Chapter 243: The Dirtiest Place

Director Chali sat in the office. Originally, he should have gone to the scene; after all, these were tasks for those big shots.

But at this moment, one couldn't see any nervousness or other emotions on him. He quietly tasted the coffee he had just hand-brewed himself.

The rich oil and fragrance left an indescribable mellowness and fragrance between his lips and teeth with every small sip.

Coffee beans worth several hundred dollars a pound—this was the best coffee he had ever drunk.

He couldn't bear to buy such expensive coffee beans himself. This was sent to him by one of the big shots in the Bay Area, about seven-eighths of a pound.

That big shot only tasted it and felt the taste wasn't very good, and then the remaining beans were all sent to him.

Several hundred dollars a pound.

Some people, after hearing about this, might all have the same thought he once had: "I can afford to buy it if I grit my teeth."

But in reality, this isn't a matter of whether you can afford it or not.

This is life, not gritting your teeth!

For others, they don't need to grit their teeth to treat such enjoyment as their ordinary day.

And those who need to grit their teeth to do all this will never experience that kind of ease and comfort.

An emperor wears a crown, not because he is an emperor for wearing a crown, but because he is an emperor, the crown is endowed with special meaning.

Life is also like this.

Because for many people, this might be the entirety of a certain stage in life, not enjoyment in life.

Director Chali also couldn't experience it. Actually, he was quite rich. Over these years, he had done many terrible things, thereby obtaining the rewards of those "dog masters."

But coffee worth several hundred dollars a pound was still too far from his life.

He was waiting, waiting for a call.

Waiting for the mayor's call.

This call came very quickly, just as he had guessed.

"No one told me there would be a big operation today, and Aierike was also there."

The mayor's voice didn't have any anger, just as if he were narrating a very ordinary thing.

Basically, most cities in the Federation implement the "Mayor System," which is to take the mayor as the city's highest ruler, deciding the development, process, and result of everything in the entire city.

But the fact is, not every mayor is a ruler in the practical sense; they might just be on the surface.

But even so, they still have the power to appoint the highest officials of various departments in the city. This is given to them by the Congress and the Federal Government, not by anyone else.

Director Chali had actually felt some special things. Originally, he was a bit uneasy, but now he had become very calm.

People will always feel all kinds of uneasiness, panic, and trepidation before terrible things arrive.

But when they truly begin to face terrible things, they will become calm again because "unknown" has become "known."

The mayor was very dissatisfied. He was dissatisfied that the struggle between them would involve Aierike.

But Director Chali was as if he didn't understand, reporting the work situation straightly.

"Your Excellency Mayor, a criminal on the wanted list might be hiding in the Red Heels Club. To ensure the safety of people's lives and property, we could only act first."

"Actually, I was just about to call to report this matter to you, and you called me a step ahead. It just so happens that if you have any points you don't understand, I can explain them for you."

The mayor's laughter came from the receiver. "No, I don't have any questions. Chali, I remember you still have two years until retirement, right?"

Director Chali seemed to be thinking. It took two or three seconds before he answered, slightly slow. "Yes, Your Excellency."

The mayor's voice carried a tone like a blessing or expectation. "It's really not easy. Not every police officer can do it to the end in one post for their whole life. You are amazing. I hope your police work can have a perfect ending, Chali."

"If there is any new progress, tell me."

"Let's leave it at that."

The call had no anger, but Director Chali heard something different from it. He hung up the phone and picked up the coffee, sipping it in small sips.

His eyes looked deeply at those things placed on the table, as if they were filled with huge attraction.

A person's life is choosing a path at constant crossroads. Before walking to the end, no one knows whether the path they gave up will be better than the path they chose.

The mayor on the other end of the phone put the receiver back on the base and lit a cigarette.

If it were pure enjoyment, he would consume cigars. This isn't to say that the pleasure brought by cigars is definitely more than cigarettes; it's just that he is used to using cigars when enjoying, which is a personal habit.

And when thinking about things, he needed cigarettes. The feeling of cigarettes being inhaled into the lung lobes would bring another kind of experience, allowing him to be more engaged and concentrate his attention.

Only he and his secretary were in the room. He stood by the window, looking at the city in the night.

The downtown area of New Jincheng is very prosperous even at night, not to mention there are even more prosperous Starlight District and Port District. This is truly an "unsleeping city" in people's mouths.

But it is a pity that it has been six years, and this city still hasn't accepted him.

Perhaps beautiful things are harder to obtain, he thought, and also asked a question. "Do you think Samu can hold on?"

The secretary shook his head. "I am willing to believe he can hold on, but we cannot consider it so optimistically. People have weaknesses. If they find Samu's weakness, he definitely won't be able to hold on."

The mayor nodded, quite agreeing. "Yes, everyone will have weaknesses. Once weaknesses are found, even a giant will fall."

