Chapter 72: Li Hengbo Strongly Seizes People

What are you doing! You're committing crimes despite knowing the law! The punishment is increased! Do you believe there are ghosts?! Even if I die and become a ghost, I won't let you off! Do you believe it or not?!

The deafening roar echoed in the interrogation room.

Believe it or not?

Don't believe your nonsense!

When you father and daughter were recklessly amassing wealth and deceiving the world for fame, why didn't you say knowing the law and breaking it? Even if you become a ghost, you'll still go to the eighteenth level of hell! Who's not letting whom off?

At that moment, Lin Dongfan really wanted to strike a fatal blow to the throat, depriving him of the right to roar forever!

But he couldn't be that savage.

Catching people is easy, but interrogation is hard; obtaining criminal evidence is even harder. If he really gave him some stimulating tricks, he might end up implicating himself.

Outside, who knows how many eyes are fixed on him, Lin Dongfan.

This world is just a big holy shit!

Lin Dongfan returned to his seat, lit a cigarette, and stared straight at Yin Tiesheng. Seeing Yin Tiesheng's tense expression, a hint of a playful smile appeared on Lin Dongfan's lips.

"I won't prick you," Lin Dongfan said.

Yin Tiesheng glanced at the smoking Lin Dongfan, then at the packet of silver needles in Jian Sining's hand, his old heart still thumping with anxiety.

"You really won't prick me?" Yin Tiesheng asked half-believing, half-doubting.

Lin Dongfan smiled faintly:

"Why would I prick you? We're civil servants, not bandits. But since you won't let me have an easy time, I have no reason to let you have an easy time either. Have you heard of 'taming the eagle'? Let's see who can outlast whom."

Taming the eagle is a traditional method of training eagles.

It means tying the eagle to a spot, preventing it from sleeping to wear down its wildness, making it learn obedience, and training it into a docile little chick.

However, in this process of taming the eagle, the suffering is not only the eagle's.

The person taming the eagle suffers just as much.

One must constantly stare at the eagle, lock eyes with it, and find ways to stimulate it to keep it awake. The eagle cannot sleep normally, and the person taming it likewise cannot sleep.

As an enthusiast of traditional pastimes, Yin Tiesheng had certainly heard of taming the eagle.

Moreover, having heard of it, Yin Tiesheng deeply loathed this cruel, inhuman clumsy technique. Over the past three days, he had originally only slept six hours.

Yet Yin Tiesheng still put on a calm facade.

He earnestly gave Lin Dongfan a legal lesson: "Depriving me of sleep for Along time constitutes mental torture and coercion! I can sue you."

"Legal ignoramus." Lin Dongfan corrected: "For cases that are especially major and complex, a single interrogation can be extended to 24 hours; this is a normal routine interrogation."

"Heh, I've endured three days already; what's another 24 hours? If you want to play the eagle-taming game, I, Yin, will accompany you to the end."

Upon learning the limit on a single interrogation period, Yin Tiesheng's fighting spirit suddenly reignited.

Lin Dongfan flicked the ash from his cigarette.

He gave a light smile: "This round of interrogation will indeed not exceed 24 hours. But after I finish, it doesn't mean no one else will continue to interrogate you."

"You want to wage a war of attrition?!"

The belatedly aware Yin Tiesheng nearly popped his eyes out; that expression of utter terror perfectly illustrated what 'better dead than alive' means.

When his nervous emotions lost control, tears welled up in his eyes again.

At his age, in this day and age, probably only Lin Dongfan and Jian Sining sitting across from him have seen what his tears look like.

Jian Sining, unable to help, retorted: "Just now you said you'd see it through to the end, didn't you?"

"I meant I'd accompany you, not that I'd accompany others!"

Yin Tiesheng, flustered and incoherent, said: "You're not obviously trying to wear me down to death, are you? I think this matter can still be negotiated; how about reconsidering the eight-figure sum? Reject mental violence, starting with you and me, let's strive to be pioneers of civilization..."

"Well said, continue."

Lin Dongfan inhaled a puff of smoke with a smile, his sharp gaze locked onto Yin Tiesheng the whole time.

Stared at like sitting on pins and needles, Yin Tiesheng exclaimed, "Continue what the hell?!"

Just then.

The door of the interrogation room was suddenly pushed open; Tang Xia in uniform entered to report: "Captain Lin, Li Hengbo wants to see you, out in the lobby."

Hearing the voice, Lin Dongfan inwardly startled; what trick is Little Li planning now?

