Chapter 1654: A Clean Sweep

"Is Sun Ming inside?"

Fang Yuan, the leader of the Joint Investigation Team walking at the front, asked the security guard at the door.

After the security guard saluted, he turned to open the door with a key. During this time, Fang Yuan glanced inside through the observation window; Sun Ming was sitting there with his head lowered.

"Sun Ming! Stand up!"

The security guards from the Group were clearly more serious and disciplined than the Joint Investigation Team.

As the order was given, Sun Ming stood up reflexively and raised his head to look toward the door.

Liu Wei, walking behind, was somewhat surprised; he looked at Sun Ming and then at the security guard.

"Director Fang, Director Liu, Sun Ming has been brought here. Please give your instructions."

"Thank you, that will be all. You can leave this to us now."

Fang Yuan had been investigating the situation within the Group for some time, so she had frequent contact with the security guards and was not very surprised by their serious work style.

To ensure the safety of the relevant personnel, the management of Jia Yun, Sun Ming, and others had been handed over to the Group's Security General Brigade from the very beginning, with 24-hour supervision of their meals and daily life.

It was just that every time they interrogated the relevant personnel, they had to communicate with the security team.

The reason Liu Wei was surprised was that, except for seeing Yu Zhe on the first day, all other time had been spent on investigating the situation outside the Red Steel Group.

The two of them each led a team with a clear division of labor: one investigated inward, and the other investigated outward.

Using Sun Ming, who had consistently refused to speak, as the starting point, they expanded in two directions.

After investigating for nearly a month, they finally returned to the starting point to meet with Sun Ming.

Sitting in front of the interrogation table, watching Sun Ming, who had been ordered to sit down by the security guard, both of them felt a great deal of emotion.

At the age of twenty-something, having lived on the third floor of the Tuanjie Hotel for just over two months, his entire appearance had undergone a tremendous change.

This was no longer the high-spending, spirited "good big brother" from the Tuanjie Hotel; he was clearly a dying middle-aged man devoid of any vitality.

To be honest, life here was not bad. How could the investigation team not provide security for such a key person?

The security side had even regulated his schedule and dietary habits, and doctors came regularly to check his health.

But during the interrogation period, the mental pressure and the experience he had been afraid to confess for so long were the culprits torturing him.

"You still don't intend to confess, right?" Fang Yuan looked at him and said, "Do you know why we only arranged this conversation after such a long time?"

Sun Ming just raised his eyelids, glanced at her sideways, and still said nothing.

"It doesn't matter, you don't have to speak."

She pulled a stack of documents out of her briefcase and placed them on the table, looking at Sun Ming as she said, "It wasn't in vain that we worked hard for a month. Do you want to take a look?"

"If you have something to say, just say it directly." Sun Ming tilted his head slightly, looking at her with arrogance in his eyes as he said, "I'm listening."

Liu Wei raised an eyebrow, sized Sun Ming up, and asked, "Judging by your tone, you're not convinced, are you?"

"Why should I be convinced?" Sun Ming looked at her, tilted his chin, and asked in return, "Do I need to be convinced?"

"You know clearly what you have done yourself."

Liu Wei frowned, pointed at him, and said, "Do I need to read out what you have done?"

"Then go ahead and say it—" Sun Ming had the look of a dead pig not fearing boiling water, glanced at her, and said, "I'm sometimes clear-headed and sometimes confused now."

"Heh—" Liu Wei sneered, "You weren't confused when you were engaged in smuggling activities in Yingcheng."

She pushed the situation she had investigated toward him, looked at Sun Ming, and said, "You can't shoulder a pot of over a hundred thousand alone."

Sun Ming lowered his eyelids; he was tired of hearing this. He had already told the Joint Investigation Team, and he wasn't someone who could be easily scared.

Liu Wei exchanged a glance with Fang Yuan, nodded, opened her notebook, and continued, "We have also learned some information from the direction of the Capital. Do you want to hear it?"

"Whatever," Sun Ming shrugged indifferently, saying, "Anyway, I've been here so long I'm almost growing fur."

