“You—what are you trying to do? I’m warning you, I come from eight generations of poor peasants! I—!”
Wei Chunshe widened his eyes and shouted loudly, trying to steady himself and summon courage.
The Director of the Public Security Bureau, He Ju, looked down at Wei Chunshe with a cold, contemptuous gaze filled with hatred.
Eight generations of poor peasants? What a joke.
Thinking of the shrine to Amaterasu hidden in the Wei family’s secret room, He Ju understood everything instantly.
This Wei Chunshe was an enemy agent who had infiltrated deep into the people’s ranks. Eight generations of poor peasants? Damn him!
“Wei Chunshe… oh, Wei Chunshe, you really are something,” He Ju said coldly, then roared, “Take him away. All of them.”
“Yes!” Two officers immediately stepped forward, grabbed Wei Chunshe, and dragged him away.
Under the effect of the sedative, his legs were weak and powerless. He was hauled along like a dead dog and shoved into a vehicle.
As he struggled desperately and refused to get in, he suddenly turned his head and saw the bloodied mess between Wei Guangming’s legs.
He instantly stopped struggling.
“Guangming! Guangming, what happened to you, Guangming?” A terrible premonition surged in his heart. “What happened to my son?! What happened?!”
“Your son had his little thing cut off. What do you think happened?” one officer sneered. “Wei Chunshe, just who did you offend?”
To be honest, seeing the enemy agent’s son reduced like that gave the officers a sense of satisfaction. Evil people deserved retribution.
“What? What did you say?” Wei Chunshe felt his vision go dark. Cut off… how could that be cut off?
Who? Who hated him this much?
No matter how he thought, he could not figure out who was targeting him. Before he could even understand, another officer came out of the kitchen carrying a box covered in black cloth.
Just one glance made Wei Chunshe feel cold all the way to his bones.
He knew it—he was finished. Completely finished.
Once an enemy agent was exposed in this era, there was no way to survive.
Hidden in the shadows, Lu Qingqing watched as the officers took away the Wei family of three. She nodded in satisfaction.
Enemy agents deserved to die.
She looked up at the sky. The morning star had already risen in the east. Time to go home and rest.
Meanwhile, Zhang Shan found Zhang Cheng, and the two argued loudly, but neither could convince the other.
Zhang Shan had personally watched the boxes being loaded onto the truck. He saw them sealed himself, and each box was full of goods.
The quality of this batch was better than anything before. If not for Zhang Cheng’s tempting price, he would not have taken it out.
Now Zhang Cheng claimed the entire shipment was empty—how could Zhang Shan believe that?
Zhang Shan firmly believed Zhang Cheng wanted to swallow the goods for himself.
He used to think Zhang Cheng was decent and even introduced him to profitable connections. Turns out he had raised a wolf.
Before leaving, Zhang Shan pointed at Zhang Cheng’s nose and told him to wait. Zhang Cheng was no soft target either and demanded repayment.
Neither backed down. They parted in anger.
Zhang Cheng had not even finished his cup of hot tea when a panicked subordinate rushed in with devastating news.
“Boss… the treasures in the secret room are gone!”
Zhang Cheng’s vision went black repeatedly.
“Gone? All gone?”
“Yes. If not for a new shipment entering storage, we wouldn’t have even discovered it.”
Zhang Cheng closed his eyes hard, trying to suppress his rage—but failed. He smashed the teacup and rushed toward the secret room.
After seeing it, his legs nearly gave out.
Thinking of the other hidden stash, he hurried over again. But when he opened the storage room, his legs completely collapsed.
When he finally opened the hidden entrance and went down, the moment he saw what was inside, he fainted on the spot.
Before blacking out, only one thought remained:
He was done for.
Zhang Shan returned home full of anger. When he opened the door, he almost thought he had entered the wrong house.
He stepped back out and checked—this was indeed his courtyard.
Inside the bedroom, all the furniture had vanished, and on the floor lay his wife.
He looked closer. It was indeed his wife, Wang Li.
“Wang Li! Wang Li!” Zhang Shan called out, shaking her, but she did not wake. He quickly realized she had been drugged.
Thinking of his two sons, he rushed over—and what he saw made his blood run cold.
The two boys were in an even worse state, lying on the freezing floor with no blankets.
This was attempted murder.
Without checking what else was missing, Zhang Shan called the neighbors and asked them to help send the three to the hospital.
He then reported the case and stayed home to check losses.
The more he looked, the colder his heart became. The only relief was that the account books were not in the house.
If those records had been stolen, he would have been finished.
He even praised his own cleverness.
Meanwhile, back at home, Lu Qingqing returned, lay on her bed, and entered her space.
What she saw made her extremely satisfied.
She was rich. Truly rich.
Boxes upon boxes of treasures—more than the Lu family’s entire fortune. And stacks of cash totaling hundreds of thousands.
Of course, she did not care most about the wealth. She did not intend to keep it for herself.
When conditions improved, she would donate it to the country, or set up a private museum if no proper institution could accept it.
What she wanted most was evidence of Zhang Shan’s crimes.
She searched carefully through everything taken from Zhang Shan’s home, even checking the bed, but found nothing.
She did not believe Zhang Shan was clean. Not even a word.
She searched the items taken from the base again—still no account books.
Something was wrong. Very wrong.
Zhang Shan must have another secret base.
She decided to stake him out. Since his home had been emptied, he would definitely go check his hidden stash.
If she watched closely, she would eventually find something.
After deciding, she ate a little and fell asleep.
Elsewhere, in the hospital, Wei Guangming woke up.
His mind shattered the moment he realized it.
After waking up… he now had to pee while squatting.
He completely could not accept it.
Who did this? Who on earth did this?!