Chapter 188

Zai Zi was the first to say this.

His father was a man of the streets; it was said his mother had run off with someone long ago, and that his father often beat him when he was young, hanging him up and whipping him with a leather belt.

Later, as he slowly grew up, the beating stopped.

Luo Liang had already become quite famous inside and outside the school back in middle school.

He hung out with the thugs from outside until his father paid a high fee to get him enrolled in the Sons' High School.

At school, he often led his henchmen to beat up other students.

Basically every week or two, you could see Luo Liang leading his people, sitting on the steps at the main gate of the teaching building.

Do you know what he was doing? Collecting protection money.

Any male passing by, whether known or unknown, had to pay him.

Those who refused were dragged straight to the restroom to be beaten.

Some teachers knew about this and tried to intervene, but it was completely useless.

One female teacher was even threatened on the spot by Luo Liang; that female teacher was pregnant at the time, had never seen a student like that before, and was nearly scared to death.

In the second year of high school, Luo Liang, leading several thugs from outside the school, set his sights on a very pretty girl from another class in our school, dragged that girl into a van in an alley on her way home from school, and did that to her.

That girl studied very well and was beautiful, but because her family conditions were a bit poor, her personality had always been very shy.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that Luo Liang dared to make a move on her.

Later, that girl's belly had grown large; when the school discovered it and asked her, she only cried and didn't dare to speak.

Later, that girl's grandparents ran to the school all day long, crying and making a scene, demanding the school give an explanation.

After that, whether Luo Liang's father used some means or not, anyway, that girl dropped out of school, the matter was mysteriously settled, and later no one knew what happened.

That girl was actually quite pitiful; her parents divorced when she was young, neither her father nor her mother wanted her, so she could only live with her grandparents; her grandfather's leg was lame, she had studied well since childhood, but she was ruined by someone like Luo Liang.

While Zai Zi was speaking, he was even gritting his teeth.

Damn it, even a scumbag like me can't stand it; damn this world!

As he spoke, he spat a mouthful of saliva onto the ground.

Oh, right.

This matter, after this matter.

I started following Luo Liang from after this matter.

Luo Liang's father sent someone to find me once, telling me to follow Luo Liang from now on, monitor Luo Liang, and as soon as I discovered Luo Liang mixing with those people outside and going astray, to report to him. What could I say? I could only agree.

To put it plainly, his father placed me, under the guise of brotherhood, right beside Luo Liang.

Someone like Luo Liang, as I just said, will definitely become a very dangerous criminal when he grows up.

He inherited his father's violent genes; he belongs to that category by nature.

His father was a man of the streets; it was said he seemed to be a member of a large gang, and was certainly no good person either.

Yet, whether Luo Liang's father was due to his own advancing age or because he saw his son gradually growing up, anyway, although his father knew Luo Liang was going astray, he still did not want Luo Liang to walk this path.

So, Luo Liang's father might be an even bigger bastard, but towards Luo Liang, deep down, he truly loved him.

He might become a criminal in the future, but his father did not want him to be so.

Zai Zi repeated it again, but a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

While Zai Zi was speaking, he seemed to have already forgotten that he himself was no good bird either.

Thus, once he started talking.

This Zai Zi actually couldn't stop.

Until the man beside him suddenly interrupted him:

"Where does his white goods come from?"

"Him? Stolen from his father!" Zai Zi said.

"His father is in this kind of business; this kind of thing is not rare in the Southern Region, but his father belongs to a large gang doing this kind of business, not comparable to those ordinary street-level firecracker small-time drug dealers." Zai Zi added.

The man beside him nodded. "The quantity I need might be quite large; I'm afraid you cannot make the decision."

Having finished speaking, he did not wait for Zai Zi to react.

He raised his hand and directly stuffed that stack of banknotes from the chair into Zai Zi's hand.

"This is the reward for you," the man said, "but the quantity of goods I need is quite large; I need to talk directly to that Luo Liang; even, he might not be able to supply me."