Fang Yuan had been staring at the changes in his expression. When Liu Wei said the word "Capital," Sun Ming's hand trembled noticeably.

"You have been to the office of the Sanhe Stock Company in the Capital, right?" Liu Wei narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at Sun Ming, and asked, "Who took you there? Who did you meet?"

"Who said I've been to whatever San-something?"

Sun Ming looked at the two of them amusingly and said, "I've never even heard of this thing you're talking about."

"Then you must have been to the International Hotel, right?"

Liu Wei pulled an account book out of a file bag, opened it to find the marked page, pointed to the name on it, and asked, "Your identity registration information and signature are here. You wouldn't say that someone impersonated you, would you?"

Sun Ming looked at the content Liu Wei held up to show him, turned his head away amusingly, and snorted, "So what if it's my identity registration information and signature?"

He asked in return, "Can't I go stay in that place?"

"Of course you can." Fang Yuan nodded and said, "Since the International Hotel could open a room for you, it shows they accepted your check-in application. There's nothing wrong with that."

She raised an eyebrow and asked, "What we want to ask you is, who were you with that night?"

"Think it over before you speak." Liu Wei reminded him seriously, "We can get physical evidence, and we have human witnesses."

"Then why are you still coming to ask me?" Sun Ming stretched out his hands and said, "Just shoot me directly, that would be the end of it."

"Do you think you can get away?"

Liu Wei said coldly, "I have already told you, you cannot shoulder such a big pot."

"And then?" Sun Ming sneered, "Can I survive if I confess everything?"

"That requires us to see your attitude."

Fang Yuan looked at him and said, "You are resisting the organization's investigation and refusing to confess the facts. How can we help you?"

"You want me to betray my uncle-in-law, right?"

Sun Ming looked at the two of them amusingly and said, "Your target cannot be just my second uncle-in-law."

"Is his sesame-seed-sized hat worth you putting in so much effort?"

"You are very smart, Sun Ming."

Fang Yuan crossed her arms, sized him up, and said, "Tell me, how can you tell the truth?"

"A life for a life." Sun Ming scanned their faces and probed, "I tell the truth, and use that big shot's life to exchange for my life. How about that?"

Fang Yuan and Liu Wei exchanged a glance, and Fang Yuan spoke, "Tell us which big shot it is. We have to judge whether he is enough to exchange for your life."

"Can I say that now?" Sun Ming widened his eyes and said, "It won't work if I say it out."

"Then what do you want?" Liu Wei asked impatiently, "Do you want us to give you a guarantee?"

"You? Heh—" Sun Ming shook his head disdainfully and said, "You can't do it, I don't trust you."

"Then tell us who you want to give you a guarantee." Fang Yuan looked at him and asked with interest, "You name a person, and we will go help you invite him."

"However, I remind you, don't take yourself too seriously." Liu Wei reminded him, "They might not be willing to do you this favor."

"He will certainly be willing." Sun Ming emphasized with certainty, "As long as you make the call, he will certainly be willing."

"Fine, go ahead and say it." Fang Yuan pointed to the telephone in the corner and said, "You say it now, and I will make the call now."

"Fine!" Sun Ming also knew that this was the only secret he had left, and he knew even better that he was bound to die.

He had thought it over: if he dragged it out to the end, the investigation team would still come back to make a deal with him when they ran out of leads.

He didn't need to get away, he just needed to survive.

How did that saying go? It's better to live miserably than to die well.

As long as he could survive, he would still have a chance to get out. After all, he was only in his early twenties.

"Deputy Director Su Weide of the Red Steel Group."

Sun Ming watched the secretary move the telephone to the table, thought for a moment, and then stated his request.

When Fang Yuan and Liu Wei heard this answer, they both had an inexplicably strange look on their faces. This kid was really obsessed.

"Fine, I will call Deputy Director Su of the Red Steel Group now. Tell him whatever requests you have."

Fang Yuan picked up the phone and, in front of Sun Ming, asked for Su Weide's office.

It took some time for the call to go through. The few of them waited in the interrogation room, looking as if they wouldn't give up until the call was connected.

