Confusion appeared on Tan Dongbang's face as he looked at Huo Shaoheng and said in confusion, "Actually, I don't understand how he did it either."
Huo Shaoheng was speechless.
"To be honest, when I first received his call, I thought someone was playing a prank on me." Tan Dongbang sighed deeply.
This matter had been weighing on his mind for almost a month. From the day he received that mysterious call, he had been in a daze and felt like it was all a dream.
Huo Shaoheng pushed the pen and paper in front of him to Tan Dongbang. "What was his phone number? Write it down. "
Huo Shaoheng didn't actually expect it to be a real phone number.
Everyone in the Special Operations Forces knew how to use a fake phone number to call someone, so the act was definitely more authentic than real gold.
But as long as there was a number, it could be traced, even if it was a fake number.
Huo Shaoheng mentally prepared himself to start with the fake number, but when he saw the number Tan Dongbang had written down, his mind still went blank for a moment.
"A four-digit phone number? Is this an internal line? "Huo Shaoheng snapped out of his daze and twisted the paper between his fingers as he asked Tan Dongbang with a cold expression.
If a four-digit phone number could be connected, it would at most be an internal line.
Otherwise, it couldn't be a real number.
Tan Dongbang said awkwardly, "I thought so at first, but the internal lines of the Cabinet, the Office of the Prime Minister, and the military are all five-digit numbers, not four-digit numbers."
Also, he could directly dial this number from his phone.
The phone showed that it wasn't an internal line number, but an international number.
Huo Shaoheng was slightly taken aback. "An international number?"
Tan Dongbang spread his hands. "You should've checked my phone. There must be records of incoming and outgoing calls."
When they were arrested, their phones, watches, jewelry, wallets, and everything else they had on them had been confiscated for safekeeping.
Also, as evidence, their phones had also been thoroughly checked.
Logically speaking, there should've been call records.
But Huo Shaoheng was certain that he hadn't seen this abnormal number on Tan Dongbang's phone test report.
If a four-digit international number had really appeared on Tan Dongbang's phone, his subordinates would never have missed such an obvious clue.
But their report didn't mention this number at all.
Huo Shaoheng was silent for a moment. He sent a text message to his subordinates and asked them to send Tan Dongbang's phone over. He asked Tan Dongbang to continue speaking. "And then? What did the owner of this number say to you? "
It wasn't that he didn't trust his subordinates, but if they were expert hackers, it wasn't impossible for them to hack into Tan Dongbang's phone and hide the records.
To be on the safe side, he had to check it again.
Huo Shaoheng listened to Tan Dongbang ramble on about his interactions with that person during the few minutes he waited for his subordinates to deliver Tan Dongbang's phone.
"… That person should be a man. His voice is deep and rough, and he speaks very slowly. When he's talking on the phone, it seems like he's very far away. The signal on the phone is not very good, and sometimes it's intermittent, but I can still hear what he's saying."
Tan Dongbang recalled the miraculous experiences of the past month.
"At that time, I was already in despair. I wanted to give up, give up the election, and let Bai Jiancheng be the Prime Minister. Just when I was at my worst, the phone call came in. He told me that as long as I promised to do one thing for him after I was elected, he would help me get elected.
"I was furious when I heard that. I thought it was some bored person messing with me, so I scolded him.
"But that person wasn't angry. After I finished scolding him, he told me that he was the one who helped Hong Kangquan control the voting monitoring system when I was elected for the first time.
"… Then he told me some specific data about the votes and the actual voting data. It matched my records perfectly. I finally believed him after he said that. " Tan Dongbang sighed with infinite regret. "To be honest, I couldn't believe it myself that I was elected for the first time. I thought that Songyin really did a lot of work …"
Huo Shaoheng nodded without batting an eyelid.
This also matched his investigation, so it shouldn't have been faked.
"And then? You just cooperated with him? "
Tan Dongbang closed his eyes. "Of course. As long as I can be elected, the methods aren't important. The results are."
Even if he had used improper means to get into office, wouldn't he be able to make up for it as long as he put the nation's interests first?
Actually, he had forgotten that people who used improper means to get into office would never be able to overcome their selfish desires and greed. After getting into office, they would only crazily pursue their own interests and would never put the nation's interests first.
He had only thought this way to numb himself and convince himself of what little conscience he had left …
"Did that person say his conditions?" Huo Shaoheng circled the number. At that moment, his subordinate pushed open the door and came in to deliver Tan Dongbang's phone to him in an evidence bag.
