Meanwhile...

"Left!?"

"Are you sure he left!?"

In Zhengyang City.

At the Zhengyang Mining Company office.

Zhu Haoyi looked at Li Yang in front of him, a puzzled expression on his face, then he stood up, uneasily pacing back and forth around the room.

After pondering for a moment, he stopped in his tracks and turned to look at Li Yang again.

"Are you sure that person really left!?"

Li Yang nodded, "I’m sure!"

"Our people personally watched him enter the train station, and they even bought tickets last night."

Buying tickets, entering the train station...

Zhu Haoyi fell into thought, and after a long while, he spoke:

"Do we know where the tickets were bought to?"

"Not yet," Li Yang shook his head and said.

After all, their people are just thugs, not people of stature, checking a train ticket is quite troublesome for them.

"Left... how could he have left..."

Zhu Haoyi stood up, muttering to himself, his brows furrowed tightly.

He had never thought of forcing Xu Liang to leave, but rather to turn the case from a criminal to a civil one through other means!

Even saying, as long as it could be resolved peacefully, he could pay more money!

Like Zhang Shan’s factory, it wasn’t even worth a hundred thousand, yet he was willing to offer hundreds of thousands to buy it, and when the other party refused, he even wanted to increase the price to a million!

It was really because the other party didn’t want to sell, or perhaps Zhang Shan wasn’t just considering himself, hence not selling, even resorting to seeking Xu Liang... This drove Zhu Haoyi to desperation.

And so he simply went all out, forced a contract signing and murder package!

But he didn’t expect that even when the client was gone, and the contract wasn’t signed, Xu Liang was still willing to work for the factory...

Even leaving Zhengyang City now, disappearing from right under his nose!

"This is also a good opportunity," Li Yang said from the side.

"Without Liu Jinshui and the like leading, the weaving factory in Yangshan Gully can be forcibly demolished. Those old, weak, and disabled people couldn’t possibly stop it."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Haoyi fell into deep thought.

After a long while, he took a deep breath and said:

"Today find people to drive away those from Yangshan Gully, forcibly demolish it!"

"After the demolition, start preparing for construction immediately, I want the underground minerals extracted and refined in a short time!"

They have a contract in hand.

This allows them to forcibly demolish and drive people out!

Even if it’s considered illegal, it doesn’t matter, at most they would just have to pay some compensation.

And as for the rare earth mine...

"Speed up the construction, we’ve almost finalized talks with the state enterprise, just waiting to sign the contract!"

"Once the contract is signed, the company will hand over the raw ore to them, then send people to learn purification techniques, of course..."

Saying this, Zhu Haoyi said in a deep voice:

"Don’t leave behind any evidence that could arouse suspicion."

Now that Xu Liang has left, he becomes an uncontrollable risk factor, he still has to get the contract signed as soon as possible.

For his own goal.

Zhengyang Mining Company has been searching for rare earth mines in Zhengyang City for a whole seven years!

Seven years, how many sets of seven years does a person have?

Those foolish donkeys without any foresight, only relying on luck, have occupied ninety-nine percent of Zhengyang City’s rare earth mines, even selling raw ore at low prices, leading to the absence of unowned rare earth mines for mining companies to excavate!

Zhu Haoyi feels angry about this, but there’s nothing he can do, after all, he was late to the game, he can only search slowly.

But fortunately, they found it now.

Not only found, but they also reached a verbal agreement with Manager Wang from the state enterprise, able to cooperate!

As long as they connect with the state enterprise, and it’s an exclusive partnership, then... rationally contacting those already prepared... this thing has a promising outlook.

But as for Xu Liang...

"Could he have noticed something?"

Li Yang suddenly asked in a deep voice, anxiously.

Zhu Haoyi was also pondering this issue, his brows were tightly furrowed, deep in thought.

After a long while, he shook his head and said:

"Probably not."

At least for now, they just look like a normal mining company.

What? Forcibly demolishing and occupying also counts as a normal mining company? Even forcibly killing a family of three counts as a normal mining company!?

Yes, this is how a normal mining company operates.

And after obtaining the mine, cooperating with the state enterprise, this behavior aligns perfectly with the profit-driven process of a mining company.

"If he sues for murder..."

"Push out a few scapegoats."

Zhu Haoyi’s eyes focused, he now thinks in a different direction.

Since Xu Liang insists on filing a criminal case... then let him file!

It’s just about finding people to take the fall, then, Xu Liang completes his commission, Liu Jinshui and others receive ’justice served’, and the project can continue!

Everyone is happy!

Unless...

"What if he insists on holding you accountable?" Li Yang suddenly furrowed his brows.

Zhu Haoyi fell silent.

Xu Liang, this lawyer, is different from other lawyers.

Other lawyers only care whether the case is won, as long as they win it’s fine, but Xu Liang... he likes to investigate the case thoroughly!

For example, Sunzhou, clearly for Sun Zhongmin’s case, after the severe organ degradation caused by heavy metals, it could already be won.

But Xu Liang insisted on investigating Jin Bo, and even validated the radioactive steel materials from Jin Bo!

