Nominal: Hou Liangping blocking the door? He was slapped away!

Military interrogation center, underground command hall.

The massive tactical screen was divided into dozens of independent sections, and the high-frequency running servers emitted a deep hum.

The highest-encryption video link of the intelligence department of the Handong Provincial Military Region has been established. The green data stream scrolls rapidly at the edge of the screen, seamlessly connecting the real-time intelligence of the two locations.

Shen Zhong sat in front of the control panel, toying with a brass bullet in his hand.

"Disassemble all the extracted hard drive data and perform cross-comparison again."

"Re-file my documents according to these four lines: fund flow, personnel network, action instructions, and final results."

"I want to see a closed chain of evidence that not even a fly can get out."

Once the order was given, the entire technical team immediately sprang into action.

The crisp sound of keyboard typing filled the empty hall.

On the large screen, top-secret information, enough to cause a magnitude 10 earthquake, was listed out in a categorized manner.

The five-year-long secret payment records of Wangbeilou show that each transaction corresponds to a political frame-up or transfer of benefits, and even details the commission rates of the middlemen.

The list of employees detailed the spies the Chung family had cultivated over the years, as well as every murder they had carried out.

The complete video of Ouyang Jing being brutally beaten and interrogated in an abandoned air-raid shelter is shocking. The bloodstains on the screen clearly record the underworld methods used by the Zhong family to force Li Dakang to submit.

The records of thirteen transfers of eight billion Swiss francs of overseas funds show that the financial chain passed through shell companies in more than a dozen duty-free islands, and finally converged in an overseas trust under Zhong Xiaoai's name.

In the most central position is a 300-page catalog of military industrial materials transactions.

The document prominently displays the underlying parameters of a certain advanced radar, as well as leaked records of the formula for a new type of armor material.

Any one of these items would be enough to execute the person involved ten times over.

Shen Zhong stood the brass bullet upright on the table and tapped the metal surface.

"This peripheral evidence is more than enough to bring Zhong Xiaoai and her cronies to justice."

"To truly establish the Zhong family as a powerful force and to firmly nail that old bastard who has been lording it over people at the Xishan Sanatorium for decades to the pillar of shame, these measures alone are not enough."

"We need to find the chain of signatures that he directly ordered or tacitly approved the sale of military data."

"Without irrefutable evidence of his authorization, when it comes to the Supreme Military Court, his old subordinates will definitely jump out and push all the blame onto his subordinates for acting on their own."

"I've seen too many old foxes cut off their tails to survive; we absolutely cannot leave them any chance to turn the tables."

The technical team leader, sweating profusely, operated the terminal equipment and retrieved the underlying logs of the Chung family's underground server.

He quickly pressed the Enter key a few times, projecting a document onto the main screen.

"Sir, there's a problem."

"When we cracked that server, we discovered that the digital signature in the last column of the critical authorization file had been deliberately erased."

The incomplete top-secret document popped up on the screen.

Where a digital signature should have been left, there was nothing but a bare timestamp and a meaningless encrypted number.

Zhou Weiguo strode to the screen and carefully examined the arrangement of the code.

"This is a military-grade erasure method, which cleans up even the traces of the underlying overwrite very thoroughly."

"Someone remotely logged into the Zhong family's servers and tampered with them before our helicopters arrived at Xishan."

"Besides the sealed-off basement, the Zhong family definitely has another highly secure technology exit outside."

"There are people inside covering for them, and they are of high rank."

Shen Zhong leaned back in his chair, staring at the incomplete code on the screen.

Since the other party dared to make a move at this time, they must have left something behind.

"Have the electronic warfare team trace back and erase the traces using these timestamps. Dig deep and find that remote IP address."

"In addition, we connected Tian Guofu, the Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Handong Province, to a special line."

The communication channel was quickly connected, and Tian Guofu's calm voice came through the speaker.

"General Shen, the cleanup work in Handong is basically complete, and all of Li Dakang's seized assets are frozen."

Shen Zhong gave instructions into the microphone.

"Secretary Tian, ​​please arrange for someone to immediately compile and transmit all the financial records of the seventeen Zhong family companies that Li Dakang seized to the Military Trial Center."

"Since the traces have been erased online, we will look for loopholes in the offline financial approval chain."

"I don't believe they can erase every single debt from the past ten years."

After arranging the technical investigation, Shen Zhong got up and left the command center.

He walked through the long metal corridor to the interrogation room outside Block 3.

Behind the one-way glass, Zhong Xiaoai was wearing that gray coarse cloth prison uniform, her hands cuffed to the metal interrogation chair's panel.

Beneath the expensive cosmetics, her true face was already haggard, her hair disheveled and scattered over her shoulders, a far cry from her former haughty socialite demeanor.

Despite being pressured repeatedly by the two presiding officers, she remained steadfast and refused to give in.

"I don't know anything."

"Those overseas accounts and fund transfers are all managed by financial advisors hired by the family. Go and arrest them!"

"I'm just a civil servant who works in the Discipline Inspection Commission in a routine manner. I don't understand technology, let alone manage funds."

"Your military has no legal procedures whatsoever. On what grounds are you pinning these fabricated charges on me?"

She had seen this kind of rhetoric to shirk responsibility many times when the Discipline Inspection Commission was handling cases, and now she was quite adept at using it on herself.

Shen Zhong stood outside the glass, watching her performance.

He pressed the intercom button next to him and gave instructions to the officers in the interrogation room.

"Show her the meeting minutes from May 14th, three years ago."

The interrogating officer pulled a copy from the file folder in front of him and slapped it directly onto the partition in front of Zhong Xiaoai.

This is an approval record for special funds for Wangbeilou, involving a special allocation for employing foreign personnel.

In the bottom right corner, Zhong Xiaoai's own name was prominently displayed, her handwriting delicate yet exuding arrogance.

"Explain how a civil servant who understands finances could bypass external consultants and directly approve this overseas operation budget of up to thirty million?"

Zhong Xiaoai looked at the signature and felt a lump in her throat.

She opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word. Her nonchalant attitude instantly crumbled, and her face turned deathly pale.

In another special interrogation room at the end of the corridor.

Grandpa Zhong leaned back in his iron chair, his eyes closed.

He ignored all the questions posed by the presiding judge regarding the sale of military equipment.

The old man's lips moved slightly as he silently recited the names of several people.

Those were all his former subordinates whom he had promoted, his protégés and former officials whom he had placed in various military regions and political circles.

He firmly believed that as long as he didn't speak up and didn't have that fatal electronic signature, those high-ranking people outside would definitely do everything they could to get him out.

How could eighty years of political capital be wiped out overnight?

Inside the command center, the urgent calls from the technical team leader broke the silence of the corridor.

"Sir! We have results from the investigation!"

Shen Zhong turned around and strode back to the hall.

"speak."

"By cross-referencing the financial records sent by Handong, we discovered that the erased electronic signature required a physical encryption key to be effective."

"This key uses dual physical authentication and is bound to specific usage permissions."

The technical team leader projected a decrypted registration form onto the large screen, his fingers rapidly tapping on the keyboard.

"We used fragment reconstruction technology in the recycle bin of the underlying database to recover the last usage record of this key."

"The registered user is listed under a different name."