Chapter 319 - 285: Behind-The-Scenes Collusion, Becoming a Deserter
"A total of six team members were dispatched, and all six lost contact, with not a single message getting out."
"The person who got the message was an informant named Wang Zhi, who disguised himself as a wilderness hunter and hid inside a gopher’s burrow to evade the search. He saw a group of hooded armed forces with considerable strength..."
"Based on their modus operandi, Wang Zhi speculated that they might be operatives from the Hongguang Group."
Tang Tang said this and then paused for a moment.
In this era, although it seemed that every city had extremely strong police security forces, and there were also field armies outside.
In theory, the official government forces should be overwhelmingly powerful.
But the reality was not so.
The power of the official government was actually subject to constraints from all sides, with everyone having their own ulterior motives, forming factions.
Some corporates even brazenly reached their hands into the armed forces.
They had both money and influence, could maintain troops, and therefore also had a significant say.
The recent upheaval caused by Zhou Ping’an single-handedly toppling Taihe Pharmaceuticals was, in fact, the embryonic form of such a power.