Chapter 54: Li Weimin's Identity Exposed, Everyone Stunned!

The voice clearly entered the martial arts gym through the loudspeaker, echoing in everyone's ears.

"Deputy Director Li Weimin?"

Wang Dalong stood there in a daze, and the Zhang San and Li Si brothers exchanged glances. They had never heard this name before; had they ever met him?

"Hiss... Could these cops have made a mistake? Weren't all three of them kidnapped from Tazhai? Where did a deputy director come from?"

A smart aleck muttered aloud.

Zhang Youqian kept his head lowered, feeling completely soulless. His heart had died the moment he heard the police sirens.

"Li Weimin?" Manager Wang, however, rubbed his chin, feeling as though he had heard these three syllables somewhere just moments ago.

Where on earth had he heard them?

The man they had just kidnapped from Tazhai had addressed the boss directly by name, and to curry favor, he had slapped the guy, who seemed to claim his name was Li Weimin.

"That's it!" Manager Wang's eyes lit up as it suddenly dawned on him that he had just slapped this very Li Weimin!

"Wait!"

In an instant, his legs went weak, and he collapsed directly onto the floor.

With wide eyes and trembling cheeks, he stammered, "I... I just slapped a deputy director?"

A thunderbolt flashed across his mind. The sky... had fallen.

Prompted by Manager Wang's reminder, everyone finally understood, and they all turned their heads to stare at Li Weimin.

Zhang San and Li Si looked at each other and cried out in synchronized shock, "Aren't the two of you from Tazhai? How could you be a deputy director?"

Those two were the ones they had kidnapped! Kidnapped right out of Tazhai!

Li Weimin and Fan Nong both darkened their expressions simultaneously.

"What Tazhai? Good grief! It turns out these people didn't even know who they had captured?!"

Initially, Li Weimin had wrung his brain trying to figure out who had sent these people and for what purpose.

But now!

The whole situation was crystal clear—these people had mistaken him for a villager from Tazhai!

A dignified Deputy Director of the Public Security Department, Director of the Narcotics Control Bureau, a legendary anti-drug hero, and a legend in police circles.

Instead of being captured by drug lords, he had been kidnapped by a bunch of petty thugs!

For Li Weimin, this was undoubtedly a blot on his police career, and an indelible, massive blot at that!

Moreover, this incident would certainly give the Zhang San and Li Si brothers bragging rights for the rest of their lives.

Having kidnapped a deputy director—none other than Li Weimin—if word of this got out, even major drug kingpins would have to tip their hats to the duo.

Of course, while word of this might get out, whether the Zhang San and Li Si brothers would ever be able to walk free again was another matter entirely.

Since these individuals had been unaware of Li Weimin's identity beforehand, they hadn't taken him seriously.

But now they knew—this was the Deputy Director of the Public Security Department! Which blind fool would dare cross him now?!

Especially surrounded as they were by over a thousand armed paramilitary police and special forces pointing firearms at them!

Make a move now, and they'd truly better watch their step in the next life.

If this were ancient times and they encountered someone of Li Weimin's rank, they would have had to kowtow just to welcome him.

Lin Wentong twitching the corner of his mouth; even he had been briefly stunned just moments ago!

"Have Wang Dalong's crew always been this bold? Daring to kidnap the Deputy Director of the Public Security Department?"

And just like that, Li Weimin and his companion walked through the crowd of over a hundred people, who merely stared in silence, not a single one daring to make a peep.

"Director Li is out!"

Li Weimin and Fan Nong walked out of the gym without any obstruction, and special forces officers immediately rushed forward to surround and protect them.

The senior officer bearing the police badge number 00004 walked over and asked with a solemn expression, "Director Li, what exactly happened here? Were these frantic outlaws drug traffickers seeking revenge, or..."

Li Weimin opened his mouth, but such a matter was simply too humiliating to utter aloud.

He could hardly admit that he had been mistakenly captured by a bunch of hoodlums and street punks, could he?

With a wave of his hand, he said, "The people inside probably won't put up any resistance. Just round them all up first."

Armed police and special forces swarmed into the martial arts gym, and just as Li Weimin had stated, not a single person offered any resistance.

Resist? They couldn't, they didn't want to, and they didn't dare to!

Looking at the familiar faces inside the gym, Wu Youhai twitched the corner of his mouth.

He had seen every single one of these people in Tazhai during the daytime, and now they had gone and stirred up such a colossal hornet's nest?

"Wait!" Wu Youhai paused slightly upon catching sight of Lin Wentong. "Why is this kid here too?"

Though deeply puzzled, higher-ups had already ordered the apprehension and interrogation of everyone present, leaving Wu Youhai with no choice but to forcefully suppress his bewilderment.

Zhang Youqian and Manager Wang still hadn't recovered their wits, their limbs so limp they felt boneless as two armed police officers hoisted each of them up and dragged them away from the scene.

One of them was, to a certain extent, the 'mastermind' of the operation; the other had given Li Weimin a direct slap to the face!

One can easily imagine the state of mind they were in right now.

Two armed police officers walked toward Lin Wentong. Offering no resistance, he allowed himself to be captured without a struggle.

Compared to the others who were wailing and pleading for mercy, Lin Wentong felt not a flicker of panic in his heart.

Perhaps this was what they meant by: an upright man fears no crooked shadow!

Tonight, just like Li Weimin and Fan Nong, he was nothing more than a victim who had been kidnapped!

Led out the door by the armed police.

"This kid..."

Just as Lin Wentong was being escorted into a police car, a sullen-faced Li Weimin caught sight of him.

From the unfolding of events earlier, Li Weimin understood that this young man had also been abducted.

The image of Lin Wentong blocking the doorway single-handedly facing a crowd of over a hundred people resurfaced in Li Weimin's mind.

One man against a hundred.

Though he had utilized geographical advantages, one could still perceive the young man's exceptional physical condition and formidable courage.

An ordinary person would have cracked under the pressure instantly!

"This Tazhai truly is a place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers!" A deep sense of intrigue rose within Li Weimin.

Furthermore, he had been eavesdropping on the conversation between Lin Wentong and Zhang Youqian earlier.

Their dialogue had revealed a crucial piece of information:

'Tazhai owed Zhang Youqian hundreds of millions.'

That explained how Tazhai had managed to produce such a massive sum of money within just two months—it had all been borrowed?!

It had nothing to do with drugs at all!

No!

If it truly had nothing to do with drugs, then... how was that ledger to be explained?

Li Weimin furrowed his brow.

Before long, all the hundred-odd people at the scene were arrested and hauled away to the police station in a convoy of police cars.