Chapter 271: Autumn Wind Sweeps Away Fallen Leaves

In the afternoon, the "Supervision Assembly Hostage Case" press conference originally scheduled for 1 PM was ultimately delayed until 5 PM in the evening due to Old Lu's "strange death."

During this time, because Dog Six had a conflict with Secretary-General Lu in the car leading to the latter's death while grabbing for a gun, he was immediately placed under the Anti-Terror Squad's control.

In the Anti-Terror General Squad building, Jin Maohui pointed at his office saying: "Go in!"

"Good." Su Tianyu nodded, stepping into the office, turning back to ask Jin Maohui: "I'll just stay here then?"

"Yes, if I don't come, don't go with anyone who looks for you," Jin Maohui replied.

"Alright." Su Tianyu yawned, stepping toward the sofa side.

Jin Maohui personally used his key to lock the door, turning to tell over ten Anti-Terror Squad members on both sides of the door: "No matter who comes looking for him, don't let him out - stand guard with guns."

"Yes!"

Everyone nodded.

Jin Maohui quickly left with his followers.

Inside the room, Su Tianyu lay on the sofa very tiredly, eyes looking at the ceiling, a flash of worry passing through his mind.

Having dealt with Secretary-General Lu this way, would Li Mingsheng kill the donkey after the grinding was done? Directly giving him a death sentence too would wrap up all matters neatly, wouldn't it?

However, this worry was quickly erased from Dog Six's mind. The dead Secretary-General Lu was just a figurehead - relying on his power alone, he wouldn't dare move against Li Mingsheng. With future struggles ahead, eliminating the person handling matters now was clearly unwise. Moreover, Yu Mingyuan had connections with the garrison side - they wouldn't let anything happen to him at this time.

Thinking of this, Su Tianyu felt even more exhausted - every inch of skin, every joint in his body was filled with unbearable soreness.

Drowsiness overtook him as Su Tianyu fell onto the sofa, quickly falling asleep.

......

Around 3:30 PM.

Li Mingsheng, who had disappeared for over ten hours, had already swaggeringly returned to Dragon City's urban area, personally appearing at city hall to personally preside over the press conference work.

Li Mingsheng had returned while Secretary-General Lu was dead - these two events fully proved one result: the upper level's struggle this time was over.

Old Li had luckily escaped disaster and pierced Secretary-General Lu to death with one counterattack.

This being the case, many neutral factions and small circles in Dragon City watching the excitement instantly understood whose leg they should hug.

Political side-taking had early and late timing, but there was absolutely no order in bootlicking. As long as your posture was good and technique was good, there would always be outstanding performances.

The Police Bureau, Dragon City Inspection Bureau, even the prosecutors and courts began openly tilting toward Old Li's side - like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, they knocked down all the small circle figures led by Secretary-General Lu.

Evidence of these people's corruption, graft, and indirect participation in crimes, along with reporting materials, took less than three hours to pile up and fill the mayor's secretary's office.

This phenomenon didn't mean all Dragon City's party factions, circles and groups would completely side with Li Mingsheng's group from now on - rather, when any faction failed in political struggle, they would encounter this situation of everyone pushing when the wall falls.

Among those exposing and reporting, making materials, there were even people very close to Secretary-General Lu.

Why did they do this? Because they feared Li Mingsheng would fire off shots, taking advantage of this east wind to deal with them too.

Those neutral factions dealing deadly blows to Secretary-General Lu now also harbored thoughts of avoiding suspicion - killing people close to Secretary-General Lu now could sell favors to Old Li while clearing themselves - why not do it?

So Old Li had won, and this kind of reaction from all sides was just the dividend he deserved.

Secretary-General Lu had relied on Zone One's Republican Party faction, but now this faction's upper levels were turning a blind eye to what happened below. Because things had failed and the Civil Affairs Party was currently counterattacking, they needed to hand over some sacrifices to quickly end the negative effects of failure.

......

Evening, around 4:40 PM, the press conference was about to begin.

Li Mingsheng sat alone in the rest room wearing a proper suit - outside at least fifty or sixty city leaders were quietly waiting for him.

A phone rang as Li Mingsheng picked up his mobile, responding softly: "Speak!"

"I've arrived at the location - I'm going to move against him now."

"Good, do it," Li Mingsheng responded.

At the villa entrance of the Supervision Assembly chairman, a Zone One department deputy minister-level cadre Karls, seven or eight Anti-Terror vehicles disgorged over thirty people.

Jin Maohui personally led the team, quickly arriving at the villa entrance to press the doorbell.

After a short while, the villa door opened as Karls wearing a suit looked at everyone expressionlessly.

"Mr. Karls, your political career in Dragon City is over," Jin Maohui showed the arrest warrant.

Karls stood in the doorway, taking a deep breath of fresh air, sighing: "I'm finally leaving this dirty, poor colonial city. I long for the freedom of the Chinese capital, and I also like eating the beef there, the taste really..."

"Wait, Mr. Karls!" Jin Maohui interrupted him.

"Do you have something else to say? You don't plan to interrogate me, do you, General Squad Leader? Hahaha!" Karls' voice was full of arrogance.

Jin Maohui moved his left hand, and over twenty arrest team members around collectively turned away.

"Slap!"

Jin Maohui raised his arm, very abruptly slapping Karls' face - the latter was struck off balance, his shoulder directly hitting the door frame.

"Damn yellow skins...!" Karls was about to move in anger.

Jin Maohui pushed him away with one hand, pointing at his face saying: "This is Mayor Li's gift to you. He had me convey a message - take your stupidity and arrogance and roll back to Zone One in disgrace! What awaits you is the Republican Party's abandonment and the hatred of sixty to seventy thousand Chinese laborers!"

Karls gritted his teeth, looking at him with hateful eyes.

"Oh, forgot to remind you - Zhao Weihu is an extremist - you ordered quite a few of his soldiers killed - be careful of his revenge," Jin Maohui stepped back, waving to call: "Take him away!"

......

Before Su Tianyu went to the airport, Li Mingsheng's order was to capture Secretary-General Lu alive.

But after the arrest, Secretary-General Lu was killed by Su Tianyu for grabbing a gun halfway.

Why did this happen - did Su Tianyu take matters into his own hands to kill Secretary-General Lu? He definitely wouldn't dare!

In fact, Li Mingsheng had given him new orders before Su Tianyu entered the airport.

Secretary-General Lu shouldn't come back alive - this part of the incident would end with him.

Old Li did this out of necessity, because his party faction's upper levels had already spoken with the Republican Party - both sides chose by mutual understanding to let Li Mingsheng attack only one round before ending, to avoid the incident escalating again.

Secretary-General Lu's death, the purging of the city government team group led by him, and finally Karls packing up and getting out - this was the result of this incident's struggle.

......

In the Kasalo region.

After fleeing all the way, Zhao Weihu finally returned to his main base.