Chapter 523

Could it be that after being shot in the head, something went wrong with my brain?

Inspector Ling Guang drove away from home, heading straight for the hospital.

At the hospital, the doctor performed a comprehensive examination on him, including a brain CT scan and blood tests.

After the examination,

Doctor: "You can come to pick up the results tomorrow."

Inspector Ling Guang: "Thank you, doctor."

Meanwhile, over at the Sai Kung Police Station, Qiu Gangao and the others discovered two clues:

First, the three deceased all lived in the same village when they were young, and coincidentally, Inspector Ling Guang also lived in that same village as a child.

Second, the nail holes on the backs of the three deceased formed a pattern, but what that pattern is remains unclear for now.

Qiu Gangao asked Bao Zhu: "How are things on Inspector Ling Guang's end?"

Bao Zhu: "He went to the hospital today. I asked the doctor, and the results will be out tomorrow."

Qiu Gangao: "Good, we'll go to the hospital tomorrow."

……

That night,

Inspector Ling Guang felt irritable and gloomy. His wife came to his side and hugged him, hoping to melt the haze in his heart with her tenderness.

Just as they were getting intimate, a scream came from Zai Zai's room.

Inspector Ling Guang and his wife hurried over, only to find that Zai Zai couldn't sleep because he was scared by the tree shadows outside.

Heartbroken for her son, Mrs. Ling had no choice but to go over and hug Zai Zai to sleep.

That night, Inspector Ling Guang tossed and turned, unable to sleep, feeling incomparably stifled.

……

In a flash,

A new day arrived.

Inspector Ling Guang arrived at the hospital and found the doctor.

By this time, the test results were already out.

"Mr. Ling, your brain CT scan shows no problems; you are very healthy..."

"However, we did find a component of a medication used to treat high blood pressure in your blood."

Inspector Ling Guang was startled: "What does that mean?"

Doctor: "If a normal person takes this medication long-term, it will lead to short-term memory loss."

Memory loss!

Inspector Ling Guang had been unable to recover his memories ever since his injury!

Could it be because of this drug?

Inspector Ling Guang was furious on the spot!

Someone really was trying to harm him. Being able to drug him with a chronic poison meant the real culprit had been by his side all along!

Who exactly is it?!

Just then, Qiu Gangao walked in, bringing Le Huizhen with him.

"Qiu Sir!"

Inspector Ling Guang hurriedly stood up.

Qiu Gangao: "What is it? Did you find something at the hospital?"

Inspector Ling Guang was emotionally agitated and said angrily: "Someone has been drugging me, and it's someone close to me!"

Qiu Gangao: "Anything else?"

Inspector Ling Guang hesitated; he didn't know if he should mention the electric drill.

Qiu Gangao looked straight into Inspector Ling Guang's eyes: "Actually, I have always trusted you; it just depends on whether you trust me."

Inspector Ling Guang looked at Qiu Gangao's earnest gaze and remembered that the person before him was definitely not someone an ordinary police officer could compare to.

Besides, he firmly believed that he was absolutely not the killer!

There was no need to feel guilty!

So, Inspector Ling Guang gritted his teeth and told him everything.

Beside them, Le Huizhen was recording it excitedly.

News!

Gossip!

How exciting!

After listening, Qiu Gangao pondered for a moment and said: "You've been at home these past few days... the only ones who could have access to your food are your family... your wife, your son..."

Inspector Ling Guang said decisively: "Impossible, my wife is a very good person, and my son is also very well-behaved~~"

Qiu Gangao shook his head: "Let's go, let's go to your house... Also, don't reveal that I trust you. The other party is framing you, so he/she must be very eager to see you and me fight."

Inspector Ling Guang said solemnly: "Yes!"

At this moment, Qiu Gangao took out two more pictures, which were the patterns of the electric drill holes on the backs of the three deceased:

"The patterns on the three deceased are all the same."

"Take a look at this pattern and see if it looks familiar... I suspect this pattern ultimately points back to you."