He was referring to a giant in a myth story. This giant was naturally powerful; even demigods weren't necessarily his opponents.

He led the entire country to expand constantly until he did a stupid thing himself: he revealed his weakness to a woman, and then was killed by a small dagger.

"Although him being pried open won't cause us irreparable losses, it will eventually become a big trouble."

"People always like to see bright things, but the dark night always arrives as scheduled. Since they don't want to see it, then don't let them know."

The mayor stretched his hand holding the cigarette outside the window and flicked the cigarette with his index finger. "I believe on this point, those old friends in the Bay Area have the same idea as me. Find a way to make him shut up."

The secretary nodded. "I'll go arrange it right away."

In the Red Heels Club, the guests were concentrated in the lobby. Besides Aierike's group, there were five other guests.

The faces of these guests were all very ugly. At least two of them had appeared in the "Today's New Jincheng" newspaper, and the other three, although they hadn't been in the newspaper, were not ordinary people.

No one likes being harassed in this situation. The reason they came here to consume was also because they took a fancy to the mayor who was vaguely visible behind Red Heels.

As a result, now they were standing here, with other guests, and those girls, and there were even police making them register information. This was simply terrible!

However, after seeing Aierike, they felt a lot better.

Aierike was required to be searched. They found syringes and injectable painkillers on Aierike, and a dagger.

Reasonably speaking, the Federation doesn't oppose people carrying weapons, and the Constitution also provides content for the public to carry weapons as a guarantee.

Carrying weapons is their right to protect themselves, and no one can deprive them of it, but... when the police really want to find trouble for you, even if the Charter indicates that cotton-picking experts and ordinary Federal people enjoy the same rights.

They will still ride on them like the former masters of these experts and let them "calm down."

Although sometimes they can't figure out who is the one who should calm down.

Aierike, wearing only underwear, felt he had lost a big face. He stared at every police officer present today with a hateful gaze. However, the police officers didn't care much because they dared to bet that in a while, Aierike would forget their appearance.

The entire Red Heels was almost overturned. Every room, and even every sofa and pillow, was cut open by them with daggers.

Samu, who came out of the general manager's office, looked at all this with a face ashen with rage. He was actually more worried about those girls, afraid that these girls would talk nonsense.

However... the girls who could work above were mostly those who had completed the "taming" process, and he had been instilling some concepts into these girls.

Red Heels has a big force behind it. Even if they ran out and called the police, the one who would be unlucky in the end would be themselves.

I hope this can make them shut their mouths for a while longer.

Watching the club being messed up, Samu gradually began to get angry. "The wanted criminal you are looking for is not here. Now can you let my guests and girls go, and then roll out of here?"

He used a not-very-polite tone. Several sergeants were smiling but not smiling. Looking at the expression on their faces, Samu's heart was still sinking.

He didn't propose to call. He was worried that the police, or rather the forces behind the police, would make an issue of this matter. He always insisted; he believed the mayor would save him.

Soon, the sound of something hitting the ground echoed inside the club. Samu's face became even uglier.

Before long, accompanied by the sound of "There is a cellar entrance here," Samu tightly pursed his lips and couldn't stand still.

He supported the sofa beside him, slowly moved to the sofa, and sat down.

He actually considered before that it was possible someone would come to make things difficult for them, so he prepared the cellar in advance. He thought these people would leave soon, but he ignored the determination of those rich people to completely destroy Red Heels this time.

Those police officers used metal sticks to hit the ground every inch, and finally, in a corridor, discovered the entrance leading to the basement.

Soon, Buke was brought up, and a girl draped in clothes who had been tortured very miserably.

Buke was brought to the front of several sergeants. Branch Director Chief Bulu was also here. One of the police officers grabbed Buke's hair to make him look up, letting everyone see his appearance.

"Isn't this... Mr. Buke who escaped from the state prison?"

Buke had already been sentenced before and was serving his sentence in the Laizhou State Prison. Later, the mayor decided to restart the Red Heels Club and got him out.

This was a small matter for the mayor. He had enough connections to operate this matter. At that time, everyone hadn't turned their faces, and everything was easy to talk about.

Now that they had turned their faces, Buke's existence became a trouble.

Reasonably speaking, Buke should still be serving his sentence in prison now. When the Judicial Bureau and the Ministry of Justice didn't give a release document, he appeared here, and there was only one possibility: he escaped from prison!

Those rich people in the Bay Area believed that the warden of the state prison wouldn't use his future to protect Buke. He would definitely indicate that Buke was indeed an escaped prisoner, it's just that they didn't reveal it to the outside.

Facing these police officers, Buke was obviously very afraid. He stared at Samu with a look for help, as if asking Samu to save him!

But Samu could only pretend not to see. At this time, what he had to do first was to ensure his own safety, and then he could consider whether to rescue these people.

