Chapter 275 You've helped me so much, help me again
Li Shang did not answer directly. He hesitated for a moment and made a hushing gesture to Hou Wendong. Then he took out his mobile phone, dialed a number and turned on the speaker.
The receiver emitted a "beep beep" waiting tone, and each sound seemed to be beating at Hou Wendong's heart.
The waiting time was extremely long, and every passing second magnified Hou Wendong's fear. The torment was even greater than the week of torture he had endured.
The call was connected, and a man's mellow voice came out: "Hello, Captain Li."
Hou Wendong's eyes widened angrily, and he immediately recognized the familiar voice.
Li Shang glanced at Hou Wendong, took a deep breath and said, "Secretary Du, I have good news for you. I have found Secretary Hou."
The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became anxious: "What, when was he found, where is he?"
Li Shang replied: "Just now, we found Secretary Hou in an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the city. He is still alive."
There was silence for a moment on the other end of the phone, then the question was asked, "But this week's search and rescue has yielded no results. Hasn't the operation been declared a failure? How did you..."
Li Shang sighed softly and said:
“Yes, although Li Xiuwan provided the truth, we never found any of the several places she told us where her ex-husband might be hiding.
Li Xiuwan didn’t seem to be lying, so the search and rescue operation had to be temporarily suspended. However, just now, I unexpectedly received a tip-off…”
On the other end of the phone, Du Ziteng, who was awakened late at night, was even more irritated in his already bad mood.
He sat up suddenly from the bed, gritted his teeth, and asked word by word: "Tip?"
The suppressed anger in his tone seemed to flow along the telephone line, lowering the temperature in the entire warehouse by several degrees.
Li Shang's eyes fell on Hou Wendong's tightly bitten lips again, and he explained calmly:
"This is a message from the gang below. We received a lot of similar intelligence this week. I had almost no hope and just took Chang Erbing over for a routine check. Unexpectedly..."
Li Shang paused for a moment, his voice becoming deep and dark. "In the end, we did find Secretary Hou. The situation was extremely critical at the time, Er Bing and I didn't have time to report to the bureau, so we had to act immediately. Fortunately, the result was good. We subdued the criminals and rescued Secretary Hou."
Du Ziteng's face turned pale. He had hinted at Li Shang with words before. He didn't believe that Li Shang had the divine ability to solve cases and would not be able to understand his hints.
"So, Li Shang deliberately confirmed with me again so that I would accept his favor?" Du Ziteng frowned and thought secretly.
Du Ziteng could understand Li Shang's concerns, but he was still a little annoyed. To put it nicely, this style of doing things was cautious, but to put it bluntly, it exposed the other party's petty nature.
There was a brief silence on the phone.
Li Shang and Chang Erbing looked at each other, with a hidden look in their eyes. Hou Wendong didn't notice it. He pricked up his ears, all his attention was on the phone, and his lips were bitten to pieces.
After a long while, a response came from the phone, and the voice was unusually low: "So, after you rescued Secretary Hou, you reported directly to me, and didn't even bother to notify others, is that right?"
Li Shang answered without hesitation: "Yes, Secretary Du, I called you the moment I rescued Secretary Hou."
The voice on the other end of the phone became increasingly deep, with an indescribable weirdness in the deepness:
"So, there are only you and Chang Erbing here, right?"
Li Shang took a deep breath and said firmly, "That's right, Secretary Du."
On the other end of the phone, Du Ziteng crawled out of the warm bed and stepped naked on the cold tiles.
The room was a little cold and goose bumps appeared on his body. He slowly squatted down and hid his entire face in his knees.
He listened to the phone in a low voice, with a barely perceptible tremor in his voice:
"Captain Li, I'm glad you solved this case. I will definitely commend you to the congressman. I think with Captain Li's ability, he is more than qualified to be the chief of the police station. So, Captain Li, don't forget what you promised me when you sat on that chair that day."
Li Shang remained silent deliberately for three seconds. These three seconds made Secretary Du extremely tormented and Secretary Hou feel like every second was a year.
Three seconds later, Li Shang asked unsurely, "You want me to kill Secretary Hou, right?"
Du Ziteng felt even more uncomfortable when he heard Li Shang's straightforward question, but at this moment, his reason had been ignited by ambition and he didn't care about much else.
Du Ziteng was shocked by Li Shang's direct question and felt a little unhappy, but at this moment, his ambition was like a raging fire, devouring his reason.
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He suddenly raised his head, revealing his face from behind his knees. His face, soaked in cold sweat, was filled with grim cruelty. His voice was cold and resolute as it came out of the microphone:
"Captain Li, you will be in charge of the police station in the future. How can you be so careless in your words? Secretary Hou was clearly tortured to death by the criminals. Captain Li, you were just a little late."
Hou Wendong lost control of his emotions when he heard this. His voice became sharp and piercing due to anger and despair: "Du Ziteng, you despicable villain, have you forgotten who brought you into the secretarial team? It was me, Hou Wendong, who promoted you to the position. I helped you so much, and you..."
On the other end of the phone, Du Ziteng's five fingers were tightly gripping the phone, his knuckles turned white from the force. He did not respond to Hou Wendong's scolding, but just waited silently.
After a few seconds of silence, Li Shang's calm voice came over the phone: "Secretary Du, do you have anything else to say to Secretary Hou?"
Du Ziteng didn't have much to say at first, but when asked by Li Shang, he couldn't help but sigh and slowly said into the microphone:
"Secretary Hou, I know you have helped me a lot, so please help me one last time. I promise that I, Du Ziteng, will be grateful for your kindness to me for the rest of my life."
Hou Wendong wanted to curse more, but Li Shang grabbed his throat again. He could only gasp weakly, and the sound was full of despair and unwillingness.
Du Ziteng listened to the struggling gasps coming from the microphone, and said with a little reluctance in his heart: "Captain Li, Secretary Hou is afraid of pain, let him die peacefully."
Li Shang said coldly and forcefully into the microphone: "Okay, Secretary Du, please accept my condolences."
Hearing the words "My condolences", Du Ziteng couldn't bear to listen to Secretary Hou's dying gasps. He was afraid that his conscience would be too tormented and he would have nightmares when he fell asleep.
Du Ziteng hung up the phone and collapsed on the cold tiles as if exhausted, with layers of trembling goose bumps appearing on his delicate skin.
At first, a suppressed and low laugh like crying came out of his throat intermittently, but it soon gradually turned into an unbridled and crazy laugh.
…….(End of this chapter)
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