After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 414, Episode 0448: Not a person, but a net.
Wang Datou's expression immediately turned serious. "It's the Cui family from Beijing. This time, the people directly implicated the Cui family, but unfortunately, they didn't implicate any important figures in the Cui family, just an adopted son from a collateral branch, Cui Chengying."

“I contacted the National Security Bureau last night, and they went to arrest him overnight. But Cui Chengying died unexpectedly and in a very shameful way. He died on a woman’s stomach. The preliminary diagnosis by the forensic doctor was a sudden heart attack.”

Cui Chengying is already quite old, in his sixties, and not particularly prominent in the Cui family. After the Cui family established the company, he only became a director in the factory.

Although this man was unremarkable and seemed unambitious, he lived a very carefree life. In his sixties, he had several lovers who were twenty or thirty years younger than him.

Things are different now. In the past, such behavior would be criticized, and in severe cases, people would even be forced to eat a peanut. But now it's just a moral issue, and the law doesn't address it.

Of course, ZZ staff would say something else.

The National Security Bureau has been keeping an eye on the Cui family. Even though Cui Chengying is inconspicuous, he is still being watched. There have been suspicions about him for a long time, but there is no concrete evidence.

The National Security Bureau knew all of Choi Sung-eung's lovers and his itinerary, so they were able to catch him every time last night. But then he just happened to have a sudden heart attack.

Wang Datou lowered his head, looking very guilty. "It's impossible for things to be such a coincidence. I just found out that I was acting under Cui Chengying's instructions, and then Cui Chengying had a heart attack. The National Security personnel shouldn't have any problems, so it must be that someone on my side leaked the information."

The old man said, "...Where did you get the idea that people from the National Security Bureau would never have problems?"

The old man didn't mean to favor either side; he just felt that the viewpoint was wrong. Everyone has selfish desires, and no side can guarantee that everyone on their side is without problems.

"I'm not saying this to deny you, but we shouldn't look at him with prejudice just because he has the words 'National Security' on his name. That's a very dangerous idea, and as the S Commander, you shouldn't have it."

"The old commander is right, I misunderstood."

Wang Datou humbly accepted the advice. He was indeed limited in his thinking by the word "national security". His first reaction was not to suspect that there was a problem within the national security agency, but to suspect his own side first.

This is very wrong.

If you think about it carefully, he contacted the Beijing Municipal State Security Bureau immediately after the interrogation. If he leaked the information, the only person who could have done so would be Qiu Tuan, who went in with him for the interrogation. Qiu Tuan is an extremely cautious person and never left his side from the beginning of the interrogation, including when he called the State Security Bureau.

Moreover, Qiu Tuan has passed several organizational tests and has participated in several infiltration missions, all of which he completed perfectly. He is an absolutely trustworthy person.

Wang Datou never suspected Qiu Tuan. He had always suspected that the interrogation process or his phone calls had been wiretapped, and he was currently investigating Qiu Tuan carefully.

The old man did not rule out Wang Datou's suspicions. When it comes to matters of national importance, no amount of caution is too much, and no possibility should be ruled out before investigation.

"Should we remind the National Security Bureau?"

The old man shook his head. "They will only be more cautious than you, and their self-examination will be more rigorous."

Wang Datou thought it made sense, so he stopped worrying about it.

National Security, National Security, its full name is the State Security Bureau!

Their existence has a different significance; they can manage both the political and economic sectors, and have the authority to mobilize troops in times of crisis. They can be said to be the most solid line of defense for national security.

The greater the power, the greater the significance of its existence; naturally, the management becomes more stringent, because even the slightest problem within it poses a significant danger to the country.

"It's a pity. We could have opened a crack in the Cui family through Cui Chengying. The Cui family is too well hidden. Everyone knows they have problems, and they may even have betrayed the country, but we can't do anything about them because we don't have any evidence."

At this point, neither of them had any interest in continuing the game.

The old man picked up his teacup and took a sip, while Wang Datou dutifully collected the chess pieces.

He muttered under his breath, "If you ask me, we should just quietly take care of those Cui family members." *Pfft*

The old man spat out the tea he had just taken a sip of, and just then Wang Datou looked up at him, spraying a mouthful of tea all over his face—not a single drop was wasted.

Wang Datou: "..."

Mu Zhe wiped his face. "Old Chief, I washed my face before I came."

"How can you blame me? Think about the bullshit you just spouted!"

Quietly killing someone—is that something a person in a command should say?
It's not a matter of principle, but it concerns the country. If doing this is effective, I believe many people would be willing to do it.

The problem is that the Cui family's issues are not caused by just one or two people, nor can they be resolved simply by the Cui family's demise.

It's a huge net, and you don't know who's inside it.

If the power of the nation were only directed at the Cui family, what difficulty would there be?

Using a spider web as an analogy, the Cui family is the central fulcrum of the web, connecting all the fulcrums. Its existence is very important to the web, but its absence does not mean that the web has disappeared; the web is still there.

What they want to do is not just eliminate the central fulcrum of the network, but to disrupt the entire network.

The difficulty lies not in the Cui family, but in their ability to find out who is on this network through the Cui family.

A single move can have far-reaching consequences; that's why they've always seemed so passive regarding the Cui family's affairs.

"I'm just feeling frustrated. I finally caught someone surnamed Cui. Although the relationship is a bit distant, at least it opened a gap. No matter how solid the egg is, as long as there is a gap, no matter how small the gap is, it will have a crack."

Wang Datou knew the reason perfectly well, but he was just too frustrated and couldn't help but complain in front of his trusted old leader.

He was ecstatic when he interrogated Cui Chengying last night. He wasn't kidding; he genuinely dreamt that night of the Cui family looking dejected, all wearing silver bracelets, which woke him up laughing.

Good heavens, as soon as he arrived at his office in the morning, before he could even settle into his chair, he received the news that Choi Sung-eung had died of a heart attack.

His feelings at that moment could only be described as being doused with a bucket of ice water in the dead of winter; it was chilling to the bone.

Why does Wang Datou hate the Cui family so much, even to the point of despising them?

There's no personal grudge, but you could also say there is.

When Wang Datou was young, he once led a team to arrest a drug trafficking gang. When they chased the leader, they went into the mountains in the Shang province.

Every time they were about to catch someone, the group would escape as if they knew their plan in advance.

He led a company of men in the mountains and fought the group for more than a month. In the end, they captured the people, but only nine men remained in his company, all of them wounded.

During the mission, Wang Datou suspected that there was a traitor on his side, but he had only brought people he trusted. Moreover, the worst thing for a pursuit mission is internal discord, so he kept quiet while trying to appease the others.

After the mission was over, he couldn't bear it anymore. This mission could be described as tragic, with too many sacrifices. Wang Datou would never forget the scene of his brothers falling in front of him.

He needs an explanation.