Actually... he also knew that he had a high probability of not being able to do it. When these people decided to use Red Heels to open the knife, it, and their fate, had already been destined!

"Take him back, ask well, must dig out from his mouth how he escaped from prison."

Another sergeant was speaking. He was originally also a branch director, just because of Aierike's case, he was stripped.

Now that he appeared here, it was to vent his emotions.

Buke was put on a hood and taken away.

Branch Director Chief Bulu looked at Samu. "Mr. Samu, this place is not as simple as you said."

"We suspect you of kidnapping, imprisoning, abusing, and forcing these girls to engage in sex trade, so your people have to go back to the police station with us to assist in the investigation."

"Including you!"

Samu still forced himself to be calm. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva. "I need to call my lawyer."

Several sergeants looked at each other and agreed to his reasonable request.

When Samu went to make a call, a police officer ran over. "There is a call, Director Chali's..."

At this time, quite a few people had already surrounded Red Heels outside. Lanse's people were maintaining order. For the Lanse family, the people in the Imperial District were still very supportive and protective.

No unexpected situation appeared at the scene. Even if several reporters wanted to sneak in, they were caught by the people responsible for maintaining order, beaten up, and then thrown out.

Following large batches of police coming out from inside, and two buses coming, reporters in the distance began to photograph frantically.

Large batches of girls were sent onto the buses, and there were five johns who voluntarily asked to put on hoods for themselves.

Thugs and staff were also caught in a batch.

Several branch directors walked to the reporters at this time and began to talk about this sudden action of the police with eyebrows dancing.

"We received a tip-off that a very fierce and evil escaped prisoner appeared here, hiding in the Red Heels Club."

"In the surprise search of the Red Heels Club, we discovered that this strip club existed with illegal sex trade behavior, which clearly violated Federal law."

"Besides this, we also discovered a girl who was kidnapped and imprisoned in the cellar. They tried to use violent means to force the girl to submit to them and accept sex trade."

"Currently, we have already caught some main suspects..."

Samu was also put on a hood and pushed into a police car.

His lawyer told him to follow the police and leave first, but don't say anything and don't admit anything. Keep silent until he arrived.

The police have many means to make him slip up. As long as he slips up, there will be big trouble.

Being caught is actually not scary at all; what's scary is talking nonsense without psychological preparation.

Branch Director Chief Bulu and the others were afraid that someone would hijack the convoy halfway, so they not only arranged for a large batch of police to follow, but also let Lanse's people follow.

For the first time, the police and people cooperated closely, which also made everyone have an indescribable feeling, as if... their cognition of this world had deepened by three points!

The convoy finally returned to the City Police Station without any surprises, and these people were sent in. Lanse's work could also be considered finished.

Actually, he didn't do anything tonight, except beating up several reporters who didn't open their eyes; the rest of the time he was slacking off.

When Branch Director Chief Bulu told them they could leave, they drove back.

On the road, Aierwen was a bit curious and also asked Lanse not quite understandingly, "Are the mayor and the others really not caring about Samu and Buke anymore?"

Lanse looked back at the City Police Station, which couldn't be seen clearly anymore, sat straight again, and shook his head. "No, because everyone knows that this matter ends here."

Not just Aierwen, even Mo Lisi, who was driving, didn't quite understand. "Why?"

"Aren't Samu and the others caught?"

"If they dig out some evidence of them working for the mayor from their mouths, will the mayor be very passive?"

Lanse asked back, "Who can decide the mayor's stay or leave?"

Neither of them knew much about this question. Lanse helped them answer. "State Government and State Assembly."

"Wanting to kick the mayor away, they must let Samu arrive at the State Government alive and explain those things to the state legislators at the State Assembly."

"But have you considered that Samu and the others not only possess some things about working for the mayor, but even evidence."

"They also provided many girls to those tycoons in the Bay Area."

"The mayor's trouble is at most that his means are a bit unglamorous. Even if it affects his future, at least it won't make him finish."

"But those tycoons' privacy was exposed. For example, those terrible things they did were revealed by Samu or Buke. Who do you think is unluckier?"

Lanse sighed. He also suddenly thought of this link after watching Samu and Buke enter the police station alive!

This was just a counterattack, not a full-scale war. They had to clear away those things that might affect the result before the full-scale war, and only then would they truly start the war!

"You wait and see. It won't be long before Buke, Samu, and even some girls who provided services to the Bay Area will commit suicide out of fear of crime."

Lanse's words made everyone in the car feel a chill that penetrated the bone marrow. For a time, they didn't even have the desire to speak.

Children always yearn for the adult world, just like Mr. Qiaobafu always yearned for the upper-class society.

But the real upper-class society is not bright and beautiful at all, let alone filled with light and glory!

The upper-class society is the dirtiest place in this world! ===== CHAPTER 244 =====

The upper class is the dirtiest place in this world!