The special agents were in deep thought, none of them uttered a word.
It was then a car came to a halt. When the door opened, Liu Hongjiang welcomed them.
He had been waiting at the entrance for a long time. There were many people following this issue online due to the private jet.
He must leave a positive image in the hearts of his colleagues and the media.
He purposely skipped his shower so that he would appear to be a bit haggard.
He reached out his hand to shake the captain's hand and said, "Thank you so much, thank you for your hard work. Alright, now that you are in Yun City, you can have a rest and leave the rest to us, the local authorities."
"There is still a group of children on the train car," Just as the captain started to speak. Liu Hongjiang interrupted him, saying, "There are a lot of people here, some words should only be told after enough information is gathered and investigated."
They indeed had to keep their mission confidential. Moreover, there were so many unanswered questions and all these were out of their responsibilities. Hence, they were not in the place to say anything more as they were afraid that they would speak wrongly, resulting in a bad reputation.
Liu Hongjiang was well aware of this fact. He wanted to ensure this case will be closed in a discreet manner without causing any effects and turned it into a normal case.
Liu Hongjiang was quite confident about this. The only thing he could not control was these special forces. However, the strict discipline imposed upon these soldiers would not allow them to leak any information to the public.
Undoubtedly, Liu Hongjiang was indeed playing his cards very well.
He had been very meticulous in his work and also knew very well how to portray it on the surface level.
With a pair of reddened eyes, he still insisted on carrying on with his work, just to personally interrogate those who caused the commotion on the train.
'Commotion' was a word used very nicely.
Liu Hongjiang used the word to determine the severity of the case, directing all the attention toward the commotion of the plane landing on the roof of the train instead of raising up the issue of child trafficking.
He did not set Sixth Brother free because he knew clearly that if he were to release Sixth Brother right now, he would easily allow people to have leverage on him.
Instead, he sentenced Sixth Brother with the crime of causing a ruckus on the train.
On the surface, he seemed to be fair. However, in fact, when one compared the large scale of child trafficking, firearms and a ruckus caused on a train, it was very obvious in which crime seemed to be more serious.
The former would take away Sixth Brother's live, but the latter at most could only jail the Sixth Brother, in which he could be free in no time.
After finishing up his preparation work, he began the actual interrogation.
That being said, he did not interrogate Sixth Brother. Instead, he skipped him and took the records he prepared prior to the interrogation and got ready to interrogate Helian Wei Wei and others.
After all, the faster the result came out for the case related to the train car, the better it was for Liu Hongjiang.
The top management was still waiting for news. If it took too long, it would be unpleasant for him.
The first person Liu Hongjiang interrogated was L. He thought he looked younger and it would be easier for him to extract information. Nevertheless, 20 minutes had passed but regardless of what he asked, that boy never raised his head at all...
Chapter 925 - 921
Liu Hongjiang would have thought that the child was not listening to him nor taking his words seriously if he did not throw a glance at him from time to time.
The truth was, he heard everything but chose not to give any reply.
It was complete silence. Liu Hongjiang took a deep breath before he walked to the second interrogation room. He refused to believe that out of so many people, none of them would get out of control and speak up.
The interrogation room that Liu Hongjiang entered this time was occupied by Suit Man S.
According to Liu Hongjiang's years of observing people's behavior, it would be easier to get something out of a person wearing bright clothing.
As expected, S began to speak the moment Liu Hongjiang entered the door.
However, he uttered, "I'm requesting to contact my lawyer."
There were not many who could afford private lawyers and even fewer understood the meaning of the roles of private lawyers in Mainland China.
With a lawyer present, anything could be settled by a lawyer and the interrogated had the right to remain silent as long as no conclusive evidence had been found linking the interrogated to the incident.
Liu Hongjiang thought that this person was the most troublesome kind to have so he took the initiative. "We will get you a lawyer but you must first tell me why you were on the train."
"Taking the train, of course," S answered with a spurious smile.
At first, Liu Hongjiang thought that this loose-tongued man could be an aid to his plan.
It took him 15 minutes before he realized that the man was tricking him with his answers, none of them were helpful to him at all.
Liu Hongjiang even suspected that this man had been trained for interrogation. All those answers which were perceived to be nonsense were actually well thought out
Taking the one he mentioned earlier as an example.
It seemed as though they were on the train for the sole purpose of taking the train.
Liu Hongjiang's facial expression turned livid and he almost lost his temper. "Enough, stop talking!"
Suit Man S obeyed and shut his mouth as asked. Yet, he fixed his gaze at Liu Hongjiang with a hint of cynicism.
Liu Hongjiang was frustrated for getting nothing after interrogating two people.
Even if he had great influence, an alleged confession was still required to close a case.
Without a confession, he would have to resort to some means of extorting a confession at a later time. There were still many people outside and he had to make himself as less aggressive as possible.
After all, Liu Hongjiang was familiar with the process and he was very good at weighing the pros and cons.
He was planning to interrogate another person. He planned to go for violent methods on these people if he still could not obtain anything.
