After she got the property deed and keys to the shop, despite it being a rather ’unclean’ crime-ridden shop, Cheng Suxin was still very happy and excited because it was her first real property since she arrived here!
Cheng Su wanted to share this joy with someone, but the person closest to her wasn’t there, and her excitement immediately diminished significantly.
Qi Taiguo, when will you come back? I miss you so much!
At this moment, Qi Taiguo was also busy deploying an intensive military operation with his comrades to eradicate the Village of Sin.
According to the map, the village lay against the mountains and faced the river. If their strategy was ill-conceived and they accidently alerted the enemy, it was highly likely that the biggest ringleader would escape into the mountains.
In this freezing cold, once he fled into the mountains, even searching would be difficult, let alone capturing the ringleader.
What Qi Taiguo feared the most was whether someone would tip off Big Head, thereby rendering all their planning useless?
As he surveyed the tent, Qi Taiguo’s gaze drifted across everyone present. Maybe it was his own impatience, but he couldn’t help feeling like everyone there was an enemy spy, the eyes and ears for someone behind the scenes. Yet, whether there truly was a mole or not, he had no way of knowing.
He really wasn’t sure if he was being overly paranoid.
"Commander Qi, what do you think?" the commander called for Qi Taiguo’s attention, asking for his input on the operational plan.
"I have no objections," Qi Taiguo said.
According to reliable intelligence, since the New Year was approaching, the villagers who had been away began to return one after another. Firstly, they wanted to reunite with their families for the upcoming holiday, and secondly, they wanted to seize the moment to engage in some major criminal activities during this lean period.
Their plan was to deploy police and military forces while these criminals were engaged in their major crimes, surrounding the entire village with an encircling attack formation like the character "回" (return), executing a surprise pincer strategy to capture both the criminals and their ill-gotten goods.
Qi Taiguo’s brows furrowed slightly, and he stood at attention: "Yes!"
Only then did the commander nod, "Go and rest up. Up next is a tough battle!"
Qi Taiguo stepped out of the tent, looking up at the dusty sky, where a stretch of dark clouds loomed ominously. Deep in his heart, there was not the slightest bit of optimism about the situation ahead.
Was it really as the commander said, that everything would go smoothly?
To uproot a village, to arrest a few people—if the big fish escaped, couldn’t they find a new village and start all over again as lords of their domain?
Qi Taiguo sighed deeply, his military boots heavily crunching down on the crisp snow, as if trying to crush something beneath them.

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