Lu Yike was brought to tears by his words.

Lu Yike stared wide-eyed, stunned for a long while!

Coming to her senses, Lu Yike flew into a rage, slamming her hand on the table and standing up. She glared coldly at Sun Liancheng, "Sun Liancheng, don't try to cause trouble here. Where did this evil force come from?"

Sun Liancheng calmly raised his head and retorted, "Isn't Hou Liangping a member of a criminal gang? He hasn't arrested any of the people I reported by name, but he's targeting me, the whistleblower? Isn't he trying to silence me?"

"puff……"

When Zhou Zheng, the investigator on the jury, heard the words "murder to silence a witness," he couldn't help but laugh out loud. However, noticing Lu Yike's cold gaze beside him, he managed to hold back.

Lu Yike was furious. He shouted, "Murder to silence you? Sun Liancheng, can you come up with a plausible excuse? Hou Liangping is the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Do you think he can silence you in the lobby of the Provincial Procuratorate?"

"We have to be careful!" Sun Liancheng said seriously, "After all, the people I reported aren't ordinary people. Hou Liangping even attacked me without any restraint. What if he killed me? Would it be wrong for me to fight back?"

"And Director Lu, don't just ask me, I also want to ask you, when does the Anti-Corruption Bureau plan to open investigations into the people I reported?"

Lu Yike frowned. He had no way to handle this matter, so he could only tell the truth: "Sun Liancheng, the people you reported are all centrally managed cadres. The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Handong Province has no right to investigate them. I will report the truth to my superiors."

"Don't they have the right to investigate? That doesn't make sense, does it?" Seizing on the loophole in Lu Yike's words, Sun Liancheng laughed and said mockingly, "Lu Yike, didn't the Anti-Corruption Bureau investigate very thoroughly when they were investigating Gao Yuliang, the former full-time deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, a while ago?"

"What? Gao Yuliang's full-time deputy secretary isn't a centrally managed cadre? So the Anti-Corruption Bureau has the right to investigate? But when it comes to provincial party secretary Sha Ruijin, Jingzhou municipal party secretary Li Dakang, and provincial party secretary Lu Zhenguo, the Anti-Corruption Bureau doesn't have the right to investigate?"

Sun Liancheng grinned and said sarcastically, "Lu Yike, the Anti-Corruption Bureau isn't without the right to investigate; they're just playing favorites, aren't they?"

"I think I understand now. The provincial procuratorate is full of people from the Sha family clique. If the provincial party secretary Sha Ruijin or members of the Sha family clique commit crimes, you can't investigate any of them. But if Gao Yuliang is involved in crimes, you can investigate him thoroughly."

"Hehehe..." Sun Liancheng chuckled at his own words, but said coldly, "Lu Yike, let me ask you, with such blatant disregard for the law, are you a gangster or the Handong Provincial Procuratorate?"

"Sun Liancheng, shut up!" Lu Yike said anxiously, gritting her teeth, "You've filed a formal complaint, and the Handong Provincial Procuratorate certainly won't sit idly by. We will report it to the higher authorities according to law, and launch an investigation after obtaining approval!"

"Report it according to the law? Hahaha, Lu Yike, are you kidding me?"

Sun Liancheng laughed heartily and countered, "Lu Yike, you told me the Provincial Procuratorate reported it according to law. If I remember correctly, the Provincial Procuratorate has a dual leadership mechanism, right? One leader is the Supreme People's Court, and the other is the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Handong Province, right?"

"When Gao Yuliang was investigated, he was the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Handong Province. I ask you, did the Provincial Procuratorate report to Gao Yuliang, who was then the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, in accordance with the law when it investigated him?"

"Is there none?"

"Then let me ask you, when you investigated Gao Yuliang, did you report to the Supreme Court in accordance with the law? Tell me!"

Lu Yike's face was very ugly. When they investigated Gao Yuliang, they received orders from Provincial Party Secretary Sha Ruijin and Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary Tian Guofu. They did not report to the Supreme Court for approval.

"Heh..." Sun Liancheng chuckled contemptuously, his gaze sweeping over Lu Yike from head to toe. A mocking expression crossed his face. "Lu Yike, when it came to investigating Gao Yuliang, the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, anyone could do it, but not you. Do you know why?"