With that in mind, Liu Hongjiang opened the door of the interrogation room where Helian Wei Wei was at.
Both of them sat opposite to each other, face to face. He always thought that women tend to be hot-headed upon encountering this kind of situation and they would make careless mistakes once they had lost their calm. The same thing would apply even if they had a reason.
However, the woman opposite him seemed to be resting with her eyes half-closed. When he came in, she slowly traced a smile with a languid appearance as if she had been waiting for him.
"We were not the ones who drove the plane. It was said in the papers that the plane was sitting on the roof of the train because it ran out of fuel."
To his surprise, he was gagged by an announcement.
Normally, the information released to the public was to minimize chaos, yet she used it to treat him like a fool.
Liu Hongjiang used to be the one who was looked up to after being in his position all these years. It was not easy for him to keep things to himself at this point with his hot-temper. He sneered, "Both you and I know why that plane landed on the roof of the train. Stop acting like you're innocent anymore, do you think that you can tell lies when you are here?"
"Oh?" Helian Wei Wei raised her eyebrows and smiled. "How about you explain to me why the plane landed on the roof of the train?"
Bang!
Liu Hongjiang slammed his hand on the wooden table. "I'm the one who's interrogating you here, not you. Your partners have already confessed, it is useless for you to be stubborn. You better be honest and explain everything."
"Well, no
w that they've said it, I'll say it too," Helian Wei Wei lowered her eyes, looking like she was ready to confess. In fact, she was only looking for a better angle to capture the other party's expression.
Liu Hongjiang was secretly proud of himself. Haha, women would confess everything after being frightened.
"That plane really isn't ours. We had some minor conflict with the Sixth Brother on the train."
If the phrase 'causing trouble' used by Liu Hongjiang was clever, the phrase 'minor conflict' used by Helian Wei Wei was even more brilliant.
Since he wanted to reduce major issues to minor ones and minor issues to naught, she would adhere to his intention.
Indeed, Liu Hongjiang nodded with satisfaction.
However, to his surprise, Helian Wei Wei continued, "I suppose that you must be very familiar with Sixth Brother," Helian Wei Wei's statement was straightforward, "the Sixth Brother who's involved with human trafficking."
Liu Hongjiang's expression changed and his smile was cold. "What are you talking about? Sixth Brother, who? I don't understand a single thing. This is a slanderous accusation."
"If you really don't know him, why did you care more about where the plane came from instead of where the children on the train came from?" Every word of hers was straight to the point. "I don't believe that no one told you that the whole railroad car was full of children under the age of five who were starving and mentally-crumbled. This is the core of the matter, not the plane. Of course, since you are only concerned about why the plane landed on the roof of the train, I will answer you one more time. We are not the ones who drove the plane. Instead, it was sent out by an anxious father who was searching for his abducted son. Are you satisfied with this answer?"
Liu Hongjiang's eyes sank upon hearing her words. He could see that this group of people would never give in.
"What a sharp-tongued lady! You did something nasty but you won't admit it. You're even trying to slander those who are trying to solve the case."
Helian Wei Wei smiled again, "You mentioned that your concern is to solve the case. So, when will you declare the crime of Sixth Brother? Shouldn't large-scale human trafficking be sentenced to death?"
Upon hearing that, Liu Hongjiang stood up instantly, placing his fingers on the table for support. He looked at Helian Wei Wei coldly, "The crime of trafficking will not be sentenced to death here. What's more, your confession has a great induction of suspicion, there is no authenticity at all."
"Is that so?" Helian Wei Wei let out a laugh suddenly and said meaningfully, "I hope that you'll still be this certain in a moment…"
Chapter 926 - A Tight Slap In The Face
Liu Hongjiang did not understand what Helian Wei Wei meant between the lines initially.
He felt that there was no logic nor reason in her words.
He walked out of the interrogation room and decided to use other methods to interrogate the next person, Baili Jia Jue.
However, his personal cell phone rang before he managed to open the door of the interrogation room.
On the other end of the call was his wife, her voice was dull and raspy, "Oh, what am I going to do, Old Liu? Our Hengheng is missing!"
"Missing? How could that happen?" Liu Hongjiang tilted his head. "Did you search for him in the garden? Perhaps he went to play in the mud?"
"I have looked everywhere but to no avail. All the neighbors said they did not see him around. How can he just disappear after I wake up from my nap?"
Liu Hongjiang felt his stomach churn and his heart plummet. "Calm down. How long has it been since he went missing?"
"I am not exactly sure when he went missing, but I have been finding him for the past three hours. I tried calling you but it never went through. Where have you been the whole night? You are always so busy with work, you don't even have time for your own child!"
Liu Hongjiang spent a night in a hotel, but how could he tell his wife that? He ran his hands through his hair. "Alright, our main priority now is to look for Hengheng. I will settle this matter. In the meantime, you should think if there is anywhere you have yet to search."
If it was a random child who went missing for that long, Liu Hongjiang would definitely hypothesize that the child was kidnapped.
However, this was Yun City, his territory.
