Tao Ju left the teahouse. He could barely count the mission as completed, yet he did not feel relaxed in the slightest. His heart was still tightly wound.
Things were far from over, and he had no time to rest.
Since Tang Li had agreed, he first needed to notify Zou Fang and tell him the good news... assuming it was good news.
What came next was hesitation and inner conflict.
There was no way he could wait until "Madam Mu" came looking for him before mentioning the task Tang Li had assigned him. He had to take the initiative and approach her... If he did that, Tao Ju could already imagine the scene and its consequences.
After agonizing over it for a long time, he finally dialed the number.
What followed was almost exactly as he had imagined. Tao Ju suddenly proposed speaking with Bear Mister, which caught "Madam Mu" rather off guard. Her subsequent response was very cold. She said Bear Mister was not here, then hung up directly.
Tao Ju had not gotten the chance to speak with him at all, so naturally he had no way to relay Tang Li's message.
However, he could sense that "Madam Mu's" cold response had been overly deliberate.
Tao Ju believed Tang Li's intelligence even more now. It seemed Bear Mister's arrival in East 824 District had been a secret operation. Since someone had suddenly exposed his whereabouts, "Madam Mu" could not respond properly and could only put on such a stiff attitude.
That seemed more like a warning.
Tao Ju had become the stone Tang Li threw, a warning strike against the Virtue Association.
Tao Ju had no idea what result Tang Li wanted to achieve, but he held a decidedly pessimistic expectation of how the Virtue Association would