Zhong Yi had not called the police, because if you told an ordinary officer about this, you would not even know how to explain it properly.
But Chu Ge could.
He picked up his phone and called Lin Wuyang directly. "Wu Yang, there's a case involving an esper here. Are you the right person to report it to?"
Lin Wuyang took it seriously. "What happened?"
"The Black Room... You know about it, don't you? You just haven't trusted them enough to make contact?"
Lin Wuyang fell silent for a moment. "Yes."
Damn, you really do know a lot.
"The nightclub case involving the Wang family that you cracked last time-the Black Room reported it. Now their people have been targeted in retaliation. They're in the hospital. Want to come take their statements?"
Lin Wuyang's voice rose noticeably. "They were targeted too?"
"Too?"
"Early this morning, Zhang Xiaoren... Oh, that's Zhang Qiren's older brother-he's not handling the underground business now. He runs a legitimate Real Estate Company out in the open. Last night, someone reported this Real Estate Company for tax evasion and issuing fraudulent special VAT invoices. A complete set of evidence was mailed to Tax Inspection. The sums were large enough to constitute economic crimes. Early this morning, Tax Inspection and Economic Investigation launched a joint investigation and moved into his company."
Chu Ge remembered how Zhang Qiren had sent that skinny, monkey-like man out last time and shifted the blame onto his older brother. In the Wang family's eyes, Zhang Xiaoren had been the one who went after them.
So Zhang Xiaoren had been targeted in retaliation too. Everything lined up.
Lin Wuyang added, "The method they used to sneak into Zhang Xiaoren's finance office apparently involved writing on their face too."
"So we can pretty much confirm