The Ambitions to Conquer the Official Career
Chapter 497 Being Calculated

Chapter 497: Chapter 497 Being Calculated

The jeep raced across the muddy ground, and the people sitting inside all appeared very tense.

There were three jeeps in Ji Yang’s convoy, with security personnel in the front and back vehicles, while the middle one carried the individuals they were escorting.

As they continued, everyone’s worries grew. The road was clearly bulldozed into existence, quite difficult to traverse, and they had been driving deep into the mountainous region for several hours now.

Ji Yang glanced at the passengers inside the vehicle. Gao Changjun also looked noticeably nervous, his gaze constantly sweeping the surroundings.

The young man from the Tax Department was named Zhou Haining, and the one from the Discipline Inspection Department was Sun Xionglin; both seemed equally anxious, looking around them.

"Could there be any problems here?" Zhou Haining asked at that moment.

No one spoke, and everyone became even more tense.

After a while, Pu Hong, a security officer from the Investment Promotion Agency who was driving, said, "It’s clearly a mountainous area. Even if something were to happen, it’s unlikely anyone could come to our rescue. Let’s just be vigilant."

Upon hearing this, everyone’s tension escalated, and some even began to draw their guns in preparation.

"Don’t worry. We have military protection both in front and behind us. I can’t believe anyone would dare to do anything," He Hongfei reassured them.

These officials likely from the provincial departments had a certain air of arrogance about them and didn’t seem to take Ji Yang very seriously.

Ji Yang kept silent. When he tried to use his keen detection ability to survey the surroundings, he indeed found something surprising. This ability was very powerful; he could detect movements within at least a fifty-meter radius.

Divine Sense?

After reading novels, Ji Yang surmised that this ability must be that of Divine Sense.

At first, Ji Yang solely detected the immediate surroundings, but soon he discovered an interesting situation. Among those dispatched to protect them, some were harboring concealed intentions.

After listening carefully for a while, Ji Yang found that five people in the jeep behind them were discussing a plot against them.

It turned out that those few individuals planned to coordinate with others to stage an incident to eliminate them, then pin the event on a certain anti-government militia, which could then potentially elicit more support from Hua Country.

Clearly, the plan had been arranged in advance, simply awaiting Ji Yang’s party’s deeper venture into the mountains to take action.

Hearing this, Ji Yang also became tense, not expecting such a scheme.

He also understood that, after all, they were in the midst of the mountains where, even if something were done, Hua Country likely would not be able to unearth the truth.

Moreover, they planned to eliminate all the armed personnel in the front jeep, ensuring that if their own men were killed, there would be no issues later on.

What to do?

Having learned of the situation, Ji Yang grew nervous, momentarily at a loss for a sound course of action.

This time he was leading the group, and nominally, everyone here was under his charge. If anything were to happen to them, he would be left wearing the hat of ineffective leadership.

As the convoy continued deeper into the terrain, Ji Yang knew he had to quickly think of a good strategy. Otherwise, if a fight broke out, his group would have no chance of survival.

Ji Yang kept looking around, and as the convoy approached a stretch of road along a cliffside, the sense of urgency grew even stronger. Their adversaries might make their move very soon.