Chapter 418: The Hands Behind the Curtain
The Wei Nation was in complete chaos!
After one of the three leaders of the Sanko Group died, the people below him from all across the country began fighting fiercely for the opportunity to climb up the ladder.
Then, after the last witness and survivor of the massacre of the Shanling Financial Group’s core members, Shanling Jiubao, died in a presidential suite, the police tracked it to the eldest son of the second generation of the Tianjing Financial Group, who was also the next successor, from the hotel booking records. Because of the magnitude of this incident, the Tianjing Financial Group immediately became involved in the killing of the Shanling Financial Group, and all companies under this group were hit hard.
Shanling Gangben was sentenced to death for killing more than a dozen of his own clansmen because the evidence was very conclusive. In order to save his own life, he asked to meet with the Tianjing Financial Group.
The second-generation’s eldest son of the Tianjing Financial Group also wanted to prove his innocence, so he was also planning to visit Shanling Gangben, hoping that he could come out in court to testify for his innocence in this incident.
But, Xu Cheng wouldn’t give him this opportunity at all.
Just on that night, the power in the entire police station went out.
Xu Cheng went invisible as he got into the station, and when he walked past an officer, he grabbed the keys from the officer’s waist.
Under the moonlight, in the prison cell, Shanling Gangben was making a call. Although he couldn’t get out, he still had the ability to talk with the outside world about things that needed to be taken care of. However, suddenly, the phone by his ear was slapped away by someone.
Shanling Gangben was startled, and when he turned around to look, he found no one in the cell!
His body shivered, and he saw that the phone fell into a corner and the call was still connected.
He ran over and when he was about to bend down to pick it up, Xu Cheng suddenly grabbed onto his wrist while only making half of his arm visible. From Shanling Gangben’s point of view, he just saw a floating arm grabbing onto his wrist, and he was so terrified that he immediately stumbled back and fell onto his bum.
But then, that half of an arm disappeared.
Shanling Gangben’s heart was beating furiously, clearly pretty scared by what happened just now.
“Gangben!” Just then, Xu Cheng suddenly called him by his ear, and Shanling Gangben was so terrified that he crawled into the corner.
“Ghost! AHH!”
Just then, the power at the police station turned back on.
Two officers rushed over after hearing Gangben screaming. They took a look at the cell and didn’t find anything. Shaking their heads, one of the officers said, “This old man’s brain indeed has a problem.”
“If his brain doesn’t have a problem, would he hack his own family to death?”
“Officers, there really is a ghost here! There really is, I’m not lying!” Shanling Gangben immediately said as he crawled to the officers.
“Where?” one of them answered in disdain.
Just then, the other officer noticed that the cell door was actually open.
“Huh? Did someone come in? Who opened the door? My keys are with me right now. Check, do you still have your keys?”
The other officer looked at his waist and noticed that his keys were gone. He was shocked. “Oh what, why is my key on the door? I thought it was on my waist, who opened the door with it?”
The two of them just chatted, but Shanling Gangben felt a chill down his spine, and the more he thought about it, the more scared he became. He was even on the verge of going crazy, “I want to change a cell! I want to get out!”
“Get out?” those two officers said in disdain. “Mr. Gangben, I think you should give up on that idea.”
Then, those two officers closed the door.
Just then, the second-generation successor of the Tianjing Financial Group came over.
“I want to talk to him,” Tianjing Tuozai said to the two officers.
Seeing that it was the young master of the Tianjing Financial Group, the two officers just let them in.
However, one of the officers didn’t notice that the cell phone in his pocket was quietly taken out of his pocket, and then it went into a dark corner of the room and began recording the conversation that began to take place in the cell.
Shanling Gangben saw Tianjing Tuozai and immediately grabbed onto him as he said, “Help me get out. You want to be proven innocent, I can testify in court!”
“No, right now all eyes in the society are waiting to see your case get judged. If you were to run, the police and government will both lose a ton of face. It could be easier if this event wasn’t exposed under the public eye, but the key is that the video of you actually killing people is already going viral online.”
“I was forced! If I didn’t do it at that time, everyone would die!” Shanling Gangben anxiously said, “It was all the scheme of that guy, he was hiding in the dark, and he planned everything! Let me out, I will find him, and I will make him suffer a horrible death!”
Tianjing Tuozai bitterly smiled. “The prime minister already had a talk with my father. He knows that we would be trying to get you out, and he said to not make things difficult for him! If this matter cannot end in the public opinion’s favor, then his government team will be greatly affected, and his chances for being elected again next year will dramatically decrease! He was even suspecting if it was someone actually doing this to target him at this kind of critical time. I can’t help you.”
“He obviously wants me to die, or in other words, wants the whole Shanling Financial Group to die!” Shanling Gangben furiously shouted, “Everyone knows that we don’t support them democrats, so they want to use this chance to completely take out Shanling! I know your Tianjing Group supports them, but let me tell you, if you don’t help me get out, my guys outside will instigate the people and spread a rumor saying that this was a huge conspiracy planned by Tianjing and the government! By then, your financial group will also be in jeopardy for killing my son, Jiubao!”
“You know I wasn’t the one that killed him!” Tianjing Tuozai was furious and he said in a deep voice.
“But the police only know that he died in your presidential suite. That’s your favorite place to go with your sugar babies, and I wonder how the public will react to that too. My request is simple, your father can for sure have a word with the prime minister, whether it’s finding a substitute, or going another way, I’m not going to die in here! What bullsh*t public opinion? That’s just the dumb public following the wind and bucking the trend, and you guys want to use my life to put out a fire that’s going to eventually go out? I have enough people that are willing to die for me, they just need to go to the Han Nation to get plastic surgery and replace me. In fact, I know it’s actually you Tianjing guys and the prime minister that wants me dead, don’t deny it! The people on my side already told me, it was the prime minister that is against letting me out at the conference, he was just using public opinion as an excuse!”
He was right that if Tianjing Tuozai didn’t get involved in this, the two parties that would benefit the most would be the Tianjing Financial Group and the current prime minister. The opposing political party would lose a large portion of their financial support, which was the Shanling Corporation, and Tianjing could also absorb all the assets that originally belonged to the Shanling Financial Group at a dirt-cheap cost!
However, it was completely unexpected that Tianjing Tuozai, the next successor of the Tianjing Group, would be dragged into this and become the first suspect for murder. Those politicians were all holding onto this bargaining chip to pressure the current political party in power and the Tianjing Financial Group. All in all, both sides were trying to reach a deal around Shanling Gangben, and if one side doesn’t compromise, then the other side wouldn’t give up for sure, and in the end, not only would the current prime minister risk not getting reelected, his political party’s biggest sponsor, the Tianjing Group, would also suffer a big hit.
“You know very well that this matter has nothing to do with us, yet you still want to hold it over us?” Tianjing Tuozai said.
“Brat, get your dad to come and see me,” Shanling Gangben faintly said.
Tianjing Tuozai was a bit annoyed, and just then, he didn’t know what kind of monster controlled his hand, as his hand just reached for his pistol by his waist and then fired a shot right at Shanling Gangben’s head!
Tianjing Tuozai’s eyes opened up wide!
Shanling Gangben’s blood splattered all over his face, and he was completely dumbfounded!
Looking around, there was absolutely no one!