After a long while, a voice came through the phone. Fang Yuan chatted for a couple of sentences; it was Su Weide's secretary.

The other side made them wait a while longer before they heard Su Weide's voice.

"Hello? This is Su Weide."

"This is Deputy Director Su, I didn't lie to you."

Fang Yuan shook the phone in her hand, said this to Sun Ming, and then spoke into the phone, "Hello Deputy Director Su, I am Fang Yuan from the Joint Investigation Team."

"There is a situation now that I need to report to you. The key suspect in this case, Sun Ming, has doubts about his personal safety after confessing the facts and wants to communicate with you personally."

"Who? Sun Ming?" Su Weide asked with a frown, and then Sun Ming's voice was heard.

"Hello Deputy Director Su, I am Sun Ming."

Sun Ming held the phone. He had been watching and listening when Fang Yuan was talking just now.

Telephones in this era were like this; they weren't exactly loudspeakers, but they weren't soundproof either. The interrogation room was quiet, and they were only a meter apart, so of course, it could be heard clearly.

Just like now, the phone was in his hand, and others could hear their conversation clearly.

However, there was one problem: he had seen Su Weide, but he had never heard the other party's voice.

He had seen Su Weide once from a distance when he came to the Steel City Industrial Zone for research, but he hadn't paid much attention.

Now, listening to the other party's voice, he couldn't guess whether it was real or fake, but he was already standing on the edge of a cliff and had no choice.

"What is it? Speak."

Su Weide didn't want to wade into this muddy water, especially when he received news that the Joint Investigation Team had already aimed its spearhead at him. He even suspected that this was a trap set by Fang Yuan.

Therefore, his tone on the phone was somewhat impolite.

Sun Ming didn't feel that way; listening to his tone, he actually believed it a few points more in his heart.

In his limited cognition, a big leader should be stern and bossy.

"Deputy Director Su, I will confess everything, but I need you to guarantee that I can survive."

"How do you want me to guarantee it?"

Su Weide asked impatiently, "Do you want me to write you a certificate in black and white?"

"What you need to do now is to actively cooperate with the investigation team's work. Confession leads to leniency, do you understand?"

"Deputy Director Su!" Seeing that he intended to end the call, Sun Ming said hurriedly, "The person I am about to expose is someone you will definitely be interested in!"

"Hmm?" Su Weide's voice rose a few points as he asked, "What do you mean?"

"Deputy Director Su, let's put it this way: as long as I expose this person, you will definitely be very satisfied."

Sun Ming said firmly, "I have conclusive evidence. That person is someone you have always wanted to..."

"Alright, get to the point!" Su Weide didn't want to listen to his nonsense and asked seriously, "What exactly do you want to say?"

Sun Ming knew it was time for him to make a choice. He looked at the two people behind the interrogation table and said, "I have evidence to prove that this business belongs to a certain leader of the Red Steel Group."

"And he is colluding with a certain foreign enterprise..."

"Who are you talking about?!" Su Weide on the other end of the phone questioned reactively, "Nonsense!"

"I am not talking nonsense!" Sun Ming raised his voice and emphasized, "As long as you can guarantee that I won't die, I will confess!"

"What exactly do you want to do?" Su Weide's breathing became a bit heavier. He suspected that this person named Sun Ming was threatening him.

But Sun Ming felt that he was a bit inexplicable. Hadn't he long regarded Li Xuewu as a thorn in his side? Clearly, he could provide such a good opportunity, so why was he so angry?

Could it be that he was unwilling to bring down Li Xuewu through his own means? What kind of logic was that?

"I want to live." Sun Ming said seriously, "As long as I can live, I am willing to confess."

Su Weide's brain spun rapidly. He was almost certain that this Sun Ming was threatening him.

The business he mentioned, as well as the foreign enterprise and so on, seemed to be him.

Otherwise, why would this Sun Ming insist on calling him? He didn't even know this person.

Furthermore, Sun Ming's urgency and tone on the phone seemed to be saying the opposite?

As long as he could let the other party survive, he wouldn't talk nonsense?

Or rather, he could implicate anyone according to his wishes?

