2024-07-31
Chapter 51: Storms Swept the City
After the Nine Bends Society was found to be connected to the Tengya Mountain Bandit Army, gangs large and small across every major district were dragged into the disaster.
The General Directorate directly issued orders to thoroughly investigate every force in the city.
The gang forces that had risen in recent years, in particular, were met with a wave of purges.
For a time, storms swept the entire city.
Every day, people talked about which gang had vanished that morning and which force had been sealed off the day before.
Those with well-informed sources who knew some of the inside story understood that all of this was connected to the Tengya Mountain Bandit Army.
And the deeper they investigated, the more terrifying it became.
Quite a few gangs that had risen in the Prefecture City in recent years had, behind the scenes, the shadow of the bandit army!
These were only the clues uncovered in the first round of preliminary investigations. If they continued digging deeper, the problems would likely prove even more severe than anyone had imagined.
Without anyone noticing, the bandit army had already infiltrated the Prefecture City's lower levels to an astonishing extent.
Outside an old quadrangle courtyard in the Houli Street district.
Song Changming and Lu Gang stood there, watching the Patrol Guard Team under their command escort people out from inside.
"Many people from this Green Bee Society disappeared two days ago. They must have received advance warning, sensed that something was wrong, and fled the Prefecture City.
"Most of those left behind are newly recruited gang members, and ordinary people at that. Even if they were left behind, they probably don't know much." Lu Gang shook his head as he watched those being detained.
The other side