Imperial Treasure

Chapter 684 - 434: Traitor!_2

This statement was made by Yi Chilian. The first and second points were indeed explicit in attitude and clear in viewpoint, but this third point...

"The opponent’s reaction was so rapid and accurately hit our deployment, one group feinted an attack, and another tested our men and horses, while another stole the Rongwei Armor, and yet another abducted someone. The time it took was less than half an hour altogether. With three groups advancing simultaneously and effectively, it can only mean that our deployment was too transparent. Either the three of us are completely incompetent, or there is a traitor!"

Pausing, Yi Chilian said indifferently, "I will not doubt my own abilities."

Yue Beiqing raised an eyebrow, "Neither will I."

Xiao Yu silently wiped his sniper rifle.

So, the question arises...

Who is the traitor?

"Xiao Yu, your team is on the outside and doesn’t interfere with specific matters, so you’re basically ruled out,"

Xiao Yu neither agreed nor disagreed. Yi Chilian looked at Yue Beiqing, "So the issue must lie within our two teams."

The latter waved his hand, "Obviously, there was already a Shen Que in my team, who had been hypnotized. When Han Feng was killed, Ming Lanyuan mentioned to me that though Shen Que and Wen Xiukai both had drugs in their systems, based on their physiques, it would not have been sufficient to keep them asleep for that long; the timeline was off by a lot. So both had issues, and from that moment on, I did not open my deployment to these subordinates, so..."

Yi Chilian sat upright in his chair, elegant like a nobleman, "Most of my people are involved in procedural monitoring and remote deployment... If someone had secretly sent messages, I would definitely have noticed."

Xiao Yu looked up, "So you’re concluding that this matter has nothing to do with you all?"

Yue Beiqing shook his head, "No, we only mean to say that if the traitor doesn’t belong to our three teams, then they must come from somewhere else, for instance..."

Xiao Yu glanced at Sui Yi, "If you dare to suspect, that’s your issue, but I definitely won’t shoot at her people."

What about organizational discipline!?

Yue Beiqing gave Xiao Yu a blank look and said faintly, "Su Zimu and Pu Qinghan are too unlikely, Gong Jiu has Miss Sui’s guarantee, which I still trust. Eliminating these people, who else could be the traitor..."

"Their existence value," Sui Yi suddenly interjected.

Yes!" Yi Chilian turned to Yue Beiqing, and the latter nodded, thus agreeing to share some information.

This, in exchange for Sui Yi’s trust.

Yi Chilian then adopted an official attitude, speaking with a pleasing English accent, tapping his finger on the cup, making a clanging sound, "We will not analyze based on thirteen people, but rather use nine rooms, for a more comprehensive analysis, starting with!

Room one: Zhong Buli and Nie Guiwan are insiders; no need to mention them.

Room two: Fu Ling, deeply involved in Capital City’s underground market, this lady has contacts and understands that there’s a part of the people engaged in arms trading. Although not involved, she is informed and uses this as leverage, extracting the information she wanted from the hands of people like Li Yu and Liu Qian. Hence, she was dragged into this, naturally having the necessity to be silenced, but it cannot be ruled out that the opponent wanted to utilize her trading network! Lin Junyun was just unlucky, purely in the wrong bed! We might as well assume she had too low a profile, lacking a piece, so she was killed. As for Ming Lanyuan, she is our high-level medical reserve, also PASS.

Room three: The valuable ones are Su Zimu and Pu Qinghan; I think we are all clear on this, no explanation needed.

Room four: Cao Ling is irrelevant, Li Cuiyu was a scapegoat pushed forward by Li Zhang, but from the information we have obtained, the arms deals operated privately by Li Cuiyu are not lesser than those of Li Zhang, rather even more. She was valuable enough to be silenced, yet for some reason, she was taken away, maybe they wanted to extract some information from her.

Room five: Xiao Xianting and Pu Qinghan touched our most crucial Mystery Person No. 1 and were left with the weapon’s location info. Cao Yu’s family is too wealthy, and his family’s power ranks high within the nation and stretches overseas, especially since his aunt married far into the United Kingdom, with considerable power there... He had immense kidnappable value. As for Zhuang Ziliu, this person is so far someone we haven’t found any suspicions on, perhaps even less known to us compared to Miss Sui. (Yi Chilian particularly looked at Sui Yi when saying this, but she remained cold and clearly unwilling to disclose any information).

Room six: Duan Rong, the business council president, was deeply involved in arms trading, holding a massive amount of operational funds, at least eight billion US dollars. The opponent had not yet obtained this money, so his value goes without saying. As for Zheng Wen and Zheng Yu representing Duke Zheng’s Mansion, from the information we have investigated so far: the focus is not on Zheng Wen, but on Zheng Yu. Despite his young age, Zheng Yu is extremely ambitious. He was contacted by the opponent early on and nurtured into a core member, not only planning to turn Duke Zheng’s Mansion into a trading medium but also involved in the Rongwei Armor incident. Li Yu’s murder had his arrangement involved; he was taken, possibly to assist the organization in dealing with Zheng Wen... Not ruling out his aspirations to usurp the throne, it could also be the organization wanting to silence him.