Rebirth of Corrupt Officials - Chapter 70

Was it over?

Tonight, in Chengzhou, was indeed chaotic and absurd.

Wei Lai didn’t know where the tragic emotion in his heart came from. Jiang Xiaochuan’s tone on the phone was so calm. He had never felt Jiang Xiaochuan’s deep sense of vicissitudes so clearly before.

Jiang Xiaochuan was silent for a long time, looking at the entire desolate corridor and the closed door of the room, where Rong Shaobai was lying in his own blood.

“Rong Shaobai, he’s dead.”

Then he hung up the phone.

He walked toward the control room. Standing outside, he could see Qiao Yusheng’s fingers tapping quickly on the keyboard, calling up the surveillance video of the office where the incident occurred, then completely deleting it, and also formatting all the video at the security office. He checked for any errors one last time, and then directly turned off the monitoring system of the entire building.

Jiang Xiaochuan could tell that Qiao Yusheng was erasing all evidence of Jiang Xiaochuan’s existence.

After finishing his work, he pushed his chair and stood up, and hurried out, “There will be people on-site to clean up the cups you used. This matter has nothing to do with you. Let’s go find Xue Yan first.”

Jiang Xiaochuan stood behind him, “Did you destroy the videos related to Qiu Yi like this at the beginning?”

Qiao Yusheng stopped for a moment. He looked back at Jiang Xiaochuan, emotionless, “Yes.”

Just this one word, and then Qiao Yusheng strode forward.

Jiang Xiaochuan paused for three seconds and then followed.

Qiao Yusheng quickly picked up the car, and Jiang Xiaochuan got in. The two of them quickly left Rong Family’s Club through the back door. The car was driving like flying, and it was obvious that Qiao Yusheng was also very anxious.

Jiang Xiaochuan was a little confused about Qiao Yusheng.

Qiu Yi’s matter was related to him. Uncle Qiu’s file was now in Jiang Xiaochuan’s hands, and it was probably related to Qiu Yi’s case. Qiao Yusheng acquiesced that he had stabbed Xue Yan, but he still kept such an important file and sent it to Jiang Xiaochuan’s mailbox. Was Qiao Yusheng black or white, good or evil?

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As they drove all the way, the entire night in Chengzhou was unimaginably quiet. There were no pedestrians on the streets. It seemed like everyone knew that tonight was an ominous night.

It was already late at night when they arrived at the Provincial Hospital. The staff on duty downstairs was very strange, “Doctor Qiao, you are not supposed to be on night duty today.”

Qiao Yusheng said without looking back, “I’m back to find something.”

Jiang Xiaochuan followed. Without saying a word, he followed the elevator to the special care ward upstairs. Qiao Yusheng went to change clothes and came out in a white coat. There were people guarding outside the ward, and it looked like nothing had happened.

Qiao Yusheng was Xue Yan’s current attending doctor. Most of the people guarding Xue Yan were called from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. They were also afraid that something would happen to Xue Yan. Although Xue Yan was in a vegetative state now, he was not out of danger yet. The chance of waking up was very small. Xue Yan must have known a lot of important things to be treated like this. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection paid more attention to Xue Yan than Jiang Xiaochuan expected.

Qiao Yusheng went to see Xue Yan but asked Jiang Xiaochuan to sit down and wait in his office. After all, Jiang Xiaochuan’s identity was relatively sensitive now. It would be difficult to explain to someone from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection if he went together.

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He just sat like this, looking at the things on Qiao Yusheng’s table, and suddenly felt very tired.

Once it was quiet and there was nothing to do, he couldn’t help but think of Rong Shaobai.

Rong Shaobai had decided to withdraw from this quagmire, but he still couldn’t escape. He did so much to clear Rong family’s name, but his final end was so tragic that it was unspeakable.

He fell in his sight, with a slumped and slow posture, blood gushing out from his chest, but his still young face only showed a bit of unexpected astonishment.

Death had approached quietly.

At the moment when he realized that he was about to die, what was Rong Shaobai’s state of mind when he said those words?

‘If there is a next life, I never want to clear my name…’

Jiang Xiaochuan suddenly pressed his forehead, feeling a splitting headache.

He curled up on the sofa, pressing the armrest with his other hand, veins popping out.

Qiao Yusheng saw this scene as soon as he came in. He stood at the door and said nothing for a while. Jiang Xiaochuan recovered, his forehead covered with a thin layer of sweat, and his face looked tired.

After the pain, it turned into numbness.

Qiao Yusheng said, “Rong Shaobai’s death has nothing to do with you.”

Jiang Xiaochuan gasped, then calmed down.

“What do you know?”

“I just watched the surveillance video. The infrared light fell on your back at first, but moved to Rong Shaobai when you bent down to pick up something. It seems the initial target was you, but the distance between the two buildings is not long, and the speed of the bullet is very fast. Your bending movement is not fast, and it is impossible to be faster than the speed of the bullet in any case. Therefore, as soon as you bent forward and the killer shot from the opposite building.”

Qiao Yusheng’s voice was straight, a bit cold and indifferent.

He had told Jiang Xiaochuan two possibilities before. When he saw the surveillance video, he also thought the person behind it wanted to kill Jiang Xiaochuan, but something unexpected happened. However, after careful speculation, he found this was impossible. The reasons were what he mentioned above. So, since the target was not Jiang Xiaochuan at the beginning, why was Jiang Xiaochuan the target at the beginning?

People who saw the surveillance video might thought the killers in the building opposite were Qingtuan and Hong. But who the real murderer was already clear in Qiao Yusheng’s mind.

Jiang Xiaochuan suddenly chuckled, “In other words, the one those people wanted to kill at the beginning was Rong Shaobai.”