"Also, I discovered one more thing: the three deceased were from the same village as you when you were young."

"Ah?"

Inspector Ling Guang was shocked!

At this moment, Inspector Ling Guang felt a chill in his heart!

It really was a frame-up!

Qiu Gangao: "If we look at it from this clue, this person definitely had a grudge against you from when you were young. However, I checked your wife; she is seven years younger than you, and her parents have never been to your village, but we can't rule out her suspicion either."

Inspector Ling Guang's mind was in a mess right now.

10 minutes later,

The two of them had agreed on a plan.

Out of caution, Qiu Gangao let Inspector Ling Guang go home first.

……

30 minutes later,

Inspector Ling Guang returned to his home in Sai Kung.

Just then, he saw a photo on the tabletop.

"Huh, is this me when I was young?"

A familiar feeling welled up in his heart.

He identified it carefully; there were five people in the photo, and he and his younger sister were among them.

Suddenly, when he flipped the photo over to the back,

He was horrified.

On the back of the photo, five names were written, and three of the names (childhood friends) were actually the names of the three deceased.

Inspector Ling Guang was so scared he threw the photo away.

What was going on?

Those three deceased were actually his childhood friends?

Terrifying!

Then,

He saw a picture frame on the table with a drawing in it.

This drawing was a connect-the-dots picture his own son had made when he was younger.

"Wait!"

Inspector Ling Guang's pupils contracted!

"Isn't this the nail pattern on the backs of the deceased?"

Inspector Ling Guang's hair stood on end!

It was too terrifying!

It was too bizarre!

All of this was now clearly presented before him. In other words, the killer was hiding in this house.

Perhaps they were watching him right now.

"Calm down, calm down..."

Inspector Ling Guang took a deep breath, trying his best to calm himself down.

He had to cooperate with Qiu Sir later; how could he make the killer reveal themselves?

After thinking for a moment, he took the opportunity to go to the bathroom and sent a message out on his pager.

Another 30 minutes passed,

Boom, boom, boom~~~~

Three police cars and one reporter's car arrived outside Inspector Ling Guang's house.

Qiu Gangao brought over a dozen police officers, along with Le Huizhen, to Inspector Ling Guang's house.

Hearing the commotion outside, Inspector Ling Guang hurriedly hid the photo and the picture frame in a corner.

By this time, his wife had already gone to open the door.

"Hello, O-Unit's Qiu Gangao... This is a search warrant..."

Qiu Gangao looked cold and stern as he raised the search warrant in his hand:

"I suspect Inspector Ling Guang is involved in these three homicide cases... Please cooperate, everyone."

Next,

came a major search.

His wife hugged Inspector Ling Guang worriedly, and Inspector Ling Guang comforted her: "It's okay, it's okay."

1 minute later,

"Qiu Sir~~"

Bao Zhu exclaimed, having found a picture frame on the sofa: "This pattern seems to be the same one on the deceased."

This immediately attracted most of the police officers over.

They looked at the picture frame in shock.

"It really is!"

"It's too similar!"

"It definitely is!"

Just then, on the other side, at the table, another officer exclaimed: "Qiu Sir, there's a photo here with the names of the three deceased on it..."

This caused an even bigger sensation.

All the police officers looked at Inspector Ling Guang with suspicious eyes.

Qiu Gangao walked solemnly in front of Inspector Ling Guang with the photo and said sternly: "Mr. Inspector Ling Guang, please explain the source of this photo."

Inspector Ling Guang lowered his head: "This is a photo of me and my childhood friends when I was young."

Qiu Gangao said coldly: "Very well... now your suspicion of committing the crime is even greater!"

Click, click~~~

Inspector Ling Guang was put in handcuffs.

"Daddy~~~ No!!"

Just then, Zai Zai rushed out from the room, hugging Inspector Ling Guang's leg and crying bitterly.

Inspector Ling Guang's hand stiffened, and he patted Zai Zai's head: "It's okay, Daddy is innocent."

