SOTC Chapter 60

The midnight chimes rang twelve times again, signifying another midnight descending upon Yulin County.

Xue Yan had been in the car for a full ten hours, and he couldn’t act like in the movies, where simply sitting obediently in the driver’s seat meant he’d never be discovered by the criminal suspects.

In fact, from the very beginning, Xue Yan and Sun Tao were well aware that their opponent possessed extremely professional counter-surveillance capabilities. Therefore, for these full ten hours, Xue Yan could only curl up in the back of the car and, under the cover of the window film, monitor Liu Yuxi’s movements, to prevent the opponent from using binoculars or other equipment from a high vantage point to spot him through the car window.

But even so, he still underestimated Liu Yuxi’s patience, because it wasn’t until twelve o’clock in the morning that Liu Yuxi drove his car away from the Yuzhou Cultural Building. But at this time of night, tailing him was almost impossible.

The reason was simple: when there were so few vehicles on the road that only a handful remained, all trackers would inevitably have nowhere to hide.

And that was exactly the predicament Xue Yan was now facing.

“Old Sun, Liu Yuxi’s car has left the building. It is currently impossible to confirm whether he is driving himself, and tracking is impossible. Over.”

“Continue monitoring the building, do not attempt to follow. Over.”

Sun Tao was still sitting in his office, wrapped in a thick cotton coat. Occasionally, he could be heard coughing violently, clearly because his injuries had not fully recovered.

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However, Sun Tao hadn’t even thought about resting.

Even though he and Xue Yan had agreed to sleep before midnight, no one mentioned it during their conversation.

Because at this moment, no one could rest, and no one dared to rest.

Liu Yuxi’s movements were within Sun Tao’s expectations. The saying goes, “Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.” A smart person’s way of doing things is to strive to understand everything about their opponent.

This is an advantage, but it is also an exploitable loophole.

After Lin Shu was murdered, Liu Chuyun was suspended, and Li Yigang personally went to the front line to supervise the cash transport vehicle case, it was no longer possible for Liu Yuxi to have informants within the Public Security Bureau.

So, if Liu Yuxi wanted to understand his intentions, he had to activate a dormant pawn, and at the cost of revealing the pawn’s identity.

“Li Xia, what’s the situation on your side?”

Liu Yuxi played chess, and Sun Tao was clearly skilled at it too.

The only difference was that their approaches seemed to be quite different.

Liu Yuxi liked to keep all the key points of victory or defeat in the hands of one person, while Sun Tao preferred to trust the others around him.

Li Xia’s current location was the bar they had found after Lin Shu was killed.

Sun Tao’s idea was simple: as long as Liu Yuxi didn’t realize they had found the evidence of Wolf Brother killing Lin Shu, he would continue to believe that the safe route he had set was safe.

And a confident and cautious person would naturally not choose a risky route they weren’t sure about at this time.

Unless he had multiple escape routes prepared, but these things were no longer within Sun Tao’s control.

So, he admitted that he was gambling, but obviously, Sun Tao had won this time.

“Reporting, Team Sun, there is currently no sign of Liu Yuxi’s car appearing near the bar, but…”

Li Xia paused at this point, then subconsciously lowered her voice and said, “Team Sun, a white sedan with the license plate ending in 4832 has stopped in the bar’s parking lot. Someone got out of the car… and looks very similar to Director Li.”

“Continue monitoring, be careful not to expose yourself.”

“Received.”

Li Xia suppressed her wildly beating heart and continued to monitor the bar according to Sun Tao’s orders.

And less than half an hour later, when another white sedan drove into the bar’s parking lot, the scales of victory seemed to begin tilting towards Sun Tao’s side.

Of course, this was only seemingly so.

No one knew what Liu Yuxi and Li Yigang said in the bar.

Sun Tao didn’t dare to make a move rashly, because until now, he still hadn’t caught any evidence against Liu Yuxi, and he also couldn’t predict how much external interference and obstruction he would encounter in the future.

Urban development often creates a strange phenomenon: less than two streets away from a piece of farmland and self-built houses, there is a dazzling, neon-lit bar.

And among the people coming in and out, their clothing seems to be separated from those ordinary farmers by an entire era.

Li Yigang was still a little unaccustomed to this kind of place. He frowned and walked through the drunken revelry in the center of the dance floor, and then walked into a private room with practiced ease.

There, young girls approached his side as if it were only natural.

Except that Li Yigang’s expression revealed a faint impatience. He waved his hand at the boys and dismissed them, then plopped down on the sofa and began to gulp down wine.

About half an hour later, Liu Yuxi finally arrived late in front of Li Yigang.

He looked around. The waiters standing outside the room immediately walked out knowingly and deliberately left the door open.

“Why are you so late?”

Only then did the frown on Li Yigang’s face finally ease a little.

He put the wine glass back on the table and questioned Liu Yuxi.

“Do you think it’s appropriate to ask me this question? I said, just hold on for another half a month, as long as Yuzhou Culture is successfully listed, then let alone those tens of millions, you can take out ten times that amount without any problem. But I can’t even hold on for half a month, and then I have to ask you why you’re so late. Why? Because now all the police eyes in Yulin County are fixed on you.”

Liu Yuxi’s mood was obviously not good, otherwise he wouldn’t have chosen to use words to choke Li Yigang.

But Li Yigang didn’t care. After hearing Liu Yuxi’s words, he suddenly fell silent, then frowned and said, “What happened again?”

“You don’t know?”