The former could still be considered a possibility, but how could he trust the other party in the latter case? This wasn't a joke.

Therefore, unable to figure it out, he could only judge based on the former.

He couldn't be sure whether this person named Sun Ming had ever had contact with Sanhe. What if he had?

Su Weide didn't dare to gamble, so he told Sun Ming to return the phone to Fang Yuan.

"Deputy Director Su." Fang Yuan took the phone.

"Hmm, his expression wasn't very clear, but I can roughly understand what he means."

Su Weide paused, then said, "I don't need to talk about the specific case-handling procedures. You are professionals after all."

"If he can confess for leniency and perform actively, I think it is possible to give him some care according to policy, right?"

"Hmm, I understand, Deputy Director Su."

Fang Yuan looked at Sun Ming, nodded, and said, "We have been persuading him to confess, but he has concerns."

"It is normal to have concerns." Su Weide said, then added, "Let's leave it at that."

After speaking, he hung up the phone. He didn't say he accepted Sun Ming's request, nor did he say he denied it.

It seemed he had said a lot, but in reality, he hadn't said anything at all. But it wouldn't be right to say he hadn't said anything; at least the expression on Sun Ming's face had become a bit more determined.

"Now you can say it."

After Fang Yuan hung up the phone, Liu Wei asked indifferently, "Who did you meet at the International Hotel? And who is the person behind the scenes you mentioned?"

"Actually, I have already confessed."

Having received the guarantee, Sun Ming's attitude was indeed much more upright. He looked at the two of them seriously and said, "The person behind this project is really the Secretary-General of the Red Steel Group, Li Xuewu."

Seeing that there was no fluctuation in their expressions, he emphasized, "You should have investigated his driver, Yu Zhe, right?"

"We investigated, but Yu Zhe said he had no relationship with this project." Fang Yuan said impatiently, "And we didn't find any relationship between him and this project."

"How is that possible!" This was the asymmetry of information. Sun Ming had been locked up here all along and knew nothing about the situation outside. He didn't even know that Yu Zhe was in Steel City.

"If you cannot provide more accurate information," Liu Wei looked at him and said, "we cannot believe your words."

"What else do you want me to provide? The International Hotel?"

Sun Ming shook his leg nervously, clenched his fists, loosened them, and clenched them again. He said with inner torment, "The person I met has no relationship with this matter."

"You tell us who it is first, we will judge whether there is a relationship." Seeing him open up, Liu Wei gained spirit and pursued, "Is it someone from the Sanhe Stock Company?"

"Hmm—" Seeing her say this, Sun Ming's psychological defense was further destroyed. Since they had already investigated Sanhe, he knew that even if he insisted, he wouldn't necessarily be able to hold out for long.

"Who is it?" Fang Yuan asked, "Is it the Director of the Sanhe Stock Company's office, Gucang Ping'er?"

"No! It's a woman named Takahashi!"

Seeing her further name someone from Sanhe, Sun Ming explained hurriedly, "I just met Takahashi once."

"What did you meet for?" Liu Wei glanced at him and asked a question she already knew the answer to, "What did you talk about?"

"It was—it was that kind of thing."

Sun Ming hesitated for a moment and explained, "It was Yu Zhe who gave me the address and told me to come find her."

"Yu Zhe?" Fang Yuan narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "He said that after you arrived in the Capital, you separated at the train station."

"Fart!" Sun Ming explained excitedly, "It was my first time in the Capital, how would I know where is where!"

He gestured with his handcuffed hands and said, "That day, a car came to pick us up. It was quite luxurious, a big sedan."

"He told me, thank you for taking care of Zhang Meili and for your help to him, he would definitely take me to fly high and reach great heights."

Sun Ming leaned forward and emphasized, "Yes, I remember that car. It was the same kind of imported car that Li Xuewu used in Steel City. What was it called again?"

"Volga." Liu Wei reminded him indifferently, "Think carefully. This kind of high-end sedan is not common even in the Capital. Are you sure you left the train station in this car?"

"Of course I'm sure. I even asked him whose car it was, and he said it was his."

