Chapter 801 - 744: Breakthrough
"Lu Zhi, you might need to get ready on your side too," Tao Lu whispered to the commander of the long spear soldiers alongside him as he watched the police officer advance to negotiate again.
Lu Zhi grunted in acknowledgment, "No problem here. Just make your decision, and we are ready to go into action at any time."
"Let’s opt for non-lethal weapons first, right?" Tao Lu confirmed. "We might still have undiscovered bodies, and we really need these suspects’ testimonies."
After receiving Liu Jinghui’s call, Tao Lu had headed to the air-raid shelter immediately. Compared to reopening Xu Taining’s case, he’d rather be the first one in, wearing a bulletproof vest and rushing into the bunker.
Funds weren’t something you couldn’t burn through, but after the burning, you had to leave some embers, right?
If, as Jiang Yuan and Liu Jinghui had analyzed, they were to find another batch of bodies, considering the complexity of Beijing’s water system, the cost would definitely surpass Zhengguang Bureau’s investigative budget limit.
Tao Lu could even imagine the scene when Xu Taining hired all the city’s divers.
The hourly fees would probably shoot up to the extent that he’d consider diving in himself.
Thus, compared to Xu Taining, Tao Lu hoped that these fringe religious followers could resolve their own issues—logically, this might be their only genuinely successful attempt at solving a problem.
Lu Zhi looked at Tao Lu and seriously said, "If we have enough time, it’s possible. But it mainly depends on the resistance will of the other party. If their will to resist isn’t that strong, we’ll use tear gas, and you try psychologically persuading them to see if they’d surrender. But if their will to resist is quite strong, I’d advise against using tear gas and go straight for shock bombs."