Official Career Storm
Chapter 599

Chapter 599: Chapter 599

Zhou Qian stepped on the brake and looked back puzzled, "What’s wrong?"

"Come over, switch with me."

Song Guanchao didn’t explain much.

Seeing his serious and grave expression, Zhou Qian didn’t ask further, unbuckled her seatbelt, climbed into the back seat, and swapped places with Song Guanchao.

"Buckle up."

"Oh, oh." Zhou Qian hastily fastened her seatbelt, feeling somewhat nervous.

Wu Yun also sensed something was amiss, gripping the seatbelt tightly.

Song Guanchao slowly released the brake under his foot and slowly moved toward the traffic cones.

He was about to floor the accelerator and burst through when,

"Shush, shush!"

Blinding headlights suddenly lit up a hundred meters behind the cones.

A row of trucks had silently stopped a hundred meters away.

In the heavy rain, their outlines had been hidden until now when the lights lit up, revealing them in the darkness.

Song Guanchao’s pupils constricted, realizing his inner fears had come true.

"Sit tight!"

With a deep admonition, Song Guanchao fiercely turned the steering wheel, the car fishtailed on the wet road, and he executed a U-turn.

"Roar, roar, roar!"

He hammered the accelerator, and the engine emitted a ferocious roar, the powerful force instantly hit them, pressing the two women tightly against their seats.

The heavy rain formed a curtain, wildly splashing on the windshield, temporarily obscuring the road ahead.

The two women’s faces turned deathly pale.

Wu Yun asked with a trembling voice, "Song, Song Guanchao, what are you doing?"

"Li Zhuang is trying to kill us!"

This statement left the two women blank for a couple of seconds before they could react.

"What?"

Song Guanchao didn’t bother to explain; he glanced in the rear-view mirror, the trucks were catching up.

"Zhou Qian, is there a safe in the back?"

Zhou Qian leaned over to look and spotted a metal safe on the floor by the adjacent seat.

"Yes."

"Pick it up, open it, see what’s inside."

"Oh, oh."

Zhou Qian adjusted the seatbelt, bent down to lift the safe onto her lap.

The safe was set to a factory code, she grabbed the handle, twisted it, and it opened.

"So many gold bars!"

"Anything else?"

"More, lots of cash, several bank cards, a USB drive, hard drive..."

"Pack it up, put it on the floor."

Song Guanchao was now one hundred percent certain that Li Zhuang really intended to kill him.

Not only to kill him but to frame him as well!

If his suspicions were correct, the USB drive and hard drive likely contained the bank transactions for the subsidies he had fraudulently claimed over the years in Panlong Town.

By leaving these in the car, once he died, the crime of embezzling state subsidies would be pinned on him.

This guy had guts, that’s for sure!

And his execution was strong.

Most importantly, this man took action without the slightest hesitation.

As Song Guanchao floored the accelerator, he reminisced.

Exactly when had he planned to make his move?

After a moment, he had his answer.

This guy must have harbored a killing intent the moment he confirmed his identity.

Tonight’s dinner was not a bribe but a trap!

He had decided from the start that he wouldn’t let him go.

Even if he accepted the car and the items inside, in his view, it was just to stabilize him before making his move.

This guy was clear-headed, harboring no delusions of luck.

Moreover, to carry out this plan, he had silently stolen his cellphone and made sure Zhou Qian’s and the other woman’s phones were left at the restaurant.

This was their last hope of making outside contact.

In the rearview mirror, the several large trucks followed closely.

But Song Guanchao knew that they would not ram him on this stretch of road.

Li Zhuang was too smart for that; he would only take action where it wouldn’t affect him.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have blocked the road to the county town, forcing him to turn back.

"Have a good journey!"

Thinking of the last words Li Zhuang had said to him, Song Guanchao felt a fire ignite within him.

I had captured Hou Wen, Chen Guanyun and Yao Jinsheng had both fallen into my hands, and I had killed Lu Xiaotian!

To be driven to this point by the head of a small town today, honestly, Song Guanchao felt somewhat indignant.

In his view, town leaders were of limited ability, generally mediocre, and mostly uncultured and bandit-like.

He had even notified Liang Jianfeng in advance before coming, which was giving him plenty of respect.

But he hadn’t expected to capsize in such a shallow gutter.

As the car passed by the restaurant, Song Guanchao turned his head and glanced quickly, just in time to see Li Zhuang standing at the window on the second floor, cigarette in hand, smiling, yet with a cold gaze.

Their eyes met for a brief second.

Song Guanchao saw the undisguised murderous intent in his eyes, and Li Zhuang saw the raging fury in his.

"Heh."

Li Zhuang chuckled, taking a drag from his cigarette.

Wang Changwei stood by, uttering in surprise, "Why are they turning back?"

"Because he doesn’t want to die."

"What?" Wang Changwei didn’t understand what he meant.

Li Zhuang watched the speeding trucks that followed closely and said, "In one hour, the car driven by Song Guanchao will fall off the mountain road in Furong Town, Xuning County. Three people in the car, including Song Guanchao, will die in this crash."

Wang Changwei’s slightly tipsy mind gradually sobered up under these words.

But it still took him two seconds to come to his senses, "What did you say?"

"You, you..."

Wang Changwei, guessing what was implied, said agitatedly, "You want to kill him? Are you mad? He’s Song Guanchao, from the City Committee!"

"So what?"

Li Zhuang, smoking nonchalantly, retorted, "Even if he’s the City Secretary, isn’t he still a normal person who feels pain when he falls and bleeds when he’s scraped?"

"Every person will die."

"You’re mad, you’ve gone mad!"

Wang Changwei was trembling with fear; he shouldn’t have come tonight.

This guy is a madman!

He actually intended to kill Song Guanchao!

Once Song Guanchao died, it wasn’t hard to imagine how the higher-ups in Lingjiang City would react, how furious they would be!

"Old Li, don’t be rash, call them and tell them to stop!"

"If Song Guanchao somehow contacts the City or Director Liu..."

"His phone, after he’s dead, will then be found on him," Li Zhuang said indifferently.

Wang Changwei grew more terrified, realizing that all the preparations were so thorough, this was a resolute decision!

"Old Li..."

"Old Wang, your mind isn’t clear."

Li Zhuang said, "If we let him go, it would be us who end up inside. All the money we’ve made, what was it for? Isn’t it to live out the rest of our lives as wealthy men?"

"Once inside, no amount of money would do us any good."

"But, but Secretary Song has already taken your things, he wouldn’t..."

"Wang Changwei!"

Li Zhuang suddenly scolded, "Are you stupid? Do you really think that because Song Guanchao took things tonight, he would let us off?"

"He never planned to spare us from the start!"

"A car, a dozen gold bars, hundreds of thousands in cash, do you think that would make him back off?"

"Do you think when Hou Wen and Chen Guanyun were caught, they hadn’t thought about using money to solve their problems?"

"Hou Wen embezzled 70 billion, he could provide more money than I could, but what was his outcome?"

"The subsidy issue can’t withstand scrutiny!"

"If we let him go today, tomorrow the city will send someone to arrest us!"

"To resolve this completely, we can only kill him, we must kill him!"

"If he doesn’t die, I won’t be able to sleep!"

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