Chapter 27: Indignation

The sky had just darkened, and Liushajie was already lively.

Taverns, gambling houses, and brothels stood in great numbers here; it was a famous place of depravity in Xingcheng.

Besides the open business, there was also a black market trading various contraband in secret.

Such a place, the reason why it had never been sealed by the Inspectorate, besides the fact that the Great Lan Dynasty did not prohibit the opening of gambling houses and brothels, and this place was legal on the surface, was also because the people behind each venue in Liushajie were mostly powerful figures in the city.

At 7:00 PM, there were already many pedestrians on Liushajie; singing, laughing, scolding, and human voices were noisy; yellow, purple, and pink lights lit up in each venue, which was very gorgeous.

Six vans of the Inspectorate suddenly drove into Liushajie.

In such a place, disputes were inevitable, and people fought and made trouble every day, but as long as no lives were lost, the Inspectorate would not be alarmed, so the Inspectorate's cars rarely entered here.

At this time, six vans entered at once; it looked like something big had happened, scaring the pedestrians on the street to hide on both sides.

Six vans stopped outside a gambling house; this gambling house had a great reputation in Liushajie, and its business had always been very hot.

This was a gambling house opened by the Tiger Blade Gang.

More than forty fully armed Inspectorate members, wearing stab-proof clothes, steel helmets, swords at their waists, and Tiger-style rifles in their hands, rushed into the gambling house quickly.

The guests who were gambling at various tables in the gambling house were all scared by this battle formation.

Some got up and ran, some screamed loudly.

"Officers, what are you doing?"

The person in charge of the gambling house heard the news and rushed over, followed by more than a dozen burly men in black shirts.

Li Lei finally walked into the gate of the gambling house with people.

He didn't even look at the person in charge of the gambling house and said directly and loudly:

"The Inspectorate suspects that this gambling house is related to a vicious case and now needs to be taken back for investigation."

After speaking, he pointed to the person in charge of the gambling house in front:

"Take all these people back for me!"

Immediately, Inspectorate members took out handcuffs and were about to step forward to catch people.

"Let me see who dares to move?!"

The person in charge of the gambling house was from the Tiger Blade Gang, where had he ever suffered such grievances? He shouted sharply.

As his words fell, more burly men in black shirts surged out from the backstage of the gambling house, and everyone held a knife in their hands!

The Tiger Blade Gang had human relationships in the Inspectorate, in the Zhige Academy, and in the Main Administration Hall, and most of the powerful figures in the entire Xingcheng were guests of the Tiger Blade Gang leader.

A sentence once said by the leader made the person in charge of the gambling house still feel excited when he thought about it:

"We are not mixing in gangs, we represent Xingcheng!"

With such a sentence, this person in charge was not afraid of these Inspectorate members at all.

However, what he didn't expect was that the Inspectorate members present immediately raised the Tiger-style rifles in their hands and aimed at the front!

Swish swish swish swish—

Several dozen pitch-black gun muzzles made the people of the Tiger Blade Gang dare not move.

The Tiger-style rifle was the first generation of line-bore guns independently produced by the Great Lan Dynasty, with an effective range of 350 meters and a bullet caliber of 6.5mm.

At a distance of more than ten meters, let alone these Tiger Blade Gang thugs wearing cloth shirts, even if they were wearing heavy armor, it would still be death!

"Resisting arrest?"

The murderous intent in Li Lei's eyes could no longer be hidden; he waved his hand:

"Those who dare to resist arrest, shoot them to death directly!!"

The huge gambling house was completely quiet, leaving only the sound of bolts being pulled and bullets being loaded.

The person in charge of the gambling house took a deep breath; he realized that something was wrong with this matter today, so he quickly raised his hands, signaling that he had no malice.

A smile piled up on his face:

"This officer, we have been in this gambling house all day today and haven't been anywhere, how could we be related to any vicious case? Is there any misunderstanding? Our leader and quite a few officers in your Inspectorate are friends!"

Li Lei looked at him contemptuously:

"Are you teaching me how to handle a case?"

This was completely not intending to reason at all.

The person in charge of the gambling house had a gloomy face and looked back at one person behind him.

The other party was a formal martial artist and was a gold-medal thug sent by the Tiger Blade Gang to sit in this gambling house!

But this martial artist looked at the pitch-black gun muzzles in front and could only shake his head helplessly at the person in charge of the gambling house.

The great war seventeen years ago made the martial artists of the Great Lan Dynasty suffer enough from firearms, and also made all martial artists dare not underestimate this kind of weapon anymore.

There were indeed powerful martial artists in this world who could easily dodge bullets, or even withstand bullets, but obviously, this Tiger Blade Gang martial artist didn't possess such strength.

Now as long as he dared to move, it would likely be being shot to death, so he could only stand in place and shake his head.

"Take them away!"

Li Lei ordered again.

This time no one dared to resist, and more than a dozen people, including the person in charge of the gambling house, were all handcuffed and taken away.

"Who let you act without authorization? Do you have evidence in your hand? Without evidence, you catch people indiscriminately; Li Lei, do you not want to do it anymore?!"

Li Lei had just brought people back to the Inspectorate and hadn't had time to send them to the interrogation room for trial when he was called to the office by Deputy Inspectorate Chief Wu Yihua and scolded bloody-headedly!

Li Lei listened to Wu Yihua scolding people expressionlessly; standing next to him was his immediate superior, the captain of the Second Brigade, Wang Xu.

"Wang Xu, is this how you lead your subordinates? If you can't manage the people below, I'll find someone to manage them for you!"

Wu Yihua finished scolding Li Lei and turned to scold Wang Xu.

Wang Xu lowered his head and admitted his mistake: "It's my lax management, I guarantee there won't be a next time!"

Wu Yihua stared at Wang Xu for a while, then turned to look at Li Lei again:

"Li Lei, do you have anything to say?"

Li Lei stood at attention with a 'pah' and said loudly:

"Report to the officer, the person who was attacked today is my son, and he was almost crippled by someone!"

"I'm asking about your going to Liushajie to catch people; does the person you caught have a direct relationship with your son being attacked? What evidence do you have to prove that these people are related to the people who attacked your son? You are an Inspectorate member, doing things requires evidence!"

Wu Yihua slapped the table heavily and glared at Li Lei.

Li Lei didn't answer his question, just looked directly at the other party and said loudly:

"The duty of an Inspectorate member is to protect the safety of people's lives and property; if as an Inspectorate member, one cannot even protect one's own family, then I don't care if I don't do this Inspectorate member!"

After speaking, he took off his hat, stepped forward, put it on Wu Yihua's table, and then turned and walked out of the office.

"You..."

Wu Yihua was stunned; he didn't expect Li Lei to dare to confront him like this.

Wang Xu, who was standing, also looked surprised.

Li Lei had been working under him for more than ten years, and this was the first time he had seen the other party so angry and so hard!

Walking out of Wu Yihua's office, Li Lei paused, because the corridor was full of people.

Today's matter had already spread from the time Li Fei was attacked and brought back to the Inspectorate, and many people in the Inspectorate were paying attention to this matter.

"Squad Leader Li, well done!"

Someone suddenly shouted in the corridor.

"Damn it, who doesn't know that the Bear Strength Gang is a peripheral gang of the Tiger Blade Gang? This matter must have been instigated by the Tiger Blade Gang!"

"The Tiger Blade Gang now even dares to move the family members of the Inspectorate; if this is not managed, won't they ride on our heads and shit in the future?"

"Yes, Squad Leader Li, the brothers support you!"

In the corridor, there was indignation.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 28 =====