The Halls of Power: A Nobody's Ambition
Chapter 382

Stay Right Where You Are

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At that moment, Dou Guozhong was pacing around a room in a safe hideout, looking deeply troubled. Watching him go back and forth was making Huai Guangkuo dizzy.

"Could you stop pacing? You've been at it almost all morning."

Huai Guangkuo said helplessly, "What exactly are you thinking? Are you going to keep hiding here or go to the Provincial Procuratorate? You have to make up your mind eventually!"

Dou Guozhong stopped and turned to the former production workshop manager, his voice full of misgivings. "The problem is, we can't trust the people inside the Provincial Procuratorate! Think about it. Director Qu Hongying had just sent people to summon me, and then Shanhai Group's people showed up at my home ahead of them. If you hadn't called me, I'd probably be fucking dead by now!"

Huai Guangkuo nodded gravely. Dou Guozhong's suspicions made perfect sense. There really was a problem at the Provincial Procuratorate.

Otherwise, Shanhai Group's arrival could not have been so perfectly timed, just a little over ten minutes before the people from the Provincial Procuratorate.

To put it bluntly, there was a mole inside the Provincial Procuratorate who had immediately tipped off Shanhai Group upon learning that Dou Guozhong was being summoned.

Yes, just as someone on Shanhai Group's side had learned that Rong Jinxiu was going to move against Dou Guozhong and immediately found an opportunity to tell him in secret.

Both sides were using the same tactics, and by now, both had probably realized they had a mole.

"Then what do you want to do? Keep hiding and see how things develop? They're all doing everything they can to find you. My place isn't necessarily completely safe either," Huai Guangkuo reminded him with a quiet sigh.

With both provincial and municipal public security authorities involved

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