Chapter 2054: Chapter 2054: A Messy Matter

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Bai Yongshou fell silent. It was only now that he realized what true savagery looked like.

Wei Yihua had warned him to step back, and it was indeed for his own good.

Because the person before him was not bound by any moral constraints, while Bai Yongshou didn’t even have anything to threaten him with.

This man was more brutal than the suppliers he dealt with.

Compared to him, Bai Yongshou was really nothing.

“I can talk, but I have one condition.”

Bai Yongshou had thought it through. If he were handed over to the military, his fate would be out of his control.

No one knew what kind of treatment he would face.

However, one thing was certain—it would be unbearable.

Moreover, he had a family, and he couldn’t abandon them.

The man before him was a madman capable of anything!

“Go ahead, I’ll try to meet your demands,” Lin Yi said coldly.

“No matter if I’m sentenced to death or life imprisonment, I want you to protect my family.”

“No problem. I can’t promise anything big, but I can guarantee something as small as this.”

“Alright, ask whatever you want to know.”

“Tell me about your supplier and the supply chain.”n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

“The supplier is a Yuenan man named Ruan Dongjia. He has a general agent in the country named Wei Jianlong, who is commonly known as Wei Zong among the people in the trade. He’s based in Yanjing. If you want to trace the line up, you can go after him.”

“Is it always his subordinates who meet with you?”

“Yes, his subordinates,” Bai Yongshou replied.

“But now that I’m caught, this line is effectively cut off. You won’t be able to reach them through me anymore. You’ll have to find another way to deal with him.”

Lin Yi nodded, agreeing with Bai Yongshou’s assessment.

The interrogation lasted for over an hour. Lin Yi noted down all the relevant information and then left the interrogation room, handing everything over to Li Xianghui.

“Brother Li, it’s done.”

Seeing the documents Lin Yi handed over, Li Xianghui’s face lit up.

“You’ve really got a way with people. You actually got him to talk. Now we can report this to our superiors.”

In this operation, capturing Bai Yongshou wasn’t the primary goal. The main objective was to extract useful information from him and use it to capture others involved in the criminal network.

For this reason, Li Xianghui was eager to interrogate Bai Yongshou. Otherwise, he’d have a hard time explaining the situation to his superiors.

“With someone like Bai Yongshou, you can’t just talk to him nicely. If you don’t play hardball, he won’t listen.”

“We can’t all be as fearless as you. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have needed to call you in.”

Li Xianghui looked at the documents and said,

“The key issue now is this Wei Jianlong. Prepare yourself; you might be sent to Yanjing soon.”

“I’m just a cog in the machine. I’ll go wherever I’m needed. You can arrange it however you like.”

“That’s the attitude I like to hear,” Li Xianghui said.

“Alright, there’s nothing more for you here. You can manage your own time now. I won’t keep you.”

“Brother Li, you’re the best. I love having a leader who understands things.”

Laughing, Lin Yi left Li Xianghui’s office and headed to Zhang Peng’s.

The inheritance dispute case should have some new leads today, and he needed to deal with that as well.

“Brother Lin, you’re here. I was just about to look for you,”

Zhang Peng said as Lin Yi entered.

“Is there any progress?”

“No useful information yet,” Zhang Peng replied.

“This is just an ordinary tertiary hospital, and there weren’t that many patients. There were only eight people in the ICU that day. Five patients, one attending doctor, and two nurses.”

Zhang Peng glanced at the records of the three medical staff and said,

“All three of them are clean. They have no criminal records and are well-regarded in the hospital. If Zhang Lixia’s husband really died due to foul play, it’s unlikely that they were involved.”

“Let me see the records.”

“Here you go.”

Zhang Peng handed over the records, and Lin Yi looked them over for a while but found nothing unusual.

“Brother Lin, the test results aren’t in yet, so we can’t definitively say it was a murder. Plus, we don’t even have a suspect right now. I’m starting to think we might be looking in the wrong direction—maybe it really was just post-operative infection that led to his death,” Zhang Zixin said.

“I’d prefer that outcome, honestly. So let’s wait for the forensic results first.”

“Understood.”

About twenty minutes later, the veteran officer Zhang Demin walked in.

“Oh, you’re all here,” Zhang Demin said with a smile, holding an A4 sheet in his hand. “This just came through, Little Lin. Looks like it’s for you.”

Lin Yi took the paper from Zhang Demin without much thought, but his expression changed as he read it.

“What’s wrong, Brother Lin?” Zhang Zixin asked.

“It’s confirmed—it was murder!”

Both Zhang Zixin and Zhang Peng tensed up. There was no longer any doubt. Someone was indeed behind this.

“Brother Lin, this means we can file a criminal case,” Zhang Zixin said.

“Filing the case isn’t the issue. The key is figuring out who the killer is,” Zhang Peng analyzed.

“The only people with a motive to kill are Zhang Guoping and his wife. But in a place like the ICU, it’s unlikely they had the opportunity to do it. The attending doctor and two nurses didn’t give any suspicious testimony, so we’re stuck at a dead end.”

Zhang Peng’s assessment highlighted the challenge they were facing.

This case felt like a tangled mess with no clear lead to follow.

“Let’s inform Zhang Lixia of this development and investigate if there are any suspicious people around her,” Lin Yi said.

“Don’t let Zhang Guoping and his wife off the hook either; they should be the primary suspects.”

“Understood.”

Lin Yi thought for a moment and said,

“Zhang Peng, you focus on investigating Zhang Guoping and his wife. Zixin, you focus on the ICU doctor and the two nurses. See if you can dig up any more useful information.”

“Got it, Brother Lin.”

After assigning the tasks, Lin Yi sat alone on the sofa, contemplating the details of the case.

In this inheritance dispute, Zhang Lixia’s husband was arguably the least significant figure.

Even if Zhang Guoping wanted to take a risk to get the money, he should have targeted Zhang Lixia. Killing her husband wouldn’t help him get the money.

So where was the problem?

Who was the real killer?

And what was their motive for doing this?