Chapter 148
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Liu Dongming was so furious that smoke seemed to pour from his ears. Since they had failed to avoid the cameras, it was only a matter of time before Lan Shihao’s death came to light.
The patrol officer was so frightened he scarcely dared breathe. It was not that he did not know who Lan Shihao was; he simply could not believe that a figure of such stature had died in a small hotel in Jiangzhou City.
It was utterly unbelievable.
“Have you determined the cause of death?” Liu Dongming asked, his expression darkening.
“Yes. It was homicide...” The patrol officer hurriedly answered. “The forensic autopsy report is all here. He died after a foreign object was driven into his heart.”
“A foreign object?” Liu Dongming frowned.
“Oh, it was a silver needle, about five or six centimeters long.”
Seeing that Liu Dongming was about to lose his temper again, the patrol officer hastily supplied the answer.
“Have you pulled the hotel surveillance footage? Have you identified the murderer? Even narrowing down the suspect would be enough!”
Liu Dongming knew perfectly well that Lan Shihao’s death, coupled with the careless way his men had handled the matter, could never remain concealed. His only hope now was to identify the suspect as quickly as possible, shift the blame for this disaster elsewhere, and give the Lan family an explanation.
“We checked the hotel surveillance. We didn’t merely narrow down a suspect—we confirmed the killer. The entire act was captured on camera!”
At this, joy flashed through Liu Dongming’s heart. He sprang to his feet, slammed his hand on the desk, and barked, “Then what are you waiting for? Go arrest him!”
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Now that the killer had been identified, things would be much easier.
“Well...” The patrol officer looked troubled. “Director-General, you... you should take a look at these surveillance photographs.”
This time, the patrol officer did not even dare explain. He simply took out more than a dozen photographs and laid them across Liu Dongming’s desk. They showed Chu Tianhe and his daughter, captured by the hotel’s surveillance cameras.
“Gasp!”
Liu Dongming had only just risen from his chair, but upon seeing the photographs, he collapsed back into it with a thud. In an instant, his entire body went limp, as though every ounce of strength had been drained from him.
“How did you manage to provoke him...?”
“Lan Shihao, Lan Shihao... Of all the people you could have offended, you had to provoke a murderous god like him!”
“God above, open your eyes and look upon me! I’m the director-general... This job is simply too difficult!”
The moment Liu Dongming saw Chu Tianhe, he nearly burst into tears.
Whether it was the Lan family or Chu Tianhe, he could afford to offend neither side. Was this not simply a death sentence for him?
“Who told you to collect the body, you imbecile?!”
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“Now look what you’ve done! You’ve brought the whole mess down on our Patrol Security Bureau!”
In his fury, Liu Dongming seized the patrol officer by the collar. His face was twisted with a murderous rage, turning the officer deathly pale. He genuinely feared that Director-General Liu might, in a fit of rage, grit his teeth, stamp his foot, and throw him out of the sixth-floor window.
“Director-General Liu, please calm down... Please, calm down...”
“Calm down your ass!”
Director-General Liu exploded with profanity. This matter had originally had little to do with the Patrol Security Bureau. If the Lan family’s bodyguards had discovered the corpse, it would have been a dispute between the Lan family and Chu Tianhe, and Liu Dongming could have kept himself out of it entirely.
But that idiot had brought the body back!
The corpse lying in the morgue was not merely Lan Shihao’s remains. It was a blade poised to take Liu Dongming’s life.
“Make the call. Call Commander Lin at the War Department Office!”
Still seething, Director-General Liu pointed with a trembling right hand at the telephone on the desk and ordered the patrol officer to call Lin Feng. He could not shoulder something this enormous alone.
No matter how broad Liu Dongming’s shoulders were, they could never bear a disgrace this massive. He had to drag Lin Feng into the mess as well. As the supreme commander of the War Department Office, Lin Feng could not simply sit back and enjoy his peace.
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