Chapter 244 Full-Scale Crackdown
Meanwhile, on the top floor of the Huo Group headquarters, in the conference room.
"You're insane! You're a madman!"
Huo Qishan finally recovered from his brief shock. Like a lion that had been completely enraged, he suddenly overturned the conference table in front of him.
The heavy mahogany table crashed to the ground with a dull thud, scattering teacups and documents everywhere.
"Guards! Arrest her! Seal off the building! Not a single fly is allowed to get out!" He pointed at Bai Shu and roared at the bodyguards already at the door.
"You think your people can escape from Nightingale Island? Dream on! Let me tell you, you won't get out of here, and your people won't leave that island either!"
Several bodyguards in black suits reacted and immediately stepped forward.
But Bai Zhu remained seated calmly, even taking the time to pick up the untouched spare teacup next to him and pour himself a glass of water.
She didn't even glance at the bodyguards rushing towards her; instead, she turned her head to look out the huge floor-to-ceiling window at the night sky stained with neon lights.
She whispered, "Listen, what's that sound?"
Huo Qishan was taken aback.
What was that sound?
The next second, a wailing siren, growing louder and louder as it approached, pierced the night sky over Hong Kong Island.
"Waaah—waaah—"
The piercing sirens seemed to come not from one street, but from all directions simultaneously, quickly enveloping the entire Huo Group building.
The color drained completely from Huo Qishan's face in an instant.
He rushed to the window and looked down. Below, a dozen police cars with flashing red and blue lights had completely blocked all the building's exits. A large number of uniformed Hong Kong police officers were jumping out of the vehicles and setting up a cordon.
How could this be...? How could the police be here?!
Before he could figure it out, the conference room door was violently slammed open from the outside.
A group of heavily armed police officers rushed in, led by a senior superintendent with three stars on his shoulders. He had a square face, a serious expression, and an imposing presence.
His sharp gaze swept across the conference room, finally settling on Huo Qishan.
“Mr. Huo Qishan,” the superintendent’s voice was loud and clear, without a trace of emotion.
"We are from the Hong Kong Island Regional Crime Unit. We suspect you of multiple serious offenses, including unlawful detention, intentional injury, smuggling, and market manipulation. Please come with us to assist with the investigation!"
"What?" Huo Qishan was completely stunned; he could hardly believe his ears. "What right do you have to arrest me? Where's the evidence?"
"evidence?"
A voice he knew all too well rang out from behind the superintendent.
The crowd parted, and his younger brother, Huo Jingran, emerged from behind a group of police officers.
The previous fawning and ingratiating expression on Huo Jingran's face was gone, replaced by a complex look that mixed pleasure, fear, and determination. He held a thick black ledger high in his hand.
"Brother, here's the evidence you wanted." He looked at his brother, whose face was ashen, with the air of a victor.
“Every shady business deal you made, every person you harmed, is remembered clearly here.”
"You...you..." Huo Qishan pointed at Huo Jingran, trembling with rage, unable to utter a single word. He never dreamed that the one who would stab him in the back would be his own younger brother, whom he had never taken seriously.
"Why?" he squeezed out the three words through gritted teeth.
Huo Jingran smiled bitterly: "Why? When you treated me like a dog, why didn't you ask why? When you treated the Huo family as your own, and we all had to live according to your whims, why didn't you ask why!"
He turned to the superintendent and bowed deeply: "Sir, I request to become a witness for the prosecution. I am willing to cooperate with all your investigations!"
The superintendent nodded and waved his hand: "Take him away!"
Two police officers immediately stepped forward and supported the distraught Huo Qishan from both sides.
The once arrogant young master of the Huo family was now dragged out of the conference room like a spineless dead dog.
Throughout the entire process, Bai Zhu simply watched quietly, picked up his teacup, and took a small sip.
...
Meanwhile, on Nightingale Island.
The gunfire had subsided, and the air was thick with the smell of gunpowder and blood.
Lu Jingyan's team had completed their mission. Qin Zheng carried the still unconscious Lu Jingyue on his back, while the other two team members supported Anderson, whose jaw and knees had been dislocated and who could only make "hoarse" sounds. The German expert, Schmidt, was crouching on the ground like a frightened quail, trembling uncontrollably with his hands covering his head.
"Boss, there are people all over the outside, they've surrounded us!" a team member on guard reported in a low voice.
Outside the laboratory building, alarms blared, countless beams of flashlight beams crisscrossed in the thick fog, and footsteps and shouts surged from all directions, surrounding the solitary building like an iron barrel.
"Prepare to break out." Lu Jingyan's voice was completely calm as he checked the bullets in his gun.
Just then, a huge roar suddenly rang out on the sea. It wasn't the sound of an ordinary fishing boat or cargo ship engine, but the roar unique to a high-powered speedboat.
Immediately afterwards, several beams of light, even more dazzling than searchlights, pierced through the thick fog, illuminating the entire Nightingale Island as bright as day.
A dignified male voice came through a loudspeaker, resounding throughout the entire sea area.
"Listen up, people on the island! We are the Hong Kong Island Marine Police! You are surrounded! Drop your weapons immediately, put your hands behind your heads, and surrender on the spot! I repeat, drop your weapons immediately!"
The guards on the island, who had been so imposing, were all stunned and looked up at the sea.
In the thick fog, one after another, gray-white patrol boats bearing police insignia rushed over like a school of sharks, forming an even tighter encirclement around the island.
On the lead command ship, a middle-aged man in a crisp military uniform, with a gleaming star on his shoulder, was holding binoculars and watching the chaos on the island with a blank expression.
His figure was as steady as a mountain, and just by standing there, he exuded an aura of authority that commanded respect without anger.
The moment Qin Zheng saw that figure, he was so excited he almost shouted out loud.
General Lu Zhenguo, the father of Brigade Commander Lu! What could he be doing here?!
It turns out that Bai Shu's plan was never a simple business revenge from the beginning. On the night the final offensive plan was formulated, she secretly sent a complete action plan along with evidence that the Huo family was using Hong Kong Island as a base to endanger national security to the Lu family in Beijing.
Lu Zhenguo acted decisively, and under the guise of a "joint counter-terrorism exercise," he personally led a previously undisclosed special naval force to the high seas off Hong Kong Island before the operation even began.
Dong Cunshan's fleet was the first layer of the net, responsible for blocking and confusing the enemy.
But the force of heroes that appeared out of nowhere, led by Lu Zhenguo, is the real hidden trump card, the last one to ensure the plan's success!
Once Lu Jingyan is successfully rescued, they will intervene with lightning speed to complete the most thorough "official cleanup".
The guards on the island were nothing more than demobilized soldiers and outlaws hired by the Huo family at high salaries. They were fine for bullying ordinary people, but when faced with the dark muzzles of guns and the heavy machine guns mounted on the naval speedboats, all their will to resist crumbled instantly.
"Don't shoot! I surrender!"
With a clang, the first person threw away the gun in his hand.
The sound seemed contagious, and soon after, the sounds of weapons hitting the ground echoed one after another.
The guards, who had been so fierce just moments before, scrambled to their feet and crouch down on the ground, covering their heads.
The Huo family spent countless sums of money and effort building their maritime fortress over a decade, only to find it as fragile as a sheet of paper in the face of absolute national power.
The land collapsed.
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