Zai Zai: "Uncle, are you going to take my daddy away?"

Qiu Gangao smiled: "No."

Zai Zai: "?"

His expression froze for a second.

Qiu Gangao was full of righteousness: "Although Mr. Inspector Ling Guang is a suspect, we still need to take the evidence back to verify it. Once we confirm it and there really is a problem, we will arrest Mr. Inspector Ling Guang."

Zai Zai's brain couldn't keep up.

The many police officers were also full of confusion, but no one would contradict what Qiu Gangao said.

Why do disciplined forces emphasize obedience?

It's precisely so that when there's an information gap like this, subordinates can unconditionally obey their superiors!

Hmm... Yuan Haoyun is a negative example of this.

Soon, Qiu Gangao let the officers continue searching the house and the surrounding area, when suddenly... an officer shouted: "Stop! Don't run!"

Outside the house, there was someone!

This shocked the police team.

Qiu Gangao had a flash of inspiration and took the entire police team to chase after the person.

And left Inspector Ling Guang behind.

Inspector Ling Guang comforted his wife and sent her back to the room.

At this moment, Inspector Ling Guang's heart was full of confusion and anger. He had searched the house, the police had searched the house, and besides him, there were only two people: his wife and Zai Zai. In other words, the one framing him was Zai Zai.

But why would it be Zai Zai?

He was still so small...

Inspector Ling Guang held the photo, and suddenly, he saw a child in the corner of the photo of the five people.

In this instant, countless memories flooded into his mind. He vaguely remembered that when he was with those childhood friends back then, there seemed to be a homeless little boy around them.

This homeless little boy always said Inspector Ling Guang's father was his father, which made Inspector Ling Guang very annoyed, so he often beat this little boy with his companions.

Suddenly!

"No!"

Inspector Ling Guang suddenly remembered that the little boy he used to bully looked exactly like Zai Zai.

At this moment, Inspector Ling Guang felt a chill down his spine!

He angrily went to the second-floor balcony.

At this time,

Zai Zai was sitting on the balcony, his innocent look gone, wearing a bizarre smile as he looked at Inspector Ling Guang.

"Who exactly are you!"

"I'm your brother!"

"Impossible!"

"Hahaha~~~ I just never grew up..."

Then Zai Zai angrily spoke of his experiences: it turned out he had an abnormal molecular structure of congenital growth hormone, which led to insufficient growth hormone secretion, so he never grew up; he really was Inspector Ling Guang's half-brother. However, their father didn't acknowledge this son, and his mother soon died from overwork. He then kept entering orphanages, and time after time he was adopted, slowly learning to sell the children of his adoptive parents to human traffickers to make money...

He always remembered the hatred of being abandoned by his father and the hatred of being beaten by Inspector Ling Guang's companions.

Thus, the evil plan began!

Taking advantage of Inspector Ling Guang's son drowning, he successfully joined Inspector Ling Guang's family through orphanage adoption procedures. Then he arranged for an adult friend with low intelligence to kill the three people who bullied him.

And then framed Inspector Ling Guang.

Inspector Ling Guang felt his hair stand on end as he listened.

And then came anger!

"Then why did you kill Brother Tai? He was innocent!"

"No, no, no, you killed him. Now the police all suspect you, and I'm just a child, at home every day, going to class... I couldn't have committed the crime at all..." Zai Zai's smile appeared so evil.

Just then...

Click~~~

There was a sudden movement from downstairs behind them.

Zai Zai turned his head to look down.

!

Then...

He saw Qiu Gangao, Le Huizhen, and others watching their conversation on the second floor, with cameras pointed right at them.

Zai Zai: "!!!"

The evil smile froze instantly.

Not long after, he saw his accomplice, an intellectually disabled adult, being brought back by the police.

A case, declared solved!

……

……

That night, ATV News reported the course of this case.

"The Pobianzhou electric drill serial murder case that shocked Hong Kong recently has finally come to light today!"