Sun Ming explained excitedly, "The first time I saw this car was Li Xuewu's, so I have a deep impression of it."

"Are you sure Yu Zhe owns this kind of car?"

Liu Wei began to feel that Sun Ming was talking nonsense, but she couldn't contradict him, as that didn't fit interrogation techniques.

Sun Ming shook his head and said, "Of course I don't believe it, but I can guess that this car must be Li Xuewu's."

"How is that possible." Although it didn't fit interrogation techniques, Liu Wei couldn't help but deny it, "Secretary-General Li's Volga never returned to the Capital; it has always been in Liaodong."

"Of course I know! I didn't say it was that car." Sun Ming looked at her and emphasized, "Who can guarantee that Li Xuewu can't own this kind of car himself?"

He tapped the small table confidently and said, "We can earn over a hundred thousand in a few months. He is the mastermind behind this project, how much must he earn!"

"Let's not talk about this first. Tell us about the situation after you went to the International Hotel." Fang Yuan pointed to the registration book and asked, "Did he accompany you in, or did you go in to open the room yourself?"

"Could I go in by myself?" Sun Ming explained, "At that time, he sent me in, and he paid for the room. He said he was giving it to me to stay in, so it had to be registered in my name."

"Think about it, how could I afford the room rate of that hotel at that time? It was 8 yuan a night!"

He gestured with his fingers and exclaimed, "That was the most expensive night I have ever stayed!"

Fang Yuan and Liu Wei were also amused by his exaggerated description, but speaking of which, the consumption at the International Hotel was indeed very expensive.

8 yuan a night should be the best kind of room booked; ordinary standard rooms were around 3 to 5 yuan.

"And then? Did he leave?"

Fang Yuan asked, "Or did you meet that Takahashi together?"

"He sent me to the door of the room and said that someone would come to the room to find me at night, and then he left."

Sun Ming didn't fear being embarrassed when he reached this point and said with dissatisfaction, "He said this was a gift for me."

"What gift?" Liu Wei frowned and asked.

"It was... it was that Takahashi..." Sun Ming lowered his head, peeked at the two of them, and explained with difficulty, "She... as soon as she entered the room, she took off her clothes..."

"Did she let you do that?" Fang Yuan asked, "My meaning is, did she give you the channel in Yingcheng?"

"That's not it." Sun Ming explained, "She was just a... a gift."

"It's a 'pledge of allegiance,' a return gift," Liu Wei said with disdain. "You are willing to be hunted by them."

"I wasn't! She was the one who was proactive!"

Sun Ming emphasized, "I said no, no, and she said just a little bit..."

Fang Yuan and Liu Wei looked at him speechlessly. This kid was really good at making things up; this was probably the opposite of what happened.

"Besides this kind of thing, didn't you have any other communication?" Liu Wei asked, "Didn't she say anything?"

"She didn't say anything useful, it was just... those things."

Sun Ming twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "It was after it was finished, a man came in to talk to me."

"Who?" Fang Yuan gained spirit and asked, "Was it the Director of the Sanhe Stock Company's Beijing office, Gucang Ping'er?"

"I really don't know this—" Sun Ming explained with a bitter face, "His speech didn't have that Japanese flavor at all, and even had a bit of a Northeast accent."

"He told me that as long as I followed his requirements, I could make money, but he was only responsible for the sea channel."

Sun Ming paused here and explained, "His meaning was for me to solve the shore channel myself, including the source of electrical appliances and the sales problem of imported materials."

"Then what about the funding problem?" Liu Wei frowned and asked, "You must have received money to do it, right?"

"This is very simple. We take the goods to the high seas and hand them over to the cargo ship parked there. We count the money on the spot, not a cent less."

Sun Ming explained, "We need money to pay for unloading goods from the ship. Sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less, anyway, it's all our money."

"Without anyone leading you, how did you find the ship on the high seas?" Liu Wei raised an eyebrow and said, "Someone must have provided guidance the first time, right?"

"You might not believe it if I say it," Sun Ming said helplessly, "The position of that ship on the high seas was very conspicuous."

