Chapter 669: You Must Admit It Even If You Don't Want To

Once this suspicious route is confirmed, then we must investigate.

This investigation cannot be concluded in just a day or two.

Just as Elder Huang had calculated, the real killing move is not to pin the problem on them.

Merely suspecting them is enough to make them unable to get away with it.

Police Station.

Interrogation room.

At first, Elder Huang and his group were still fearless, thinking the police had brought them here merely to cooperate with the investigation.

But when they were made to sit on the cold bench, they began to panic a little.

This is treating them like criminals.

"What are you doing?"

"On what grounds are you arresting us?"

"What crime have we committed?"

Hearing them shout like that, Yu Kai Lang was not angry; he calmly said, "We brought you here because there was a food poisoning incident at the fast-food restaurant."

"So far, we have ascertained that the food poisoning is unrelated to the fast-food restaurant."

"Regarding this matter, you had better confess honestly."

Upon hearing it was because of these matters, they instead were not nervous, knowing the police could not find anything.

"I have nothing to confess."

"When we previously gave statements about this matter, we already made it very clear."

"How Lai Erpi got food poisoning has nothing to do with me."

"Do you think we poisoned Lai Erpi?"

"Sorry, please produce the evidence."

Yu Kai Lang shook his head and said, "Regarding how Lai Erpi got food poisoning, we will continue the investigation."

"I ask you, who is directing you to strike back at the fast-food restaurant?"

"Think it over."

"You are colluding with foreign forces, suspected of endangering national security; this is a serious matter."

"Leniency for confession, severity for resistance."

"If you confess now, sentencing might mean only a few years in prison; but if we uncover it and you then speak, it won't be just a few years."

Hearing this, they all went blank.

"Endangering national security?"

"This this this..."

"We are just a few people running a Xiaofanggan; how could we possibly endanger national security!"

"You are framing us!"

"We didn't!"

"Slander, this is slander!"

"What foreign agents? There's nothing of the sort!"

Only Elder Huang reacted.

No wonder Leader Qi, upon learning of this, reacted so intensely.

He still thought the police would try every means to investigate how Lai Erpi got food poisoning.

The result.

They didn't even investigate; they directly suspected this was a retaliatory strike colluding with foreign forces.

Then Lai Erpi, eating at a fast-food restaurant where nothing should have gone wrong, suddenly got food poisoning, which provides a very reasonable explanation.

Lai Erpi's food poisoning is problematic; it can basically be determined as deliberate poisoning.

Who would want to poison Lai Erpi?

According to the suspicion, either it was them, or Lai Ergou himself.

They now flatly deny that it was them who did it.

Then it must be Lai Erpi staging it himself.

Then the question arises: La Pi and Mei Wen have no grudge, nor did they even know each other before; why would he do this?

Lai Erpi is not a competitor; he would not maliciously frame them for business reasons.

Since the target is not Mei Wen, then it must be Wu An.

Why target Wu An?

Lai Erpi colluding with foreign forces to maliciously retaliate—this suspicion is reasonable.

Now the police's investigative direction is whether it was Lai Pi's self-staged act, or whether those who ate with Lai Erpi also participated.

What can Elder Huang and his group do?

They can only say they are innocent.

Now involving foreign forces, it is no longer just a matter of poisoning Lai Erpi or malicious competition between restaurants.

Once Elder Huang understands this, he also knows that all this is Wu An's calculation.

If the cause of Lai Erpi's food poisoning cannot be confirmed within a day, then the suspicion of colluding with foreign forces will persist.

One is endangering national security and colluding with foreign forces as spies; the other is poisoning someone.

Which is lighter, which is heavier.

Anyone can see at a glance.

It's just forcing them to plead guilty.

At this moment, Elder Huang finally knew how weighty the 'gold content' of Leader Qi, who was facing a formidable enemy, was.

In fact, before this he still thought Leader Qu was making a mountain out of a molehill, and considered his own scheming flawless.

But who would have known.

Wu An didn't follow the routine at all, he just flipped the table.

……

On the other side.

The night was deep.

Leader Qi didn't go home; he knew tonight would still not be peaceful.

He was smoking, and the phone on the desk rang.

He took it out to look.

It was his older female cousin calling, that is, Elder Huang's wife; after a while, he answered the phone.

"Hmm, I got it, I'll look into the situation."

He hung up the phone.

Leader Qi thought for a moment, got up and went to Xi Liangheng's office.

The light was still on inside.

Leader Qi stepped forward and knocked on the gate; only after hearing Xi Liangheng say 'please come in' did he push the gate open and enter.

Xi Liangheng saw it was him and was stunned for a moment: 'Elder Qi, you're not off work yet.'

Leader Qi smiled: 'You're not off work either, still busy with the matter of Wu An's arrest.'

Xi Liangheng nodded: 'Yeah.'

"The higher‑up leaders keep asking, one phone call after another, so I just stay in the office constantly monitoring, lest I get home and the leader calls and I have no idea."

Leader Qi nodded and, asking knowingly, said: "What's the situation now?"

Xi Lianghong said: "The person was food‑poisoned by food eaten at the fast‑food restaurant, but we have already ruled out the restaurant as the cause."

"The Police Station's assessment says it could very well be aimed at Wu An."

Leader Qi was startled: "What does that mean?"

Xi Lianghong stood up, poured a cup of tea, and said: "Not long ago Wu An captured a Bionic Fish and also seized Ma Weiqun and others and brought them back."

"The person's food poisoning was very odd, so we suspect it's a strike‑back by foreign forces."

Leader Qi just lifted his water cup, and upon hearing that, was so frightened his hand trembled.

The water spilled onto the table.

Xi Lianghong took a tissue to wipe it and, somewhat oddly, asked: "What's wrong?"

Leader Qi frowned: "Is this perhaps making a mountain out of a molehill?"

"I know, but I'm just an ordinary civilian; how could I possibly be colluding with any foreign forces?"

Xi Lianghong said: "Honestly, at first when I heard about this I also thought it was a bit odd."

"But on further thought, it's not impossible."

Leader Qi was extremely depressed; the matter was more serious than he had imagined.

Earlier, when he saw Wu An being taken away by the police, he was very happy; now he is equally irritated.

No wonder Old Huang was suddenly taken away.

He knew he had to cut through the mess quickly and handle the matter promptly; once the leaders responsible for such incidents intervene, it would no longer be something he could meddle with.

He drank a cup of tea, made up his mind, and said: "Actually I have some understanding of this matter."

Xi Lianghong looked up and asked: "Elder Qi, I know you knocked on my door must be about something."

"Feel free to say it directly."

"We've been on the same shift for several years; wherever I can be of help, I will never decline."

Leader Qi said: "One of those arrested was the contractor of our Zhendayuan Canteen."

"He's basically my relative."

"As far as I know, that person's food poisoning stemmed from a conflict among them."