"Since the outbreak of this series of cases, due to the cruel modus operandi and the mysterious identity of the killer, it has triggered high concern and widespread panic from all walks of life..."

"And today... after the police investigation... the truth was found... the mastermind behind the case was actually a seemingly ordinary 'child', Zai Zai..."

ATV spent a full 40 minutes reporting the police investigation process.

It was basically all kinds of editing, just like watching a movie.

Suspense, twists.

The camera switching was comparable to a blockbuster.

Finally, there was the 'battle' at the villa, where Qiu Gangao and Inspector Ling Guang teamed up to set a trap for Zai Zai, digging out the secrets on him.

Citizens all over Hong Kong couldn't help but feel their hair stand on end as they watched Zai Zai's final sinister remarks.

"My god, this child is too terrifying!"

"He's not a child, he just never grew up."

"That's even more terrifying!"

……

Inspector Ling Guang's house,

"Honey, I have good news to tell you, I'm pregnant."

"Really? That's great!"

……

……

Over at Guan Zu's side,

Guan Zu was having dinner with Ruan Mei and Granny Cai.

Steamed pork belly with salted fish, stir-fried beef with peppers, steamed fish head with black bean sauce, shredded ginger with water spinach...

Watching TV, he then received a system notification,

"You saved a police officer and his family..."

"You received a reward: 'Firearm Training Card' *3 (within 10 days, firearm training effect is doubled)"

This reward was just right for a rookie like Gao Gang!

After finishing dinner,

Knock, knock, knock~~~~

"Mr. Guan..."

Xu Zhengyang, who was arranged to live next door, knocked on the door.

Guan Zu opened the door.

"The higher-ups have sent a message back..."

"What did they say?"

"Hit them, damn it!"

Guan Zu: "…………"

Which leader is this!

Since the leader said so, then I won't be polite!

Hehehe!

Rubbing his hands like a fly!

……

……

Swire Group.

"Director Henry, good morning!"

"Morning!"

Peng Lizhi, wearing a gray linen suit, walked into Swire Building.

For the past few days, he had been wearing a suit every day to cover the wounds on his body, and then successfully deceived the Taipan, Merlin.

In other words, only his driver and his lackey, three people in total, knew about his contact with Guan Zu.

However, they were all people with families, so he believed they wouldn't leak this secret.

Arriving at the office,

"Director Henry, the Taipan wants to see you."

As soon as he entered the door, the secretary reported to him.

"Good!" Peng Lizhi frowned slightly and turned to walk towards Merlin's office.

Knocking on the door.

"Come in."

Pushing the door and entering.

Taipan Merlin was sitting behind his desk, and seeing Peng Lizhi enter, his expression was not good:

"Henry, when exactly do you intend to take action? Look at our Swire shopping malls and the stock market... how much money are we losing every day!"

Merlin's tone was full of impatience.

Peng Lizhi lowered his head: "I'm truly sorry, Taipan. You also know that if this matter is carried out, it's very easy for people to die. Ordinary people are simply unwilling to take on this kind of thing. I've looked for quite a few people, and they were all rejected."

Merlin scolded: "Can't you find those ruthless bandits? Those people want money, not their lives. As long as the price is enough, what can't they do?"

Peng Lizhi explained: "I have also considered that, but although ruthless bandits seem easy to use, they are not trustworthy and are very easy to expose. By then, the trouble we face will be huge. However, please give me another month, and I will definitely be able to find a suitable method and manpower."

The delay tactic; drag it out one day at a time.

Merlin said coldly: "10 days, I'll give you 10 more days at most. If there's no movement after 10 days, you don't need to sit in this director's seat anymore."

Peng Lizhi's heart tightened, and he hurriedly said: "Yes! Taipan!"

Merlin knew he was pushing a bit too hard, which could easily force Peng Lizhi to rebel, so he decided to ease the tension between the two sides.

"Let's have a meal at noon later."

"Yes, Taipan!"

In a flash, noon arrived.

Peng Lizhi arrived at Merlin's office.

