Director Zhou did not return to Sunshine Residential Community that evening. Instead, ever dedicated to his work, he stayed at the Public Security Bureau for the night shift.
After finishing his call with Li Ruoyun, he lay on the bed in his office, wide awake. He lit a cigarette and sank into thought.
Capturing Xie Bingyi was undoubtedly a major breakthrough, but it was still far from a decisive victory. What awaited him next was a frenzied counterattack from the Xie Family, who would stop at nothing.
Silencing witnesses and destroying evidence were tactics he had anticipated. How to guard against them effectively, however, was a particularly thorny problem.
As the saying went, no matter how carefully you guarded your home, a thief on the inside was the hardest to stop.
Since Ye Ru had devised such a plan, she must have had some confidence that she could accomplish her aims by bribing personnel inside the Public Security Bureau and the Detention Center.
It sounded a little unbelievable, but this was Yangcheng in 2005. Theft and fires at the Public Security Bureau, prisoners escaping from the Detention Center, and even deaths in custody were all par for the course, nothing to marvel at.
The best way to crush Ye Ru's scheme was to assign trusted subordinates to take direct control of those two crucial locations and keep a dedicated watch over them.
But Director Zhou had been in office for less than a month. Trusted personnel were precisely what he lacked!
Counting everyone, the only people he could trust completely were Rao Yu, Li Linsen, Shao Mingbao, Cai Xiaobo, and Chen Zhong. Zhao Xin was still under evaluation. As for the others, it was hard to say whether their loyalty even met the minimum standard.
Especially behind the scenes, officers