Huo Shaoheng put on special sensor gloves and opened the evidence bag. He took out Tan Dongbang's phone and began to quickly search for the content of the call.
Tan Dongbang looked at his phone and blushed slightly. He murmured, "That person didn't say anything. He only said that he would contact me again if I was elected."
It was also because that person hadn't mentioned a single condition before being elected that Tan Dongbang was increasingly convinced that he really wanted to help him get elected.
If he was a swindler, he would definitely make all sorts of demands before being elected.
Huo Shaoheng didn't say anything else and focused all his attention on Tan Dongbang's phone.
He spent a full half an hour searching but still couldn't find any four-digit phone numbers in Tan Dongbang's phone contacts.
There were no records of calls being made or incoming.
Huo Shaoheng furrowed his brows.
Could Tan Dongbang's words be trusted?
Did he really have this number, or had he gone crazy for the election and imagined a mysterious number and a mysterious person out of thin air?
Huo Shaoheng glanced up at Tan Dongbang and tossed his phone onto the table. He said calmly, "There's no record on your phone that proves you called this number, nor is there any record that proves this number called you. Why? Or are you not willing to tell the truth? If you make up a story, you'll end up very badly with me. "
"I didn't make up a story!" Tan Dongbang panicked. He grabbed his phone and opened the contacts. "A few days ago, on the day of the election, I kept calling this person!"
He clearly remembered that he had called this number many times. There were records of calls being made and incoming on his phone.
However, when he opened the contacts, he couldn't find any records of this number no matter how hard he searched.
It was as if everything had really been a dream …
"How is this possible? How is this possible?! I clearly called this number many times … I remember … "Tan Dongbang clutched his head and began to scream.
He suddenly couldn't find the source of the things he thought were real in his memories. He also began to doubt the authenticity of his memories.
"I swear! I really called this number! That person also told me many things about Hong Kangquan! How could I have imagined this out of thin air? "Tan Dongbang was so anxious he wanted to grab Huo Shaoheng's hand." Believe me! You can ask Hong Kangquan if you don't believe me! I don't believe he had the same dream as me! "
Seeing that Tan Dongbang was so agitated that he was incoherent, Huo Shaoheng finally took back Tan Dongbang's phone dubiously. He stood up and said, "Go rest first. I'll go ask Hong Kangquan again."
"You have to go ask him! You'll know if I'm telling the truth! "Tan Dongbang was still shouting as he was taken away.
However, after Huo Shaoheng left Tan Dongbang's interrogation room, he didn't go directly to Hong Kangquan. Instead, he went to Cai Songyin's interrogation room.
When a female Special Operations Forces member brought Cai Songyin over, Cai Songyin was as nervous as a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow.
Cai Songyin's heart sank when she saw Huo Shaoheng's confident expression. She thought that the spineless jerk Tan Dongbang must have confessed, so she immediately said, "I'll tell you. I'll tell you everything. I'll still say the same thing. I didn't ask Hong Kangquan to kill anyone. I only told him that the Weibo blogger threatened my daughter, so I had to teach him a lesson."
"Why would the Weibo blogger threaten your daughter out of nowhere?" Huo Shaoheng's face was expressionless as he looked down and jotted something down on a piece of paper.
Cai Songyin choked. Should she say what she was going to say next or not?
If she told the truth, would it cause more problems?
At that moment, Cai Songyin didn't know that Huo Shaoheng and Gu Nianzhi had already discovered that she was secretly trying to defame them and was still trying to cover it up.
Huo Shaoheng grew impatient and threw out the short article summary that he had prepared. "… Was it because of this?"
This was something that Gu Nianzhi had discovered by chance from the Weibo blogger "Churchill's Garden." It was a description of the unspeakable incident between Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng.
Of course, it wasn't the original text. It was just a summary.
Cai Songyin's face flushed as she glanced at it. She suddenly froze. She grabbed the piece of paper and looked at it, then looked at Huo Shaoheng. "Where did you get this?"
Huo Shaoheng replied calmly, "Where did you get this? Of course it was a blog post by the Weibo blogger 'Churchill's Garden.' Don't you know? "
"But this isn't what I asked him to write!" Cai Songyin was angry and happy at the same time. The conflicted expression on her face was a little scary.
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