Looking back now, it was a life-or-death situation.

Li Jin's major blood vessels in his abdomen were punctured by a knife, and his entire abdominal cavity was filled with blood. If he hadn't been taken to the hospital in time today, Li Jin would have died from massive bleeding.

Li Xiangdong sent Bai Yulong to the village to pick up Li Lan, and asked her and Zhao Sufang to take care of Li Jin. He himself took Zhao Xiaojun and Zhou Hongsong to interrogate the madman.

This matter is suspicious.

His father was a demobilized soldier. Although he was over forty years old, he still had some fighting skills. He wouldn't have been stabbed so deeply by a violent madman without being able to fight back at all.

Besides, why would this madman come all the way to Lijiapo to stab Li Jin?

Lijiapo, the brigade headquarters.

The madman was tied up and thrown in a corner, but he showed no fear on his face. Instead, he hummed an unknown tune.

Li Xiangdong pushed open the door and walked in.

He walked up to the madman, looked at the grinning man, and stretched out his hand, swinging his arm in a wide arc.

"Smack—"

"Smack—"

After being slapped twice, Li Xiangdong's hands went numb from the impact.

The madman's cheeks instantly swelled up, his eyes flashed coldly as he stared directly at Li Xiangdong, spitting out a mouthful of bloody foam, and then muttered, "You're asking for death!"

Li Xiangdong dragged over a chair and sat down in front of the madman. "Not mad anymore?"

"Heh heh, you think I'm not crazy just because you say so?"

Someone who can speak with such clear logic is definitely not crazy.

Why did you kill my father?

"Hahahaha, I'm crazy, I don't even know what I just did."

Li Xiangdong gritted his teeth.

Zhou Hongsong pulled Li Xiangdong away, saying, "Leave this kind of idiot to me!"

For some reason, the madman suddenly shuddered.

He abandoned his previous arrogant demeanor when facing Li Xiangdong, and looked warily at Zhou Hongsong who was approaching, asking nervously, "What are you going to do?"

"Hehehe, you're not crazy anymore?"

...

Zhao Xiaojun pinched his nose, leaned close to Li Xiangdong's face, and said in a muffled voice, "That's a really underhanded trick."

Zhou Hongsong couldn't stay in the room any longer either. He ran out of the room, gagging, shouting, "Whose pee is that? It smells so damn awful!"

Zhao Xiaojun chuckled sheepishly, "I've been a bit feverish these past few days..."

Li Xiangdong looked through the glass at the mentally unstable man inside who was doing the "airplane squat." He saw that the man's hands were tied behind his back to the window frame, and at this height, he could only bend his knees halfway, unable to squat down or stand up straight.

Especially since there was a chamber pot under his nose, no matter how he turned his head, he couldn't escape the attack of this biological weapon.

Zhou Hongsong said, "When Scarface was first sent to the detention center, they made him squat in the air all night long. They didn't beat or scold him. After a day and a half, he couldn't take it anymore."

Li Xiangdong nodded.

Zhao Xiaojun leaned over and told him everything he knew about the madman, like spilling beans from a bamboo tube.

"Second brother, this madman is from Jinniu Township. He has killed people before. They are an elderly couple who live across the street from him!"

As soon as he was arrested and put in jail, he claimed that he had a mental illness!

After the psychiatric hospital completed the evaluation, they issued him a certificate confirming that he did indeed have a mental illness!

The police had no choice but to arrest him, detain him for a few days, and then send him to a mental hospital for compulsory treatment.

I just don't know how he managed to escape from the mental hospital!

Zhao Xiaojun's sister married into KouDai Village in Jinniu Township, and she knew this notorious martial arts madman well.

Why is he called a martial arts fanatic?

This man is violent and prone to fighting when he gets angry; he's an extremely dangerous person. That's why he's called the "Martial Madman," not because his surname is Wu (武). On the contrary, his surname is Xu (徐)...

Li Xiangdong's mind went blank for a moment, "Xiao Jun, what did you say his name is?"

"Ah, his name is Xu Zhonghou."

"Xu Zhonghou, Xu Zhonghou, madman, Xu the Madman, mental hospital, Wang Shuli..."

Li Xiangdong seemed to have suddenly connected all the dots!

Wang Shuli had been the vice president of his company for so many years, so Li Xiangdong was aware of his family situation.

He remembered that Wang Shuli's aunt was a director at the Dongfang City Mental Hospital. To be able to release a "madman" with a prior murder conviction, it seemed that Wang Shuli had pulled a lot of strings inside...

Thinking about this, Li Xiangdong knew that this matter was inextricably linked to the Pan family.

He and his father had previously ousted Hu Shusong and Pan Dachun from power, thus creating a feud.

Now that the Pan family has sent a madman to stab someone, even if he kills the whole family, the madman will simply be forced to serve a few more years in prison.

Because the madman is "licensed to kill," it's not considered a crime...

Thinking of this, Li Xiangdong quickly walked up to Wu Fengzi, grabbed his hair hard, and with a forceful pull, Wu Fengzi's eyes slanted upwards.

"Did Pan Jixian and Wang Shuli send you?"

Suddenly, the madman's eyes narrowed, and he let out a chuckle, baring his large yellow teeth as if to bite.

"Second brother, be careful! He might really be having a relapse!"

Zhao Xiaojun, standing behind him, shouted a reminder.

Li Xiangdong's heart sank. There was no need to ask any more questions; this madman could not be kept alive any longer.

He glanced around the room, then grabbed a wooden stick from the corner and struck the madman hard on the head.

The madman rolled his eyes and his head drooped limply.

Li Xiangdong asked Zhou Hongsong and Zhao Xiaojun to help him get off the rope.

As Zhao Xiaojun untied the rope, he asked, puzzled, "Second Brother, are we taking him to the police station?"

Li Xiangdong kept moving his hands, and shook his head.

"Is that going to the police station? Isn't Director Chen on pretty good terms with you..."

Li Xiangdong didn't answer. He ran into the yard and pushed in a wheelbarrow.

"Fifth Brother, Xiao Jun, put him in the car and tie him up! Then you go tell Brother Da Xing and the others that I've taken this madman to the police station to report him!"

Zhao Huaxing and the other two were guarding Wu Fengzi on Li Kang's orders when Li Xiangdong arrived, and told them to go home for dinner first.

Looking at Wu Fengzi, who was tied up like a pig to the wheelbarrow, Zhao Xiaojun said worriedly, "Let me go with you. Pushing this wheelbarrow like this is too tiring. Let's find a tractor instead..."

Zhou Hongsong glanced at Li Xiangdong and interrupted Zhao Xiaojun, "Xiangdong and I will go. You go and take care of what he asked for!"

After saying that, he took the lead in pushing the wheelbarrow.

Zhao Xiaojun had no choice but to watch the two walk further and further away.

Suddenly, he sensed something was wrong and hurriedly shouted to the two of them, "Hey, Second Brother, Fifth Brother, you're on the wrong path! That's the way to the lotus pond..."