At the same time, on the second floor in the Military Police Bureau Chief's office.

Yang Yong, the chief of the Southern District Military Police Bureau, sat opposite a middle-aged police chief in his forties. They organized the documents in front of them, and then Yang Yong said, "Chief Chen, I will find someone to investigate this case. Let's end here for now."

Chief Chen Yu stood up and nodded. "Yes."

"By the way, Yuan Wen has brought back the young man who eliminated the Wells gang. I have reported this matter to the Municipal Party Committee and am waiting for the leadership's reply." Chief Yang stood up and said softly, "The leader's tone was not good! Arresting criminals and eliminating threats is the duty of our military police. Now that our work is insufficient, we have allowed an ordinary citizen to do the work that we should have done. It is a disgrace to us!"

Chief Chen's face turned red upon hearing this, and he felt a little embarrassed.

The main area of Wells' activities had always been in his jurisdiction. Since Wells began committing crimes, he had formulated a series of arrest plans, but in the end, he only caught a few small fries, and the lowest level cannon fodder at that.

After questioning, these cannon fodder didn't even know the whereabouts of Wells' gang.

Their identities were merely local gangsters hired by Wells, specializing in scouting terrain, gathering information, and monitoring the movements of the military police.

"But the current situation is special, so don't take the leader's criticism to heart too much." Yang Yong smiled and patted Chief Chen on the shoulder, and said, "Go ahead, I'm waiting for the leader's reply. It's still unknown whether to reward this young man as a hero or imprison him as a dangerous element."

Chief Chen narrowed his eyes upon hearing this.

He instantly understood the meaning of Yang Yong's words.

The current situation is that the entire country and even the world are in chaos. The military police are trying their best to curb the occurrence of chaos. If it were in peaceful times, Li Tianran would definitely be labeled as a hero for taking down a criminal gang and promoted as a model.

But now it's different.

Although Li Tianran's actions were to eliminate harm for the people, he privately formed a personal armed force, used prohibited firearms, and created a large-scale gun battle and murder, which is also illegal.

In other words, if Li Tianran is promoted as a hero, in the current situation, it is likely to stimulate the birth of more "self-defense forces" like the one Li Tianran once formed.

At that time, if the people form violent groups and hold various prohibited weapons, the consequences will be unimaginable once conflicts occur!

From a macro perspective, Li Tianran's elimination of Wells is a small matter, but if it causes the people of the entire Southern City and even the entire Handong Province to have the idea of forming personal armed forces, then the result outweighs the benefits and is absolutely unacceptable to the higher-ups!

"What Southern City needs most now is stability. This matter is very important. The result of its handling will directly affect the future public image of Southern City..." Yang Yong stood with his hands behind his back, a trace of regret on his old face: "According to my guess, if the evidence is solid, the higher-ups are likely to use this matter to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys. The life and death of a Li Tianran is not important, the stability of the overall situation is the most important."

"This young man is very good, but... what a pity."

Chief Chen looked at Yang Yong, swallowed hard, turned around, and walked out of the office.

He already knew what he should do.

...

First floor of the Military Police Bureau.

Li Tianran was still arguing with the dark-faced military police officer.

He didn't want to consider any awards. In the current situation, being left alone was the best reward for him.

If this matter is publicized and Wells' criminal group sees the news and sends people to attack his farm again, then his life will never be peaceful.

So no matter what the other party says, he will never admit it.

Knock, knock, knock!

At this moment, the door was suddenly knocked.

Chief Chen opened the door and walked in. The dark-faced military police officer immediately stood at attention and saluted: "Captain!"

Chief Chen nodded, and then asked with a blank expression: "How's the statement going?"

The dark-faced military police officer shook his head with a wry smile, indicating that he had gained nothing.

"You go out, I'll talk to him." Chief Chen waved his hand: "There's a case at the Xinmin warehouse in the northern suburbs, take someone over to take a look."

"Yes!" The dark-faced military police officer saluted, then turned around and strode away.

Bang!

The door closed again.

Li Tianran twisted his neck. He smiled wryly in his heart. The newbie couldn't do it, so the leader had to step in?

But Li Tianran had already made up his mind that he would not admit it no matter who interrogated him.

"Hello, are you here to chat with me now?" Li Tianran smiled, picked up the paper cup, wanting to take a sip of water, and greeted Chief Chen softly.

But unexpectedly, Chief Chen glanced at Li Tianran with a blank expression, then sneered, reached out and snatched the paper cup that Li Tianran was about to bring to his mouth, and then threw it directly into the trash can next to him.

Li Tianran was stunned.

He frowned and looked at Chief Chen, not knowing what the other party was up to.

"Who told you to sit here?" Chief Chen stood in front of Li Tianran, his tall body extremely oppressive, looking down at Li Tianran, and said coldly: "Your current identity is a suspect, have you ever seen a suspect sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed while being interrogated? Stand up for me, put your hands on your head and squat down!"

Li Tianran licked his lips. He couldn't figure out why the attitude of the military police had suddenly changed so drastically.

"I'm sorry, my current identity is just a law-abiding citizen. Before any evidence is found to prove that I committed a crime, I'm cooperating with the police in the investigation, not accepting your interrogation, so... I can sit however I want, and if you feel uncomfortable, it's none of your business if I lie here." Li Tianran not only did not stand up when he heard this, but leaned back even more, half-lying on the sofa in an extremely comfortable posture, and said, "Trying to scare me? Your aura is still a bit weak!"

Chief Chen's eyebrows twitched wildly when he saw this. He sneered twice, then lowered his voice: "Do you think I can't do anything to you if you do this?"

After saying that, Chief Chen took out the walkie-talkie from his waist, pressed the talk button and said: "Interrogation room, bring the suspect Wang Bing to compartment 03."

Soon, two military police officers walked in with Wang Bing, whose hands were handcuffed.

"Pa!"

Chief Chen strode over, grabbed Wang Bing's collar and dragged him over, then pointed at Li Tianran and sneered at Wang Bing: "Now I want you to tell the whole story in front of all of us, how did he plan this large-scale armed operation? Where did he distribute the weapons to you? Who are the participants? Tell me everything without missing a word! Otherwise, your crime will never be cleared!"

Wang Bing looked at Li Tianran, then at the excited Chief Chen. He suddenly realized that the atmosphere in the room was a bit wrong.

If the military police brought Li Tianran here, really just to understand the situation and give an award, then why is this military police chief so暴躁 (bào zào, irritable/easily agitated)?

Something's wrong! Something's wrong!

He searched the room for the dark-faced military police officer, but found nothing.

He finally vaguely guessed something and felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

"Speak!" Chief Chen urged.

Wang Bing looked at the people in the room, bit his teeth, finally, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes and showed a painful expression, and said with difficulty:

"I don't know what you're talking about, I don't know this person!"