Chapter 1371: The Northern and Southern War (III)
Chapter 1371: The Northern and Southern War (III)
Qi Xuansu and Huangfu Ji met again, still discussing the matter of the traitor.“Great Sage Gong has given me orders to mislead the Evangelical Ministry through intelligence. After thinking it through, there’s only one way. We’ll find this spy without alerting them, then use him to send messages back to mislead them,” Qi Xuansu said.
Huangfu Ji immediately understood. “You mean to turn their own plan against them and work in reverse. By sending false intelligence through the spy to Joseph and Robert, it’ll mislead their judgment and conceal our real strategy. This is excellent! If done well, it’ll save tens of thousands of troops.”
Qi Xuansu nodded. “But the prerequisite is to identify the spy.”
As he spoke, he placed a list on the table. “These are the suspects filtered out by our joint investigation.”
Huangfu Ji had been focused on logistics lately—shells today, supplies tomorrow, and medics the next. He barely had time to pay attention to internal affairs, so it was his first time seeing the list. He scanned it and pondered. “Many of them are familiar faces. They’re all veterans of the Western Daoist Order.”
Qi Xuansu said, “Only then can they stay hidden.”
Huangfu Ji examined the names. Though he was known as a fierce and aggressive figure, he was far from reckless or foolish.
Qi Xuansu did not interrupt. Huangfu Ji knew these people better, and his judgment would be more accurate.
At that moment, Madam Wu appeared before Qi Xuansu again, visible only to him. She looked bored out of her mind. “I thought following you to the battlefield would mean burning down enemy camps. But here you are, stuck in a room reading files all day. What a waste of your cultivation!”
Qi Xuansu replied, “The Westerners have a term called the war machine. It’s quite fitting. We’re all just components in this massive machine, each serving our role. If one part tries to break away or work against the system, there will be consequences. It will either get crushed, or the entire machine fails.”
“You always have a way with words. No matter how you spin it, you’re right. If you weren’t a Daoist, it’d be a loss to the Daoist Order. Luckily, you are one,” Madam Wu said sarcastically.