Tonight's incident was a kidnapping of the most egregious nature.
By this hour, not only were newspaper offices working through the night to print extra editions, but television stations were already broadcasting the news. Because Nie Zhao had been photographed by reporters as he stepped out of police headquarters, even though the police knew he had left in a Bentley, in an era before widespread surveillance, when only the Nie family was present at the scene and the kidnappers had already been neutralized, the official narrative of the entire event belonged to the Nie Family. Thus, today's sudden emergency was defined as: The Richest Man Kidnapped!
The two senior superintendents waiting here were Lei Shijun, Commissioner of the Police Force Headquarters, and Huo Qi, Superintendent of the Flying Tigers' Anti-Terrorism and Riot Control Division. Leading a group of heavily armed elite officers, they were waiting to make their move.
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