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The person who made the threatening call had given Xie Junhao three days to raise the funds, and it seemed there was no need to call again so soon to hurry him.
At this point in time, it was sufficient for Liang Fei and Shen Xing to begin their investigation in order to respond to this situation.
In the evening, Xie Junhao attended the banquet hosted by Mayor Fan Qingxuan, with Liang Fei and Shen Xing accompanying him closely. As the chief bodyguard Hai Shi who had protected Xie Junhao all the way from Xiangdu Capital to Binyang and the ace detective Jia Wu'er, along with Xie Junhao's own nephew Xie Chenfeng, it was natural that these three would not be absent either.
The national anti-corruption campaign was quite severe, and as the mayor of the city, Fan Qingxuan naturally had to set a good example and not engage in corruption himself.