“I’ve been busy in Poshui Township these past few days. You make it sound easy, hold on for half a month. But how many half months have passed since the incident happened? I’ve already cooperated with you. The entire Criminal Investigation Team is searching there, and you can count the police force left in the county on one hand. What else do you want me to do? Liu Yuxi, you helped me back then, but I’ve helped you a lot too. Now you’re talking to me in this tone, what do you want to do? Do you really think you can do whatever you want in Yulin County?”

Li Yigang’s face gradually turned pale.

This wasn’t because Liu Yuxi’s tone was harsh, but because Li Yigang felt extremely uneasy about meeting Liu Yuxi.

What kind of person was Liu Yuxi? If things hadn’t reached a point where they couldn’t be salvaged, this person would never risk meeting him.

“I only need ten days now. After ten days, Yuzhou Culture can be successfully listed. I will also let you find the money that was stolen from the Agricultural Credit Cooperative intact. And I will give you double the commission as previously agreed. Old Li, I don’t think there should be any unpleasantness between us. We both started from scratch. You want to climb up, and I want to get rich. There is no conflict between us at all. As long as we do this perfectly, wouldn’t that be great?”

Liu Yuxi’s tone softened. He didn’t want to anger Li Yigang at this time, even though he had always looked down on this person.

“Perfect, you make it sound simple. I’ve helped with everything I should have, but things keep going wrong on your side. I already had Liu Chuyun suspended last time. Do you know how difficult that was? Liu Chuyun was appointed by the province. I finally got rid of him, and what about you? Okay, I don’t want to talk about these things anymore. Tell me, what’s wrong this time?”

When Li Yigang saw that Liu Yuxi’s attitude had softened a little, he immediately softened too.

Because Li Yigang was more afraid than anyone else at this moment. Liu Yuxi held his handle, and if anything happened to this person, he would never be able to escape unscathed.

“Yang Xu has been found.”

“Yang Xu has been found?! How was he found?! Who found him?!”

Li Yigang was stunned by this news. He thought that things should have ended before Liu Chuyun was suspended.

After all, now there were only Sun Tao and Xue Yan left in the entire Criminal Investigation Team, and he had deliberately kept these two people in the bureau.

After all, Liu Yuxi had promised that once the problem was solved, he would immediately arrange for him to find the lost funds.

Sun Tao was a shrewd person, and Xue Yan was extremely conscientious. Li Yigang was worried that these two people would mess things up, so he had specially used Liu Chuyun’s case to keep them in the bureau.

Who would have thought…

“I don’t know how they found Yang Xu, but I think it’s very strange that this happened at this critical juncture. Xiao Zhao has already been asked by Xue Yan to cooperate with the investigation. From what I know, Yang Xu seems to have gone crazy. They found him in a bridge hole outside Yulin County.”

“The suburbs? Which suburbs? The suburbs of Yulin County are even smaller than Yulin County itself. How did Yang Xu run there? And there are only two people, Sun Tao and Xue Yan. How could they find Yang Xu so coincidentally?”

Li Yigang looked at Liu Yuxi in disbelief. He didn’t understand this matter, but he felt that it was suspicious, so suspicious that it didn’t seem real at all.

“You think these questions should be answered by me?”

Liu Yuxi stood up at this moment and paced back and forth in the private room.

“There are many things I don’t want to make clear, but this time the problem is indeed on my side. I said Gu Zheng was just an accident… Okay, let’s just treat Gu Zheng as an accident. But now there are too many accidents happening, and they are all happening under my nose.”

“You are too reckless, Liu Yuxi!”

Li Yigang couldn’t help it anymore. He slammed the cup and stood straight in front of Liu Yuxi.

“Do you think it’s still the same as it was back then? You can do whatever you want by finding some people and starting a criminal gang? Do you not know why Liu Chuyun was sent to Yulin County? Yes, you are powerful. Liu Chuyun couldn’t catch your handle and couldn’t do anything to you. But now the handles they have caught are all sent out by your own hands. That Chen Fan, you can buy him off, you can threaten him, but why did you kill him? You are provoking them. Aren’t you afraid that the higher-ups won’t know there’s someone like you in Yulin County? You’ve really had it too easy these past few years. You really think you can control everything, right?”

“What’s wrong, Director Li, don’t you want to continue? Or have you become arrogant after being the director for so many years? Don’t forget what means I used to get you into this position, and how you helped me?”

Liu Yuxi looked at Li Yigang unperturbed, and at this time Li Yigang’s face was an unusual red due to excitement.

Once some things are done, there is no turning back.

Li Yigang had also thought, if he hadn’t met Liu Yuxi back then, if he hadn’t let him help do those things.

What would he be like now?

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

Now he had no other choice but to face him.

“Wolf Brother will never betray me.”

Liu Yuxi patted Li Yigang on the shoulder in a timely manner.

“I’m not asking you to do anything that goes against heaven’s will. I just want to know what Sun Tao is planning. There are no such things as coincidences in this world. I don’t believe Yang Xu has really gone crazy, so there must be a special reason for his appearance at this time. Find this reason. And then, this is the last time. As long as Yuzhou Culture is successfully listed, I guarantee that there will be no more cases happening in Yulin County. And soon you can enjoy a worry-free retirement life.”

“Then how do you plan to handle Gu Zheng’s matter?”

Li Yigang was silent. He knew that he had no possibility of refusal, so he asked after waiting for a long time.

“I will deal with Gu Zheng myself. Actually, I am also very curious. What kind of person can oppose you to such an extent, just for that little bit of pathetic salary?”

Until now, Liu Yuxi was still full of confidence in himself.

He did have the capital to be confident, but some things were destined not to last long.

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