Chapter 381: 145, geez! Lin Mo and Chen Shanhe met in the elevator! _3
Several minutes had passed, and under the watchful eyes of all his subordinates, Chen Shanhe walked up to the table, a light smile emerging on his face.
This smile was so much like the one Lin Mo wore when he first started his broadcast.
The two men didn’t look alike at all, but at that moment, it gave the illusion that they were quite similar.
How to put it… It was like Cao Jin and Guo Degang, who looked nothing alike, yet because of their lineage, shared subtle nuances and micro-expressions, making them seem as one.
Lin Mo was actually quite similar to Chen Shanhe. Both came from the lower echelons of society, rising from obscurity, and both were very cautious by nature. In fact, if they sat together, they would likely find much common ground.
Chen Shanhe looked straight ahead, imagining the scene at that time, and said solemnly, “Hello everyone, I am Lin Mo…”
As he uttered these words, Chen Shanhe felt as if Lin Mo himself was standing beside him, looking at him with a face full of irony and mockery, repeating the words he had said before:
[Old Mr. Chen, with all due respect, you are not yet qualified to negotiate with the Abyss Organization.]
[From the day you chose to be an enemy of the Abyss Organization, you and your Chen Family have already stepped half a foot into hell.]
[There’s no… possibility of turning things around.]
“Hehe…”
“Is that so?”
“Lin Mo, you’re pretty good. Well then, let’s see who will be dragged into that relentless hell first.”
“From this moment on, I, Chen Shanhe, officially enter the game.”
“In this chess match, only one of us can remain.”
Chen Shanhe muttered to himself, as though he was conversing with Lin Mo across the void.
….
After a while, his subordinates brought all the surveillance footage from the surrounding streets.
The Chen Family had fallen, but Chen Shanhe had not.
Actually, if Chen Shanhe wished, he could start a second Chen Family, a Li Family, a Qin Family… elsewhere.
Lin Mo had risen to power relying on the Intelligence System.
Whereas Chen Shanhe himself, having been in the world for decades, was intelligence personified!
The closer one is to the top of the food chain, the more toxins in the body.
Chen Shanhe had a lot of toxins about important figures in his hands, so no matter what step he took, even if he were to enter the grave now, as long as those toxins were still there, he could mobilize a lot of resources.
His subordinate looked up and asked, “Elder Chen, do you want to look at these surveillance tapes now?”
Chen Shanhe nodded and pointed at the table in front of him, saying, “Put the computer here, and let’s watch it right here.”
Upon the order, the subordinates promptly got busy, not long after they charged the laptop and placed it on the table Lin Mo had broadcasted from before.
The video began to play.
First, a business van stopped at the door, and then, Lin Mo, having changed his appearance, got out of the van with his family and entered the villa.
There were no surveillance cameras inside the room, so the footage was fast-forwarded.
About an hour later, Lin Mo and his family finished their broadcast and walked out of the villa to get on the business van again.
The van started to drive away, with the angle of monitoring constantly changing.
Sometimes it was road surveillance, sometimes storefront cameras, and at times dashcam views.
The subordinate explained at the side: “Elder Chen, the vehicle stopped near this public park, then Lin Mo and his family got out of the car and entered the park, but the surveillance didn’t capture them appearing again.”
“I speculate that they must have found a secluded spot in the park to disguise themselves a second time before dispersing and leaving the park, then taking other forms of transportation to different places.”
“We have now found out that since Lin Mo entered the park, over a thousand people have appeared at the exit of the park.”
“Do we conduct a large-scale search?”
A large-scale search would screen all these thousand-plus people in an attempt to find Lin Mo.
This approach might be crude, but in fact, when handling major cases, it’s often these simple methods that officials rely on.
Chen Shanhe currently had the capability to conduct a large-scale search, but after thinking for a moment, he said, “Let’s not do that for now. Lin Mo is cunning, but he doesn’t know that I’ve already arrived in Northern Sea City.”
“If we search now, we might startle the snake.”
“This guy is as cunning as a monkey. Just a little stir, and he will immediately think of fleeing overseas. Then it will be even harder to find him.”
The others all deeply agreed, nodding emphatically at his words.
One year of tangling with Lin Mo was the most painful and agonizing year they had experienced in many.
He was too hard to find!
If it weren’t for Lin Mo himself causing some ripples every now and then, they wouldn’t have any clues to follow.
The subordinate thought for a moment and then said, “Elder Chen, it’s getting late, why don’t you rest for now and leave the investigation to us?”
“There was a project in Northern Sea, and Elder Xu has prepared a place for you to stay. Which one would you prefer to go to?”
Indeed, it was getting late.
Having been tired for an entire day, Chen Shanhe was indeed fatigued, and tonight it seemed that any breakthrough was unlikely.
His gaze swept over his subordinates, finally landing on a man around 40 years old as he asked, “Qian Sheng, if I remember correctly, you’re from Northern Sea, aren’t you?”
The subordinate referred to as Qian Sheng nodded, “Yes, Elder Chen, I am from Northern Sea.”
Chen Shanhe then asked, “Do you have an idle house?”
Huh?
Qian Sheng was startled for a moment, not understanding why Chen Shanhe was asking him this.
However, he quickly lowered his head and respectfully answered, “Yes, I have one, in the downtown area of Ruyi Garden, a large flat in the community.”
“But Elder Chen… that flat hasn’t been lived in for a long time, so it might be a bit simple.”