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The man in the Tang suit said, "I don't know how much they know about us, but... the dead can't talk."
The old croupier, still clutching a blood-stained knife, said, "Then... I'll do it? And then burn this place down?"
"You don't need to set the fire. I'm afraid you won't burn it clean, so I'll have someone who can burn it clean do it." The old man in the Tang suit squatted down and took the medicine back from Zhang Lin's hand.
"Yes, Master. I'll go down and silence them first." The old croupier, carrying a knife, went downstairs.
Soon after, a series of wails and cries of agony rose from below.
Less than five minutes later, the old dealer returned to the terrace, calm and respectful, and stood aside.
He said to the man in the Tang suit, "There are several sturdy parts of the manor that I'm afraid the fire won't burn them all down."
"What are those places for?"
“He’s a dog owner,” the old croupier said. “We sent a batch of medicine to Zhang Yuanjie before, and he accepted it, but… he didn’t give it to anyone.”
The man in the Tang suit chuckled, then suddenly remembered something: "Was that escaped sniper caught?"
“Yes,” the old croupier said. “You guessed right. The secret society was indeed luring us out, just waiting for us to slip up. You were right not to make a move against Gu Ran, sir. You are wise!”
"Alright, no need to flatter me." The man in the Tang suit looked at the manor and said, "I guess they will definitely come here to investigate later. You can give them a little surprise then, and by the way... see how much Zhang Qiong's son has grown up."
As he spoke, the man in the Tang suit casually tossed the medicine in his hand to the old croupier.
The old croupier took it and immediately understood.
"let's go."
"Yes, Master."
Then, as they left the manor, fighter jets came and dropped a large number of solid napalm bombs.
The entire manor was engulfed in flames in an instant.
The flames burned fiercely until everything was consumed.
……
The firelight illuminated a corner of the city in the darkness, and the locals were initially very nervous after seeing the fighter jets dropping bombs.
However, the Siamese government quickly issued a statement, releasing evidence of the crimes committed by the Zhang family in Chiang Mai, stating that they were armed criminals and that fighter jets were deployed to bring them to justice.
The official statement was broadcast on television and through community radio, reaching every household in Chiang Mai.
As a result, the panic among the city's residents quickly subsided.
Then, various television stations in Siam began broadcasting special television programs, mainly about how the Zhang family in Chiang Mai committed heinous crimes in the area, how many heavy weapons they hid in their home, and how they controlled the dark forces in Chiang Mai.
As if it had been planned all along, public opinion quickly turned overwhelmingly in favor of the Siamese government.
Before dawn, the Zhang family of Chiang Mai were transformed into criminals like demons, using bombs to carry out their crimes legally and without any problems.
Napalm will stick to any surface and then start burning continuously at temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees Celsius!
Throughout the entire manor, all life was doomed to perish under the intense heat.
The fire at the Zhang Family Garden in Chiang Mai burned for a day and a night, with flames still burning at dawn. It was only after a sudden downpour that the fire was finally extinguished.
Fortunately, there weren't many trees around the manor, so the fire didn't spread and cause a forest fire, which relieved the local firefighters.
Li Tianzhi returned to Singapore the next day. A fire destroyed all the evidence, and he immediately sensed that the forces behind him were deeply entrenched and could control everything.
But he will never give up easily; he will definitely look for opportunities and clues to find the dark forces behind the organ trafficking organization.
Gu Ran's original plan is useless now. The Zhang family in Chiang Mai is probably burned to the ground, and their fate is truly tragic.
The whereabouts of the other three households are completely unknown.
Gu Ran did not reveal Li Tianzhi's identity to the Secret Party, but explained the Secret Party's position to him.
Li Tianzhi's profession is in the Lawful faction, which means he won't harm ordinary people. Therefore, as long as his bloodline doesn't go out of control, the Secret Society won't target him.
"By the way, what is your ability?" Gu Ran remembered that day at the Bangkok hotel when she threw a shuriken at him but missed, so she was very curious about his ability.
"It's a polarizing ability, like a mirage," Li Tianzhi demonstrated to Gu Ran.
Following his instructions, Gu Ran first closed her eyes, then opened them, and then went forward to touch his body, only to find that she had only touched air.
Li Tianzhi's ability, simply put, creates a visual illusion when people look at him with their naked eyes. You think he is standing directly in front of you, but in reality he is standing to your left.
This power of words is very useful on the battlefield. On several occasions, Li Tianzhi used this ability to lure out criminals and capture them while on missions.
The two exchanged contact information and agreed to investigate the human organ trafficking ring together.
But Gu Ran also warned him not to act rashly, because only by staying alive could he have a chance to take revenge.
Li Tianzhi agreed.
……
On the evening of the second day, Gu Ran, Susie, Xiao Shui, and Johnson went to the burned-down Zhang Family Manor in Chiang Mai.
The area has been cordoned off, and the general public is prohibited from approaching.
However, Gu Ran and his group were not ordinary people. After making a special request, they were allowed to go in and investigate.
In reality, there was nothing left to investigate. The Siamese security forces had already come once, collected some remains, and cleared them away.
