rescue the victim in their lifetime because they would never be able to find him.

I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.

Wei Tao, who was confused, turned his attention to another name - Nie Hailong.

He learned about this person through extensive visits and from several insiders that he was the leader who kidnapped Lao Huo.

It’s just a pity that no one dared to come forward to testify, so he had no way to deal with Nie Hailong for the time being.

Just as I was thinking about it, someone suddenly walked in through the door.

"Hey, you guys haven't finished get off work yet."

Nie Hailong, Executive Deputy Director of the HK Municipal Public Security Bureau, walked in carrying a briefcase.

Wei Tao quickly grabbed the paper with the name and question written on it, crumpled it up and stuffed it into his pocket, then stood up to greet him, "Director Nie."

Seeing Nie Hailong, Wei Tao's alertness reached the highest level.

In addition to the fact that this deputy director was the one who arrested Lao Huo, there was another reason.

Nie Hailong previously held the position of criminal police captain concurrently. After I stepped down, he lost this part of the power.

Director Xiao had warned him that being a leader was different from being a police officer. In addition to arresting criminals, one must also be wary of political struggles, especially power struggles.

If you have more, others will have less. That's how hatred comes, and you can't help but fight.

He also analyzed some of Mayor Qi's struggles back then, which made his hair stand on end.

In fact, this kind of struggle is far more dangerous than real swords and guns.

Nie Hailong glanced at everyone with a smile, and finally fixed his eyes on Wei Tao, saying in a friendly manner: "As expected of a comrade from the city, his enthusiasm is indeed incomparable to that of our comrades in HK City.

It seems that the public security work in our HK city will be able to reach a higher level with the joint efforts of Captain Wei and everyone." After saying this, he paused and looked at Wei Tao.

Wei Tao had just taken office and didn't know whether he should take over and push the credit onto the bureau leaders. He looked back at Nie Hailong blankly.

For a moment, the office was silent.

Nie Hailong frowned for a moment, secretly cursing the other party for being a fool, but soon relaxed again.

Young and inexperienced people are good, they are easy to deal with.

No one responded, so Nie Hailong had to continue his performance: "However, Captain Wei, I have to give you a suggestion.

It's still the Chinese New Year period, so it's best for everyone not to work so hard and tense up so much.

At least I don’t advocate overtime work.

On this issue, Secretary He of the Municipal Party Committee specifically spoke about it at the Standing Committee meeting in the new year.

So, I suggest that if you have any problems, it’s not too late to wait until after the New Year.”