Volume 1: The Fierce Tiger Leaves Its Leash Chapter 32: Who is the Traitor (Part 1)

  Zhou Guohui arrived just as the guards had brought Luo Zhicheng down to the large hall below.

  "Director Zhou, we..."

  "Get out, all of you! Can't even handle something like this!" Zhou Guohui was furious. More than a dozen guards couldn't even keep an eye on one person, and yet Ling Tianxiang had managed to sneak in unnoticed.

  Zhang Guoting immediately took his men and left. They had discovered Luo Zhuang being tied to a chair in the study just half an hour ago, and then notified Zhou Guohui. What Zhang Guoting couldn't figure out was how that special forces soldier named Ling Tianxiang had slipped under their noses and then quietly left.

  "General Zhou, they were also innocent, actually..."

  "There is no innocence, there is only dereliction of duty! That's dereliction!" Zhou Guohui's anger had not dissipated. "Director Luo, your situation is very awkward right now. I am trying to investigate the facts. Even if we all believe you are innocent, however, before the facts are clear, you are still the prime suspect. You should understand this."

  Luo Chu nodded slightly, and at the moment of action failure, he knew that he would be the biggest suspect.

  "When did Ling Tianxiang come looking for you?" Zhou Guohui plopped himself down on the sofa and then pulled out a cigarette.

  "Probably..." Luo Chu Zhang took over the cigarette, lit it and puffed hard for a few mouthfuls. "About an hour and a half ago."

  "What is he doing here?" Zhou Guohui also lit a cigarette, and he knew that Ling Tianxiang would come to make trouble, but those guards still didn't take effect.

  "Just like you, he thinks I'm a traitor and wants to get rid of this traitor." Luo's expression was very gloomy.

  Zhou Guohui slightly furrowed his brow, knowing that Luo Chuzhang's words were not finished.

  "And what's more, he even threatened my family. But...” Luo sighed, “I know that after all that has happened, my explanations are useless. Old Zhou, you must believe me, I don't want to see these things happen either, and I will definitely cooperate with the investigation."

  "What did you tell Ling Tianxiang?" Zhou Guohui immediately noticed something was off.

  "This..."

  "Lu, you must make it clear that just because I believe in you doesn't mean anything. If we can't find the real traitor, there's no way to prove your innocence. And now Ling Tianxiang is out there causing trouble on his own. If he does something wrong and disrupts the investigation, then regret will be too late." Zhou Guohui slammed his hand on the table. "Now you only have one way out: cooperate with us, just like you said, fully assist in the investigation. What exactly did you tell Ling Tianxiang?"

  Luo Chuzhang looked up at Zhou Guohui and said after a slight hesitation: "The matter of that spy."

  "What!?" Zhou Guohui immediately jumped up, "This is simply nonsense, Director Luo, this is simply nonsense. Damn it, now there's a good show to watch!"

  "Old Zhou..."

  Zhou Guohui completely ignored Luo Chuzhang, who had already become flustered and lost his composure, and quickly walked out of the room.

  "Arrange for two squads of guards to rush to Shayibake District No. 121 immediately." Zhou Guohui beckoned Zhang Guoting over, "You continue to stay here and strengthen the guard. If you make another mistake, you can go home and farm, don't *** around in the troops eating rice."

  "Yes, sir!"

  Zhou Guohui stared at this young lieutenant and immediately got on the car and set off.

  Ten minutes before he arrived, two squads of soldiers had already burst into the house where Mai Tei lived and quickly found the hidden cellar.

  "Director Zhou, we're one step too late."

  As soon as Zhou Guohui walked into the cellar, he immediately smelled a pungent bloody smell, and when he saw the corpse lying on the ground with its head cut off, he suddenly felt a strong urge to vomit.

  The team leader of the guard followed Zhou Guohui to the ground. "After a preliminary examination, it is believed that this person was killed within an hour, and we have searched around without finding the head of the body."

  Zhou Guohui nodded slightly, and this point he had already seen.

  "I really don't know who did it, what's the point of cutting off a corpse's head?"

  "First seal off the scene, and don't let the police get involved in the investigation." Zhou Guohui rubbed his nose, and only then did he come back to himself.

  At this time, another officer ran over, followed by four young men wearing Uyghur costumes behind him.

  "General, they are intelligence agents, their documents have been checked." The officer stepped aside. "About an hour and a half ago, someone attacked them, and they didn't come to until we found them."

  "Did you see the face of the person who attacked you?" The guard platoon leader asked immediately.

  "Captain, we were ambushed from behind and it's already a miracle that we weren't killed. How could we have seen the face of our attacker?" The four agents looked somewhat wronged, they were just ordinary agents after all, and had no idea that the person being surveilled had an accomplice.

  "You all go back first and report to your department heads." Zhou Guohui waved his hand, letting the four agents leave first.

  "Director Zhou, who exactly was behind this? If he wanted to get rid of the spy inside, why did he let the surveillance agent outside go?"

  "Maybe they just didn't think it was necessary to take action against a few agents."

  "What's with all the questions? Just do your job and stop bothering me here." Zhou Guohui scolded his two subordinates. "All of you, go outside and stand guard. Don't ask things that shouldn't be asked, damn it!"

  "Yes!" The two officers of the guard corps immediately ran away from the yard in a flash.

  Zhou Guohui was also a bit overwhelmed, it was clear that all of this was done by Ling Tianxiang alone. Moreover, Ling Tianxiang must have obtained important intelligence from the mouth of that eliminated spy, and didn't want others to follow up on this lead, so he took drastic measures. So, what kind of intelligence did Ling Tianxiang obtain? Why didn't he want others to investigate further? Thinking about these questions, Zhou Guohui felt like going crazy as a general being controlled by his subordinates.

  The body was quickly carried away by an ambulance, and the surrounding residents had just woken up, staring at what happened in shock. The army had never come here before.

  Zhou Guohui also left the scene at this time, and Ling Tianxiang must have gone to investigate the clues. However, with a population of nearly one million in Wucheng and an urban area of nearly 100 square kilometers, it's not easy to find Ling Tianxiang who has already hidden himself. What's more troublesome is that now Ling Tianxiang may have already left Wucheng, so where can he be found?