Chapter 312: Operation Lockdown

Chapter 312: Suspect Locked In

Inside a convoy of police vehicles.

“Hey man, don’t try to scare me,”

Wang Dong, his face pale, glared at Xiao Yu. “There won’t be a nuclear explosion, right?”

Lacking education can be dangerous… Xiao Yu nearly chuckled. “There won’t be a nuclear explosion. Nuclear power plants use a much lower concentration, while a nuclear bomb needs purity above 99% to work… It’s like comparing heaven and earth!”

“Phew!”

Wang Dong let out a long, exasperated sigh and shot Xiao Yu a look. “I nearly made you wet your pants!”

“But…”

Xiao Yu smirked. “A nuclear leak would be just as catastrophic. Everything around would be irradiated and contaminated. You get what I mean?”

I couldn’t believe it—such a maneuver… Wang Dong’s face turned even paler.

But now personnel have been dispatched to the nuclear power plant, and the dam…

Only the city’s gas network is hard to track.

But no worries. We can simply shut down the city’s main pipeline.

Can you just turn this off at will?

National Security certainly has that power.

“04” is only a brief shutdown; once the inspection is over, everything will resume immediately.

This operation is routine—like a scheduled water or power outage. A temporary shutdown won’t cause an accident…

Twenty minutes later.

The police vehicles carrying Xiao Yu and Wang Dong arrived at their destination.

A diesel and gasoline depot!

Places like this even exist in the city?

Not only that—the city’s fuel depots are built with capacities in the tens of thousands of cubic meters.

In some larger cities, storage can reach 40,000 or even 50,000 cubic meters.

Imagine the devastation if a depot holding 40 to 50 thousand cubic meters were to explode!

Even bombs weighing in tons would seem insignificant compared to that blast!

Why here?

Because the perpetrator’s identity has been uncovered!

Neither Xiao Yu nor Wang Dong could have predicted it.

He actually lived in the building right across from the Blind Girl’s residence.

Both properties Xiao Yu had visited were registered in his name.

That realization completely short-circuited Xiao Yu’s mind…

Wen Xulong, Male, 34, a native of City K, orphaned in childhood and raised by relatives, with a missing younger brother.

He even went missing at the age of 6.

At 29, he returned to City K to claim his parents’ inheritance from his relatives.

He even ended up in court… as his relatives tried to monopolize the fortune left by his parents.

Two properties, plus over 400,000 in savings!

According to Wen Xulong’s account, he was abducted as a child.

Later, he was raised by foster parents in the countryside and, as an adult, used his early memories to find his way back to City K.

That makes sense—a six-year-old can remember so much.

At the time, the police never bothered to investigate, and the case eventually went cold.

Two properties—one on the fifth floor and one on the seventh—both registered under Wen Xulong’s name.

His appearance, build, even his left-handedness…

They all exactly matched the suspect Xiao Yu had been searching for.

And one more thing.

The relatives who tried to seize Wen Xulong’s inheritance—all three of them died.

They died in an accident: a gas leak that prompted a neighbor to report the smell.

Accident… Xiao Yu squinted his eyes.

Last year, Wen Xulong had worked at the depot for three months.

But that wasn’t all.

Wen Xulong also worked as a cleaner at a research laboratory.

Which research laboratory?

The very one whose photolithography machine data was stolen at the beginning of this case!

Afterward, National Security investigated the period from when Wen Xulong was abducted at 6 until he was 29.

A complete gap of 23 years.

After a brief inquiry, things took a turn for the worse.

The foster parents Wen Xulong mentioned had already been checked by provincial police.

They turned out to be non-existent!

Even the other identity he had used in the past…

The police confirmed it was fake.

National Security is currently verifying the details.

How did Wen Xulong manage to reclaim his current identity?

Who issued his ID and household registration back then?

There are just too many suspicious points…

But now those doubts don’t matter.

The key question is: where is Wen Xulong hiding?

What is he aiming to achieve with all of this?

Why is Wen Xulong connected to the suspect Fang Shuoxin in this case?

What is he planning by using Fang Shuoxin to write a novel?

Standing in front of the depot, Xiao Yu’s expression grew increasingly strange.

Wait a minute…

Back when Wen Xulong’s parents died, he had a younger brother?

Wen Xulong is 34 this year.

And his missing younger brother was three years his junior?

The suspect Fang Shuoxin… is exactly 31 this year?

And Fang Shuoxin’s identity is that of an orphan?

At the time Wen Xulong’s parents died, his brother was just 3 years old?

“Really? Is it going to get this dramatic?”

Xiao Yu’s expression grew even stranger. “Fang Shuoxin is Wen Xulong’s younger brother?”

If that’s true, why would Wen Xulong… hurt his own brother?

“No, not hurt.”

Could it be he had another plan in mind?

Instantly, his mind cleared, and Xiao Yu’s thoughts raced at a frantic pace.

He had already gone through all of Fang Shuoxin’s personal details.

He recalled that when Fang Shuoxin was 17, his foster parents died in a car accident at 943…

and National Security had also looked into Fang Shuoxin’s past.

Since being adopted at the age of 6, his foster parents had been kind to him.

But when Fang Shuoxin turned 17… was his foster mother pregnant?

National Security had even spoken with Fang Shuoxin’s neighbors.

They remembered that after his foster mother became pregnant that year, she frequently abused him.

Then… his foster parents died in a mysterious car accident?

“What an incredibly coincidental accident,”

Xiao Yu said with a cold smile. “Accidents involving Wen Xulong’s relatives… they all seem to carry the same stench, don’t they?”

Recalling the perpetrator’s murder methods in this case,

it all seemed like your handiwork, right?

“Nothing out of the ordinary.”

Wang Dong, accompanied by National Security personnel, returned to his colleague when he noticed Xiao Yu’s troubled expression. “What’s wrong?”

“Go check out the orphanage where Fang Shuoxin once stayed,”

Xiao Yu said in a low, serious tone. “The key is—has anyone investigated where Fang Shuoxin went after being adopted?”

Before long, National Security found out.

Fifteen years ago, someone had indeed looked into Fang Shuoxin’s whereabouts.

It was a young man.

A chill ran down Xiao Yu’s spine.

Where on earth did Wen Xulong live during his years of disappearance?!