Lin Yu sat in a dimly lit office cluttered with files and documents, the air thick with the scent of aged paper. The yellowish light cast deep shadows across his face, accentuating the dark circles under his eyes and his profound exhaustion. His fingers hammered mechanically against the keyboard while his eyes remained glued to the screen, missing not a single detail. Over the past period, in order to uncover the true face of the corrupt forces behind his colleague Zhao Yang, he had turned day into night and lost a noticeable amount of weight.
"Found it!" Lin Yu blurted out in sudden excitement. He had discovered a critical bank transfer record showing a massive sum flowing from an unfamiliar company into Zhao Yang's account, with a timestamp that precisely matched the key milestone of a project bidding process. This was undoubtedly ironclad proof of Zhao Yang accepting bribes and a crucial wedge to tear open the dark curtain of the corrupt forces. Excitedly, he saved and encrypted the file, carefully making multiple backups just in case.
However, what Lin Yu did not know was that his every move was being watched. On the other side of the city, on the top floor of a luxurious commercial building in an extravagantly decorated office, a gloomy-looking middle-aged man sat on a leather sofa, listening to his subordinate's report. His name was Zhang Hong, a fairly large-scale enterprise owner who appeared to be a business elite on the surface, but in reality was one of the maste…
Chapter 72