"They're coming! They're out!"
A sudden stir swept through the crowd gathered outside the gates of the Tianxiang Trading Company.
They had just seen Xie Bingyi, the second brother of the Xie Family, who had once been able to shake all of Yangcheng with a stomp of his foot, being escorted into a police car by two police officers. Now he looked like a beaten stray, handcuffed and ashen-faced.
It was not just Xie Bingyi. Deputy General Manager Tian Baishun, the security captain, and more than a dozen other senior figures from the Tianxiang Company were also led into police cars, one after another.
Clap, clap!
Someone mustered the courage to applaud first. Then thunderous applause, brimming with jubilant celebration, rang out and went on and on. Only after the six police cars slowly pulled away and disappeared down the street did it gradually subside.
Xie Bingyi had been arrested!
The news struck like a thunderclap out of a clear sky, leaving all of Yangcheng City buzzing.
It caused an even greater sensation than Ba Yan being taken away from the meeting by the Discipline Inspection Commission.
As soon as they heard, Shan Wenxu, Qiu Ling, Gong Li, and the other city leaders called Zhou Yi to ask what had happened.
Even now, Shan Wenxu could hardly believe that Director Zhou had brought Xie Bingyi back to the Public Security Bureau so quickly and decisively.
Qiu Ling, Gong Li, Sun Yi, and the others could hardly believe it either. Director Zhou had thrown convention aside and simply strong-armed Xie Bingyi into custody.
But once they learned the inside story, the former felt joy tinged with envy, while the latter felt shock mixed with fear.
Xie Bingyi's attempt at contract killing had failed. Instead, Zhou Yi had secured irrefutable evidence