Very soon, the young man stopped outside a room, bowed deeply, "I won't go in, I'll wait outside for you. Minister, please go in and take a bath and get changed."

As soon as he finished speaking, he reached out and pulled open the Changzi Gate.

Tengji Yu walked straight in, and the first thing he saw was a magnificent and exquisite screen blocking the view.

The young man who guided him gently closed the door.

Tengji Yu wrinkled his nose because he smelled a faint fishy odor. He instinctively followed the scent behind the screen, and when he saw the scene behind the screen, he immediately screamed in shock and fell to the ground.

He saw a bloody, unrecognizable corpse lying on the floor, staring wide-eyed at the ceiling.

"Ah! Ah! Someone! Someone!"

Tengji Yu screamed and shouted, his panic-stricken hands groping around indiscriminately, trying to grab something for support to get up. Finally, he grabbed the leg of a chair and managed to stand up. Once upright, he noticed his hand was covered in already thickening blood. He looked down and saw the chair was bloodstained and a leg was bent.

"Bam!"

At this moment, the door was kicked open rudely.

A young man wearing a brown suit, roughly thirty years old, barged in. He looked at the scene and was momentarily stunned, then he suddenly rushed to the corpse and shouted, "Congressman! Congressman!"

His mind somewhat dazed and still frightened, Tengji Yu then realized that the deceased on the ground was a congressman.

Something was wrong, very wrong.

Tengji Yu turned and hurriedly walked towards the exit.

Although he didn't yet understand what had happened, reason and intuition told him he had to leave immediately.

"Stop! You killed the congressman!" The young man beside the corpse shouted, rushing up to tackle Tengji Yu to the ground, shouting, "Someone, quick! Mr. Oda has been killed! Someone!"

"Don't shout! It's not me! It's not me!" Tengji Yu's face turned pale, and he struggled desperately and angrily.

"Tap tap tap tap tap..."

The sound of hurried and chaotic footsteps was heard.

Afterward, a group of middle-aged men wrapped only in towels rushed in; some wore wooden clogs, some were barefoot, clearly all having come in a hurry.

"What's going on? What happened?" Tanben Yifu, leading them, asked. When he recognized Tengji Yu, he was shocked and exclaimed, "Minister Tengji?"

He quickly scolded the young man, "Miyazaki Junichi, what are you doing? Release Minister Tengji immediately! How dare you act out of your place? How did Mr. Oda teach you?"

"Mr. Oda is dead! Mr. Oda has been killed by him!" Miyazaki Junichi screamed hysterically.

Everyone was equally shocked: "What!"

Then they all rushed behind the screen.

"Ah! Mr. Oda! Mr. Oda!"

"Mr. Oda! Mr. Oda, wake up!"

"Quickly... Quickly call the police! Call an ambulance!"

A moment later, Tanben Yifu and the others came out from behind the screen, their eyes falling on Tengji Yu.

"I didn't kill him! It wasn't me! He was dead when I got in, yes! Find the person who just led me in, it was him! He's the one with the problem..." Tengji Yu tried to defend himself desperately, but as he spoke he trailed off, for he noticed the group in front of him merely looking at him impassively.

Tengji Yu suddenly realized something, feeling as if he had fallen into an ice cave, his scalp tingled. He stammered, "You... You set me up together."

"Minister Tengji, these words are not right. You must talk with evidence; this is slander!" Tanben Yifu shook his head and sternly rebuked, "Tengji Yu! How depraved you are! Just because Mr. Oda refused to support Hatanaka Zizi in your argument, you killed him! You're a scoundrel!"

"This is slander! You're all despicable scoundrels, who instructed you? Yanchuan Shilang or Yamahana Shigeru?" Tengji Yu questioned angrily and fearfully.

Tanben Yifu's eyes showed some pity. He sighed and said, "Not admitting is useless. We all saw you arguing with Mr. Oda directly. He left furiously because he did not support Hatanaka Zizi, and you chased after him trying to persuade him. Mr. Oda's secretary, Miyazaki Junichi, heard you both break into a fierce argument, and Mr. Oda's scream. When he broke in, he saw Mr. Oda lying in a pool of blood, and you were standing beside the corpse holding the chair used as a weapon with your hands stained with blood."

"From when you entered to when Miyazaki Junichi came in, there was surveillance outside as evidence. Unfortunately, due to circuit problems there was a power outage, so the surveillance content of when Mr. Oda entered the room was missing."

As he talked more, he felt more terrified. Aoyama Xiu Xin was truly ruthless and malicious; an incident of a congressman killing a congressman with such significant implications, ultimately would certainly be handled by Heisei's No.1 Detective, and Tengji Yu was doomed.

Even if Hatanaka Zizi used his connections to plant his person in the Special Investigation Headquarters and they couldn't completely verify the evidence of Tengji Yu's murder, with this suspicion, the citizens would "spontaneously" march to demand his resignation.

Regardless of whether Tengji Yu is imprisoned or resigns and apologizes, the New Party and its leader Hatanaka Zizi will suffer negatively from this.

"You... You are so vicious! Using any means for power, if the country falls into the hands of people like you, it's over!" Tengji Yu's eyes were bloodshot, his voice piercing as though a cuckoo crying in blood.

Upon hearing this accusation, Tanben Yifu was displeased, "Hmph! You speak as if the country would be better in your hands. Besides, I don't know if the country would be finished, but you're definitely finished."

Yoshikai Youzai, chief of the Murder Unit of Police Headquarters, arrived at the scene with his team, immediately securing fingerprints, surveillance videos, and witness testimonies as evidence. After photographing the scene, they sent the body back to headquarters.

Tengji Yu was also brought back to headquarters with them.

As soon as he arrived at headquarters, a group of omniscient journalists arrived almost simultaneously, surrounding the team going to conduct an on-site investigation tightly.

"Officer, we received a tip that a fierce homicide occurred tonight, and both the murderer and the deceased have official identities, is that so?"

"Could you confirm if the tip-off is true..."

"Yes! The deceased is Congressman Oda Hidehiko, and the suspect is Minister of Finance Tengji Yu." Yoshikai Youzai replied honestly.

With his words, the scene instantly exploded!

The informant said both the deceased and the murderer had official backgrounds, but did not mention that they were two congressional members.

This is an unprecedented major news story.

"Minister of Finance killed a congressman?"

"Officer, can you tell us more details, the citizens have the right to know the truth!"

The reporters continually asked questions excitedly.

"Sorry! No comment, please await a report for specific information." Yoshikai Youzai was unwilling to say more, shouting, "Please make way."

Then he motioned for his men to take Tengji Yu out of the car.

"Look! It really is Minister Tengji!"

"Minister Tengji, why did you kill Congressman Oda Hidehiko? What grievances are there between you two?"

"Is this a political murder..."

"I didn't kill anyone! I didn't! I'm being wronged by them!" Held by two police officers, Tengji Yu shouted angrily and desperately.

"Click!" "Click!"

Suddenly, the sound of shutters being pressed was heard repeatedly.

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