Peeling back the layers to trace the cause

A little over an hour later, Xu Chan brought the man back to the Defense Department and took him upstairs through a dedicated passage.

Only after securing him with specialized equipment did he finally feel at ease.

Capturing the man alone was no challenge for him. The difficulty lay in whatever means of self-destruction the man might have on him. If he died and left no clues, the whole thing would have been pointless.

So throughout the journey, he used his bio-field in conjunction with his internal force to suppress the man's bodily functions, maintaining only the bare minimum needed to keep him alive. Fortunately, nothing else went wrong.

To eliminate any potential hidden dangers, Chen Chuan also had a team of specialist technicians examine the man from head to toe and remove any implanted components that might cause his death.

Once the man regained consciousness, Chen Chuan immediately had the Handling Bureau send over a group of professional interrogators. After several hours of drugs and various methods of torture, an interrogation report arrived on his desk.

He looked it over. The man had originally been a senior security officer employed by a small company on the Western Continent. Ten years ago, an organization had recruited him and sent him to an overseas island for training, where he also underwent a full set of implant body modifications. Two years ago, he had been dispatched to the Western Continent to steal technological intelligence. Only last month had he been recalled and instructed by the organization to carry out this operation.

But he knew absolutely nothing about the organization's origins or the identity of whoever was directing it behind the scenes.

Chen Chuan was not particularly disappointed by this. If the power behind it could be exposed so easily, this man would