He raised his head to look at Liu Wei and explained, "After leaving the internal sea and bypassing a few landmark uninhabited islands, sailing in one direction, you can see it before long."

"Trading at will? Anyone can go?"

Liu Wei was more concerned about this and asked, "Don't they check your identity?"

"Of course they check. The first time we went, we also mentioned Yu Zhe's name, and that's how we got on the ship." Sun Ming explained, "Otherwise, they wouldn't have accepted our goods."

"You said before that Yu Zhe also has a fleet in this project, right?" Liu Wei asked, "In the few months you operated the fleet, did you see his fleet again?"

"This..." Sun Ming suddenly hesitated.

Liu Wei targeted him and pursued, "What? Is there something you can't say?"

"I've already said this much, what else could I not say." Sun Ming gave a bitter smile and then explained, "I really don't know where his fleet is."

"That's not right—" Liu Wei tapped with the pencil in her hand and looked at him, asking, "Didn't you say he took you to Yingcheng to see the ships and even took you out for a circle?"

"This is true, but I only know Yu Zhe, I don't know those crew members." Sun Ming spread his hands and said, "It was night, pitch black, who could I recognize."

"I don't recognize the ships, and I didn't see the people clearly, but I know Yu Zhe is very familiar with them, and they even greeted each other."

"Heh—" Liu Wei shook her head and said, "What you said is completely different from what Yu Zhe said. He said you were the one who led him."

"Bullshit!" Sun Ming became anxious and defended, "If I had this channel early on, would I have waited until now?"

"Besides, why would I go to the Capital for no reason? That was my first time in the Capital!"

"It's useless for you to say these things. You have to tell us the actual facts." Fang Yuan also shook her head and said, "For example, what you said, this project belongs to the Secretary-General of the Red Steel Group, Li Xuewu. Do you have any evidence?"

"Yu Zhe is the evidence!" Sun Ming said as a matter of course, "You go interrogate Yu Zhe. If he doesn't tell the truth, you can lock him up for three months like me, torture him, and devastate him!"

"Are you teaching us how to do things?" Liu Wei looked at him expressionlessly and said, "Confess your own affairs."

"I only have this much to say. Yu Zhe absolutely cannot be let go. This kid is too insidious!" Sun Ming said fiercely, "He brought me into the trade, and in the end, he became innocent. Is there any justice in this world?"

"Your meaning is... Yu Zhe framed you?"

Liu Wei looked at Fang Yuan and continued to ask him, "Do you have a grudge against him?"

"We—" Sun Ming thought for a moment. It seemed there was no grudge between them, "But—"

He thought for a long while, frowned, and said, "Anyway, he has problems. Even my uncle-in-law analyzed that he is working for Li Xuewu, otherwise where would he get the money! Yes, yes, money!"

Sun Ming seemed to have remembered something, pointed at the two of them, and said, "You go check Yu Zhe's spending in Steel City. He spent at least several hundred yuan in those days!"

"We checked that long ago." Fang Yuan placed a file on the table, flipped through it, and said, "Every expenditure, specific time, location, and who participated, we have records of all of them here, but it doesn't prove the problem."

"Where did his money come from?" Sun Ming asked unconvinced, "Did it fall from the sky? He spent it without feeling any heartache!"

"It didn't fall from the sky, it was scraped from his father." Fang Yuan explained indifferently, "This was after he got married, his father gave it to him for living expenses, it counts as a family separation."

"What!" Sun Ming looked at her in disbelief and asked, "Is this what Yu Zhe said? That's nonsense!"

"Whether it's nonsense or not, we don't know, because what he said is consistent with the situation we investigated from his home."

Fang Yuan closed the document in her hand and looked at him, saying, "Unless you have evidence to overturn his statements."

"I—" Sun Ming was a bit panicked. He really couldn't think of what handle or evidence Yu Zhe had left behind.

Could it be that Yu Zhe just wanted to frame him?

But it doesn't make sense. He and Yu Zhe have no conflict. Is it necessary to toss back and forth between Yingcheng and the Capital, spending so much money just to frame him? Is Yu Zhe sick!