"Your mother and Teacher Wu are like sisters, and Gao Yuliang is your uncle. You can't have your cake and eat it too, can you?"

"Lu Yike, now that you've become the head of the First Investigation Division of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, you don't think you're so great, do you? Just because the Handong Provincial Procuratorate said a few words about you being a trump card, you really think you're amazing and outstanding, do you?"

Sun Liancheng curled his lip, "Wake up, stop dreaming. If it weren't for your uncle Gao Yuliang's sake, who would you be!"

Lu Yike's eyes blazed with anger, her lungs practically bursting with rage. Clenching her fists, she argued, "I, Lu Yike, have never relied on anyone in my life. I've gotten this far because of the justice in my heart. I side with what's right, not with my own family!"

"Alright, alright, give me a break, Lu Yike. You say you don't rely on anyone? You say you rely on your own sense of justice? You say you'll side with what's right and not your own family?"

Sun Liancheng sneered, "Lu Yike, since you're so righteous, then say nothing more. I'll provide the evidence. Go and investigate the secretary of the Hantong Provincial Party Committee thoroughly, and then I'll believe you have a sense of justice."

"If you can't do it, then stop with your hypocritical act. You just wanted to use Gao Yuliang's head to advance your own career, like Hou Liangping did, since Gao Yuliang was no longer in power. What's there to pretend about?"

Sun Liancheng sneered, "You did it, so you did it. If you dared to admit it, I'd respect you more. But you've done something ungrateful and repay kindness with enmity, and you still won't admit it. In my eyes, you're not even as good as Hou Liangping!"

Lu Yike's face was pale, her hands trembling as she gripped the interrogation table, and she gritted her teeth as she said, "You..."

"What's wrong with me?" Sun Liancheng and Lu Yike looked at each other, and Sun Liancheng said casually, "Lu Yike, I'm not like you. I'm not ungrateful, I don't repay kindness with enmity, and I'm not afraid of power. What makes you think you can compare to me?"

"And Lu Yi, I'm not trying to be mean, but you can't be like Hou Liangping, betraying your master and repaying kindness with enmity. You're a woman, you have to have some self-respect!"

"You!" Lu Yike's eyes reddened, gradually becoming moist...

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Half an hour later, in the provincial government office, there was a knock on the door, and the secretary walked in with a mobile phone in hand.

"Governor, something's happened!"

"This afternoon, in the lobby of the Provincial Procuratorate, Sun Liancheng assaulted Hou Liangping, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau. According to current information, Hou Liangping suffered two broken ribs and multiple injuries, and has been admitted to the ICU!"

"As for Sun Liancheng, he is currently under the control of the Provincial Procuratorate, but the Provincial Procuratorate has not yet reported the specific details to the Provincial Government."

"However..." The secretary looked at the phone in her hand, frowning, and said, "Someone posted the news of Sun Liancheng's arrest online, which has attracted a lot of attention from netizens and has now become a trending news topic."

Gao Yuliang took the phone from his secretary. There was indeed a bright red trending news item with the headline: "Hero who saved lives arrested after reporting a corrupt official; how dark is the sky in Handong?"

The photos included several sets of pictures: one of Sun Liancheng being pinned to the ground by a riot control fork, another of Sun Liancheng being held down and unable to move, and yet another of Sun Liancheng being forced to walk forward while being detained!

Not long after the devastating 116 fire, Sun Liancheng, the hero who braved the flames to save many children, is still generating a lot of buzz online. This news has garnered significant public attention and has had a huge impact!

Gao Yuliang glanced at the comments below; netizens were full of doubts and questions about the officialdom in Handong Province!

"What happened? I don't believe someone who would risk their life to save a child is a bad person!"

"It seems that Sun Liancheng went to the Handong Provincial Procuratorate to file a formal complaint against corrupt officials involved in the Jingzhou 116 explosion and fire case. As a result, the Handong Provincial Procuratorate protected each other and, in order to silence him, directly detained him!"

"I can vouch for this, I have pictures and I have the evidence, it's genuine. Sun Liancheng went to the Handong Provincial Procuratorate to file a formal complaint against a high-ranking official, but was brutally beaten by the head of the anti-corruption bureau, and was even arrested for fear he would speak out!"

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