Chapter 1207 - 1212: All Premises
The Grey-cloaked People need to urgently launch an ambush against the Cleaners.
After obtaining intelligence, laying a long-term plan to bait them is impossible, because once the Cleaners realize Yang Yi has defected, they’ll inevitably switch their communication methods urgently and recall all potentially exposed personnel.
Another possibility is that the Cleaners have already suspected Yang Yi of betrayal, and they’ve modified their previous contact methods. In that case, even if Yang Yi betrays the Cleaners, the Grey-cloaked People won’t gain any significant advantage.
Of course, there’s also the issue of whether the Cleaners deliberately sacrificed Yang Yi to protect Gong Yang. If that’s the case, Yang Yi’s foundation for betrayal doesn’t exist anymore. Any secret organization facing potential betrayal would first eliminate the threat. Even if they can’t immediately kill Yang Yi, at the very least, they would take protective measures.
So if the Cleaners have already decided to abandon Yang Yi and haven’t managed to eliminate him right away, they would logically withdraw all potentially exposed personnel.
Still, there’s a reasonable explanation that could ensure the Grey-cloaked People don’t suspect this loss was intentional on the Cleaners’ part.
That is, the team protecting Gong Yang and Yang Yi’s team are unaware of each other’s existence.
Yang Yi keeps insisting that the Cleaners have abandoned him, but this could just be his emotional outburst. If the Cleaners themselves didn’t realize this mix-up between their two clients, it’s a situation that can still be understood and accepted.
Ultimately, everything hinges on whether the Grey-cloaked People can secure a major win against the Cleaners based on Yang Yi’s intel. If they can, everything can be perfectly explained.
If they cannot, then Yang Yi is as good as dead—absolutely dead.
The Grey-cloaked People have already begun their preparations. However, this kind of covert operation demands a significant amount of manpower, and whether they have sufficient capacity is genuinely hard to say.