Even Sixth Brother had always performed tasks for him, who would dare to kidnap his son?
His son would be safe and sound even if the sky collapsed.
However, it was that exact belief that gave Liu Hongjiang a tight slap in the face right at that moment.
When he wanted to hang up his phone, he heard a shriek from the other end of the call, "Ah!"
"What's the matter?" Liu Hongjiang urged.
The voice in the phone turned into sobs of agony, "Old Liu, someone...someone kidnapped Hengheng."
"That's impossible!" Liu Hongjiang raised his voice.
"How is that not possible? The kidnappers sent a letter, saying that you sinned too much. You allowed child trafficking, and you would do anything to your own benefit. That is the reason they kidnapped Hengheng. They also asked you to think of what you did to those children who had memories of the past - they will do the same to Hengheng." She clutched onto a picture of her son tightly while nagging him. "Old Liu, I don't understand. What happened to those children with memories?"
Liu Hongjiang felt chills up his spine and an unprecedented haunting sense of fear upon hearing that. He knew how Sixth Brother treated the 'products'. The harder it was to move the products, the more troublesome it was for them.
They had a method to make the children more obedient. For the children who still had memories, they would disable them by amputating their limbs before dumping them on the streets to beg for money.
Liu Hongjiang could not bring himself to think of an image that seemed normal to him previously as now it was such a dreadful scene for him to even imagine it.
"Old Liu, say something, Old Liu." Old Liu's wife was panicked over the phone, she had a bad feeling in her gut about this.
Liu Hongjiang's words verified her concern. "I will go search now, I will talk to you again once everything is settled."
After hanging up the call, Liu Hongjiang sent his men to search up all the surveillance cameras nearby. After some hard work, they finally found a delivery boy. He sent some people over, only to find a vacant car that had been dumped by the roadside.
It was obviously a well-thought-out job that used intricate skills and plans. There was almost no flaw nor loophole. Even if one wanted to track them down, there was no clue of where one should start looking.
It had been almost five hours since Liu Hongheng's disappearance before Liu Hongjiang finally understood the meaning behind Helian Wei Wei's words.
His eyes twitched and his hands clenched in fists. He was furious. He kicked open the door of the interrogation room and stomped in.
"You are the one who kidnapped Hengheng, right?" Liu Hongjiang looked straight at Helian Wei Wei, looking like he wanted to strangle her on the spot. "Where is Hengheng? I demand you to hand him over now!"
Helian Wei Wei leaned back, her tone was calm, "Why are you so anxious? This is only one child. You were not as anxious over the whole railroad car of children trapped in the sleeper train."
"Stop talking crap. I'm going to ask you again. Where is our Hengheng!" Liu Hongjiang was tripping on the edge of his sanity.
Helian Wei Wei glared back at him. "Are you feeling awful? There are 661 cities in Mainland China, out of them there are four province-level cities, 283 prefecture-level cities, and 374 district-level cities. Those parents who want to locate their children would have to spend two years and travel to a different city every day to complete the search in the whole Mainland China. I have not even started on the 1636 counties within these cities. It would take them seven years to finish searching all these places, and by that time, their child would have grown up already. The parents will not have a clue about what their child looks like by then
. The lucky ones may stand a chance, but the unlucky ones might spend their whole life searching. They might never see their child ever again. This is all because of child trafficking. You know what Sixth Brother does for a living, yet you let him be. As long as you got your benefits and nobody found out or exposed anything, you would allow it to happen. Here's a question for you - if it was your child who was kidnapped, would you still outrage your conscience for money?
Upon hearing that, Liu Hongjiang's expression was as cold as ice, "It is indeed your tactic! What do you want? Do you want to be released without charges? Do you even know who is in charge of the whole of Yun City? Yet, you came here acting like a hero. Let me tell you one thing. If you do not hand me Hengheng by today, you can choke on a bullet!"
"That's weird. Didn't you say that trafficking will never be a death sentence in Mainland China, no matter how big the scandal? Now that your son is in trouble, you're changing the sentence?" Helian Wei Wei raised her eyebrows with a faint smile. She then moved her finger and made a command fitting to her situation via her Bluetooth earphone.
Liu Hongjiang was enraged over her words that his face flushed purple. He decided that he would give her a heavy punishment since he had the right to make decisions.
As for Hengheng, he did not believe that he would not be able to find him. He was the one who made the rules in Yun City!
Chapter 927 - His Highness And Shangxie
"Are we just going to stay here? Without going anywhere?" Baili Shangxie spoke to his father for the very first time, his face expressionless and his hands were folded in front of his c.h.e.s.t. He looked cool with a punk leather jacket and a pair of goggles in his hair. "I'd rather stay with my brother than stay with you."
Baili Jia Jue glanced at his son who stood beside him, his tone casual, "It's rare that we still have a consensus. Unfortunately, I am now the father who landed on a train desperately to look for his son so you better behave. Or else, why should I travel thousands of miles to save you?"
"I'm amazed that you actually listen to Imperial Mother." Baili Shangxie's tone had a hint of sarcasm.
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