"You and Sining keep at it here; I'll go check."

Since revealing the true death toll, Lin Dongfan has not gone to Green Bamboo Village for nearly a month, nor had any contact with Li Hengbo.

After a month apart, Li Hengbo's changes exceeded Lin Dongfan's imagination.

The atmosphere in the hotel lobby was also tense.

Li Hengbo today wore a forest public security uniform, adopting a leadership posture, with two forest police behind him.

"Yo, which big shot pulled you up?"

Lin Dongfan smiled while sizing up Li Hengbo's outfit; although teasing, he still felt quite surprised by the sight.

"You have a father-in-law; I have brains."

Li Hengbo pointed to his own head, avoiding discussion of the truth.

Actually, Bai Wentuo recommended Li Hengbo to Xiao Yunce, transferring him from Green Bamboo Village to the Forest Public Security Bureau, promoting him from a village cadre to the detachment chief of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Nanzhou City Forest Public Security Bureau.

Xiao Yunce agreed mainly because they currently needed personnel.

Yin Qiuhong's father had been arrested; Yin Qiuhong herself needed to avoid suspicion, making it inconvenient for her to appear personally. And Li Hengbo happened to have a deep grudge against Lin Dongfan, so who else would they use if not him?

For Li Hengbo, today was a day of proud success and swift progress.

Li Hengbo brandished an arrest warrant before Lin Dongfan.

With an air of arrogant confidence, he lightly laughed: "Don't be startled; stay calm. I'm not here today to reminisce and quarrel with you; I just want to take someone from you."

On the arrest warrant, Yin Tiesheng's name was conspicuously written.

Yin Tiesheng is suspected of the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means.

Actually these aren't important; the most important point is: Li Hengbo has made it clear today that he's here to seize people, wanting to let Yin Tiesheng escape the Anti-Corruption Bureau's control.

Lin Dongfan said: "The people we, the Anti-Corruption Bureau, arrested first—you say take them away, just take them away?"

"Captain Lin Dongfan, you already know how to carry out death by slicing; do you still need me to popularize the relevant laws and regulations?" In order to wait for this opportunity to publicly sneer, Li Hengbo has been holding back for several months.

The result left Li Hengbo somewhat disappointed.

It's as if he Li Hengbo had just let out a fart, and Lin Dongfan actually shows no sign of anger whatsoever—can he endure, right? Fine! Old man, let's see how much longer you can endure!

Li Hengbo solemnly and sternly ordered: "Don't waste my time; quickly hand over the person to our Forest Faction!"

Lin Dongfan slowly inhaled a puff of smoke.

He calmly pressed: "What exactly did Yin Tiesheng do? Explain clearly."

"Setting up private electric nets, hunting rare wildlife, causing one person serious injury!" Li Hengbo adopted a posture of being justified and well-evidenced: "Please review Articles 114 and 115 of the Criminal Law."

Lin Dongfan laughed: "Just to oppose me, you've really gone to great trouble."

"Don't bother me with this nonsense; who's opposing you? I'm enforcing the law!"

Li Hengbo solemnly and sternly: "Your Anti-Corruption Bureau mainly handles bribery and corruption cases; whereas the criminal case involving Yin Tiesheng is under our Forest Faction's jurisdiction. Now the primary offense Yin Tiesheng is suspected of belongs to a criminal case; I'm demanding the person from you—any problem? Your Anti-Corruption Bureau must fully cooperate with us."

Facing this aggressive, overbearing posture.

What Lin Dongfan felt most deeply was: in life and work, one truly cannot be too rule-abiding; whoever the hell follows the rules will end up as a joke!

Although Li Hengbo is clearly here to seize people.

But from a procedural standpoint, what Li Hengbo said is not wrong.

Yin Tiesheng is not an insider; colluding with Yin Qiurong in bribery and corruption, he is only suspected of bribery by a non-state employee, with the maximum penalty being life imprisonment.

And setting up private electric nets, hunting rare wildlife, and causing one person serious injury!

The suspected charges are even more numerous: both suspected of illegal hunting and killing precious, endangered wildlife; and also suspected of endangering public safety by dangerous means.

According to Article 115 of the Criminal Law, the maximum penalty is death.

Death penalty is higher than life imprisonment.

Therefore, the primary offense Yin Tiesheng is suspected of is endangering public safety by dangerous means, jurisdiction lies with the Forest Faction—there's nothing wrong with this.

Lin Dongfan said: "Wait here for now; I need to report this to my superiors."