After Chen Zhong left, Zhou Yi could not help sighing again.
As the Deputy Department Director overseeing criminal investigations and public security management, he could certainly order Bi Wensheng, head of the Criminal Investigation Corps, and Jiang Xuezeng, head of the Public Security Management Corps, to mobilize their units, thoroughly investigate all of Yi Yingxiang's personal connections, and search every location associated with her.
But could that still be called a "secret investigation"?
Or, to put it another way, could Bi Wensheng and Jiang Xuezeng be trusted?
Even if he specified the exact locations for them to search, he had no confidence whatsoever that they would "find" anything-or that whatever they "found" would be genuine evidence.
Alas, he had now experienced firsthand the misery of standing alone.
At that moment, Deputy Department Director Zhou desperately missed the Auspicious Three Treasures-Li Linsen, Yu Xiao, and Meng Shen.
He did not need many people. Those three would be enough!
Yet the cruel, awkward reality reminded him that the only person he could currently trust one hundred percent was Chen Zhong, his personal bodyguard and driver.
The moment Chen Zhong drove out through the gates of the Provincial Public Security Department, he noticed he had picked up a tail.
Without giving anything away, he drove around the streets as though aimlessly wandering, then pulled up outside a shopping mall, found a parking spot, and went inside.
Of the two men following him, one entered the mall after Chen Zhong, while the other stayed in their car to watch his vehicle.
Before long, however, the plainclothes officer from the Municipal Public Security Bureau who had stayed behind received a call from his colleague: he had lost Chen Zhong!
About twenty minutes later, Chen Zhong appeared on a Route 103 bus wearing a different