Chapter 209: He Treats the Police as His Pawns!

"Who is it?" Yu Dazhang couldn't help but ask.

Big sis, you can't just leave a sentence half-finished.

Don't you know how shameful it is to leave things hanging?

Looking at Liu Qi's expression, she didn't seem too sure either.

But the impression she gave was that, apart from that person, she couldn't think of anyone else.

Probably using the process of elimination too.

She filtered through everyone she could think of, and in the end only that person fit the criteria.

"I don't know either."

Liu Qi shook her head and said apologetically:

"Can't help you. Among the people I know, no one can do this."

Are you kidding me?

Yu Dazhang frowned at her:

"Then who was the 'he' you just mentioned?"

"Did I say that?" Liu Qi's eyes unconsciously darted to one side, then quickly looked back:

"Maybe I thought of someone, but then I ruled them out."

She's lying… Yu Dazhang could tell from the change in her expression just now.

At the same time he could also see that Liu Qi didn't want to mention that person, which was why she avoided answering.

"You…"

Yu Dazhang was about to press further, but was cut off by Liu Qi:

"Officer Yu, I have a suggestion. You might as well hear me out."

Hearing her address him as Officer, Yu Dazhang knew Liu Qi was about to play some tricks.

Someone like her, who liked to play mind games, would never let any opportunity slip by.

"Sure."

Yu Dazhang was also a little curious what she wanted to do, so he agreed readily:

"Let's hear it."

"Everyone has a price." Liu Qi looked at him and said very seriously, in a negotiating tone:

"Twenty million. You pretend you never came today. Leave that bottle of medicine and the two experiment reports on the table."

Being looked down on, damn it… Yu Dazhang immediately felt his pride challenged.

He'd already cornered her in the room, with ironclad evidence, and she was only offering twenty million.

Back then, Liu Qi had promised Ceng Ceng Lisi all of her fixed assets, and those assets combined were worth at least two hundred million to start.

He wasn't even worth a tenth of Ceng Ceng Lisi.

Just who are you looking down on!

Yu Dazhang couldn't help but give her an eye-roll to express his displeasure.

That actually stumped Liu Qi.

Is there room to negotiate?

If he disagreed, this fatty would've spoken up to scold her by now. The meaning of that eye-roll just now, could it be…

The money's too little?

Liu Qi looked at him in surprise and asked tentatively:

"Forty million?"

Giving her too much credit… Yu Dazhang turned his head away.

Not even as generous as my Tuotuo.

His reaction caught Liu Qi somewhat off guard.

This fatty looked like he hadn't been a cop for long given his age. Forty million couldn't move him either—have cops' salaries gotten that high now?

"Six—no, eighty million!" After calling out this price, Liu Qi swallowed.

Not even a hundred million, no need for you to grit your teeth like that… Yu Dazhang turned back and glared at her.

Still not satisfied?

For a moment Liu Qi couldn't quite put her finger on what was off, she just felt a bit uneasy.

Has the RMB been depreciating lately?

Even if it depreciated, that's still eighty million.

But seeing Yu Dazhang's impatient look, it didn't seem faked.

"One hundred million!"

Liu Qi's voice was a bit shrill, but it wasn't hard to hear her anxiety and agitation at that moment.

That expression and tone seemed to say: This is all I can do, really, this is my final offer.

"Alright, alright, stop wasting your effort."

Yu Dazhang waved his hand, his face full of disdain:

"A few days ago someone told me that at your level, money is just a tool."

"Turns out I overestimated you."

Liu Qi stared intently at the fatty in front of her, feeling like her CPU was about to overheat.

Not even a hundred million fazes him!

This is real money, not Happy Beans~

The bribery route seemed to be a dead end now — not because the other party refused the money, but because he couldn't afford to pay.

Just then, Yu Dazhang's phone rang. After he answered, Liu Miao's voice came through:

"Got the statement."

"Good." Yu Dazhang acknowledged, then ordered:

"Bring the person back to the branch bureau."

Hanging up the phone, his face darkened, and he said to Liu Qi:

"From here on, we'll have to continue this chat somewhere else."

"Are you really not going to reconsider?" At this moment, Liu Qi was clearly flustered. She stared tensely at the fatty in front of her:

"If it's a matter of money, I can add more."

Earlier, listening to her quote was to keep her steady. Now that the statement was in hand, Yu Dazhang didn't want to waste any more time on her.

Arriving at the door, he opened it and ordered the officers waiting outside:

"Take her away."

"Officer Yu." Liu Qi called out to him from behind:

"Could you leave me a little dignity at the company?"

Yu Dazhang turned his head to glance at her, gave a slight nod, then said to the two officers:

"No need for handcuffs. Let her walk out of the company on her own."

Not a single error in any chapter, any release, any content — all in one read!

In the end, it was all about face… Yu Dazhang suddenly felt Liu Qi was rather laughable.

In today's society, everyone's busy enough. You can barely keep your own life from falling apart — who has the energy to care about others?

Caring too much about image is itself a kind of sickness.

The next day.

The interrogation work proceeded as usual.

The interrogations of Liu Qi, Ceng Ceng Lisi, and the lab technician were conducted simultaneously.

The nature of this case hadn't deteriorated to the point of requiring overnight interrogation.

So after yesterday's arrest, the questioning had only consisted of the initial routine inquiries.

Regarding nighttime arrests, the Litigation Law does have relevant provisions.

After an arrest, interrogation must be conducted during normal working hours. If the case is special or particularly major, that's another matter.

Inside the detachment commander's office.

Li Jun looked at the case file Yu Dazhang had organized and couldn't help sighing:

"This Liu Qi really went to extremes."

Yu Dazhang didn't respond, just curled one corner of his mouth.

The trouble hasn't fallen on you, so of course you can talk easy.

Parental favoritism — whoever it lands on will have grievances, unless they're a fool.

Who doesn't want fairness?

Because he had previously used "empathy" to think from Liu Qi's perspective, Yu Dazhang instinctively developed a sense of resistance and repulsion.

Empathy and sympathy are two different things.

Empathy is putting yourself in another's shoes and feeling what they feel — it's a capability.

Sympathy, on the other hand, is feeling sad about the other's plight.

"Have to say, this Liu Qi's IQ is plenty high."

Li Jun commented:

"She actually tried to use this case to get rid of her own younger brother — and she'd been at it for over a year."

His tone was light and casual, not at all like he was studying a case.

Yu Dazhang had already sorted this case out, so Li Jun didn't need to use his brain at all.

In his eyes, what was in his hands wasn't a case file, but a copy of "Story Monthly."

Solving cases is like that.

Before a case is cracked, all kinds of clues intertwine and tangle, making it feel bewildering and intricate.

Sometimes you even start to doubt your own IQ.

Once it's cracked, looking back over the whole process, you find that everything was actually so obvious, so simple.

Sometimes an onlooker will say: this isn't hard at all.

A Monday morning quarterback — perfectly normal.

Compared with Li Jun's ease, Yu Dazhang couldn't muster any happiness right now.

On the surface, this case seemed to be nearing its end.

The main suspect and all the accomplices had been caught; closing the case was just a matter of time.

But he always felt there was a pair of eyes hiding in the shadows, silently watching how the whole thing unfolded.

That feeling made him feel as if thorns were on his back, unable to sit still.

Suppose Liu Qi's carefully planned scheme is likened to a game of chess.

Then the person who mailed the package to Yu Dazhang is the one truly controlling the whole board.

Thinking of this, Yu Dazhang couldn't help muttering to himself:

"Maybe… I'm also one of his pieces."

(End of this chapter)