Dandu stroked the tie beneath his collar. It was a spiritual artifact, capable of shielding his mind from prying eyes, yet he could still sense the traces of spiritual power sweeping over him just now.
Dan Bohu suspected him.
Why did he suspect him?
He asked himself whether he had done anything improper before this.
A family gathering?
Instinctively, he felt something was wrong.
Especially the situation in Yunan City. The more deeply he considered it, the more it sent chills down his spine.
Drawing on his years of experience, he could roughly guess what the Municipal Office was trying to do, but the thought made his entire body turn cold.
Though he was a bureaucrat who obeyed the Municipal Office, the most obedient hound in the citizens' eyes, he still had one last bottom line of his own.
Tomorrow's family gathering should be the moment they laid their cards on the table.
Before that, he needed to meet someone.
At midnight, investigators from the Investigation Bureau burst into the Dao Lodge, declaring that they were here to seal the place. They had deliberately chosen a time when the workers were absent, so the workers would not join forces with the people of the Dao Lodge. Though the Dao Lodge had never intended to push the workers forward in the first place.
The people of the Dao Lodge did not choose to resist. They silently left the place, watching coldly as the Investigation Bureau locked up the Dao Lodge and read out the decree ordering them to leave within a set time limit.
Before the officials departed, one person slipped a note into Wei An's hand. He froze. In that instant, he could not help wondering whether it was a trap, but after sensing it briefly, he still put it