Not only did he help Yu Zhe watch Zhang Meili, but he also treated Yu Zhe to two meals. Hearing that Yu Zhe had made a fortune, he only said nice things. How could he have offended Yu Zhe?

It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense at all!

"Think again," Fang Yuan tapped with the pencil in her hand and asked, "Yu Zhe said you have an accomplice."

"Accomplice?" Sun Ming looked at her blankly and asked, "What accomplice?"

"It's the gang lurking in the Red Steel Group." Fang Yuan explained, "He said that person is your friend, helped you contact a certain leader of the Red Steel Group, and this project belongs to that leader."

"What!" This was the second time Sun Ming was stunned by their words, "This isn't a joke!"

He explained helplessly, "He is the one who is Li Xuewu's driver. What relationship could I have with Li Xuewu!"

"The Group leader he mentioned is not Li Xuewu, but someone else." Fang Yuan looked into his eyes and asked, "Do you know a person named Zhang Mingyuan?"

"Who? Who is Zhang Mingyuan?" Sun Ming frowned, "My uncle-in-law is Jia Yun. Of course, I know many cadres in the Metallurgical Plant, and there are also cadres who transferred from the Metallurgical Plant to other plants."

He emphasized seriously, "But I am sure that among the people I know, there is no one named Zhang Mingyuan."

"But Zhang Mingyuan said he knows you."

Fang Yuan pursed her lips, looked at him, and said, "He said that the leader instructed him to contact you, saying that you and that leader had known each other for a long time and needed someone to pass messages."

"I am really—I can only be convinced!"

Sun Ming grabbed his hair and looked at them blankly. No matter how he thought about it, it felt wrong. How did he become the villain?

It was clearly a matter caused by Yu Zhe, so how did it get pinned on him, and how did it involve these things he didn't know about?

He and his uncle-in-law Jia Yun guessed that this project belonged to Li Xuewu based on Yu Zhe's performance, but they never thought that he was this identity of Yu Zhe, and what relationship he had with a Group leader.

His uncle-in-law Jia Yun had fantasized about climbing up to Li Xuewu, but he had no opportunity, and he was thinking of making some achievements through this cooperation before approaching Li Xuewu.

"Do you know Deputy Director Su?"

Fang Yuan had lost her patience and asked bluntly, "It's the Deputy Director Su Weide you just contacted."

"..."

Sun Ming felt that he had fallen into a trap. It wasn't necessarily aimed at him, but it was definitely very dangerous.

And his first reaction to hearing this question was that the promise he had just requested from Su Weide seemed to be a mistake.

"I don't know him, I have never seen him."

"Sun Ming, lying will only make us trust you even less." Liu Wei shook her head and reminded him, "During Deputy Director Su's research in Steel City this June, you told many people that you had his connections and could handle things others couldn't."

"I was just bragging—"

Sun Ming explained with tears in his eyes, "You all heard it when I made the call just now. We don't know each other."

Fang Yuan and Liu Wei didn't speak. If you didn't know each other, could you help you plead for mercy after just a few words? Stop joking.

Looking at their expressions, Sun Ming knew he had taken a wrong step. He had said so much today, thinking he was escaping the sea of bitterness, but he didn't expect to be throwing himself into the net.

Had this Deputy Director Su offended someone?

No, it should be Li Xuewu!

The meaning he just expressed to Deputy Director Su was to implicate Li Xuewu and pull Li Xuewu down.

Sun Ming learned from his uncle-in-law that these two had a conflict because the case of the No. 4 furnace had been deadlocked.

Now it was Li Xuewu's counterattack, it was Yu Zhe!

Suddenly, he understood everything, and it all became clear, but he was also shocked beyond measure.

How big a chessboard must this be to have all of them contained within it? Yu Zhe was the beginning of pushing the game.

Everyone, even the insignificant Zhang Meili, had become a chess piece on this board.

Cold sweat streamed down his neck. Even if the room was warm in the middle of winter, it shouldn't be enough to make him sweat.

But now he was like someone who had crawled out of the water, sitting there in a daze.

Liu Wei and Fang Yuan exchanged a glance and gave him time to think.

"I am sure I am not the person you want to investigate."

