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Zhou Zhenguo was stunned: "What's wrong with her?"
"Zhong Ling is in Qingyang City, Donghua Province." Qiao Jianmin recounted the story without adding any exaggeration, because the fact itself was already infuriating.
From the city to the province, every word left Zhou Zhenguo speechless.
After listening, Zhou Zhenguo fell silent.
He was not furious, but his face was calm. However, those who knew him knew that this was a sign of his extreme anger.
"Good, very good." Zhou Zhenguo uttered a few words slowly, with a chill in his voice.
"We've worked so hard here, and all we've managed to do is raise a bunch of them like this... Ugh!"
"Let Comrade Zhong Ling collect the evidence in person? And send it in written form?" Zhou Zhenguo laughed angrily.
"Why don't they let Comrade Zhong Ling drink a sip of the water in the industrial park and write a 3,000-word tasting report?"
"Minister, now is not the time to hold people accountable." Qiao Jianmin had calmed down. "Comrade Zhong Ling is waiting for our response within a day."
"One day?" Zhou Zhenguo's eyes narrowed. "That's too long! I need to see the results in half a day!"
He grabbed the phone on the table and dialed directly to an encrypted line.
"Connecting Hua Jiwei, Deputy Secretary Wang... Yes, it's me, Zhou Zhenguo. I have an urgent mission that requires your personal attention... Yes, it's of a very serious nature."
The person on the other end of the phone realized the seriousness of the matter because of Zhou Zhenguo's serious tone.
"Let me give you a name, Lei Zheng." Zhou Zhenguo spoke very quickly.
"Have him take your most elite troops and immediately board the nearest special plane to fly directly to Donghua Province.
He is authorized to mobilize all judicial and law enforcement resources in Donghua Province without having to report to the local authorities.
Arrest first, interrogate later."
"Mission target: Qingyang City, East Suburb Industrial Park.
Mission requirements: Thorough investigation, catch them all, not a single one can be spared."
"Time limit," he glanced at the clock on the wall, "From now on, within eight hours, I want to see everyone's handling results and feedback reports.
Remember, this is a death order!"
At this time, in the private room of the most luxurious "Genting Palace" club in Qingyang City, people were toasting each other.
Director Liu of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, with a beer belly and a flushed face, raised his glass and said, "Boss He, don't worry!
As long as I, Liu, am here, that piece of land in the eastern suburbs will definitely belong to you, Hongtu Chemical!"
Sitting in the main seat was He Jianjun, the largest sodium-ion investor in Qingyang City and the CEO of Hongtu Chemical Plant.
He laughed heartily and filled Director Liu's glass with wine. "Director Liu, thank you for your hard work! Come, I toast you!"
Sitting at the last seat was the young clerk, Xiao Li, who answered the phone this afternoon.
He is Director Liu's nephew and is feeling a little proud at the moment.
He held up his wine glass and jokingly said, "Uncle, Mr. He, you don't know that there was another blind person who called this afternoon.
I retorted her with just a few words, it was hilarious!"
"Hahaha, well done!" Director Liu patted his nephew's shoulder with approval, "When dealing with these people, you can't be nice to them!"
Everyone at the table burst into laughter, looking very happy.
None of them noticed that the door of the box was quietly pushed open from the outside.
A group of men in black suits and with stern expressions walked in.
The leader was about forty years old, with a serious face and sharp eyes.
His eyes were fixed directly on Director Liu and He Jianjun.
"Are you Liu Fengshan?" The leading man spoke in a low voice, which scared everyone.
Director Liu was drunk and was about to lose his temper, scolding someone for being so ignorant of the rules.
But when his eyes met the small red, gold-embossed notebook in the man's hand, the drunkenness instantly disappeared and cold sweat broke out on his head.
That is... Hua Jiwei’s ID!
"I... I am..." Director Liu's tongue was tied and the fat on his face kept shaking.
"Are you He Jianjun?" The man looked at the CEO of Hongtu Chemical again.
He Jianjun's expression was even uglier than Director Liu's.
He has been active in the province for many years and knows the importance of this certificate better than Director Liu.
"I am." He responded with difficulty.
"My name is Lei Zheng." The man introduced himself.
"Task force leader Liu Jianguo, He Fengshan, and everyone present, please follow us and cooperate with the investigation."
As soon as he finished speaking, the team members behind him took away everyone at the table.
Director Liu's nephew, Xiao Li, was still in a daze and screamed, "What are you doing! Do you know who my uncle is? What right do you have to arrest him?"
Lei Zheng glanced at him coldly, and that look made Xiao Li speechless instantly.
"Why?" Lei Zheng's lips curled up in a cold arc, "Because of what you did."
Before he could finish his words, a group of people were taken out of the box, leaving only a table full of leftovers.
Eastern suburbs of Qingyang City.
Zhong Ling found a small Malatang restaurant on the street and ordered a bowl of Malatang.
The shop owner was a man in his fifties, who chatted with her while busying himself: "Girl, are you from out of town?
Everything is good here, except the air...
Alas, it’s no use saying anything.
After so many years, it’s still the same.”
Zhong Ling smiled, said nothing, picked up a fish ball and put it in her mouth.
At this moment, she keenly felt that the air had become different.
She raised her head and looked towards the eastern suburbs.
It's very fast.
The sky seems to be a little bluer.
Zhong Ling withdrew her gaze and continued to eat her spicy hot pot.
Mm, it tastes good.
It was not until the next morning that the citizens of Qingyang City realized that something was different.
The first people to notice the changes were the sanitation workers and breakfast vendors who worked from dawn to dusk.
"Old Wang, smell it, is there no more smell today?" A sanitation worker who was sweeping the street stopped, sniffed hard, and his face was full of surprise.
Lao Wang also stopped sweeping, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. Disbelief was evident in his cloudy eyes. "Hey, you're right, it's true! The smell is gone!"
In the past, the dawn in Qingyang City was always shrouded in a layer of gray mist, but today, the air was so fresh that it made people a little uncomfortable. They could even smell the fragrance of the soil in the roadside flower beds when they lowered their heads.
More people took to the streets, and they all raised their heads and looked towards the eastern sky.
"Hongtu Chemical has stopped production?"
"Impossible? Wasn't there still smoke yesterday?"
"I heard that last night some divine soldiers came down from the sky and took all those people away!" An old man who was doing morning exercises in the park lowered his voice and spoke in a mysterious way, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
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