Under the high temperature of the fire, the bones become brittle and turn into powder at the slightest touch. The people cleaning up the site can only use brooms to sweep up the ashes.
Forensic doctors save time and effort, as they don't need to perform autopsies.
Meanwhile, the sheriffs in charge of the case are working hard to write reports while ensuring that this horrific scene remains unknown to the outside world.
Under the burning of the petrol bombs, all living things were destroyed, leaving only the blackened frames of a few buildings that could withstand the fire.
The air was filled with the smell of burning plastic, the benzene compound from solid incendiary bombs.
The four searched the manor but found nothing of use.
They had no hope of finding any clues, but Gu Ran was unwilling to give up and insisted on coming to see for herself.
“It’s really sad,” Johnson said, shining a flashlight at the ruins.
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Johnson lamented, "Everything was fine yesterday, and overnight the whole family was gone. Human life is so fragile."
Xiao Shui sighed and said, "During the day today, the Zhang family's underground businesses were taken over by another force. Judging from the background of the person who took over, they are a royal relative of Siam."
"That was pretty fast." Gu Ran smiled. Luckily, he used his shadow clone to cash the check for over one hundred million US dollars at the bank yesterday afternoon, otherwise the check would probably be void now.
"So, this assassination attempt was carried out by the Siamese royal family?" Susie asked. "Is the royal family connected to the other three Zhang families?"
Johnson said, "It's hard to say there's no connection between the Siamese royal family's control of the military and that."
Siam is a constitutional monarchy. The king grants executive power to the prime minister's cabinet to manage the country, while he keeps a firm grip on the military. If he sees that the prime minister's cabinet is not performing well or if he is unhappy with them, the king can simply replace them.
So generally there's nothing to do. The King of Siam doesn't have to do anything every day. He doesn't have to govern the country; he can do whatever he wants.
There are two types of constitutional monarchies: parliamentary and dual monarchy.
In a parliamentary system, the parliamentary cabinet has the greatest power, and the king is merely a figurehead with little real power, as seen in Great Britain.
A dual monarchy means that both the monarch and the parliament have real power, but the monarch has a lot of power, as in Siam.
In addition, the King of Siam also controlled the country's economy, and nominally all the property within the territory of Siam belonged to the King of Siam.
Xiao Shui, being a local, knows the area better. She said:
"The King of Siam is not short of money and has no reason to engage in the trade of human organs, but... his subordinates do not know."
Just as Emperor Qianlong certainly wasn't short of money, it's hard to say about Heshen, who served under him.
“But with fighter jets deployed, the king must have been alerted,” Gu Ran said.
These things, no matter how much we speculate, will lead nowhere. Besides, they used the pretext of fighting crime, and it happened within their own country, and the people were satisfied with it... So, the deployment of fighter jets, whether domestically or internationally, can be said to have had no impact whatsoever.
"Can we still find any clues now?" Susie asked, looking at the ruins around her.
Gu Ran concentrated, activated the X-ray vision ability of his White Eye, and looked down at the ground.
If there's anything that hasn't been burned, it can only be underground.
Sure enough, there was a basement below the garage of the manor.
This basement is special. The entrance above is a 30-centimeter-thick reinforced concrete slab, which is very sturdy. Even if someone knocks on it from the outside, they won't hear a hollow sound.
Logically, there should be a mechanism here that can be activated, but because of the fire, the mechanism can no longer be found, and it is more likely that it has become ineffective.
Gu Ran thought for a moment, gathered his chakra, and threw a punch with the Cherry Blossom Strike!
boom!
The surface cement was cracked, but it did not collapse. After all, the structure was made of steel bars and filled with qualified mortar and concrete, so its structural ductility and stability are very reliable.
But Gu Ran didn't want to smash the ground; he just wanted to find some steel bars so he could carry them by hand.
When the other three saw Gu Ran suddenly slam the ground, they figured he must have discovered something, and they all gathered around.
Gu Ran continued to gather chakra, gathering a little more each time, and then smashed it a few more times, finally managing to smash out a steel bar with a handle.
"Junior, your fist is too hard!" Johnson grabbed Gu Ran's hand and looked at it. His fist was completely undamaged, not even a scratch.
He was quite surprised when he saw the crocodile's heart explode.
But the 'crocodile' is a person, a living being, and still a being with flesh and blood.
But now, Gu Ran was actually slamming the ground like he was swinging a sledgehammer, which really made Johnson and Xiao Shui think he was really 'tough'.
Gu Ran pulled her hand back, feeling strange having her hand held by a grown man...
His hand was unharmed because a large amount of chakra had been gathered to protect his fist.
This requires excellent chakra control, using chakra to cushion most of the impact. Without cushioning, it would be easy to injure the fist.
After a while, Gu Ran broke open the steel bars in other places, giving everyone a place to put their hands on the bars.
Xiao Shui understood Gu Ran's intention and said, "Let's lift this stone slab together."
Such a large slab of stone would probably require an excavator or crane to lift, but for four mixed-race individuals, it was not a difficult task.
Each of the four men lifted one corner, and they quickly lifted the 30-centimeter-thick stone slab.
Susie used her Word of Power: Sword Control to control a long steel bar that was not far away, which then wedged into the gap.