And at Qingshi City’s hospital for instance.

The hospital’s organ smuggling and blood draw causing deaths was also a one hundred percent win, ensuring the rights of the client.

But he just had to keep investigating the human experimentation case!

Clearly, the success rate is the same, and even the commission wouldn’t increase, yet he takes huge risks... he just insists on pushing through!

If not for this, Zhu Haoyi wouldn’t deny Xu Liang the chance to file a case.

After much deliberation.

Finally, Zhu Haoyi took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:

"Let’s get the project off the ground first."

As for Xu Liang’s disappearance...

Not to sound rude, but Zhu Haoyi knows the law too!

Even if Xu Liang went to Upper City by car, at most the case would just be filed.

But so what even if that’s the case? At worst, the case will continue to be handled by the Zhengyang City Intermediate Court.

And he said as much.

As long as it’s in Zhengyang City! This case cannot overturn the heavens!!!

In any case, rare earths are the priority of priorities!

"Rest assured."

"The advantage is mine!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yang nodded and started handling things.

After a few phone calls, it wasn’t long before a large number of bulldozers and excavators slowly made their way to Yangshan Gully, preparing to flatten the crude factory!

...

...

Inside Upper City.

"Hiss, do you think there will be any big action at the upcoming press conference?"

"I don’t know, but I think this operation won’t be minor; the Drug Administration, Health Commission, police, court, prosecutor’s office... hoo, just mentioning them fills a hand!"

"These people all holding a meeting and then holding a press conference... it’s hard to say if they’ll announce anything."

"Indeed, but I think it’s most likely related to the welfare of the victims..."

"..."

Inside the Supreme Court.

Numerous journalists gathered in groups, slowly began to speak.

This is the Supreme Court of Eastern Country.

The Supreme People’s Court!

The hall of judicial honor, the source of law!

Here, every nook and cranny is filled with the majesty and oppression named ’State Machinery’, making one subconsciously lower their voice when speaking.

"Brother Tao, do you think there will be any big moves later?"

In a corner, Zhuolang News cameraman Li Ye whispered to Zhang Tao.

That’s right, the two of them are everywhere!

The Qingshi City case is too big, and those responsible for issuing notices, obviously the city has no say, while the province... the province is awkwardly stuck in a middle ground, with nothing to issue as a notice.

Only Upper City can make announcements about the conclusion of this case!

After realizing this, the two quickly came to the Supreme Court.

"Hard to say..."

Zhang Tao shook his head.

Upon hearing this, Li Ye didn’t know what to say, and started pondering on the side.

Until quite a while later...

"The press conference is starting!"

Li Ye suddenly got excited and immediately led the people to squeeze into the press conference scene.

Soon after.

At the press conference scene, a man slowly walked onto the podium, he was the one responsible for this press conference!

And he was...

"Judge Zhao?" Zhang Tao suddenly froze, looking at the obviously weary and spiritless Zhao Yi on the podium, showing confusion.

On the podium, Zhao Yi, dressed in a suit, looked at the numerous microphones below, his already troubled face immediately wrinkled into a frown.

’Damn it, why are there so many people!?’

Zhao Yi cursed inwardly, his expression looking even more troubled.

To be honest.

Such a press conference, theoretically, shouldn’t be him coming forward.

After all, this is the Supreme Court, and he’s just a judge from the High Court, he was just here to attend a meeting.

Who would have thought... just after the meeting ended and he was about to leave, he was thrown here under the guise of ’training’.

Training?

Was he not already trained enough in Hanhai City’s Qingshi City!?

He’s about to turn into steel!

"Never mind, Judge Zhao works too."

The reporters below didn’t mind too much, quickly accepting that Zhao Yi was the interviewer, and promptly threw questions.

"Judge Zhao, regarding the ’Superstar Pharmaceutical Group’, involving human experimentation, is it convenient to give a definitive number and field of the case’s victims?!"

Number and field?

Could he possibly say in front of dozens of journalists, that there are thousands of infants!?

Damn, the first question is already so tricky...

Looking at these cameras in front of him, Zhao Yi felt his scalp tingle.

These are from the most renowned television stations across the country, every word he says would instantly spread nationwide... 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"Currently, the investigation into the victims is still ongoing, unable to provide an exact number."

"However, rest assured, although the case involves many people, the proportion of actual victims is very small..."

Zhao Yi racked his brains to even draw in ’proportion’ to the conversation.

Which involves more people, ten percent of ten people, or one percent of a thousand people!?

Anyway, Zhao Yi only mentioned the proportion is small!

"Judge Zhao, regarding the corporation, how will the court conduct sentencing? What applicable laws are present domestically?"

Another reporter asked.

The trial hasn’t even started yet, the prosecutor’s office hasn’t even communicated, how could he say anything about sentencing....

If he says it’s a death penalty, and the prosecutor’s office finds something leading to a term imprisonment, wouldn’t the public explode!?

"Please trust the court, the authorities will hold Han Chengguang accountable to the end!"

Zhao Yi strained his mind and spoke up, while quickly adding:

"In addition, there is a piece of good news to announce at this press conference!"