Zai Zi looked at the money in his hand, and his eyes lit up.

"You can be completely assured of this! Luo Liang has never refused anyone who comes! He knows how to get goods from his father!"

"But I must see him, if we are to cooperate long-term." The man beside him looked at Zai Zi.

Zai Zi looked at him for a long moment.

Suddenly stood up. "Let's go! I'll take you there—but."

Zai Zi paused. "This money just now, you just said, is extra reward for me, so you must keep it secret."

"Rest assured." The man said.

Thus.

Zai Zi led the way.

Leading this man to Luo Liang's home.

All the way, Zai Zi was still talking.

"His father is not at home right now; otherwise, I wouldn't dare to take you to find Luo Liang."

"Luo Liang's home is not far from the school; it can't even be called their home; this house was rented by Luo Liang's father specifically for Luo Liang to attend high school near the school; his father sometimes comes over to stay for a while; maybe because the college entrance exam is next year, his father seems to be quite concerned about Luo Liang's studies—" Saying this, Zai Zi laughed.

"Do you find it funny? Such a father, towards such a son of his, yet becoming more and more concerned."

"Yes."

"Hmm? What is it?" Unless Zai Zi paused, glancing at the man beside him.

The man nodded. "It is quite funny, but this is also the only place that feels warm with human touch, isn't it? I actually don't dislike this father and son pair anymore."

"Hmm... well, thinking about it that way makes sense." Unless Zai Zi shrugged, nodded, and looked ahead. "There, this is the residential complex."

130. (1/6) A Confusion That Seems Contradictory

The screening work at the Donghai Municipal Bureau is very arduous.

Through coordination between the provincial departments.

The Sky Eye monitoring cloud system of Yunnan Province has been opened to the Donghai Municipal Bureau.

The screening scope covers the past ten days.

The total video duration is three thousand two hundred and forty-four hours.

This sounds very long.

But it is merely the eleven major cities filtered within the scope of Yunnan Province.

Yunnan Province has over a dozen prefecture-level cities, over a hundred counties, and as for townships and the like, they are as numerous as the hairs on an ox.

Besides this, this is merely the Sky Eye monitoring content of the core areas of these major cities; this is merely from Yunnan Province, and the work within the scope of Dong Province has not yet begun.

According to conservative estimates, completing just this workload of three thousand two hundred and forty-four hours would require at least half a month, and the Donghai Municipal Bureau would have to fully commit its manpower.

If, on top of this, the scope is expanded to other counties and cities within Yunnan Province, the monitoring areas are made more refined, and the Sky Eye monitoring within the scope of Dong Province is added.

Completing the entire work would take at least half a year.

This is a formidable and long-term task.

But so-called carpet searches are easy to say, but in practice, they become as difficult as reaching the sky due to the time and effort consumed.

To find a person with a similar mark—a scorpion tattoo on the neck—from this vast sea of surveillance videos sounds very unrealistic.

After all, even so, there should be quite a few people with similar marks.

Furthermore, screening them out and identifying and comparing them with a photo of a face turned sideways is another huge undertaking.

However, the clue called "Li Sai Gao" that recently appeared in Brother Shiguang's livestream might be an existing shortcut.

Although the Donghai Municipal Bureau currently does not know why Ning Chen suddenly started paying attention to "Li Sai Gao".

But investigative work often narrows the search scope through repeated trial and error.

After preliminary analysis, Liu Zhiguo, the director of the Donghai Municipal Bureau, decided to continue contacting colleagues in the Yunnan Province public security department to launch a preliminary investigation into this "Li Sai Gao".

The reason behind this is actually clear to everyone at present.

The streamer in Brother Shiguang's livestream is Ning Chen.

If the events that happened previously had not occurred, the Donghai Municipal Bureau would not have paid excessive attention to Ning Chen's behavior.

But the clue obtained from Ning Chen's livestream previously, which shocked everyone, made it impossible for them to easily ignore any of his actions again.