Chapter 539: Disrupted Video

Compared to being directly told the answer, people are often more willing to believe the truth they uncover through their own inference.

The smarter the person, the more this is so!

Seeing that Li Hanyu had indeed inferred the correct answer on her own, Feng Mu nodded with a grave expression:

"I am not certain, but my Fifth Senior Brother Gong Qi's judgment at the time coincided exactly with yours, Madam.

So, he acted on his own initiative, arriving at that house one step ahead of the two Zone Chiefs."

Feng Mu let out a light sigh, speaking with a hint of helplessness:

"My original plan was to intercept and kill these two halfway, bring their heads back, and hand them over to you, Madam.

But Gong Qi stopped me. He said that compared to the heads of these two Zone Chiefs, Madam might prefer to see the secretly filmed video that follows."

Li Hanyu raised her head, her gaze falling on Feng Mu.

She saw a trace of guilt and apprehension surface on Feng Mu's face, and she mused silently:

"Feng Mu's loyalty is beyond question, but his mind can sometimes be rigid, straightforward and blunt.

This Fifth Senior Brother of his, however, appears quite cunning and sharp, just right to make up for Feng Mu's shortcomings; excellent, he can help Feng Mu safeguard my son's life's work."

Li Hanyu did not respond to Feng Mu immediately, but took a deep breath, her heart full of anticipation, and played the final video clip.

This meticulously edited video was over forty minutes long.

At the start of the footage, Gong Qi's face abruptly appeared before the lens — he was furtively adjusting the phone's angle, the lens shaking slightly with his movements, finally freezing on a concealed filming position.

Then Gong Qi stood up and walked quickly out of the room.

(In reality, this segment was not the very beginning, but an "opening" Gong Qi re-filmed when he left; the footage below follows the same logic — the chronological order has all been disrupted and re-edited.)

This opening could have been omitted, but Gong Qi insisted on including it; he felt it would make the whole recording possess a more vivid sense of realism.

Judging by Li Hanyu's body unconsciously leaning forward, Gong Qi was right.

The picture immediately plunged into darkness, only the blurred outline of the sofa faintly visible.

The time in the video passed second by second; Li Hanyu watched intently, slowly dragging the progress bar, until at 17 minutes and 44 seconds, a faint "click" sound came from the video.

The sound was crisp and short, like the sound of a door lock being pushed open.

However, because the lens could not move and was only aimed at the sofa, it failed to capture the scene at the door.

Immediately after, a burst of "pew-pew" gunshots rang out in chaos, and then the entire picture was completely covered by a piercing white light.

Feng Mu explained from the side at the right moment:

"This is the sound of a pistol fitted with a silencer, and that white light is from a flashbang."

Li Hanyu wasn't stupid either; naturally she could imagine the scene at the door from the sound, and she asked:

"It seems the assassins Lou Duan sent and the two Zone Chiefs crashed into each other right at the door?"

Feng Mu nodded and said:

"Yes. There are also several photos later in the video, secretly shot by us hiding downstairs.

There were five or six assassins, led by a man and a woman; they came on foot. The two Zone Chiefs, on the other hand, arrived in a taxi.

Coincidentally, they arrived almost one right after the other."

The white light in the video slowly dissipated, accompanied by the Zone Chiefs' angry exclamations:

"Ah—!"

"Who are you? How did you know we were coming here?"

Then came the other Zone Chief's equally shocked and angry voice:

"Did Station Chief Lou send you? What does Lou Duan want to do?"

The reply they got was a sinister, bone-chilling cold laugh that made one's blood run cold:

"Station Chief Lou naturally hopes you two will obediently go to sleep here forever."

The voice was naturally not Gong Qi's, but synthesized through technical means.

Nor was it the bald man's or Red Dragonfly's; after all, the voice samples recorded from them were far too few, and with time pressing, Gong Qi simply didn't have time to replicate their voices.

So he just casually synthesized the villain tone in his mind; anyway, Li Hanyu didn't know those two assassins' voices either, as long as the villainous atmosphere was created, it was enough.

After a burst of intense fighting sounds, the video finally showed a picture.

The two Zone Chiefs, like two dead dogs, were dragged roughly onto the sofa.

Because the filming angle was low and happened to be partially blocked by the top edge of the TV cabinet, the faces of the several assassins behind the sofa just happened not to be captured.

The video could only show the parts below their chests, and even those were further obscured by the sofa, making their figures appear increasingly blurry and indistinguishable.

However, the two Zone Chiefs' wretched states were captured with exceptional clarity.

One was covered in dense bullet holes, blood gushing out continuously, staining a large patch of the sofa red;

The other had an arm forcibly snapped off, the broken bone ends at the fracture shocking to behold.

Immediately after came a segment of interrogation dialogue.

That sinister, hoarse voice was questioning the two Zone Chiefs; during this, someone bandaged the two Zone Chiefs, presumably afraid they wouldn't last until the interrogation ended.

Naturally, the bandaging process was also done with backs to the camera.

Sitting before the screen, since she could never see those few faces hidden in the shadows, Li Hanyu simply concentrated all her attention on the questioning dialogue.

Sinister, hoarse voice:

"Speak. How exactly did you two bring the bomb into the Second Prison, and how did you hide it in Warden Qian's Office without anyone knowing?"

Two Zone Chiefs:

"If I answer your questions, will you let us go?"

Sinister, hoarse voice:

"Heh—, Station Chief Lou personally picked out a cemetery plot for you, four rooms and two halls, as subordinates you shouldn't disappoint your leader's kind intentions, right?

"But I can put in a good word for you, ask Station Chief Lou to spare your families; you know as well as I do, Station Chief Lou is most kind-hearted, most likes helping people reunite as a whole family."

Two Zone Chiefs:

"You go back and tell Station Chief Lou, he really misunderstood, the bomb wasn't placed by us two, we two fundamentally didn't have….."

Gloomy hoarse voice:

"Stop acting, Station Chief Lou has already sent people, who searched out the tools for manufacturing the bomb from your home."

The two Zone Chiefs clearly blanked out for a moment, and then their faces changed drastically, as if realizing something, they roared incoherently with anger reaching its peak:

"We fundamentally didn't have….. Originally so….. Originally so….. It's Station Chief Lou controlling everything, it was he who placed the bomb, and now he still wants to frame us two….."

Gloomy hoarse voice:

"Dead duck's mouth hard, help the two of them wrap up!"

The next second, the video screen suddenly shook violently, a face that emerged from who knows where, suddenly reflected onto the screen.

A bald head, a mouth full of pitch-black rotten teeth, looking like a man-eating evil ghost, this sudden "face-to-face kill", nearly scared Li Hanyu into crying out in a scream…..

(End of Chapter)