Chapter 46: These two clearly look like high-ranking figures of Tazhai, tie them up!

Soon, Lin Wendong arrived at the village committee's surveillance room.

"Brother Dong, take a look."

Li Wenwu pulled up the recent surveillance footage.

"This bald guy..."

Seeing Wang Dalong, Lin Wendong narrowed his eyes. Lin Wenwu said from the side, "Brother Dong, this is one of the bosses of the group that came to our village today!"

"So that's how it is!" Lin Wendong nodded as he watched their lips moving in the video.

"Sneaking over the wall into our Tazhai in the middle of the night, they definitely don't mean any good!" Lin Wenwu said decisively.

"Hehe~ They lost five million to us during the day, so they've come to get even," Lin Wendong said with a faint smile.

"What should we do? Should we call the police, or gather the villagers directly and beat these four out of here?"

Lin Wendong thought for a moment and waved his hand. "They've only climbed the wall into our village so far and haven't done anything yet. Even if we call the police, they will only give them a verbal warning."

"Gathering the villagers to beat them out might work once or twice, but it treats the symptoms rather than the root cause."

Listening to Lin Wendong's analysis, Lin Wenwu frowned and asked in confusion, "Then we're just going to let them be?"

"No!" A playful smile curved the corner of Lin Wendong's mouth. "Their purpose in coming to Tazhai this time is to kidnap someone of importance from our village, and use them to force the other villagers to pay back their online loans."

Lin Wenwu was stunned and blurted out, "How do you know, Brother Dong?"

"I could tell from their lip-reading just now!"

Lin Wenwu was even more bewildered. When did his Brother Dong learn lip-reading?

What he did not know was that Lin Wendong possessed the skill [Language Mastery], which naturally included lip-reading.

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"A person of importance? I wonder if the head of the Third Branch like me counts!"

"Brother Dong, you don't mean!" Lin Wenwu's pupils shrank, and he instantly understood what Lin Wendong was implying.

"Let them 'kidnap' me. That way, I can go with them to meet their boss." Lin Wendong flashed a brilliant smile.

"That way, I'll have the chance to 'have a good chat' with their boss, and make sure they never set their sights on Tazhai again!"

The ultimate right of interpretation for the word "chat" in his sentence belonged exclusively to Lin Wendong.

"Brother Dong! There are so many of them, and you're going all by yourself? This... this is too dangerous!"

Lin Wenwu shook his head, trying to stop Lin Wendong.

From his perspective, his Brother Dong's idea was simply too crazy!

They had just scammed five million from these people! The other party must be holding the deepest grudge against them right now!

Once Brother Dong was caught by them, his fate...

The word "miserable" might not even do it justice, though of course, they probably wouldn't dare to kill him.

Lin Wendong turned his head to look at Lin Wenwu, a smile still lingering at the corners of his mouth. "Don't worry."

"I estimate I'll be back before dawn. If I'm not back and Uncle Dong or anyone asks, just say I went out for some business."

Soon, Lin Wendong arrived at the village committee's surveillance room.

In Lin Wenwu's eyes, when his Brother Dong said those words, he was as casual as someone saying, "I'm going out to buy some groceries."

Buying groceries?

Brother Dong was going to deal with the mafia!

Where on earth did he get this kind of confidence?!

Lin Wenwu's body stiffened in place, dumbfounded and frozen!

Lin Wendong didn't pay attention to all that. He glanced at Wang Dalong and his crew's route on the surveillance screen and turned to leave the village committee's monitoring room.

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Meanwhile, at the entrance of Tazhai Village.

An Audi drove inside.

"This Tazhai actually built a wall surrounding the entire village?"

Fan Nong's mouth twitched, and he rubbed his eyes in disbelief!

"How many bricks did it take to build these walls? How much labor? Is... is this village really so rich they have nowhere to spend their money?"

He had visited thousands of villages, and although some had walls, those were leftovers from ancient times!

Never had he seen one like Tazhai!

Once the car entered the village and they saw the scenery inside, Fan Nong was even more astonished!

Although it was already night, Tazhai actually had streetlights!

And they were extremely dense, one every few steps. The paved cement roads, flowers, and greenery made it feel just like being on a main road in the city center.

"Wasn't this an impoverished village at the bottom of the ranks just two months ago?"

Fan Nong drew in a sharp breath. He had seen sights like this in villages elsewhere.

But those were nationally renowned wealthy villages!

And what about this Tazhai?

Two months ago, it was still one of the poorest villages at the bottom of Dongshan!

Though he had already heard about the situation in Tazhai, seeing it for oneself beat hearing about it a hundred times!

"How was this accomplished? Where did they get so much money?"

Fan Nong shook his head, uttering praise after praise.

Beside him, Li Weimin's expression sank. This Tazhai was indeed problematic, just as Wu Youhai had said!

Otherwise, how could a poor village without any pillar industries develop into this within such a short time?

*Could the people of this village really be engaging in group crime?*

That list surfaced in Li Weimin's mind once again.

If not, then... how did the village head of this place know the contact information of those drug traffickers?!

And how could the timing be such a coincidence?

Just as they finished contacting those drug traffickers, the entire village started developing at high speed!

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The villagers of Tazhai went to sleep very early.

Although it was only a little past nine in the evening, almost no one could be seen on the roads inside the village.

"Where should we go to find someone to kidnap?"

Zhang Si asked Li Si, who was beside him.

"Are we just going to break into a house at random? What if we get it wrong and the person is just an ordinary villager? Wouldn't that expose us?"

Just as the two of them were agonizing over this, their gazes simultaneously locked onto an Audi driving toward them from not far away.

"An Audi?"

The two exchanged glances, both seeing the strange glint in each other's eyes.

*To be able to drive an Audi in such a poor village, their identity definitely isn't simple!*

The area where they currently stood was surrounded by farmland with no houses.

There was only a cement road, with rows of streetlights standing along the sides.

"This is the one!"

The two made up their minds and walked out in front of the Audi, preparing to block it.

"This cement road is really long, they even paved it out to the farmland." Inside the Audi, Fan Nong was still marveling.

"We're almost at the end ahead anyway. Let's call it a day."

Just as they stopped and prepared to turn around and head back, a scream suddenly came from the back of the car.

"What's going on?"

The two were startled. Why would someone suddenly scream out here in the wilderness?

"Could you have run someone over just now?" Fan Nong said as he reached to push the car door open to take a look.

As a narcotics detective, Li Weimin grew alert. He wanted to stop Fan Nong, but it was already too late—the latter had already pushed the door open.

Seeing this, Li Weimin had no choice but to get out of the car as well.

The moment the two stepped out, they saw that out of nowhere, two people had appeared behind their car. One of them was lying on the ground, clutching his leg and screaming in agony.

Li Weimin frowned; he could be certain that he hadn't hit anyone just now!

*Then where did these two guys come from?*