"Let's go!"

Merlin took Peng Lizhi and Merlin's bodyguards downstairs.

Just as they arrived downstairs, there was a group of bodyguards in black suits, all of them foreigners, tall and sturdy, with cold expressions, waiting downstairs.

Peng Lizhi was startled.

He counted them; there were at least 10 bodyguards. Usually, Merlin only had 5 bodyguards following him when he went out.

Moreover, their temperament was different, and their aura was stronger.

Peng Lizhi's heart stirred: "Taipan, why did you bring so many bodyguards today?"

Merlin didn't stop walking and said lightly: "Public security hasn't been very good lately; bringing a few more bodyguards makes me feel more at ease."

Public security isn't good?

Peng Lizhi had a question mark on his forehead.

Ever since the ruthless bandit team was wiped out, Hong Kong had been much quieter. Where did this bad public security come from?

He started cursing in his heart.

"Fuck, something must have happened for him to be this nervous!"

"Could it be to guard against Guan Zu?"

"Merlin, fuck your mother, you didn't even tell me about this kind of thing? Are you trying to use me as a scapegoat?"

"Fucking!!"

Peng Lizhi guessed correctly; Merlin suddenly added so many bodyguards because intelligence yesterday showed that Guan Zu had gone to the shooting club to practice shooting.

This was very likely aimed at him!

Therefore, Merlin hurriedly doubled his bodyguards.

Soon, Merlin, the secretary, Peng Lizhi, and 10 bodyguards... arrived at the Western restaurant downstairs at Swire Plaza.

This bodyguard formation naturally attracted the attention of the restaurant's diners.

Soon,

A white-collar worker wearing a suit and tie walked into the restaurant, ordered food, and curiously sized up Merlin's side.

After finishing the meal, the white-collar worker made a phone call.

Not long after,

Guan Zu received the information.

"10 bodyguards?"

"3 cars?"

One hour later,

Guan Zu received news from Peng Lizhi, revealing Merlin's bodyguards and cars completely.

……

……

Inside Government House,

Fat Peng was sitting at the dining table, leisurely enjoying his lunch.

Just then, the head of the Political Department, Riley, hurried over.

"Fat Peng, I'm truly sorry to disturb your lunch."

Riley bowed slightly.

Fat Peng put down the knife and fork in his hand and gently wiped his... uh... mustache mouth with a napkin.

"What is it? In such a hurry?"

Riley stepped forward and lowered his voice: "Just received news that Swire Group's mercenaries are coming to Hong Kong. Currently, their target is unclear."

Fat Peng frowned slightly,

"Swire Group? Why are they sending mercenaries here?"

Suddenly, Fat Peng looked at Riley: "Could their target be Guan Zu?"

Fat Peng's expression was grave, "Guan Zu's actions during this period have greatly damaged Swire Group's interests. Swire Group has always acted ruthlessly, so it's not impossible for them to send mercenaries to solve it."

"Wait..."

Fat Peng looked at Riley: "Where did the news come from?"

Riley: "It was a big shot from our higher-ups (MI6) who called."

The big shot from MI6 certainly didn't want to see Guan Zu die right now!

The Parasite Plan hadn't been completed yet, and those undercover agents were still being heavily used at the grassroots level.

If Guan Zu died now, wouldn't my Five-Star Group be gone?!

Riley: "Governor, should we notify Guan Zu now?"

Fat Peng didn't hesitate: "Of course. If Guan Zu is attacked, I'm afraid he'll suspect me. I don't want to be a scapegoat for Swire!"

Thus,

Fat Peng started calling Guan Zu.

……

Causeway Bay,

A small restaurant,

Ring, ring, ring~~~~ Fat Peng's call came through,

Guan Zu: "???"

Good fellow!

You guys, one by one, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, I didn't expect you all to have betrayed the revolution!

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PS: Sorry, I stayed up too late yesterday, so I'm late today.

The second and third chapters are here, totaling 14,000 words!

Asking for monthly tickets~~

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