After Sun Ming's eyes regained clarity, he first let out a deep sigh and said, "I am just a small pawn."

Fang Yuan and Liu Wei didn't speak, knowing he was about to confess. This was the reaction after his psychological defense had just been broken.

"When the King of Hell fights, the little ghosts suffer."

He looked at the two of them and said with a bitter smile, "I am that little ghost, a little ghost who is greedy for money and doesn't know life from death."

"I can swear that what I said is all true."

Sun Ming looked at the two of them seriously and said, "It was Li Xuewu who set up this chessboard to encircle and kill everyone."

As if he had suddenly become enlightened, he explained very clearly, "Su Weide targeted Li Xuewu, and Li Xuewu used his driver to find me and let me fall into this trap."

"Because of me, this game of chess also linked to my uncle-in-law, increasing my importance on this board."

Fang Yuan and the other listened to him speak seriously. It didn't sound like he was making it up, so they frowned and listened carefully.

"I am sure that the experience I just described in the Capital is true. I just had a romantic night and met a stranger."

Sun Ming paused and continued to explain, "After I came back, I thought I had entered Li Xuewu's circle and became his own person."

"When I started the project in Yingcheng, this chess piece of mine became a bomb, a bomb sent to Su Weide."

He looked at the two of them and emphasized, "But there must be other arrangements on this board besides me as a bomb."

"And the fuse is the Zhang Mingyuan you just mentioned." Sun Ming shook his head slightly and emphasized very seriously, "I am sure I don't know this person, and I don't know what purpose he had in insisting that he knows me."

"However, how should this bomb piece of mine contact Su Weide? That must be him."

"Your meaning is—" Fang Yuan frowned and asked, "Is it that Li Xuewu carried out this project on the high seas to frame Su Weide? And instructed Zhang Mingyuan to commit perjury to frame you?"

"Heh—it doesn't make sense, right?"

Sun Ming said with a bitter smile, "Even I can't figure it out, so how can you make sense of it? But this is the fact."

He really wanted to cry and said with a hoarse voice, "This Zhang Mingyuan must have a relationship with Su Weide, right?"

Fang Yuan didn't answer his question, but the silence had already given the answer.

They investigated according to the situation provided by Yu Zhe and found that this Zhang Mingyuan often reported to Su Weide by phone alone.

And just when they were preparing to summon Zhang Mingyuan, the other party actually returned to the Capital.

But just when they sent the summons to the Capital, Zhang Mingyuan came back and actually surrendered voluntarily.

According to the content confessed by Zhang Mingyuan, they were able to complete the second half of the content Sun Ming had mentioned.

But the content Sun Ming mentioned made them suspicious again.

"Investigate, investigate that man from the Sanhe Stock Company. It should be the Gucang Ping'er you mentioned."

Sun Ming said with a heart like dead ashes, "I don't think you can find anything from that ship on the high seas or this channel in Yingcheng. Even if there was anything, it would have been destroyed long ago."

"I don't even expect you to correct this fact, because I am in the game, and I feel it most deeply."

He looked at them with great pessimism and despair and said, "I am not dying unjustly this time. It's lucky enough to know how I am dying before I die."

Speaking of this, he suddenly laughed. It was a bitter smile, and his voice was miserable, "It was I who harmed my uncle-in-law, and others. If it weren't for my greed, this situation today wouldn't have been caused."

"Also, I told you to investigate that Gucang Ping'er, which doesn't mean he can tell the truth either."

Sun Ming raised his head, looked at them, and said, "Just like this Zhang Mingyuan, not hesitating to abandon himself to bury us."

"Think about it, how many big fish and small fish are already in this net."

He shrugged and said, "I am just a small shrimp and can't get out, so they have even less chance."

"You go investigate Gucang Ping'er, the biggest possibility is—" Sun Ming paused, looked at them in shock, and said, "That is the final bomb..."

Hearing him say this, Fang Yuan and Liu Wei were also shocked speechless. This plan was so meticulous that it was natural.

Not a single bit was wasted, circling everyone together, a clean sweep. ===== CHAPTER 1655 =====